He was once a prince and grandson who spent thousands of dollars, and he also experienced the gray years after the family's decline, as Jiang Youbai who came out of the political family, he inherited the history and story of the Jiang family.
In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people.
Today, he is the CEO of a startup, a crossover designer, a husband, a father, and can be in many roles.
Only not politicians.
The four generations of the Jiang family are a label that he can never tear off, but he frankly admits:
"I'm not interested in politics."
When he grew up, Jiang Youbai no longer dreamed of president and became uninterested in politics, but jiang was destined to drag him into every political whirlpool.
When someone asked him if he would feel overwhelmed, Jiang Youbai said calmly:
"To be honest, most people don't dare to tell the truth, they just want to find someone to tell some truth."
"For me, the issues you talk about are not a political issue, and the issues you talk about are just family affairs."
History and politics are only family affairs
Speaking of Jiang Youbai, perhaps not many people know it, but his great-grandfather's name is almost unknown to everyone.
During a talk show, the female host asked the audience:
"Has anyone heard of Jiang Youbai's name before this?"
A few girls in the audience raised their hands.
The host said another name and asked everyone if they knew about this person.
At this time, all the spectators present raised their hands, and Jiang Youbai couldn't help but touch his nose and smile.
The name said by the host was Chiang Kai-shek, Jiang Youbai's great-grandfather.
When Chiang Kai-shek was alive, he had a strong control over Taiwan Province, so even after his death, the Chiang family still had nothing to do with Luo Luo.
Because his son Chiang Ching-kuo, that is, Chiang Youbai's grandfather, naturally took over the real power in chiang kai-shek's hands and continued to protect the chiang family's position in Taiwan.
As the great-grandson of Chiang Kai-shek, born in the Chiang family, in his childhood Jiang Youbai can be described as a typical prince and grandson, and his childhood memories are all brightly lit mansions, antique furniture with ancient wood and dark patterns, endless servants, and majestic and honorable families.
The height of his birth is a peak that others will never reach in their lifetime.
A year before Chiang Kai-shek was born, Chiang Kai-shek had died. Like everyone else, Jiang Youbai's memories of his great-grandfather are only stuck in old photo frames and history books.
When he was a child, Jiang Youbai had frequent contact with his great-grandmother Song Meiling.
In his impression, even in his later years, he had never seen her without makeup, without wearing a cheongsam, without stepping on high heels.
And those distant histories that have been lost in the long river of time and are out of reach are also familiar to Jiang Youbai, because usually the family will tell these as stories.
When other students were in history and politics classes and were scratching their ears and scratching their cheeks to memorize history books, Jiang Youbai was very calm, because the book was almost about their Jiang family's family affairs.
In Jiang Youbai's view, the information knowledge he possessed in his hands was simply a pure "History of the Jiang Family."
What I write is our own business, how can you say that I am writing something wrong?
Where outsiders have the courage to say this in front of him, even the teacher is embarrassed to say that he is wrong, so Jiang Youbai's score in modern history has always been very high.
This is the superiority of being born in the Jiang family.
The power of the Jiang family in Taiwan is doomed to the young prince of the Jiang family who has always walked sideways in school, and Jiang Youbai will always be the object of pursuit, saying one thing and not two things among classmates.
In his own words, like a bully.
Like all the noble princes in the novel, Jiang Youbai is always equipped with personal bodyguards wearing Zhongshan suits at his side to protect his safety.
Chiang Kai-shek's father and son ruled Taiwan for nearly forty years, and as the fourth generation of descendants born in the Chiang family, Jiang Youbai was also deeply influenced by this family of political elites.
If you can travel through time, come to the little Taiwanese boy who is dressed in formal clothes and looks like a little adult, ask him what dreams you have.
He might raise his eyelids and look at you coldly, and replied that of course he was president.
This was indeed the dream of Chiang Youbai when he was a child, the Chiang family has been engaged in politics for generations since Chiang Kai-shek, and chiang kai-shek had paved the way for his son Chiang Ching-kuo before his death, and chiang ching-kuo soon seized power after his death.
Until Jiang Youbai was 26 years old, he felt that he should enter politics.
Children are generally more inclined to follow in the footsteps of their parents, such as parents are doctors, policemen, children are full of ears, and the possibility of wanting to become a doctor and police officer when they grow up is extremely high.
The Jiang family is a leader-level figure, Jiang Youbai has also lived a life of stars and moons since he was a child, and he has been in the top of the social environment since he was a child.
In his mentality, he should be the core of the crowd, surrounded by many people, and become their leader.
If there were no other accidents, Jiang Youbai naturally thought that he was also going to inherit the mantle of his ancestors to enter politics, in the eyes of everyone, the Jiang family was born in front of him was the Kangzhuang Avenue, and he only needed to follow the rules to go up.
But life has never been short of accidents, and with chiang ching-kuo's death, everything has taken a turn.
