Chiang Ching-kuo died in January 1988, and it was not long before Chiang Ching-kuo's younger brother, Chiang Wei-kuo, held a press conference and openly admitted that he was not Chiang Kai-shek's son, but the son of Dai Jitao, a Long-Dead Kuomintang veteran. Jiang Weiguo's originally confusing life was finally revealed.
Dai Jitao, a native of Sichuan, the earliest Marxist researcher, once participated in the Marxist Research Association founded by Li Dazhao, because he had always been loyal to Sun Yat-sen and did not join the Communist Party, the early Dai Jitao greatly admired Marxism, calling Marx "the forerunner of modern social movements", but later Dai Jitao became a resolute opposition, he resolutely opposed the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and was very supportive of Chiang Kai-shek.
After the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, Dai Jitao served as the first director of the Political Department, advised Chiang Kai-shek, and single-handedly concocted the "Zhongshan Ship Incident" and launched the "412" counter-revolutionary armed coup. There was a time when Dai Jitao and Chiang Kai-shek had a very close relationship. In the Nanjing government founded by Chiang Kai-shek, Dai Jitao served as a member of the Central Standing Committee and the president of the Examination Institute.
In 1935, Chiang Kai-shek wanted to promote simplified characters without asking Dai Jitao's opinion, which attracted strong opposition from Dai Jitao, and finally Chiang Kai-shek gave in, and simplified characters could not be implemented. After the outbreak of the Xi'an Incident, Dai Jitao actively led the battle, hoping to send troops to quell the turmoil, and once launched a fierce debate with Song Meiling. This incident made Chiang Kai-shek dissatisfied with Dai Jitao, and their relationship was no longer as close as before.
Although Dai Jitao actively resisted Japan, he also scorned the theory of national subjugation, believing that China's future was not pessimistic. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Dai Jitao once persuaded Chiang Kai-shek not to send troops to the northeast too early, but Chiang Kai-shek did not listen, and in the end we all knew the situation. Dai Jitao watched as the communist forces developed faster and faster, bigger and bigger, and his mood became more and more bad, and he gradually changed into depression.
As time passed, the situation became more and more unfavorable to the Kuomintang, the Kuomintang slowly changed from the initial offensive to the defense, after losing the Liaoshen Campaign, and then lost to the old opponents in the Pingjin Campaign and the Huaihai Campaign, the Kuomintang's millions of elites were exhausted, and in July 1948, Dai Jitao resigned as the director of the examination and became the director of the National History Museum.
Although Dai Jitao was not in a high position, he was always worried about state affairs, and he hoped that the Kuomintang could turn defeat into victory and regain control of the world, but the opposite happened, Chiang Kai-shek was unable to return to heaven, and finally set Taiwan as a place of rejuvenation. Dai Jitao did not want to go to Taiwan to survive, and was not willing to become a prisoner of the Communist Party, and finally died in Guangdong on February 11, 1949, according to doctors, taking too much medicine to save him. When Dai Jitao fled to Japan, he once had a lover named Shigematsu Kaneko, and it is said that Chiang Weiguo was the child of the two of them, and later passed on to Chiang Kai-shek.