In the previous article, we introduced in more detail the 12 wives and concubines of the Sichuan warlord Yang Sen, but at the same time we also left two questions at the end of the article, that is, Yang Sen raised so many wives and concubines, where did he get the money? Moreover, in the face of so many wives and concubines, how did he manage it to avoid wives and concubines from competing for favors and jealousy?
In this article, let's talk about these two problems together!
How rich is Janssen?
Janssen recorded a total of 12 wives and concubines and 43 children in his lifetime. In the face of clouds of wives and concubines, flocks of children, Yang Sen can really be described as snuggled red and leaning on the green, living a fairy-like life, which is really enviable.
But to maintain the daily expenses of this great family, it is impossible to achieve without a little economic strength.
In addition, according to the family rules he formulated, once one of the wives and concubines is pregnant, then they can receive 5,000 yuan of living expenses with the doctor's certificate, and if the birth is successful, then they can receive a subsidy of 20,000 yuan deposited in a foreign bank. At the same time, they can also receive a generous field property in the name of their children.
So you can imagine how big Janssen's household expenses should be!
However, this is not a difficult task for Yang Sen, who is the best at accumulating wealth among the Sichuan warlords, after all, his wealth is too much to count.
As an old warlord, Yang Sen had four main sources of military salaries, namely, land, salt, tobacco and other miscellaneous taxes. This is not only a source of military salaries for the old warlords in Sichuan, but also an important source of their private wealth.
However, with the increase of various harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the living burden of the people in Shuzhong is undoubtedly increasing, and the taxes that can be collected in the end will inevitably decrease. So gradually, the way warlords amass their wealth is bound to change!
And it is! After Janssen had a certain amount of power, the way he collected money was constantly changing. Collecting taxes was only part of his source of income, during which time he also made a profit by investing in real estate, starting a company, and selling tobacco. Among them, the most profits are made from smoke and soil!
We know that during the reign of the Beiyang warlords, warlords, bureaucrats, etc. not only secretly imported opium, but also forced local farmers to cultivate it in order to extract high profits and taxes. That's why opium has been able to spread everywhere.
The land of Sichuan was more serious than other provinces, and the warlords in Sichuan used opium as an important means of enrichment. They not only forced peasants to grow tobacco and imposed a strict tobacco tax, but also colluded with illegal businessmen and drug trafficking for personal gain, and their cruel methods were simply breathtaking!
As one of the great warlords in Sichuan, Yang Sen's means of using opium to accumulate wealth can be called "clever"!
Since 1932, nanchong has been subordinate to the defense zone of Janssen's 20th Army, and it has begun to set up various taxes to squeeze the local people! For example, what tobacco seedling donation, addict donation, freight, weighing fee, stamp, caretaker and other names of the tax.
According to records, in 1933, the donation of tobacco seedlings was 70,000 yuan, the annual income of the sales shops in the urban area was as high as 6.17 million yuan, and the annual income of the rural sales stores was also tens of thousands of yuan.
In addition, there are also the weighing fees charged when the tobacco seedlings are unearthed, plus the freight and printing costs of the escort merchants when transporting them out of the country, which can also be collected tens of thousands of yuan per year.
But do you think that's the end of it? Of course not! Addicts donate and donate red lights to their homes, and their income is also more than tens of thousands of yuan. Coupled with those fines for tax evasion and tax evasion, the annual income is no less than three or four hundred thousand yuan.
At that time, Yang Sen's "Dachuan Bank", like many warlords, such as Huang Qingyun's commercial bank and Luo Juntong's Yimin Qianzhuang, were all engaged in opium.
When Janssen had a certain amount of money, he began to expand his money-making business, such as investing in real estate, starting a company, etc., and the money earned was uncountable.
So much so that he had huge deposits in foreign banks in Britain, the United States, and Japan; in Chongqing, Hankou, Shanghai and other places, there were mansions and mansions, just like the princes and nobles in the feudal period.
So seeing this, you can probably imagine how rich Janssen really is, right?
After talking about Janssen's wealth, let's talk about how he managed his 12 wives and concubines.
