During the warlord war, the warlord Yang Sen was famous for his numerous wives and concubines. He had as many as twelve wives and concubines in his life, and had forty-three children. In his later years, when he was nearly ninety years old, he even married a seventeen-year-old A

During the warlord melee, the warlord Yang Sen was famous for his numerous wives and concubines. He had as many as twelve wives and concubines in his life, and had forty-three children. In his later years, when he was nearly ninety years old, he even married a young man. Girls as young as seventeen were used as concubines.

When Yang Sen was ill in bed, the concubine asked: You have married so many wives, how many of them are willing to follow you?

Yang Sen and his wives

This question is really a long story. Yang Sen has married twelve wives in his life, and he is a real-life version of "Wei Xiaobao" . Yang Sen has an obsession with young and beautiful women. In his words, "likes to be with energetic young people" .

Today I will talk to you about the absurd marriage of warlord Yang Sen. Is

sincerely reforming, or is it just trying to deceive others?

Yang Sen was born in 1884 in Guang'an, Sichuan. Although his family background was average, he was influenced by his father since childhood. He liked martial arts and was interested in joining the army. He received a good education when he was young and entered the Sichuan Army Academy at the age of 24. ,perform well.

After graduation, Yang Sen began his military life and participated in many wars, including the War to Protect the Country. Later, he joined the Sichuan Army and served Wu Peifu . In 1923, he was awarded the rank of Army Lieutenant General by Wu Peifu, and was later appointed as General Senwei, General's Mansion.

Yang Sen

The following year, with the support of Wu Peifu, Yang Sen became the spokesperson of the Beiyang government in Sichuan. In order to stabilize the local power, he shouted a series of slogans to build Sichuan and implement new policies.

Yang Sen’s policies included building roads, opening and building public stadiums, establishing popular education concepts, etc. This was originally a good thing. Among the many warlords, he was the only one who promoted enlightened policies at that time. Some even thought that Yang Sen’s Policy represents a historical progress.

The problem is that when the policy is implemented, the people are not happy.

Because Yang Sen’s actions are very arrogant, the soldiers below rely on Yang Sen’s protection to be arrogant and domineering. They have to interfere with everything, even trivial matters such as whether the people can trim their nails and whether they can wear long gowns. Once there is any violation, they will be punished at every turn. The punishment made the people miserable.

Yang Sen

Gradually, some people raised objections and doubts, believing that Yang Sen was engaged in reform in name, but in fact it was just a cover-up to cover up some of his actions.

What is Yang Sen trying to cover up?

It’s not complicated to say. Yang Sen seems to have some obsession with marrying wives and taking concubines. When he carried out reforms, he shouted to liberate women, but privately he married many concubines. No wonder others would say that he was superficial. One set behind another's back.

Speaking of which, we have to mention Yang Sen’s marriage. In fact, at the beginning, Yang Sen’s married life was happy and he did not behave like a womanizer.

After the death of his original wife, Yang Sen missed her endlessly.

When Yang Sen was twenty years old, his parents arranged a marriage for him to marry a local woman. The woman's surname was Zhang. She was a typical virtuous woman from the old era who was devoted to her husband. Serving and being filial to his father-in-law and mother-in-law, he is also diligent and capable, and manages the housework in an orderly manner. Both Yang Sen himself and his parents are very satisfied with Zhang.

At that time, Yang Sen had not yet joined the army to fight in the north and south, and was still studying in the army academy. He liked Zhang very much. Every time he went to the academy for vacation, he could not wait to return home and live a loving life with his wife for a few days. They were really a couple. The enviable couple of gods and goddesses.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Although Zhang was deeply loved by Yang Sen and her parents-in-law, her life was not good. A few years after marrying Yang Sen, Zhang occasionally caught wind and cold. It was not a serious illness originally, but Zhang had been weak since she was a child. It actually made her sick and took away her life abruptly. She didn't even have time to leave a child for Yang Sen.

