For a long time, the love story of Chiang Ching-kuo and Zhang Yaruo has been in the limelight, and even the two most famous American newspapers, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, have reported on it at length with notable articles.
How exactly did Zhang Yaruo die? Was it an illness, an accident, or a murder? This has remained an unanswered question, and since the late 1980s, a large number of reminiscence articles and books have appeared to shed light on the matter. Despite some controversy, the mainstream view is that Zhang Yaruo was killed by Huang Zhongmei, who was motivated by his "loyalty" to the Chiang family.
However, according to some sources, the death of Zhang Yaruo had nothing to do with Huang Zhongmei.
In 2004, Taiwan's "Secrecy Bureau retired Major General" Gu Zhengwen, in an interview with a reporter from the weekly magazine "Hwa Sheng," openly told the public: "Chiang Ching-kuo's lover, Zhang Yaruo, was ordered by Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Lifu to be murdered by the CCTU." In 1939, Chiang Ching-kuo met Zhang Yaruo in Jiangxi, and soon fell in love. And before that, in 1934, Chiang Ching-kuo married Chiang Fang-liang and gave birth to Chiang Hsiao-wen in 1935 and Chiang Hsiao-chang in 1938.
In the summer of 1941, Zhang Yaruo became pregnant. However, when Chiang Ching-kuo reported this to his father, Chiang Kai-shek, and asked for his permission to marry them, Chiang Kai-shek disapproved of the marriage. Therefore, Chiang Ching-kuo and Zhang Yaruo invited several close friends and relatives to go to Guilin, Guangxi for a farewell trip, which was also considered to publicize the marriage internally, and Zhang Yaruo's close friend, Gui Changde, accompanied Zhang Yaruo to go from Ganzhou to Guilin to take care of the affairs around her during her pregnancy and delivery. In Guilin, Chiang Ching-kuo entrusted his friend Qiu Changwei, director of the Civil Affairs Department of Guangxi Province, to take care of Zhang Yaruo's maternity affairs.
In January 1942, Zhang Yaruo gave birth to twin boys in Guilin. Before and after the birth, Chiang Ching-kuo often traveled from Ganzhou to Guilin to gather with Zhang Yaruo's mother and children.
In the afternoon of August 14, 1942, Zhang Yaruo was invited to attend a dinner party at Qiu Changwei's house, and returned late at night with vomiting and diarrhea, and was sent to Guangxi Provincial Hospital for treatment the next day. It is reported that the hospital's Dr. Wang injected an injection into Zhang Yaruo's left blood vessel, and a few minutes later Zhang Yaruo suddenly screamed loudly: "Oops! Not good, I have a black eye ......" and then fell unconscious, soon after, the rescue failed to die.
The presence of Gui Changzong, Gui Changde siblings and Zhang Yaruo's sisters Maolan, Yamei that Zhang Yaruo was poisoned with a poisoned needle. They said Zhang Yaruo's whole body was black when he died.
After Chiang Ching-kuo learned the news, he sent someone to Guilin to handle the aftermath. Zhang Yaruo was buried at Phoenix Ridge on Whiteface Mountain in the Qixing District on the eastern outskirts of Guilin.
The two children of Chiang Ching-kuo and Zhang Yaruo were brought up by their grandmother in Wan'an, Jiangxi Province. in the winter of 1942, the two brothers, Zhang Hsiao-yen, accompanied their grandmother to their uncle, Zhang Hao-ruo. In the winter of 1942, the two brothers went with their grandmother to their uncle, Zhang Hao Ruo, after which their grandmother brought the brothers back to their hometown of Nanchang. 1949, under Chiang Ching-kuo's arrangement, General Wang Sheng took the Zhang Hsiao-Yen family to Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, via Nanchang and Xiamen. It was not until they were in high school that their grandmother told them about their lives. Wang Sheng (Chiang Ching-kuo in Gannan single-handedly cultivated a capable general, Zhang Yaruo's best friend, classmates of the Youth Cadre, arrived in Taiwan, served as the director of the General Political Operations Department, the Presidential Office of the national policy adviser and other important positions) on January 20, 1992 in Taiwan, Taiwan Television" reporter said in an interview: "Zhang Yaruo is due to illness can not find antibiotic treatment and died. Zhang Yaruo died because he couldn't find antibiotics to treat his illness." The book "Who Killed Zhang Yaruo" written by Ms. Zhou Yukou, a reporter from Taiwan's United Daily News, said, "Wang Sheng told Yaruo's twin sons, Hsiao-yen and Hsiao-ci, that their mother had been suffering from acute dysentery, and that the doctors had failed to save her life."
