Jiang Menglin, a native of Yuyao, Zhejiang, is a very famous educator in modern and modern China, the president of Peking University, and the longest-serving president in the history of Peking University. Speaking of Jiang Menglin, I have to mention Hu Shi, his friendship with Hu Shi and Hu Shi is very deep, the two can be said to be old friends for many years, in 1961, Hu Shi's life is nearing the end, but at this time came the news that old friends are going to remarry, he became worried.
You may see that many people here do not understand, shouldn't old friends be blessed and happy when they get married? Why should Hu Shi be so worried? This is because Jiang Menglin's marriage is not an ordinary girl, and Hu Shi, as a close friend, is particularly worried that his old friend will be late.
When Jiang married his second wife, Hu Shi was still a witness, and Jiang's second wife was originally the wife of his good friend Gao Renshan, named Tao Zenggu. After the death of his friend, Jiang sympathized with Tao's living situation, and therefore took good care of him in life.
The two also fell in love for a long time and eventually fell in love. In the end, Jiang decided to divorce the original partner and marry Tao. And this marriage was also highly criticized at the time, some friends expressed support, some friends resolutely opposed, for example, Hu Shi's wife Jiang Dongxiu was very opposed to him thinking that his friend's wife could not be deceived, and Jiang also divorced his original partner for this reason, which made her feel disgusted.
In 1958, Chiang's wife Tao died. After that, Jiang also soon had the idea of continuing the string, and this time the object of marriage was named Xu Xianle. Xu Xianle, a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, was born into a prestigious family, and had previously married Yang Jie, the chief of staff of the Northern Expeditionary Army, but only for a short period of seven months, and the latter two eventually got divorced because of financial problems.
Speaking of Xu Xianle in his early years, he can be described as a magnificent person, although she once had a marriage, but that marriage was unusually short, and she did not have children, and the maintenance was very good, so although she and Jiang met, she was already more than half a hundred years old, but it was still charming, and she also immediately attracted Jiang, at that time Jiang was already over seventy years old, and Xu Xianle was only 50 years old.
Soon after, Jiang decided to marry Xu, and his long-time friend Hu Shiyi was unusually adamantly opposed to his decision to marry this time. And Hu Shi also wrote him a letter to express his opinion, in his opinion, Xu is a standard gold worshipper, and is still very means, but Hu Shi's persuasion did not have any effect, because at this time Jiang could not listen to anything, he was full of only Xu Xianle at that time.
And this matter is not only Hu Shi's opposition, even Zhang Qun, Chen Cheng and other friends who are also Jiang, have also expressed their objections to this marriage, even Song Meiling is also opposed, but they finally failed to prevent Jiang and Xu from marrying, and finally on July 18, 1961, the two finally held a wedding as they wished.
On the wedding night, Xu asked Jiang to make a list of all his personal savings abroad and hand it to her, and just after getting married, he showed his impatient desire for money. At the end of 1962, Jiang accidentally suffered a foot injury and was hospitalized, and during the hospitalization, Xu did not take any care of Jiang, still eating and drinking outside, and also took the opportunity to transfer all his property, and also transferred all his daughter's deposits and shares. In the end, he also moved his hukou in the Jiang family. By the time Jiang was discharged from the hospital with a foot injury, he was long gone.
On April 10, 1962, Jiang sued Xu in the Taipei District Court for divorce, but Xu was not so easy to deal with, and she was familiar with the matter of divorce and property division, and the two began a three-month entanglement over the divorce. It was not until January 23, 1964, that the divorce case was finally settled through mediation, and Jiang was sentenced to pay 500,000 yuan in alimony, and finally successfully divorced.
On June 19, 1964, six months after divorcing Xu again, Jiang Menglin, who was physically and mentally exhausted and full of love and hate, passed away at the age of 78.
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The Biography of Jiang Menglin