Chiang Kai-shek's personality is extremely complicated. Facing the same thing or even the same person, he can show diametrically opposite personality traits. Also facing Sun Yat-sen and Chen Jiongming’s rebellion, Chiang Kai-shek on Yongfeng ship was brave and fearless. In 1922, he was opposed by Sun Yat-sen in his Shanghai apartment and he was disdainful when he married and Song Meiling. rebellious. The same was true for Chen Mingren. Chiang Kai-shek who was downstairs in Huizhou City in 1925 could promote him to battalion commander on the spot, or in 1947, when Chen Mingren’s bloody battle for four and nineteen days, he won a precious respite for Chiang Kai-shek. Dismissed as a member of the army.
Chiang Kai-shek is sometimes calm, sometimes anxious; sometimes gentle, sometimes cruel; sometimes brave, sometimes fragile, it seems to condense all the qualities an individual may have. However, one aspect of his character has never been shown to the world. One is due to his deliberate repression, and the other is that this character can only appear when he gets along with the closest family members. Regarding this point, Qiu Ruxue, the wife of Jiang Weiguo , naturally has the most say. During her later years in the United States to take care of Song Meiling, she talked about these past events many times.
Qiu Ruxue, also known as Jiang Qiuxue and Qiu Ailun, was born in 1934 and is still alive today. She is a Sino-German mixed. Her father's name is Qiu Bingmin and her mother's name is unknown. She is a German. In the 1920s, due to the signing of the "China-Germany Agreement", when the two peoples had the rights to travel, live, receive education, and operate industry and commerce, their lives and property were all under the jurisdiction of the local courts, and China gradually emerged The upsurge of studying in Germany. At that time, a large number of aspiring young people from China went to Germany to study physics, chemistry, mechanics, electrical engineering and medicine. Qiu Bingmin, the adoptive father of Qiu Ruxue, is also one of them.He was studying for a PhD in Engineering in Germany and fell in love with and married a local woman.
Qiu Ruxue's childhood and adolescence were extremely bumpy, which was related to the social background in Germany at the time and also related to her ancestry. In 1918, the German economy was on the verge of collapse. In 1919, the ratio of the German mark to the U.S. dollar was 8.9 marks to 1 U.S. dollar. In January 1920, it fell to 64.8 marks to 1 U.S. dollar. In January 1922, it continued to fall to 191.8 marks to 1 U.S. dollar. In 1923, this figure had become 17,900 marks to 1 U.S. dollar, and on November 15 of that year, this figure had reached 4.2 billion marks to 1 U.S. dollar.
When Qiu Ruxue was born, the German economy improved slightly. However, because Qiu Ruxue can only rely on her mother's salary to support the family, Qiu Ruxue has been suffering from illness and malnutrition for a long time. In 1936, Qiu Ruxue contracted bronchitis, and her parents had no money to help her see a doctor. Later, Qiu Bingmin had no choice but to borrow money from an old classmate to help Qiu Ruxue overcome the illness.
Although the German economy stabilized at that time and the Qiu Ruxue family had not run out of ammunition and food, Germany, as a defeated country in the First World War, was forced to sign the " "The Versailles Contract", this contract delivered a fatal blow to the already devastated Germany, and finally pushed it to a dead end. Because of this contract, Germany lost 65,000 square kilometers of land, a population of 7 million, and the right to use the Saar Coal Mine (the most productive coal mine in Germany at the time). At the same time, the total number of the German armed forces was limited to less than 100,000 (the armed forces were disintegrated), the General Staff was abolished (the military command center was disintegrated), and tanks, armored vehicles and fighters were not allowed to be produced and stored. In the end, the ruthless policies of European countries pushed Hitler and the National Socialist Workers' Party onto the stage of history.
As I said earlier, in the 1930s, the Qiu Ruxue family relied on their mother’s wages to live on. This was caused by the law at that time. After Hitler came to power, he promulgated a series of laws and regulations in response to the situation in Germany at that time. Among them, the "Protection of German Blood and German Honor Act" and the "Imperial Citizenship Act" under the "Nuremberg Act" promulgated on September 15, 1935 are racially discriminatory laws that specifically target non-Germans. In the "Imperial Citizenship Law", the German government targets non-pure German citizens, non-pure foreign citizens of German descent (Qiu Ruxue is in this category), and foreign citizens without German descent (Qiu Bingmin is in this category) , Formulated a large number of discriminatory policies to restrict their activities in the fields of politics, economy, education, medical care, employment, and culture. People in Germany who meet these three types of standards are prohibited from entering most German schools, most German hospitals, and most German industries. Their property details and changes are also strictly monitored.
