During the Republic of China period, there were four famous families standing at the peak of the Kuomintang rule, and some people used one sentence to summarize "the Chen Family Party under the Jiang family, the Song family sister Kong Jiacai", the first half of the sentence is correct, the second half of the sentence is not necessarily correct.
Song Ziwen outside the Sisters of the Song family does not necessarily lose to his brother-in-law Kong Xiangxi, Song Ziwen's father Song Jiashu is a huge rich man in the Republic of China, which has innate capital, Song Ziwen himself is also a doctor of economics at Columbia University in the United States, with strong ability, he became the minister of finance of the National Government in 1925, earlier than Kong Xiangxi.
In the "Biography of Song Ziwen", his wealth is difficult to count, in 1941, the money stored in the Bank of America alone exceeded 70 million US dollars, and the money, assets, shares, etc. in other countries are astronomical. So whose family's wealth is really uncertain.
However, Song Ziwen is so rich, but not a playboy, the Republic of China's three wives and four concubines are very common things for high-ranking officials and nobles, but Song Ziwen has been married once, and there is no lace news, which is more rare.
So how did his wife, whom he cherished so dearly, meet and live in exile in the United States?
Song Ziwen's wife is called Zhang Leyi, born in 1907 in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, she is 13 years younger than Song Ziwen, her father Zhang Mouzhi started as a comprador, and later became a well-known construction merchant in Lushan, Jiujiang, and her family is also relatively well-off.
Song and Zhang seem to have nothing to do with each other, how did they come together? This has to start with Song Ziwen's visit to Lushan Mountain.
In 1927, the new minister of finance of the Nanjing government, Song Ziwen, went to Lushan mountain to escape the summer, and as soon as he went up, he felt that the scenery here was pleasant, and it was completely different from the heat in Wuhan and Nanjing, so he had the idea of building a villa for his mother here, but he did not know the procedures, so he asked the local officials to find a staff officer who knew architecture.
The local officials were also very attentive to the command of the "God of Wealth", and recommended Zhang Mouzhi, who did the best job in the local construction industry. Zhang Mouzhi once built villas for many foreigners and high-ranking officials, and the quality was guaranteed. Therefore, Song Ziwen went to visit Zhang Mouzhi with his entourage.
After some discussion, the two finalized the matter of the villa, seeing that the time was not early, Song Ziwen resigned to leave, Zhang Mouzhi naturally refused to let go of the opportunity to tie the knot, and graciously left Song Ziwen to eat together.
In the process of eating, Zhang Mouzhi called his wife and daughter out to entertain, at that time Zhang Leyi was twenty years old, had a new education and could speak English, and he was also generous between conversations, plus 1 meter 68 tall, outstanding appearance, Song Ziwen fell in an instant.
At this time, although Song Ziwen was rich and powerful, he was 33 years old or alone, and he could not help but be moved when he saw such a woman after several love injuries.
Song Ziwen has been taking the initiative to talk with Zhang Leyi, who was originally ready to go down the mountain after the villa was finalized, he told Zhang Mouzhi that he was not ready to leave tonight, and wanted to visit the attractions that Lushan had not been to, hoping that Zhang Mouzhi could introduce a tour guide for him.
Such an obvious move, Zhang Mouzhi of course understood the meaning, he was also happy to have such a son-in-law, so he arranged for his daughter Zhang Leyi to accompany Song Ziwen on a tour of Lushan.
In the process of the tour, Song Ziwen boldly confessed to Zhang Leyi, and Zhang Leyi had some good feelings for him and tried to get along. The relationship between the two is very direct and pure.
In the autumn of 1948, the two held a grand wedding ceremony and officially married.
After his marriage, Song Ziwen did not have any scandals, he was intoxicated with his career, and at his peak there was a tax police regiment of the Ministry of Finance, which was the best in the Kuomintang in terms of weapons and equipment, and was basically his private soldier, even if Chiang Kai-shek wanted to command.
But later, because of his disagreement with Chiang Kai-shek, he resigned as minister of finance and vice president of the Executive Yuan, until he came out again after the outbreak of the Pacific War. During this period, he also suffered many assassinations, but each time he successfully escaped.
Zhang Leyi will occasionally worry about him, most of the time is still happy, life is also extremely rich, Zhang Leyi gave birth to a total of three daughters for Song Ziwen after marriage, all of them are very beautiful.
In the later stages of the Liberation War, with the defeat of the Kuomintang, Song Ziwen and his family first went to Hong Kong, and then settled in New York, usa, relying on years of savings, life was also passable.
Soong Zi-wen refused Chiang Kai-shek's telegram several times to let them go to Taiwan, which made Chiang Kai-shek resentful in his heart, and in 1953 he expelled Soong Zi-wen from the Kuomintang.
In this way, Song Ziwen is more happy and leisurely, and his wife Zhang Leyi is mainly to cultivate the second generation and take care of the third generation in the United States.
On April 25, 1971, Song Ziwen died of suffocation caused by eating during his visit to friends, and died before reaching the hospital, at the age of 77. What is more interesting is that at his funeral, Song Meiling decided not to go because Song Qingling was going.
After Song Ziwen's death, Zhang Leyi lived with three children for 17 years because she had a lot of money, and her living conditions were still good, during which she was also very concerned about the great cause of the reunification of the motherland, and wanted to return to the mainland and return to Lushan, which was the place where she lived and grew up, but unfortunately she could not realize this wish until her death. Zhang Leyi died in 1988 at the age of 81.
Because of the husband, enjoying all the glory and wealth, but also because of the husband, half of his life is upside down and displaced, such a life, is it lucky or unfortunate?