Qian Xuesen famously said: "My surname is Qian, but I don't love money." It is said that this is the sentence he left the deepest impression on his son Qian Yonggang. Together with Qian Xuesen, Qian Weichang and Qian Sanqiang, who are also called "three money", do not love money.
"Three money" generally refers to "the father of China's aerospace", "the father of China's missiles" Qian Xuesen, "the father of Modern Chinese mechanics" Qian Weichang, "the father of China's atomic bomb" Qian Sanqiang, in 1956 formulated China's first 12-year scientific plan. Qian Xuesen, Qian Weichang, and Qian Sanqiang were collectively called "Three Qian", which was originally called "alias" by Chairman Mao, and later called "Three Qian" by Premier Zhou in China's scientific and technological circles. "Three Money" is an outstanding figure in the Chinese science world and the world's top scientific figure.
There is a story about Qian Xuesen and Qian: In October 2001, the Hong Kong Fok Ying Tung Awards Award Committee awarded Qian Xuesen the "Fok Ying Tung Outstanding Award" with a prize of HK$1 million. Qian Xuesen could not personally accept the award due to his mobility problems, so he entrusted Jiang Ying and his son Qian Yonggang to go there.
The wife and son went, and Qian Xuesen was very happy. Before leaving, Qian Xuesen looked at his wife Jiang Ying dressed elegantly and decently, and suddenly asked: "You go to collect money?" Jiang Ying said: "Well, I went to collect the money..." Qian Xuesen smiled and said: "The money belongs to you, and the prize belongs to me!" Jiang Ying did not react for a moment and said, "Of course the prize belongs to you!" Qian Xuesen laughed out loud: "Money belongs to you, and the prize belongs to me!" Only then did Jiang Ying understand that the "award" that Qian Xuesen said referred to her was her surname "Jiang", which meant that she herself (Jiang) belonged to Qian Xuesen, and Qian Xuesen also returned her own "money" to her. Jiang Ying thought about it a little, "Then we said okay, you want the award, I want money." Both of them laughed knowingly.
This sentence was widely circulated later, that is, the money belongs to you, and the prize (Jiang) belongs to me. Some netizens said that this is the most touching love word that Qian Xuesen said to his wife Jiang Ying, they have been with each other for a lifetime, and Qian Xuesen has only a few words but is full of affection. It can be seen that in the life of chai rice oil and salt, they love people more than money. Although, they also had days of lack of money, such as: In 1950, when Qian Xuesen went to port to prepare to return to China, he was stopped by American officials and put him in prison, detaining him on Themina Island for 14 days until he received a huge bail of $15,000 from the California Institute of Technology. This money was collected by teachers and students of caltech through fundraising under Jiang Ying's appeal. It is through the days of lack of money to take care of each other and accompany each other, they love each other more.
Compared with Qian Xuesen and Jiang Ying, Qian Weichang and his wife Kong Xiangying were once very short of money, but they still did not love money.
In the mid-to-late 1930s, Qian Weichang, a senior student in the Department of Physics of Tsinghua University, met Kong Xiangying, a talented woman from the Department of Chinese, and quickly attracted each other, but before they could express themselves, the "July Seven" incident occurred, and more than a year later, Qian Weichang saw Kong Xiangying. Because of their hearts, they quickly married and had a child, but Qian Weichang then went abroad, and his son Qian Yuankai could only be raised by Kong Xiangying alone. A woman with a child did not have much income, not to mention that it was still a difficult period of resistance. Qian Weichang was frugal in foreign provinces and constantly received help from Kong Xiangying, and the hardships of life can be imagined. When Qian Weichang returned to China in September 1946, her son Qian Yuankai was already 7 years old, and Kong Xiangying took Qian Yuankai to live alone for 6 years, and she lacked more than money for this long 6 years.
Later, Qian Weichang did not care about chai rice oil and salt, and in 1982, he attended an academic conference in Wuxi, and after the meeting, he toured with his friends. Seeing that everyone was a little thirsty, he wanted to buy some watermelon for everyone. Came to the melon stall, because he did not understand the market and would not bargain, the money spent was 10 times more expensive than others, which made everyone laugh. And his usual diet and living are also arranged by his wife Kong Xiangying, so that he does not use money very much, let alone love money.
Not being able to use money and not loving money does not mean that Qian Weichang has forgotten the days of lack of money. At the end of the last century, he suffered a small stroke while going to a conference in Beijing and was admitted to Beijing Hospital. But he insisted on returning to Shanghai for treatment. The doctor scolded him and said, "You don't want to die? At such an old age, do you dare to take a plane when you are so sick? But he still did not obey, because he could not let go of his wife Kong Xiangying in his heart, and his wife Kong Xiangying was also ill in Shanghai.