Jiang Youbai lost his grandfather, the Chiang family lost the number one in charge of the family, and Taiwan's political situation was in a state of flux.
Jiang Youbai's father, Jiang Xiaoyong, was Chiang Ching-kuo's third son and the most beloved youngest grandson of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling, and after Chiang Ching-kuo's death, Chiang Ching-yong fell into confusion.
He could not find his place in his family, in his political career.
After dealing with his father's aftermath, Jiang Xiaoyong left Taiwan with his family and immigrated to Canada.
The fourth generation of Jiang who gradually declined
Many years later, Jiang Youbai recalled this experience in his personal blog, and he was very grateful, because it was a new beginning in his life, and it was also an opportunity to take off the glory of Jiang and return to ordinary people.
However, at that time, Jiang Youbai was still young and had not yet felt such a feeling, and his only deep impression at that time was that the world was hot and cold.
"As the saying goes, if people are in human feelings, people are gone, and people's feelings are gone."
Jiang Youbai said.
Many things that used to be taken for granted became very difficult, and then there was my father's sudden decision to go abroad, which meant giving up everything in Taiwan and starting from scratch in a strange country.
His father chose the place of emigration as Montero, and later Jiang Youbai thought to himself that there were fewer Chinese there, and perhaps his father's intention was to go to a place where no one knew about them.
Life in Canada is lonely, Montero is a relatively exclusive city, Jiang Youbai is difficult to integrate into the surroundings, he does not speak English well, and he is always bored at home.
Later, a Chinese teenager who spoke about Chinese came to the class, which made Jiang Youbai very happy, and the two got along for a while, until later his friend found him and said a sentence that made Jiang Youbai fall into the ice cave.
"My father won't let me play with you because you're a descendant of Jiang Bandit."
After Jiang Youbai was embarrassed, he was very angry, so he scolded the other party and completely broke off his friendship with him.
Without the protection of his grandfather and the Jiang family, Jiang Youbai could completely rely on his father to continue to live a smooth life.
He would go to his father's company for internships and work, and his father would introduce him to many, many contacts and become his help in the workplace.
However, the untimely death of his father has become another important turning point in Jiang Youbai's life.
Jiang Xiaoyong died of cancer, and the last instruction left to Jiang You was to never get involved in politics.
Jiang Xiaoyong's death dealt a huge blow to the fledgling Jiang Youbai, who interrupted his studies at New York University and disappeared for two years.
So what did he do in the two years since he disappeared?
"Make money, make money desperately."
Jiang Youbai said,
"Because I suddenly found out that my family didn't have any money."
This is a very surprising answer for many people, how can the Jiang family have no money?
To tell the truth, even Jiang Youbai himself at that time was very surprised, how could my family have no money? Oh my family really has no money.
It is not the rich "Cary is poor to only 1 million" Versailles style has no money, it is really ordinary people who have no money.
Although the house has long been bought, but the savings are very small, if you do not work to earn money, you will not be able to live in the next year.
The decline of the Jiang family and the departure of his father made Jiang Youbai really feel the pressure of life, and he followed his father's legacy of not touching politics and began to break into society on his own.
When he was 18 years old, he earned the first pot of gold in his life, $1 million, which is an astronomical amount for many people, but Jiang Youbai felt that he was relying on luck.
And 1 million is nothing for him, young and vigorous, and accustomed to the aristocratic life of the old society young master, casually eat a meal, open a bottle of foreign wine to spend tens of thousands of dollars, so 1 million can be spent soon.
However, this is also the first victory in Jiang Youbai's career, and his entrepreneurial road has officially begun.
In order to seek the oriental market, after working hard in New York for several years, Jiang Youbai returned to Taiwan after a long absence, and later he founded Taiwan Orange Fruit Design Company and became ceo himself.
Jiang Youbai's peach-colored gossip
In addition to the change of identity in his career, in his private life, Jiang Youbai also has a new role, he has become a husband, a father.
Tall and with the aura of the four generations of the Jiang family on his head, Jiang Youbai, who returned to Taiwan, inevitably became the darling of the media attention, and his private life was completely magnified by the camera to present it in front of the outside world.
Jiang Youbai's wife, Lin Youyi, is a very famous model in Taiwan, very beautiful, Jiang Youbai met her at a dinner party, fell in love with her at first sight, and then launched a fiery pursuit.
Jiang Youbai's friend once said that as long as Jiang Youbai wanted, he could chase after the girl he liked within five or six hours.
Jiang Youbai did not comment on this, but he was also more confident in his heart.
Jiang Youbai, who studied finance at university, regarded this pursuit as a long-term investment, and naturally had to be well managed, so he was very patient.
Jiang Youbai had been cheekily stalking for the first six months, sending flowers and gifts just to get the phone number of the cold Lin Jiaoyi, and chasing the other party to Singapore, where she was with her for eight months.
After chasing for a year, Jiang Youbai's obsessive persistence finally impressed Lin Jiaoyi and successfully embraced the beauty.
