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After 1949, due to political disagreements, Soong Meiling chose to go to the United States to live alone, even if Chiang Kai-shek died later, she returned in a hurry after attending the funeral, which shows that she still wants to avoid conflicts and disputes.
But in fact, Song Meiling, who is in the United States, still has a lot of concerns in her heart, even if the living conditions are excellent, her personal nurse can often hear her muttering softly, "There is no Tongtian".
What is the inside story of this?
A life of luxury from childhood to adulthood
The situation of the Song sisters' political disagreement has had some clues from the beginning, her pursuit is not the same as her own family, and she has maintained a high-profile state all her life.
Therefore, some people also analyzed her development process according to her character, saying that "Song Meiling did not return to live in China because she was afraid that she would lose face because of political disagreement, and everything else was secondary." Although these words are a bit radical, according to her upbringing, it is indeed a direction that is not a small possibility.
Song Meiling grew up receiving Western educational ideas, which made her pay more attention to the protection of personal interests, and at the same time, in the unique cultural background, she developed her own set of values, which then fueled her concept of pleasure.
Among the sisters, Song Meiling is the one who pays the most attention to external conditions, and everything must first come up with a specification and how big the scene standard is, which makes her subject to a lot of discussion and has a reputation for extravagance and waste.
At that time, the Song family and the Confucian family jointly controlled the financial power of the country, and they were also deeply trusted by Chiang Kai-shek.
In the end, the Confucian family and the Song family began a marriage, in which the Song family controlled the trade, and the Kong family continued to advance in the political path, and under the alliance of the two families, Song Meiling was recommended to Chiang Kai-shek. Since then, the chain of interests of the three parties has been entangled and inseparable.
Song Meiling also has more disposable power because of marriage, although the two of them have no children, their relationship is still very deep, and they have been together until the last moment, and the junior she pays the most attention to is actually the eldest sister's child Kong Lingwei.
As the second lady of the Kong family, this girl is different, she has hated gentleness since she was a child, she plays with boys all day long, and she also treats herself as a man when she talks, and she also specially customizes several sets of men's clothes to replace them.
Song Meiling felt interesting when she saw Kong Lingwei for the first time, and because she had no heirs, she regarded her as her own child and took good care of her, but Kong Lingwei's tomboy personality actually boiled down to being stubborn.
With the help of her identity and status, she often bullied others, and even had a few murders on her hands, but she was suppressed later, but Song Meiling herself was also arrogant, so she didn't care about these things, and she was still the same as usual.
Every time she goes out to play, Song Meiling wants to take her on a trip, and Kong Lingwei is quite talented in interpersonal relationships, and may have spent more time with men from other politicians' families since he was a child, and he understands the world better.
She knows that she relies on the same identity as the other children in the family, as well as Song Meiling's attention. So when she came to Song Meiling, she was completely different, and this deliberate thing was obviously in line with her intentions.
The dispute between the eldest son faction and the lady faction
Under Song Meiling's care, Kong Lingwei became more and more unscrupulous, and even began to embezzle public funds. Through illegal embezzlement of property, she has also accumulated a lot of funds, and because of Song Meiling's relationship, the Ministry of Finance turned a deaf ear to her.
Finally, at that time, there were rumors that "if you don't bribe Kong Lingwei, you can't go far". However, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Civil War broke out one after another, which did not give the Kuomintang any respite, and its four major families began to make money in order to recover their wartime losses.
This action has caused great financial losses to the people, but these politicians have maintained a luxurious lifestyle. In 1949, the Kuomintang was defeated and retreated, and it also took away a lot of property, but life still did not have a big impact, and it was also a life of great people when they arrived on Taiwan Island.
In fact, most of the reason why they are able to sustain their lives is not in these funds, but in their political leaders, after all, with the backing of the United States, as long as they do not collapse, there will be no shortage of money.
And Kong Lingwei obviously knows this truth. Compared with her family's anxious escape to the United States, she was not in a hurry at all and followed Song Meiling to live on Taiwan Island, and her personality was as usual, except for the smaller range of activities, there was no other impact.
The next surprise was not long in coming.
In 1975, Chiang Kai-shek passed away, which directly brought a major reshuffle to the political arena of Taiwan Island. After being divided again, it was generally divided into two parts, one of which supported the inheritance of Chiang Ching-kuo's eldest son, and the other was Song Meiling.
As mentioned earlier, Song Meiling likes a luxurious life, and being pushed to the front of the stage this time is not the result she wants to see, but the demands of the political situation cannot be resisted. For this reason, her original rhythm of life was broken, and she began to think more about problems with political thinking.
But in reality, she had no talent or interest in these things, and in the end she naturally lost as she expected. But even if it fails, the relationship between her and Chiang Ching-kuo will not return to the previous state, and it will be a little embarrassing when they meet.
Because of political competition, Song Meiling thought that if she stayed here as a loser, she might be targeted more, thinking of this, Song Meiling felt that she should find a good way out early.
Fortunately, some family members fled to the United States before.
Song Meiling liked the piano when she was in China. When she went to the United States once, she spared no expense to buy her beloved brand piano and shipped it back to China.
