When you think of Song Ziwen, the first thing that comes to mind is definitely the four major families of Chiang Kai-shek, Song Kong, and Chen during the Republic of China period, associating him with Chiang Kai-shek, Song Meiling, and others, thinking that he was a particularly remarkable person who could call the wind and rain in the Republic of China.
This is indeed true, Song Ziwen was a politician, diplomat, and financier during the Republic of China period, who served as the finance minister of the Republic of China government, and was a figure who played a role in promoting the course of China's history.
But what I want to talk about today is not how this big guy called the wind and rain during the Republic of China period, what contributions he made, these you can easily check the historical materials can turn out a lot of things, you don't need me to talk nonsense. What I want to talk about is that he has just returned from studying in the United States, and he has a not-so-happy relationship with Miss Sheng Qi.
Who is Miss Sheng Qi? During the Republic of China period, there were two well-known Miss Seven in Shanghai Beach, one was Sun Baoqi's Seventh Miss Sun Yongfan, and the other was Sheng Aiyi, the seventh daughter of Sheng Xuanhuai, the largest capitalist in Shanghai Beach.
She is well-informed, not only can poetry embroidery, but also write a good hand, and because the head of the Sheng family at that time was her biological mother, many occasions that needed to be communicated let Sheng Aiyi cope with exercise, and when she came and went, she was famous for the name of "Sheng Qi".
It is a bit old-fashioned to say, this is the story of a rich lady falling in love with a poor boy, and even in today's society with many fresh terms, it can be said that it is the story of "rich lady" and "phoenix man".
Sheng Xuanhuai died in 1916, when Sheng Aiyi was only 16 years old. At that time, Song Ziwen had just returned from studying in the United States, and he was not the big guy who called the wind and rain later, just a fledgling newcomer, when he found himself a very good job, and at that time, the largest steel associated company Han Yeping Company, gave Sheng Enyi an English secretary.
At that time, because of his work relationship, he often went to Shengfu, so he met Sheng Aiyi, and because of his return from studying in the United States, he also became Sheng Aiyi's English teacher, and the two became a teacher-student relationship. During the class, Song Ziwen often talked about the scenery and customs of the other side of the ocean, and soon this erudite English teacher won the affection of Miss Seven.
The girl stayed at home all year round, and although the elders often exposed her to some high-society gatherings, and learned from them, there was no resistance to the booing and warming of a very good man.
But the love affair of sixteen or seventeen-year-old teenagers always could not hide from the elders, and Mrs. Zhuang saw the affection between the two, but at that time, the gap between the two people's life portals was too large, which was not advisable in China at that time. In order to separate them, Sheng Enyi transferred Song Ziwen to Wuhan and became the chief of the accounting department of the Hanyang Iron Works of Hanyeping Company, in order to eliminate the fate of the two.
But for young people, there is often an absolute rebellious psychology, the more you block, the more you do not allow, but it will increase the firmness of their mutual feelings, giving birth to a stubborn psychology that I must prove to you.
But the gap between the family is after all a big mountain in the relationship between the two, the Sheng family will not recognize Song Ziwen, and Song Ziwen does not care to put down his body in order to attach himself to the Sheng family, so the two compartments are pulled, and the pain is unbearable.
In February 1923, after the Chen Jiong Mutiny in Guangzhou was put down, Dr. Sun Yat-sen re-established the revolutionary regime in Guangzhou, and was in urgent need of talents from all walks of life. At that time, Dr. Sun Yat-sen sent a telegram urging him to go south, and Song Ziwen thought that this was a good opportunity to develop himself, but he could not let go of Miss Seven, so he urged her to go to Guangzhou with him.
Miss Seven is very conflicted in her heart, on the one hand, she does not want to make her mother sad, but her heart is also full of yearning for free marriage. However, Song Ziwen asked her to run away from home, which was also a problem for a rich lady who had never left the high-walled courtyard. Thinking about it, she was still reluctant to leave her mother, and finally she handed Song Ziwen a handful of gold leaves and said to Song Ziwen: "Or you go by yourself, I will wait for you to come back." Unexpectedly, this sentence became the last sentence of the relationship between the two as lovers.
Perhaps in response to the phrase "the golden scales are the things in the pool, and the dragon changes in the wind and clouds", Song Ziwen went farther and farther in the political arena and became an important figure in the Republic of China government.
But when Song Ziwen returned to Shanghai in 1930, he was already "making a king have a wife" and took his wife Zhang Leyi into and out of public. Miss Sheng Qi did not expect that things would turn out to be like this, the former Sea Oath Mountain Alliance was actually an empty, sullen all day, and made a serious illness.
Life is not a romance novel, two people must be vigorous, and the departure of one person will not make the other person hysterical and depressed. Miss Sheng Qi, following the agreement, waited for Song Ziwen to return, and her self-esteem would never allow herself to become entangled with a husband with a wife, so she also stopped thinking and lived her own life. And the second half of her life is still full of ups and downs, wonderful, and beautiful to live this life.
I don't know why Song Ziwen married someone else at that time, maybe he was still angry at the view of the sheng family's portal; maybe time had smoothed out the edges and corners of love; maybe his wife was really his true destiny, and he fell in love at first sight. There are many possibilities, and the truth we do not know, but from what Song Ziwen did later, we can see his guilt. In Song Ziwen's heart, there must be a girl with bright eyes and bright teeth, in the courtyard of the deep house, looking at him walking slowly, bowed, and sweetly called him "Sir".
The feelings of youth may be like this, when not true, no matter how hot the feelings are vulnerable in the face of time, they are not like years of water, and they only hope that the two are different and two wide, and each is happy.
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Song Ziwen and His Time