"China cannot lose Shandong, just as the West cannot lose Jerusalem"
This is the famous remark made by Gu Weijun, a famous Chinese diplomat, at the Paris Peace Conference.
In 1919, the 27 victorious powers of World War I participated in the post-war Entente at the Palace of Versailles in Paris, but in order to win over Japan, the Western countries openly transferred Germany's pre-World War I pre-World War I privileges in Shandong to Japan, without the slightest consideration of China's opinion.
At the meeting, Gu Weijun argued that confucius, who was born in Shandong, China, was compared to Jesus in the West, showing shandong's importance to China and the determination of the Chinese never to back down, and then the Chinese delegation refused to sign the contract, which was very sad.
Gu Weijun has outstanding diplomatic skills and is also very strong in marrying his wife
He had four wives in his life, each of which brought him great help, and he can be said to be the most able to marry in the Republic of China.
Gu Weijun was born in 1888 in Jiading, Jiangsu (now Jiading District, Shanghai), the son of a father
Gu Qingchuan is
The master of Yuan Guanlan, the Daoyin of Shanghai (equivalent to the current mayor), can only be regarded as a bare family.
Fortunately, Gu Weijun was very smart since he was a child, entering a private school at the age of 4 and studying in Shanghai with his father at the age of 12, and his extraordinary conversation attracted the attention of Zhang Hengshan, another master under Yuan Guanlan.
Although everyone is a colleague, Zhang Hengshan's home is comparable
Gu Qingchuan has a lot of money, and Zhang Hengshan has a special skill - he can see the picture, he knows
Gu Weijun will definitely have a chance in the future, and it happens that there is a daughter under his knees
Zhang Run'e
Similar in age, he offered to follow
Gu Qingchuan married his children and sons.
According to the situation at that time, the Gu family belonged to Gao Pan, so
Gu Qingchuan did not hesitate much and agreed,
Gu Weijun had a wife He had never met before, Zhang Run'e.
After Gu Weijun graduated from middle school, because his family had no money and could not afford to pay tuition, his father found him a job in the bank and wanted him to live a little life.
Zhang Hengshan quickly stopped it after learning of this, believing that Gu Weijun was a material that could be built and could not be wasted, and said that in the future, the Zhang family would pay for the son-in-law to continue his studies, so that Gu Weijun could study at St. John's College in Shanghai.
After Gu Weijun returned to China with his doctorate, Zhang Hengshan contacted Tang Shaoyi, who was then the minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of China, and arranged for Gu Weijun to become Tang Shaoyi's secretary, thus also starting Gu Weijun's diplomatic career.
It can be said that the Zhang family is definitely Gu Weijun's re-creation benefactor, if there is no Zhang Hengshan, Gu Weijun is most likely to spend his life in the bank, and if he is lucky, he may be able to become a rich man. But it is absolutely impossible to recognize a national high-level like Tang Shaoyi, let alone become a world celebrity.
However, Gu Weijun studied abroad for many years and received a Western-style education, and there was a certain resistance to arranged marriages. In the year he first returned from studying abroad, he went to the Zhang family to meet his fiancée.
But Zhang Run'e was the kind of woman who was deeply oppressed by feudal thought, so she was very shy to hide in the room and refused to come out, which made Gu Weijun very disappointed, thinking that such a woman would not be able to pair up with herself in the social field in the future, so he drank a few glasses of wine and left.
Through Zhang Hengshan's introduction, Gu Weijun went north to become the third secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, entering and leaving the entertainment venues of the dignitaries and nobles every day, and with his good appearance and experience in the United States, he made many powerful women fall in love, including Tang Baoyue, the daughter of Tang Shaoyi.
Tang Baoyue is a person who is extremely yearning for the West, and does not make friends with non-international students on weekdays, and Gu Weijun's personable Dr. Liu meili naturally has a great attraction to her. The two soon fell in love, and with this relationship, Gu Weijun's position rose steadily.
Zhang Hengshan, who was far away in Shanghai, was very happy, he did not know about this relationship, only thought that his vision was good, and hurriedly urged Gu Weijun to return to Shanghai to get married. However, Gu Weijun liked Tang Baoyue in his heart, so he hesitated and did not go back.
After a long time, Zhang Hengshan still knew the truth, and he was furious and wrote to Tang Shaoyi to inform him of the truth, hoping that Tang would send Gu Weijun back.
Only then did Tang Shaoyi learn that the person her daughter's favorite was actually the son-in-law of her old friend, so she also became angry, scolded Gu Weijun, and ordered him to return to Shanghai.
