China's history has always been "divided for a long time, and a long time must be divided", and hundreds of years after the unification of the Ming and Qing dynasties, in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, China was shattered into a mess. After the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912, the warlords of the northern and southern provinces immediately fought each other, from the demise of the Qing Dynasty to the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Since ancient times, there has been a cloud that "the world is not chaotic before Shu is chaotic", and in the warlord melee, the warlord melee in Sichuan is the most tragic. From the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912 until the entry of the Central Army of the Nationalist Government into Sichuan in 1935, the Sichuan warlords Yang Sen, Deng Xihou, Liu Xiang, Liu Wenhui, Liu Chengxun, Lai Xinhui and others launched more than twenty wars, nearly 400 large and small battles, which really caused great harm to the people of Sichuan.
Among the Warlords of Sichuan, Yang Sen, who was born in the "Quick Formation" lineage, rose earliest, and he repeated many times in his life, defecting to the Dian Army in his early years, after the Dian Army failed, he later returned to Sichuan to do it alone, and fled in 1923. The following year, with the support of Wu Peifu, Yang Sen occupied Chengdu and Chongqing, and became the "Military Governor of Sichuan" for a time. After the fall of Wu Peifu, Yang Sen firmly supported Chairman Chiang Kai-shek and was willing to fight for Chiang's life, and later became a lieutenant general in the Nationalist government.
As a prominent figure in the Republic of China, although Yang Sen has been a hero all his life, the most famous thing is not his achievements, but his private life. He married 12 wives in his life, had more than 40 children, even had a daughter at the age of 86, and married a 17-year-old girl at the age of 90. What kind of person was Janssen? How did he get 12 wives? It is said that Janssen was fierce and had personally executed his cheating wife, is this true?
I. Yang Sen: Xi Wu joined the army only to marry a wife
Born in 1884 in Guang'an, Sichuan Province, Yang Sen's father was of unusual status, and was a "Wu Kusheng" of the Qing Dynasty, that is, "Wu Xiucai", who was regarded as the future reserve cadre of the army. Yang Sen's father was good at practicing martial arts, and Yang Sen had heard about it since he was a child, and he also followed the practice of martial arts and trained a good body. Yang Sen's father was old, and before he could get out of the day, Yang Sen's son inherited his father's ambitions and joined the army with a heart full of thoughts, thinking of making military achievements in the future and shining on the lintel.
In 1906, Yang Sen joined the Sichuan Army as he wished and became a vanguard soldier. In 1908, Yang Sen entered the Sichuan Army Accelerated School of the Qing Dynasty, and after graduation, he was divided into platoon leaders. After Yang Sen became a platoon leader, he joined the League like most aspiring young people, and in a series of revolutionary movements in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, Yang Sen grew rapidly, still a battalion commander in 1912, a lieutenant colonel staff officer in 1915, a regimental commander in 1917, a division commander in 1920, and has begun to "demarcate the defensive zone" with other warlords.
In 1923, Yang Sen was defeated in the Sichuan Rebellion and went out of Sichuan to join the great warlord Wu Peifu.
Wu Peifu was more serious about Yang Sen, and just as he was about to develop in Sichuan, he gave Yang Sen an army. Yang Sen used Wu Peifu's power to fight back sichuan the following year, recapturing Chongqing, Chengdu and other places, and became the agent of the Beiyang warlords in Sichuan. Later, Yang Sen floated and sank many times in the southwest region, and after 1927, he hugged Chiang's thighs, followed Chiang's "anti-communism" to gain trust, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in the National Revolutionary Army.
On the one hand, Yang Sen floated on the battlefield, and the officials did more and more, while on the other hand, he stepped up to "expand the harem" for himself. In the more than ten years since Janssen's rise, including the original wife, he has married a total of 11 wives and given birth to more than 40 children. His eldest wife, Zhang Shi, was married to Ming Media, but unfortunately his life was not long, and he died of illness when Yang Sen was 24 years old. At that time, Janssen was studying in the crash course of the Army School, and after graduation, he began to return to his hometown to find women.
In 1908, Yang Sen's wife died, the warlord began to marry his wife, his first wife was called Tan Zhengde, and later married Tian Hengqiu, Cai Wenna, Zeng Guizhi, Liu Gufang, Xiao Bangqiong and other 10 "aunts", which became people's talking points in Sichuan. It is said that Chairman Jiang once came to Yang Sen's house as a guest, and old Jiang looked at a room full of women and asked, "These are your wives?" Yang Senzhi said triumphantly: "Back to the chairman of the committee!" I'm in great shape! ”
Second, the Yang family is under military management, and the aunt and wife cheat on military law
Janssen was a man of the ranks, full of marching to fight, and even used the method of military camps to govern his family. Janssen's family of 11 wives plus dozens of children, in the morning to out of the. No matter what the season, the Yang family must get up early in the morning, wear military uniforms to run exercises, shout slogans, and Janssen is responsible for supervision. There are too many children in the Yang family, Yang Sen can't remember, just according to the number of pronouns, must be on call.
In addition, the Yang family in their daily lives are also like the soldiers, and they are not allowed to drink, play cards, and are not allowed to meet private guests in their spare time, children study at home, and women wear embroidery at home.