In this extreme environment, the life of Qiu Ruxue's family is even more difficult. Qiu Bingmin was restricted from leaving the country in 1933 because of descent and identity issues. After he married a German wife, he was severely punished for violating the non-Germanic descent in the "Imperial Citizenship Act" prohibiting marriage (which had not yet been enacted at the time). When Qiu Ruxue was born in 1934, Qiu Bingmin handed in a fine of 1,500 marks to the German government, all of which came from donations from his fellow villagers' association in Germany. Later, Qiu Ruxue and his father were separated from their mother. The father and daughter were finally exhausted. Finally, they were forced to live in a friend's house and move around like a guerrilla warfare.
This situation lasted until 1950. In this year, Qiu Ruxue and his daughter not only found their long-lost mother, but Qiu Bingmin also obtained the right to leave Germany (obtained in June 1945).Therefore, a family of three took a passenger ship from Germany to Hong Kong, then from Hong Kong to Taiwan, and finally settled in Taipei. Because Qiu Bingmin has a high level of education and a doctorate in engineering, it is easy to find a high-paying job. After settling in Taiwan, the family of three finally led a very decent life. It is said that at the time when the living standards of the people in Taiwan were very low, the Qiu family could listen to symphony records imported from Hong Kong every Thursday, and her parents continued to improve Qiu Ruxue's musical literacy and taught her to learn music theory and appreciate classical music.
In 1952, Qiu Ruxue entered university. In 1955, at a ball held at the school, Qiu Ruxue met Jiang Weiguo. At that time, Jiang Weiguo was thirty-nine years old. Two years ago, he lost his beloved wife and Shi Jingyi was single. When he saw Qiu Ruxue at the ball, he was instantly conquered by her beauty, and described her as shocked as a heavenly person, astonished as a heavenly immortal. Since then, he has launched a crazy love offensive against Qiu Ruxue. Although Qiu Ruxue is extremely beautiful, he is from an ordinary family after all. Although Jiang Weiguo was eighteen years older than her at the time, she was already the deputy commander of the army colonel and concurrently the commander of the armored force , and the son of Chiang Kai-shek. Therefore, Qiu Ruxue and Jiang Weiguo soon fell in love.
However, when the Qiu family learned of her love partner, they immediately opposed them getting along. Qiu Bingmin knew that once he had a relationship with the Jiang family, it would only be bad luck. Moreover, Qiu Ruxue is just an extremely ordinary girl, although she looks sweet, but she is ignorant of world affairs, and she has no strategy, ambition, or ambition. Qiu Bingmin worried that she would not be happy after entering Jiang's house. Although Qiu Bingmin obstructed in every possible way, his daughter and Jiang Weiguo are still in love. In the end, Qiu Bingmin had no choice but to send Qiu Ruxue to Japan to study. However, how could Jiang Weiguo, who had long been dreaming, give up? He went to Japan many times to visit Qiu Ruxue, and the two continued to exchange letters. In 1955, the Qiu family finally compromised, and Qiu Ruxue married into the Jiang family as she wished.
After Qiu Ruxue married into Jiang’s family,The biggest challenge is how to get along with Song Meiling. However, because Soong Meiling has a very high emotional intelligence, has affinity, and is very friendly, it is not difficult to get along with her. However, Chiang Kai-shek was different. His character was very complicated. At that time, he was covering the sky with one hand and he was extremely powerful. However, in order to facilitate the understanding of the following text, here is a little mention of Chiang Kai-shek's personality characteristics.