But some people have raised questions:
(1) At that time, Guilin Provincial Hospital was the hospital with the best medical equipment and level in the Great Backward Area, so how could it be unable to find antibiotics, a commonly used medicine, and how could it be unable to treat common diseases such as acute dysentery, which were curable in small and medium-sized hospitals.
(2) at the time of Wang Sheng is not in Guilin, not in the hospital, not in the chapter Yaruo side, but said that the chapter is an acute dysentery, and at the time in the chapter Yaruo side of the chapter Yamei (Yaruo's sister), Gui Changde (Yaruo's best friend), Gui Changzong (Yamei's best friend), Zhou Shuching (Yaruo's best friend, Qiu Changwei director of Mrs.) and Dr. Wang at the time and later did not say that the chapter is an acute dysentery and the hospital could not find antibiotics, and death. The first time I saw this, it was a very good thing that I was able to get it.
Xu Junhu (around 1940 in Ganzhou, Chiang Ching-kuo commissioner of the director of the secretary, chapter died in Guilin Xu Guilin City Hall, head of the social section and military section. In the 1980s, he was vice chairman of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and was the first person on the mainland to write and be interviewed to recall his youthful interactions with Chiang Ching-kuo and Zhang Yaruo, etc.) said, "Zhang Yaruo did die of an illness, not a homicide; at that time, sanitary conditions were very poor, and the living conditions during the war period were not good either, so Zhang Yaruo's post-partum body was weak, and coupled with the infection, she died of the disease soon afterward. " But some analysis said: this is not in line with the facts, chapter Yaruo traditionally material life is not bad. During the war, the overall standard of living of the Chinese people is not good, but the chapter since the war in the upper organs of work, have a fixed economic income, and with the commissioner of jiang love, have a child, living conditions is not bad. Moreover, Zhang took out 200 yuan in Guilin to sponsor his girlfriend Liu Wenqing to publish a book of poems, so he should have had the financial ability to buy nutritious products to replenish his body. The Guangxi Provincial Hospital, where Chiang was hospitalized before his birth and death, is the best hospital in the rear of the country in terms of medical equipment and level. This statement was analyzed as a hope that Chiang Hsiao-yen (after 1988, served as a member of the Central Committee of the thirteenth Congress of the Kuomintang, the Central Standing Committee of the fourteenth Congress of the Central Committee, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Standing Undersecretary, Chairman of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission of Taiwan, is an outstanding diplomat), Chiang Hsiao-ci (since the eighties, the Dean of the Law Department of Soochow University in Taiwan, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Vice-President, President, is a renowned jurist. The two brothers and their families have already returned to the mainland to visit, hang their mothers, and search for their roots) should not mistakenly believe that their mothers were murdered, or misunderstand their fathers, or even hold a grudge against them. Regarding the death of Zhang Yaruo, no one has been talking openly about it for decades. Until January 1988, Chiang Ching-kuo died in Taipei, Chiang, chapter of the son of Chapter Hsiao-yen (served as Taiwan's "Foreign Minister", "Vice President of the Executive Yuan," "Secretary General of the Office of the President" and other posts. Since March 2005 to change his surname to Chiang), Chapter Hsiao-ci (Taiwan legal scholar, was the president of Soochow University) became Taiwan's political and academic celebrities, people will be about the life and death of Zhang Yaruo's memories, rumors, speculation, analysis, explanation, clarification, research, and so on, have disclosed in the two sides of the Taiwan Straits and even in overseas newspapers, television, books. Most of them believed that Huang Zhongmei poisoned Zhang Yaruo.
The earliest rumor that Zhang Yaruo was killed by Huang Zhongmei is Chia Gaoru, who served as the secretary of Chiang Ching-kuo's commissioner in Ganzhou, and later served as the president of Taiwan's "Military News Agency".
Lacquer Gao Ru published an article, said: "Huang Zhongmei in our three (Huang Zhongmei, Xu Jiyuan, Lacquer Gao Ru three are Chiang Ching-kuo's secretaries) said in a secret conversation: Zhang Yaruo in Guilin is too ostentatious, should have been hidden in Guilin, not to the outside world, and now she participated in a lot of social functions, completely to Chiang's wife to call herself, which would hamper Ching-kuo brother's political future, the chairman of the commissioner know, is also a very bad thing. If the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners finds out about this, it will be a big deal. For the sake of the Commissioner's political future, I have no choice but to get rid of her. Jingguo's future is more important than a woman's life." The text also says: "I personally heard a passage that Huang Zhongmei wanted to get rid of Zhang Yaruo"; "I am the only person who knows that Huang Zhongmei intended to get rid of Zhang"; "Huang Zhongmei had the motive to kill Zhang and took action about two months' time. ". Chia Gao Ru said: "In the end, Huang Zhongmei secretary how to put Zhang Yaruo to death, I do not know." Chia Gao Ru guess: Huang Zhongmei took the way of preemptive action, reported afterwards to Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang was very dissatisfied with Huang Zhongmei, thereafter Huang that the whereabouts of the unknown, did not come back to the Commissioner's Office.
