Yang Tianshi, a scholar who has studied Chiang Kai-shek's Diary for many years, summed up Chiang Kai-shek's personal characteristics in five words:
"Lustful, grumpy, suspicious, withdrawn, narcissistic".
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek himself also had a good idea of the two major weaknesses of "lust" and "irritability", and often blamed himself in his diary, claiming that he wanted to reform himself: "In the future, the way to cultivate oneself is to punish one's anger, and secondly, to suffocate one's desires." He wanted to abstain from sex with the spirit of "a strong man breaking his wrist", and he also wanted to "cultivate my mighty qi" to punish anger and abstain from anger.
After marrying Song Meiling, in addition to the rekindling of his old feelings for Chen Jieru, there was no new scandal, and for the personality trait of "irritability", he repeatedly failed, and he did not cultivate the "Haoran Qi" that he deeply expected in his life, and did not succeed in "punishing".
Although Chiang Kai-shek loves to do it, once the other side fights back, he has not won many victories, not only was he beaten by his wife Mao Fumei, twice suffered losses under Huang Baofu when he was young, and he was also kicked by Liu Wendian, president of Anhui University, leaving a lot of jokes.
1. He scolded his wife and concubine in his diary many times, and divorced after beating his wife
Chiang Kai-shek was narrow-minded, never asked for himself when things happened, and even in the diaries he intended to write to posterity, there were many words of anger, and he had scolded Mao Fumei, Yao Yecheng, and Chen Jieru, three wives and concubines, many times in his diaries, and complained in his heart.
In 1901, the 14-year-old Chiang Kai-shek and the 5-year-old woman from the neighboring village, Mao Fumei, who was a traditional rural girl at that time, was illiterate and tied her feet, the two lacked affection, and Chiang Kai-shek's diary had a record of "family affairs, can not be slightly as I like, it is really painful".
In January 1921, Chiang Kai-shek returned to Xikou from Fenghua, Zhejiang, at this time he had made love to Chen Jieru, and became more and more disgusted with Mao Fumei, and even felt "stimulating nerves" when he saw his wife's figure and heard her footsteps.
Chiang Kai-shek and his mother Wang Caiyu, his wife Mao Fumei and his son Chiang Ching-kuo
On April 3, Chiang Kai-shek clashed with his wife over an incident, and Mao Fumei was unwilling to endure the beating and scolding, and "fought" with him, and Chiang Kai-shek thought that it was "really unorthodox" and decided to divorce him. On April 4, he wrote a thousand-word letter at home to Mao Fumei's second brother, Mao Bingli, proposing a divorce, in which he declared in his usual sad and indignant writing:
"The divorce resolution I have made today is made through ten years of suffering, stimulated by ten years, not from today's temporary anger, nor from frivolous arbitrariness. You must know that I have made this remark and sent this letter, but I am in a deep and extremely sad mood, and I am the most intolerant of words. Wise as a brother, he can sincerely seek happiness for me and save me from lifelong pain. ”
Before the letter was finished, he found that Mao Fumei, who had been ordered to return to his mother's house by order, had not yet left the house, so he broke out and scolded mao at home.
On that day, Jiang blamed himself in his diary, saying: "My sins are all in heaven!" What a son, what a man! In the future, for the mother and the family, there must always be no evil voices. Whether internal or external, when there is no indignation, do not reach out and beat people, and vow to keep it for life to redeem the remnants of yesterday. ”
A few days after the self-reproach diary was written, on April 19, because Chiang Kai-shek's mother, Wang Caiyu, did not allow him to divorce and took Mao back home, Chiang Kai-shek was furious and issued a "final divorce letter." For the first time in his diary, he scolded his old mother: "Mother is old and rebellious, as far as this is concerned." Not only does it hurt me, but it also hinders my career. With the heart of loving his children and grandchildren, he wants to reunite and break the mirror, which is enough to motivate me to decide. ”
Mao Fumei and Chiang Ching-kuo
A few days later, Jiang's mother fell seriously ill and died on June 14, and on November 28 of that year, Chiang Kai-shek gathered his people and publicly announced his divorce, and on December 5, he married Chen Jieru in Shanghai. However, under the mediation of his clan, Mao Fumei divorced and did not leave home until he died in 1938 by the Japanese bombing.
However, in this world, there is always one thing and one thing, Chiang Kai-shek later married Soong Mei-ling, can only look at his wife's face and act, Soong Mei-ling will run away from home when he is angry, and Chiang Kai-shek can only whisper and plead in a low voice to make his wife discouraged.
2. Twice Fought with the rickshaw driver, but fell behind
He often made evil noises to his wives and concubines and colleagues, and Chiang Kai-shek was even more grumpy to his subordinates.
Just a few of his diaries:
April 7, 1921: "Frightened people, violent and violent, do not keep their mouths and do not take the oath of people, remember once." ”
February 21, 1925: "Drinking water by mistake, angering people, beating people, there is still humanity!" Remembered once. ”
October 11, 1925: "For the servants are stupid, everything is not satisfactory, and they are violent and impatient. "Extremely violent, beating people with their hands, remembering more than three times."
It was already common to work as a domestic servant at home, and outside he could not stop angry at the peddlers and pawns, "fighting for leisure" with people.
Before Chiang Kai-shek's departure, he spent many years in Shanghai Beach.
Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Jieru
In 1917, Chiang Kai-shek was instructed by Sun Yat-sen to open an exchange with Zhang Jingjiang and other Kuomintang elders in Shanghai to speculate in stocks, about the loss of stock speculation, which made him upset, on September 2 of that year, when he came to Zhang Jingjiang's home by rickshaw, he did not know whether it was for the fare or what, quarreled with the coachman, Chiang Kai-shek was furious, and beat the coachman, but the rickshaw driver with two arms was not easy to provoke, not only beat Chiang Kai-shek with his hands, but also injured the future commander of the Northern Expedition who graduated from the Japanese military academy. It is really a force to drop ten will.
On October 1, 1919, the 32-year-old Chiang Kai-shek took a rickshaw to the home of another Kuomintang elder, Ju Zheng, who thought he had been insulted by the coachman, and angrily scolded outside the door, Ju Zheng's family heard the quarrel, helped him argue with the coachman, and as a result, he was beaten up, Chiang Kai-shek also went forward to help fists, chased all the way to the next door, "broke into people's homes, destroyed equipment", did not expect that this coachman was more courageous, with one enemy, knocked Chiang Kai-shek, Ju Zheng and Ju Zheng's family all to the ground, and then fled.
Chiang Kai-shek angrily wrote in his diary that day: "Fighting with villains for idleness, even to the point of brutal wrestling, it is not worth thinking to yourself." Yu's patience, never grow, why not! ”
In 1920, Chiang Kai-shek and Dai Jitao had a small conversation, dai criticized Chiang for being "temperamental and irritable", while Chiang said that "Yu also knew that he was wrong and could not change it in the end", and pondered that unless he did not bring "slaves" and worked hard, he would still start to beat people.
From the bottom of his heart, he did not look up to the common people.
3. Kicked by Liu Wendian, president of Anhui University, the world rumored to be a joke
Chiang Kai-shek had a strong sense of revenge, and often had the word "snow shame" in his diary, and he was grumpy about "the persecution and insults that he personally suffered in the past years.", and when he was in a high position, he even reprimanded and scolded his subordinates at every turn, frightening a large number of high-ranking officials to tremble when they saw him, and did not dare to say more than half a word.
His bodyguard chief Wang Shihe and the bodyguard officer Zhu Peiji waited by his side for a long time, and they were beaten and scolded the most, and according to military regulations, they could only be beaten and were not allowed to retreat, or Song Meiling could not look down, and said to Zhu Peiji: "Why do you stay like this, don't go fast!" Later, as soon as Zhu saw that Jiang was angry and wanted to move, he quickly covered the door and left, and Chiang Kai-shek also stopped his anger.
Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling
Chiang Kai-shek, who was accustomed to beating people with his hands, once touched a nail in front of the literati.
Liu Wendian, president of Anhui University, is a famous stranger at home and abroad, he was once the secretary of Sun Yat-sen in Japan, he can be regarded as a revolutionary elder, he is lonely and tall, he does not admire power, so he rarely puts the magnates in his eyes, often saying that "the university is not a yamen."
Liu Wendian
In 1928, when Chiang Kai-shek came to Anqing, Liu Wendian did not organize students to "welcome and send Ruyi" and did not welcome Chiang Kai-shek to "go to the school to speak", which angered Chiang Kai-shek. Liu Wendian also said angrily: "When I revolutionized with Mr. Zhongshan, you didn't know where it was!" ”
Chiang Kai-shek was angry, immediately moved, and gave Liu Wendian two slaps, even though Liu Wendian was not easy to provoke, although he was a literati, he also had a bloody nature, and without hesitation, he flew up and kicked Chiang Kai-shek, and later there were good people who were far-fetched, saying that it was precisely because Liu Wendian kicked Chiang Kai-shek's key point that Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling did not have children later.
Chiang Kai-shek was furious and immediately detained Liu Wendian, imprisoned him, and ordered him to be shot.
However, Liu Wendiantang was a university president, and his literary friends were all over the world, and some people immediately ran for it. On April 10, 1929, Hu Shi published an article entitled "Human Rights and Covenant Law", saying: "A senior of Anhui University was detained for many days because he confronted Chairman Jiang in language. His family and friends could only go around pleading, and they could never go to any court to sue Chairman Jiang. You can only intercede and not accuse, this is the rule of man, not the rule of law," Lu Xun also wrote in "Knowing the Difficulty of Doing Things": Liu Wendian was "locked up" because he did not call Chiang Kai-shek the chairman.
Under the pressure of public opinion, Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to release Liu Wendian, and later he hated Hu Shi to the bone, and repeatedly scolded Hu Shi in his diary for being hypocritical and inviting names.
However, Chiang Kai-shek, who has been beating people for a long time, also knows that this feature is not good, "If we do not change it quickly, we will certainly be slandered by others." Therefore, he vowed to achieve the "four noes", that is, "not to scold people with his mouth, not to beat people with his hands, not to be angry, and not to be arrogant", but with little effect.
In 1936, Chiang Kai-shek said in a speech to the Olympic team: "You are Chinese, you represent China when you go out, first, you should not fight, and second, you should show the arrogance of Chinese and not make others laugh." ”
It is easy to command others, but it is difficult to warn oneself, and Chiang Kai-shek himself has never been able to change the habit of beating people with irritability and beating people all his life.
In the summer of 1944, Chiang Kai-shek was walking in the countryside when he saw an officer beating and cursing Zhuangding, and Chiang Kai-shek, who was the "Supreme Commander," was furious and went forward to personally beat up the officer, and the following spring, he also ordered the officer to be shot.
It was not right for the officers to beat people, chiang kai-shek was justified in beating people, and it was true that only the governors were allowed to set fires and the people were not allowed to light lamps.