On July 31, 1948, Feng Yuxiang was invited by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to participate in the preparatory work for the political consultative conference of the Chinese people, and with the help of Pan Youxin, the Soviet ambassador to the United States, he returned from the United States to china by the "victory" ship through the Black Sea and was in the port of Odessa (now part of Ukraine). At noon on September 1, the Victory was traveling towards the soviet port of Odessa when the ship caught fire, and Feng Yuxiang was unfortunately killed at the age of 66.
As a soldier, Feng Yuxiang has been fighting in the country since the Xinhai Revolution. However, this great general, even the final death is shrouded in mysteries. Even so, under his teaching, his son is well aware of the principle of patriotism and love for the party, and now at the age of 103 and hundreds of billions of assets, he still retains chinese nationality.
Feng Yuxiang, the "defecting general", has a changeable direction but does not change his patriotism
Feng Yuxiang seems to be "not firm" and has defected many times in the years of serving in the army, but in fact, in terms of loyalty and patriotism, he is also at the forefront.
According to historical records, from the beginning of joining the army until his death, Feng Yuxiang experienced three defections. The first time was to participate in the "Luanzhou Uprising", this time the purpose was to oppose the rule of the Qing Dynasty, but due to the hasty preparation and lack of experience, the uprising failed, and he was dismissed from his post and investigated, but fortunately he was not killed. The second was the Beijing Incident, which wanted to overthrow the Beiyang government controlled by the warlords Cao Kun and Wu Peifu. Following Sun Yat-sen, he directly participated in the Zhifeng War and served as the commander-in-chief of the Nationalist Army, and the warlords of the direct line were devastated.
The third time, an anti-Chiang war against the dictatorial rule of the old Chiang Kai-shek, joined forces with Yan Xishan's forces to launch the Central Plains War, but ultimately ended in failure. At the time of the last defection, Feng Yuxiang was also harassed because he did not cooperate with the civil war that Lao Jiang wanted to launch.
Therefore, after he eventually died due to a fire on the ship, the suspicion of the true cause of his death continued. But even when such a thing happened, his children still followed his teachings, and even if they studied and lived abroad, they never forgot their motherland. His only surviving son is now 103 years old, and some hundreds of billions of dollars are still not separated from Chinese nationality.
My father taught me strictly, and life and study faced high requirements
Feng Yuxiang had two wives, the first wife Liu Dezhen died in 1923, leaving him with two boys and three women with five children. The eldest son, Feng Hongguo, grew up following Feng Yuxiang in the Southern Expedition to the Northern War, studied in the Soviet Union and Japan, and then followed Zhang Zizhong and Ji Hongchang to resist japan, and died in 1973; the eldest daughter, Feng Funeng, who studied in the Soviet Union, died of illness in 1979; the second daughter, Feng Fufa, studied in the Soviet Union and Germany, worked in wartime nursery during the War of Resistance, adopted many war orphans, and the third daughter, Feng Fuxuan, committed suicide by taking sleeping pills because of a dispute with her stepmother.
After Liu Dezhen's death, Feng Yuxiang married Li Dequan, who graduated from the Jingshi Women's Union University in the following year, and had three daughters and a son after marriage. Li Dequan's eldest daughter Feng Lida is a famous immunologist, and the second daughter Feng Yingda studied in the Soviet Union and returned to China to work in the library of Tsinghua University. The youngest daughter, Feng Xiaoda, was killed with Feng Yuxiang, while the son Feng Hongda studied in the Soviet Union in 1948 and returned to China after graduation to work in the Navy with the rank of rear admiral, and died in 1993.
Feng Yuxiang has a total of 9 children, and only the second son, Feng Hongzhi, born to his first wife, is still alive. He studied in Germany and the United States, is a famous nuclear physicist, opened a company in the United States and eventually became a billionaire, after liberation, he returned to China to build a mausoleum for Feng Yuxiang at the foot of Mount Tai, and is still alive and is 103 years old.
With Feng Yuxiang's status at that time, he was fully capable of providing the best living conditions for his children. However, he did not want his children to be contaminated with the vices of the children when they were young, otherwise he would not let the children suffer. My father served as a high-ranking official in the Nanjing government, but he himself acted as a shepherd in the wilderness, and this psychological gap was not a pressure that ordinary people could bear.
In addition to reducing living conditions, Feng Yuxiang has very strict requirements for his children's learning. It was under the supervision of his father for many years that several children were admitted to schools abroad and went abroad for further study. At the age of 12, Feng Hongzhi went to the Soviet Union with his second sister Feng Fufa to study, and then transferred to the Technical University of Berlin in Germany to study machinery.
After completing his studies, he personally participated in the design of many large nuclear power plants and important equipment for nuclear submarines in the United States, and made important contributions to the development of the American nuclear industry and machinery industry. He also served as vice president of The Walsington Company, a world-renowned pump production company, with a net worth of more than 100 billion.
Refused to join the foreign country, and still retains Chinese nationality
At that time, due to the outbreak of the Korean War, Feng Hongzhi was forced to stay in the United States. With his strength at the time, he was fully qualified to change to American citizenship. But Feng Hongzhi refused, as the son of a patriotic general, no matter how long he lived abroad, he was unwilling to change his identity as a Chinese.
After the end of the war, Feng Hongzhi finally returned to the embrace of his mother. Now that he is 103 years old, he still has not changed his original intention and will always be a pure Chinese.
brief summary
Under the education of good family style, the family will always maintain the patriotic heart. Feng Yuxiang sat on a high position with his own efforts, but still knew how to teach his children with the strictest requirements. It was under his education that many sons and daughters became talents. The only surviving son will continue to guard the honor of the country.
Reference: Eastern Battlefield