Regarding Li Zongren's words, Jiang Shan was respectful and flattered on the surface, but in fact, he was really disdainful in his heart. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The method of the chief committee member has always been like this, it is nothing more than the lure of high-ranking officials, if it doesn't work, it will completely tear the skin, and after so many years, there is no growth.

In the evening, Lan Xiong came to Jiangshan's temporary residence, where he had come to pick up Jiangshan and Liang Jianbin to attend the dinner that Li Zongren had prepared for them.

Jiang Shan is reluctant to participate in this kind of occasion, in his opinion, at the time of the national crisis, the most important place for a soldier to stay should be the battlefield full of artillery fire, not this kind of staggered drinking ground, but this banquet, he is the protagonist, Li Zongren tried his best to make such a big scene, if he didn't give face, it was really unreasonable.

In addition, there is another reason why Jiangshan has to go, this time it was the strange Jiang Baili who came to award him a medal!

Who is Jiang Baili? That's a legendary figure who is famous in the entire Republic of China! Others can ignore Gu Yanjun, but this person, he really doesn't have the courage to underestimate it.

Jiang Baili was a famous Chinese military scientist during the Republic of China, born in 1882 in Kipshi Town, Haining Prefecture, Hangzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang Province in the late Qing Dynasty. No. Shanning, pen names Feisheng, Yu Yi. The name comes from "Zhou Yi Zhen Hexagram" "Shocking Hundred Miles". Grandfather Jiang Guangxu (No. Mu Gong) is a famous bibliophile, engraver, built a "don't go to Zhai" collection, 100,000 books, engraved "don't go down to the Zhai series", "Smell Zi old" and other books circulated in the world. His father, Jiang Xuehong, was born with a missing left arm, and Mu Gong didn't like him, so he sent him to the temple to become a monk. When he grew up, he also studied medicine, hung a pot to help the world, and married Yang Zhenhe, the only daughter of Zhejiang Haiyan Xiucai and famous doctor Yang Dizhou. She is a good wife and mother, and she is fluent in literature and ink, and she became Jiang Baili's enlightenment teacher.

Jiang Baili's father died when he was 13 years old, and he and his mother depended on each other. The monks could not return to their families, and their fathers did not receive an inheritance, so the family life was naturally miserable. At that time, Jiang Baili's uncle, Jiang Shiyi, invited the old Xiucai Uncle Ni Qin to teach his children. Uncle Ni Qin saw that he was smart and suddenly had a love for talent, and knew that his family was poor, so he said to his mother: "This child is a talent that can be created, and I am willing to teach Baili to read, and do not accept 'Shu Xiu' (according to the custom at that time, students who did not do poetry and literature were 6 yuan to 8 yuan a year, and those who had already written were 8 yuan to 12 yuan). Since then, poor students have studied from Uncle Ni Qin and learned poetry. Jiang Baili never forgets, in addition to being able to memorize the four books and five classics, he also reads classical novels such as "Water Margin", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", "Fengshen Bang" and other classical novels in his spare time, climbs onto the tea table of the teahouse, dances with his hands, and tells the above stories to the tea guests in a colorful way, and is known as a "prodigy".

The Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War deeply stimulated Jiang Baili. When he was 15 years old, he often held the "Collection of Loyalty and Indignation of the Whole World" in his hand, read it at night, read it until his blood boiled, cried loudly, tears fell like rain, and vowed to serve the country. In 1898, the law was changed, and the 16-year-old Jiang Baili was admitted to the show. Influenced by the ideas of the Restoration, he longed to read new books. It coincided with the purchase of the four major cabinets of classics, history, sub-books, collections and current affairs, policy theory, arithmetic, and Gezhi. Hearing the news, Jiang Baili was really like a poor man who had a treasure, and asked the teacher to leave school one or two hours early and let him go to Shuangshan Academy to read. Jiang Baili was hungry for knowledge, mostly studying literature.

In the spring of 1900, when Jiang Baili was 18 years old, he was hired as a teacher at the invitation of the Sun family of Tongyiqiao Town. Soon, under the introduction of Fang Yuting County Order, Jiang Baili went to Qiushi Academy (the predecessor of Zhejiang University) founded by Lin Dichen to study for further study, and among his classmates were Qian Junfu, the father of Qian Xuesen, and others. In 1901, Fang Xianling, Lin Zhifu, and Chen Jianyuan (Chen Zhongshu) jointly funded and sent Jiang Baili to Japan to study. In the 31st year of Guangxu (1905), he graduated from the third graduating class of the infantry department of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School.

In 1902, there were about 3,000 Chinese students studying in Japan, most of whom were radical and revolutionary. In the same year, Jiang Baili was elected as the secretary of the Chinese Students' Conference in Japan, organized the "Zhejiang Fellow Villagers Association", and founded a large-scale comprehensive and knowledge-based magazine "Zhejiang Chao" in February 1903. The magazine is 32 folios, monthly, about 80,000 words per issue, marketing in China, Mr. Lu Xun actively supports "Zhejiang Tide", each issue is sent back to China for relatives and friends to read, his first batch of works "The Soul of Sparta", etc., that is, published in "Zhejiang Tide". The poems of Mr. Zhang Taiyan, who was in prison in Shanghai, were also published in the publication, and "Zou Rong in Prison" was recited by 10,000 people.

