From the shadows of his ancestral tombs in Fenghwa, the generalissimo throughout the spring of 1949 continued to reach out his black hand to control the events in the capital he had abandoned.

• 整个一九四九年春季，蒋虽然身在奉化老家韬晦，却一心念念不忘他所离别的国都，继续伸出黑手控制那里的一举一动。