Since ancient times, China has been an unequal marriage system of polygamy and polygamy, and during the Republic of China, all sectors of society changed customs and advocated "monogamy", but in fact, only academic circles and government civil officials practiced monogamy, and high-ranking officials and warlords took concubines into the trend and became a "concubine society".
For example, Zhang Zongchang married more than 50 Chinese and foreign aunts, so many that he himself did not know, and the Sichuan warlord Fan Shaozeng had more than 40 such wives, so he built the Fan Mansion, which occupied half a street, and came to the Golden House to hide Jiao.
Fan Shaozeng's aunt was in the Labor Army
Behind this strange phenomenon is mainly the Republic of China's strange marriage law "Relatives Compilation", which prohibits the marriage of concubines, but also issued a judicial interpretation, saying that "although concubines are not stipulated in the current civil law ... shall be considered a family member".
This is not even a ritual, as long as you look at which woman you like, take in the door, even if it is a relative of the family, but the concubine is more legal.
The warlord Yang Sen is one of the five tiger generals of the Sichuan Army, this person is lustful, known as the general of the wind, only publicly acknowledged that there are 12 wives and concubines, 43 children, at the age of 90, he also married a 17-year-old aunt in Taiwan, and gave birth to a daughter at the age of 91, which is quite an amazing record.
Young Janssen
Yang Sen treated his wives and concubines differently from others, governed the family like a military, and practiced militarized management, thus creating many tragic cases. And a group of wives and concubines who he was called "Yang Fu Twelve Chao" ended up mostly tragic, either killed or abandoned, but they were things that Yang Sen used to play with, not as a life partner.
1. Before and after sichuan, he married 11 wives and concubines, most of whom were female middle school students around the age of 15
Yang Sen learned martial arts from an early age, joined the Sichuan Army at the age of 22, was admitted to the Sichuan Army Accelerated School at the age of 24, and Liu Xiang and other students, before going to school, he had married his wife Zhang Shi, during the study period, Zhang Shi died of a violent illness, in 1908, after graduating from the military school, according to the wishes of his parents, he married Tan Zhengde of his hometown of Guang'an as a continuation, and soon gave birth to the eldest son and eldest daughter.
After Yang Sen flew Huang Tengda, he married a number of aunts and wives in succession, and Tan was snubbed, so he returned to his hometown in Guang'an and lived alone in the vast empty mansion until he died in 1976 at the age of 92.
The third aunt is called Liu Gufang, is a Yunnan girl, in 1913, Yang Sen mixed in the Yunnan Army, for the commander Huang Yucheng in Kunming Anning Hot Spring supervision villa, Liu Gufang's father Liu Zhuqing for the construction of small leaders, see Yang Sen quite a military spirit, the daughter married to Yang Sen, Yang Sen also concealed the fact that he had a wife in his hometown, started another family in Yunnan, and lived a polygamous life ever since.
Liu Zhuqing thus climbed on the nepotism, and later served as the director of the office of the Twenty Army in Wuhan and Chengdu and the representative of the military commander, fishing a lot of oil and water, but Liu Gufang herself was not happy, she suffered from lung disease for many years after marriage, there was no status in Yang Mansion, the personal servants and adopted daughters around her were openly occupied by Yang Sen, during the War of Resistance, Liu Gufang died prematurely due to lung disease.
In 1920, Yang Sen was promoted to the commander of the Ninth Division of the Sichuan Army because of his betrayal of the Dian Army, and when he led his troops into Langzhong, he saw a charming girl in the streets of the county town, so he rode a horse to follow tian's family and then sent people to speak to the media. The Tian family is a big local household, who is willing to let their daughter be a concubine? Father Tian refused. The following year, Yang Sen was promoted to the position of envoy of Luyong Town, and he had no fear, and sent people to harass the Tian family for a long time, and did not stop until he achieved his goal, and finally, under his pressure, Tian's father could only marry his daughter to him as the fourth aunt, and soon died of illness.
