1949 the whereabouts of mainland gold after it was transported to Taiwan Province. 1949 or so, Chiang Kai-shek ordered four batches of gold secrets with a total value of 7 million taels to be transported to Taiwan Province Province. Wu Yes's son, an important figure in Chiang Kai-shek's Chief Accountant's Office, experienced the gold transportation in 1949. His book "The Secret Archives of Gold: 1949 Stories of Mainland Gold Transportation to Taiwan" (published by Jiangsu People's Publishing House) was rated as "the most detailed and objective book" about gold transportation to Taiwan. During Chiang Kai-shek's retirement (1 9491-1950 March1), the author returned to Taiwan Province Province as a short-term visiting professor. During my stay in Taiwan Province, I found an iou in a filing cabinet of my late father. This is NT$ 60,000 (then US$ 65,438 +0, 500 yuan) that my late father borrowed from Mr. Guo Jing when I was in the United States more than 40 years ago. I saw that this loan was printed with "Zhao Zhihua, Director of Finance Office" and the words "Allow me to borrow" were approved. The author came to the United States for less than a year, and after returning it in full, he recovered the loan. Zhao Zhihua on this IOU was the director of the Finance Office of the National Security Bureau when he signed this IOU in February. According to him, the signing and approval of "permission to borrow" was of course borrowed at the behest of Jiang Jingguo (then Deputy Secretary-General of the National Defense Conference, in charge of intelligence). This IOU is the only time in my late father's life that he borrowed money from others. At that time, my father had just retired from the position of deputy commander-in-chief of the logistics department (the total retirement pension was only NT$ 65.438 billion, about US$ 2,500) and took office as the chairman of Tang Rong Iron and Steel Company. This is the embarrassment of being a civil servant before Taiwan Province's economic take-off. I believe this is the experience of Taiwan military officials and their families thirty or forty years ago. According to a long telephone conversation with 1997, Zhao Zhihua worked in the duty room from 1949 to 1950. In 2006, we had many opportunities to have a long talk in Los Angeles, only to know that the "military expenditure" of the finance department managed by my late father also took care of retired President Chiang Kai-shek. Zhao Zhihua recalled that during his stay in Xikou, he was in the ninth group (group leader Chen Shunqi). At that time, the president's office was always less than 100. Everyone has no salary, and Xia Gongquan goes to Bank of Ningbo to "borrow" food every month. The life of the entourage is very hard. Zhao Zhihua said: "There are only vegetables such as sauerkraut and edamame for three meals. Occasionally, everyone eats some meat and is scolded by the president. " Before and after leaving Xikou for Magong and Shanghai (Fuxing Island), he got 42,000 "Kyrgyzstan" silver from Mao Renfeng. According to the attache medical officer Xiong Wan, 199 1 year (Chinese and foreign magazines), Wu Songqing, director of the financial office (that is, my late father), took us to Xikou with a silver turn. At that time, I got 200 big heads, and Cao Shengfen and Zhang (group) each took 100 big heads and brought them home to Sichuan. But I didn't bring it. On July 6, 2004, President Jiang held talks with Philippine President Baguio at the invitation of Philippine President Girino. On August 6th, at the invitation of South Korean President Li Chengwan, Zhenhai Conference was held. Prior to this, according to Zhao Zhihua, my late father had to pay "US$ 65,438 in military savings+US$ 6,000 to visit abroad" to the President's Office. For example, going to the Philippines has a budget of $50,000, including buying gifts such as corals. Before 1949, Chiang Kai-shek was reinstated, these two sums of money transferred by Mao and his late father, according to Zhao Zhihua's memory, were the only two large sums of income in the President's office besides Bank of Ningbo's living expenses. 