Talking about the Republic of China today makes it easy to think of the chaos of warlord chaos, and when we talk about that era of chaos, it is easy to think of words such as poor soldiers and military force, obscene luxury, and so on. In fact, in that era, I don't know how many bloody and virtuous cattle people were deliberately smeared today.
During the Republic of China period, there were two big figures who were easy to remember, because they were both named "Sen", one was called Lin Sen, and the other was called Yang Sen.
Lin Sen, a native of Minhou, Fujian, is a famous politician in modern times, a figure who was once in the limelight but is now forgotten.
Lin Sen's life was brilliant, he lived in Fuzhou as a child, entered the Yinghua Academy, was expelled for anti-Qing, and later participated in the struggle against the cession of Taiwan, and joined the Xingzhong Association, joining the League in 1905. During the Xinhai Revolution, he led the Jiujiang Uprising, urged the navy to correct itself, sent troops to aid Hubei and Anhui, and stabilized the overall situation of the revolution, and in January 1912, he was elected as the president of the Senate of the Provisional Government of Nanjing. In April 1913, he attended the first Congress in Beijing and continued to be elected president of the Senate. He joined the Chinese Revolutionary Party in Tokyo in 1914. In August 1916, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Office of Grand Marshal Sun Yat-sen in Guangzhou, President of the Senate and Speaker of the Constitutional Council.
In February 1928, Lin Sen was elected a member of the National Government, in October he was elected vice president of the Legislative Yuan, and then a member of the Central Control Commission of the Chinese Kuomintang. On December 23, 1931, he succeeded Chiang Kai-shek, who had stepped down as chairman of the Nationalist Government due to the September 18 Incident. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Lin Sen announced the relocation of the capital to Chongqing on November 20, and arrived in Chongqing with his men at the end of November. On December 9, 1941, Lin Sen declared war on Japan on behalf of the Nationalist government. He died in Chongqing on August 1, 1943 due to a car accident and was buried in The Forest Park of Gele Mountain in Chongqing.
Lin Sen is in a high position, deep in simplicity, not addicted to tobacco and alcohol in his life, not close to women. The most puzzling thing is the way of life of Lin Sen widower living alone. The reason for this is said to be related to his early experience, some people say that when Lin Sen was studying in his hometown, he was once decided by his parents and married a woman surnamed Zheng, and the feelings after marriage were very good, but three years after marriage, Zheng Died of illness, and Lin Sen vowed not to marry again. Some people also say that Lin Sen has a cousin who knows dali and has a delicate personality, and the two have been together since childhood, green plum bamboo horses, and have deep feelings. However, due to the arrangement of parents, it is difficult for lovers to become dependents. After the death of Zheng, Lin Sen and his cousins may have been able to continue their marriage, but the cousin's parents suddenly decided to give their daughter Xu to the son of an overseas Chinese giant businessman. The weak cousin committed suicide in the early hours of the morning in order to resist marriage. Since then, Lin Sen has vowed never to approach women again for the rest of his life. Lin Sen loves to collect, and it is rumored that among the many antiques in his collection, there is one thing that Lin Sen cherishes very much- a white bone skeleton. According to insiders, the white bone skeleton was the remains of Lin Sen's cousin. On a road to Lushan, there is a stone bench donated by Lin Sen, which is engraved with the words "No one who has an aunt and wife is allowed to sit", which shows Lin Sen's lifelong love for not remarrying.
As a pioneer of the Xinhai Revolution, a hero of the anti-Yuan protector, and one of the founders of the Republic of China, although Lin Sen was in the midst of a turbulent political whirlpool all his life, he was also a man indifferent to fame and fortune, and he pursued the "three noes" principle of "not contending for power and gaining profits, not acting as a prestige for fortune, and not forming a party for personal gain" for the sake of officials.
