Chiang Kai-shek's achievements were inseparable from the support of the Soong family, and Song Meiling not only provided him with a lot of help politically, but Also Song Ziwen was the finance minister of the Kuomintang government. As minister of finance of the Republic of China, Soong Tzu-wen gave Chiang Kai-shek the most solid and powerful economic strength, so that Chiang Kai-shek could have a later position. Song Ziwen looks very polite, has a very bookish temperament, and is a high-achieving student who has stayed in school, so what kind of character will his wife be? Today we will talk about the story of Song Ziwen's wife, Zhang Leyi.
Song Ziwen and his wife are more than ten years apart, and his wife Zhang Leyi was born in a rich family and grew up in the palm of his hand. She is not only beautiful, but most importantly, she does not have a big lady temper. In the process of her father's business, Zhang Leyi often studied and observed from the sidelines, so she knew a lot about business matters. Then some people will say, one is engaged in business, one is engaged in politics, how did Zhang Leyi and Song Ziwen intersect and thus get together? There is really a bit of fate in the middle of this.
Song Ziwen is particularly fond of the scenery of Lushan in the process of tolerance, since he has been there once, he has been obsessed, he thought, simply build a house of his own in Lushan, no matter whether there is time to come and live in the future, he will always have a home here. Since you want to build a house, you have to find someone who is familiar with this line of work to do it, Zhang Leyi's father Zhang Mouzhi happens to be the leader of this line, so Song Ziwen and the Zhang family hit a bridge.
Zhang Leyi's father was named Zhang Mouzhi, and Zhang Mouzhi wanted to have a good relationship with a politician like Song Ziwen, and specially invited Song Ziwen to come to his home for dinner. Song Ziwen and Zhang Leyi were familiar with each other, when Song Ziwen was in his early thirties, but he never met anyone he liked, the elegant and beautiful Zhang Leyi let him unload his defenses as soon as he appeared, because he wanted to get along with Zhang Leyi for a while, and he also proposed to let Zhang Mouzhi arrange a guide for himself under the pretext of being unfamiliar with the local terrain, and there was no doubt that this guide fell to Zhang Leyi.
In the process of climbing the mountain, the more the two talked, the more speculative they became, so they agreed to live forever. In Lushan, Song Ziwen not only completed his official duties, but also solved his life's major events by the way. Song Ziwen and Zhang Leyi had three daughters after marriage, and the relationship between husband and wife was also harmonious (but Zhang Leyi was extremely jealous).
After the Kuomintang defeated Taiwan, Soong Ziwen decided to withdraw from politics, and Zhang Leyi and he did not follow Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan, but settled in the United States together. Chiang Kai-shek intended to let them go to Taiwan to serve the Kuomintang again, but Zhang Leyi did not want her husband to enter politics again.
After Zhang Leyi and Song Ziwen arrived in the United States, the two lived an ordinary life, and Song Ziwen no longer participated in politics, and the two mainly lived in the United States to live a life of educating the third generation. In their spare time, the family goes out for a vacation. Life is light but tasteful. In 1971, Song Ziwen died while eating, and Zhang Leyi continued to live alone in the United States. After Song Ziwen's death, Zhang Leyi has been living with her daughter. In her later years, Zhang Leyi especially missed her hometown in Lushan, and she especially wanted to go back to the mainland to have a look. However, Zhang Leyi did not fulfill this wish until his death. After spending more than a decade in the sadness of missing her husband and hometown, Zhang Leyi died in 1988 at the age of 81.
Resources:
"The Later Years of Song Ziwen" Wang Donghua