Chiang Kai-shek amorous? Secretary**: Revolution during the day, kiln at night
Chiang Kai-shek was a man of the hour in the first period, and his life was full of ups and downs. Among them, his marriage to Song Meiling is particularly eye-catching, although the two seem to be in love on the surface, the story behind it is not so simple.
Soong Meiling is not only Chiang Kai-shek's virtuous helper, but also his military advisor. However, Chiang Kai-shek's amorous nature did not disappear because of Soong Meiling's existence. Before marrying Song Meiling, he had entanglements with many women, and after getting married, he still maintained such a style of life.
Although there is no public lace news, he secretly hides Jiaojiao in the golden house and lives a private life behind Song Meiling's back. This story teaches us that no matter how glamorous the appearance, everyone has his own secrets.
When we see the success and happiness of others, we are also wary of the untold stories that may be hidden behind them.
Under Song Meiling's witty resolution, this embarrassing matter was successfully resolved. Chiang Kai-shek's romance has long been known to the people. In his time, arranged marriages were still the norm, and his marriage to Mao Fumei was not voluntary, but only due to family arrangements.
At that time, he was bent on pursuing his ideals, and he was very dissatisfied with his mother's decision.
Mao Fumei, although she looks ordinary and has a low level of education, her kindness, virtue and ability have won the love of Jiang's mother. So, Chiang's mother resolutely tied Chiang Kai-shek back and forced him to marry Mao Fumei.
After Mao Fumei became pregnant, Chiang's mother agreed to Chiang Kai-shek's departure. Mao Fumei gave birth to Chiang Kai-shek's eldest son, Chiang Ching-kuo. As a traditional woman, Mao Fumei worked hard at home to take care of the family, and never complained.
For Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Fumei was just a tool for his inheritance, and there was no affection between them. During Chiang Kai-shek's study in the East, he made a lot of friends who spent all day drinking and lingering in the land of fireworks.
Although he had seen many beautiful and moving women, Chiang Kai-shek became more and more dissatisfied with his hair-tied wife Mao Fumei. After the Xinhai Revolution, he had the idea of divorce and proposed to divorce Mao Fumei many times, but due to the pressure from his mother, he could only give up.
Although he was not divorced, Chiang Kai-shek had no restraint in his outside career, and his behavior became more and more **. Soon after, he met Yao Yecheng outside.
Yao Yecheng, a typical Jiangnan girl, despite her humble birth and the early death of her parents, she was not defeated by the hardships of life. After marrying the landlord's son, she fantasized about living a prosperous life, but it backfired, and her husband not only lost the family property, but also beat her hard.
Yao Yecheng, who had nothing to do, could only escape from this unhappy marriage and came to bustling Shanghai to make a living as a courtesan. In this prosperous place, she met Chiang Kai-shek, who was deeply attracted by the way Yao Yecheng sang on stage.
After the two met, Chiang Kai-shek insisted on taking Yao Yecheng as a concubine despite his mother's opposition and took her back to his hometown.
Yao Yecheng and Chiang Kai-shek went through countless difficult moments, and even sold jewelry to help him tide over the difficulties. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek made a lifelong promise to Yao Yecheng.
However, this oath was soon sealed in the dust, and Chiang Kai-shek met Chen Jieru. Chen Jieru, formerly known as Chen Feng, was renamed Jieru by Chiang Kai-shek.
At a gathering in 1919, Chen Jieru met Mr. Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek at the home of Zhang Jingjiang, one of the four elders. Chiang Kai-shek was attracted by Chen Jieru's quiet temperament and talent, and despite the huge age difference between them, Chiang launched a crazy pursuit of Chen.
He would call Chen every day, write love letters to her, and create all kinds of romantic surprises. Chen Jieru was moved by his sincerity and soon became Chiang Kai-shek's girlfriend.
In order to be able to marry Chen Jieru, Jiang even did not hesitate to dissolve his marriage with Mao Fumei, and abandoned Yao Yecheng, the former object of the sea oath alliance.