1950, 1 This month, my father had an interesting record: "Shun came to the office and sent me a stack of bills, asking him to study them. After inviting him to sit in the park, he said that Minister Jiang had something to convey, but he hesitated. This is the third time. I don't know why, but I really don't understand. " In the next few days, the two met again, but they never thought about it again. The question is whose bills are these? If it is Jiang Jingguo, with his position at that time (chairman of the Kuomintang Party Department in Taiwan Province Province), he should not directly submit an expense account to the financial department (Chiang Kai-shek was reinstated in March and the government appointed him as the director of the General Political Department of the Ministry of National Defense); If it is the president's, there is no need to speak hesitatingly. My father is not a politician, so this will be a good chance to win Jiang Jingguo. Why not? Also know perfectly well past ask, in order to gain a foothold, don't want to do anything to please. Presidents who have retired or just left their posts in various places can continue to maintain an official position at public expense (although the Kuomintang government did not establish this system at that time). It should be natural for Chen Shun to ask his late father for some living expenses for the former president. What's more, the "Presidential Office" is also self-disciplined. They don't eat or drink. In fact, they are very bitter. If Zhao Zhihua hadn't told these details of life, no one would have believed that there would be such suffering around Chiang. Chiang Kai-shek, who was publicized in his early years, was the center of a corrupt group. Some people in Taiwan Province Province think that in the strongman era of the two Chiang Kai-shek, the party and the state are inseparable. If they do, they can get anything they want from the author's father, who is in charge of many gold, silver and dollar bills. Why do people around President Jiang have to live so shabby? Mr. Dong Decheng recently told the author an interesting story, that is, after Chiang Kai-shek was reinstated, the money in charge of the finance department became the "small treasury" of the "presidential office". In 1950s, the economy of Taiwan Province Province had not yet taken off, and the budget was very tight. There are always some additional requirements for the "President's Office". My late father wrote: "Send Lin Kesheng abroad for five thousand dollars ..." Professor Lin Kesheng was the founder of National Defense Medical College (Robert K.S.Lin, 1897- 1969, 1948+0949) on 1949. These are all expenses incurred by President Jiang for the public. How much gold did the United Daily News take? There is an interesting article in the February 2005 issue of Taipei Biography Literature, which is a textual research on the rise of Wang Tiwu, Wang Yongtao and the National Newspaper as Xi Xiande. A close reading shows that the rise of the United Daily News Department is related to the second batch of gold military expenditure. Wang Yongtao is Wang Yifen, director of the Revenue and Expenditure Office of the Taipei Municipal Government. At that time, there were more than twenty revenue and expenditure offices in China. Of course, there is something special about the director of Taipei's revenue and expenditure department. He is a confidant of Chiang Kai-shek and helps to look after military gold and silver. Wang is much cleverer than his late father. He once thought about using some salary to develop his future career. 1960 retired major general and became the publisher of Taipei National Evening News. On the eve of the opening of the 1987 annual report, the Wangs wanted to offer NT$ 200 million for sale. At that time, I remember that someone was willing to pay NT$100000 (including US$ 3 million), but the result failed. Less than half a year later, when Taiwan Province Province banned it, it probably wasn't worth that much. Now let's see how these cronies around Chiang Kai-shek used the people's gold as their "start-up expenses" for their journalism. Of course, nominally, they probably run a newspaper for the "party and the country." In biographical literature, Xi Xiande wrote: ... The United Daily News Department (including the United States World Journal, which earned about $2 million in 2008 and remitted back to Taiwan Province Province) can have today's scale, and most people will admire it: this is the crystallization of Mr. Wang Tiwu's wisdom and courage. However, if we want to say that the entrepreneurial story in the era of "National Daily" before the predecessor of United Daily News "National Daily Economic Times Joint Edition" really made the old people feel grateful in their early years, and Mr. Wang Yongtao, who was regarded as a close friend, was an important behind-the-scenes financier and an important promoter who fully supported the growth of "National Daily" in those years ... Here, readers can't help but ask, what financial ability does he have as a major general's revenue and expenditure director? Let's take a look at how the article describes Wang