As we all know, Chiang Kai-shek has two sons, their eldest sons are Chiang Ching-kuo and their second sons Chiang Wei-kuo . Chiang Kai-shek has high hopes for his two sons, hoping that they can stand out and become a pillar of talent.
When the children were young, Chiang Kai-shek liked his second son Jiang Wei-kuo even more, and wrote in his diary many times: "The Jing'er is pitiful, and Wei-kuo is cute."
Jiang Wei-kuo
However, surprisingly, in the second half of his life, Jiang Wei-kuo, who was once favored, broke away from Taiwan's politics early, and even promoted to the rank of general, he needed the help of his mother Soong Mei-ling .
In 1997, Jiang Weiguo died of illness. Soong Mei-ling, the mistress of the Jiang family, came back from the United States for funerals. After seeing the huge debt left by her second son Jiang Weiguo, Soong Mei-ling fell completely silent. She said with a complicated expression: "You can forgive the evils you do in heaven, but you can't survive the evils you do in yourself."
So, why did Jiang Weiguo owe a large amount of debt? What does Soong Mei-ling mean?
Chiang Kai-shek
personal life experience, two truths
Chiang Kai-shek's second son, Jiang Wei-kuo, has always been a member of the Jiang family, but many people know that Chiang Wei-kuo is not Chiang Kai-shek's biological son, and the two are more of a father-son relationship.
In the 1970s and 1980s, rumors about Jiang Weiguo's life experience spread everywhere, and one of the most widely circulated statements believed that Jiang Weiguo was the son of Chiang Kai-shek's friend Dai Jitao .
It is said that while Chiang Kai-shek was studying in Japan, he accidentally met his fellow villager Dai Jitao. The two met for the first time and had a long talk all night. They met too late and soon became sworn brothers of the opposite sex.
Dai Jitao
Later, Chiang Kai-shek accepted Sun Yat-sen, who was in exile in Japan through people. At that time, the Qing government was trying its best to arrest revolutionaries. For the sake of the country's diplomatic considerations, the Japanese government appeared to participate in the expulsion of Sun Yat-sen, but in fact, it was secretly hiding Sun Yat-sen and others.
In this case, Chiang Kai-shek and Dai Jitao often went to the "Black Dragon Association" to meet Sun Yat-sen, and the two sides talked about revolutionary ideals together and planned how to overthrow the corrupt and incompetent Qing government.
In the "Black Dragon Society", Chiang Kai-shek and Dai Jitao met a beautiful Japanese woman named Michiko Tsuburi, who was an ordinary servant employed by the Black Dragon Society.
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At that time, the Japanese understood very well that once Chinese revolutionaries like Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek overthrew the rule of the Qing government, they would quickly become pillars and even leaders of China. In order to ease the relationship between China and Japan and eliminate their hostility towards Japan, the Black Dragon Association recruited a large number of beauties and arranged them with the Chinese intentionally or unintentionally.
When Chiang Kai-shek and Dai Jitao met Michiko Tsubaki for the first time, they were deeply fascinated by the other party's appearance. They launched a pursuit attack at the same time.
However, everything has a sequence. Chiang Kai-shek was younger after all, so it was better for Dai Jitao to understand women's thoughts. When he learned that Michiko Tsubuki liked poetry, Dai Jitao took the initiative to dress up as a literati and appeared in front of the other side, and then added some classic Chinese love poems. Michiko Tsubuki quickly fell into Dai Jitao's arms.
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Afterwards, although Chiang Kai-shek was very jealous of his good brother Dai Jitao's romantic encounter, it was not convenient to intervene in it, and he could only bless them against his will. For Dai Jitao, brothers are like brothers and women are like clothes. He could not alienate like-minded good brothers for a woman, so he suggested that Chiang Kai-shek move over and live with him, and the three of them lived a wonderful and ridiculous life.
A year later, due to the rapid development of China's revolution, Chiang Kai-shek and Dai Jitao returned to China for the revolution together, but no one expected that the vernal equinox once had a secret bond, and Mitoko Tsuburi was pregnant and gave birth to a white and fat son for Dai Jitao.
At that time, Dai Jitao had long forgotten his love and love in Japan. He was a married man with a pair of lovely children in the family. His wife was four years older than him and was very strict. Dai Jitao was famous for being afraid of his wife, so when Michiko brought her children to China to find him, Dai Jitao chose to avoid it.
Chiang Kai-shek
Faced with this situation, Michiko Tsuburi was also heartbroken, and then left her son at Dai Jitao and Chiang Kai-shek's accommodation, and then returned to Japan.