Therefore, there was Qian Weichang's "risk of death" to return to Shanghai to protect his wife - from then until Kong Xiangying's death in 2001, he was nearly 90 years old, and every day at 3:30 p.m., he had to go to the hospital to visit Kong Xiangying without moving, although he failed to keep his wife, but his white hair left a touching picture of a deep affection for people. This is Qian Weichang, and those days of lack of money have finally turned into loving his wife and wife in his heart. In Qian Xuesen's "Money Belongs to You, Award (Jiang) Belongs to Me", these two people surnamed Qian are really the same.
Like Qian Xuesen and Jiang Ying, Qian Weichang and Kong Xiangying, Qian Sanqiang and his wife He Zehui are also people who do not love money. Like Jiang Ying and Kong Xiangying, He Zehui is also a famous girl, but Jiang Ying is a singer and Kong Xiangying's educator, and He Zehui is a scientist like her husband Qian Sanqiang, and is even known as "China's Curie Lady". Although they don't love money, Qian Sanqiang and He Zehui have a common feature, and they can spend money tightly.
In the spring of 1949, the World Peace Council was scheduled to convene its council in France. The chairman of the council is Joliot Curie, and Qian Sanqiang, a member of the Chinese delegation to the council, wants to take advantage of this meeting in France to ask Jolio Curie to buy some scientific instruments that are lacking in France. It cost 200,000 US dollars to buy these scientific instruments, but at that time, Peiping had just been peacefully liberated, New China had not yet been established, and money was needed in all aspects. Qian Sanqiang took the money to France, counted the flowers with his fingers, and forced them all to be spent on the blade.
He Zehui is the same, his father is named He Cheng, when she was very young, his father found a comfortable life for the whole family. Not only did the family have a factory and a car, but my father often took his eight siblings on a tour. But when she went to Shanghai to take the university, her father only gave her two yuan, and joked with her: "If you are admitted to college, you will go to school, and if you don't pass the examination, you will be a maid." "As for her, she didn't spend money indiscriminately, and she came to Shanghai by boat with several female classmates, and in order to save money, she also built a bunk at a classmate's house for the night.
Now it seems that these can be called the excellent qualities of excellent people, but what makes people even more moved today is that Qian Sanqiang and He Zehui, who met and had a good feeling for each other on the university campus in 1932, did not have the courage to express themselves until 1945, when they were both in their early 30s. At that time, Qian Sanqiang, 32 years old in France, sent a marriage proposal letter within 25 words to He Zehui, who was far away in Germany: "After a long period of correspondence, I have made a request for marriage to you. Soon, he waited in uneasiness to the reply of He Zehui, who was 31 years old: "Thank you for your love, I will always be loyal to you." When we meet, we will return to China together. ”
Just these two short words, let the two scientists and with deep affection, hold hands and accompany each other through half a century of life. In this process, they have almost no more verbal expressions of their love, but invariably express their feelings for the motherland. Qian Sanqiang said: "Although science has no borders, scientists have a motherland. It is precisely because the motherland is poor and backward that it is more necessary for scientists to work hard to change her appearance. He Zehui said: "The state is such a thing, no matter what, as long as it is beneficial to the country, I will do it." ”
This is also the voice of the older generation of scientists such as "Three Money" for the dedication of the country, and about money, Qian Sanqiang and He Zehui also have their own unique understanding. Qian Sanqiang said: "No matter what kind of scientific research we are engaged in, we must have an economic point of view; one is to serve the improvement of economic efficiency; the second is to save money to the greatest extent; and the third is to achieve the effect of making money as quickly as possible." He Zehui did not say much, but her personal life was extremely simple, and she put herself in the position of an ordinary person on any occasion, and even got such an evaluation from her daughter: "She is a very ordinary old lady." ”
In 1992, Qian Sanqiang died. Regarding love, he did not say anything to his wife He Zehui, but He Zehui has always been immersed in the memories of him, and even the things in the family have not changed their positions, and they have retained the old appearance of his life. In he Zehui's love, people also see his love for He Zehui, although there is no humor and romance of "money belongs to you, award (Jiang) belongs to me", but it is also deep and lasting.
In 2006, when the reporter interviewed He Zehui, he saw a dilapidated wallet, which was used by Qian Sanqiang, in addition to the complete zipper, the skin was pieced together in the east and west, and it contained several 86-year-old food stamps. Who can say that this wallet is only the money of the three strongest money? At the beginning, we seem to have found the biggest common denominator of the "three coins": they all love the motherland, love their careers, and love their wives, but they all love money.
Finally, to add, on that occasion, the one million Hong Kong dollars that Jiang Ying led back were finally donated. In this regard, Jiang Ying once said: "If a scientific researcher is full of money, honor, and status, even if he is very smart, he will not become a great instrument." And the people often say that money has "eyes", and once people fall into the eyes of money, they can see nothing but money.
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