Liao Wenyi

Liao Wenyi

Liao Wenyi (March 22, 1910 - May 9, 1986), male, Han nationality, was born into a landlord family in Yunlin County, Taiwan Province. He entered Taiwan Tanshui middle school in 1925, then transferred to Japan gay society middle school, and entered Nanjing Jinling University in 1928. In 1932, he went to Michigan University to study for a master's degree. After obtaining the master's degree, he transferred to Ohio State University to study for a doctor's degree. In 1935, he obtained a doctor's degree in chemical engineering. In September 1936, Liao Wenyi returned to China to serve as a professor at the school of engineering, Zhejiang University. After the victory of the Anti Japanese war in 1945, Liao Wenyi was appointed as a Chien Ji Zheng of the industrial and Mining Department of the office of the chief executive of Taiwan, and also the director of public works of the Taipei municipal government. Later, he resigned as the director of public works and became the director of the Taipei Municipal Public Utilities Administration. In August 1946, Liao Wenyi ran for a member of the National Political Council of Taiwan, and he lost the election. Two months later, Liao Wenyi ran again for the representative of the national assembly for the constitution, and he lost the election again. He went to Japan in December 1949 and published his Taiwan independence proposition in Kyoto in 1950. In 1956, he was appointed as the "great commander" and created Taiwan Min Bao, an official newspaper.

In 1961, an assassin was sent to Taiwan to assassinate Chiang Kai Shek. On May 14, 1965, Liao Wenyi had to return to Taiwan because the Taiwan authorities froze his assets in Taiwan and threatened the safety of his relatives and friends. He was granted special Amnesty by Chiang Kai Shek in June and appointed Vice Chairman of the Tsengwen Reservoir Construction Committee in December. After leaving office, he participated in the construction of Taichung port. However, he was kept under surveillance in his later years and was not allowed to leave the island for life. He died of illness on May 7, 1986.

Life experience

Family background and early experience

Liao Wenyi was born into a landlord family in Yunlin County, Taiwan Province. His grandfather, Liao Longyuan, started a private school to teach Sinology for a living. He was the earliest Presbyterian in Xiluo area of Taiwan. His father, Liao Chengpi, was good at financial management and bought a lot of land, becoming one of the largest landlords in the local area at that time. Liao Wenyi's mother, Chen Mingjing, is the younger sister of Chen Youcheng, a missionary of Taiwan's Chiayi Presbyterian Church. She graduated from Changrong women's middle school in Tainan, Taiwan. She is a woman with modern knowledge. The Liao family attached great importance to their children's education. Between the two generations, six doctors were born, and the family became a famous family in Xiluo.

Liao Wenyi is the third in his family. His elder brother, Liao Wenren, is a medical scientist and historian. His second brother, Liao Wenkui, is a political philosopher. Liao Wenyi entered Taiwan's Tanshui middle school in 1925. After only one year, he went to Japan's comradeship society middle school, determined to become a literary writer. However, under the advice of his second brother, he changed his original intention and entered the Mechanical Engineering Department of Jinling University in Nanjing in 1928. In 1932, he went to the United States to study for a master's degree at the University of Michigan. After obtaining the master's degree, he went to Ohio State University to study. In 1935, he obtained a doctor's degree in chemical engineering with his thesis "pulp production by electrolysis of sodium chloride".

Two unsuccessful elections for public office

After the victory of the Anti Japanese war in 1945, the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China took over Taiwan. Liao Wenyi was appointed as the chieftain of the industrial and Mining Department of the office of the chief executive of Taiwan, and concurrently served as the director of public works of the Taipei municipal government. Later, he resigned as the director of public works and became the director of public utilities administration of Taipei.

However, the intellectuals in Taiwan after World War II and the different treatment of the rulers during the Japanese occupation basically held ardent hope for the new situation that was about to unfold. Many intellectuals are very interested in politics. Liao Wenyi, who has a high degree, is proficient in Chinese, Japanese and English, and has social reputation, certainly has a strong desire to participate in politics. In the year of the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Liao Wenyi founded the "Taiwan National Spirit revitalization Association". He was the president of the association. In the same year, he also formed the "Taiwan Constitutional Association". At the beginning of the next year, he launched the magazine Qianfeng, which contains political, social, economic and cultural comments.

In August 1946, Liao Wenyi decided to run for the post of "National Political Council member". Liao Wenyi should have been elected, but he was blocked by Zhou yie, director of civil affairs of the office of the chief executive. He regarded one of the votes as invalid and was defeated. More than two months later, Liao Wenyi ran again for the election of the representative of the constitutional state, but he failed again.

The background of the February 28 incident began to appear

After the February 28 Incident in 1947, Liao Wenyi, on behalf of the "Taiwan Innovation Association", formed the "Taiwan February 28 tragedy joint support association" on March 4 to develop a letter to the compatriots in Taiwan. The appeal to face up to Taiwan's problems, including withdrawing Chen Yi, sending officers to investigate the tragedy, and selling monopoly products, has not received any response. On the contrary, Chen Yi released the "list of 30 fugitive principal criminals of the first rebel plot in the February 28 Incident" on April 18, among which Liao Wenyi was listed as a wanted rebel. Liao Wenyi felt that there was nothing to do in the current situation, so he went to Hong Kong one after another. In December 1949, he went to Japan and published his Taiwan independence proposition in Kyoto in 1950. In 1956, he became the "great commander" and created the official newspaper Taiwan Min Bao. In 1961, an assassin was sent to Taiwan to assassinate Chiang Kai Shek. On May 14, 1965, Liao Wenyi had to return to Taiwan because the Taiwan authorities froze his assets in Taiwan and threatened the safety of his relatives and friends. He was granted special Amnesty by Chiang Kai Shek in June and appointed Vice Chairman of the Tsengwen Reservoir Construction Committee in December. After leaving office, he participated in the construction of Taichung port. However, he spent all his life under surveillance and was not allowed to leave the island. He died of illness on May 7, 1986.

