The Yongzheng Emperor was the most diligent emperor in history, and his daily workload during his thirteen reigns was very amazing, and according to statistics, he left more than 10 million words of Zhu Batch. However, although the number of words approved by the Yongzheng Emperor is large, the number is not seen as the first person in ancient times. If we look at quantity, then Chiang Kai-shek may be even more than the Yongzheng Emperor.
Chiang Kai-shek received a formal traditional education from an early age, and he liked calligraphy, whether it was writing letters, writing diaries, or various instructions, as well as giving warrants, he liked to write with a brush. Looking at Chiang Kai-shek's reign, it can be seen that he seems to be less interested in modern communications and prefers to give orders. Perhaps in his view, the warrant is as authoritative as the emperor's holy will, and it is more emblematic of his dictatorship.
Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorship was prominently manifested in his overarching power. The Departments of Administration, Party Affairs, and Military Affairs of the National Government, military affairs, military orders, military training, and logistics of the National Government often issued orders in Chiang Kai-shek's name. Therefore, in the organs, troops, and schools under the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek gave an extremely large number of orders. Moreover, Jiang's part-time positions were many, and many departments were directly under The leadership of Chiang Kai-shek, so the orders issued in the name of Chiang often contradicted each other, leaving the enforcers at a loss. There are more orders, and as time goes on, people naturally don't think so.
Of the many orders, the vast majority were handwritten by Chiang Kai-shek. According to the preliminary statistics of Chiang Kai-shek's attendant room, in the 12 years from 1936 to 1948, the attendant room accumulated more than 130 briefcases of Chiang Kai-shek's warrants. If you add up the warrants that were before 1936 and those that were not withdrawn, of course, there are far more than that. According to the calculation of one thousand pieces of a briefcase, then Jiang's warrants will be at least 13,000 pieces.
Chiang Kai-shek's warrants are very extensive, varied, and all-encompassing. But the main one is the military side, and the second is the party and government side. Chiang Kai-shek's usual method was to win over his subordinates with official positions and money in order to achieve the goal of dividing and ruling. Therefore, a large part of Chiang Kai-shek's warrants are about personnel arrangements.
As for the names of various institutions and subsidiary organs, Chiang Kai-shek can be said to be an expert in this regard, and the names of many institutions are original to Chiang Kai-shek himself, and all of them are subject to his orders.
The drafting of chiang kai-shek's warrants, which were of the nature of general orders, important proclamations or instructions, were often drafted and published by his first "royal" secretary, Chen Bray, some of which were dictated by him, sorted out by the secretary of the attendant room, and then revised by Chen Brei, and finally signed by Chiang. From the late period of the Anti-Zhang War to the period of the Liberation War, Chiang Kai-shek's warrants flew all over the sky, and according to Yu Guohua, the secretary of Chiang Kai-shek's attendant room, he was sorting out Chiang's warrants every day, working day and night, and had no time to take care of him.
As the old saying goes, the Son of Heaven speaks a word, and the one who speaks or gives commands is the embodiment of authority. But everything must be grasped, and if the emperor issues holy decrees and decrees all day long, then his authority will be questioned. Chiang Kai-shek made such a mistake; he issued too many warrants, and people are commonplace, and their effectiveness is naturally greatly reduced, and there will even be acts of "resistance to the will."
Chiang Kai-shek liked to "strategize and win victories thousands of miles away," but in fact his military command ability was not outstanding, and the warrants he directly issued inevitably clashed with the front-line military headquarters in operational command, resulting in confusion in the command system. In the early and middle periods of Chiang Kai-shek's reign, his command was able to maintain its authority. If we talk about time, before 1946, Chiang's warrant was still a word.
However, after the summer of 1947, that is, after the People's Liberation Army launched the Zhang Luo counter-offensive, the Nationalist army was gradually defeated on the battlefield, and a serious political and economic crisis occurred. However, Chiang Kai-shek was still angry with the warrant, and ordered the Military Affairs Bureau to strengthen the system of inspection and supervision of the order, and the Military Affairs Bureau regarded this as its primary task, almost like the creditors forcing the debtors, to issue a notice to the units under order every three or five days to inquire about the handling of the situation.
Because Chiang Kai-shek's warrants were numerous and indiscriminate, they eventually made the warrants completely ineffective. I had to rely on Chiang Kai-shek to personally march. In the later period of the Liberation Front, Chiang Kai-shek had to personally go to various battlefields to supervise the battle, but the effect was very general, and many people summed up a law: The day Chiang Kai-shek flew to the front line was when the place failed. It seems that by this period, both the warrant and Chiang Kai-shek's imperial conquest were powerless to return to heaven.