** period, there was a special woman who failed to give birth to children after many years of marriage, and was finally kicked out of the house by her ruthless in-laws. However, her life changes drastically after she meets her true love, and she gives birth to multiple children in a row.
Mo Xiuying was originally from a wealthy landlord family in Guangdong, but in the troubled times, it is not easy to continue the glory of the family. At that time, the concept of patriarchy in the family was still deep-rooted, so Mo Xiuying was married by her family before she reached adulthood.
After several considerations, the family found a family with good conditions for her. Although the married life is still relatively prosperous, it does not match her imaginary husband and family.
Frequent scolding and being unable to have children all the time prevented Mo Xiuying from finding security in her newly formed family. In the end, she was abandoned by her husband, the paper divorce book is like tearing her face, and the daughter who married out is like spilled water, if she is still disgraced when she returns to her parents' house, it is really inappropriate.
She was forced to leave her familiar life, but thankfully, the opera she had learned in her early years finally came in handy, and she joined a theater troupe to perform around, and soon gained great fame and became a local celebrity.
After becoming famous, she inevitably attracted some attention, including many dignitaries who wanted to marry her. However, she is skeptical of these people's promises, as she has experienced a relationship introduced by her parents, and the results have not been satisfactory.
Her life is uneventful, she doesn't have much pursuit, she just goes with the flow and protects herself. It wasn't until she met Chen Jitang that this chance changed her life.
At that time, Chen Jitang was just an ordinary company commander and did not have a prominent position, but Mo Xiuying fell in love with him at first sight. She thinks that although Chen Jitang is a little depressed now, his figure is strong and he will definitely be able to make a difference in the future.
If you marry him, it will also be a match made in heaven. However, Chen Jitang is already married, which makes her mind a little, but she has no other better choice but to follow Chen Jitang.
Mo Xiuying, who has attracted much attention in the drama troupe, has inner contradictions that troubled her. On the one hand, she is confident in her talent and charisma, and she does not hesitate to refuse in the face of the favor of countless suitors and powerful figures.
On the other hand, her past experience made her feel inferior, and she was criticized as a "bad thing" behind people's back, and some people even suspected that she was abandoned by her ex-husband because she was unable to have children, coupled with her former "drama" status, she was discriminated against in the eyes of many people.
When she first arrived at the Chen family, Mo Xiuying's life was not large, and she only stayed in the role of "virtuous helper". However, Chen Jitang fell in love with her at first sight, first took her as a concubine, and doted on her.
Subsequently, he abolished his original partner and made Mo Xiuying the wife of the main house. Although her identity has been improved, Mo Xiuying's inner contradictions and inferiority complex still exist, and in this process, she is always looking for herself and balancing herself.
Although Mo Xiuying has not received much education and is a little superstitious, this does not prevent her from making the right choice. Chen Jitang was promoted to brigade commander in 1923 and then accompanied the Gui army in the attack on Guangzhou.
After the Northern Expedition began, he stayed in Guangzhou and fought with his troops to Hainan Island. In 1929, the conflict between Chiang and Gui intensified, and Chen Jitang turned to support Chiang Kai-shek. After Chiang Kai-shek detained Li Jishen, he appointed Chen Jitang as the "commander-in-chief of the Eighth Army of the National Revolutionary Army."
Since then, Chen Jitang has reached the pinnacle of power and controlled the whole of Guangdong, so he has won the reputation of "Southern Heavenly King".
Chen Jitang was able to grow from a company commander to the Southern Heavenly King, and the influence of Mrs. Mo Xiuying cannot be ignored. Both of them are more superstitious, and often use fate to explain the fate of meeting each other, which makes the relationship between Chen Jitang and Mo Xiuying deeper, beyond the feelings of husband and wife at that time.
After marrying Mo Xiuying, they had eighteen children, of which Mo Xiuying gave birth to seven boys and four girls, a total of eleven children. Due to the perennial fighting abroad, Chen Jitang's temper will inevitably be a little irritable.
In this regard, his friend Deng Shizeng once mentioned that Chen Jitang wanted to abandon Mo Xiuying twice, but soon after, he would become obedient and obedient to her in every way.
In Chen Jitang's two major incidents, Mo Xiuying made big mistakes. For the first time, she took the money entrusted to her by Chen Jitang to gamble, and lost it all, which made Chen Jitang angry to death, and his friends around him persuaded him to divorce.
The second time, Chen Jitang heard that Mo Xiuying was having an affair outside, and angrily kicked her out of the house, although there was no direct evidence, but soon after he sent someone to pick her up. These things are very serious for Chen Jitang, but Mo Xiuying still holds an important place in his heart.
In fact, their relationship is very complicated, they psychologically think of each other as "predestined", but behind the scenes they both have their own cheating behavior.