Taiwanese writer Zhou Yukou (who was a candidate for Taipei "mayor") suggested that: in May and June 1942, there were two secretaries working in the Ganzhou Commissioner's Office to Guilin, and Xu Junhu, who wanted to borrow a car to carry Zhang Yaruo out of the trip, and pushed her off the cliffs, which was not done due to Xu Junhu's opposition. Later, Zhang Yaruo to participate in Qiu Changwei family a family dinner, midnight after returning home, abdominal pain discomfort, the next morning into the hospital for treatment, this is gone. Zhou Yukou said: Zhang Yaruo was poisoned to death, the murderer is Huang Zhongmei.
Zhang Zhenguo, after seeing articles about the poisoning of Zhang Yaruo published in some Taiwan newspapers, wrote to Zhang Xiaoyan during Christmas 1989 that he had been ordered by Chen Cheng to arrest Huang Zhongmei, the military intelligence officer who poisoned Zhang Yaruo. He said, "After Zhang Yaruo's unexplained death, I reported it to Chen Cheng, who paid special attention to it and ordered me to conduct a thorough investigation. I followed the rate of several cadres rushed to Guilin, in addition to assist in the funeral, to track down the results. Found that is the Gannan Office, there is a titular secretary name Huang Zhongmei, is Daiasa sent to serve as a security work, in order to Chiang Ching-kuo's future and Chiang's reputation, dared to dare to act arbitrarily, take the initiative, with poisoned needles to kill Zhang Yaruo. I will Huang Zhongmei arrested, brought to Enshi, after severe interrogation, the best evidence is the poison needle, which is the Daiasa gang specializing in murder with ironclad evidence can not be denied. I will Huang Zhongmei to kill people after the confession transferred to the sixth war zone military law enforcement supervisor Feng Yong processing."
Some people read the articles by Chia Gao Ru, Zhou Yukou and Zhang Zhenguo and firmly believe that Zhang Yaruo was killed by Huang Zhongmei. Wu Nai-de, a researcher at Taiwan's Academia Sinica, agrees with Chia Gao-ju, saying, "When Zhang Yaruo actively participated in social activities in the name of 'Mrs. Chiang,' Chiang Ching-kuo's henchmen thought it was necessary to remove her for the sake of Chiang Ching-kuo's political future. Carrying out this task was Huang Zhongmei, a classmate of Chiang Ching-kuo's who had stayed in Russia and was a secret agent."
The China News Service article also claimed that Zhang Yaruo was killed with a poisoned needle by Huang Zhongmei, the titular secretary of the Gannan Special Office, who was actually a secret agent. "His motive turned out to be out of 'loyalty' to Chiang's family, so much so that when Chiang Ching-kuo heard the news, his hands trembled, he stared in grief, and looked up to the sky, sighing and wanting to speak. After the truth came out, Zhang Zhenguo, the intelligence moderator of the Sixth War Area, was instructed to personally question Huang Zhongmei. In Enshi, Hubei, Huang Zhongmei finally told the truth about his own audacity, self-interest, and the criminal facts of the death of Zhang Yaruo with a poisoned needle. Huang Zhongmei was born in 1903, a native of Lin'an, Zhejiang Province, and participated in the First National Congress of the ****ist Youth League as a delegate from Zhejiang Province in 1922, and later participated in the formation of the Hangzhou branch of the ****ist Youth League, where he served as chairman of the committee. 1923, he was introduced to the CPC by Yu Xiu-song and Xuan Zhonghua and joined the CPC after the "National ****ist Cooperation" in 1924, where he joined the KMT. In 1924, after the "national *** cooperation", he joined the KMT, and served as the head of the KMT Party Department of Zhejiang Province, and in 1925, when Wu Peifu occupied Zhejiang Province, he was transferred to Shanghai with Shen Xuanlu, Yu Xiusong, Xuan Zhonghua, etc. In 1925, after the tragedy of May 30th, he attended the Temporary Relief Society on behalf of Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions which was established by Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, Federation of Trade Unions, Students' Union, etc. (specializing in the distribution of relief money to more than 200,000 striking workers), and represented the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions to attend the Temporary Relief Society. In October 1925, the Central Committee of the People's Republic of China sent Huang Zhongmei and 13 other members of the Zhejiang Party to study at the Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, where they met Chiang Ching-kuo on the ship to the Soviet Union and later became close friends. At the Zhongshan University in Moscow, Huang Zhongmei was in the same class with Chiang Ching-kuo, Zuo Quan, Ulanhu and Xu Junhu. Later, due to Wang Ming's fabrication of the "Zhejiang Fellowship", "Sutou" and other incidents, he and Chiang Ching-kuo went their separate ways, but have always been in correspondence.