Yang Sen was devastated when he learned the news of his wife's death. He loved Mrs. Zhang very much. After several years of marriage, he wished he could always be by her side, and he never had the idea of ​​taking a concubine.

Later, Yang Sen prospered in his official career and promoted Zhang's younger brother to serve as an official in his army. This shows that Yang Sen's feelings for Zhang were extraordinary. This was very inconsistent with his lustful image of taking concubines later, which was incredible.

In 1908, Yang Sen graduated from the Army School, and his parents made arrangements to renew his life.

Yang Sen

Not long after Mrs. Zhang died, she wanted to marry again. Yang Sen was not happy in his heart. His longing for his deceased wife had not disappeared, but his parents also had reasons. Mrs. Zhang did not leave any descendants for Yang Sen. There are three ways to be unfilial. Later, when he grew up, facing his parents' insistence, Yang Sen had no choice but to agree.

In this way, he married his second wife-Tan Zhengde.

Although Zhang's life was short-lived, at least he was very happy while alive. However, as the second term, Tan Zhengde was not so lucky.

At that time, Yang Sen had just graduated from the military academy and was in the early stages of actively pursuing a career. He had no time to take into account the affection of his children. Moreover, his feelings for Zhang had not dissipated in his heart at that time. Instinctively, Yang Sen felt a sense of repulsion towards Tan Zhengde. He regards it as a "tool" to carry on the family line and often never returns home.

The impression of her husband is almost non-existent to Tan Zhengde. Except for her wedding night, Yang Sen rarely accompanied her. Even if she gave birth to two children for Yang Sen, she still could not keep Yang Sen. The number of times Yang Sen saw her throughout the year could be counted on his fingers. Counting them together, the two of them were simply strangers with no status as husband and wife.

Later, Yang Sen began to take concubines, and Tan Zhengde was completely left out. He lived alone in Yang Sen's hometown of Guang'an and died alone.

He took concubines many times, and his married life was absurd and deformed.

In 1913, Yang Sen participated in the second revolution and was unfortunately captured during the war. He joined the Yunnan Army . Later, he performed well and gradually rose in the ranks. He took the opportunity to escape back to the Sichuan Army. From then on, he enjoyed an official career like a fish in water. It was getting smoother and smoother, but his behavior gradually changed. 's "persistence in taking concubines" also started during this period. When

joined the Yunnan Army, Yang Sen's immediate boss Huang Yucheng built a hot spring villa in Anning, Kunming, and ordered Yang Sen to supervise the construction.

Huang Yucheng

The construction leader at that time, Liu Zhuqing, was a quick-thinking person. He was unwilling to be ordinary and wanted to curry favor with the powerful. After Yang Sen arrived, Liu Zhuqing felt that this man was highly regarded by Huang Yucheng and had a bright future, so he wanted to establish a relationship with him.

He happened to have a beautiful daughter named Liu Gufang, so Liu Zhuqing planned to give her daughter to Yang Sen as a concubine.

At that time, after years of hard work, Yang Sen's thoughts were different from those in the past. His longing for Zhang had almost disappeared. He had been separated from Tan Zhengde for many years, and he was not satisfied physically and mentally. In fact, since Zhang's death, Afterwards, Yang Sen felt empty all the time.

When Yang Sen saw the young and beautiful Liu Gufang, a feeling he had never had before came to his heart. Since Zhang's death, he finally had the idea of ​​possessing a woman again, so he successfully accepted it. Liu Gufang later fell ill and died during the Anti-Japanese War.

Yang Sen

After marrying his third wife, Yang Sen seemed to be addicted to concubinage. This change came a bit suddenly, as if when the number of women around him gradually increased, he could use it to fill the emptiness in his heart, and the more women he had, the more he became addicted to concubinage. The more beautiful women are, the more they can satisfy his strange psychology.

Driven by this weird mentality, Yang Sen began to take concubines on a large scale.

In 1920, Yang Sen took the opportunity of betraying the Yunnan Army to return to the Sichuan Army, like a fish in water.

