Throughout China's modern history, there is nothing more like Chairman Mao who can be called a "chess opponent" than Chiang Kai-shek. However, Chiang Kai-shek, who "called the wind and rain" in the political circles, can be said to be a tragedy in terms of family succession. After the Chiang family settled in Taiwan, the people were still quite prosperous, and Chiang Kai-shek thought that although he was now politically frustrated, his children and grandchildren could inherit his "Jiangshan" and achieve another good story.
But Providence always liked to tease people, and what Chiang Kai-shek did not expect was that none of his grandchildren took over his "great cause." Even after the death of his eldest son, most of his grandchildren's lives stayed at the age when they should have been prosperous, and the only grandson who survived was not written into the Chiang family tree.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > "Prince" Jiang Xiaowen</h1>
As the eldest son of Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Ching-kuo has been studying politics and military affairs with Chiang Kai-shek since he was 10 years old. Chiang Kai-shek's attendance at daily political and military seminars would often take Chiang Ching-kuo with him. In this way, after a long period of hearing and seeing, Chiang Ching-kuo has long been accustomed to the fierce struggle for people's political power. Therefore, Chiang Ching-kuo has his own views and means in terms of political and military affairs.
However, it is precisely because Chiang Ching-kuo has seen too many political deceptions and deceptions that he knows very well how "evil" the human heart can be in the face of power. Therefore, in the education of the family, he always deliberately avoided talking about the regime, and did not let his children have too many privileges.
But what he never expected was that his sons, despite his protection, still lost to fate. Most of his sons were indulgent and arrogant, becoming "chaos demon kings", and Jiang Xiaowen, the eldest son of Chiang Ching-kuo, was the most representative one.
Jiang Xiaowen, born in 1935 in the Ural Machine Factory in the former Soviet Union, was the first son of Chiang Ching-kuo and his wife Jiang Fangliang. Because of the different political ideas of his father Chiang Ching-kuo and his grandfather Chiang Kai-shek at that time, the relationship has been deadlocked, but the arrival of Chiang Xiaowen made Chiang Ching-kuo realize that it was not easy to be a father.
In April 1937, Jiang Xiaowen followed his parents back to China and met his grandfather, who got his current name. Chiang Kai-shek, who was originally angry with his son Chiang Ching-kuo, saw such a lovely and clever eldest grandson and heard Jiang Xiaowen shouting "Grandpa" over and over again, and his anger was immediately dissipated, and the relationship between Chiang Ching-kuo and Chiang Kai-shek was eased.
Perhaps it is precisely because of the appearance of Jiang Xiaowen that Chiang Kai-shek feels the happiness of "three generations in the same house", and Chiang Kai-shek has an extraordinary love for this eldest grandson and places high expectations on him. In Jiang Xiaowen's eyes, Chiang Kai-shek was a loving grandfather, while Chiang Ching-kuo was a "demonic" father.
Compared with Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Ching-kuo's education of Chiang Ching-kuo can be said to be "stick education." Once Jiang Xiaowen made a mistake and was learned by Chiang Ching-kuo, he would certainly be beaten up.
It is said that "strict fathers produce filial piety", but Chiang Ching-kuo's strict discipline has obtained the opposite result, Jiang Xiaowen's academic performance has not improved by leaps and bounds, but has been unsatisfactory, and even became a "rebellious teenager", learning from his father's appearance to drink and smoke outside, becoming a well-known "stupid boy".
In 1949, after the victory of the Chinese Liberation War, Chiang Kai-shek was defeated and retreated to Taiwan, and Chiang Hsiao-wen's family also moved to Taiwan. After Jiang Xiaowen arrived in Taiwan, he entered a middle school in Taipei under the arrangement of his father Chiang Ching-kuo, and his bad nature was also exposed during this period. During his studies, Jiang Xiaowen still went his own way, not only skipping class and fighting, but even often staying home at night and living a "leisurely" nightlife in the fireworks.
Because Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo held high positions in the Kuomintang political circles, the descendants of the Chiang family all had unspeakable privileges. Therefore, Jiang Xiaowen often used the name of his grandfather and father to make trouble outside. In addition to Chiang Ching-kuo's erroneous way of education, all this is also blamed on Chiang Kai-shek's doting.