The reason why Janssen is so strict with his family is because he is weak-minded, his wives almost do not marry him voluntarily, and Janssen has always been uneasy about them in his heart. For example, Yang Sen's seventh aunt, Zeng Guizhi, a native of Guizhou, was originally an orphan adopted by Yang Sen, but she did not expect that Zeng Guizhi would look better the longer she grew, and Yang Sen adopted her adopted daughter as a concubine when she was 14 years old.
Zeng Guizhi looks good, Yang Sen feels that there is face to bring around, at that time, the upper echelons of the Republic of China liked to bring "talented women" to communicate, appeared cultured, Yang Sen let Zeng Guizhi go to Shanghai to study, and in the future to be his own xiannei help.
Unexpectedly, Zeng Guizhi was successful during his school days in Shanghai, and immediately fell in love with the boys at the school, and also privately decided to live forever. Yang Sen seems to be thousands of miles away, in fact, sent an adjutant to watch around Zeng Guizhi, Zeng Guizhi fell in love, Yang Sen felt that the girl's love sinus was just opening, and he could open a side, but Zeng Guizhi actually wanted to elope with someone, and Yang Sen couldn't bear it.
Just after Zeng Guizhi returned to Sichuan on vacation, Yang Sen pretended not to know and secretly sent two soldiers to take Zeng Guizhi to a cruise ship and shoot him. The seventh aunt was too dead, Yang Sen was uncomfortable for a long time, he regretted and hated, first regretted that he should not send her to school, and hated the boys in Shanghai school for hooking up with his aunt. In the end, he put the fire on Zeng Guizhi's lover, wrote a letter under the guizhi name of Zeng Guizhi to invite him to Sichuan, and sent someone to intercept and kill him in the middle of the road.
Seven aunts died too much in the Yang family spread, Yang Sen felt that he could "kill chickens and scare monkeys", so that these 20 or so aunts were too safe, but they did not expect that these aunts did not put him in their eyes, and the ninth aunt immediately cheated. The ninth aunt, Cai Wenna, was also an intellectual woman, attended middle school, and finally married the warlord Yang Sen at the behest of her father, and she has always been dissatisfied with this marriage.
Cai Wenna has always wanted to go to college after attending middle school, and Yang Sen sent her to West China University for further study. As a result, like the seventh aunt, Cai Wenna also met true love while studying. Cai Wenna and her lover are like glue, and the other party invites her to go to The United Kingdom together, but Cai Wenna wants to get together with Yang Sen, otherwise Yang Sen will not let go of his father.
Cai Wenna negotiated with Yang Sen and wanted to divorce peacefully, and Yang Sen smiled and said that he was thinking about it in the long run, but in fact, he had secretly started to kill. The day after Cai Wenna filed for divorce, she was shot dead by soldiers and thrown into a dry well in the Yang family.
Third, 90-year-old concubines gave birth to daughters, Janssen set a Chinese record
Yang Sen killed two aunts, although they were all quick knives and chaos, but he did not feel good in his heart. In his later years he said:
"I've married so many wives, I know none of them love each other, but I really love them."
In 1949, the Liberation War entered the final stage, and Yang Sen sent his son Yang Hanlie in the Sichuan-Chongqing region of the Great Southwest to garrison western Sichuan. As a result, Yang Hanlie was plotted against by our party, and chose to lead troops to revolt, and Yang Sen almost died of anger. Seeing that the general trend in the southwest had gone, Jiang Shi ran first, and then sent a plane to take Yang Sen to Taiwan.
When Yang Sen left, no one took him, so he took his 18-year-old aunt Hu Jieyu, who was the daughter of his servant. He left dozens of his wives and children behind in Sichuan to fend for themselves, and these people were properly resettled by the government after liberation.
After Yang Sen came to Taiwan, the central officials in Taiwan did not look down on this local warlord, and Chiang Shi-nian, who had followed Yang Sen for decades and had also worked hard in the War of Resistance Against Japan, gave him a false post as an "adviser to the Strategic Committee."
Janssen knew that he could not mix with an official and a half-job in this land of bullets, and he did not care about power. In 1960, Janssen became the chairman of the Sports Association and began to supervise sports work on the island of Taiwan. Yang Sen's health is indeed very good, he has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, he has never been sick all his life, he also learned to fly a plane at the age of 70, and at the age of 86, he also climbed the highest peak in Taiwan, "Jade Mountain", which shook the whole island.
It was also in the year of his mountaineering that Yang Sen's aunt Hu Jieyu gave birth to a daughter for him, which was rumored to be an odd story at the time. At the age of 90, Yang Sen lamented that life is short, he still wanted to find a wife, and finally Zhang Lingfeng, a 17-year-old "life secretary", married home and made up enough for the "Yang family's twelve gold noodles". Yang Sen, who is in his 90s, is old and strong, and let Zhang Lingfeng give birth to a daughter for himself, which is a record that is ancient and modern, setting a Chinese record.
According to the recollections of those around him, Yang Sen said in his later years: "When I married so many women, I just wanted to be an emperor. On May 15, 1977, Janssen died in Taipei at the age of 94.
Text/Shogakuno
Resources:
1. "Warlord Yang Sen's wives and concubines are in groups, for the emperor's addiction", Ke Yun
2. "Yang Sen Who Governs the Family by Warlord Means", Xiangjing