How did Janssen manage his 12 wives and concubines?
Yang Sen this person, uninhibited, like sound and color dogs and horses, for many years outside looking for flowers and asking willows, there is almost no feeling for his wife and concubine, once the white and beautiful wife and concubine become a yellow-faced woman, it will be immediately rejected. For example, his fourth aunt Ota Hengqiu and his tenth aunt Zheng Wenru are good examples!
In order to prevent wives and concubines from competing for favors, Yang Sen adopted the principle of "one bowl of water and one level", taking turns to stay at each wife and concubine for three nights. In addition, he also formulated countless house rules and regulations to strictly restrain his wives and concubines!
For example, Janssen stipulates that everyone must get up early in the morning, and then uniformly wear a uniform, tie a belt, and hand over to an adjutant to lead the team to exercise, every day, rain or shine.
After breakfast, you must also learn ancient Chinese, learn English, play the piano, etc., and you must not be absent from class for no reason. If there is a violator, Janssen will immediately take out a horse whip and whip it fiercely.
Not only that, wives and concubines were not allowed to entertain guests, play cards, drink alcohol, dance, watch dramas, watch movies, and so on.
Every month adults and children have a certain amount of "monthly money", which includes daily expenses, pocket expenses and clothing. And things in the family are managed by one person in turn every month, so that the situation of "no tigers in the mountains, monkeys are called kings" is avoided.
I have to admit that Yang Sen still has quite a way of managing his wives and concubines! And he himself felt very proud of this, and whenever other warlords came to him to "ask for advice", he said with great shame: "I am practicing militarized management, otherwise the people in that house will be able to live in a town!" ”
In front of women, Yang Sen may be a complete "beast", but in front of his children, he plays the role of a "righteous gentleman" all the time, always a serious book, looking like a "strict father"!
Janssen stipulated that his children were not allowed to smoke, drink, play cards, and if they wanted to watch a play, they had to go accompanied by him. Of course, these are some very reasonable requirements, and it is naturally correct not to let children develop such habits.
In addition, there are also strict rules for three meals a day: when eating, it is necessary to listen to the ringing of the bell to enter the dining room, where there are two large round tables and a shorter round table, wives and concubines sit around Janssen at a table, the larger children sit at a table, and the smaller one sits at a shorter round table.
Before eating, the children must fold their hands like Christians, and then pray in a long tone, and the prayer is also carefully prepared by Janssen, which is roughly the following:
"Daddy and Mommy, give us food to eat, we have to listen to the lessons, learn good people, only worthy of Daddy and Mommy, please!"
After saying the word "please", everyone can pick up the chopsticks and start eating!
It is worth mentioning that Janssen also specially wrote a "family song" full of feudal atmosphere, and asked the famous composer Liu Xue'an to compose the song, which was sung at the "family concert" every year, and the general content of the lyrics was:
Only I Yang Clan, Wenzhi to Kansai, martial arts are called invincible, carry forward and develop in my generation. Emphasize education, enjoy, and ban waste. No smoking, no drinking, no prostitution, no gambling are my house rules. Learn to specialize, learn from your specialization, sports, music can not be abolished. Loyalty to the country and filial piety to the family are beneficial to this party. Good descendants, good descendants, angry and angry, good descendants, good descendants, and strive to promote the prestige of the country.
In addition to formulating these strict family rules and prohibitions, Janssen's methods in dealing with his wife and concubine who betrayed him were also very cruel! This can be seen from the fate of his seventh concubine Zeng Guizhi and his eighth concubine Cai Wenna!
First, let's talk about Zeng Guizhi! She was originally an adopted daughter of Yang Sen in Bijie, Guizhou, but as Zeng Guizhi grew up day by day, her body was plump and her skin was white and beautiful, Yang Sen gradually had a non-divided thought about her, and finally defiled her.
Zeng Guizhi was full of vitality and self-motivation, so Yang Sen invited a tutor for her to teach her to read and write, and then he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to send her to Shanghai, Beijing and other places to study.
