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Back in China at the beginning of the 20th century, a young man named Chiang Kai-shek was devoting himself to the revolutionary cause. He ran and called during the day, vowing to change the fate of the country; At night, he lingers in the flowers, indulging in the sound of dogs and horses.
Chiang Kai-shek's personal secretary once confided in the leader's unknown side—how he maneuvered between power and beauty, and how he was unsympathetic to his family.
Mr. Weng Yuan, who had served as a guard and personal attendant aide-de-camp beside Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo for 43 years, revealed in an exclusive interview: "Chiang Kai-shek was indeed lustful in his early years, and everyone in our guard circle knew about 'doing revolution during the day and visiting kilns at night'. ”
Chiang Kai-shek's emotional experience was magnificent, and he had four women in his life, but he never got a complete home.
This suave revolutionary eventually lost his fertility due to the chaos of his private life, leaving him with regret and melancholy.
Chiang Kai-shek's youth indulged in beauty and was difficult to control
When Chiang Kai-shek was 16 years old, he became obsessed with fireworks and willow lane, and often mingled in brothels in Qinglou. In his hometown of Fenghua, Chiang Kai-shek was a well-known gentleman.
He sang every night and lived a life of drunkenness and dreams. Despite repeated admonitions from his parents, Chiang Kai-shek was unable to extricate himself. At that time, Fenghua was rumored that Chiang Kai-shek had kept several prostitutes and even had some vices.
In 1907, Chiang Kai-shek went to Japan to study. In the land of Dongying, Chiang Kai-shek's dandy style intensified. He often hangs out in Tokyo's red-light districts, spending money in the land of fireworks.
Many women had a dewy affair with Chiang Kai-shek, including Chiang Kai-shek's later wives and concubines. These romantic affairs spread among the students studying in Japan, and Chiang Kai-shek became famous.
After returning to China, Chiang Kai-shek joined the revolutionary party, but his private life remained uninhibited. When the Xinhai Revolution broke out in 1911, Chiang Kai-shek worked in an arsenal in Shanghai. During this period, Chiang Kai-shek sang songs and spent all day and night, often going in and out of the major gardens and taverns in Shencheng.
Someone once bumped into Chiang Kai-shek laughing with several women in a tobacco house, and his words were full of meat jokes. In Shanghai, Chiang Kai-shek also met many courtesans and dusty women, including Yao Yecheng, who later became his aunt's wife.
In 1924, Chiang Kai-shek entered the Whampoa Military Academy as an instructor. During this period, he did not restrain his playboy style. Despite the strict requirements of the military academy, Chiang Kai-shek often sneaked out of the school and lingered in Guangzhou's red-light district.
Chiang Kai-shek was once seen coming out of a fireworks field late at night, accompanied by a woman. At that time, the Whampoa Military Academy also circulated a lot of rumors about President Jiang's affair in private.
It is worth mentioning that although Chiang Kai-shek was emotionally uninhibited, he never forgot his political ambitions. While chasing women, Chiang Kai-shek was also preparing for the future power struggle. He used the flowers to socialize, got acquainted with many celebrities and magnates, and laid the foundation for his position in the party. This style of embracing the left and the right and being able to play with ease became a major characteristic of Chiang Kai-shek's early years.
However, the days of drunkenness and dreaming cannot last long. As the revolutionary situation developed, Chiang Kai-shek gradually realized that his indulgence had become a major burden.
In order to gain a foothold in the party, Chiang Kai-shek began to restrain his playboy style. But after all, this is already a carp crossing the river, and it is difficult to turn back. Chiang Kai-shek's debauchery in his early years also laid the foundation for his later love life.
Chiang Kai-shek's indulgence in sensuality in his early years reflected the chaos and disorder of society in the early years of the Republic of China. At a time when the old ethical order was collapsing and new moral norms had not yet been established, it was not surprising that politicians like Chiang Kai-shek were completely indulged in sensuality. However, this experience also became Chiang Kai-shek's inseparable past, casting a shadow on his later love life.
Chiang Kai-shek was unsympathetic and lacked affection for his relatives and friends
Chiang Kai-shek was a political strongman, but his personal morality was a mess. Whether it was to his wife or friends, Chiang Kai-shek was extremely mean and unkind, and he had no friendship and responsibility as a husband and friend.
Chiang Kai-shek's treatment of his wife, Mao Fumei, can be described as extremely ruthless. Mao Fumei never left to take care of the young Chiang Ching-kuo and the in-laws of the Chiang family, and when Chiang Kai-shek left the country, she waited silently in her hometown. However, when Chiang Kai-shek spent all his time drinking outside, he left his wife, children and family behind.
In 1925, Chiang Kai-shek forcibly sent his son to the Soviet Union as a hostage, and two years later forced Mao Fumei to divorce in order to marry Soong Meiling. Mao Fumei finally died of depression, but Chiang Kai-shek was stingy with a decent funeral for him.
Chiang Kai-shek was equally affectionate towards his friends. As the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy, Chiang Kai-shek made the best use of his abilities for his students.
A confidant like Du Yuming still worked for Chiang Kai-shek when he was seriously ill after the baptism of war, but when Du Yuming was captured, Chiang Kai-shek refused to fund Du's son even with a mere $3,000 tuition fee, and finally forced the Du family to a dead end.
And Huang Wei, Huang Baitao and others, who were loyal to Chiang Kai-shek, shed their blood for Chiang Kai-shek, and their families received nothing more than a worthless pension from Chiang Kai-shek.
In his son Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek also gave the gift of a monarch rather than a father's love. If Chiang Ching-kuo were not Chiang Kai-shek's only biological son, his fate would probably not be much better than that of those subordinates abandoned by Chiang.
It can be seen from what happened to Mao Fumei and his son that Chiang Kai-shek was so ruthless to his loved ones, let alone others.