Although Jiang Xiaowen's academic performance has not been satisfactory, Chiang Kai-shek has never expressed concern, but after seeing that Jiang Xiaowen is interested in guns, he immediately ordered his subordinates to allocate a gun for him. Chiang Kai-shek originally wanted Jiang Xiaowen to study the structure and performance of the gun, and perhaps to make achievements in the national military machinery, but Jiang Xiaowen used the gun as a threatening tool and toy.
Even one day, after Jiang Xiaowen finished school, he played with his heart. Always bored with school, he put down his homework and picked up a pistol and broke out of the door and entered the house specially set up by the Jiang family for guards. When Li Zhichu, a bodyguard who happened to be changing guards, returned to the house, he saw Jiang Xiaowen hiding in the corner, smiled and asked, "What is Young Master Sun doing here?" Li Zhichu did not hear Jiang Xiaowen's response, only heard a gunshot of "bang", and Li Zhichu fell to the ground.
It turned out that Jiang Xiaowen, who was hiding in the corner, involuntarily fired a shot at Li Zhichu, and immediately Li Zhichu fell in a pool of blood. Although this shot did not hit the point, it left Li Zhichu with only a wheelchair for the rest of his life. This undoubtedly exposed Jiang Xiaowen's stubborn nature.
Moreover, Jiang Xiaowen has a special hobby - late-night drag racing, drinking and fighting. Chiang Ching-kuo realized that Jiang Xiaowen would only achieve nothing if he stayed in the comfort zone of the Taiwan region, which was wrapped in layers of privileges, and Chiang Ching-kuo immediately decided to send Jiang Xiaowen to study abroad, and perhaps there would be a "glimmer of life" in this way.
However, to Chiang Ching-kuo's great disappointment, Jiang Xiaowen still did not change the arrogant nature of the "prince" after he went abroad. Although after landing in the United States, he did not adapt to the life of "ordinary people" for a while, and bought drunk in bars all day.
Later, with his love affair with his wife Xu Naijin, Jiang Xiaowen's miserable and absurd life began to shine. In 1960, the two were notarized in the United States, and the next year their daughter Jiang Youmei was born, which also gave Jiang Xiaowen the responsibility of his father.
However, "the country is easy to change, the nature is difficult to move", and the responsibility of the family did not let Jiang Xiaowen extinguish the nature of play. One day, he was caught by the police while racing and escorted to court. However, the "prince grandfather" who had been pampered since childhood had never been treated in this way before, and Jiang Xiaowen used his grandfather's "prestige" to scold in court without any remorse, which made him punished by "deportation". As a result, Jiang Xiaowen was forced to return to China.
After returning to Taiwan, his father, Chiang Ching-kuo, saw that his son had already established a family and had to have a decent job, so he sent someone to arrange a job for Jiang Xiaowen. And Jiang Xiaowen also unexpectedly made certain achievements in this job, which made the Jiang family begin to change their views on Jiang Xiaowen, thinking that he had changed his nature and would not run into trouble again.
Wanwan did not expect that "the evil consequences will eventually be self-eaten" Because of Jiang Xiaowen's perennial smoking and alcoholism, this made him suffer from serious diabetes, but Jiang Xiaowen did not care. Finally, Jiang Xiaowen suddenly fainted during a drink. The next day he went from a healthy adult to a patient with an IQ of only five or six years old. Originally, it was thought that Jiang Xiaowen would be alone until he grew old, but Jiang Xiaowen's wife Xu Naijin did not abandon him and took care of him with her children for 19 years.
As the old saying goes, "Evil people don't live long," and jiang Xiaowen did that, who died at the age of 53 in the spring of the second year of his father, Chiang Ching-kuo, who died of cancer.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" > "Chiang's successor" Jiang Xiaowu</h1>
If chiang ching-kuo's eldest son is a "failure case," then perhaps Jiang Xiaowu is the most suitable "successful case" to succeed the Chiang family's ruling power.
Jiang Xiaowu, born in Chongqing in 1945, is the second son of Chiang Ching-kuo and Chiang Fang-liang. Because Jiang Xiaowu has the eldest brother Jiang Xiaowen pressing on him, the family does not attach as much importance to and cares about him as Jiang Xiaowen, and therefore Jiang Xiaowu has developed a "brother gongzi" temperament of eating, drinking and having fun.