With Chen Jieru's help, Chiang Kai-shek's work made great progress. In order to express his gratitude to her, Chiang Kai-shek made up many sweet words and sent them to Chen Jieru.
However, as their relationship deepened, Chiang Kai-shek began to reach out and pursue Soong Meiling, as the background and strength of the Soong family helped him immeasurably in his career.
Although Chen Jieru and her family also gave him support, the addition of Song Meiling will undoubtedly take his career to the next level.
Chiang Kai-shek did not hesitate to pursue Soong Meiling, and even abandoned Chen Jieru. He used the great cause of China's reunification as an excuse to let Chen Jieru go abroad and wait. When they held the wedding of the century, Chen Jieru realized that he had been deceived, but by this time the wood was in the boat, and Chiang Kai-shek had achieved his goal.
When people mention Soong Meiling and Chiang Kai-shek, they always think of the French plane trees in Nanjing. Soong Meiling loved the French plane tree, and Chiang Kai-shek imported 20,000 plane trees from France to plant in Nanjing.
Since Soong Meiling had no children, Chiang Kai-shek asked Chiang Ching-kuo and Chiang Wei-kuo to call her "mother". Their love was exaggerated in the oral tradition of later generations, and was even called "love of life and death".
Chiang Kai-shek's marriage to Soong Meiling was not true love, but political considerations. Although later generations often portray their union as a romantic story, this is not the case.
At that time, the Soong family was opposed to their marriage because they believed that Chiang Kai-shek was of humble origin, had a chaotic private life, and was ambitious, and was unworthy of Soong Meiling. Only Song's father expressed a neutral attitude towards this decision, and the only one in the family who supported them was the eldest sister Song Ailing.
It is said that the eldest sister of the three Song sisters loves money, the second sister loves the country, and the third sister loves power, but their marriage was not for these reasons.
Soong Oi Ling firmly believed that Chiang Kai-shek had unlimited potential and would be able to show his strength in the political arena in the future, so he went all out to match his sister Soong Meiling with him. And Soong Meiling also had a good impression of Chiang Kai-shek.
Historically, it is often said that Soong Meiling really loves power, so under the persuasion of her eldest sister, she believes that Chiang Kai-shek will "definitely make a blockbuster" in the future, reach the peak of power, and spend the rest of her life with him without suffering.
In order to marry Soong Meiling, Chiang Kai-shek promised that after marriage, he would restrain his heart and no longer mess around. Although Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling remained together until old age, few people know that there were episodes in their marriage, and as the Song family had feared earlier, Chiang Kai-shek had an extramarital affair.
After the two got married, Chiang Kai-shek obeyed Song Meiling's words, and he also received great help from the Song family. In addition, Soong Meiling also helped Chiang Kai-shek obtain American aid.
Although Chiang Kai-shek is romantic, because of Soong Meiling's strict discipline and his own "eyeliner", he has never had the courage to betray his marriage. At first, for the sake of the Song family's face, he suppressed his desires.
However, with the increase in power and the improvement of Song Meiling's health awareness, they began to sleep in separate rooms. This time, when Chiang Kai-shek and Dai Li were guests at Chen Lifu's house, Chen Lifu asked his niece Chen Ying to pour tea for Chiang Kai-shek, which triggered his restless thoughts.
Chen Lifu is one of the four major families, and his style of life is very elegant. When he pours his tea, he usually asks the babysitter to help. However, when he needed to express his heart to Chiang Kai-shek, he would personally ask his niece Chen Ying to pour tea.
Chen Ying was wearing a slim and revealing cheongsam, which looked very attractive. Seeing Chen Ying, Chiang Kai-shek's heart moved. Chen Lifu saw Chiang Kai-shek's expression and knew that the opportunity had come, so he introduced Chen Ying to Chiang Kai-shek: "This is Chen Ying, the niece of the younger brother, who specializes in English in California, USA, and has just returned from school, and hopes to take more care of the commission." ”
The meaning of this sentence was so obvious that Chiang Kai-shek could not refuse. He immediately nodded in agreement, knowing that this was a good opportunity to keep the beauty by his side.
