Chiang Kai-Shek's Cronies, the Thirteen Taibao

The Gestapo, the German secret police, was translated as the Gestapo. Later, the word "Gestapo" was widely used. The "Thirteen Gestapo" mostly referred to close aides and confidants. In fact, there were more than thirteen people. This title was a fictitious concept, referring to a group of key members of the "Fuxing Society". The "Fuxing Society" is an extremely well-organized secret political group with an intelligence nature in the Huangpu Military Academy. It has gathered elite talents from the Huangpu faction and is completely loyal to them. It was not the Chinese who first proposed this title, but the Japanese. They once called Hu Zongnan, Gui Yongqing, Dai Li, Kang Ze, Zheng Jiemin, He Zhonghan, Teng Jie, Deng Wenyi, Xiao Chanyu, Zeng Kuaqing, Feng Ti and others the "Thirteen Taibao" in the Japanese newspaper "Shanghai Daily". Since then, the title of "Thirteen Taibao" has been widely circulated. In the political arena of the Kuomintang, the Thirteen Taibos made people laugh with their secretive and ruthless actions, and because they were always shrouded in a veil of mystery, they aroused the world's strong interest in understanding. This book selects fifteen core members of the "Fuxing Society", including Hu Zongnan, Gui Yongqing, Dai Li, Kang Ze, Zheng Jiemin, He Zhonghan, Liu Jianqun, Teng Jie, Deng Wenyi, Xiao Chanyu, Liang Qianqiao, Zeng Kuqing, Zhou Fu, Ge Wuqi, and Feng Ti. It examines their fortunes and ups and downs through sorting out their favor and loss around them, reflecting the characteristics of their rule and a microcosm of the political arena of the Republic of China.