In 1965, Kong Xiangxi, who was 85 years old, received a telegram from his youngest son Kong Lingjie that his eldest grandson was born. Kong Xiangxi was excited, laughed a few times, and said with relief that the Kong family finally had a queen.
In July 1967, a hospital in New York, USA, received Kong Xiangxi, who was seriously ill. However, Kong Xiangxi's body had already run out of oil, and even though the doctor tried his best to treat him, Kong Xiangxi still died on August 16.
When Kong Xiangxi was dying, he kept talking to his wife Song Ailing that the incense of the Kong family was about to be broken. Song Ailing, who was immersed in sadness, failed to understand Kong Xiangxi's meaning, and was surprised to say that their grandchildren were two or three years old, so where was the incense of the Kong family broken?
Kong Xiangxi didn't explain anything, just closed his eyes weakly and passed away with regret. As a pillow person who has accompanied Kong Xiangxi for decades, Song Ailing gradually understood Kong Xiangxi's regrets before his death after spending the saddest time. It's just that they are old after all, and as for the affairs of future generations, they can no longer be controlled.
So Kong Xiangxi obviously has a grandson, why did he say that the incense of the Kong family was going to be broken before he died?
Kong Xiangxi is best known for being Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law. Kong Xiangxi's wife Song Ailing is Song Meiling's own sister, so Kong Xiangxi is Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law.
And Kong Xiangxi, with the identity of Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law and his own financial resources, was even more prosperous within the Kuomintang.
As the saying goes, greed is not enough, and a snake swallows an elephant. Although Kong Xiangxi has a lot of family, he still relies on his power to make a lot of money.
Kong Xiangxi not only knows how to do business himself, but his wife Song Ailing is also a good hand in business.
Whether it is **, cotton yarn, or flour and other industries, Song Ailing will plug in. Their husband and wife have repeatedly taken advantage of opportunistic tricks and amassed ill-gotten gains, which has caused their competitors to complain.
At the same time, Song Ailing was also bolder than the sky, and she made a full 8 million pounds by arbitraging foreign exchange.
And Kong Xiangxi's children are even more "blue out of blue and better than blue". The eldest son, Kong Lingkan, was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the executive director of the ** Trust Bureau. And Chiang Kai-shek's behavior can be regarded as sending the thief to the money nest.
Kong Lingkan took advantage of his position to seek money; During the Anti-Japanese War, the public used the public to make huge profits.
Kong Xiangxi's youngest daughter, Kong Lingjun, used her power to hoard goods and make a fortune.
And Chiang Kai-shek will not only not kill his relatives in righteousness, but will also collude with Kong Xiangxi and them. In this way, the Jiang Kong family was embarrassed, and the officials and businessmen were mutually reinforcing, which caused a lot of resentment.
Until 1944, the Kong family swallowed a huge amount of US dollar public debt, and it was all over the sky. Chiang Kai-shek could no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb, and Kong Xiangxi had no choice but to take the blame and resign when he saw that the situation was wrong.
Seeing that there was no place for him in China, Kong Xiangxi made the decision to move to the United States. In 1946, Kong Xiangxi and Song Ailing liquidated all their property in China and took everything they could take away.
Although Kong Xiangxi had often been to the United States before, but when he thought that he would probably not be able to come back when he went to the United States this time, Kong Xiangxi felt very sad in his heart, as if he had been stabbed with a knife. Because Chinese have a sense of belonging to their roots in their bones.
So in the summer of 1947, Kong Xiangxi and his wife Song Ailing went back to their hometown of Taigu, Shanxi. This trip is not only to worship the ancestors, but also to say goodbye to relatives and friends.
Stepping on the familiar homeland, smelling the smell of hometown, the nostalgia that had accumulated in Kong Xiangxi's heart for decades poured out at that moment. Kong Xiangxi held a feast in his hometown and invited his relatives to the last reunion dinner, but he fulfilled the greatest wish in his heart.
After that, Kong Xiangxi asked his wife to go to the United States to arrange food, clothing, housing and transportation. He returned to Shanghai and sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek under the pretext that his wife was ill and he had to rush to the United States to accompany her.
Without waiting for Chiang Kai-shek's reply, Kong Xiangxi hurriedly took a plane to the United States.