Tian Hengqiu was born in a family of big businessmen, shrewd, financial management, and young and beautiful, so he was deeply favored by Yang Sen and became Yang Sen's housekeeper's wife, in 1949, Tian Hengqiu fled to Taiwan with all the belongings of Yang Fu, which showed her status and Yang Sen's trust in her. However, a few years later, when Tian Hengqiu went to Hong Kong to visit relatives, she was hemiplegic due to a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, and a new yang Sen gradually left her out in the cold. In his later years, Tian Hengqiu's life and treatment were all borne by his daughter in the United States, and Yang Sen ignored this.
In the middle is Janssen
The fifth aunt, Xiao Bangqiong, is the daughter of a secretary of Yang Sen, once, at the Yang family banquet, Xiao Father took his daughter with him, when toasting, Yang Sen coveted her, touched her head, praised her for looking Zhou Zheng, a subordinate who was good at patting his ass saw that he had a heart for Xiao Bangqiong, so he tried to match, let the Xiao family marry their daughter into the Yang Mansion. Xiao Bangqiong had read a new-style school and worked as a teacher, so Yang Sen liked her very much, but in 1931, when Xiao Bangqiong was on a boat, he drowned because the boat was overturned by the wind and waves on the river.
The sixth aunt Chen Shunrong is the third aunt Liu Gufang's personal servant, at the age of 15 was Yang Sen drunken sexually raped, the next year after giving birth to a daughter, she was taken in, she is Cantonese, ordinary appearance, because of the birth of the next person, the personality is cringe, not atmospheric enough, due to language, personality reasons, she is the "twelve nobile" most unpopular Yang Sen, a little careless, will be Yang Sen with a horse whip to smoke the skin, because of the stimulation, Chen Shunrong later became mentally ill, was sent by Yang Sen to be tied with chains back to the countryside of Guang'an, and later died of illness in Chongqing.
The seventh aunt, Zeng Guizhi, was a native of Guizhou and was said to be the best of Yang Sen's wives and concubines, and was originally an orphan daughter adopted by Yang Sen at the Bijie Shelter in Guizhou. Later, he was raised by Liu Gufang and changed his name to Yang Jiagui. Yang Sen saw that his 14-year-old adopted daughter had grown up and was lively and beautiful, and in spite of the name of his father and daughter, with the help of Tian Hengqiu and others, he could not wait to rape her.
Zeng Guizhi was smart and studious, yang Sen first hired a tutor for her, and a few years later sent her to Shanghai, Beijing and other places to study, hoping to train her into a cultured female college student, so as to take her in and out of social places. When Zeng Guizhi was studying in Shanghai, he fell in love with the boys in the same class. When Yang Sen learned of this, he was furious and ordered the two to be shot and killed on the outskirts of Qu County.
Janssen
The eighth aunt Wang Defang, like the fifth aunt, is the daughter of Yang Sen's secretary, and is also said to be the wife of Yang Sen's aunt, she was only 15 years old at the time, still in middle school, after becoming a relative, Yang Sen allowed her to continue her schooling, Wang Defang graduated from the Shanghai National College of Music, served as the principal of the middle school, and later broke with Yang Sen, and was also elected as the "national congress representative" of the Kuomintang and became a celebrity. Her relationship with Yang Sen is like ice charcoal, and she never interacts after the breakup, and all the children she has given birth to are surnamed Wang. However, during the Cultural Revolution, Wang Defang was forced to commit suicide in Leshan because of Yang Sen.
The ninth aunt Cai Wenna is the most beautiful of the "twelve chao", once was the flower of Luxian Girls' Middle School, was forcibly married as a concubine after Being heard by Yang Sen, Cai Father saw that he could marry this warlord, very proud, and also said to people: "Red pink is given to a beautiful person, beautiful women with heroes, although it is the ninth aunt, but the size is also the military commander's wife." Later, like Zeng Guizhi, when Cai Wenna was in college in Chengdu, she talked about love with her male classmate Lü Xing, Lü Xing suggested that she elope, but Cai Wenna went home to propose a divorce to Yang Sen, and as a result, she was shot by Yang Sen the next morning, and also exposed the body to other wives and concubines to show her shock, Lü Xing was scared to run to France to study for many years, and did not dare to return to China.
The tenth aunt Zheng Wenru, originally a female worker in the Yuhua Textile Factory on the south bank of Chongqing, was given to Yang Sen as a concubine by her distant cousin at the age of 17, Yang Sen was happy and promoted his cousin to the director of the military medical department, and soon after, Zheng Wenru suffered from lung disease, his face was no longer the same, he was abandoned by Yang Sen, after the founding of the Country, Zheng Wenru remarried to an ordinary worker in Chongqing.