The two naturally fell in love, and then there was a marriage proposal.
Jiang Youbai told Mother Lin:
"I'm going to marry your daughter."
Lin Mu looked up at him:
"But you make very little money."
At that time, Jiang Youbai was indeed relatively poor, twenty thousand Taiwan dollars a month, equivalent to more than four thousand yuan, and now ordinary workers may be stronger than this.
And Lin Jiaoyi was born superior, her father was the president of a large hospital, and she could earn 700,000 Taiwan dollars a month, so Lin Mu was forgivable to say this.
Just like this, the salary also has to bear the expenses of eating, management fees, etc., and the rent is paid by Lin Jiayi, so Jiang Youbai was not less scolded as a "phoenix man" at that time.
However, Jiang Youbai eventually married Lin Huiyi back home.
After Lin Jiayi became pregnant, the two had another wedding, this wedding was very peculiar, because Lin Jiayi was pregnant and it was inconvenient to wear a wedding dress, so everyone, including the bride, wore black, which is rare in oriental weddings.
"Isn't there also someone who says marriage is a grave?"
Once on the show, Jiang Youbai said with a smile.
But soon he was on the right track:
"But my wife is pregnant and can only wear black shirts and pants, so how can I make other women more beautiful than her, right?"
He said I've only been in a formal relationship once in my life, and that's my wife, other ex-girlfriends, women and everything else is.
However, the man's mouth, the deceitful ghost, perhaps cheating is the innate commonality of men, and it is also possible that the men of the Jiang family do have the gene of affection in the body.
Chiang Kai-shek had four wives and concubines in his lifetime, and after Chiang Ching-kuo married a foreign wife, he had an affair with his secretary and gave birth to a pair of illegitimate children.
In 2018, Jiang Youbai, who swore that his ex-girlfriend was stinky shit, also spread a peach-colored scandal, and he was photographed having an intimate behavior with his female assistant, causing an uproar.
In the same year, Lin Jiaoyi appealed to the court, accusing Jiang Youbai of arrears of maintenance, and the former couple finally completely tore their faces and went to court for maintenance.
The fairytale marriage between a prince and a princess was shattered.
In 2019, Jiang Youbai and Lin Jianyi divorced, ending a marriage that lasted fifteen years.
After the divorce, he confided in himself that he had never felt happy.
These words should make Lin Xiaoyi feel cold.
When he longs to conquer a woman, he can do everything he can, and Lin Jiaoyi's reserved coldness adds a lot of difficulty and fun to this challenge.
Perhaps Jiang Youbai could not tell whether he really loved Lin Jiayi or wanted to conquer.
But from the point of view of his pursuit of Lin Jiayi as a careful investment that requires long-term management, it may be the latter.
Lin Jiaoyi, who appeared in front of the paparazzi camera after the divorce, was always alone, looking very haggard, and the exposure was gradually reduced; and Jiang Youbai joined hands with the object of extramarital affair, zhuang Hanyun, who was also a former female assistant, and it seemed that the relationship was becoming more and more stable.
Only to see the new people laughing, not to hear the old people crying, the two are compared, not without irony.
He could see other women as when he was passionate about Lin Jiaoyi, and after being worn away by marriage, the white moonlight once became a grain of white rice in his chest.
And he continued to search for the next red rose until it turned into mosquito blood.
Although Jiang Youbai wanted to get rid of all the aura and heaviness brought by the Jiang surname, perhaps he still retained the indifference and ruthlessness of the noble prince of the old society in his bones.
In addition to the second blossom of personal feelings, Jiang Youbai is still focused on his career.
In November this year, Jiang Youbai's solo exhibition opened in Shanghai.
Jiang Youbai, who is 45 years old, cut off a long hair in the past, directly shaved into a slightly sharp bald head, and the figure became stronger and stronger, and the image gradually changed from the former business nobleman to the muscular macho man.
Not only the image has changed, Jiang Youbai's career is also transforming, from business to art painting, he spends two hours a day painting, and often shares his personal life on Weibo.
Open his homepage, organize exhibitions, engage in design, express artistic feelings, the artistic atmosphere is strong, and his name in the design circle is gradually known to people.
However, Jiang Youbai's footsteps still have not stopped, he claims that art and design are his interests, but they are not a fully mature development direction, so he will try to transform other directions.
In the news that mentions him, it is still inevitable to give him the title of Great-grandson of Chiang Kai-shek and the fourth generation of the Chiang family, which is contrary to what he has always expected.
Because Jiang Youbai once said that he did not want to be called the fourth generation of the Jiang family and wanted to be his own Jiang generation, when his son asked him if he wanted to be the second generation of the Jiang family, Jiang Youbai would still say to his son: "I hope you will be your own Jiang generation."
He said to the children, "I'm not happy, you're going to find a happier life later." Anyway, don't push yourself so hard like me. By my generation it was over. ”
Perhaps Jiang this heavy shackle, he will carry it for the rest of his life.