The rise of Chen family in the Republic of China mainly lies in its relationship with Chiang Kai-shek, and the key figure here is Chen, the uncle of the Chen brothers. Who is Chen? Together with Huang Xing, he is known as Sun Yat-sen's right-hand man and a veteran of the Kuomintang. He was one of the first people to follow Sun Yat-sen's revolution, from the League to the revolutionary party. Cai Yuanpei was full of praise for him, thinking that he could be compared with the famous chivalrous man in history and praised him as "the first chivalrous man in the Republic of China".
Chiang Kai-shek met Chen when he was studying at the Japanese Army NCO School. Chen took good care of Chiang Kai-shek, and the two became sworn brothers. At that time, three brothers became sworn brothers, the eldest Chen, the second and the third Chiang Kai-shek. Can Chiang Kai-shek join the League and introduce Chen to Sun Yat-sen?
Chen has been actively opposing Yuan as Yuan, and Yuan Shikai hates his guts. 19 16, he was assassinated in Shanghai, or Chiang Kai-shek went to collect the body for him, and he still cried over the body, which shows that they have deep feelings.
Because of Chen, Chiang Kai-shek naturally took care of the Chen brothers. Chen joined the League and Revolutionary Party with his uncle and participated in the Revolution of 1911, so he shared the same interests with Chiang Kai-shek in his career.
Chen, a powerful figure in CC Department, is eight years older than Chen Lifu, so he entered the official career earlier and has been assisting Chiang Kai-shek. 1924, when Chiang Kai-shek was preparing to build the Whampoa Military Academy, Chen helped him to buy munitions and recruit talents in Shanghai. From 1926, he entered the core of the Kuomintang, was elected as the second central supervisory Committee of the Kuomintang, and served as the acting minister of the Central Organization Department, responsible for the Kuomintang party affairs.
Compared with his elder brother Chen Guo Fu's earlier involvement in politics, Chen Lifu is more academic. His ambition is to be an engineer, and he is also very good at reading. He was admitted to the Mining Department of Tianjin Beiyang University with the fifth place in Shanghai. After graduation, I went to study in the United States and obtained a master's degree in mining from the University of Pittsburgh. After returning home, he wanted to devote himself to the mining construction in China with what he had learned, and was called his confidential secretary by Chiang Kai-shek. In the political arena of the Republic of China at that time, Chen Lifu's high education was a shining aura.
In order to strengthen the Kuomintang's inner-party control and political power rule, at the instigation of Chiang Kai-shek, the Chen brothers established the Party Affairs Investigation Department of the Central Organization Department, which was the predecessor of the later famous "unification". The main responsibility is to crack down on * * * and eliminate the political forces of the enemy Jiang.
The forces of this secret service are intertwined, infiltrating into all regions and departments of the country, with Chen Lifu as the chief of the first investigation section. Although he only served as the chief of the investigation department for one year, he was later appointed as the secretary of the Party Department, but since then, the chief of the investigation department and other subjects later reorganized into Central China have been controlled and appointed by the Chen brothers. With this special spy force, the forces of the Chen brothers also flourished. In its heyday, the number of agents in Central China reached 200,000.
Chen also served as a member of the Central Executive Committee and deputy director of the Central Organization Department, and established the Kuomintang Central Political School. The Chen brothers firmly control the Kuomintang party affairs by giving and giving. In the Republic of China, the party affairs of the Kuomintang are controlled, and this power and influence are naturally huge enough.
The promotion, appointment and removal of officials in the national government are mostly decided by the Chen brothers. The Kuomintang Central Committee founded by the Chen brothers is abbreviated as "CC" in English, so people call the members of the Chen faction "CC". Many officials come from the CC department, and the Chen family party was also formed under the Chiang family. Because of their great influence, the Chen brothers, together with the three families of Jiang Songkong, are called the four families of the Republic of China, and they are also called Jiang Songkong Chen.
Even the Chen brothers overtook Chiang Kai-shek in the Kuomintang. 1935, 1 1 In June, the Kuomintang held its fifth national congress in Nanjing. Chiang Kai-shek should have been elected chairman of the Kuomintang without any doubt, but something unexpected happened. After the secret ballot, he began to sing, using the word "positive" to count who got the most votes. Chiang Kai-shek didn't care about this kind of ceremony, so he went out to deal with official business. Unexpectedly, because all members of CC Department voted for Chen Lifu, Chen Lifu actually got four more votes than Chiang Kai-shek. Chen Lifu was frightened and rushed to the stage to erase the word "positive". In this way, Jiang Cai was successfully elected because of one more vote.
The influence of CC naturally aroused Chiang Kai-shek's vigilance, and supporting the military system in Dai Li was also a move against the central system. Later, there was also a struggle between the central system and the military system.