treats his subordinates extremely harshly
Chiang Kai-shek's greatest character is vividly demonstrated in his treatment of his subordinates. He is temperamental, easy to get angry, and often gets angry when he doesn't agree with him. As early as the 1920s, he admitted this characteristic of himself:
[1] (I) is impatient, usually owe respect to people, does not cherish oneself, abandons arrogance, and often has extravagant hopes for people. , And blamed me too sharply, thinking that everyone should treat me as a child and treat me with sincerity, that is, everyone should forgive me for being brutal and considerate of my stupidity. ——"Jiang Jieshi's Letter to Hu Hanmin and Wang Jingwei"
[2] And (I) made insulting words and deeds from time to time, which both hurt feelings and lost friends. ——"Chiang Kai-shek's Letter to Zhang Jingjiang"
In March 1932, Chiang Kai-shek planned to secretly establish the Chinese National Renaissance Agency, informing that he wanted him to become a special agent of 4span _span After the head of the division, Dai Li swelled up and leaked the matter inadvertently. Chiang Kai-shek became furious when he knew it, and called Dai Li to reprimand him and cursed Dai Li for lack of city government. Thereafter, during the assassination of Wang Yaqiao in 1936, the assassination of Chen Lu in 1939, and the assassination of Zhang Xiaolin in 1940,They have repeatedly reprimanded Dai Li for doing things badly. In May 1945, after learning that Zhongtong Xu En had been suspected of intercepting the banknote transport truck from Wuhan Bank of China to the inflatable cushion, Chiang Kai-shek became angrily. It is said that he had cursed Xu Enzeng for two hours and threatened to debase him for a long time. Commoner. At the end of May, Xu En was dismissed by Chiang Kai-shek.
In addition to the military command of the Central Command, Chiang Kai-shek criticized the military generals even more mercilessly. In March 1932, after Chiang Kai-shek's fourth encirclement and suppression failed, because Chen Cheng colleagues added fuel and vinegar, Chiang Kai-shek was furious and accused Chen Cheng. After the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign in 1934, Chiang Kai-shek reprimanded Chen Cheng, saying that he was a boneless man and had no spine to fight. In addition, famous generals such as Wang Yaowu , Huang Wei , Zhang Xueliang , Chen Mingren, etc. have all been repeatedly scolded by Chiang Kai-shek, so I won't go into details here.
Brutality and lack of kindness
Chiang Kai-shek is not only short-tempered, harsh, but also cruel, he lacks kindness and compassion. And carried out a self-analysis:
[1] (I) the disease in the world cares about extremes, so there are friends in life and death, and there is no social entertainment to perfuse ordinary friends. ——"Chiang Kai-shek's Letter to Dai Ji Tao"
[2] Impetuous, impetuous, inadequate in plotting, more than defeated... and even speechless, nothing is unbehaved. —— "Letter from Chiang Kai-shek to Xu Chongzhi"
Examples in this regard are here.On April 9, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek issued the "Wartime Martial Law Regulations," which used a series of camouflage methods to ease tension and public opinion reactions. On the 10th, just as everyone relaxed their vigilance, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly announced an order to clear the party. In the early morning of April 12, hundreds of people, including the green gang, red gang, and secret agents, who were already eager to try, forcibly arrested thousands of cadres, workers, and the masses and framed them. In 1938, for Chiang Kai-shek's so-called resistance to the Japanese army, he did not hesitate to blow up the Yellow River embankment and drowned the Japanese invaders, causing nearly 890,000 ordinary people to drown. Its cruelty is evident. Chiang Kai-shek treated his subordinates and outsiders like this, how did he treat his family?
Treating the service staff around him
When Chiang Kai-shek treats those around him who serve him in the morning and evening, his attitude is kind and emotional. Chu Songqiu, Chiang's secretary, won his appreciation and trust. In October 1954, he was promoted by Chiang Kai-shek as the Chinese Secretary of the President's Attendant. He was mainly responsible for helping Chiang Kai-shek record oral statements, print documents, and deal with foreign affairs. In 1956, Chu Songqiu accidentally ran into Chiang Kai-shek because of a bad mood, which surprised everyone. When everyone thought that Chiang Kai-shek would punish him, Chiang Kai-shek unexpectedly forgave him and sincerely apologized to him. Everyone present was very moved, and since then, he was even more desperate for him.
Note that Chiang Kai-shek is a man of excellent face. Let alone a secretary, he is a general. If he dares to confront Chiang Kai-shek in public, his authority will be weakened. However, Chiang Kai-shek has been able to treat his subordinates with such gentleness and concern. It cannot be said that after decades of self-cultivation, his personal cultivation has improved greatly. Yangmingshan There is no white building, and there is no white reading of Confucius and Mencius books.