The eleventh aunt Hu Jieyu is the daughter of yang sen's servant in Guang'an's hometown, and Hu's father is the old housekeeper who takes care of the ancestral house of Guang'an for Yang Sen. Hu Jieyu went to Chongqing to study at the age of 14, lived in Yang Sen's home, and was called "Hu Sister" by the Yang family's children, but was taken in by Yang Sen, who was in his 60s. Hu's father refused to agree to marry his daughter and took his daughter back to his hometown, but was chased by Yang Sen to his hometown of Guang'an, forcibly took Hu Jieyu away, and later brought Hu Jieyu to Taiwan.
Hu Jieyu
When Yang Sen was in the mainland, he married 11 wives and concubines, and when he fled, he only took Tian Hengqiu, who was a financial housekeeper, and Hu Jieyu, the youngest, and the other 11 people, 2 who died of illness, 2 who were killed, 1 who drowned, 1 who was divorced, and 3 who were abandoned.
Most of these aunts and wives, when he looked up to them, were only fourteen or fifteen years old, had just grown into young girls, and many of them were still middle school students who were studying, and they were not adults at all, so they were forced to be concubines, have children, and enrich Yang Sen's harem.
In addition to fighting, Yang Sen is immersed in the world of young girls, the ninth aunt Cai Wenna once studied in the Sociology Department of the College of Letters, and wrote a graduation thesis "A Family in a Transitional Era" based on the family life of Yang Fu, showing the intrigues and struggles in the life of Yang Sen's wives and concubines and Yang Sen's tireless enjoyment, and even wrote in the text: In order to survive under Yang Sen's accumulation of power, the aunts and wives had to marry him many times.
Janssen with his wife and concubine
Yang Sen has a very high level of wealth accumulation, selling tobacco soil and grabbing real estate, he has a large number of deposits in foreign banks, and has luxury mansions in Chongqing and Luzhou. In order to prevent wives and concubines from competing for favors, Janssen took turns staying at each wife and concubine for three nights a month. Once the wife and concubine became pregnant, they received five thousand yuan in living expenses, and if they gave birth to a child, they received a subsidy of 20,000 yuan deposited in a foreign bank, and another field property in the name of the child.
Although he gave money generously, he did not talk about any respect and consideration for his wives and concubines, and if he was slightly offended or unpleasant, he would be whipped in public, called "full of red".
2. After his 90th birthday, he married his twelfth aunt and gave birth to a daughter at the age of 91
After Yang Sen fled to Taiwan, he served as an adviser to Taiwan's "Presidential Office".
In 1974, he held a banquet for his 90th birthday in Taipei, at the banquet, he pushed the cup to change the cup, not excited, looking at the waitresses who came and went in front of him, Yang Sen was still not dead, looking left and right, staring at it, and said to his friend Zhang Qun, who came to wish for his birthday: "These girls make me have vitality." ”
Zhang Qun listened and smiled, "Then you can ask for another one." ”
Warlord of the Republic of China in film and television dramas
Knowing that Yang Sen was really moved, in the name of looking for a female secretary, he recruited a 17-year-old female middle school student Zhang Lingfeng, and tried to marry her into the door.
Less than a year after entering the door, Zhang Lingfeng gave birth to a daughter for Yang Sen, which surprised Taiwan's military and political circles, and Zhang Lingfeng accompanied Yang Sen to the end of his life, because after two more years, the 93-year-old Yang Sen passed away.
After his death, the eleventh aunt Hu Jieyu took her daughter to study in the United States, and later settled in the United States.
In Janssen's memoirs in his later years, most of those wives and concubines were brushed over, and although they formed a huge deformed family together, he had no love for those women, and those women did not love him, and even hated him to the bone.
Elderly Janssen
And he didn't know many of his more than 40 children at all, he couldn't even call them by name, and even once he gave a speech at school and met his daughter opposite, he couldn't recognize it.
In essence, he did not respect marriage or women, but used those wives and concubines as tools for sexual desire and reproduction, and his relationship with his aunts and wives was not fundamentally different from that of slave owners and slaves.