Hu Shi's evaluation of him is a classic: "Mr. Lin Zichao has made the chairman of the State Government into a 'virtual position', so that some people have 'no chairman in sight'." As Hu Shi said, as the head of state, the chairman of the National Government, he was regarded by many Kuomintang as "the state government reads the printing." As for the status and role of the chairman of the National Government, Lin Sen has his own understanding: "My status is equivalent to the position of a god in a shrine, admired by people without losing its prestige, and naturally I can maintain the solemnity of the temple and the well-being of my home." If god appears, it will be a room full of strangeness. The president of the country is a vain monarch, and its significance lies in ruling from the arch, and what should not be managed should not be managed, and let those who have the means let it go. ”
However, Lin Sen is by no means a person who can infringe on him at will, does not pay attention to etiquette, and does not pay attention to the system; his spirit of advocating democracy and the legal system is even more commendable; when he was president of the Senate, he had a record of vetoing the decisions of the two "great presidents" Sun Yat-sen and Yuan Shikai. In particular, yuan shikai, who had left him empty-eyed and arrogant, had to be allowed to enter the Senate after lifting the sabre, which was particularly admirable. After Chiang Kai-shek came to power, Lin Sen still did not change his true character, and as a member of the Kuomintang Supervision Committee, he participated in the impeachment of Chiang Kai-shek several times, which greatly annoyed Chiang Kai-shek. Lin Sen's attitude toward Jiang was to cooperate without pandering, polite but not respectful. Once, Lin Sen, who was walking, met Chiang Kai-shek, who was heavily guarded. Lin Sen was enjoying antiques in the small temple next to the road, and did not greet or avoid until Chiang Kai-shek came to greet "Chairman Hello". After the Xi'an Incident. When Chiang Kai-shek returned to Nanjing, everyone rushed to greet Chiang Kai-shek, and Lin Sen stood aside. When Chiang Kai-shek saw this, he stepped forward and said, "Chairman Tired is frightened. Lin Sen said to the secretary, "Obviously he was frightened, but I was frightened, he did this for people to see."
This is Lin Sen, a person with personality who can only be born during the Republic of China period, a person who should be remembered by history. In 1979, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China considered Lin Sen "a famous democratic revolutionary of the older generation."
When it comes to Janssen, people who are familiar with the history of the war should not be unfamiliar with him. He was a famous general in the Sichuan Army and a second-class general in the National Revolutionary Army.
The Sichuan army never formed a unified system, and after Liu Xiang's death in 1938, the Sichuan army formed a situation in which five generals, Deng Xihou, Yang Sen, Pan Wenhua, Liu Wenhui, and Wang Lingji, competed for the throne. After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance in 1937, Yang Sen led his troops to march out of Sichuan on foot and was organized into the 19th Corps of tiger general Xue Yue, who was later promoted to commander of the Ninth Theater, and his department belonged to the Ninth Theater, and Yang Sen was promoted to deputy commander of the Ninth Theater.
During this period, Yang Sen led his troops to resist the Japanese in blood, made many military achievements, and participated in many battles such as the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Wuhan, and the Three Battles of Changsha, such as the Battle of Changheng. When the Sichuan army left Sichuan, all walks of life generally believed that it was the "worst army" in China at that time, with insufficient equipment, lack of ammunition, supplies and medical equipment, and when fighting in Shanxi in winter, soldiers wore straw shoes on their feet. However, it was such a unit that made countless of the most arduous and tragic sacrifices in the War of Resistance, until it won the victory of the War of Resistance.
Among the Kuomintang warlords, Yang Sen was famous for his wives and concubines and many children, and he had 12 public wives and concubines, a total of 43 children, and his absurd and deformed marriage was particularly eye-catching, and from this point of view, Lin Sen could definitely be called absurd and corrupt. Absurd and lustful people should not live long, but he is an exception, and he died in Taiwan at the age of 93.
Yang Sen is good at controlling the army and also good at governing the family, and he is particularly strict with many wives and concubines. He had a variety of family rules, such as the stipulation that wives and concubines must get up early every morning, uniformly wear military uniforms, tie belts, and be led by an adjutant. Come rain come shine. After eating breakfast, there is also a strict schedule of regular classes, to learn ancient Chinese, learn English, play the piano, and must not be absent from class for no reason. The slightest offense will be whipped by Janssen, which is called "full of red". For these, Yang Sen was quite comfortable, and he repeatedly introduced his experience to other warlords, saying unashamedly: "I am practicing militarized management, otherwise the people in that room will be able to live in a town." ”
With so many wives and concubines and children, the expenses are certainly not small, and Yang Sen has a high means of accumulating wealth among the warlords in Sichuan, and over the years he has made countless money by investing in real estate, starting companies, and selling tobacco soil. He has huge deposits in banks in Britain, the United States and Japan. Chongqing, Hankou, Shanghai, and Luzhou have luxurious mansions, and the princes of Fubi. This money is his luxurious capital.
In his lifetime, Yang Sen experienced the historical periods of the Xinhai Revolution, the Patriotic War, the Warlord Scuffle, and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression; he not only fought against Yuan's protection of the country, shelled British ships, protected Zhu De, Chen Yi, Ho Chi Minh, and heroically resisted Japan; he also had the notoriety of corrupting, absurd, greedy, greedy, and lustful, and even more so-called crimes of following Old Chiang Kai-shek in fighting the civil war in the later period. But in China's modern history, in any case, the legendary Janssen is a strange man.