Attitude towards other family members
However,What moved Chiang Kai-shek's family the most was his careful treatment of his family. In 1955, Shi Jingyi, the first wife of Jiang Weiguo, died shortly after Jiang Weiguo had just returned from studying in the United States. Chiang Kai-shek is very worried that once his son is in Taiwan, he will be touched by the familiar people and scenery around him all day long, and he will inevitably feel sad. Therefore, he asked Jiang Weiguo to send Jiang Weiguo to the United States again, and waited for Jiang Weiguo to completely relieve the pain in his heart, and then come back.
In his letter to Jiang Weiguo, Chiang Kai-shek not only cared about his life in the United States, but also told him that everything was fine at home and he didn't need to worry too much about it. He just had to take care of himself. Later, before Jiang Weiguo and Qiu Ruxue got married, they learned of her family's many worries, so they asked their father to promise that they would never affect their small family for political reasons. In order to further dispel their worries, Song Meiling also carefully prepared various gifts for them.
As we all know, Jiang Weiguo is not the biological son of Chiang Kai-shek, but the son of Dai Jitao and the Japanese nurse Shigematsu Kaneko. Because of the special circumstances at the time, Dai Jitao passed Jiang Weiguo to Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek entrusted him to his former wife Yao Yecheng to raise him. Therefore, Jiang Weiguo pays extra tribute to Yao Yecheng. After Qiu Ruxue married Jiang Weiguo, she was extremely filial to Yao Yecheng. In this regard, she can be said to have done the best of her kindness.
At the beginning of their marriage, Jiang Weiguo and Qiu Ruxue had a very harmonious relationship. However, the contradiction between their personalities gradually became prominent about ten years after their marriage. First of all, Jiang Weiguo worked too hard and rarely went home. Qiu Ruxue's long-term single life gradually made Qiu Ruxue dissatisfied. Secondly, Jiang Weiguo's character is more traditional and stable, with typical oriental characteristics. Qiu Ruxue is a Chinese-German hybrid, half of her ancestry has Western characteristics. For example, when she reached middle age, her personality became more and more active and she often attended various social dance parties. Jiang Weiguo criticized this.As a result, the contradiction between the two continues to intensify. Finally, in the 1960s, Qiu Ruxue’s brother Qiu Tingliang was sentenced to six years in prison by Jiang Jingguo’s law enforcement agency for breaking the law, but Jiang Weiguo did not say a word. Qiu Ruxue complained about this. All the above reasons have caused the feelings of the husband and wife to become more and more incompatible. Finally, in the early 1970s, the two began to separate in secret.
Even so, Soong Meiling still stood on the side of Qiu Ruxue, considering her feelings everywhere. At that time, Jiang Weiguo had a great influence, and the marriage relationship was naturally extremely important. If the outside world is informed of the discord between his marriage and his wife, it will have a very bad effect. In this case, separation and divorce are absolutely not allowed. But in order to make Qiu Ruxue feel better, Song Meiling agreed to separate the two after weighing the balance, which moved Qiu Ruxue very much.
Later, Song Meiling went to the United States to live, hoping that Qiu Ruxue could be with her for a long time. The filial Qiu Ruxue again agreed to this request and went to the United States with Song Meiling. In the United States, she took care of Song Meiling in every possible way. Not only took care of her in daily life, but also became Song Meiling's best friend and talker in her later years. As we all know, a figure like Soong Meiling lives in a foreign country, and the situation is very different from ordinary people. She often has to endure the unbearable pain of ordinary people. But the filial Qiu Ruxue has been doing her best to help her share all kinds of pressure.
Although she has been separated from Jiang Weiguo for many years, she still misses Jiang Weiguo very much in her heart. On the eve of Jiang Weiguo's death, Qiu Ruxue had mixed feelings after learning about it, and immediately rushed back desperately, and finally saw Jiang Weiguo for the last time and took care of him until the last moment in his life. I have to say that Qiu Ruxue is an extremely remarkable woman. She shines the light of maternal love throughout her life, and she has also taken on the responsibilities she should bear all her life.
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