To evaluate a person who has a "mule temper" refers to the fact that this person has a fiery temper, is domineering, stubborn and hard-working, and full of toughness, has both the strength of a horse and the patience of a donkey, and a kind of strength that does not hit the south wall and does not turn back. Zuo Zongtang of the Qing Dynasty was known as the "Mule Temper", and people called him "Xiang Mule".
During the Republic of China period, there was also a general of the Nationalist Army who laughed at himself with "Xiang Mule", he was Cai Qicai.
Cai Qicai is a native of Yiyang, Hunan, born in 1909. After 1926, he successively studied at the Third Branch of the Central Military and Political School, the Sixth Phase of the Huangpu Military Academy, and the Cadre Training Class of the Nanjing Military Commission; after graduation, he was a trainee officer and lieutenant of the 3rd Division of the 8th Army, a lieutenant military vehicle administrator of the Jinpu and Longhai Two-Way Transport Headquarters, the chief of the General Affairs Section of the Political Department of the Independent Fifth Brigade of the First Army, a military instructor of Yancheng Middle School, a member of the Military Department of the Fuxing Society Federation and a member of the Capital Guard Corps, a major section member of the Training Director Department and a lieutenant colonel of the summer training class, and other positions, which belonged to Chiang Kai-shek's concubine general.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Cai Served as the chief of the Colonel Section of the Hunan Provincial Military District Headquarters and the director of the Military Training Group of the Provincial People's Training and Guidance Office, the chief of the Major General's Training Department of the Provincial Military District Headquarters, and the chief of staff of the Major General of the Hunan Provincial Military District.
Cai Qicai is fierce in his work, endures humiliation and burdens, and is strong and strong, so colleagues and comrades-in-arms call him "Yiyang Mule" and "Zhang Sanye (Zhang Fei)", and he also laughs at himself as "Xiang Mule" and takes Zuo Zongtang as a model.
In 1948, Chiang Kai-shek held a meeting of the "National Congress", and Cai Qicai was elected as a deputy to the "National Congress". He was very angry when he saw all kinds of ugly phenomena such as canvassing and buying votes before the presidential and vice presidential elections. He said: Li Zongren and Sun Ke are one and the same, and I will not choose them, and in order to approve of the old man's appointment as president, after the victory of the War of Resistance, they should retire from the battlefield and live forever. When the time comes, don't make yourself a king of the country.
Therefore, when the "National Congress" meeting elected the vice president, Cai Qicai stuffed a white paper prepared in advance into the ballot box as a ballot box to protest against the corruption of the "National Congress" election.
So, what was the end of the later Cai Qicai?
Shortly after attending the meeting and returning to Hunan, Cai Qicai received two "presidential appointment letters" from Nanjing, one was a member of the "Committee for the Campaign to Combat Chaos and The Founding of the People's Republic of China" and the other was a "member of the Constitutional Steering Committee." He knew that this was a trick played by the old man again to win over the hearts and minds of the people.
At this time, Cai Qicai was already extremely disappointed in the party-state he had been loyal to, and had a new understanding of the purpose, beliefs and behavior of our party. He said that since I met Xu Teli and others in Changsha, I feel that they are all heroes and good men who truly save the country and save the people.
Therefore, at the critical moment of facing the future of the country and the future of individuals, General Cai Qicai made the right choice.
In March 1949, General Cai Qicai got in touch with the Hunan Provincial Working Committee and secretly joined the Hunan Peace Movement Group, and then participated in the uprising with Chairman Cheng Qian, making important contributions to the peaceful liberation of Hunan.
Later, General Cai Qicai successively served as the deputy commander of the 53rd Army of the 21st Corps of our army, the counselor and deputy director of the counselor's office of the Hunan Provincial People's Government, the standing committee member and deputy secretary general of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the member of the Unity Committee of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang, the Supervision Commission of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, and the vice chairman of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, and died in April 1995 at the age of 86.
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