After Song Ailing arrived in the United States first, she packed up a mansion they had purchased in their early years. The mansion is in Riverdale, not far from New York. If nothing else, they will spend their old age here.
In addition, Kong Xiangxi also spent more than $1.6 million to buy a high-end house in the suburbs of New York. You think that's the end of it, that's naïve.
On Broadway, New York's busiest and most lucrative downtown area, a star-rated hotel can rent as much as $150 a day. And Kong Xiangxi rented a room here, or for a long time, just to be able to live comfortably when he occasionally goes to Broadway to relax.
Of course, Kong Xiangxi is not entirely at home. He's okay and he'll go to the Bank of China in New York for a walk. Life here is relatively easy compared to life in China before.
However, Kong Xiangxi's high-profile behavior of showing off his wealth attracted the attention of Truman, who was the leading American at the time.
The United States has been secretly aiding the Kuomintang, both militarily and financially. But the bold Kong Xiangxi doesn't care how powerful the United States is, when the money and things reach his territory, he has to scrape off a layer of it.
Truman has always been obsessed with this matter, so as soon as Kong Xiangxi arrived in the United States, he asked the FBI to investigate the assets of the Kong family and the Song family in the United States, trying to find a loophole to confiscate the assets of the Kong and Song families.
And Kong Xiangxi was very frightened after he realized that the United States had been sending people to follow and monitor him. After all, the husband is not guilty, and he is guilty. The assets in the hands of him and his wife are bound to make the United States feel red, but it is impossible for him to give up his property.
Fortunately, a friend of Kong Xiangxi helped him think of a solution. That is, Kong Xiangxi hid all his property, and this must be indispensable to go to the relevant departments.
And Kong Xiangxi doesn't have much else, just a lot of money. Under the power of money, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee issued a fake property certificate for Kong Xiangxi, saying that Kong Xiangxi did not even have $50 million in deposits in the United States.
Kong Xiangxi also cooperated with the press conference, and pretended to cry to ** that his assets had been wiped out due to various reasons such as inflation, war, and investment losses.
We don't know how many people Kong Xiangxi said it, but Truman believed it anyway. After that, Truman withdrew the FBI's secret surveillance of Kong Xiangxi.
At this time, Kong Xiangxi's life in the United States can be described as a fish in water. However, when people are idle, they are more likely to be cranky.
What's more, Kong Xiangxi has always been unwilling to become a retired rich businessman who does nothing, and he has always hoped that Chiang Kai-shek can remember himself and arrange a half-official position for himself. But Chiang Kai-shek was destined to disappoint him.
Since moving to the United States, Kong Xiangxi has been paying attention to the domestic situation. However, the situation of the Kuomintang's successive defeats made Kong Xiangxi feel a little disappointed.
In 1954, when Kong Xiangxi learned that Chiang Kai-shek had convened the so-called Second "National Convention", he hoped that Chiang Kai-shek would invite him back. For this reason, Kong Xiangxi also specially sent Wei Daoming to find out the news for him.
However, Kong Xiangxi didn't want to think about it, at this time he no longer provided financial support to Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek was also thinking about cultivating his son Chiang Ching-kuo, how could he let him come back and insert another lever?
Therefore, as soon as Wei Daoming arrived in Taiwan, Chiang Ching-kuo instructed a newspaper to publish an article, scolding the corrupt and dirty of the wealthy family, and did not shy away from Kong Xiangxi, and everyone could hear that Chiang Kai-shek was targeting Kong Xiangxi.
Seeing this, Kong Xiangxi also knew that his thoughts were tantamount to a fool's dream. At this point, Kong Xiangxi has really lived a retired life.
But even though life in the United States is very comfortable, Kong Xiangxi is still unhappy because he is homesick.
Yes, as he gets older, Kong Xiangxi misses his hometown more and more, and even Song Ailing has repeatedly proposed to Kong Xiangxi that he wants to return to China to see.
However, Kong Xiangxi was a little afraid that Chiang Kai-shek would have a grudge against him, but he was homesick, and he couldn't care so much, so he could only choose to be a "person" with his tail between his legs after returning to Taiwan.
In October 1962, Kong Xiangxi and his wife Soong Ailing flew back to Taiwan from the United States on a plane.
Stepping on his hometown after more than ten years of absence, Kong Xiangxi couldn't help but feel emotional.
