In 1912, China's last feudal dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, came to an end with Empress Longyu stamping the seal of the late Qing Emperor in the Edict of abdication of the Qing Emperor. However, the demise of the Qing Dynasty did not mean that people could end their lives in the waters, and after Yuan Shikai stole the fruits of victory in the Xinhai Revolution, various warlords opened the road of scuffle.
Among the many warlord forces in China at that time, the Fengzhi warlords who were entrenched in the northeast were one of the most powerful warlords, and the Fengzhi warlords were named after the leader Dong Zhang Zuolin, who was born in Fengtian.
Speaking of Zhang Zuolin, everyone's first reaction must be sandwiched between Tsarist Russia and Japan, and the heroic posture of the "King of Northeast China" who can dance at the tip of the knife but can not give way; but when it comes to his son Zhang Xueliang, the young marshal, most people's first reaction must be the lingering love story between him and Miss Zhao Si.
In fact, Miss Zhao Si is not Zhang Xueliang's original match, Zhang Xueliang's original match yu Fengzhi is Zhang Zuolin's wife who personally asked for him to marry, and in terms of dedication, it is no worse than Zhao Yidi. Zhao Yidi's 50 years can at least accompany Zhang Xueliang's side, Yu Fengzhi is the original match, but he spent 50 years running for Zhang Xueliang, and as a result, he did not even wait for his husband.
To tell the story of Yu Fengzhi, we still have to start from Zhang Zuolin, the king of the northeast.
Before Zhang Zuolin made his fortune that year, he had formed a lifelong friendship with Yu Wendou, a wealthy businessman in the northeast, and several times Zhang Zuolin was imprisoned by relying on Wendou's help to survive. Yu Fengzhi is the daughter of Yu Wendou, who has received a very good education since childhood, not only proficient in English, but also has a very gentle personality, as the saying goes, "Marry a wife to marry a virtuous", Yu Fengzhi is the character of a virtuous wife.
So when Yu Feng was eleven years old, Zhang Zuolin, who had already made a fortune, personally made the decision and set a doll kiss for the eldest son Zhang Xueliang. On the one hand, he married Yu Fengzhi because Yu Fengzhi was indeed suitable, and on the other hand, he was to repay Yu Wendou's act of sending charcoal in the snow.
In addition, it is selfishness, The Yu family is very rich, and the warlord development forces burn money, he needs to further consolidate the relationship with Yu Wendou through marriage. But regardless of whether there are interests involved in this, Zhang Zuolin himself is indeed very satisfied with Feng Zhi's daughter-in-law, believing that she is a woman who can support the family.
Zhang Xueliang is not very satisfied with such a room wife, to say how much he really dislikes arranged marriage is not enough, he is simply for Fengzhi there is no love between men and women.
Who is Lao Zhang? Naturally, he also saw Zhang Xueliang's thoughts, so he also talked to Xiao Zhang privately: "I know that you are not satisfied with the old-style marriage of your parents." In this way, let's make a step, you are in the right room to marry the little girl of the Yu family, and if you don't like her, let her go back and live with your mother. Back to you looking for women outside again, you are also free to you, I don't care. "
Because his father's attitude was very tough, Zhang Xueliang reluctantly agreed to marry Yu Fengzhi. In 1915, Zhang Xueliang and Yu Fengzhi were officially married, when Zhang Xueliang was fifteen years old, and Yu Fengzhi wanted Zhang Xueliang to be three years old.
After marrying into the Zhang family, Yu Fengzhi's humble and courteous principle of treating people and handling things won her unanimous praise from the entire Zhang family, and her care for Zhang Xueliang was also meticulous. The mercurial Zhang Xueliang did not break the warblers and swallows outside, but people's hearts are long, Yu Fengzhi's care for him is also in his eyes, he affectionately called Yu Fengzhi "big sister", although there is no love between men and women, he has taken Fengzhi as his closest family.
