Chapter 21 Chapter 4 Infighting Experts

Section 1 Jiang Song Political Marriage Chen Jieru recalled in her memoirs how Chiang Kai-shek, who vowed to love her, had a showdown with her after a 24-hour meeting with Song Ailing, wife of Kong Xiangxi, in Jiujiang, Jiangxi: Mrs. Kong returned to Hankou by herself.After Jieshi came home, he told me what had happened. He said, "I have never hidden any of my secrets from you, and of course I won't now, especially now that I need your help. Madam Kong told me : You are a rising star. Do you want your star to fall as fast as it rose? Do you want the Communists to sweep you out of the house according to their treacherous conspiracy? Today, Borodin’s will I want to accept your power and hand it over to General Galen. You will be wiped out by them, but it will be sooner or later. There is no doubt about it. Are you timid to fight and accept defeat obediently? I want to tell you honestly: You are single-handedly fighting for the goal of the Kuomintang. I can say that although you have the spirit, you do not have enough character to promote your work. However, spirit is not everything. This is a heavy responsibility to liberate and rebuild China and formulate a national constitution. , requires a great deal of influence, money, character and prestige. As things stand, you have none of these. You are surrounded by incompetent cowards whose interests are nothing but self-interest. What they seek Yes, it is nothing more than your own self-interest, not your purpose. You should know that these are the truth. However, the situation is not hopeless. I am willing to make a deal with you. It is this: I not only want to do what you want, Encourage my younger brother Ziwen to break away from the Hankow government, and go further; he and I will try our best to call on the leading bankers in Shanghai to support you with the necessary funds to purchase the arms you need, so that We have to continue the Northern Expedition. We have all the connections and contacts. You know that you will not receive any more funds or support from Hankou. In exchange, you must agree to marry my sister Meiling, and you must also agree to the Nanjing government. If it is established, you will appoint my husband Kong Xiangxi as the Cabinet Secretary and my younger brother Ziwen as your Minister of Finance."

Jieshi looked at me and said, "I'm at the end of my rope. She offered a tough quid pro quo, but what she said made sense. I can't expect any more money, arms, or supplies from Hankow, so if I'm going to continue To carry out my plan to unify China, her proposal is the only way out. I beg you to help me now, and I beg you not to object. True love is measured by how much sacrifice a person is willing to make!" "What do you want me to do?" I asked. "Avoid five years, let me marry Song Meiling, and get the assistance needed to ignore Hankou and continue the Northern Expedition. This is just a political marriage." )

As a woman, Chen Jieru should be the most unforgettable and unforgettable moment in her life. She is not likely to make mistakes in memory, let alone lie, but it is still unavoidable to be highly naive and wishful thinking, thinking that what Chiang Kai-shek said is from the heart To tell the truth, I didn't feel that my husband had already moved on, so I hated the Song sisters for taking their husbands far more than complaining about my husband's fickleness.She forgot that when he was in Guangzhou earlier, Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly asked her to curry favor with the Sun family and the Song family, how nervous and excited Chiang Kai-shek was when Madam Kong invited her to dinner, and how happy Chiang Kai-shek was when he received Song Meiling's reply. I even forgot what Chiang Kai-shek told her: "I want to connect the three families of Sun, Song, and Jiang closely, and get closer and closer." Song Meiling and Chiang Kai-shek immediately became Sun Yat-sen's in-laws, and Song Qingling's brother-in-law, Song Ziwen, who was in charge of finance in Wuhan, was his brother-in-law.Didn't the relationship between Sun, Song, and Jiang get closer immediately?Will Chiang Kai-shek not dream of it?Is it still necessary for Soong Ailing to force him to accept this as a condition?Chen Jieru was thinking about Soong Meiling's affection for her husband, but she ignored her husband's "making you interested"!

