Chiang Kai-shek often scolded people in his diaries, and those who studied Chiang Kai-shek's diary have counted that the people who scolded the most in Chiang Kai-shek's diaries were Sun Ke, Kong Xiangxi, and Song Ziwen.
Sun Ke
Sun Ke was the son of Sun Yat-sen, Kong Xiangxi was Chiang's brother-in-law, and Soong Ziwen was Chiang's brother-in-law.
As for Sun Ke, who offended him even more, Chiang Kai-shek was quite merciful to his subordinates. Later, Sun Ke lived in poverty in the United States, and in 1965, he took the opportunity of the "Commemorative Conference for the Centenary of the Birth of the Founding Father" to go to Taiwan to reconcile with Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek also nominated him as the dean of the examination until Sun Ke died of illness in Taiwan in 1973.
In his diary, Chiang Kai-shek mainly scolded Sun Ke for being confused, arrogant, and indiscriminate, calling him "an unsupportable Ah Dou," accusing Sun Ke of "selling his life as a prime minister, not only betraying the party but also betraying the country." It is incomprehensible that the Prime Minister has such a great personality and has such an unworthy son. ”
Chiang Kai-shek scolded not only in his diary, but also in person, and the diary once recorded that "Sun Ke was called in, scolded, and scolded him so much that he bowed his head and was dumbfounded."
Sun Yat-sen had great hopes for his son, Sun Ke had successively served as the chief executive, legislative, and examination president of the Kuomintang government in his lifetime, and he had also run for vice president, and like his father Sun Yat-sen, he loved to read, did not store private wealth, and actively engaged in politics.
1. Sexually grumpy and almost shot by his father
Sun Ke was born in 1891 to the mother of Sun Yat-sen's original partner Lu Muzhen.
In 1895, he moved with his grandmother and mother to Honolulu, Hawaii (now Honolulu, the capital of the state of Hawaii), where his uncle Sun Mei ran a farm and was the richest man in the area.
Young Sun Ke with his father
Sun Yat-sen often wrote letters and sent books to his son, exchanging reading experiences in the letters, and once, Sun Yat-sen returned from England and brought Sun Ke more than 100 English editions of famous works, ordering him to read them frequently. Sun Ke himself said: "My English cultivation can be said to have laid the foundation at that time. ”
Sun Ke prepared to study agriculture after graduating from high school, and Sun Yat-sen was greatly praised and personally chose a school for him. After Sun Mei's bankruptcy, Sun Ke was sponsored by Yuan Shikai to go to Berkeley in California to study literature, and also took practical courses such as railway engineering and banking, and later received an honorary doctorate in law from Columbia University.
In 1907, Sun Ke joined the League, served as the editor of the "Freedom New Paper", published many articles calling for anti-Qing revolution, and he was only 16 years old at this time, so whenever he later argued with people in the National Government, he would proudly claim that he was a "born Member of the Kuomintang" and had fought for the party-state since the age of 16.
In 1917, he returned to China and served as secretary of the Grand Marshal's Office in Guangzhou, and in 1921 became the first mayor of Guangzhou.
Sun Ke grew up abroad and has a bit of a foreigner personality.
At that time, people summed up: "Chiang Kai-shek met guests, and when guests spoke, he did not speak; Wang Jingwei met guests, and when guests spoke half of them, he said half; Hu Hanmin met guests, and the guests did not speak, he said; and Sun Ke was known for his temper, and when he met guests, he did not speak twice." This shows that Sun Ke has certain communication barriers and his emotional intelligence is not high.
In the term of mayor of Guangzhou, Sun Ke made great efforts to plan the urban area and urban population, and set up six bureaus under the city hall, public security, public security, finance, education, health, and public utilities, of which "public security bureau" and "public utility bureau" were pioneered by him.
Guangzhou during the Republic of China
Sun Ke once proudly said that at that time, "looking around the country, those who were slightly prepared in scale actually started in Guangzhou; since then, the term municipal administration has swept the north and south, and the research experimenters have become increasingly popular." Professor Zhou Xingliang also believes that Sun Ke is the founder of China's modern urban system.
Sun Ke, 26 years old, became famous at a young age and was known for his temper.
Hu Hanmin, an assistant of Sun Yat-sen, concluded: "Because he is the son of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, he has a revolutionary temper; because he grew up abroad, he has a foreigner temper; because he is an only son, he has the temper of a great young master." Sometimes he had only one tantrum, sometimes two at the same time, sometimes three at the same time. ”
According to Hu Hanmin, Sun Ke's tantrums have at least seven different combinations, which he personally experienced and suffered many times before summing it up.
In 1923, Sun Ke was at odds with Hu Hanmin, who was acting as Grand Marshal, and repeated quarrels occurred. Hu Hanmin, aggrieved, submitted his resignation to Sun Yat-sen.