At this time, Zeng Guizhi, who had gone to school in other places, had no more constraints, and many male classmates in the class admired her almost perfect figure, so they expressed their love to her.
Zeng Guizhi, who is progressive in his thinking, faces the pursuit of boys of the same age, and his heart becomes extremely eager for love, so he agrees to be with a male classmate surnamed Chen in the same class, and the two are in pairs, and the feelings are very good.
As a result, after the matter was learned by Yang Sen's eyes and ears in Shanghai, he reported it to Yang Sen, who was furious and sent someone to shoot the two of them in the wilderness.
Yang Sen's eighth concubine, Cai Wenna, was roughly the same as Zeng Guizhi's situation, because she was executed by Yang Sen after falling in love with a male classmate at school.
However, compared to Zeng Guizhi, Cai Wenna's ending is more tragic!
We said in the previous article that Cai Wenna was born in Xiangmendi, is a recognized school flower-level figure of Luxian Girls' High School, her temperament is otherworldly, her face is delicate and moving, and her figure is graceful and colorful, which makes people bend their eyebrows and bend their waists!
After Yang Sen "took her down", he allowed him to continue to stay in Luzhou to study. In addition, in order to let Cai Wenna succeed Zeng Guizhi and win a glory for herself in the social arena, Yang Sen began to spare no effort to cultivate her, and specially invited a tutor for her to learn English for her.
Cai Wenna was originally "robbed" by Yang Sen, and she had no feelings for him at all, so when she saw the young tutor, she had love. But soon, the matter was known to Yang Sen, who immediately ordered cai Wenna to be tied up and punished to kneel in the courtyard, preparing to put her to death.
In the bitter cold wind, Cai Wenna was frightened and trembling, if it were not for the aunts and wives interceding for her, I am afraid that she would have been executed by Yang Sen a long time ago. But unfortunately, the tutor could not escape Janssen's poisonous hands in the end!
A few years later, Cai Wenna was sent by Yang Sen to the Department of Sociology of West China University in Chengdu, and during her studies, she met a male classmate of the School of Dentistry at that time, and the two soon fell in love.
According to Cai Wenna's idea, he first went to divorce Janssen, and then married his boyfriend. But when Janssen learned of this, he not only did not give her the opportunity to propose a divorce, but also executed her.
At the time of the execution of Cai Wenna, Yang Sen also ordered other wives and concubines to go to the scene to watch and kill one hundred people! When the wives and concubines saw this, they were all frightened and pale, and they trembled unceasingly. Cai Wenna's boyfriend fled abroad, which was spared.
At that time, Yang Sen, who was highly powerful and arbitrary, killed several innocent men and women, which was simply commonplace, and people did not dare to ask questions at all. And Yang Sen also showed no concern about this, he said: "If you don't keep the way of women, there is no way, then I will be willing to do it." ”
Good and evil will eventually be rewarded, and the heavens will be reincarnated; if you look up in disbelief, the heavens have spared no one!
In 1949, the Chiang family dynasty was crumbling, and under the powerful offensive of the People's Liberation Army Chinese, Yang Sen expressed several times that he would lead the uprising, but was rejected.
For example, when Erye entered western Hunan Province, Yang Sen called Liu and Deng and said that he wanted to revolt. After Chai Chengwen received the telegram, he reported to Liu and Deng, but was refused. Liu Shuai said, "Don't want these people, ignore him!" You do the work of the uprising, don't look for these people. ”
Later, Janssen once again expressed his desire to revolt, but he was rejected! In the end, Yang Sen had to follow Lao Jiang to Taiwan!
However, after going to Taiwan, Janssen was not at ease, and when he was 90 years old, he married a 17-year-old middle school student and later gave birth to a child.
Yet age is always unforgiving! In March 1977, Janssen returned from a visit to the Philippines, and after making love with his concubine for a while, he suddenly felt unwell, and after going to the hospital for examination, he learned that he had lung cancer. Two months later, at the age of 93, Janssen officially completed his long and absurd life!
And when someone asked him why he wanted to marry so many concubines, he once replied: "I thought about the emperor's addiction..."