Look at the situation at that time.Chiang Kai-shek's disobedience to the central government in Nanchang, the so-called "star of tomorrow" is still unknown, but the current urgent need is that because of his disobedience, Song Ziwen, the god of wealth of the central government in Wuhan, seized his arms and military pay.If the Song family is not brought over, it will be impossible to compete with Wuhan, let alone seek the intention of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to fulfill their own ambitions.Therefore, Jiang asked for Song, far more than Song asked for Jiang.Chiang Kai-shek said that Soong Ailing "offered very vicious terms of exchange", but let's take a closer look at these conditions. The Soong family "encouraged Soong Ziwen to leave the Hankou government", called on Shanghai capitalists to donate money to buy arms for him, and married his sister Meiling to him in exchange for With Kong Xiangxi as Ge Kui and Song Ziwen as Minister of Finance, two empty promises, let alone Song Ziwen was already the Minister of Finance of the Wuhan government at that time, how could he take a fancy to the yet-to-be-established Minister of Finance of the Nanjing government?Soong Ailing sent gold and beauties to her door in exchange for two empty checks from Chiang Kai-shek. How can there be such a beautiful thing in the world?What's more, Song Ailing is a well-known shrewd woman, and Chiang Kai-shek also said that these conditions are "vicious", which is obviously a lie.He relayed Song Ailing's words to Chen Jieru, most of which were his own wishful thinking.For personal power and ambition, he tried his best to pursue Song Meiling, and ruthlessly asked Chen Jieru to "avoid".The most interesting thing is that he said to Chen Jieru: "True love is measured by how much sacrifice a person is willing to make." Where is his own "sacrifice"?

Historian Tang Degang pointed out in the long preface to the full translation of "Chen Jieru's Memoirs" that from the historical perspective of the "transition period", it is common for intellectual youths who have received a new type of education to abandon their wives and empathize with each other for the sake of fashion and "revolution". , can only be said to be the tragedy of the times.He said: Let’s start with the father of the nation, how many dignitaries of the party and state have received new-style education without losing their old-style wives?Let’s take the entire group of foreign students with Geng’s money as an example. My teacher, Mr. Hu Shizhi, is the only one who can bring the little-footed wives from the countryside to the metropolis to live together.Those literati who talk big and help the weak and the poor, such as ××, such as ×××, such as ×××, such as ×××…all of them are heartless men who abandon their old wives like a bag.Most of their formula for the marriage revolution is to abandon their old wives in the countryside, find a literate girl with big feet, and marry a new lover in the city.Jiang Gong abandoned the Mao family in Fenghua in his early years and married the Chen family in Shanghai.This was a common phenomenon at the time.Unfortunately for women.A revolutionary man is not responsible enough.The times are like this! How many Hu Shi in the world can be extraordinary?

Chiang Kai-shek met Soong Meiling, who was of a magnificent and distinguished family background, then abandoned the Chen family in Nanchang, and married the Song family in Shanghai. It seemed to be the fashion at that time, and there is nothing wrong with it, but the problem is not just the Eastern style of empathy or the Western style of divorce. marry.The actions Chiang Kai-shek took were first to deny the original marriage contract with Chen Jieru in disregard of the testimony of the witnesses, denying that she was the wife that the Ming media was marrying, and then coercing her to go abroad; cheating her to only "leave for five years", and finally trying to destroy Jiang Chen's marriage from history. trace.Such behavior reveals his domineering character.Chen Jieru has lived with him for seven years, and he is the most qualified to reveal his violent bad temper. Since then, his entourage has also revealed the rough look of scolding "Niang Xipi". Foreigners can also see his extreme impulsiveness and tendency to go to extremes personality. (See Kasanin, China in the Twenteis, p. 236) Chiang Kai-shek also deliberately sent the letter to Ailing and Meiling on March 19, 1927 to Chen Jieru after reading it, so that she would retreat in spite of the difficulties.When she saw Jiang's letter to Soong Meiling, she said: "Because I am still in Jiangxi, you feel that it is inconvenient to come to meet me (because of my wife). But I have left Jiangxi now, so you don't have to keep this kind of embarrassment." Uneasy doubts." (The second volume of the complete translation of "Chen Jieru's Memoirs", page 351) How can I feel so bad?It can be seen that apart from violent emotions, Chiang Kai-shek also has a Machiavelli-like ruthlessness, providing a concrete example of unscrupulous means to achieve his goals.