But Tang Baoyue did not want to let her beloved leave, and she said in front of her father that she would not marry Gu Weijun, and if Gu Weijun left, she would shave her hair and become a nun. At that time, Tang Shaoyi had been promoted to premier of the state, and did not want to spread the news that he was fighting for his wife, so he refused.
Unexpectedly, Tang Baoyue was even more ruthless, in order to show that she could do it, while she really ran to the nunnery, she also let people send a message to her father, if she did not agree, she would go to the Bada Hutong to welcome guests, and hang the golden sign of "The Current State Premier Miss Rose".
This reputation was even more stinky than the battle to grab the son-in-law, and Tang Shaoyi had no choice but to agree. In June 1913, Gu Weijun married Tang Baoyue. And the repentant Zhang family is very pitiful,
Zhang Run'e is a real hair cut for the nun, and Zhang Hengshan is also depressed.
Although Gu Weijun achieved great things later, he was really disgraceful in this matter, and he was full of negative hearts.
After becoming Tang Shaoyi's son-in-law, Gu Weijun's career took off directly, and he successively served as a minister in Mexico and a minister in the United States. However, Tang Baoyue did not accompany him for long, and he fell ill and died in 1918.
1919 was the Paris Peace Conference mentioned at the beginning, which was also the highlight of Gu Weijun's life, which made him have a resounding reputation in the global diplomatic circles, so he served as a member of the League of Nations in the following year.
During his stay in New York, Gu Weijun was introduced to Huang Huilan, the daughter of Huang Zhonghan, the "king of the Asian sugar industry", whose family was extremely wealthy, had received a high education, knew six languages such as French, English and Dutch, and was born with a wealth of sociability.
Therefore, the two are also in agreement and soon inseparable. However, Gu Weijun did not want to get married at first, and then he took out a pound sterling as a reward and found a very famous fortune teller to ask whether this marriage was good or not, and the result of the fortune-telling was
Good couple, good luck
Only then did Gu Weijun make up his mind. At that time, many people called this matter "one pound".
In October 1920, the two married, and the wedding was extremely luxurious, costing 10,000 pounds for only 36 sets of gold tableware, and the others were innumerable, which made the visitors praise.
Huang Huilan also helped Gu Weijun a lot after marriage, and the government at that time could not come up with money to engage in diplomacy, so Gu Weijun just looked at the scenery and was shy. Huang Huilan asked her father every time Gu Weijun needed money, and it was a few million, which also allowed Gu Weijun to better deal with foreigners.
However, strong women like Huang Huilan are sometimes not so gentle in terms of personality, so Gu and Huang did not go to the end and divorced in 1956.
Gu Weijun married Yan Youyun, who was also a diplomat, in 1959.
Yan Youyun came from a wealthy family, was one of the first female students of Fudan University, and was very beautiful when she was young, she met her first husband Yang Guangxin when she was studying at Fudan University. Yang Guangxing was also a diplomat, serving as the Chinese consul general in Manila from 1938, and when the Japanese army occupied Manila in 1942, Yang Guangxin and seven other diplomats did not yield and were martyred, after which Yan Youyun lived with her three daughters.
In 1945, Yan Youyun went to New York to serve as a United Nations protocol officer, and because of his work, he met Gu Weijun.
In 1959, Yan Youyun completed two major events: married Gu Weijun and retired.
Although Yan Youyun was born in a large family, she did not have the slightest big miss temper, took care of Gu Weijun's life in an orderly manner, got up at three o'clock every morning to help Gu Weijun warm up milk in the thermos cup, and the rest of the time what to eat and what to do were well planned.
Gu Weijun and Yan Youyun are both very long-lived, Gu Weijun died in 1985 at the age of 97, and Yan Youyun died in 2017 at the age of 112. To have such a good result is inseparable from Yan Youyun's intimate planning and care.
Even Gu Weijun's eldest son (birth mother Tang Baoyue) was very touched, bluntly saying that if it were not for Yan Youyun, his father's life expectancy might be shortened by twenty years, and Gu Weijun also said three key factors of his longevity in his later years:
Walking, snacking less, mrs. careful care.
In short, after reading these, I feel that Gu Weijun's life has not been in vain, and these four wives have more or less given him great help in terms of career, love, money, and life expectancy, and can even be said to be one of his "pedals".
However, for Zhang Run'e, his approach is still somewhat undeserved. It seems that there are many celebrities in the Republic of China who do the first thing after they become famous is to abandon their original wives?