Chang Kaishen left with a lot of Huang-Lao's knowledge and felt that he had gained a lot, but Zhou Hexuan was a little depressed.
What is Chang Kaishen’s biggest problem?
Headstrong!
This shortcoming caused misfortune to countless anti-Japanese soldiers. During the Battle of Xuzhou, he micromanaged, during the Battle of Songhu, he micromanaged, and during the Nanjing Defense War, he micromanaged until the expeditionary force went abroad to fight, and Chang Kaishen was still at home.
Continue to play micromanaging.
Thousands of miles away from the battlefield, even in the information age, it is impossible for central leaders to fully control the ever-changing changes on the front line.
However, our great Chairman Chiang Kai-shek thought he could.
Take the Chinese Expeditionary Force as an example. On the 10th, Chang Kaishen appointed Stilwell as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army, and on the 11th he appointed Du Yuming as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army. There are actually two commanders-in-chief on one battlefield. What should the soldiers below know?
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The funniest thing is that neither Stilwell nor Du Yuming, the two commanders-in-chief, have real decision-making power, because Chairman Chiang has to personally strategize and win the battle thousands of miles away. He often writes "thousands of words in handwriting" to Du Yuming.
, "The policy guiding the war in Burma is extremely detailed."
Chang Kaishen misjudged the situation in Burma from the beginning to the end. He initially believed that the Japanese army did not dare to go deep into Burma, so he deployed the army according to the established policy of preventing the Japanese from escaping. Even though his air force was weak, he ordered Chennault to
Three planes were sent at once to harass the Japanese troops many times a day, and their own air force base was soon exposed.
Chang Kaishen also considered himself a military genius, and said proudly in his diary: No one but him would dare to make such a battle plan. As a result, the day after Chiang Kai-shek wrote this diary, Burma Leyun Airport collapsed
After being bombed, almost all the more than 20 aircraft of the Flying Tigers were destroyed.
Because of Chiang Kai-shek's misjudgment, the Chinese Expeditionary Force's strategic deployment was full of loopholes, and its air superiority was completely destroyed as soon as the war started.
The most speechless part is yet to come. Stilwell and Luo Zhuoying ordered the expeditionary force to retreat to India. However, Chang Kaishen commanded Du Laming remotely and sent the expeditionary force back to China via the Mystical Service (Harmony). Although this plan was risky, it was not without operation.
possibility. However, Chang Kaishen refused to let the vanguard troops seize and hold on to strategic points. As a result, the expeditionary force's retreat route was cut off by the Japanese army and they were forced to enter the Savage Mountains. The final result was horrific.
One general is incompetent and the three armies are exhausted.
Zhou Hexuan only hoped that Chang Kaishen could get rid of this bad habit, and repeatedly talked about Huang Lao's ideas of "establishing public affairs and discarding private interests" and "abandoning wisdom and discarding self-interest". To put it bluntly, leaders should not corrupt state affairs because of personal preferences and selfish interests.
If you don't understand military matters, don't get involved. Let those who are experts in military matters fight on their own. As the supreme commander, just focus on the big ones and let go of the small ones.
In fact, Huang Laozhi's thoughts on governing the country can be summed up very simply, that is, setting up the overall framework of the national government, formulating an effective administrative system and judicial system in accordance with the existing situation and public opinion, and choosing a correct direction and goal.
The leader controls the overall situation from the center, and specific tasks are executed by professionals.
The central idea here is "quiet and do nothing", that is, those in power cannot interfere too much in the operation of administrative justice. But it is "doing everything" and must strictly maintain the established administrative and judicial system. Whether it is the supreme leader or ordinary officials, they must strictly
Comply with the rules set down, and those who make mistakes will be arrested and killed when necessary.
However, Chang Kaishen sat on the sofa and listened for a long time. He was only interested in the political tactics of Huang Laozhi and could not listen to the real key core ideas at all.
This is the kind of person who abandons the big road for the small road and pursues the root and the end.
Not to mention that the situation is too complicated and the factions are too chaotic for the Huang-Lao School to be implemented. With Chang Kaishen's current power, it is obvious that this method can be implemented in the Huangpu system. For example, the Blue Clothes Club can firmly implement the established strategy.
As long as Chang Kaishen can persevere, he can expand his small circle into a large circle and attract countless people with lofty ideals to work for him.
What Chang Kaishen is doing now is exactly the opposite, using violence to eliminate dissidents and gathering people's hearts through interests. This can only lead to "the wise depart from each other and the villains gather together." Once Chang Kaishen is unable to mediate the interests of the faction, it will inevitably lead to the end of betrayal and separation.
In fact, Chang Kaishen has now been "betrayed". Many people who supported him a few years ago now stand up to oppose him one by one. People like Cai Yuanpei, who planned to participate in the purge of the party, although they did not openly betray, they also
Various boycott actions were quietly carried out.
Huang Laozhi's teachings talk about "following the way according to nature", but Chang Kaishen is just "acting against nature". The "way of heaven" now is resistance to Japan and democracy. Even if he cannot achieve it for the time being, he can still make some gestures to fool people.
Ah, it will definitely win over a lot of people's hearts.
Huang Laozhi's theory talks about "establishing the public and eliminating private interests" and "ruling the country according to the law". Chang Kaishen is exactly "using private interests to abolish the public affairs" and "ruling the country with people", taking the lead in destroying the country's administrative and judicial system. If the top beam is not straight, the bottom beam is crooked.
The Kuomintang will only become more and more corrupt, and it will only be a matter of time before it loses control of Taiwan.
During the entire period of the Nanjing National Government's rule, there were three "constitutional movements" in total.
The first one started in 1929 and reached its peak in 1932. All the people hoped for a democratic constitutional government. However, Chang Kaishen suppressed it through the rule of secret agents, and from then on it completely deviated from the people's support and the general trend.
The second time was when the all-out war of resistance began. Chang Kaishen, under pressure, pretended to engage in "preparatory democratic constitutionalism" and agreed to the participation of all parties and democrats in politics. Although this democratic constitution was fake, it was inspiring enough.
In terms of people's hearts, as long as the fake news continues, most people will still support Chang Kaishen.
However, even if it was fake democracy, Chang Kaishen was unwilling to do it. When the Japanese offensive slowed down, Chang Kaishen immediately took action against the democratic parties, leaving countless democrats confused, and then angrily rebounded.
Thus came the Third Constitutional Movement. The major democratic parties' original position was to support the Kuomintang in building the country, but Chang Kaishen forced them to unite to overthrow the Kuomintang's dictatorship, restrict and urge the Kuomintang to implement democratic constitutional reforms.
The best example is Zhang Junmai, who originally supported Chang Kaishen's fake democracy and believed that fake democracy could slowly transition into real democracy. He firmly opposed communism and the Communist Party's armed use, and urged the Communist Party to control the Eighth Route Army
, the training and command rights of the New Fourth Army were handed over.
Due to Chang Kaishen's constant rebellious behavior, Zhang Junmai jumped directly and began to actively seek cooperation with the Communist Party. In Dong Biwu's original words: "Not only does he (Zhang Junmai) not oppose our expansion of the army to establish a border area, he is also afraid of our army.
It is not strong enough and is afraid that our border areas will be attacked! He already believes that our party is a necessary friendly force for China to realize democracy."
The process of the Kuomintang's failure in mainland China was a process of constantly making mistakes and constantly pushing its supporters to the side of the Communist Party.
Zhou Hexuan had the leisure to talk nonsense with Chang Kaishen, just to let the other party implement fake democracy in advance. However, after Chang Kaishen returned, nothing happened. He was unwilling to even coax democrats, thinking that this approach would attract more people.