Chen Ying was arranged to be Chiang Kai-shek's secretary during a pleasantries, and the two began to secretly maintain an illicit relationship. At first, Soong Meiling did not notice that Chiang Kai-shek's mental state had improved significantly, and he seemed happy every day.
However, Song Meiling's eldest sister Song Ailing noticed the abnormality and sent someone to investigate and found that Chiang Kai-shek was raising a young woman named Chen Ying outside behind his sister's back, Chen Ying was born in a famous family, with talent and background, and the Chen family was powerful and had a tense relationship with the Kong family.
Despite the Song family's prominence at the time, Song Meiling was still under threat of divorce because her lover Chen Ying might pose a threat to her status.
Song Ailing's reminder made Song Meiling aware of Chiang Kai-shek's affair with Chen Ying, and she was angry, and even had the idea of divorce. However, under the persuasion of her eldest sister, she gradually calmed down and realized that this marriage was not simply the love of men and women, but a complex relationship involving the interests of the family, society and all parties.
Whether it is the Song family, the Confucian family, or Chiang Kai-shek, or even Nanjing**, they need to maintain the superficial image, and the power of the Chen family cannot be ignored. In order to avoid causing conflicts between the Song and Chen families, Song Meiling skillfully took Chen Ying to her home, she did not show anger, but was extremely calm towards Chen Ying.
She held Chen Ying's hand and admonished softly: "Young girl, you should cherish yourself and find someone who loves you, the future is the most important thing." Chen Ying understood Soong Meiling's intentions, but she knew that there was no future between herself and Chiang Kai-shek, just a chess piece to be used for advancement.
She lowered her head in contemplation, then looked up at Song Meiling, her eyes full of helplessness: "Then what should I do?" Song Meiling knew that Chen Ying's mind had been decided, so she took out the 500,000 checks, passports and air tickets that had been prepared, hoping that she could go to the United States to start a new life, and promised to help her take care of everything in the United States.
After listening to this, Chen Ying finally nodded and agreed, this was her best choice.
Early the next morning, Chen Ying packed her bags and took Song Meiling's car to the airport. Song Meiling personally escorted Chen Ying to the airport and watched her board the plane. This disgraceful extramarital affair was skillfully resolved by Song Meiling.
When Chiang Kai-shek returned, he found that his lover had been sent away, and although he was dissatisfied, he knew that he was at a loss, so he had to accept it silently. Insiders broke the news that for Chiang Kai-shek, women were just an accessory to his power game, and he did not really love the woman, only an obsession with power.
Although Chen Ying is also from the first four families, compared with Song Meiling, her influence is still lacking. After Song Meiling found out about the relationship between the two, she could have angrily denounced and expanded the matter, but she knew that once she did this, not only would the four major families lose face, but the interests behind them would also be implicated.
Song Meiling is not like this, but out of interest considerations, in order to maintain the so-called dignity, she sacrificed part of her personal dignity. The ancients once said: "A wife is not as good as a concubine, and a concubine is not as good as stealing." ”
Soong Meiling could not supervise Chiang Kai-shek all the time, and things like Chen Ying were certainly not alone. According to the recollections of Chiang Kai-shek's attendants, Chiang Kai-shek was busy with the revolution during the day, but set foot in Fengyue places at night, which further proves his amorous lifestyle.
In addition, Chiang Kai-shek also admitted that his biggest shortcoming was lustfulness, and recorded his emotions in a diary.
In someone's diary, he once said that Hong Kong is a prosperous world, and he is capable enough to withstand all kinds of trials. However, his words and deeds are the opposite.
When he saw young and beautiful women on the streets, he couldn't help but be moved, and even recorded his behavior in his diary. During his days in Taiwan, although Chiang Kai-shek had a lot of opportunities, he also found time to visit the "Green Building".
And in this marriage, although Chiang Kai-shek is the biggest beneficiary, Soong Meiling is even more pitiful. As an intellectual, she was independent, free, and intelligent, but in the end she had to compromise for the sake of decency.