Speaking of Soong Mei Ling and Chiang Kai-shek, people regard their marriage as a political marriage, and the essence of their marriage as a union between the two families.
In fact, the feelings between Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling are still very deep, and before Chiang Kai-shek proposed to Soong Mei-ling, he had already secretly admired Soong Mei-ling for a long time. After the two got married, the couple was also like glue. Soong Mei Ling loved the French plane tree, and Chiang Kai-shek ordered that the city of Nanjing be planted with sycamores.
Soong Mei Ling was Chiang Kai-shek's right-hand man in politics, and her excellent social skills and fluent English made Chiang Kai-shek love and respect, and the two of them worked hand in hand, and their lives were also full of taste.
On April 5, 1975, Chiang Kai-shek died in his sleep, because his death was too sudden, so Chiang Kai-shek did not leave any oral last words on his deathbed, nor did he let his attendants write down any written will for him.
Did Chiang Kai-shek leave nothing behind before his death? Not. When Chiang Kai-shek's condition worsened, he also realized that his time of death was not far away, so he once gave his son Chiang Ching-kuo a diary.
Later, Song Meiling inadvertently looked through this diary, and after reading a few sentences in the diary, Song Meiling actually fled to the United States overnight and spent her old age in a foreign country.
What exactly is written in the diary that makes Song Meiling refuse to return to China before she dies?
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The marriage of Jiang and Song is the direction of the heart
On August 14, 1922, Sun Yat-sen was forced to go to Shanghai due to chen jiongming's mutiny.
He made contact with Soviet Russia and the Ccp in Shanghai and began a major reorganization of the Kuomintang. When Sun Yat-sen went to Shanghai, Chiang Kai-shek accompanied him to help Sun Yat-sen deal with various affairs. Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling first met in Sun Yat-sen's apartment in Shanghai.
Not long after arriving in Shanghai, Chiang Kai-shek left Shanghai and returned to Guangdong. After that, Chiang Kai-shek traveled between Fenghua and Shanghai many times. This busy period of time is also recorded in Chiang Kai-shek's diary, but I remember that it was him and another woman, all of which were words such as "watching a drama with Jie Ru", "Jie Ru accompanied", "Jie Ru sent me to the ship" and so on.
Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Jieru are in a period of hot love. At this time, neither Chiang Kai-shek nor Soong Mei-ling had noticed each other.
Chiang Kai-shek really noticed Soong Mei-ling and fell in love with her because of their second meeting in Guangzhou.
On June 30, 1926, Chiang Kai-shek's diary appeared in the record of "visiting the eldest and third sisters", "big", referring to the elder Song Qiling; "three", referring to Song Meiling. On July 2, When Soong Mei Ling was about to return to Shanghai, Chiang Kai-shek's diary cloud said: "Mei Ling will return to Shanghai, and her heart is very dependent."
Although there are only a few words, it is enough to show that Chiang Kai-shek has a good feeling for Soong Mei-ling. In the "Name List" column at the end of Chiang Kai-shek's diary that year, he also specially wrote: "Soong Mei Ling: Seymour Road 139" and other words.
After 1927, various things about Soong Mei-ling began to appear frequently in Chiang Kai-shek's diary.
For example, the diary of March 21: "Today I miss my beautiful sister endlessly." Diary of May 4: "To Merlin On the Phone." Diary of May 11: "Gift to Mei Di Xiang." "Late, letter to Brother Mei." The "beautiful sister", "Merlin", and "Meidi" here refer to Song Meiling. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek had already begun to pursue Soong Mei Ling.
How much did Chiang Kai-shek care about Soong Mei-ling at this time? You can tell from one small thing.
On May 18, Chiang Kai-shek rushed from Nanjing to Shanghai to attend the memorial meeting for Chen Qimei's martyrdom. As soon as he arrived in Shanghai, Chiang Kai-shek went to visit Soong Mei-ling non-stop.
On this day, although Chiang Kai-shek said in his diary that he should not consider personal issues until Chen Jiongming and other matters had been dealt with. However, in the next few days, Chiang Kai-shek fell into a deep thought of Soong Mei-ling and could not extricate himself.
Song Meiling's family lineage is not ordinary. Her father, Song Jiashu, was a wealthy overseas Chinese businessman who attached great importance to the education of his children. So Song Meiling herself has been educated in the United States since childhood.
Moreover, the social influence of the Song family is very large. Not only that, Soong Mei-ling's appearance is outstanding, and these various advantages add up to make Chiang Kai-shek more satisfied with Soong Mei-ling.
Compared with Soong Mei Ling, Chiang Kai-shek's original wives and concubines were eclipsed.
Therefore, after this, the contact between Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling became more frequent, and the relationship between the two of them became increasingly close, and it was obvious that they had entered the stage of talking about marriage. In order to be able to marry Soong Mei-ling, Chiang Kai-shek also dissolved his marriage with Mao Fumei, Yao Yecheng, and Chen Jieru.