Yifen (), the subordinate director of my late father's finance department: ... June, 65438 +2654381October +0, 49, before President Jiang Zhongzheng announced his retirement, he specially transferred Wang Yifen, director of the Military Supplies Department of the National Government Garrison Headquarters, to Taiwan Province Province as the director of the Taiwan Province Provincial Revenue and Expenditure Department of the Joint Logistics Headquarters (according to the Finance Department). Wang Yifen's successor, Wang Aijun, is from Fenghua, Zhejiang. Therefore, at this critical moment of crisis and impact, he can gain the high trust of the top layer and become an important role in common protection ... 802,000 gold (by mistake), silver, foreign exchange dollar bills and other state-owned assets are shipped to Taiwan Province. Readers have probably understood that Wang Yifen, under the style of writing, has become the protagonist of mastering the gold platform, and may have decided that he should be responsible for guarding the whole vault. Even the total amount of gold in the national treasury is too small. [Press: In fact, the author's story about military money was published in the same magazine Biography (1996- 1997) more than ten years ago. But I still didn't make it clear how Wang Yifen made Wang realize that gratitude is his "benefactor". But it also involves the power struggle between Chen Cheng and Chiang Kai-shek. Xi Wen continued: According to Ye Bangzong's book "The Secret History of Chiang Kai-shek: My Days in the Official Residence and a History of Being Hidden",1At the end of 947, Peng suggested to the Central Committee after the "228 Incident": Taiwan Province needed to send troops and plan candidates; Yu Jishi, the military director, suggested to President Jiang Zhongzheng that due to the deterioration of the situation in Chinese mainland, Taiwan Province Province was the last place to stay, and elite pro-soldiers must be stationed. Therefore, the list of candidates recommended by Peng himself was shelved, and all officers and assistants were appointed by the Presidential Guard Corps. The main cadres are: deputy head of the guard regiment, brigade commander and head, senior official of Yu Jishi, chief of staff and head, head of the second regiment by Wang, and other battalion commanders, company commanders and platoon leaders. Wang is Wang Tiwu here, and "Wen Xi" went on to say: ... Chen Cheng, the office of the southeast military and political chief, suddenly ordered that Colonel Wang be transferred to the police headquarters in Taiwan Province Province as a staff officer and reassigned to Colonel Wang Fengzeng who followed Chen Cheng for many years. However, except for Chairman Jiang and Yu Jishi, no one ever ordered the official residence to be changed, which immediately caused an uproar among the officers and men of the Second Regiment and almost turned into a mutiny. As a result, the former colonel Wang refused to pay when the colonel Wang was not on duty, so people hid in the gold warehouse under the supervision of the former joint logistics headquarters (press: in the finance department) in Hangzhou South Road, Taipei. The door of this warehouse needs three keys to open and enter the interior. Although Peng sent many intelligence personnel to look for the missing colonel everywhere, there was no whereabouts. Fortunately, the day after Chen Cheng's order was issued, President Jiang flew to Penghu Magong, and Yu Jishi (director of the president's office) said to Wang, who urgently asked to see the complaint, "Be patient, the old man knows it." In June of the same year, the order for Wang to be transferred to the senior staff was only issued for one month, that is, he was promoted to the position of Chief of Staff of the Taiwan Province Police Brigade. On the surface, it seems to have ended a big drama of infighting, but it also nakedly indicates the end of Wang Tiwu's development in the military ... According to Xi's statement: (1949) When Wang Tiwu decided to retire and join the journalism, National Daily. The reason for the authorities' dissatisfaction is an article calling for a salary increase for officers. The topic is "If you can't, you can't do it!" Editorial, written by Yin, chief contributor of National Daily. [Reporter: This big mistake was written by Zhang Tiejun. His granddaughter, Zhang Chunru, a China writer living in the United States, wrote "Nanjing Massacre" in English] ... That's ridiculous! "And told Chen Cheng to stop publishing and punish him. According to an insider, Jiang said at that time: "If it is a newspaper run by others, I