Chiang Kai-shek was so ruthless to his wife and children, an important reason was that he was amorous in his early years, and he was involved in flowers and grass. Chiang Kai-shek, who had been out of the kiln all year round, had lost his feelings for his family, and his marriage to Soong Meiling was more out of political considerations, so it was naturally impossible to talk about private morality.
Chiang Kai-shek had three wives and an aunt in his life, but he was never able to give them a complete family and the status they deserved.
As the saying goes, a companion is like a tiger, and Chiang Kai-shek's cronies have long expected Chiang's meanness and unkindness. However, in the face of political choices, they still chose to be loyal to Chiang Kai-shek.
This reflects the cruel test of ideals and humanity in a turbulent situation. Chiang Kai-shek used what he did to mark the family, friendship and social relations of that era with a political imprint.
Chiang Kai-shek's emotional entanglement, three wives and one concubine, only one son
Chiang Kai-shek's first wife was Mao Fumei, five years older than Chiang Kai-shek. Before Chiang Kai-shek went to Japan to study, Mao Fumei not only took care of her young son Chiang Ching-kuo, but also served the Chiang family's in-laws. However, Chiang Kai-shek was gradually alienated from his wife and children during his study abroad.
Chiang Kai-shek's second wife was Soong Meiling. This marriage was more out of political considerations, and the marriage between Chiang and Song was aimed at encircling the Song family and consolidating Chiang's position in the Kuomintang.
Although Song Meiling is Jiang's wife, she has never really won Jiang's heart. It is not uncommon for Chiang Kai-shek to go out to visit the garden and raise his aunt's wife, and Song Meiling also turns a blind eye to this.
In addition to Mao Fumei and Song Meiling, Chiang Kai-shek also married the courtesan Yao Yecheng as a concubine in 1927. Yao was originally a woman in Qinglou, and met Chiang Kai-shek at a banquet, and was accepted by Chiang Kai-shek as his aunt's wife after that.
However, Yao Yecheng's identity has never been seen in the dark, Chiang Kai-shek is unwilling to make the matter public, and Yao cannot gain a foothold in the Chiang family. In the end, Yao Yecheng became the adoptive mother of Chiang Kai-shek's adopted son Jiang Weiguo, and the relationship ended hastily.
Chiang Kai-shek's other wife was Chen Jieru. Chen Jieru was originally Jiang's secretary, and later had a relationship with Jiang. However, on the eve of the union of Chiang and Song, Chiang Kai-shek, in order to get rid of this relationship, deceived Chen Jieru, who was pregnant, into going to the United States, so that she missed the opportunity to get married in China. Chen Jieru couldn't get what she wanted in the end, so she could only raise her children in a foreign country, but she ended this bad fate.
It is worth noting that although Chiang Kai-shek had constant female popularity and chaotic private life, all his wives and concubines only gave birth to one son for him, that is, Chiang Ching-kuo. This makes one wonder if Chiang Kai-shek's early years of drunkenness led to infertility. For a man who is obsessed with beauty, the thinness of the heirs is undoubtedly a great irony.
Behind Chiang Kai-shek's emotional experience is the collapse of etiquette and ethics in the turbulent times of the Republic of China, and it also reflects the distortion of human nature under the turbulent times. In that patriarchal era, women were often relegated and sacrificed to power.
Chiang Kai-shek, as a warlord, his feelings were also marked by the times. The ending of these three wives, one concubine, and thin heirs is nothing less than a bit of helplessness and absurdity to Chiang Kai-shek's ups and downs in his life.
Chiang Kai-shek's hatred in his later years was indulgent, and it was difficult to chase after him in his early years
Although Chiang Kai-shek indulged in lust in his early years, in his later years, this debauchery experience became a knot in his heart that he could not let go. Although Chiang Kai-shek married a wife and took concubines, he never got a complete family.
What made him even more distressed was that Chiang Kai-shek's health problems also suffered from his early profligate life, especially the loss of fertility, which made the ambitious leader feel very lost.
According to Chiang Kai-shek's personal doctor, Chiang Kai-shek discovered that his body was abnormal as early as his early 40s. He often felt pain in his private parts and developed some unexplained ulcers. Doctors diagnosed that this was likely to be a sequelae of frequent indulgence in the early years. As he grew older, Chiang Kai-shek's physical condition deteriorated, and his fertility was severely affected.
During his days in Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek often woke up from nightmares in the middle of the night. He dreamed that he was walking alone in the dark, surrounded by crying babies.
Chiang Kai-shek knew that this was the fear and remorse in his heart. He hated the absurdity of his youth, and he was ashamed of his wife and children and this family. However, all this is irreparable.
In his later years, Chiang Kai-shek often sat alone in his study. He flipped through the yellowed photographs, which showed him in high spirits when he was young. Chiang Kai-shek couldn't help but sigh, the years are like a shuttle, and in the blink of an eye, he is already in his last years. He thought of the grievances and hatreds in his early years, and thought of those love-hate entanglements, and he didn't know what to do for a while.
Chiang Kai-shek's resentment in his later years was the evil result of his indulgence in his early years, and it was also the greatest sorrow of his life. This leader, who has been chasing power all his life, ends up having a simple family.
His life seems to be a never-ending battle. And when Chiang Kai-shek looked back, he realized that his life had come to an end, and it was already too late.
Resources:
- Chiang Kai-shek's affair exposed: doing revolution during the day and visiting kilns at night-Chinanews.com
- The unknown secret: Chiang Kai-shek was caught and raped in bed by Song Meiling-CCTV
- QIU Ying. Chiang Kai-shek's Family and Marriage——Excerpts from Chiang Kai-shek's Diary[J].Archives of the Republic of China,1993(01):3-10.
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