On December 1, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling were married in Shanghai. They asked Yu Rizhang to be their witnesses. Chiang Kai-shek once said that being able to marry his favorite Lady Soong Mei-ling was the most pleasant thing he had ever done in his life.
Four wars Life has its ups and downs
Since Chiang Kai-shek joined the revolution, the heat and cold have fluctuated.
He often suddenly had the idea of passive retreat when his work was actively being carried out, which also made Chiang Kai-shek's predecessors and comrades quite concerned. After marrying Soong Mei-ling, Chiang Kai-shek said: For the sake of Soong Mei-ling, his revolutionary work will certainly go further. In 1928, Chiang Kai-shek, with two vast areas and one corner and 100,000 troops, faced with three major warlords with military strength and territory several times that of himself, he was not afraid and broke through each one.
After the fall of the Beiyang warlords, Chiang Kai-shek himself began to decline.
In the 20 years from 1929 to 1949, Chiang Kai-shek fought four major battles, and although each of them had a decisive impact on China's fate, it could not erase the fact that Chiang Kai-shek's command level and strategic vision had fallen sharply. Chiang Kai-shek's first major battle was the Great Battle of the Central Plains in 1930, a decisive battle between Chiang Kai-shek and the forces of the new warlords. This was also the first time he commanded a large corps in combat. In early May, Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, and Li Zongren divided their warlords into four routes and began to attack.
Li Zongren's military strength was relatively weak, but it took him only half a month to pocket the entire territory of Hunan.
Chiang Kai-shek quickly organized a counterattack on Changsha, and he ordered the navy to lead ships into Hunan, and then let the Cantonese army capture Hengyang. After a battle, Li Zongren immediately collapsed and fled to Guangxi with his troops.
At the end of July, Chiang Kai-shek launched a general offensive on the Jinpu Line, which took only half a month to retake Jinan, and the Jin Sui army was defeated by Chiang Kai-shek's forces and retreated to the north bank of the Yellow River. In early September, Chiang Kai-shek again began to launch a general offensive against the Northwest Army on the Longhai Line, and before Zhang Xueliang could telegraph in support of Chiang Kai-shek, the Northwest Army had already been defeated and retreated to northern Henan.
In the Great War of the Central Plains, Chiang Kai-shek seemed to have fought well.
This is because Chiang Kai-shek's strength has increased a lot, and commanding 600,000 troops for combat is no longer a problem for him. In fact, at this time, Chiang Kai-shek was no longer able to reverse the war situation on the battlefield as he had during the Northern Expedition, and he did not have the vigor of that year in command. At some critical moments, Chiang Kai-shek was able to win because he bought the generals of the other side, which finally reversed the tide of the war.
Chiang Kai-shek fought the second major battle to encircle and suppress the Red Army. In several encirclements and suppressions, Chiang Kai-shek invested troops from 100,000 or 200,000 at the beginning to 400,000 or even more later. But each time it could be crushed by the Red Army. In the fifth encirclement and suppression campaign, Chiang Kai-shek even mobilized a million troops. At this time, left-leaning adventurism and Chiang Kai-shek's encirclement and blockade forced the Red Army to start a long long march.
The third major battle fought by Chiang Kai-shek was the War of Resistance Against Japan.
It was in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression that Chiang Kai-shek suffered a heavy blow, and the reason was that at the beginning of the all-out War of Resistance, Chiang Kai-shek passively resisted the War of Resistance, not only was he not well prepared, but he also lacked sufficient confidence. For a time, he did not dare to fight the Japanese, hoping that the international community would intervene to stop the shameful acts of the Japanese. In the end, hundreds of thousands of nationalist troops on the Songhu battlefield were completely defeated. Such a failure undoubtedly provided the Conditions for the Japanese to invade China in an all-round way.
After this battle, the Nationalist army was gradually defeated, and they retreated from Nanjing to Wuhan and then to Changsha.
In the Battle of Yuxianggui in 1944, 1.3 million Chinese troops fought against 410,000 Japanese troops. In this war, there was a huge disparity in the number of Japanese and Japanese, and when there was no suspense in this war, unexpected things happened. In just 8 months, China suffered more than 500,000 casualties, 4 provincial capitals fell into the hands of the enemy, and even 146 cities, 7 air bases and 36 airports, and more than 200,000 square kilometers of land and 60 million people fell into the hands of the Japanese.
Until the last month before Japan's surrender in 1945, the Nationalist army was conquered by the Japanese army in succession to 18 counties. Throughout the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the routs of the Nationalist army were not uncommon, which directly led to the human tragedy of 35 million Chinese casualties.
The fourth major battle fought by Chiang Kai-shek was the War of Liberation.
