In the old society, it was normal for powerful people to have "three wives and four concubines", but there were also people with single-minded feelings. In the Republic of China period, there was a warlord who had more single-minded feelings, one wife and one concubine, and few scandals, and when there was a conflict between the right wife and the concubine, he easily resolved it with one move. This person is Yan Xishan.
Yan Xishan, born on October 8, 1883, a native of Hebian Village, Wutai County, Shanxi, was a child of a small landlord family who was mainly engaged in business, entered a private school at the age of nine, and was admitted to the Shanxi Wubei Academy to study in the army. In 1903, he went abroad to enter the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, and in 1909, he returned to China as an instructor in the Shanxi Army Elementary School.
In 1911, Yan Xishan participated in the Xinhai Revolution and later served as the viceroy of Shanxi, where he was in charge of the military and political power in Shanxi. Yan Xishan, who pursues the "philosophy of moderation", ruled Shanxi for 38 years from the xinhai Revolution, and is known as the "King of Shanxi". Compared with those greedy and indulgent warlords, Yan Xishan was a different kind.
Yan Xishan's original wife was named Xu Zhuqing, a native of Dafeng Village, Wutai County, ten miles away from the Yan family, and was a local noble family. In 1897, Yan Xishan honored the orders of his parents and married Xu Shi, who was 6 years older than himself. Yan Xu and the two have always had a good relationship, but Xu Zhuqing has never been pregnant.
Yan Xishan once wrote a pair of Yang Lian for Xu Zhuqing: "The true taste of Zhu Qing is there at four o'clock, and Yingfang has a room of ancient incense", which hangs in the doorway of her room. This is an ordinary mosaic of inlays, and Xu Zhuqing's name is embedded in the upper link, which shows Yan Xishan's feelings and evaluation of Xu Zhuqing.
Xu Zhuqing and Yan Xishan have been married for 15 years and have not been able to have a son and a half daughter. Yan Xishan is the only son, in order not to let the Yan family break the incense, Xu Zhuqing personally came forward and found a concubine for her husband, and Xu Lansen, the daughter of Xu Kunyou, the yao family corner of Datong City, was only 14 years old, and Yan Xishan agreed at a glance.
After marriage, Yan Xishan asked Xu Lansen to change his surname to Xu, the name Lan Sen, the word nursery, and the big lady as a sister, Zhu Qing is the longest, Lan Sen is the younger. The children born to Lan Sen should call Zhu Qing his mother and Call Lan Sen himself an aunt. Xu Lansen was very contentious after marriage, and soon added ding to the Yan family, giving birth to a total of 5 men and 1 woman. The children all obeyed the family rules, calling Xu Zhuqing as their mother and Xu Lansen as their aunt.
After the Battle of the Central Plains in 1930, Yan Xishan fled to Dalian in defeat. Xu Lansen took the fourth and fifth children all the way with him, and returned to Shanxi the next year. After returning, Xu Zhuqing, the wife of zheng, found that the fourth and fifth elders quietly called the concubine Xu Lansen "mother". Zheng's wife was furious and had a big fight with Yan Xishan. For the contradiction between his wife and concubine, Yan Xishan thought of a trick, to handle the big and small things in the family by the wife, so that the concubines were only responsible for serving themselves. Yan Xishan often sent his wife to visit his elders on his behalf, participate in weddings and funerals, and take care of all affairs in the clan. Xu Zhuqing, the wife of the wife, was able to attend important occasions with Yan Xishan, the scenery was unlimited, and she earned enough face, and the contradiction between wife and concubine was naturally resolved.