After Sun Yunlai and Wang Sheng left, Chiang Ching-kuo sat on the sofa, staring motionlessly at the calligraphy and paintings on the opposite wall, he has often been like this since he became "president" in 1978, and the attendants in the Seven Seas Mansion have become accustomed to it. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After a long time, Jiang Jingguo moved his body and instructed his personal attendant adjutant: "Weng Yuan, bring me the notebook on the desk." ”

Weng Yuan was a personal attendant adjutant to Chiang Kai-shek in the 40s, and after Chiang Kai-shek's death, he continued to serve as Chiang Ching-kuo's personal attendant adjutant, serving two generations of the Chiang family for more than 30 years, and knew Chiang Ching-kuo's temper and character.

Jiang Jingguo touched the cover of the notebook with his palm covered with old age spots, and said: "Weng Yuan, this grandson-in-law of President Wei is very unusual. ”

Before Wei Jingmeng retired, he was the president of the Central News Agency, Jiang Jingguo has always called him by this position, Weng Yuan and Jiang Jingguo have different temperaments, not as restrained as ordinary adjutants, he said with a smile: "It's just too unusual, so President Wei is reluctant to let go, he is in his 70s, and he is busy everywhere to pave the way for this junior." ”

"President Wei is happy to see the hunt, talent is the source of prosperity, the foundation of the country." Jiang Jingguo took the notebook, didn't open it for a long time, and said: "If Xiaowu and Xiaoyong can have half of Shen Chong's ability, why should I be 70 years old and still love the position of president?" ”

"The second young master is in the broadcasting company, and the third young master is in ZTE Electrician, both of them are doing an excellent job, and the president doesn't have to be too harsh on his own family."

"Xiaowu is the general manager of the broadcasting company, are there still fewer jokes? Don't think I don't know, the cultural circles in Taipei have given him the name of 'Second Prince, a bandit" Jiang Jingguo hated that iron could not become steel, shook his head and reprimanded: "Wine-colored wealth, everything is stained, I don't know how to converge at all, it doesn't matter if my reputation is ruined, if my body collapses, how can I get it, his eldest brother's appearance, isn't it miserable enough?" ”

"The second young master has changed a lot."

"That's what I watch, if I'm not there, what do you see him like" Jiang Jingguo calmed down his emotions and said: "Among the three children, Xiaoyong is quite sensible, but he has no intention of politics, he is dedicated to business, and it is not bad to be in business, it is a way to make a living, but he has not experienced the wind and waves, and he relies on the Jiang family's signboard to do business, and he has a monopoly on it, and now all large-scale air-conditioning equipment in Taiwan will be handed over to ZTE Electrician for contract installation, you say that once I am gone, how long can he do this business?" ”

"President, you don't have to be in a hurry, the second and third young masters have been smart since they were young, as long as they have more experience and experience, they will soon be in charge of themselves."

"Time waits for no one, my case list in Rong General Hospital is waist-high." Jiang Jingguo raised his hand and said: "What is the condition of my body, I know myself, whether I can survive for another ten years, it is difficult to say, if they still have to get by and do not grow, they will have to suffer a lot in the future."

Weng Yuan was silent, not daring to discuss this topic.

Jiang Jingguo was stunned for a while, and then opened the notebook, Weng Yuan peeked and found that what was written in it was not words, but small notes pasted with them, looking at the material, it seemed to have been cut out of a newspaper.

This notebook is a repetition of what Shen Chong did in Guangzhou last month, but what Guangzhou cut is the policy of reform and opening up, and this time it is the news reports of the media around the world, especially the United States and Taiwan, before and after the outbreak of the "Beautiful Island Incident."

On January 10, 1979, at the instigation and call of the magazine "Beautiful Island", a large-scale demonstration broke out in Kaohsiung, with more than 100,000 citizens participating, at about 8:30 p.m., the crowd was in a commotion, the scene was out of control, at about 10 o'clock, the police and anti-riot forces began to release tear gas, driving away the crowd, the people present returned fire with stones and sticks, and a larger-scale conflict broke out between the two sides.

Before the parade took place, Chiang Ching-kuo ordered the military and police to maintain order "must not fight back, scold and not return the mouth", and are not allowed to bring weapons, so after the riot, the official statistics of the military and police about 18 injured, the participants in the march also confirmed to the officials of the American Institute in Taiwan that the military and police only used shields to block the attack, did not use force, the news media thus one-sided accusations of the people involved in the activities, the gendarmes are the victims, such a situation, so that some Taiwan citizens are disgusted by the movement outside the party, Song Chuyu because in the handling of this emergency, showed excellent media control ability, won the attention of Chiang Ching-kuo, and rose to the top.

Originally, public opinion was developing in favor of the official, but the Kuomintang was accustomed to high-pressure rule, and after the incident, it quickly made a resolution to arrest non-party personalities on a large scale, and opened a military court on March 18, 191, to try the core eight non-party personalities on the charge of rebellion, but under international pressure led by the United States, the Taiwan official was forced to agree, in addition to the international well-known media reports, the newspapers on the island can also publish the interrogation process and the defendant's statements, and wait for the 9-day trial to be over. Although all eight non-party personalities were convicted and sentenced to heavy prison sentences, the trend of public opinion has changed, and both the international media and the media on the island have become supporters of the "Beautiful Island" side, and the one-party dictatorship and the rule of the family and the world have become the target of public criticism and have been criticized.

Dozens of pages of newspaper clippings are full of accusations and dissatisfaction with the government, and the island's are quite subtle, while the United States is nakedly calling Chiang Ching-kuo a dictator, a stumbling block to democracy, and a heinous crime, among which many congressmen and senators have expressed their views and called on President Carter to promote Taiwan's political reform......

After the report of the "Beautiful Island Incident", there were several news clippings that made Chiang Ching-kuo's eyes jump.

For example, in October 1979, South Korean President Park Chung-hee was assassinated by his subordinate Kim Jae-gyu, and Kim Jae-gyu later claimed that the assassination of the president was to "get rid of the dictator" and "restore democracy", and before his death, Park Chung-hee had already made enemies with the US government because of the dictatorship. ”

For example, in 1979, when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, the mainland believed that the Soviet Union was arranging a pincer encirclement against China, so it successively introduced a series of measures to strengthen ties with the United States.

For example, Lin Yixiong was one of the eight defendants in the "Beautiful Island Incident," but during his detention, a tragic bloody murder occurred in his family, and although a large number of police forces were mobilized to conduct a thorough investigation, he had no clue, and the Kuomintang intelligence organs were suspected of being under the influence of the peasants, and the image of the entire party plummeted, and the newspaper clippings posted news that before the case, Jiang Xiaowu had openly threatened to teach Lin Yixiong a lesson on the occasion of a gathering of ultra-rightist forces

Chiang Ching-kuo slowly flipped through the notebook page by page, looking at all kinds of reports with an expressionless face, and turned to the last page, there were no newspaper clippings, only three lines of handwritten words.

"How long can one party be dominant?"

"Who will take over the Jiang family? How do you make a living? ”

"Today the media is the gun of the party-state, and whose gun is the media tomorrow? Who will tell the merits and demerits? ”