Born in a turbulent society, he grew up in the midst of war and learned in Japan, where discrimination against his countrymen was imposed. The twists and turns of life prompted him to become a soldier with wisdom and courage, and he was Jiang Baili!
Jiang Baili was born in a typical poor family in Tongxiang, Zhejiang Province, and since his father died at an early age, he could only rely on his mother for his life. Her mother relied on the meager income brought by weaving cloth to maintain the family, and Jiang Baili knew that her mother was not easy, and she was very sensible from an early age!
Although Mother Jiang is a woman, she still clearly understands that only reading can change her destiny. So she sent Jiang Baili to school, and like her parents all over the world, she hoped that Jiang Baili would be able to obtain a meritorious name and become a high official.
Jiang Baili knew that his mother was not easy, so he studied well. Of course, he also showed his talent at the age of 4. He knows more than his peers, and he also knows many Chinese characters, and at the age of 5, he can recite famous classics such as the Four Books and Five Classics.
When I grew up a little, I began to write poetry, and the poems I made not only rhymed and had a good idea of fighting, but also very neatly divided, and no one in ten miles and eight townships was amazed!
Jiang Baili's talent did not end up "disappearing" like Fang Zhongyong, but was able to continue to be maintained, thanks to his neighbor Xiucai.
Neighbor Xiucai is not a real neighbor, but a showman hired by a neighbor to give a lecture to his children.
Every day, Jiang Baili heard the sound of reading near the wall, he felt very curious, and gradually sneaked to the neighbor's house to listen to Xiucai's lectures and express his own views, Xiucai saw that Jiang Baili had a unique view of the article and admired him very much.
Then he said to Baili's mother, "This child is very intelligent and a material that can be made, and I am willing to teach him to read without charging you for it." Since then, he has learned from Xiucai.
In 1898, at the age of 16, Jiang Baili was admitted to Xiucai.
At the age of 16, he was like a small adult, knowing that the country was in deep trouble, and the idea of saving the country began to sprout in his mind, and he decided: Save the country and people in the midst of war.
He became more diligent in his studies, hoping to find a way to save the country from the wisdom of the ancients.
The ideas of Li Hongzhang and others began to influence the whole country, new schools sprung up in various places, and each school began to imitate the foreign school system, leadership style, talent training method, and teaching organization form.
He was also introduced to a new school in Hangzhou (Qiushi Academy), where he excelled and was sent to Japan to study at the school.
In Japan, he was discriminated against, but he still maintained a studious heart. He saw that the once small country had become so powerful, and the people's minds were very clear, and he began to think about why Japan was progressing and why China was decaying day by day.
He began to realize that China's five-thousand-year history has never stopped flowing. Now that the government is incompetent, foreign powers have invaded, and the Chinese people are in deep trouble, he feels a huge sense of powerlessness! It was also during this period that his national consciousness awakened!
Chinese should unite and resist!
Lu Xun abandoned medicine and followed Wen, and he chose to abandon Wen and join the army. In Japan he began his military career at the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School and also began his legendary career!
Since then, he has studied extensively, although he studied the infantry department, he is also good at cavalry skills, so Jiang Baili keeps learning every day, and organizes activities to exercise himself in his spare time!
In 1905, he graduated with the first place and was crowned the top of the non-commissioned officer list, and the top person on the list was given a sword by the emperor, and he received this honor that the Japanese considered! But the Japanese didn't get it!
The Japanese felt great shame that the "sick man of East Asia" actually won!
We all know that the Japanese are people who understand small gifts but do not know big gifts, and they are also people who seem to be generous but are actually small in temperament, and after he won the competition, the Japanese began to teach Chinese and Japanese students separately!
Back in the motherland, he was reused by the Qing government at that time, and Yuan Shikai's government also valued him very much and appointed him as the principal of the Baoding Military Academy!