Yu Fengzhi is not unaware that Zhang Xueliang spends a lot of time outside, but her education has made her understand that her marriage in this position cannot be completely according to her own ideas, and her personal cultivation also makes it impossible for her to make hysterical and noisy things, and finally she chooses to be tolerant.
Married for many years, Yu Fengzhi has been working hard and taking good care of Zhang Xueliang, even in the face of her husband's lover Zhao Yidi, she is also polite and treats her like a biological sister. These things Zhang Xueliang has also been looking at in his eyes, he can say that he admires and respects and pities his original wife, but there is no love.
After 1936, Zhang Xueliang was placed under house arrest by the elder Chiang. After Yu Fengzhi heard about this incident, he contacted Song Meiling by telegram for the first time, hoping to accompany Zhang Xueliang, who was imprisoned in Xikou. At first, Old Jiang did not agree, and Yu Fengzhi used all the relationships he could find, and finally begged Jiang to reluctantly let go.
Zhang Xueliang was not always imprisoned in Xikou, after 1938, Zhang Xueliang was escorted to Guizhou and traveled in Guizhou, Chongqing and other places. Yu Fengzhi, who has been accompanying Zhang Xueliang, exhausted his mental strength in repeated running, unfortunately suffered from breast cancer, and had to leave Zhang Xueliang to go to the United States for treatment.
Yu Fengzhi was reluctant to leave, but Song Meiling was persuading her, everyone was persuading her, even Zhang Xueliang himself was persuading her, and she also knew in her heart that she was suffering from this disease, and accompanying Zhang Xueliang was only a drag, so she had no choice but to leave. No one expected that this parting would be a lifetime, and Yu Fengzhi would never see her beloved husband again.
Yu Fengzhi in the United States is not idle, although she came to treat the disease, but the treatment of the disease requires money, the children need money to study, Zhang Xueliang is imprisoned also needs money to do some turnover, and if you do not save more money, how will Zhang Xueliang and Zhao Yidi live after they come out? It can be said that at this time, the pressure of the family is all on this woman who is suffering from cancer.
But Yu Fengzhi was not intimidated, she knew that she had to find a way to get as much money as possible. In the United States of the last century, what is the way to get money safely and quickly? Finance, of course. In this way, a traditional woman who has always been at home to teach her children to run the housework began to teach herself finance for the sake of the family's responsibility.
With the help of friends, Yu Fengzhi slowly gained a certain understanding of stocks. Fortunately, Yu Fengzhi came from a merchant family, although Yu Wendou did not deliberately cultivate, but she noticed that she had some business experience, coupled with her cleverness, she also made a lot of money in the stock market.
Yu Fengzhi, who made money in the stock market, was not attracted by this ups and downs of making money, and she chose to take the money she earned to buy real estate in the United States and live a stable and prosperous life on rent. Yu Fengzhi has always been deeply in love with Zhang Xueliang, most of the properties she bought are added to Zhang Xueliang's name, she hopes that in the future, after Zhang Xueliang is released from prison, she can also live the life of an ordinary rich man with these assets.
Since the ancient love can not be retained, waiting for Zhang Xueliang for 50 years of Yu Fengzhi, until death did not wait to see her husband again. In 1990, on the eve of Zhang Xueliang's restoration of his freedom, Yu Fengzhi died at the age of 90 at his mansion on the Hollywood Hills.
If you have time to visit Ms. Yu Fengzhi's tombstone, you can read the sadness of her life from the line on the tombstone, which can be described as a poke in the heart. Her tombstone reads "Mr. Zhang Xueliang's wife, Yu Fengzhi's tomb." Until her death, she considered herself Zhang Xueliang's wife, first Zhang Xueliang's wife, and then she herself.
Unfortunately, she specially left a place next to the tomb, hoping to accompany Zhao Yidi with Zhang Xueliang for a lifetime, at least after death, she can choose to live with herself, which is also the customary rule in the old society, and the husband must be buried with the original wife. But in the end, Zhang Xueliang still chose to be buried with Zhao Yidi in Hawaii, leaving Fengzhi alone in vain.