1967-15 Kong Xiangxi died of heart attack in New York, USA. After his death, his wife's sister Soong Mei-ling took Jiang Wei-kuo and a five-person honor guard. She flew from Taiwan, China to attend the funeral. At that time, there were hundreds of local politicians and relatives of Kong's family attended Kong Xiangxi's funeral, which was extremely honorable.
But unexpectedly, , who also works as an apartment in New York, did not show up as Kong Xiangxi's brother-in-law.
4 years later, on April 25, 1971, Song Ziwen and his wife Zhang Leyi were choked to death while having a meal at a friend's house in San Francisco . After his death, it should be because he came but did not act rudely. His eldest sister, Kong Xiangxi's wife Song Ailing , and his children, did not attend his funeral.
Song Mei-ling also did not attend the funeral of her elder brother Soong Ziwen for some reason.
The uncle Kong Xiangxi and Song Ziwen are not only close relationships, but also the heads of the Kong family and the Song family among the four major families of the Republic of China. They were prominent and successively held financial power for Chiang Kai-shek . Why did they make trouble to the point of not having sex with each other?
In fact, all this is complicated and complicated, and simple. From the source, the conflict between Kong Xiangxi and Song Ziwen was initially because they had completely different personalities and did not like each other.
Kong Xiangxi is a sleek person, with the shrewdness and cunning of a businessman, and he will hide himself as a good man or mediocre side. He will judge the situation and change his mind, so he obeys Chiang Kai-shek in exchange for being reused.
Song Ziwen is different. Although he also has experience studying abroad with Kong Xiangxi, in comparison, the knowledge he learned is more pure. Therefore, only pursues efficiency and is not merciful. He is also arrogant and willful. He is a person with sharp edge.
For Song Ziwen's behavior, he has a good relationship with him. Dai Li tactfully commented that he was ignorant of the world. Wu Guozhen, who once served under Song Ziwen, said more well, believing that the reason why Song Ziwen was so arrogant was because he lacked understanding of Chinese culture and was not good at speaking, and he was not good at talking to others.
Because of this, he often had conflicts and even quarreled. He didn't even respect Chiang Kai-shek very much, and he looked down on Kong Xiangxi, a businessman's eldest brother-in-law.
According to the recollections of Wu Guozhen and McHugh of the same era, Song Ziwen's evaluation of Kong Xiangxi's knowledge was very low, and he still looked down on Kong Xiangxi without any concealment.
Compared with qualifications, although Kong Xiangxi was 14 years older than Song Ziwen, Song Ziwen's qualifications were extraordinary. After studying abroad and returning to China, he followed Mr. Sun Yat-sen and served as Minister of Finance and Commerce, and had significant achievements. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek was in charge of military affairs, and he was in charge of finance, and he could be said to be a colleague with Chiang Kai-shek.
. After Kong Xiangxi became Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law, he began to enter the political circle. In terms of qualifications, he was far inferior to Song Ziwen, which is also an important reason why Song Ziwen looked down on him.
What's more, Song Ziwen looked down on even Chiang Kai-shek back then, and she didn't want her younger sister Soong Mei-ling to marry Chiang Kai-shek, so she had a big fight with Soong Mei-ling. She must be very dissatisfied with Kong Xiangxi becoming his eldest brother-in-law.
Therefore, these two looked down on each other. Song Ziwen thought that Kong Xiangxi was just a businessman, and he still looked down on Chiang Kai-shek and had no ability to sit in a high position.
Kong Xiangxi even cursed Song Ziwen in his heart for being just a fake noble person, having a bad temper, being so bad in dealing with people, and disrespectful to himself. Such a person is the stone in the pit that is smelly and hard.
Later, with the power struggle, the conflict between the two people further deepened and expanded, and even became public.
Song Ziwen immediately served as Minister of Finance after Chiang Kai-shek came to power, while Kong Xiangxi could only serve as the less important Minister of Industry due to lack of qualifications.
During this period, the two men began to almost break up with each other. One year, Kong Xiangxi published an article in "Review" and even said: "No achievements can be made in construction because the financial authorities do not provide funds.".
This article was very straightforward, meaning that he could not make a difference because Song Ziwen did not allocate funds. Song Ziwen learned about this immediately and was very angry. He took the newspaper and complained to his eldest sister Song Ailing, saying: "It is no wonder that others are criticizing me so much. It is so unreasonable."