Our people now don't know much about the Baoding Military Academy, but at that time, the status of this school was the same as that of the Whampoa Military Academy, and Chiang Kai-shek, Ye Ting, and others all graduated from the Baoding Military Academy!
During his tenure, he did everything he did, and at that time, army combat was very important for the country, so the cultivation of people in this area could not be taken lightly.
He knew this well, so he asked the War Department for permission to approve military expenses, but he was refused! He was ashamed of all the teachers and students in the school, so he shot himself!
Fortunately, he was saved and sent to the hospital in time, where he also met the love of his life!
During his hospital stay, he met Sato, a nurse from Hokkaido, Japan, and under Sato's meticulous care, he recovered not only from his body, but also with his heart.
He recovered from his illness and began to pursue the woman.
The image of the Japanese at that time was tainted in the hearts of the Japanese, and Sato did not immediately agree with Jiang Baili. Looking at the people who pursued her, she did not dare to make her own decisions, so she flew back to Japan by taking advantage of her mother's illness and needing to be taken care of.
Watching his beloved reject him, he felt defeated. Hearing that her beloved had flown back to Japan, he knew that she was determined not to be with her. But Jiang Baili did not give up, but chose another way to continue pursuing.
That's writing!
He began to write letters, in which he comforted Sato's parents and shared interesting things about his life, sometimes taking the opportunity to express his love for Sato.
In this way, Sato was impressed by this Chinese man, and Sato's parents were also impressed! The Chinese man is someone worthy of his daughter's lifelong trust. In 1914, the two married, and Jiang Baili gave her a Chinese name called Jiang Zuomei.
After getting married, Zuo Mei began to devote herself to the family, began to learn Chinese dialect, learn Chinese cuisine, and after giving birth to children, the education of children was in accordance with the customs of Chinese, like a Chinese image.
Yuan Shikai restored the imperial system, and after becoming emperor, he began to send people to follow Jiang Baili every day, and Jiang Baili knew that Yuan Shikai's actions would only lead to the destruction of the country, so he took advantage of Yuan Shikai's relaxation of surveillance and went all the way south to Guangzhou to join the two Guangdong troops to fight Yuan Shikai.
Yuan Shikai eventually died!
In 1918, he and Liang Qichao began to travel to Europe for field research to understand how European thought changed from feudal to enlightened. They wrote the History of the European Renaissance, and their writings also made the later Chinese people's understanding of Europe further.
He once defected to the warlord and wanted to save the country through the power of the warlord, but later he discovered the ugly face of the warlord and learned that China under the warlord was another purgatory on earth.
In 1931, he knew the current situation of the country and knew that there must be a war between China and Japan, so he wrote the book "On National Defense", in which he put forward many unique views and called on the whole country to prepare for war.
His love for his wife was not diminished by the Sino-Japanese War, and when his five golden flowers began to dislike his mother as Japanese, he educated his children and comforted his wife, who knew that it was not easy for her to be alone in a foreign land. Still treat her as yourself!
In 1938, Chiang Kai-shek appointed him president of the Army University, hoping that he would train one batch after another of soldiers! Unfortunately, he passed away in November of this year!
Although Jiang Baili died, his patriotic idea of saving the country did not disappear, but affected groups of young people one after another. His students continue to pass on his ideas: to defend the motherland, to defend the homeland.
He had 5 daughters in his lifetime, one of whom is well known throughout the country, she is Jiang Ying, and Jiang Ying's husband is the famous scientist Qian Xuesen.
In fact, Jiang Ying was sent to the Qian family to raise her when she was a child, Qian's father and Qian's mother recognized her as a dry daughter, and Qian Xuesen was her brother. However, in the later period, Zuo Mei was reluctant to have the child and took the child back home.
But yeah! Jiang Ying finally returned to the Qian family as a daughter-in-law, which is probably fate!
The love between the two generations also responds to that sentence: people with fate will always meet no matter where they are. The exotic Jiang Baili with Sato, Jiang Ying and Qian Xuesen.