In response to this, Dai Jitao smiled bitterly and said to Chiang Kai-shek: "Jieshi, I already have a family. You know my wife. If she lets her know the existence of this child, it will inevitably make trouble. My good brother, you have to help me!"
Chiang Kai-shek was very helpless about Dai Jitao's request, but out of his feelings for Michiko Tsunobu and Dai Jitao's brotherhood, Chiang Kai-shek finally adopted the child and named it Jiang Weiguo, and handed it over to his concubine Yao Yecheng to take care of it.
Yao Yecheng
The above story is the most widely circulated statement, but no one can confirm the things in it, and even Jiang Weiguo himself does not agree with this statement.
According to Jiang Weiguo's "Memoirs", he admitted that he was Dai Jitao's son, but his mother was not named Michiko Tsubaki. To be precise, he believed that he was the love crystallization of Dai Jitao's love with a Japanese female nurse "Kinko Shigematsu" while studying in Japan.
The same thing is that because Dai Jitao is married and afraid of his wife, he deliberately concealed that he had a son and handed over Jiang Weiguo to Chiang Kai-shek for adoption, allowing Chiang Kai-shek's concubine Yao Yecheng to take care of him and grow up.
Chiang Kai-shek
Enjoying fatherly love, absurd behavior
Although he entered the Jiang family as an adopted son, Chiang Kai-shek loved Jiang Weiguo very much. He once described the young brothers Chiang Ching-kuo and Chiang Wei-kuo as "Character can be taught, but Wei-kuo is cute."
Perhaps because of pity for Jiang Weiguo's unfortunate life experience, Chiang Kai-shek devoted more care to him. In Chiang Kai-shek's early diary, we can often see the content of Chiang Wei-kuo's growth and the true emotions of Chiang Kai-shek as his father.
For example, in the diary of July 14, 1919, Chiang Kai-shek wrote: "Wei'er is cunning, ask for advice once, and he feels very unbearable afterwards. I should remember that you should not be too strict with Wei'er."
Chiang Kai-shek
In these few dozen words, we can clearly realize that after Chiang Kai-shek taught the naughty Jiang Wei-kuo a lesson, he felt that he was too strict, and then he felt that he could not bear the fatherly mentality of being too strong.
In August of the same year, Chiang Wei-kuo fell ill unexpectedly. Chiang Kai-shek wrote again in his diary: "Wei'er's cold and heat have not subsided. I am very worried and anxious."
is also Chiang Kai-shek's son. Chiang Wei-kuo can often appear in Chiang Kai-shek's diary, but Chiang Ching-kuo is rarely mentioned. Even when Chiang Kai-shek and his original wife Mao Fumei divorced, Chiang Kai-shek also wrote in his diary: "Wei'er is cute, Jing'er is pitiful" and other words.
Jiang Weiguo
Chiang Kai-shek always looked at his eldest son in a cold manner. It was not until as he grew older, the father and son communicated more and more, that Chiang Kai-shek gradually increased his care for his eldest son.
In 1934, the 18-year-old Jiang Weiguo was admitted to Soviet University . Two years later, Chiang Kai-shek sent him to Germany to study military.
In those years in Germany, Jiang Weiguo came into contact with the advanced armored force , and then entered the Munich Military Academy to further study and mastered a large number of military skills.
Jiang Weiguo
Six years later, Jiang Weiguo returned from his studies and Chiang Kai-shek sent him to Tongguan northwest to serve as the second lieutenant platoon leader. However, anyone knows that the second son of the Jiang family is not here to fight, he is here to gilt the front line. In just one year, Jiang Weiguo was promoted from second lieutenant platoon leader to deputy battalion commander at a speed of three months.
Because of spoiling since childhood, Jiang Weiguo also developed an arrogant and domineering personality. Although he had not shown it abroad before, after returning to China, Jiang Weiguo immediately revealed his true colors.
Jiang Weiguo
At that time, the Kuomintang army stationed a large number of troops in the northwest. On holidays, the garrison soldiers would go to the market together. Jiang Weiguo also liked to go to the market. He often asked the orderly soldiers to carry big bamboo baskets and follow him to the streets.
On the street, whenever a soldier does not salute Jiang Weiguo, he will go up and take off his hat, then quickly put it into the bamboo basket, and tell them: "My name is Jiang Weiguo. Tomorrow morning, you go to the Second Battalion Department and come to me to get the hat."