After Bai Chongxi settled in the southeast, Chiang Kai-shek went from Jiangxi to Beijing and Shanghai and became a military strongman. He purged the party on April 12 and killed wantonly. He also used political threats to force Shanghai Bank of China Zhang Jiaao to "donate" 10 million yuan in military expenses (see Yang Tianshi's "Republic of China" "Anecdotes", pages 172-175), show off the prestige of a strong man.August was defeated and had no choice but to retire, but everything was properly arranged, and he went to the field to go on vacation together, accompanied by two hundred bodyguards, and his power has not diminished.It can be seen from a love letter that Chiang Kai-shek also used the "loneliness" after leaving the field to win Song Meiling's heart, and said that he had fallen in love with Song Ziwen and Song Qingling when he was in Guangzhou. The one I admire is you Song Meiling. (See Crozier, The Man Who Lost China, p. 116) Chinese and foreign sources have disclosed that Song Ziwen did not approve of marriage at the beginning, but Ailing was the most active, while Meiling was already thirty years old and was still waiting for her husband. Liu Jiwen was engaged, but he was far less majestic than Chiang Kai-shek, and he agreed.Jiang Song's engagement was announced by Ai Ling to relatives and friends at the Confucian Mansion in Shanghai on September 16.Ten days later, Jiang Fu revealed to a reporter from Shanghai's "Zi Lin Xi Bao" that he came to Shanghai "to take care of personal affairs and plan to marry Soong Mei-ling." It was to marry Chen Jieru.He also said: "Five years ago, Yu often stayed at Premier Sun's office in Guangzhou, so I met Ms. Song and thought that if I wanted a partner, I should be a human being." Less than a year after their marriage, Chen Lifu also admitted in his memoirs that Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling had secretly communicated with Song Meiling, calling it a "long-distance race of love" (see "Chen Lifu Reveals Political Secrets of the Past Sixty Years for the First Time") ", page 23), which fully proves that Chen Jieru's feelings have been deceived without knowing it.The most interesting thing is that Chiang Kai-shek said to the reporter that "this kind of marriage is not a political marriage. It is a coincidence that everyone is engaged in a political career."Apparently, at the request of the Song family, Chiang Kai-shek serialized "Family Affairs Announcement" in the "Republic of China Daily" for three days from September 28 as follows:

Comrades, there are many letters and doubts about Zhongzheng's family affairs. Because they have not been answered in time, I would like to inform you as follows: In the tenth year of the Republic of China, Mao's first wife and Zhongzheng formally divorced. .Now apart from the two sons in the family, there is no wife or daughter. I am afraid that the rumors will be untrue and the capital will be confused. More formally denied the marriage contract with Chen Jieru, and did not even mention the name at all, but everyone who followed Chiang Kai-shek's revolution knew that Mrs. Chiang or Mrs. Chiang from 1921 to 1927 was Chen Jieru, and even Chiang and Li Zongren's In the Lanpu, there is also the name of his wife Chen Jieru, which was wiped out like this! And Chen Jieru, who had been forced to go abroad at that time, was called Mrs. Jiang by foreigners.Chiang Kai-shek actually claimed that his political opponents fabricated his rumors! The true and false Madam Chiang and how many wives Chiang Kai-shek has really taught the reporter of the "New York Times" to be dumbfounded.

After it was published in the newspaper, Chiang Kai-shek took his fiancée Song Meiling, brother-in-law Song Ziwen, and a large number of entourages from Shanghai to Nagasaki, Japan on September 29.A group of people visited Unzen, Nara, Kobe, Yumoto, Atami, Tokyo and other places.After arriving in Kobe, I went to Arima Hot Springs to visit Mrs. Song Tai, who was suffering from illness, and got her promise to marry.When Chiang Kai-shek was in Japan, he suddenly said that he would stay for half a year, and suddenly said that he would go to Europe and the United States.He felt that the time for reinstatement had come, and he left Japan and returned to China on November 8.