General Baili did not have a high military opinion of the Japanese, but he had a lot of ties with Japan in the second half of his life. He was the main architect of the Nationalist Government's war plan against Japan, and his "On National Defense" became the basis for the strategic guidance of the Chinese army throughout World War II. On the title page of this work, which made Jiang Baili exhausted his efforts, the general wrote the following words with deep affection: "A thousand words are turned into one sentence, and China has a way." "On the battlefield of the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the children of the National Defense Army brought out by General Wu Baili at the Baoding Military Academy and the Army University fought bloody battlefields and became the pillar of the high-level commanders of the Chinese army.

Jiang Baili wrote a speech for the publication of "Zhejiang Tide", which was full of love and recited for a while. He also published popular articles such as "The Soul of the Nation" under pen names such as Feisheng and Yu Yi In 1906, Jiang Baili studied in Germany. After the Wuchang Uprising, he served as the general counselor of the Zhejiang Governor's Office. In 1912, he served as the principal of the Baoding Army Military School, and in 1913, he served as the first-class senator of the Yuan Shikai Presidential Palace. In 1917, he served as an adviser to the presidential office of Li Yuanhong. When the May Fourth Movement broke out in 1919, Jiang Baili was going to Europe with Liang Qichao and others to investigate. When he returned to China in the spring of the following year, he was promoting a new culture in China, and it was like a storm for a while. Liang Qichao was deeply impressed by the Renaissance in Europe, and was determined to give up his political career and devote himself to the New Culture Movement. He not only came up with ideas, but also wrote books and became a fighter of the New Culture Movement. In 1923, he organized the Crescent Society with Hu Shi. In 1925, he was appointed Chief of the General Staff of Wu Peifu's Department. In 1933, he went to Japan for inspection, believing that a Sino-Japanese war was inevitable, and drew up a variety of national defense plans. Call on the national government to prepare for war. In 1935, he was appointed Senior Adviser to the Military Council. In 1936, he went to Europe and the United States to investigate, and after returning to China, he advocated the development of the Air Force. In September 1937, as Chiang Kai-shek's special envoy, he visited Italy, Germany and other countries, and after returning to China, he published "The Japanese" and "Basic Concepts of the War of Resistance", concluding that Japan would be defeated and China would win. In August 1938, he became acting rector of the Army University. On Nationalism" and other long essays were serialized, advocating the revolution and advocating the national spirit. The argument is unique, well-organized, fluent, and emotional, quite similar to Liang Qichao's writing; And his tendency to revolution, which is different from Liang Qichao's reformism, has attracted the attention of readers.

During his stay in Japan, Jiang Baili also participated in the establishment of "Zhejiang Tide" and wrote the publication speech by himself. Lu Xun was also a passionate young man studying in Japan at that time, and he contributed to this publication. It was also during this period that Jiang Baili became acquainted with Liang Qichao, who died in Japan after Wuxu, and performed the disciple ceremony.

In 1906, Jiang Baili was hired by Zhao Erxun, the governor of the three eastern provinces of the Qing Dynasty, as the general counselor of the Northeast New Army Supervision and Training Office to prepare for the establishment of the new army. Zhao Zeng specifically played Bao Jiang as a "special talent, which can be of great use". Subsequently, Jiang Baili was sent to Germany to study military affairs and became a company commander under General Hindenburg (later the President of Germany). In 1910, he returned to China to serve as the commander of the Kyoto Praetorian Guard, and was "appointed with a second grade" in Shenyang. This year, he was only 28 years old, but he was already sharp and prestigious among his peers.

After the Wuchang Uprising, Jiang Baili sneaked back to the south and served as the chief of staff of the Zhejiang Governor's Office. After the founding of the Republic of China, he was transferred to the Ministry of War as a senior adviser, as well as a military counselor of Yuan Shikai's presidential office. In 1912, he became the principal of the Baoding Military Academy, and soon staged a legendary scene of suicide.

At 5 o'clock in the morning on June 18, 1913, as soon as the sky was gray, Jiang Baili, the principal of the Baoding Military Academy, summoned more than 2,000 teachers and students in the school to give an urgent lecture. He was dressed in a yellow military uniform, with a long-handled saber at his waist, and shiny riding boots, standing on the stone steps of Shangwutang with a sad face: "When I first arrived at this school, I swore that what I wanted you to do, you must do it; What you want me to do, I must do. If you can't do it, I will punish you; I can't do it, and I'm going to punish myself. Now it seems that I have failed to do my duty...... You must summon up the courage to take on the great responsibility of China's future!"

Then, in the stunned eyes of everyone, Jiang Baili took out a pistol, aimed at the left side of his chest and fired a shot!

Strange people must have strange luck, maybe God is unwilling to suffer many disasters in China, and then lose such a strange person, Jiang Baili miraculously survived, and became friendly with the Japanese woman Sato Yaden who took care of him during his recuperation, who eventually became Baili's second wife and changed her name to Jiang Zuomei.