Nominally, this is an incident of pursuing military discipline. In fact, Jiang Weiguo is taking advantage of this behavior to show his mightyness. The next morning, the soldiers came to take the hats. Jiang Weiguo took the opportunity to force the soldiers to bow and apologize to him, and then took the opportunity to mock and humiliate the grassroots soldiers, so as to show the majesty of his second young master of the Jiang family.
Jiang Weiguo
On the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Jiang Weiguo was transferred to the Hanzhong Youth Army to serve. When he came to Hanzhong , it was midsummer. The local water and grass were dense, mosquitoes were growing, and the sanitation conditions were very poor. Jiang Weiguo just arrived here and suffered from dysentery . How could this young master of the Jiang family have suffered from such crimes?
In order to eliminate the breeding of mosquitoes, Jiang Weiguo specially ordered a batch of fly swatters, and then asked the soldiers of the entire regiment to slap the flies for him every day until his condition improved.
Afterwards, Jiang Weiguo named this behavior "Fly Destroyment Battle", and even claimed that under his leadership, the local sanitation environment improved greatly, and the villagers at the resident highly agreed with their actions.
Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Wei-kuo
public tools are used for private use, and borrow their mother's power to
After the outbreak of the Liberation War, Chiang Wei-kuo was appointed as the deputy commander of the National Army's armored forces. When he first took office, Chiang Wei-kuo did not take the People's Liberation Army seriously because of his proficiency in military affairs and excellent weapons and equipment, he was arrogant.
But with the start of the battle in Menglianggu Battle and Huangpan District, the second son of the Jiang family suffered completely. He thought that the armored troops, which he had been ace, were no match for the People's Liberation Army at all. The Kuomintang troops lost consecutive battles, and Jiang Weiguo also lost his former noble son's demeanor.
In 1948, Jiang Weiguo led the only remaining armored division of the National Army to retreat to Taiwan. Until this time, he still did not recognize the reality and still fantasized about being able to follow Chiang Kai-shek and start again.
Jiang Weiguo and his wife
At that time, Jiang Weiguo's wife Shi Jingyi came from a famous family and was a very social daughter. She spent 800 taels of gold on her birthday alone. Even in the Jiang family, Shi Jing spent 800 taels of gold.
Jiang Weiguo's salary has never been much. After Shi Jingyi married into the Jiang family, all her expenses were paid by her parents. Shi Jingyi's family was the richest man in China. Shi's father loved his daughter very much and was willing to spend money on her.
After Shi Jingyi followed the Jiang family to Taiwan, her father's large amount of assets were thrown into the mainland, and she had no time to move a textile factory to Taiwan, and Shi Jingyi's living expenses were gradually shrinking.
Jiang Weiguo
In order to please his wife, Jiang Weiguo used the convenient conditions of armored soldiers to purchase supplies to smuggle a large number of imported goods from Hong Kong to Taiwan, thereby helping himself plunder money.
arrogant and domineering, private use of public instruments, and abuse of power. Jiang Weiguo's behavior is enough to be shot a hundred times on anyone. However, because his father is Chiang Kai-shek, everyone around him turns a blind eye, which also makes Jiang Weiguo increasingly unscrupulous.
Five years later, Chiang Wei-kuo was transferred to the Taiwan authorities' General Staff Headquarters. Although he had left, the armored troops were still under the control of Chiang Wei-kuo's confidant Zhao Zhihua.
Armored Forces
In 1964, Zhao Zhihua launched the "Hukou Mutiny" in Taiwan, cursing the corruption of the Kuomintang's senior officials and calling on the armored forces to "clear the ruling side" with him. As a result, the mutiny lasted only for more than ten minutes and ended with Zhao Zhihua's arrest.
After the failure of the mutiny, Jiang Weiguo tried his best to draw a clear line, but anyone knew that Zhao Zhihua was his confidant. Chiang Kai-shek was very angry. He believed that his second son Jiang Weiguo was incompetent and his leadership was incompetent, so he ended Jiang Weiguo's military career.
However, losing the military power, Jiang Weiguo had other ideas. He began to attend receptions frequently, carry out extensive social interactions, intending to form cliques and make a comeback.
Jiang Weiguo
At that time, anyone with a discerning eye could see that Jiang Weiguo had lost Chiang Kai-shek's favor, and he would not be able to return to his former status again.
But Jiang Weiguo didn't give up. He wanted to fight again. The money in his hand was spent like water, but he did not receive any trustworthy partners. In the end, only some friends who drink and meat promised to help him.