In Chiang Kai-shek's words, sure enough, Jiang Xiaowu's personality became stubborn and willful, and he often spoke ill of teachers and classmates, and was a well-known "little bully" in the school. As a father, how could Chiang Ching-kuo not know that his son was doing "good things" outside, although he was not around all the time, someone would always report to him about the child's situation.
Due to Chiang Ching-kuo's reflection on the failure of Jiang Xiaowen's education, he did not scold this second son too much, but he also had some punishment. However, the result was always the same, and jiang Xiaowu did not correct his mistake after being punished, but instead intensified his nonsense. In the end, Chiang Ching-kuo decided to send Chiang To study at a political academy in Germany and had greater hopes for him.
In 1969, Jiang Xiaowu rushed to Germany to study, and after returning to Taiwan, he obtained a master's degree in law. It can be seen that Jiang Xiaowu is indeed a "malleable talent" compared to his eldest brother Jiang Xiaowen, and is the most suitable successor to take over the "Chiang Dynasty".
Therefore, Chiang Ching-kuo immediately arranged for him to enter the system of cultural undertakings that were not valued by others to temper him, so as to establish the image of a literati for Jiang Xiaowen and lay a political foundation for inheriting the "great unification" in the future.
However, the most reassuring Jiang Xiaowu has failed to meet the expectations of the public, although he has excellent results in his studies, he cannot change his "playboy" habits. Not only did he get married impulsively at the age of 23, but he also often went out to "look for flowers and ask for willows" after marriage, which became the biggest accomplice to the breakdown of the marriage between him and his wife.
This is only the misfortune of marriage, the most unexpected thing is that the most promising "successor of the Chiang family" was accidentally involved in a murder case - the Jiangnan murder. In 1984, the Jiangnan case caused an uproar in the society at that time, and the world was denouncing Jiang Xiaowen.
In order to maintain the image that Chiang Ching-kuo had previously created, Chiang Ching-kuo announced to the outside world that "Chiang's family will not inherit the 'president.'" Later, Chiang Ching-kuo's death deprived Jiang Xiaowen of his greatest political patron, and Jiang Xiaowu walked on thin ice in the political circles.
Finally, in the two years after the death of his eldest brother Jiang Xiaowen, Jiang Xiaowu also suffered from diabetes and hyperlipidemia due to the previous nightlife chaos and various bad habits. He died on July 1, 1991, at the age of 46.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" > "Monopoly" Jiang Xiaoyong</h1>
If Chiang Ching-kuo's sons are all bad children, then perhaps Jiang Xiaoyong is the most obedient one.
Jiang Xiaoyong, born in Shanghai in 1948, is the youngest son of Chiang Ching-kuo and Chiang Fang-liang. Because Jiang Xiaoyong was the youngest child in the family, he was deeply loved by his grandfather Chiang Kai-shek and his grandmother Soong Mei-ling. Whenever Chiang Kai-shek went out to play, he always took Jiang Xiaoyong with him.
Therefore, Jiang Xiaoyong has always carried a sense of pride in front of outsiders since he was a child, but he always maintains a modest and gentle attitude when facing or talking to his elders, which makes him contrast with his two arrogant brothers. However, in the mouths of the Jiang family's bodyguards and officials, he was a "smiling tiger.". But I have to say that Jiang Xiaoyong is indeed Chiang Ching-kuo's most well-behaved and obedient son, and he is also the person who can "disguise" the most.
In 1964, Jiang Xiaoyong entered the Army Officer Academy. Chiang Kai-shek was very happy about this, and he thought that his grandchildren could finally produce a general. Jiang Xiaoyong also did not live up to his grandfather's expectations, and during his military school, he kept to himself, studied military theory assiduously, and achieved excellent results.
Originally thought that Jiang Xiaoyong would become a "great general of a country", however, Tiangong was always not beautiful, and Jiang Xiaoyong accidentally sprained his foot during a military training operation. To this end, Jiang Xiaoyong has undergone two surgeries. Because of this leg injury, Jiang Xiaoyong had no choice but to leave the military academy. However, Chiang Kai-shek was still not dead-hearted, and he did not believe that none of his grandchildren could inherit the "great unification", so he arranged for Chiang Hsiao-yong to study in the political department of National Taiwan University.