After returning to Shanghai, I was actively preparing for the wedding. On November 26, the following wedding announcement was posted: Chiang Kai-shek is running for the revolution, galloping with troops and horses for many years, never letting go of the private interests of the family... I am planning to marry Ms. Song in Shanghai on December 1. I plan to save the wedding expenses, invite friends to feast, and launch the Abandoned Military Academy... I want to To commemorate the marriage of Chung Cheng and Ms. Song. (Song Ping, "The Life of Chiang Kai-shek", p. 205) The wonder of this announcement can be described as "bragging without making drafts" and "not letting go of a family"?Already had two wives and one concubine.What's even better is to "initiate the Abandoned Military Academy". After they got married, the Abandoned Military Academy has nothing to do with it, but the wars continue and the Chinese people have no peace.

The wedding on December 1st had two ceremonies. First, relatives and friends of the Song family gathered in the Song residence to hold a Christian religious ceremony.Admiral Mark Bristol, Admiral of the US Fleet in Shanghai, also attended the ceremony.Sterling Seagrave (Sterling Seagrave) said in his "Song Family Dynasty" that the presiding pastor's surname is Jiang, that is, Jiang Changchuan, the pastor of the Methodist Church. Unsatisfied with her marital status, she refused to preside over it, so Dr. Yu Rizhang, the director-general of the National Association of the Chinese YMCA, had to preside. After the ceremony, there was a grand wedding at the Majestic Hotel on the Bund. In the grand ballroom of the luxurious hotel, there were more than 1,300 guests. Many round tables were filled with flowers, and there were bells made of flowers.A huge portrait of Sun Yat-sen, the party flag in the blue sky and white sun, and a huge happy character are hung in the auditorium.The Belarusian band sat on the other side of the auditorium, and it started playing at 4:15 p.m. Cai Yuanpei, who presided over the wedding, walked to the portrait of Sun Yat-sen. Ministers from more than a dozen countries arrived one by one, and the representative of the United States was still Rear Admiral Bristol. .Du Yuesheng was also among the guests. When Kong Xiangxi appeared with the 40-year-old groom Chiang Kai-shek, dressed in a neat suit, it caused a commotion.Then the guests were seated, the movie engine started, and the Belarusian band played Mendelssohn's tune. The 30-year-old bride Soong Meiling pretended to be 27, dressed in a white gauze dress, holding Soong Ziwen in her hand, and stepped forward slowly on the red carpet.Walking behind were four bridesmaids in pink gowns. In front of Sun Yat-sen's holy statue, Meiling walked to Chiang Kai-shek's side, and then the bride and groom bowed to the portrait and the national flag.At this moment, the sound of cameras clicking continuously.Then Cai Yuanpei read out the marriage certificate. After the reading, the newlyweds used their seals, and the newlyweds bowed to each other, to the officiant, witnesses and all the guests. , singing "Oh! Promise Me" (Oh! Promise Me).Finally, the wedding ended with thunderous applause. That night, with more than 200 bodyguards, they drove to Moganshan for their honeymoon. The next day, the "New York Times" published the news of Jiang Song's marriage on the first page, and three English-language newspapers in Shanghai also rushed to report, calling it the most prominent wedding in recent years for Chinese people. More than one million yuan, this wedding itself is enough to show that the commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army has become very capitalist and has compromised with reality. American journalist Snow once interviewed Soong Ching Ling to talk about this marriage. Ching Ling believed that the two were "opportunistic" at first, but it should be true that there is more or less love after marriage.Even in public, Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling called each other "darling".However, in any case, the political color of the Jiang-Song marriage is still very strong, especially for Jiang.For Soong Meiling, Jiang Zhi's character and knowledge were not enough, but he was so powerful that he would soon be the head of a country, and he would be famous for decades, which was enough to meet her needs.As for Chiang Kai-shek, after marrying Song, he immediately turned Sun Yat-sen into his brother-in-law, from a "disciple" to a "brother", which added a layer of "nepotism" to the revolutionary legal system and made him more able to regard "dead Zhongshan" as his own. "Living talisman" to command the world.Then through Soong Meiling, not only the Minister of Finance Soong Ziwen was won over, but also the relationship with the Americans.However, the relationship between the United States is often over-exaggerated, and it is believed that Chiang has been linked with the US emperor since then.How could the Song family have such a great influence in American politics?It's just communication in interpersonal relationship. Of course, due to the intermediary of the pro-American Soong brothers and sisters, the influence of the United States and Americans on Chiang's regime is increasing day by day.Many people also pointed out that Song Meiling had two major influences on Chiang Kai-shek: one was to increase Chiang's international knowledge and expand his limited knowledge. Going, the knowledge enhancement is also quite limited.The second is to make Chiang a Christian and was baptized in 1928, but baptism was originally one of the conditions for marriage. We doubt that Chiang Kai-shek is a true Christian, and even more doubt that he has completely abandoned his mother's Buddhism and folk religion. Cult belief.According to his confidant Zhang Minghao's recollection in the article "Chiang Kai-shek at Xikou", it is clearly stated that Chiang Kai-shek was still very "believing in the divine way and superstitious in yin and yang feng shui" in 1928, the year when he believed in Christianity.Zhang Minghao recalled: There is an "ancestral hall" in the old house of Chiang Kai-shek, and the new ancestral hall of the Chiang family was rebuilt with funds. Ten buildings were built on both sides of the ancestral hall as the residences of the family members of the Wuling school staff and their close relatives. On the outer door of the ancestral hall.He not only likes to make friends with monks, but also believes in Shinto and superstitious yin and yang feng shui.In 1928, when Jiang Kai and Song Meiling returned home, they went to have a picnic on Xuedou Mountain.When Jiang arrived at the Yintan Temple, he walked into the main hall of the Dragon King statue, bowed to the Dragon King, and chanted something, as if he was praying silently.According to the situation over the years, whenever the current situation was turbulent and he had to make decisions to deal with it, he would go home and live in the cemetery, Xuedou Temple, or Miaogao Terrace.He is definitely not traveling in the mountains and rivers, but silently praying for the blessings of his ancestors and gods, or conspiring with his cronies, and regards this place as a place for "Longzhong decision-making". Compared with Chiang Kai-shek's whereabouts in Buddhist temples such as Xuedou Temple for many years, and even his relationship with some Buddhist masters and mages in his life, Zhang Minghao's memories are all credible. It's not over! During Chiang Kai-shek's life, his relationship with some Catholic bishops, priests, etc. was also extraordinary.The most interesting thing is that there is such a paragraph in Chiang Ching-kuo's "Journal of Keeping Father's Soul": My father fell ill in the autumn of 1961, and was mostly recuperating thereafter. No matter what the condition was, my father was always recuperating peacefully, not restless or irritable. With this cultivation, he was able to overcome the illness.When he recovered from the disease, he asked his son to hang the statue of the Virgin Mary that he usually wears on his father's chest, and recite Tang poems, and sometimes, after dinner, he recites Daxue and Zhongyong.My father has devoted his life to the country, he has no selfish thoughts, and everything is for the public. This is what I should learn and practice. The "Statue of the Madonna that is often worn" mentioned in Jiang Jingguo's article is really interesting! Isn't the statue of the Virgin Mary just a thing of Catholicism? It can be seen from this that Chiang Kai-shek is by no means a believer who only believes in Christianity. He believes in the gods of the past and present. As for Chiang Kai-shek's "will" dated March 29, 1975, which stated that he "since Yu Shufa, he followed the revolution of the Prime Minister, and always regarded himself as Jesus Christ and the Prime Minister's believer", Li Ao wrote in "Where is Chiang Kai-shek?" Seeing Sun Yat-sen every year? "("Qianqiu Commentary" fifty-first issue) in the textual research, it is found that the words in Chiang Kai-shek's "will" are completely inconsistent with the facts. The statement in the "will" that he regarded himself as a follower of Jesus Christ when he "tied his hair" is also inconsistent with the facts. However, no matter when he believed in religion, true or false, as soon as he was baptized and spread out, he immediately made political capital in the Western world, especially in the United States, making Uncle Sam very famous although he was not "of the same species" but "of the same language". Henn Luce, the boss of "Time Magazine", praised Chiang Kai-shek all his life, so there is a reason for it.In short, Jiang and Song got married and got what they needed, and everyone was happy.