In 1930, Chen Jitang visited Wuzhou and spent time with a dusty woman on a river boat. Soon, Mo Xiuying learned of this, she disguised herself as an old woman rowing a boat, quietly approached and boarded Chen Jitang's boat, and exposed his misdeeds.
Chen Jitang immediately expressed remorse and promised not to make the same mistake in the future. The matter eventually settled down. However, Mo Xiuying did not stop investigating, she found out that Jiang Maosen, the housekeeper of the Chen family mansion, was having an affair with her and knew everything about the Chen family.
Although the matter was known to many people, they did not make it public for the sake of face.
Mo Xiuying and Chen Jitang are a typical couple who "want to love and kill each other", and their status in the family is equal. Chen Jitang accumulated a lot of wealth after becoming the "King of the Southern Heavens", while Mo Xiuying was not idle, using her position to gather a pile of gold and silver treasures, and Jiang Maosen became her "Minister of Finance", in charge of her financial affairs.
In 1932, Mo Xiuying used hundreds of thousands of funds to establish a steamship company, and also bought a large field to build a house in his hometown of Maoming. Although they had a dark side, they also had a good side, a common trait of many historical figures of that era.
During Chen Jitang's occupation of Guangdong, his wife Mo Xiuying, with her wisdom, constantly persuaded her husband to do more good deeds, and made great contributions to the economic development of Guangdong.
In the thirties of the twentieth century, Guangdong's rapid economic growth was inseparable from the policies formulated by Chen Jitang, which he aimed to stabilize the territory and form checks and balances.
Guangzhou's economic development has also become the largest and most famous economic construction climax since the beginning of the world, and many key projects have been successfully implemented. Mo Xiuying played a key role in this process, and she did many things, so she was praised by many people as the "mother of Guangdong".
For example, the Haizhu Bridge, the Aiqun Building, and more than 30 roads were all left behind by Chen Jitang, and he also industrialized Guangdong's agricultural products according to local conditions, and these measures injected impetus into economic development.
Not only did Chen Jitang make significant contributions economically and culturally, he also paid special attention to education. Under his leadership, the number of primary and secondary schools in Guangdong Province increased by nearly 500 in just three years, and the number of primary and secondary school students also increased by more than 100,000.
In addition, Chen and his wife believed in traditional Chinese medicine, which led to the establishment of Guangdong Ren Oi Shan Tang to donate medicines to poor residents. He also actively advocated for the granting of legal status to traditional Chinese medicines.
At that time, Chen Jitang made a profound impact on Guangdong's economic, cultural and educational undertakings, and was widely praised, and his social reputation increased rapidly.
Mo Xiuying pays attention to people's livelihood projects, as long as the local people benefit, things are right. She has done many good deeds in Guangdong and Hainan, delivering rice to the local people, and the "Xiuying Wharf" in Hainan is a kind of praise for her.
But in her life, she had complicated emotions and had a lot of disharmony with her husband, but perhaps in the later stage, everyone understood and accepted this situation.
Chen Jitang's eldest daughter was sent by her father to Singapore to settle down in 1940, but she had a love affair with the driver and contracted illness.
In the end, I had to go to Chongqing for medical treatment. This incident made Mo Xiuying deeply distressed, and she tried her best to cover it up, but due to the chatter of people in the family, it finally spread out.
Perhaps for these reasons, the Chen family usually deliberately hides their children's whereabouts from being exposed to the public. In 1947, Mo Xiuying died of illness in Meihua Village, Guangzhou, at the age of 47.
From her short life, we can see many complex factors. In a sense, she is a kind person, but at the same time, she also lives a life of greed and ignorance.
Chen Jitang was deeply saddened after losing Mo Xiuying, but no matter how much he cried, he couldn't get it back. At that time, his health was also deteriorating. In 1949, he was sent to Hainan, and although it was only for a year, he made many contributions to Hainan, and his desire was to turn Hainan Island into a base.
However, as time passed, Chen Jitang's power gradually fell and he began to think about the way forward. Finally, in 1954, while surveying the school site, he died of a sudden cerebral thrombosis at the age of 63.
Most of the information about his children, except for a few who have been publicly identified, has not been released, and one of the more well-known is his son Chen Shubai, who is a professor at a university in California.
According to his recollection, his mother, Mo Xiuying, attached great importance to education, and the family rules included "respecting the elderly, caring for the young, and honoring parents", and anyone who did not follow it would be severely punished.
Therefore, although the Chen family is now powerful, their children are very polite to everyone. According to Mr. Chen Shubai, four of the siblings have obtained doctorates and two have master's degrees.
However, with the death of Mr. Chen Shubai in 2013, the public activities of the Chen family gradually decreased.