Kong Xiangxi was the husband of Song Yiling and the finance minister of Chiang Kai-shek's Nanjing Nationalist Government.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he took advantage of the situation and manipulated the wartime national economy for 20 years. He was corrupt at home and contacted the Japanese many times abroad.
In order to make money, Kong Xiangxi's face is thick and black,
He stabbed his brother-in-law Song Ziwen in the back and robbed Song Ziwen of his job, resulting in a major split within the Song family.
Song and Kong have been fighting for 20 years, and the two families have not interacted with each other for the elderly.
Kong Xiangxi has a nickname called "Haha Kong". It is said that his English name is "H.H.Kong" and the first two letters are pronounced exactly "ha".
On the surface, he always likes to play with others, and he laughs before he speaks, making people mistakenly think that he is a kind person.
In 1933, Kong Xiangxi took advantage of the contradiction between Chiang Kai-shek and Song Ziwen, ostensibly to persuade Him to make peace, but behind the scenes, he seized the power of Song Ziwen.
He this "haha hole" on
Thoroughly famous.
First, he had just been slapped by his brother-in-law, and he was stabbed by his brother-in-law
1933 was a year of bad luck for Song Ziwen. In August of that year, he visited the United States and negotiated two big ore bills with the Yankees, trying to balance the national fiscal revenue and expenditure with loans to China. As a result, as soon as I returned to China, I heard that there was a new financial deficit of 600 billion yuan.
Song Ziwen suddenly "exploded in place."
Two days later, Chiang Kai-shek came to Song Ziwen again to approve the money, saying that he was going to fight.
Song Ziwen and Chiang Kai-shek said that there was no money, and Chiang Kai-shek thought that there was something wrong with his attitude. The two came and went, and actually moved their hands.
Chiang Kai-shek's temper has always been bad, and when he got angry, he slapped Song Ziwen, and as a result, Song Ziwen was also angry, and he picked up the bench and was about to smash Chiang Kai-shek, but fortunately he was stopped in time by the guards.
Afterwards
When Song Ziwen returned home, he always felt that he had suffered a big loss, so he fell on the bed and pretended to die. In fact, he wanted to mobilize the whole family and go to denounce Old Jiang.
Mother Song chased after Chiang Kai-shek and angrily scolded Chiang Kai-shek, asking him to quickly apologize to his son, and Song Meiling was also a throw.
Chiang Kai-shek immediately admitted that he was too impulsive and should not have done it first, but Song Ziwen still wrote a resignation letter. At this time,
Song Ziwen's eldest brother-in-law, Kong Xiangxi, came to visit him.
First a consolation, and then with Song Ziwen to analyze the pros and cons. Why did the Song and Jiang families marry? It is nothing more than wanting to tie to the same trouser belt to make a fortune, the Kuomintang's finance minister Song family is not right, let who should be the family?
In fact, this point does not need to be said by Kong Xiangxi, and Song Ziwen also understands it
。 Just as Soong Ziwen was thinking about how to "get off the low pile", Chiang Kai-shek suddenly agreed to his resignation and then let Kong Xiangxi take his place.
Within two days, a newspaper called "Current Affairs Monthly" began to say that Song Ziwen had been the treasurer for seven years, and he had accumulated fatigue and illness, and his physical condition had problems.
Song Ziwen understood that in order to seek financial power, the eldest sister's family betrayed the second sister Song Qingling through the Lushan secret meeting Chiang Kai-shek, and forced him to join Chiang Kai-shek. Now it is still for the sake of financial power, and he has also been sold.
So he tore the newspaper to pieces in a fit of rage, ran to the media and shouted: I don't know how good my body is! I just don't want to be a dog of Chiang Kai-shek!
Song Ziwen could not explicitly scold his brother-in-law, because at that time, Song Ziwen was still alive. As a result, he could only scold Chiang Kai-shek in the newspapers for "laboring the people and hurting the wealth." In this way, Kong Xiangxi' reputation as a "haha hole" who seems to be kind on the surface but fierce in the heart has become loud!
Second, the life of "Haha Kong"
Mention this "haha hole", all said that he is not an ordinary person.
