The legendary figure mentioned above who bought his wife with gold was The Kuomintang lieutenant general Wang Lingyun.
Wang Lingyun was born in a small mountain village in Henan and has been farming for generations. In Wang Lingyun's generation, the crops were almost harvestless, and in such a family that was not rich in the first place, he could only drop out of school. In desperation, Wang Lingyun chose to join the army and entered Wu Peifu's Luoyang Arsenal unit.
However, Wang Lingyun, who had been studying at home without suffering, could not adapt to Wu Peifu's training intensity at all, and finally fled home.
Fortunately, Wang Lingyun met Zheng Guohan, a major Qing official of the Beiyang era, who was sentenced for strictly investigating opium and was released due to public opinion. Zheng Guohan, who looked down on the officialdom, was ready to form a militia group to show his talents, Wang Lingyun joined the militia without a door, and both of them could see each other's advantages and talents, and the two people who felt sorry for each other became masters and apprentices.
Under the guidance of his mentor, Wang Lingyun fully exercised his military talents on the way to suppressing bandits. In the battle with the bandits, the mentor Zheng Guohan was unfortunately killed, and Wang Lingyun hated the defenders played by the bandits.
At that time, the bandits were super rampant, and they could not burn and loot, and they even began to kidnap tickets, and the wives of high-ranking officials were pregnant, and the bandits kidnapped and asked for money. Wang Lingyun, with the help of the landlord, drove away the county magistrate and immediately took up his post, when Wang Lingyun issued a notice that the bandits would not give a penny for their requests.
In this way, Wang Lingyun gained the love of many people, and even began to recruit bandits, and it was precisely because of these bandit backgrounds that Wang Lingyun was able to make great achievements in the Battle of Songhu.
Southwest Henan, one of the three major bandit areas
In 1930, Wang Lingyun accepted the reorganization of the revolutionary army, and later served as a brigade commander of a major general, participating in the encirclement and suppression of the Red Army.
However, Wang Lingyun, who was born in Beiyang, was looked down upon by the original elders of the revolutionary party, and he fought with the Communist Party for many years, and found that he was not a person around him, and asked himself: How will future generations evaluate themselves?
When the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in 1937, Wang Lingyun took the initiative to ask Miao to go out to fight the Japanese, and in the subsequent historical process, Wang Lingyun led the troops to the Southern Expedition and the Northern War, Chiang Kai-shek saw his military talent and combat talent, let him serve as the commander of the 2nd Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and made a lot of meritorious contributions in combat bravery.
During the Liberation War, Wang Lingyun encountered his opponent Su Yu who was a bit weak, and at that time, there was a serious power struggle within the people, and Wang Lingyun was even cut off from his military power, and then abandoned the city and fled.
After that, Wang Lingyun changed his name to Zhang Keming, settled in Sichuan, and exchanged a few gold for a peasant girl as his wife. After the marriage, the girl found that Wang Lingyun's conversation was extraordinary, and she did not do farm work except to read some newspapers to suppress bandits, so the girl went to the public security organ to report her husband.
Wang Lingyun was arrested and imprisoned for 11 years to receive education and reform, and after being released from prison, he returned to his hometown of Henan to work in the CPPCC, but Wang Lingyun, who was formerly a Lieutenant General of the Kuomintang, naturally had a difficult life and then ran away from home.
At this point, there was no more news of Wang Lingyun, but the historical record was full of controversy.