>The Southern King of Guangdong for eight years - the legendary Chen Jitang

The Nantian King who ruled Guangdong for eight years - the legendary Chen Jitang Yu Yushu (6) Losing the opportunity and losing everything (middle) On April 30, 1931, for the Legislative Yuan...

The Southern Heavenly King who ruled Guangdong for eight years - the legendary figures Chen Jitang and Yu Yushu (6) Missing the opportunity and losing everything (middle) On April 30, 1931, in response to the imprisonment of Legislative President Hu Hanmin in Tangshan, the civil servant Gu Yingfen, together with three Kuomintang supervisory committee members including Deng Zeru, Xiao Focheng and Lin Sen, jointly issued an "Impeachment of Chiang Kai-shek". On May 3, Chen Jitang, commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army in Guangdong, sent a telegram to support the impeachment case of the Fourth Supervisory Committee (author's note: this Eighth Route Army is different from the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, which was reorganized from the Communist Army on August 19, 1937). On May 11, Guangxi's Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi also telegraphed in response. In Nanjing, thirty generals loyal to Chiang Kai-shek, led by He Yingqin, dramatically launched a joint telegram to counterattack. On May 25, 22 state councilors including Wang Jingwei, Sun Ke, and Chen Jitang jointly ordered Chiang Kai-shek to resign within 48 hours, but they were refused. On July 21, the Guangzhou National Government issued a crusade order, and the Guangdong and Guangxi armies marched towards Hunan and Jiangxi respectively. After occupying Binzhou in September, they fought with the Central Army Gu Zhu in Hengyang. On September 18, the Japanese army raided the North Camp of Shenyang. Zhang Xueliang was ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to retreat without a fight "before the final moment of sacrifice was reached." The anti-Japanese sentiment among the Chinese people was high, and they shouted at the gunpoint. So the two sides temporarily ceased fighting and jointly faced the national crisis. They held the "Fourth National Congress" in Nanjing and Guangzhou respectively, and recognized each other's elected Central Committee members. In addition, Guangzhou has proposed three conditions. (1) Chen Mingshu was appointed to be in charge of Beijing-Shanghai garrison affairs. (2) Chiang sent a telegram, blaming the political measures of the past few years and declaring a unified government approach. He would step down immediately after making the decision. (3) The Guangdong side will send a telegram to cancel the Guangdong-Chinese government and come to Beijing to hold a meeting to discuss unifying government affairs. Hu Hanmin was released on October 14th. On December 15th, Chiang was forced to resign as President of the State and President of the Executive Council, and instead elected Lin Sen as President of the State and Sun Ke as President of the Executive Council. However, Chiang Kai-shek, who returned to Xikou, in the name of recuperation, actually still controlled the political situation in Nanjing. Before leaving, he made arrangements for personnel arrangements early in the morning: Jiangsu Provincial Chairman Gu Zhutong; Zhejiang Provincial Chairman Lu Jieping; Jiangxi Provincial Chairman Xiong Shihui were all his cronies, and they had long buried the opportunity for a comeback. Although the "National Government" was abolished in Guangzhou, the "Southwestern Political Affairs Committee" was formed by Hu Hanmin, Chen Jitang, Xiao Focheng, Li Wenfan, Zou Lu, Lin Yunye, Liu Jiwen, Liu Luyin and other Guangdong and Guangxi people to compete with the Nanjing central government. However, Sun Ke, the executive director, resigned due to financial difficulties after less than a month in office. Wang Jingwei and his wife, who had always been good at controlling, came to power on January 16, 1932. After arriving in Hangzhou for talks with Chiang Kai-shek on January 22, they returned to Nanjing together on January 22. On the 28th, Wang took over as the President of the Executive Council and established the "Military Commission", the highest military authority in the government. Its members included Chiang Kai-shek, Feng Yuxiang, He Yingqin, Zhu Peide, Li Zongren and others. Chiang Kai-shek was promoted as the leader of the Generalissimo, which was naturally a step up from the former commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army. As for Chen Jitang himself, he was awarded the rank of first-class Army General by the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government in October 1935.