may not be able to handle it, but' National Newspaper' is my own newspaper, so I will handle it in my own way!" So the National newspaper, which was founded only three months ago, was closed in August of the same year. ..... But why did President Jiang blurt out after reading the editorial that "National Newspaper" was run by himself? The reason is that part of the main funds for organizing the newspaper came from the central bank deposit managed by Wang Yongtao. At that time, his name was still Wang Yifen, and the number was 100 gold bars. This 100 gold bar must be 10 double "big bars", that is, 1000 two, which should belong to the second to fourth batches of gold entrusted by my late father to Wang Yifen in the finance department, and cannot be the "central bank" treasury gold. Xi doesn't know the difference between the "central bank" and the gold of the Ministry of Finance. My late father ordered Wang Yifen to keep the military funds of the finance department, belonging to two to four batches; Unlike the first batch of 2.6 million taels of "central bank" treasury gold. ..... When the National Newspaper was forced to close for nearly a month, fellow villagers in Hubei, including Wang Yifen, invited Tao Xisheng, who was also a member of the Hubei Provincial Military Commission, to ask Jiang Gong for instructions: The newspaper has been closed for almost a month, can it be allowed to resume publication? ..... Wang Tiwu took over the National newspaper after Mr. Jiang agreed to reissue it. ..... Wang Tiwu thought about it and agreed, and frankly said to Yu Jishi, "I can't pick it up with empty hands! "So, Yu Jishi instructed Wang Yifen to use the funds urgently allocated by the central bank to Taiwan Province for the second time. It is said that this time, * * * paid 200 gold bars and added a sum of US dollars to Wang Tiwu, so that he could gain real commercial power in the form of sole proprietorship and become the publisher and president of "National Newspaper" to start over ... At this time, it was the end of 1949, and my late father was risking his life to escort the gold and silver wheel convoy on the eastern highway from Chongqing to Chengdu, and wanted to deliver it to the frontline troops in person. The Kuomintang government is also in jeopardy, and the Kuomintang army is facing the road of total annihilation. At this critical moment, Wang Yifen and Wang Tiwu came up with the idea of gold as military expenditure. The background is the struggle between power and interests of the upper class, isn't it a great sigh? What I want to point out here is that Wang Yifen dared to use it without the approval of his immediate boss and my father. In fact, Yu Jishi was ordered by Chiang Kai-shek and had to be handed over to my late father. But if you think about it, it may not be. Why? A group of people around Chiang Kai-shek, such as Yu Mou, were originally military leaders (Yu Huangpu, former commander and deputy commander of the group army), and would respect his father's authority? Especially after receiving Jiang's instructions, Wang Yifen may be asked to open the warehouse door and take it away before submitting the accounts. Later, he was transferred because he was too exclusive and had a conflict with others. If what Ye said above is true, United Daily News was a national newspaper at first, and it always took out 3,000 taels of gold kept by the finance department, plus an unknown amount of dollars. Dollar foreign exchange must be used to buy foreign printing machines and paper. Gold alone, if calculated by NT$ 30,000, will be nearly NT$ 1 100 million (plus foreign exchange), which is not a small sum even today. Today, of course, the United Daily News Department doesn't care about the money. Whether to consider returning the money to the two sides of the strait as seed money to the "Golden Education Fund" mentioned below, and whether there is interest or not, is decided by the descendants who inherit Wang Tiwu's will. From another perspective, the United Daily News should also belong to the "party property" of the Kuomintang. But it should be the ordinary people on both sides of the strait who pursue this kind of "party production." Of course, there is also a small possibility that these thousands of two hundred gold were spent from the 4,200 private "special custody funds" that Jiang deposited in the financial department, which may also be the reason why Jiang said that he "paid by himself". However, this possibility seems unlikely, because the Finance Department has reached 196 1 and there are more than 6,000 taels of gold, which should include this "special trust fund".