Soon after the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, there were some girls who did not want to go to the examination, in 1927, the Wuhan branch of the Whampoa Military Academy recruited the first batch of girls, and there was a Hunan girl with outstanding appearance in the girls' team, who came from an extraordinary background, and his great-grandfather was zeng Guoquan, the governor of Liangjiang and the crown prince of the Qing Dynasty, zeng Guoquan was the ninth brother of Zeng Guofan, a heavy minister of the late Qing Dynasty, and was a famous general of the Xiang Army who led troops to attack the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom "Tianjing".
Zeng Guoquan's descendants are all readers, because of the wealth of the family, the Zeng family has been studying behind closed doors for generations, no one is engaged in politics, Zeng Xianzhi's father graduated from Hunan Public Law and Politics College, his brother is a bachelor's degree from Central University and a master's degree from the University of London, his sister is a bachelor's degree from Hunan University and a master's degree from Yenching University, and his younger siblings are studying at South China University, Hunan University and Shanghai Guanghua University.
Zeng Xianzhi
Zeng Xianzhi was supposed to apply for higher education like his brothers and sisters, but Zeng Xianzhi saw that the state affairs were not good, was not willing to bury his head in the study, resolutely broke away from the family, and quietly applied for the Whampoa Military Academy, because of her appearance, she was known as the most beautiful girl in the Whampoa Military Academy.
After graduation, Zeng Xianzhi participated in the Guangzhou Uprising, after the failure of the uprising, in the low tide of the revolution, she joined the Communist Party, followed Ye Jianying to Hong Kong, and married a couple, soon, the couple was separated for some reason, reunited in Hong Kong in 1937, Zeng Xianzhi gave birth to Ye Jianying's second son Ye Xuanning in 1938.
In 1941, Zeng Xianzhi came to Yan'an, just as she came to the door of Ye Jianying's residence with joy, she suddenly heard a sentence that the guards had no intention of saying, and from then on, she never returned to Ye Shuai's side, but lived alone with Ye Xuanning, single to old age.
Although Zeng Xianzhi was known as the "Four Beauties of Yan'an" and many people wanted to marry her, this highly ambitious woman devoted her life to the revolutionary cause, serving as the secretary of Song Qingling and Deng Yingchao, and at the founding ceremony, she was designated to accompany Song Qingling to the Tiananmen Tower, and later became vice chairman of the All-China Women's Federation and a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, making extraordinary achievements in the cause of the united front.
1. Fell in love with Ye Shuai at first sight and married in the revolutionary trough
In 1923, Zeng Xianzhi was admitted to a famous hunan female teacher, she learned piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since childhood, sang a peking opera with a straight mouth, and was also a basketball star of the female teacher's school team because of her slender body and flexible movements.
In 1927, Zeng Xianzhi, who was supposed to go to the university, heard that the Whampoa Military Academy was about to recruit a group of girls in the Wuhan branch, so he hid his family and followed several classmates to apply for the exam, becoming the first batch of female students in Huangpu, among the 40 female students, she not only had excellent training results, but also her image and temperament were also very eye-catching, and she was known as the most beautiful girl in Huangpu.
A few days after going to school, Wang Jingwei announced the "separation of the communists", the military school was forced to close, the girls' team graduated early, Zeng Xianzhi and others were assigned to the military medical department of the Second Front of the National Revolutionary Army.
After the Nanchang Uprising, she went south with the officers' teaching group, and then participated in the Guangzhou Uprising, after which she followed Ye Jianying to Hong Kong to engage in underground activities. In the spring of 1928, at the lowest point of the revolution, she risked being arrested and beheaded, joined the Chinese Communist Party, and soon after, she married Ye Jianying and became Ye Shuai's third wife.
Ye Jianying and Zeng Xianzhi
Ye Jianying's first wife was an arranged marriage with no children, and his second wife was Feng Hua, a medical worker who married in Guangzhou in 1924, and gave birth to his eldest son Ye Xuanping and his eldest daughter Ye Chumei. Ye Jianying was sun Yat-sen's right-hand man, serving as the commander of the Second Reorganized Division and the chief of staff of the Fourth Army in the National Revolutionary Army, and his position was extraordinary, at that time, he was the only one who could enter Chiang Kai-shek's office with a sword, but later Ye Jianying discovered that Chiang Kai-shek relied on the powerful to hate the true face of the workers and peasants, the two turned friends into enemies, and Ye Jianying's life after that also experienced great twists and turns and ups and downs, successively participated in the Nanchang Uprising and the Guangzhou Uprising, drifted everywhere, and also lost with Feng Hua.
In 1928, the 18-year-old Zeng Xianzhi and the 31-year-old Ye Jianying developed sincere feelings on the road of common hardships, and married him regardless of the age gap, but they did not expect that after that, the couple would be separated from each other, because of fate, they finally had no share.
2, because of the beauty of the look, helpless and lost with her husband
In 1928, after Zeng Xianzhi and Ye Jianying married, her superiors planned to let her study in the Soviet Union with Ye Jianying, but at that time, the number of people who stayed in the Soviet Union was already excessive, and Zeng Xianzhi took the initiative to give up his quota, worked in the Shanghai underground party left-behind organ, and studied at South China University.
In May 1929, Zeng Xianzhi was arrested and imprisoned for participating in demonstrations against the Kuomintang government and posting slogans in the streets, and after being rescued by the underground party organization, she went to Japan to study, and soon the Japanese government went around to check on the Chinese revolutionaries in Japan and arrested her and imprisoned her.