Sun Yat-sen was supervising the battle on the front line in Huizhou, and he could not do without Hu Hanmin; he knew that Sun Ke's temper was too bad and it was easy to offend people, so he wrote to Sun Ke many times, advising him to put the overall situation first and help each other in the same boat.
However, within a few days of Sun Ke's promise, the contradiction with Hu Hanmin intensified.
At that time, Sun Yat-sen lacked military salaries, and ordered Hu Hanmin to issue a warrant in the name of the Grand Marshal, and to withdraw 200,000 yuan to Sun Ke's Guangzhou City Hall as a military salary to the combined forces of Yunnan and Guizhou to attack Chen Jiongming, who was occupying Huizhou.
Hu Hanmin was afraid that Sun Ke would not pay, so he ordered Sun Yat-sen's bodyguard Zhang Meng to take the warrant to the city hall to withdraw money, but sun Ke took a look at it, tore the order to pieces, and scolded: "I will not print silver paper, where is so much money?" ”
In the afternoon of the same day, the leaders of the Dian army and the Gui army both called to say that the military salary had not yet arrived, and when Sun Yat-sen asked Hu Hanmin and Zhang Meng, he learned that Sun Ke refused to pay the salary, so he called Sun Ke to reprimand him and reprimanded him for not knowing the seriousness of the matter.
After Sun Ke was scolded, he wanted to find someone to get angry, ran to the second floor and scolded Hu Hanmin for asking for money under the pretext of orders, provoking discord between their father and son, and also took up his cane to hit Hu Hanmin, Hu Hanmin flashed, and the cane fell to the glass plate of the desk, making a loud noise, alarming Sun Yat-sen on the third floor.
Sun Yat-sen walked downstairs, and when he saw this scene, he was so distressed that he almost burst into tears, and when he saw that his son was not taught at all, and had a long-term relationship with his own people, he was furious, and as soon as he grabbed the shell gun of the guard, he aimed at Sun Ke and was about to shoot.
Sun Ke fled in a panic, and Sun Yat-sen, carrying a gun, chased him straight to the gate of the Shuai Mansion, and even threw off his slippers. It was Li Liejun and others who heard the noise and rushed to persuade Sun Yat-sen to stop.
Hu Hanmin, the second-largest figure in the Kuomintang at the time, admired Sun Ke, who had just returned to China, strongly supported him as mayor of Guangzhou, and also paid more attention to him when others attacked him. And Sun Ke, who considers himself to be the son of Sun Yat-sen and Dr. Liu Yang, has great disrespect for his father's assistant, and Sun Yat-sen feels that "hates iron is not steel", so he will be so angry.
2. Political ideas sway left and right, and the position is not firm
During the Period of the National Revolution, Sun Ke set up a "Nandi Club" in the Kuomintang Guangzhou Party Department, which was then known as the "Princeling Faction", with Sun Ke as the center, formed a far-right organization, openly opposing Sun Yat-sen's three major policies of "uniting with Russia, uniting with the Communist Party, and supporting peasants and workers", which made Sun Yat-sen very troubled.
After Sun Yat-sen's death, in 1926, Sun Ke suddenly became a "leftist" again, expressing his resolute support for the three major policies, but he was not a "leftist" for a long time, in 1927, after the "April 12", the Kuomintang split, on the eve of the confluence of Ning and Han, Sun Ke once again leaned toward the right, in just three years, his position was repeatedly changed three times, completely an opportunist who went down the road, and had no political ideas to speak of.
In his attitude toward Chiang Kai-shek, he was also quite opportunistic.
He was originally at odds with Hu Hanmin, the second most prominent figure in the Kuomintang, and after Chiang Kai-shek made his fortune with the Huangpu clan, he joined forces with Hu Hanmin to oppose Chiang Kai-shek.
Sun Ke, Hu Hanmin and Wang Jingwei before the confluence of Ninghan and Han
However, a year later, when Ning and Han merged, he defected to Chiang Kai-shek's Nanjing Nationalist Government, stayed for a few months, he again joined Hu Hanmin against Chiang Kai-shek, calling Chiang Kai-shek a dictatorship, Chiang Kai-shek was furious, put Hu Hanmin, who was then the chief legislative, under house arrest in Xiaotangshan, Nanjing, Hu Hanmin's pro-family Lin Huanting bought a Shanghai axe to help Wang Yaqiao assassinate Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Ke was afraid that Wang Yaqiao would not take over the task, and quietly added another 200,000 yuan, and later there was the "Lushan Assassination of Chiang" incident.