However, Chiang Kai-shek ignored him and arranged him with an empty position, which made Kong Xiangxi very disappointed. But things have developed to this point, and he no longer wants anything, just living his life quietly.
It's just that life in Taiwan is not much different from that in the United States, and it is not at all what Kong Xiangxi's hometown looks like in his memory. Therefore, Kong Xiangxi still feels very empty after living in Taiwan for a while.
And his four sons and daughters, none of them are reassuring. Originally, at his age, he should have teased his grandson at home, but he is in his eighties, and he has not yet become a grandfather or grandfather. This made Kong Xiangxi worry, is the Kong family's incense about to be broken?
Kong Xiangxi and his wife Song Ailing gave birth to a total of 4 children, namely the eldest daughter Kong Lingyi, the eldest son Kong Lingkan, the second daughter Kong Lingjun, and the second son Kong Lingjie.
Kong Lingyi has outstanding appearance, plus her ability to run a family is very good, and she can be in charge at a young age, so everyone who comes to ask for relatives must break the threshold of the Kong family.
And Kong Xiangxi and his wife wanted to introduce a soldier to Kong Lingyi, so as to expand the power of the Kong family. But I didn't expect Kong Lingyi to not listen to their arrangements at all, and found an ordinary man who was not in the right household.
Kong Lingyi also used the power of her mother's family to pave the way for her husband, but later this marriage ended in failure, and Kong Lingyi later remarried an air force officer and settled in the United States.
Kong Lingkan is a complete gentleman. Although Kong Lingkan's ability to make money made Kong Xiangxi praise, he didn't earn money through formal channels.
At the same time, Kong Lingkan is also very unobtrusive in marriage. In 1939, on his way to the United States, Kong Lingkan married a woman who was more than ten years older than him, and this woman was still the wife of Kong Lingkan's friend.
Kong Xiangxi and his wife naturally disagreed, but Kong Lingkan didn't listen to them at all, so they had to give up.
Kong Lingjun, as the youngest daughter, naturally grew up with a lot of petty pets, so much so that Kong Lingwei was very free of himself and dressed himself as a tomboy all day long.
Kong Lingjun likes drag racing the most, often regardless of traffic rules and pedestrians, if the traffic police file stops her car, Kong Lingjun will directly step on the accelerator and crash into it, even if it is a human life, he doesn't care.
In addition, Kong Lingjun always interfered in the official affairs of Kong Xiangxi and Chiang Kai-shek, and often secretly approved official documents in their names, causing a lot of trouble.
And Kong Lingjun was most talked about by the people at that time when her sexual orientation, it is said that Kong Lingjun likes women. So Kong Lingjun did not get married when he grew up, but lived with his two wives.
And Kong Lingjie is probably the most obedient of the four children. Kong Lingjie is shy and does not like to talk, and is very low-key, usually what his father says and does.
However, Kong Lingjie inherited his father's talent for business, and after 1960 he plunged headlong into the oil business, becoming a real tycoon, the richest of the four siblings.
There are almost no reports about Kong Lingjie from the outside world, but Kong Lingjie, who has always been low-key, announced the good news of his marriage to American Hollywood actor Debra Paget. After marriage, the two also gave birth to a baby, which is the eldest grandson of Kong Xiangxi mentioned at the beginning of the article.
This is also a happy event that makes Kong Xiangxi cry with joy. But Kong Xiangxi didn't be happy for a while, and he became melancholy again. Because Kong Lingjie's wife is an American, the child born is a Chinese-American mixed-race child.
In Kong Xiangxi's view, only half of the blood flowing in his grandson's body is Chinese. So strictly speaking, this grandson is not completely Chinese, which makes him very difficult to accept.
But at that time, except for Kong Lingjie, who gave birth to a son, no one else had any children under their knees.
In the eyes of the Chinese, inheritance has always been a major event, especially for a big family like the Kong family, which pays more attention to incense and the purity of blood.
So it is not difficult to guess why Kong Xiangxi regretted and unwillingly muttered that the incense of the Kong family was about to be broken when he was dying.
Kong Xiangxi finally dragged his seriously ill body on a plane for more than ten hours to the United States for treatment, and finally died in the United States on August 16, 1967.
Kong Xiangxi's life has had ups and downs, but he has never lacked money, but he couldn't wait for the birth of the grandson he wanted before he died, which is not a pity.
But nothing in the world is perfect.