After his discovery, he claimed to be a descendant of Kong Shengren, born in a hugely rich family in Shanxi, and had opened several ticket numbers in his family. However, some people say that he is the seventy-fifth generation grandson of Confucius, but he is not a concubine, and he is a broken settlement.
Kong Xiangxi was the 56th generation descendant of Confucius, and during the Ming Dynasty, he moved from Qufu, Shandong to Taigu, Shanxi, and Kong Xiangxi's own grandfather had been a Wupin Hanlin scholar.
In the Qing Dynasty, there were many Jin merchants who operated ticket numbers, so his grandfather may have issued ticket numbers after he was awarded. By his father's generation, his family was in decline.
Kong Xiangxi's father was a poor talent in the late Qing Dynasty, who could not do business, and lived by guarding thirty acres of farmland and more than twenty tile houses.
Kong Xiangxi's mother was the daughter of a small trader, and later experienced war and the family property was destroyed. arrive
When Kong Xiangxi was six years old, his mother Pang Shi died because she was ill and had no money for treatment.
Father Kong took the family to his father-in-law and opened a private school in the local area to make a living. Later, when Kong Xiangxi was ten years old, he had a serious illness and survived by relying on the local Christian church hospital, so the entire Kong family converted to Christianity.
Kong Xiangxi studied hard from an early age and had a flexible mind, because he received funding from the church to study in the United States, met Song Xialing, and finally the two married, and later successfully squeezed into the upper echelons of politics.
At the end of the 1920s, after the death of Sun Yat-sen, the contradictions between Soong Ching Ling and Chiang Kai-shek intensified. Kong Xiangxi and Song Xialing, in order not to let the Song family lose power politically and lose the convenience of accumulating wealth, they could not afford to secretly secretly meet Chiang Kai-shek and betrayed Soong Qingling.
Song Xialing of girls' generation,
He once took following Sun Yat-sen as his goal in life, but later he did not know why he threw himself into the arms of Kong Xiangxi. But the only thing that is certain: she
He attaches great importance to Kong Xiangxi's ability to manage his finances.
When it comes to financial management, this is Song Ziwen's strength. He graduated from Harvard with a Ph.D. in Economics, and
Kong Xiangxi studied the "Master of Physics and Chemistry" at Yale University, and studied "mining". But he was still able to ascend to the throne smoothly and become the finance minister of the National Government. That's because the insiders of Chiang Kai-shek's government have no idea about financial management.
During Chiang Kai-shek's reign, he greatly relied on Soong Tzu-wen in terms of national economy and finances.
Song Ziwen raised billions of dollars for him in war funds.
When Sun Kedou chiang kai-shek and Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Kai-shek went down to the field together, no one within the Kuomintang was able to handle the financial problems well.
After getting Sun Ke to go to beg Jiang and Song to come back.
So, why is Kong Xiangxi not afraid that after he becomes the finance minister, he will not be able to deal with the financial and tax problems? On the one hand, Kong Xiangxi himself does have some financial management ability, but more importantly, on the other hand, he knows that after he becomes the finance minister, Song Ziwen will never be able to pick a son and leave. They were originally a family, and their financial interests were tied together.
Sure enough, later
The War of Resistance broke out. Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram telling Soong Ziwen to "put the overall situation first," and from then on, when the Nationalist government encountered difficulties, it used Soong Ziwen again, but did not give him the title.
epilogue
The title of "Haha Kong" is always reminiscent of the "hidden knife in laughter" in Gu Long's "Absolute Double Glory".
Chinese often say: reach out and don't hit the smiley face person. Kong Xiangxi is Song Ziwen's brother-in-law. Song Ziwen's resignation was proposed by himself, and Kong Xiangxi did not encourage him to resign. Although he finally put Song Ziwen together, Song Ziwen was not easy to say anything.
Later,
Chiang Kai-shek also found that Kong Xiangxi "only knows how to make money, not politics." But he is kind on the surface and loves to play "haha". After all, he was more "obedient" than the stinky-faced Song Ziwen, so he kept him as treasurer until 1943, when he found a reason to get him away.
In the autumn of 1947, Kong Xiangxi also had enough money, so he lied that his wife Song Yiling was critically ill and ran to the United States.