After this incident, the warlords in Guangdong and Guangxi all sent telegrams against Chiang Kai-shek, and Sun Ke also ran to Hong Kong to organize the National Government in Guangzhou with Bai Chongxi and others, confronting Chiang Kai-shek, and saying: "Chiang Kai-shek is a plague rat, and we will eradicate it no matter what." As a result, Chiang Kai-shek stepped down for the second time, but Sun Ke's cabinet lasted only 24 days before it was shut down due to financial problems.
Despite his perennial opposition to Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Ke was the son of the founding father of the nation and was born with strong political capital, and in 1948, Chiang Kai-shek firmly supported his bid for vice president against Li Zongren of the Gui clan.
But Sun Ke, the "unsupportable Ah Dou", was bad because of his children's private feelings.
3. Lustful, lost the vice president because of an extramarital affair
Sun Ke's original match was Chen Shuying, who was his distant cousin, who gave birth to two sons and two daughters for him, gentle and virtuous, but Sun Ke was mercurial, always making scandals with his female secretary, and had lace news in the newspaper for many years.
Sun Ke, Chen Shuying and four children
Among the more famous are The Socialites Yan Caijuan and Lan Ni in Shanghai.
In 1932, as the chief legislative officer, Sun Ke was introduced to Yan Aijuan by his subordinates, hired her as a "private secretary", and lived together for four years.
In 1935, Sun Ke fell in love with another social flower, Lan Ni, and Lan Ni asked him for a name, so Sun Ke abandoned Yan Qianjuan, who was pregnant with Liujia, ren Lan Ni as the new "private secretary", and also wrote a marriage letter for Lan Ni, saying: "I only have Mrs. Chen and The Second Lady Lan's two wives, and there is no third person, hereby certify and hand over to The Second Wife of Lan Xunyi." And invited colleagues from the Legislative Yuan to set up four tables of banquets at home, which was considered a wedding banquet. At that time, the Republic of China banned polygamy, and Sun Ke, as the president of the legislative council, took a new favorite at the banquet, and faced the colleagues who came to congratulate him, laughing: "I know the law and break the law, and the crime is added to the first!" ”
At this time, Yan Aijuan gave birth to his daughter Sun Suifang for only three months.
Sun Suifang
Yan Aijuan is not a fuel-saving lamp, she is not willing to be abandoned by Sun Ke, holding her daughter to the court to sue, taking a large amount of alimony from Sun Ke, and promising "nothing to invite after that", in fact, she later pestered for more than ten years, and it was a letter, and it was news, Sun Ke took care of her reputation, paid Yan Kejuan 12 large gold bars in 1946.
But Yan Caijuan still did not let him go, in 1950, Sun Ke was destitute, living in Hong Kong, Yan Caijuan sued him from Taiwan in the Hong Kong court, Sun Ke had no choice, the family moved to Europe, and then went to the United States to rent a house by the sea.
The second lady, Lan Ni, is a divorced Shanghai celebrity, originally from Yunnan, whose appearance is different from that of the Han people, and calls herself "Princess Miao Wang", which is a match made in heaven with the "son of the Father of the Nation".
Lennox
In 1938, she gave birth to a young daughter Sun Suifen for Sun Ke, married Sun Ke not long ago, in 1940, she went to Shanghai under the occupation of Japan and puppets to do real estate business, and frequent contacts with Chen Gongbo, Zhou Fohai and other Wang pseudo-important officials, built a large number of properties such as "Rose Villa" on Fuxing West Road, and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, some of Lani's property was confiscated.
In 1948, when Sun Ke and Li Zongren were running for vice president, Lan Ni ran everywhere for it, and also took out his own money to help him choose, but later, a reporter exposed that Sun Ke had written a letter to help Lan Ni ask for houses and building materials that were used as enemy property, in order to clear up the relationship, Sun Ke publicly said that the letter was not written by him, and denied that Lan Ni was his wife.
As a result, not only did he lose the vice presidency, but Lenny also left him with her daughter, ending a thirteen-year relationship.
In 1949, Sun Ke went to Live in Hong Kong and intended to go to Taiwan, but Chiang Kai-shek had no intention of accepting it, so he first went to Europe and then settled in the United States for many years.
In his later years, Sun Ke and his wife Chen Shuying
In his later years, the wooden house where Sun Ke lived on the beach in California leaked rain everywhere on a typhoon day, and he could only do everything himself, and he could only afford to eat sweet potatoes when he was the poorest, even so, he still did not forget to go to the library every day to read, "read useful books" and "do not store private money", which was the spiritual education he got from his father.
Although Sun Ke has not been able to make great achievements in his life because of various personality defects, at least one point, he is not a clumsy child, and he has the ideals and passions of inheriting his father's aspirations in his heart, but he is only unable to reach the peak due to personal ability and emotional intelligence.