Enraged, the American GI threw the piano off the plane and replied to the Chinese side, "Due to a serious engine failure, I had to unload the bulky goods to reduce the weight." I didn't see the piano I was thinking about, and I don't know how many complaints Song Meiling complained to Chiang Kai-shek after returning to China.
Therefore, after she failed in the political confrontation, she packed her bags and went to live in the United States, and Kong Lingwei also followed her to the local area, but although she had other friends and American dignitaries to take care of her, Song Meiling did live a lot.
In addition to spending a lot of money to hire a group of people to take care of it, there have basically been no accidents, Kong Lingwei has always been safe, and as time passed, Song Meiling became one of the few elders who were still alive.
Therefore, many people regard her here as the last stop of their visit. Song Meiling is lively here almost several times a year, and Kong Lingwei also began to gradually take over the family business, and finally returned to Taiwan Island, but he did not expect to be suddenly diagnosed with cancer.
When she was diagnosed, she panicked for a moment, but instead of receiving immediate treatment, she made a more liberal decision.
is even more extravagant than at the beginning, in the case of cancer, Kong Lingwei flew over and over on both sides of Taiwan Island in the United States, and when Song Meiling went to Taiwan Island to visit Kong Lingwei, he was already in an emergency bed in the hospital.
Only 20 days later, Kong Lingwei passed away, and Song Meiling was so grief-stricken that she almost fainted at the funeral. It can be seen that in Song Meiling's heart, Kong Lingwei really attaches great importance to her, otherwise she would never have been so out of shape in front of the public if she had paid great attention to face all her life.
Kong Lingwei passed away
In fact, when Song Meiling went to Taiwan Island to visit Kong Lingwei, she was very old, and she had to support her funeral, which further increased her physical burden, so after returning to the United States again, she was a little unbearable.
When the nurse recuperates her body every day, she can often hear Song Meiling muttering "no more Tongtian" by herself. This made the nurse very puzzled, because the family still employed many people to pay salaries, how could they suddenly have no money?
It wasn't until the fixed day of the month that the nurse understood. It turned out that Kong Lingwei was grateful for Song Meiling's care, so after returning to Taiwan Island, he would also send a sum of money here regularly, although there was no shortage of this part of the funds for Song Meiling.
Because Kong Lingwei's filial piety made her very happy, every time she came to this day, Song Meiling was in a good mood. Later, Kong Lingwei passed away, so that Song Meiling lost the connection with her family, and naturally felt grief-stricken.
Many people are puzzled by this, thinking that just the difference in life experience should not be enough to make Song Meiling so reassuring, after all, Song Meiling's actual personality is more snobbish, and what she values is whether she can add glory to herself.
But Kong Lingwei is actually quite special to Song Meiling, in addition to the rebellious psychological influence mentioned earlier, Song Meiling actually gained a lot from Kong Lingwei, because Song Meiling's training route since childhood was a celebrity type.
Song Meiling is also willing to dress up and enjoy the feeling of being sought after. But in the final analysis, this path was the path given by the Song family, and the Song family at that time needed to cultivate the object of political marriage, and then obtain the guarantee of status.
Therefore, when Song Meiling saw Kong Lingwei, who was completely different from everyone else, she felt two feelings in her heart. After she married Chiang Kai-shek, she also had a certain guess in her heart, knowing that she was used as a political bargaining chip by her eldest sister.
But in the end, because she didn't hate this way of life, she let go of these confrontational emotions, but some hidden regrets still existed, so to speak, Kong Lingwei became the person who could make up for the vacancy.
Moreover, what is even more coincidental is that because Kong Lingwei also likes Song Meiling, who spoils her, the two often sit together. Because of this, Song Meiling changed her usual vehicle and escaped an attack by the Japanese army, which made her feel that it was the arrangement of fate.
She has received Western ideological education since she was a child, and she has a certain sense of identity with these things, and with the promotion of many parties, the relationship between the two parties has reached the level of intimacy. So after Kong Lingwei's death, Song Meiling almost fell into a long mental trance.
Although the eldest niece often comes to see her instead of Kong Lingwei, Song Meiling's eldest niece is of the same character as her, and they all belong to the young lady under the political marriage, which makes Song Meiling miss Kong Lingwei's appearance more and more, and often recite Tong Tian's words.
Reading the Bible and playing mahjong are the two most common things to do, and the card friends are Miss Kong, the housekeeper, the caretaker and the military attaché. Song Meiling does not want players to deliberately lose cards, however, players are not very good at playing mahjong, when seeing players lose, Song Meiling is actually very happy, because they like to count money.
But after 1999, because his physical strength became worse and worse, his mind would not be clear, so he rarely played cards. Under the care of these people, Song Meiling did not die until she was 106 years old.
Looking back on the past, Song Meiling can be called a relatively successful lady on the line of Miss Everybody, but in her later years, she was tormented by the death of her relatives, which is really embarrassing.
Bibliography:
Miss Kong Er under the Veil of Mystery - CNKI (cnki.net)