There are different theories about the reason for Jiang Baili's suicide, some say that he was angry at the impetuous style of study in the military academy, some say that he asked the War Department for funds unsuccessfully, and some say that he was desperate for China's military and political circles at that time. In Gu Yanjun's view, no matter what kind of statement he says, it can only be partially established. Jiang Baili committed suicide, the biggest reason was his pride. Suicide is often the proudest of all, and cowards dare not and do not deserve to commit suicide.

In 1916, Yuan was proclaimed emperor, and Jiang Baili entered Sichuan to ask for Yuan. After Yuan Shikai died, he accompanied Cai Ye to Japan for medical treatment, and immediately took care of the funeral. In 1917, he returned to China and served as an adviser to Li Yuanhong's presidential office, and began to write the first military treatises "Sun Tzu's New Interpretation" and "Military Common Sense".

After that, Jiang Baili's road turned, and it was a bit of a martial arts cultivation. From 1918 to 1919, he went to Europe with Liang Qichao to investigate, and after returning to China, he presided over the "Book Club", "Gongxue Society" and other groups. In 1920, he was elected as a member of the Zhejiang Provincial Assembly, participated in the drafting of the constitutions of Zhejiang and Hunan provinces, and supported the "autonomy of the provinces". He is also the editor-in-chief of "Transformation" magazine, and its influence is second only to "New Youth" edited by Chen Duxiu. During this period, Jiang Baili wrote many articles on inter-provincial autonomy and socialism. Mao Runzhi was also committed to advocating "Hunan Provincial Autonomy" at the time, and may have been influenced by it. In fact, Gu Yanjun felt that 18 years later, Mao's anti-Japanese theory of "On Protracted War" was also deeply engraved with Jiang Baili's imprint.

In 1921, Jiang Baili wrote the results of his European investigation into a book "History of the European Renaissance", for which Liang Qichao wrote a preface, and he wrote more than 50,000 words, which was about the same as the number of words in the original book, and Liang had to make a short preface. Later, Liang rewrote and enriched this long preface, and named it "Introduction to Qing Dynasty Academics", which in turn asked Jiang Baili to write a preface. It can be regarded as a great story in the academic circles of the Republic of China.

In 1923, on a whim, Jiang Baili founded the Crescent Society with Hu Shi and became close friends with Xu Zhimo. A few years later, Baili was imprisoned by Chiang Kai-shek, and Shima, who was full of emotion and easily excited, still carried his bedding and shouted that he would go in and accompany him to prison.

If we follow this direction, China may have one more literati, scholars, and political commentators, but one less outstanding military scientist. Obviously, Jiang Baili is not willing to develop according to this script, if that is the case, he will not be the strange Jiang Baili. The martial blood obtained in the Japanese military academy and the German army has been flowing in his body for the rest of his life. Jiang Shan always felt that there were two Jiang Baili, and Jiang Baili, a literati, loved to form associations, write articles, and make friends with celebrities; Jiang Baili, a soldier, had a lifelong dream of defeating the entire Japanese army with his own hands. In the end, the soldier Jiang Baili defeated the literati Jiang Baili, although he only relied on paper soldiers.

In 1925, Jiang Baili went out of the mountain again and served as Wu Peifu's chief of staff. In 1929, he supported Tang Shengzhi, the former general of the Hunan Army, to raise troops to overthrow Chiang, and was imprisoned the following year. Later, two fellow clansmen surnamed Jiang reached a settlement. In 1933, he was ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to go to Japan again to draw up a national defense plan in preparation for the inevitable Sino-Japanese war. In 1935, he was hired as a senior adviser to the Military Council, and in 1936 he went to Europe and the United States to inspect the military, and after his return, he put forward a proposal for the construction of the Air Force.

China's earliest idea of the construction of the air force came from Baili, who was born in the army.

At the beginning of 1937, Jiang Baili's most important collection of military treatises, "On National Defense", was published, which caused a sensation, and the inscription on the title page read: "Ten thousand words, just to tell you one sentence, China has a way!" ”

Unfortunately, Jiang Baili could not see his theory become a reality. In October 1938, he became the acting president of the Army University, and in November of the same year, on the way to move the school, he died of illness in Yishan, Guangxi, and the Kuomintang government posthumously awarded him the rank of army general.

In his career of more than 30 years, he was successively hired by Zhao Erxun, Duan Qirui, Yuan Shikai, Li Yuanhong, Wu Peifu, Sun Chuanfang, Tang Shengzhi, Chiang Kai-shek, etc. as chief of staff or advisers. His coffin should be positioned as a military scientist, not a military strategist. Wang Yunsheng, the chief writer of Ta Kung Pao, recalled his articles, or Cao Juren's "Commentary on Jiang Baili", both used the term "military scientist" sparingly. In the elegy of Zhang Shizhao, the "chief of the tiger", he even said that he "talked about the army with a little Confucianism and sourness, and left a ruthless style when he entered the WTO", perhaps Huang Renzhi's elegy is relatively polite: "A born military scientist is also a born writer."

Such a legendary figure actually came to award himself a medal. Jiang Shan suddenly felt flattered, and he no longer had the heart to slacken.

This person must meet himself!