Self styled "great commander"

Liao Wenyi was born in Yunlin County, Taiwan in 1910. He entered the school of engineering, Nanjing Jinling University in 1928. In 1932, he went to the University of Michigan in the United States. After obtaining a master's degree, he transferred to Ohio State University and obtained a doctor's degree in chemical engineering in 1935. In 1940, Liao Wenyi returned to Taiwan to run a business. After the restoration of Taiwan in 1945, Liao Wenyi established the "Autonomy Law Research Association". After the February 28 Incident, Liao Wenyi was on the wanted list of the national government. Seeing that he was unable to gain a foothold in Taiwan, Liao Wenyi fled to Hong Kong in a hurry. In 1950, Liao Wenyi called himself "great commander" in Japan.

Chiang Kai Shek's assassination

Seeing Chiang Kai Shek and Chiang Ching Kuo's father and son's increasingly stable position in Taiwan, Liao Wenyi was burning with anxiety. At this time, Liao Wenyi's subordinates pointed out to him that the reason why the Republic of China could gain a foothold in Taiwan was mainly because of Chiang Kai Shek's presence. As long as Chiang Kai Shek died, the Republic of China would collapse, and then the idea of "Taiwan independence" would come true.

Liao Wenyi clapped his hands after listening. Under the planning of Liao Wenyi, "Taiwan independence" elements bribed an assassin named Zheng Songtao in Japan. Zheng Songtao, in his thirties, graduated from the "Taiwan Police School" under Japanese rule. In Japan, Zheng Songtao has always been a bodyguard for Japan's dignitaries. As soon as Liao Wenyi's men found him, Zheng Songtao clapped his chest and said in a loud voice, "give me five hundred taels of gold, and you can buy Chiang Kai Shek's head!"

On October 26, 1961, Zheng Songtao flew to Taiwan from Tokyo as a reporter of Japanese Chinese newspaper and stayed in Taipei Bailong hotel. Next, Zheng Songtao called Yue Anhe, a close friend of his childhood and a criminal policeman of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Taipei police station, and invited him to go to the hotel to talk about the past. After some greetings, Zheng Songtao, in the name of writing, drew some daily information about Chiang Kai Shek from Yue Anhe.

Coincidentally, the news that Chiang Kai Shek was going to give a speech at the "Institute of revolutionary practice" the next afternoon was published in the Taiwan newspaper on that day. Zheng Songtao decided to set the date of his assassination the next day.

In order to muddle through, Zheng Songtao did not bring a pistol when he entered Japan. According to the plan, he borrowed a pistol from Yue Anhe to "defend himself" in the name of visiting Guishan Island. As a criminal policeman, Yue Anhe readily agreed to his request, but his professional habits made him feel that something was wrong: when Zheng Songtao first came to Taipei, he didn't say that he would go to Guishan Island. Moreover, there were no wild animals or pirates on Guishan Island, so he didn't need to take guns to defend himself. Yue Anhe carefully recalled Zheng Songtao's situation after he came to Taiwan, and found that all he inquired about were things related to Chiang Kai Shek's security. He was surprised when he thought of Chiang Kai Shek's speech at the "Revolutionary Practice Research Institute" the next day as announced in the newspaper. He decided to report to the authorities, but he was not sure which department to report to. After careful consideration, he finally decided to report directly to Jiang Jingguo.

By convention, Yue Anhe could not enter Chiang Ching Kuo's gate at all. So he had an idea. He rode his motorcycle to the gate of Chiang Ching Kuo's official residence. Suddenly, he made a sharp turn and ran into the gate of Chiang Ching Kuo's official residence. Just as the motorcycle was about to hit the gate, two plainclothes bodyguards pulled Yue Anhe off the motorcycle.

Yue Anhe finally met Jiang Jingguo. After listening to the details, Chiang Ching Kuo immediately gave an order to Chiang Kai Shek's official residence: "from now on, the official residence will be guarded according to the war preparedness measures. No matter who the outsiders are, they will not be allowed to enter the official residence. If the president wants to go out, he must persuade him. If he can't persuade him, he will stop him, just say it's my words." Later, Jiang Jingguo ordered Zheng Songtao to be arrested.

The arrest was unsuccessful. Zheng Songtao, a criminal police officer, was even more alert. Seeing Yue Anhe driving his motorcycle out of the gate of the police station, he immediately called a taxi to follow him. He witnessed the scene of Yue Anhe driving into Chiang Ching Kuo's official residence, so he left Taiwan to sneak back to Japan before the Taiwan authorities blocked the airport.

Then, Taiwan's "National Security Bureau" sent an assassination team from Taipei to Tokyo. one

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