Song Ailing took a look and realized that although she didn't like this eldest brother either, it couldn't be justified, so she called Kong Xiangxi and asked how could you do this. Kong Xiangxi was tactful and said that it was the secretary Xu Jianping's mistake in writing, not his own intention, and he managed to smooth things over, but the struggle between the two began to become public.
However, the two men stayed away for a while. At the end of 1931, when Chiang Kai-shek resigned, Song Ziwen and Kong Xiangxi also resigned from their official positions in order to show that they would advance and retreat with him.
At the beginning of 1932, Chiang Kai-shek was officially reinstated and power was redistributed. Political enemy Wang Jingwei became the Executive Yuan. Song Ziwen was fortunate enough to be appointed as the Vice President of the Executive Yuan and Minister of Finance. Kong Xiangxi was unlucky. His industrial minister was replaced by Chen Gongbo, a man sent by Wang, so he could only go abroad for one year.
However, during this period, although Song Ziwen held an important position, his conflict with Chiang Kai-shek became more and more serious. He was not just following Chiang Kai-shek's orders. Faced with Chiang Kai-shek's excessive demands for military expenditures, Song Ziwen became more and more intolerable, so he resigned as president of the Central Bank and was replaced by Kong Xiangxi.
Normally when someone resigns from his position, he will give the reason of illness or something in order to look good, but Song Ziwen is different. He directly held a press conference and announced: "I only have one thing to say, I am in very good health." fully exposed his dissatisfaction with Chiang Kai-shek, which also embarrassed Kong Xiangxi, who succeeded him.
From here we can further see how incompetent Song Ziwen was in dealing with people. This also laid the foundation for the great discord between Song Ziwen and Chiang Kai-shek in the future, and the foreshadowing of Song Ziwen's estrangement from Kong Xiangxi until his death.
In the following months, due to the escalation of conflicts, Song Ziwen simply resigned from his posts as Vice President of Administration and Minister of Finance, and Kong Xiangxi took over.
Behind all this, there is probably Song Ailing's plan to replace her brother's various positions with her husband. Regardless of whether it is true or not, the relationship between Song Ziwen and his eldest sister Song Ailing is getting worse and worse, and they even quarreled.
Moreover, his positions were indeed succeeded by Kong Xiangxi, which meant that his power and interests were all taken away by Kong Xiangxi. How could he be willing to accept it?
After that, the struggle between Lang and Uncle continued. Kong Xiangxi once complained that the Ministry of Finance was Song Ziwen's old department, making it impossible for him to perform.
Song Ziwen was later re-appointed by Chiang Kai-shek and was responsible for the actual control of the Central Bank, which was equivalent to being in charge of finance. He also established the Sixian General Office in Shanghai. In terms of finance, he had a fierce dispute with Kong Xiangxi, which made Chiang Kai-shek unable to mediate and gave him a headache.
In 1938, Kong Xiangxi became the President of the Executive Council, Minister of Finance, and President of the Central Bank. It can be said that one person is inferior to ten thousand people, so he no longer tolerated Song Ziwen, and established the Silian General Office in Hankou , and directly changed the Shanghai headquarters into a branch office, hoping to control financial power.
Song Ziwen not only refused to cooperate with him, but also used the two major banks he controlled to repeatedly oppose Kong Xiangxi's central bank. Kong Xiangxi had no choice but to carry out Chiang Kai-shek, and then reluctantly drove Song Ziwen away.
After that, Kong Xiangxi became famous for several years, but in 1944, the Kong family was involved in the gold fraud case, and Song Ziwen dug up Kong Xiangxi to issue US dollars. The disadvantage of the reserve book public debt is that it beat the lost dog and demanded severe punishment of Kong Xiangxi, so as to make the US aid more smooth, which made Chiang Kai-shek helpless and determined to demote the obedient Kong Xiangxi and replace him with the disobedient Song Ziwen.
Song Ziwen did this, and Kong Xiangxi was deeply offended. From Song Ziwen's point of view, he felt proud and proud, avenging his replacement back then.
From Kong Xiangxi’s point of view, Song Ziwen was shamelessly stepping on him and the Kong family, trampling himself and the Kong family to death. Such hatred could no longer be resolved.
Therefore, the two uncles naturally had no contact with each other until death.
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