As a father, Chiang Ching-kuo has another plan for Jiang Xiaoyong's future. After Jiang Xiaoyong graduated, Chiang Ching-kuo did not immediately let him set foot in the political circles, but arranged for him to engage in industry and commerce, laying an economic foundation for Jiang Xiaoyong to enter the political circles. In this way, Jiang Xiaoyong gradually grasped the financial power of the Kuomintang and became a hidden "rich man."
Later, as Chiang Ching-kuo's health grew weaker, Chiang was forced to participate in politics. However, this did not last long. After Chiang Ching-kuo's death in 1988, Chiang Xiaoyong immediately quit the political party and moved his family to Canada to settle down. Eventually, Jiang Xiaoyong also died of cancer on July 1, 1997, at the age of 48.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="45" > the jiang family's three generations of binary stars</h1>
People are always lamenting the unsatisfactory lives of most of Chiang Kai-shek's three grandsons, but what the world does not know is that in fact, the third generation of the Chiang family still has excellent children. That is, the two sons of Chiang Ching-kuo and Zhang Yaruo, one is a doctor of law, a university president, and the other is the chairman of the China Taiwan Business Development Association, which can be said to be the brightest "double star" of the three generations of the Chiang family.
To talk about the love affair between Chiang Ching-kuo and Zhang Yaruo is like "the prince meets true love, but he has no choice but to have a family" in the playbook. Although at the time of the encounter, Zhang Yaruo was already a widow with a second son. But at that time, Zhang Yaruo was only 26 years old, still in a good age, and beautiful, so Chiang Ching-kuo noticed her at first sight. The two quickly fell in love, and in the second year after they were together, Zhang Yaruo gave birth to two sons for Chiang Ching-kuo, Jiang Xiaoyan and Jiang Xiaoci.
However, at that time, Chiang Ching-kuo was in a politically sensitive period on the one hand, and on the other hand, there was a "humble woman" in the family, and it was impossible to give Zhang Yaruo a serious name, so Jiang Xiaoyan and Jiang Xiaoci followed the mother's surname "Zhang" after birth. This made the two brothers Jiang Xiaoyan and Jiang Xiaoci often ridiculed by people, calling them "illegitimate children".
Originally, Chiang Ching-kuo was already preparing for the matter of "recognizing the ancestors and returning to the ancestors", but later, due to the sudden death of Zhang Yaruo, the return of Jiang Xiaoyan and Jiang Xiaoci to their father's surname was shelved, and the two brothers were also sent to their grandmother's house.
In 1949, out of his responsibility as a father, Chiang Ching-kuo wanted to give his two children the best education possible, so he sent them overseas to study.
Jiang Jingguo's wife, Jiang Fangliang, learned of this incident and had been sternly refusing to let Jiang Xiaoyan and Jiang Xiaoci recognize their ancestors and return to the family tree, and enter the Jiang family tree until later, when the two married and had children, they did not use the "Jiang" surname.
In 2004, Jiang Fangliang died at the age of 88. At this time, the biggest obstacle to the two brothers Jiang Xiaoyan and Jiang Xiaoci's recognition of their ancestors and return to the sect also disappeared. However, this "surprise" came too late, and among the two brothers, Jiang Xiaoci had already passed away, leaving only Jiang Xiaoyan still alive.
However, fate is always so much to lose. Jiang Xiaoyan returned to the mainland with the idea of acknowledging his ancestors and returning to the sect, but unfortunately suffered a stroke and was paralyzed while paying tribute to his mother Zhang Yaruo. Therefore, the only surviving son of Chiang Ching-kuo did not really become a "Chiang family member". This past has also been gradually forgotten by people with the precipitation of time.
Chiang Kai-shek's life was full of ups and downs and controversy. The Jiang Family Dynasty that he was bent on building failed to materialize in the end. Even their own children and grandchildren are not allowed to die well. Perhaps Chiang Kai-shek has made too many mistakes in his life, so that all this has its own providence.