In the same year, the army was stationed in Langzhong, Sichuan. Yang Sen passed a woman on the street while riding a tall horse. At a glance, he saw the charming appearance of the woman, which made Yang Sen's heart beat so much that he could not help but turn the horse's head slowly. Following him, he learned that the woman was the daughter of a local wealthy family named Tian Hengqiu. Yang Sen immediately sent someone to negotiate a match.

As a result of this question, I found out that Miss Tian’s family was already engaged, Tian Hengqiu and her fiancé had been in love for a long time, and the Tian family was a large businessman. Naturally, Tian’s father did not care about Yang Sen’s gift money. For the sake of his daughter’s happiness, he refused. Got this marriage.

Yang Sen, who was rejected, did not intend to give up. He could not forget the startling glance when he passed Tian Hengqiu on the street.

For this reason, on the one hand, he pleased and pursued Tian Hengqiu, and on the other hand, he put pressure on the Tian family's business. Although the Tian family had financial resources, they had little power. Faced with Yang Sen's pressure, Tian's father could only grit his teeth and hold on.

Unfortunately, the next year, Yang Sen was promoted again because of his outstanding political achievements and served as the governor of Luyong. He had greater power and made it easier to do things. Tian's father finally couldn't bear the pressure and reluctantly married his daughter to Yang Sen. Yang Sen ushered in his third year. Four wives.

Yang Sen

Tian Hengqiu was born in a wealthy family. She is beautiful and generous, and is good at managing family affairs. She is smart and smart. Yang Sen unknowingly values ​​her more and more. When attending some important occasions, Tian Hengqiu is also accompanied by Tian Hengqiu. She has become Yang Sen's Housekeeper.

When

later fled to Taiwan with the Kuomintang, Yang Sen also took her away with him. Unfortunately, Tian Hengqiu later suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage and became a cerebral palsy patient who looked like dementia. Yang Sen immediately disliked her and no longer loved her as much as before.

After marrying Tian Hengqiu, Yang Sen's career also improved step by step. After his status improved, it became more and more convenient to take in concubines. In the past, he had to rack his brains to plan, but now people often take the initiative to send their daughters to his door. Yang Sen's fifth, tenth, and eleventh wives were gifts from others.

Since he started taking concubines, Yang Sen seemed to have "awakened" some kind of quirk. He married one wife after another into his family. His married life was absurd and deformed. In his later years, he had twelve wives made public, which was embarrassing. It is called the modern version of "Twelve Hairpins".

She was ill in bed in her later years, and the concubine asked a question

Yang Sen’s fifth wife was named Xiao Bangqiong, who was also given to Yang Sen by his father. Xiao Bangqiong’s father was a frail scholar, and Yang Sen was still alive at that time. The Yunnan Army serves as the commander of a certain corps, and he is Yang Sen's secretary.

Later, Yang Sen left the Yunnan Army and returned to the Sichuan Army. He held a family banquet in Sichuan. Xiao's father and his daughter came to the banquet and were entertained by Yang Sen. When Yang Sen saw that Xiao Bangqiong behind Xiao's father had grown into a graceful and beautiful girl, he admired her. : "We haven't seen each other for a few years, and the girl has grown into a big girl. She is so beautiful!"

This kind of praise from the elders to the younger ones is not surprising at first, but in view of Yang Sen's "preference" at that time, he always had concubines, so these words were It's intriguing.

Yang Sen

Sure enough, Xiao's father kept it in mind at that time, and soon gave his daughter to Yang Sen as his fifth concubine.

Chopin Qiong was a well-educated, sensible and simple person who was very popular with Yang Sen. Unfortunately, she had a bad life. She was killed in a ferry and fell into the water and drowned.

After Chopin's death, Yang Sen missed her too much and had sex after drinking. He raped Chen Shunrong, the personal maid of his third concubine Liu Gufang, and married her as his sixth concubine. However, Chen Shunrong was not outstanding in appearance and often became Yang Sen's punching bag. He was often beaten and scolded, and later died of illness in Chongqing.

