As the president of Peking University for the longest time during the Republic of China period, Jiang Menglin has always maintained a rigorous academic attitude in his youth, and when he was the president of Peking University, he often spoke out for the construction of Peking University into a world-class university, making Peking University once on a par with Southwest United University in China.
Jiang Menglin was very successful in his studies, but he wrestled several times on the issue of marriage, and he had three wives in his life, the last two wives made him ridiculed many times by friends and the people.
At the age of 75, Jiang Menglin tried to marry his third wife, and before marriage he did a physical examination and praised his health, but after a year he was admitted to the hospital, and his wife secretly transferred his property when he was ill, making Jiang Menglin's old age full of thorns.
Why is Jiang Menglin's married life so bumpy? Why was he admitted to the hospital after only one year of a medical examination? How does he finally resolve the conflict with his wife?
Arranged marriages become excuses
In 1886, Jiang Menglin was born in an ordinary family in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province, and his parents attached great importance to the education of their children, which enabled Jiang Menglin to enter a private school at a very young age, and later he entered a Western-style school, and the principal of the school happened to be Cai Yuanpei, who later served as the president of Peking University.
A little longer, Jiang Menglin moved to Shanghai with his parents, at a time when the anti-Qing and anti-imperialist movements were rising, the peasant movement across the country was surging and the Qing government was in danger, Jiang Menglin was influenced by the patriotic trend of thought, and participated in the student tide in the church school he attended, so he was blacklisted by the school.
At the age of 22, Jiang Menglin was arranged by her parents to marry her wife Sun Yushu, who was a rural girl who was not interested in learning, but paid great attention to the family, and was a typical feudal woman, Jiang Menglin naturally did not have a strong relationship with her.
Jiang Menglin's academic performance is very good, he participated in the imperial examination for the first time to show his talent in high school, and then went to the United States to study, under the famous scholar Dewey, majoring in philosophy and education, and successfully obtained a doctorate.
After staying in Yang for nearly ten years, Jiang Menglin returned to China after completing his studies, and he successively served as the editor-in-chief of the education magazine of the Commercial Press and a professor in the Department of Education of Peking University.
Although Jiang Menglin and his wife did not have a deep emotional foundation, and Jiang Menglin did not bring his wife with him in the 9 years she went abroad, Liu Yushu still bore him a pair of children, and the two relied on children to maintain the feelings of both sides.
At the time of the rise of the May Fourth Movement, the concept of democracy and science began to spread throughout the country, Jiang Menglin because of his profound academic achievements in this area, his pragmatic attitude and strong working ability were valued by Cai Yuanpei, and naturally became the acting president of Peking University.
Jiang Menglin's eyes gradually broadened, and he gradually disliked Liu Yushu, but he did not want to abandon his wife and son, and he fell into the name of betraying love, and he did not know that he did not abandon his wife immediately, only because he did not find the person who really looked at him for a while.
Soon, Jiang Menglin's dream lover finally entered his vision, and in 1928, Jiang Menglin's good friend Gao Renshan was killed by the Fengzhi warlords because of political suspicions, leaving his wife Tao Zenggu.
Before Gao Renshan's death, he and Jiang Menglin were friends with Mo Rebellion, the two had a very strong personal relationship, and seeing that his widow was also persecuted by warlords and living a very embarrassing life, Jiang Menglin felt sympathy and often visited and took care of Tao Zenggu.
Subsequently, Jiang Menglin became the minister of education of the Kuomintang, and he recommended Tao Zenggu as the secretary of the minister, and the two had closer contacts, and they gradually fell in love with each other over time.
In 1932, Jiang Menglin finally couldn't help but disclose his new love affair, he first divorced her on the grounds that he was harmed by arranged marriage and had no feelings for the original Sun Yushu, and then announced to the outside world that he wanted to marry Tao Zenggu, on the grounds that he wanted to fulfill his obligations between friends.
Two sinks
Jiang Menglin's words are obviously not enough to hide from the public, and his explanation has become the laughing stock of peers and people in the industry for a while, and people are mocking Jiang Menglin for repaying Gao Renshan in this way.
When the two were about to hold a wedding, Jiang Menglin decided to invite her friend Hu Shi and his wife Jiang Dongxiu to come to the marriage, Jiang Dongxiu has always been very opposed to the marriage between the two, she believes that Jiang Menglin's abandonment of the original match is against morality, so she resolutely does not participate in the marriage witness, and also forbids Hu Shi to attend the wedding.
In the end, Hu Shi was able to come to the wedding scene by escaping from home by jumping out of the window, Jiang Menglin did not live up to the blessings of his friends, he and Tao Zenggu lived a good life from then on, and the marriage between the husband and wife was quite harmonious.
Jiang Menglin has been the president of Peking University, and with the fall of North China in the War of Resistance Against Japan, Peking University had to merge with other first-class schools to form Changsha Provisional University and move the school to Changsha.
A year later, Jiang Menglin and other principals moved the school to Kunming with a group of students and renamed the school southwest United University.
For the smooth development of education, Jiang Menglin was always the first to make concessions when there was a conflict of interest with other universities, and although his righteous deeds were out of consideration for the overall situation, they were dissatisfied by many Peking University teachers and students for harming the interests of Peking University.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Jiang Menglin chose to turn to Chiang Kai-shek, and at the same time invited his old friend Hu Shi, who was far away in the United States, to return to China to serve as the president of Peking University, and he himself resigned from the post of president and quit the Southwest United University.
During the Liberation War, the Kuomintang lost one after another and eventually lost taiwan, and Jiang Menglin and his wife came to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek and held some official positions in Chiang Kai-shek's government, and the husband and wife were harmonious until their wife died in 1958.
The death of his wife was a big blow to Jiang Menglin, at first he did not think about tea and dinner, and missed his wife all day, but Jiang Menglin was old, it was very inconvenient to live alone, and his friends were very anxious, so he constantly asked the matchmaker to match him.
In the first two years, Jiang Menglin did not enter the oil and salt, he was not interested in the people introduced by the matchmaker, and persuaded his friends to give up the idea of matchmaking for him early, but Jiang Menglin was very easy to have love at first sight, and he once again met a person who made him desperate.
Fight for the price
Two years later, Jiang Menglin met Xu Xianle, who was over fifty years old, but the charm still existed, and many men were pursuing her.
Xu Xianle's last marriage was because of a financial conflict with her husband, the two divorced only 7 months after marriage, and her private morality was criticized by everyone, but Jiang Menglin was like a demon, frantically pursuing her.
Jiang Menglin's friends are very anxious, and the reason why they are anxious this time is that Xu Xianle is not a good stubble, she loves vanity, and what she likes is not Jiang Menglin himself, but covets his status and wealth.
Hu Shi and others unanimously opposed, even Song Meiling openly opposed, she ordered someone to send a message to Jiang Menglin, saying that if Jiang Menglin insisted on marrying Xu Xianle, then the two would not have to communicate again in the future.
Jiang Menglin, who was hot-headed, did not care about this, and he once again tried to marry Xu Xianle against the public opinion, just a week before the two of them got married, