"Kong Congzi Juwei" has a saying: "If there is this father, there is this son, and it is humane." What kind of father, there will be what kind of son.
The origin of family learning and teaching by words and deeds, the influence of father on a person is huge.
Today, let's take a look at Chiang Kai-shek's father, Jiang Zhaocong. From his life, let's see how he influenced Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang Jieshi and Chiang Ching-kuo and their sons look at Xikou.
In 1942, "the second rich generation" Jiang Zhaocong was born into a wealthy businessman family in Xikou, Zhejiang Province. Jiang Zhaocong, who looked at his father's business every day, was very business-minded since he was a child.
Jiang Zhaocong's father, Jiang Yubiao, is a rare capable man in eight villages. He is very good at business, medicine, and dance.
But no matter how capable a person is, it is difficult to fight against the current situation.
Just when the young Jiang Zhaocong was immersed in the infinite happiness brought by his identity as a "rich second generation", the sudden rise of the "Taiping Army" caused the Jiang family's Yutai Salt Shop to suffer an unprecedented loss.
"The house leaked and it rained overnight", the sequelae brought by the rise of the "Taiping Army" have not yet dissipated, and the Yutai Salt Shop suffered two consecutive fires.
was burned, made and burned, and the Jiang family's family was basically tossed upside down.
"From thrift to luxury is easy, from luxury to thrift is difficult." Suddenly from a wealthy family that was rich and well-fed, to a poor portal that lacked food and clothing, the old and young Jiang family lived It can be described as very difficult.
They pawn valuable items that they sell, and spend it by breaking a piece of money in half.
But enduring poverty without changing the status quo has never been Jiang Yubiao's practice.
Jiang Yubiao took his son Jiang Zhaocong to sell salt and rice, while walking the streets and alleys to practice medicine. They lived frugally, accumulated money, and looked forward to the day when they would make a comeback.
"The hard work pays off." In just a few years, they built a new store on the original site of the store that had been burned down.
Although the name of the store is still called Yutai Salt Shop, the storefront is much larger than the original one, and the business is much better than the original one.
"Poverty is in a busy city and no one asks, and richness has distant relatives in the mountains." When the Jiang family was disappointed, relatives and friends were afraid to avoid it; now they are proud, and everyone is doing their best to flatter, lest the Jiang family forget themselves kinship with them.
Ups and downs, stumbles, this experience of becoming rich and poor, not only dyed Jiang Yubiao's hair white, but also made Jiang Zhaocong in his teens become much more sophisticated than his peers.
After studying with his father and doing business for a few years, Jiang Zhaocong, in his early twenties, took over the Yutai Salt Shop from his father.
Jiang Zhaocong is more shrewd and capable than his father, Jiang Yubiao, and has more skill.
Because Jiang Xian, the ancestor of the Jiang family, served as the salt official of Siming more than a thousand years ago, and the salt officials at that time can be hereditary, so Jiang Zhaocong deliberately hung a signboard of "Salt Official" in the Yutai Salt Shop , indicating that Yutai Salt Shop is the only "Salt Guan Monopoly" store in Fenghua.
Don't tell me, the local people really eat Jiang Zhaocong's set. Everyone thinks that the "official salt" of Yutai Salt Shop is officially certified. Therefore, their business is much better than their competitors.
Although the business of the salt specialty store is getting better and better, the ambitious Jiang Zhaocong is not satisfied with the salt business only.
Later, Jiang Zhaocong greatly expanded the business of Yanpu, not only selling salt, rice, noodles, oil, but also tea, lime and so on.
The business is getting bigger and bigger, and Jiang Zhaocong is getting older.
Since taking over Yutai Salt Shop, Jiang Zhaocong has devoted himself to business. Young and strong, he has long forgotten the love of his sons and daughters.
However, Jiang Zhaocong was not in a hurry to start a family, but his father was in a hurry to hug his grandson. Seeing other people's grandsons running all over the place, his own son, who was almost 30 years old, was still alone.
But no matter how Jiang Yubiao persuaded him and how he described the beauty of his wife and children on the hot kang head, the stubborn Jiang Zhaocong was unmoved, and he was still busy with his business day and night.
The days of Jiang's family have undergone earth-shaking changes under the busyness of Jiang Zhaocong.
The previously sold fields have been bought back by Jiang Zhaocong; the pawned items have also been redeemed by Jiang Zhaocong. In addition, he also expanded the storefront of Yanpu, and renovated his house to be luxurious and high-end at a high price.
This year, Jiang Zhaocong is thirty years old. With a successful career, he began to think about the major events of his life at this time.
A man with a successful career and a lot of money will never worry about finding a daughter-in-law in any era. Soon, Jiang Zhaocong married the Xu family of Shangbai Village on Wuli Road, Lixikou Town.
Because the Jiang family is a wealthy and powerful family in the area, their wedding was a sensation throughout Xikou.
After getting married, Mrs. Xu gave birth to a daughter and then a son. Jiang Zhaocong, who has both sons and daughters, is delighted every day.
However, he is not satisfied with the happiness in front of him, nor is he satisfied with just being a prominent figure in Xikou Town.
In addition to doing a good job in business, Jiang Zhaocong also relies on the advantage that he has read books for 8 years and is relatively well-off in officialdom and shopping malls, and makes a living in litigation.
"The snipe and the clam compete, and the fisherman wins."After a few years, Jiang Zhaocong has not only made a lot of money, but his fame has grown like a day, and everyone who sees him calls him "Guan Gongtang."
The status of "Guan Gongtang" not only satisfies Jiang Zhaocong's desire for fame and power, but also satisfies his vanity to a large extent.
However, although everyone shouted "Guan Gongtang" with a smile on their faces in front of people, behind the scenes they called Jiang Zhaocong, who was trying to make money in every lawsuit, as "the eel at the port".
Fenghua people often use the term "eel at the pier" to describe a person who is slick and mean and good at digging.
This is because the eel is easy to catch in the cave, but difficult to catch once it swims to the pier. This is very similar to Jiang Zhaocong, who is committed to benefiting himself and not letting others take his share. Therefore, in everyone's opinion, Jiang Zhaocong is well-deserved for the nickname "Eel at the Pier".
The winner in life, Jiang Zhaocong, is very proud of him both in officialdom and in shopping malls. This is inseparable from the fact that he has a capable and virtuous inner helper behind him. However, when he was proud of the spring breeze, he did not usher in the Chang'an flowers on both sides of the strait, but ushered in the sad news that his wife Xu Shi was seriously ill and unfortunately passed away.
Xu married into the Jiang family for 10 years, and gave birth to a son, Jiang Jieqing, and a daughter, Jiang Ruichun. She and Jiang Zhaocong were in love from beginning to end. Her departure made Jiang Zhaocong very painful.
Jiang Jieqing
Jiang Jieqing
Jiang Zhaocong, who has a great career, although he misses his ex-wife very much, but his family is a mess, with elderly parents on top, young children on the bottom, and Yutai Salt Shop, so he must find another home for this family as soon as possible. a new hostess.
After searching for a while, Jiang Zhaocong chose the daughter of Sun Zhaoshui, the owner of the "Yongxing Salt Hotel" in Xiaowangmiao Town.
The Sun family and the Jiang family are both engaged in business, and their family business and reputation are comparable to each other.
After marriage, Jiang and Sun are also friends, you respect and I love. But unfortunately, less than two years after Sun passed away, he was also seriously ill and passed away suddenly.
Two wives died one after another. For a time, Jiang Zhaocong was regarded as a widower who "kept his wife". The business of Yutai Salt Shop was also affected.
"The wall is pushed down by everyone, and the drum is broken by thousands of people." The business is not good, and there are more people who speak sarcastically. Those who had suffered and suffered from Jiang Zhaocong, even in front of him, pretended to care about him and said: "You, your life is tough, you have killed two wives in a row, I think in order to avoid killing the third one. A wife, don't marry again, just raise the two dolls with peace of mind."
These words that seem to be good for Jiang Zhaocong are like steel knives, piercing the heart of the strong Jiang Zhaocong. He listened to these kinds of words a lot, and he gradually thought that he was the "wife", and at the same time, he planned not to continue.
However, what Jiang Zhaocong did not expect was that there was a woman named Wang Caiyu in Gezhu Village, more than 50 miles away from Xikou.
And this Wang Caiyu later gave birth to a son named Chiang Kai-shek for him.
Wang Caiyu was born into a poor peasant family. But Wang Caiyu's two younger brothers didn't look like they came out of the same mother's womb.
When Wang Caiyu was 16 years old, her family made a marriage for her. The man saw Wang Caiyu's good character, so he brought a generous betrothal gift to the Wang family.
But what I didn't expect was that the two younger brothers came up with the idea of this betrothal gift. One wanted to use it for gambling, the other wanted to squander it, while Wang Caiyu's father was trying to snatch the betrothal gift from these two failed sons. , When the face was red and the neck was thick, he didn't take a breath, fell to the ground and died suddenly.
After her father died, Wang Caiyu postponed her wedding on the grounds of mourning.
put her marriage on hold, but Wang Caiyu worried about the marriage of her two younger brothers.
Wang Caiyu took the lead and mortgaged the few acres of fertile farmland in the family, and worked day and night as a female celebrity to exchange money, collecting gifts for the two younger brothers. After they were both married, Wang Caiyu was repeatedly urged by her husband's family to get married.
What Wang Caiyu didn't expect was that just after he got out of the fire pit, he jumped into another abyss. His husband and his two younger brothers had one virtue, and they were both irresponsible and irritable masters. The difference between
and Wang Caiyu's two younger brothers is that her husband not only has a bad temper, but also has a bad health.
After doing all kinds of abuse and making things difficult for Wang Caiyu, on a winter night with high black wind and cold wind, his husband accidentally fell from the bridge into the freezing water on his way home after being drunk. , After going home, he lay down for a day and a night, and died.
If you don't commit suicide, you won't die, but Wang Caiyu's in-laws don't think that their son is committed to death, but they think that he was killed by Wang Caiyu.
Xikou
Wang Caiyu, carrying the notoriety of "broom star", returned to her parents' home with a haggard face. But what she didn't expect was that she was kicked out by her two younger brothers.
It was she who helped her two younger brothers become a family, but they made her unable to return home.
In desperation, her mother took Wang Caiyu to the Jinzhu Nunnery where she often burned incense and worshipped Buddha, and settled her here to lead her practice.
In the days of Jinzhuan, the peaceful and indifferent Wang Caiyu, who had a turbulent life, was even ready to die alone here.
But what I didn't expect was that on a spring day when a hundred flowers were blooming, my mother brought one to Wang Caiyu, which made her move the news of starting a new life idea.
"Your cousin, who worked as a cashier at Yutai Salt Shop, introduced you to someone, not someone else, but the shopkeeper of Yutai Salt Shop." Wang Caiyu's mother lowered her voice and said to Wang Caiyu with hope.
As soon as she heard that the person was the owner, Wang Caiyu shook her head. She did not agree.
Until his mother mentioned to him that Jiang Zhaocong had died of two daughters-in-law, he was often told behind his back that he had rejected his wife, so it was very painful that Wang Caiyu felt that this person had a fate with him.
Coupled with the emotional persuasion of her mother's nose and tears, the flame of love in Wang Caiyu's heart gradually radiated a faint light.
Just like that, 23-year-old Wang Caiyu and 45-year-old Jiang Zhaocong got married through the matchmaking of Yutai Salt Shop.
After marriage, Wang Caiyu had a very strong stomach and gave birth to 4 children for the Jiang family. The eldest is a daughter and the second is Chiang Kai-shek.
In his early years, Jiang Zhaocong had adopted his son Jiang Jieqing, born by his first wife Xu Shi, to his eldest brother because his eldest brother had no son. In addition, after Xu Shi's death, Jiang Jieqing and his grandmother's family got very close, and gradually became estranged from the Jiang family. Therefore, Jiang Zhaocong's eldest son is actually Chiang Kai-shek.
The eldest son who will inherit the great cause of the Chiang family in the future, Jiang Zhaocong has high expectations for Chiang Kai-shek.
has high expectations for him and loves him a lot. Jiang Zhaocong didn't seem to care enough for Chiang Kai-shek, but when the water was full, it overflowed. If this love was given too much, it would turn into doting.
Chiang Kai-shek did not scold him for sabotage at home; Jiang Zhaocong did not scold him for a fight with his friends...
After a long time, the stubborn Chiang Kai-shek became more and more pampered and arrogant.
html Chiang Kai-shek before the age of 08 can basically be said to have grown up in a honeypot. However, at the age of 8, Chiang Kai-shek's fate has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Wang Caiyu and Chiang Kai-shek
In 1895, Jiang Zhaocong died of illness at the age of 53. Chiang Kai-shek was just 8 years old this year.
As soon as Jiang Zhaocong left, his eldest son, Jiang Jieqing, began to plan to embezzle the family property and strongly demanded the separation of the family.
In the end, Jiang Jieqing separated the Yutai Salt Shop, leaving only three rooms for Wang Caiyu's mother and son, and a few acres of farmland with little rent.
This separation is obviously unfair, but Wang Caiyu's orphan and widow mother do not have the capital and ability to compete with Jiang Jieqing, so they can only choose to swallow it up.
If it is said that before the age of 8, it was Jiang Zhaocong who brought Chiang Kai-shek to taste the sweetness of the world, then he left without explaining what happened behind him, which made Wang Caiyu's mother and son suffer, then Jiang Zhaocong cruelly left Chiang Kai-shek alone to taste the world of bitterness.
Although Jiang Zhaocong has only accompanied Chiang Kai-shek for a short period of 8 years, his behavior, words and deeds have influenced Chiang Kai-shek for a lifetime.