Old Jiang is a very conceited, self-conscious person. In his opinion, there is nothing he does not understand, and there is nothing that he cannot control. In the Liaoshen Campaign, Wei Lihuang had originally considered staying in Shenyang, but Chiang Kai-shek's orders were contrary to his ideas, so Wei Lihuang could only lead his troops to return to Jinzhou, and the entire army was destroyed.
In the Battle of Huaihai, Chiang Kai-shek sent the air force to Du Yuming's command post and sent a handwritten letter ordering Du Yuming to withdraw his troops to relieve the Siege of Huang Wei's corps, resulting in Du Yuming's army being defeated and captured.
Under chiang kai-shek's personal "planning," this allowed the PLA to defend for one year and counterattack for two years. After three years, Chiang Kai-shek could only take Soong Mei-ling and a million soldiers and civilians and retreat to Taiwan in a gray and slippery way.
Died in disgrace Mei Ling went to the United States alone
Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Taiwan, a place that was both familiar and not unfamiliar. On the mainland, Chiang Kai-shek held a high position of power and fought with people in the official arena.
Not only that, but after arriving in Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek was still in a state of endless tension and anxiety for a long time. This state of affairs ended with the gradual stabilization of the situation in the Taiwan Strait, especially after Chiang Ching-kuo was able to stand on his own, and Chiang Kai-shek began to have a lot of time to enjoy life.
But just as Chiang Kai-shek was preparing to spend his old age, a sudden car accident caused Chiang Kai-shek's health to deteriorate.
It was July 1969, when Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling moved to the Yangmingshan official residence together to escape the summer, and collided with a military vehicle while passing through Yangde Avenue. At the moment when the two cars collided, Chiang Kai-shek's body leaned forward violently, causing his chest to be violently shaken. After this, Chiang Kai-shek's body began to deteriorate gradually.
A year later, Chiang Kai-shek's body began to suffer from various sequelae due to surgery.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek was 85 years old, and for all kinds of physical conditions, Chiang Kai-shek was suddenly in chaos, although the doctor repeatedly reassured him, but Chiang Kai-shek was still depressed, and even lost the spirit of walking. Whenever he went to the test, Chiang Kai-shek always acted very frightened, and now Chiang Kai-shek seemed to have completely changed into another person. Not only that, due to excessive tension, Chiang Kai-shek's entire physical function also collapsed.
At noon on July 22, he suddenly fainted
。 The medical officer who was on duty at Chiang Kai-shek's residence at that time had planned to take Chiang Kai-shek to the hospital overnight, but he was afraid of any accidents in the process. After thinking about it for a long time, it was finally decided to set up an emergency station in Chiang Kai-shek's residence, where doctors and nurses rushed back and forth to pull Chiang Kai-shek back from the death line.
In January 1973, Chiang Kai-shek miraculously woke up. What is particularly unbelievable is that after Chiang Kai-shek woke up, in addition to his physical strength being significantly inferior to before, his memory was not affected by the coma at all
。 On April 5, 1975, at 8:55 a.m., the nurse on duty suddenly noticed that the heart beat curve on Chiang Kai-shek's electrocardiogram had become a straight line, so she immediately summoned someone for first aid. At this time, they knew that it was impossible to save Chiang Kai-shek.
After Chiang Kai-shek's death, Chiang Ching-kuo gave Soong Mei-ling a book, which was Chiang Kai-shek's diary. surname
Mei Ling opened the diary and looked carefully, and what she remembered was the bits and pieces of Chiang Kai-shek's life. At the end, she saw such a passage, which Chiang Kai-shek wrote to his two sons, Chiang Ching-kuo and Chiang Wei-kuo. The meaning of this passage is that after I die, you will help me to serve Song Meiling well, she is your eternal mother. Except for Song Meiling, you are not allowed to worship the second person as your mother.
After Song Meiling saw this sentence, she was devastated, and she thought to herself, this sad place can no longer stay.
After all, if you stay in Taiwan, you will inevitably see things and think of people. Not only that, the political situation also changed after Chiang Kai-shek's death, and all political forces were stepping up their activities, not only Chiang Ching-kuo wanted to take power, but the Kong family also thought that in this way, family conflicts and state rights were all mixed together, and Soong Mei-ling fled to the United States overnight in order to avoid suspicion.
Seeing this, we all understand that Song Meiling feels bitter because of the loss of her husband, coupled with Chiang Ching-kuo's drastic reforms in Taiwan, which has long since lost her foothold there, which makes Song Meiling even more disheartened.
That's why she went to the United States without any nostalgia.
In fact, for Song Meiling, the United States is also a good place.
After all, she has been in the United States since she was a child, and her thinking is very agreeable with Western culture, not only that, many of her relatives and friends also live in the United States. Coupled with Song Meiling's previous investment, Song Meiling made a lot of money, which was already enough for her to spend her old age. Therefore, material wealth and the company of relatives and friends have made her later life rich and colorful.
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