As the saying goes, behind a successful man there is a woman, even Chiang Kai-shek is no exception, the old Chiang can defeat various warlords, the woman who helped Jiang the most was Song Meiling, but unfortunately she did not give birth to a man and a half woman for Jiang.
From this point of view, the greatest contribution to the Jiang family is probably not Song Meiling, but a foreign woman, that is, Chiang Ching-kuo's Russian daughter-in-law Jiang Fangliang, who gave birth to three boys for the Chiang family.
Today, the author will talk to you about this foreign woman who has made great contributions to the Jiang family, Jiang Fangliang is a person with a very low sense of existence in the Jiang family, and she is almost not mentioned in related film and television dramas, so that many people do not know Jiang Fangliang.
As for why Jiang Fangliang's situation is so embarrassing, in the author's opinion, this may be related to her special status, Jiang Fangliang's parents are former Tsarist Russian aristocrats, similar to the descendants of Qing Dynasty nobles, Chiang Kai-shek regards herself as a revolutionary, and her daughter-in-law is a descendant of Tsarist Russian nobles, which inevitably damages her image.
In fact, Jiang Fangliang's experience is very unfortunate, she died when she was a child, raised by her sister, and when she grew up, she was sent to the Ural Heavy Machinery Factory for work and transformation, when Jiang Chingguo also worked there, and 16-year-old Jiang Fangliang met Chiang Ching-kuo there.
The two fell in love at first sight, and Chiang Ching-kuo found a little comfort in a foreign country, on March 15, 1935, Jiang Fangliang and Chiang Ching-kuo got married, and in December of the following year, Chiang Ching-kuo was allowed to return to China, and as his wife Jiang Fangliang naturally followed Chiang Ching-kuo to China.
Jiang Fangliang followed Chiang Ching-kuo to Hangzhou to meet Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling, who were recuperating there, and Jiang Fangliang met his parents for the first time and was recognized by Jiang and Song, and then Chiang Ching-kuo took Jiang Fangliang back to the Fenghao room in xikou of his hometown to see his mother, Mao Fumei.
For a long time after that, Jiang Fangliang and his mother Mao Fumei lived together, the two women seemed to have some pity for each other, and in the days that followed, Jiang Fangliang successively gave birth to sons and daughters for Jiang Jingguo, and at that time the Jiang family could be called leafy.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chiang Ching-kuo had a relationship with a secretary and gave birth to twin sons, although the Chiang family did not recognize the identity of the children at that time, but the two children were evacuated to Taiwan together in 1949.
Jiang Fangliang could only endure this kind of behavior of Chiang Ching-kuo in silence, and later Chiang Kai-shek died of illness and Soong Mei-ling left the United States, and Jiang Fangliang made fewer appearances, especially after Chiang Ching-kuo's death, Jiang Fangliang's life changed, and she was almost indistinguishable from an ordinary housewife.
In his later years, Jiang Fangliang suffered the pain of widowhood and bereavement, his only daughter married to the United States, at this time Jiang Fangliang can be said to be lonely and miserable, living on a tight budget, and even wanted to go to the United States to visit Song Meiling, but could not afford to buy a ticket, and later relied on financial support to make the trip, on December 15, 2004, Jiang Fangliang died of illness in Taipei at the age of 88.