Huang Zhongmei, who served as an interpreter for the Vladivostok State Political Defense Bureau during his stay in the Soviet Union, returned to China in 1935 and worked as an anti-smuggling agent in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and was invited by Chiang Ching-kuo, the commissioner of the Ganzhou Special Office, to serve as secretary to the director of the office in 1939. 1941, Huang Zhongmei was appointed as the deputy director of the Jiangxi Salt Department (set up in 1941) with Chiang Ching-kuo. Due to the fear of the "above" that Gannan would be "reddened", Huang Zhongmei, Gao Liwen, Zhou Baijie, Xu Jiyuan and other core think-tanks of Chiang Ching-kuo were sidelined and transferred away, and Huang Zhongmei returned to his hometown of Lin'an, Zhejiang Province, at the end of 1941 to reside there until the beginning of 1943. In 1943, Chiang Ching-kuo invited Huang Zhongmei to go to Ganzhou to serve as the chief secretary (in fact, the person in charge) of the Salt Transportation Commissioner's Office of the four provinces of Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, and Gan. 1945, the Ministry of Finance appointed Huang Zhongmei to be the director of the Salt Bureau of Jilin Province, and in 1947, Soong Tzu-wen formed the Chinese Salt Transportation Service (i.e., China Salt Company) and sent Huang Zhongmei to serve as the business commissioner. commissioner of operations. Later, when Chiang Ching-kuo withdrew from the mainland, he invited Huang Zhongmei to accompany him to Taiwan, but Huang chose to stay on the mainland.
See, Huang Zhongmei is not what Zhang Zhenguo and others call "titular secretary", not to mention "secret agent". Before and after the murder of Zhang Yaruo, Huang Zhongmei in Zhejiang, Xu Jiyuan in Fujian, Chia Gaoru in Gannan, the three could not be together in the "secret talks". Even if the three people in the same city, lacquer Gaoru was only the Secretary of the machine, and Huang Zhongmei, Xu Jiyuan status status difference, Huang, Xu two people can not take the risk to go and neither "co-conspirators", but also non-directly subordinate to the lacquer Gaoru "secret talks". Chia Gaoru said: "Chiang was very dissatisfied with Huang, Huang's whereabouts are unknown since then, did not come back to the Commissioner's Office" and so on, are credible.
And, if Huang Zhongmei killed Chiang's sweetheart, how could Chiang Ching-kuo reappoint Huang Zhongmei to head the salt affairs after Zhang Yaruo's death? Keep in mind that the salt service was the main concern at that time. This needs no elaboration, anyone who knows history and economics knows the importance of the salt service.
Zhang Zhenguo's categorical statement that he personally arrested Huang Zhongmei, who was shot shortly afterward, was a big lie that left people dumbfounded. In fact, after the founding of New China in 1949, Huang Zhongmei chose to stay on the mainland, and later served as a teacher at Yangsi Middle School in Shanghai until his death in the early 1980s. A grand memorial ceremony was organized by the parties concerned.
In fact, people who are familiar with Huang Zhongmei know that he was a loyal person. Xu Haoran, an old subordinate of Chiang Ching-kuo when he was working in Gannan and a relative of Zhang Yaruo's generation, recalled, "Many old colleagues of the former Ganzhou special office, such as Mr. Gao Liwen, Wu Shanliang and Mr. Yu Chengyan, said Huang Zhongmei was a thick-skinned person, and he would never hide from Chiang Ching-kuo to do things that would jeopardize his privacy and murder his beloved couple. his beloved partner." In 2006, Chiang Hsiao-yen also said that his mother was not killed by Huang Zhongmei, and pointed out that the murderer was "still alive". In summary, the death of Zhang Yaruo had nothing to do with Huang Zhongmei.