It would be fine if he just lost money, but the most embarrassing thing was that with Chiang Kai-shek's death and Chiang Ching-kuo came to power, Chiang Wei-kuo almost couldn't even save his last look.
Jiang Jingguo and Jiang Weiguo
At that time, Jiang Weiguo was always placed on the rank of lieutenant general because of the "mutine incident". According to the regulations of the Taiwan authorities, as long as a lieutenant general has not achieved results for fourteen consecutive years, he will be revoked military and become an ordinary person.
After Chiang Ching-kuo came to power, Chiang Wei-kuo happened to encounter this "fourth year" level. As a former competitor, Chiang Ching-kuo naturally was unwilling to help his younger brother Chiang Wei-kuo.
Fortunately, Jiang Weiguo was not helpless. He was planning to use his mother's majesty to force his brother to promote himself to general at the practice banquet before the Jiang family's mistress Soong Ching Ling went to the United States for the last time.
Soung Mei-ling
At that time, Soong Mei-ling held a banquet at home, invited the Jiang family to attend, and said his final farewell to them. In the past, every time this family event was held, the Jiang family would attend in casual clothes, which had become an unwritten rule, but that day, Jiang Weiguo changed his normal behavior and appeared in front of everyone in a military uniform.
He walked to Soong Mei-ling and saluted respectfully. Soong Mei-ling was a little confused and asked, "Weiguo, today is our family dinner, not a military conference. Why are you wearing military uniforms?"
Jiang Wei-guo smiled bitterly and said, "Mom doesn't know anything. In a few days, I will be forced to retire. I will not be qualified to wear military uniforms in the future. So today I will see my mother off, so I want to leave the impression of a soldier for my mother."
Jiang Wei-guo
Soong Mei-ling doesn't understand Taiwan's military. Team regulations, so I asked, "No, then He Yingqin , Xue Yue , Gu Zhutong , are older than you, why can they wear military uniforms all the time?"
Jiang Weiguo quickly responded, "That's because they are first-level generals and serve for life, and I am just a lieutenant general. I have been in this position for fourteen years, so I was forced to retire."
Hearing this, Soong Mei-ling had heard something in Jiang Wei-guo's words. As his nominal son, Soong Mei-ling was also willing to help him.
Jiang Jingguo
coincided with the meeting. Jiang Jingguo's family came over. Jiang Weiguo rushing to his brother and gave a standard military salute. Jiang Jingguo said blankly: "It's all a family, why should I wear this dress?"
Jiang Weiguo had not answered yet, soong Mei-ling asked first: "Jingguo, do you think your brother looks good in military uniform?"
Jiang Jingguo couldn't figure out Soong Mei-ling's intention, and then said: "It looks good, it's pretty."
Soong Mei-ling continued: "Since it looks good, don't let him retire. He has been wearing this outfit for many years, so why do you want him to take it off? "
Jiang Jingguo, Jiang Weiguo, Soong Mei-ling
It was not until this time that Jiang Jingguo suddenly realized that his younger brother had put himself in his own way here, but he did not dare to reject Soong Mei-ling in front of everyone, so he said respectfully: "My mother is right. My father just passed away recently, and my mother is leaving again. I am so busy. I heard that Weiguo was about to retire, but I will immediately explain to the relevant departments to promote Weiguo's rank to general so that he would not have to retire. "
Afterwards, with the power of the Jiang family's mistress, Jiang Weiguo finally got what he wanted and was successfully promoted to the position of Kuomintang general. However, because of his behavior, he completely annoyed his brother Jiang Jingguo. Therefore, during the period of Chiang Ching-kuo's reign, Jiang Weiguo was on the bench for a long time.
Soong Mei-ling
Decades later, Jiang Weiguo died, and Jiang Weiguo was also seriously ill and bedridden for many years. In order to pay for the high medical expenses, he chose to borrow money to treat the disease
In 1997, Jiang Wei-kuo, who had no construction in his life, died at Taipei Veterans General Hospital at the age of 81. As the second generation descendant of the Jiang family, Jiang Wei-kuo's funeral was personally presided over by Soong Mei-ling.
After dealing with Jiang Wei-kuo's funeral, Soong Mei-ling checked the inheritance left by her second son Jiang Wei-kuo to her descendants as usual, but when she saw the huge bill full of debt, she fell completely into silence. She said with a slightly complicated expression: "You can forgive the evils of heaven, but you can't live if you do it yourself." ”