In 1931, Zeng Xianzhi returned to the motherland, at this time Ye Jianying had also returned to China, the couple had a hard time reuniting, a few days later, the two received an order to go to the Central Soviet District, because Zeng Xianzhi had a good appearance and outstanding temperament, the people who arranged the task were worried that she would easily attract attention when she passed the Kuomintang blockade line, so they arranged for her to go to Hong Kong, Ye Jianying went to the Soviet area alone, and after another year, the two lost their news.
In 1936, during the Long March, Ye Jianying proposed to Wei Gongzhi, who had known him for many years, a classmate of Zeng Xianzhi, who had participated in the Guangzhou Uprising, studied with Ye Jianying at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, and had a bumpy marriage experience before, and in July 1936, the two held a wedding ceremony in Anse, Shaanxi.
The right one was Tsang Ken-sik
In December of that year, after the Xi'an Incident, Ye Jianying and one of the dangerous arches rose up to work in Xi'an, and in 1938, after Ye Jianying's public activities in Xi'an, Zeng Xianzhi, who was far away in Hong Kong, read his news in the newspaper and wrote to contact him. At this time, Wei Gongzhi went to Shanghai to carry out a mission, seriously ill and hospitalized, in the hospital, Wei Gongzhi heard the news that Zeng Xianzhi was still in the human world and had made contact with Ye Jianying, and she and Zeng Xianzhi were once classmates of the Wuhan Military Academy, comrades-in-arms of the Guangzhou Uprising, and they were sisters, so they resolutely decided to leave Ye Jianying.
In 1938, Zeng Xianzhi went to the Kuomintang district to reunite with Ye Jianying, who was a representative of the Eighth Route Army, for the third time, but due to the urgency of the Anti-Japanese War, she was again transferred to Hong Kong, at this time she was pregnant, and Ye Jianying did not know it.
Zeng Xianzhi and the newborn Ye Xuanning
In October 1938, Zeng Xianzhi gave birth to her only child, Ye Xuanning, in Hong Kong, after giving birth, she was sent to work in the Eighth Route Army Office in Guilin, serving as an underground traffic liaison officer, it was inconvenient to take the child, Zeng Xianzhi sent Ye Xuanning, who was only a few months old, to the Zeng family in Heye Town, Shuangfeng County, Xiangxiang Township, Hunan Province, where she was raised by her stepmother and received an education from the Zeng family school from an early age.
3. A sentence from the guard made Zeng Xianzhi cut off the love affair
In 1941, Zeng Xianzhi finally came to the holy land of Yan'an, which she longed for, and entered the Marxist-Leninist College to study.
She looked forward to returning to her long-missed husband, and as soon as she arrived in Yan'an, she rushed to the military commission station where Ye Jianying was located, but unexpectedly, just outside the gate, she heard two soldiers chatting and saying: "The daughter of Chief of Staff Ye's family looks so cute!" ”
Ye Jianying and Ye Xiangzhen
Zeng Xianzhi's heart suddenly cooled, and later, she learned that after her third separation, Ye Jianying became a member of the Standing Committee of the Southern Bureau in January 1939, and in February 1939, the Southern Bureau asked two stenographers from the New Fourth Army Headquarters in Yunling, Anhui Province, to take them back to the Chongqing Hongyan Office as a confidential officer, and one of them, a young girl named Wu Bo, had a relationship with Ye Jianying day and night, and the two married in 1940.
On the eve of Zeng Xianzhi's arrival in Yan'an, in February 1941, Ye Jianying was appointed chief of staff of the Central Military Commission and chief of staff of the Eighteenth Group Army, and he accompanied the pregnant Wu Bo, whose second daughter Ye Xiangzhen had just been born in Yan'an.
Although she and Ye Jianying have had a fate for more than ten years before and after, but most of the time after their marriage is in a state of upheaval and displacement, mutual contact, the real time together is only a few months, it is the sowing of fate, so that Zeng Xianzhi has never been able to come to Ye Jianying's side, can only labor Yan fly, therefore, this time she completely cut off the love affair, since then single-mindedly at work, her son Ye Xuanning grew up in her hometown of Shuangfeng Tea Town, Hunan Province, until she was 11 years old, before she was taken to Beijing.
Zeng Xianzhi and Ye Xuanning
Zeng Xianzhi had successively served as the secretary of Soong Ching Ling and Deng Yingchao, had strong work ability, and had been engaged in women's united front work for a long time; at the founding ceremony, Mao Zedong personally named him, and Zeng Xianzhi, who had been Song Qingling's secretary and had known him for many years, helped Song Qingling to appear on the tower of Tiananmen Square, so he was able to stand behind Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, and other founding fathers.
During her work in Yan'an, Zeng Xianzhi was once known as one of the "Four Beauty of Yan'an" because of her outstanding appearance, she was not only born extraordinary, her talent and conversation were also quite clever, so there were many people who acted as a matchmaker for her, but Zeng Xianzhi suffered a heavy blow emotionally after the tortuous experience of three gatherings and three differentities, and had no intention of entering marriage again, working single-mindedly to dispel her inner distress, since then, she has been single, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, she was the vice chairman of the All-China Women's Federation and a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Although he had no relationship with Zeng Xianzhi, Ye Jianying and Ye Xuanning's father-son relationship was very close, and he was concerned about the growth of his son for a long time, in 1950, when Ye Jianying entered Beijing from Guangzhou, he specially detoured to Hunan and took his son to Beijing with him, and Ye Xuanning was also the most temperamental ability of the Ye family's children, who was strong-willed, affectionate and righteous, and was proud and extra important by Ye Jianying.