The seventh aunt was named Zeng Guizhi. She was originally an adopted daughter taken in by Yang Sen and was raised by her subordinates. When she grew up, she had outstanding appearance and was forcibly taken by Yang Sen as a concubine.

Zeng Guizhi was different from other concubines. She had looks and ideas. Later, she fell in love with a classmate while studying and planned to elope. However, she was brutally murdered by Yang Sen after learning about it.

After Zeng Guizhi died, in order to get rid of bad luck, Yang Sen wanted to marry his eighth concubine. He fell in love with the daughter of a subordinate named Wang. In order to climb high, the subordinate forced his fifteen-year-old daughter Wang Defang to marry Yang Sen.

Wang Defang is the most vehement personality among Yang Sen's wives. Although she was forced to marry Yang Sen, she never gave him a good look. Even the children she gave birth to had her surname Wang.

Wang Defang did not satisfy Yang Sen. He fell in love with another woman, Cai Wenna, the school beauty of Luxian Girls' Middle School.

Cai Wenna came from a mediocre background and had no background. Yang Sen took her over without any effort and took the young and beautiful her to social occasions many times. However, Yang Sen was no longer a young man at that time, so how could he keep the beauty's heart?

Sure enough, Cai Wenna later entered Chengdu University and followed in the footsteps of Zeng Guizhi. Because she fell in love with a classmate, she was discovered by Yang Sen and was brutally killed.

The tenth concubine Zheng Wenru was only seventeen years old when she married Yang Sen. One of her distant cousins ​​wanted to curry favor with Yang Sen and tried every means to give her to Yang Sen as a concubine. Later, because of illness and old age, Yang Sen disliked her and did not take her with him. They fled to Taiwan together.

The eleventh concubine is named Hu Jieyu, the daughter of Hu Yingzhong, one of Yang Sen's servants.

Yang Sen

At that time, Yang Sen was already over 60 years old, but keeping concubines seemed to have become an obsession that had not been eliminated even at this age. Hu Yingzhong refused to agree to the marriage, and ran away with his daughter but was caught again. Hu Jieyu was arrested. Forced to marry Yang Sen, he later fled to Taiwan with Yang Sen.

At this point, Yang Sen has married eleven wives, but he is not finished yet.

When Yang Sen was nearly ninety years old, at one of his birthday parties, he said to Zhang Qun, a member of the Kuomintang who came to celebrate his birthday: "I just like to be with young people and look energetic, so I married He had so many wives and gave birth to many children."

Zhang Qun had a good relationship with him, so he joked: "Then you can marry another one!"

It didn't take long for Yang Sen to marry again at the age of ninety. He got a wife, the twelfth concubine.

This concubine was a college student named Zhang Lingfeng. She was recruited into the mansion in the name of secretary and later married Yang Sen. She also gave birth to a daughter for Yang Sen, which became a legend for a while.

Yang Sen’s family photos

In his later years, Yang Sen was diagnosed with lung cancer and spent the rest of his life lying in bed. His youngest concubine, Zhang Lingfeng, once asked him: "You have married twelve wives in your life, and how many of them were married willingly?" "For you?"

Yang Sen thought about this question, and I am afraid that only his first wife Zhang is truly willing to marry him, and Zhang is also his favorite wife!

has married so many wives, who can really replace Zhang? Is it Tian Hengqiu, who is charming, shrewd, and good at understanding people's hearts, or is it Chopin Qiong, who is knowledgeable, sensible, and simple-minded? Which woman can truly fill the hole in Yang Sen's heart?

I am afraid that only he himself knows the answer.

Conclusion

In fact, at that time, there were many people like Yang Sen. Although these people were the first to welcome the wave of the new era, they could not completely get rid of the ugly bad habits of the old era, even if they once shouted "liberate women" "Yang Sen, the slogan, is no exception.

The changes in the era do not happen overnight. There are always sacrifices in the process. Many of Yang Sen's wives and concubines are undoubtedly victims of the changing times. Look at the era of gender equality , the status of women is not what it used to be. Similar The tragedy will never happen again in China.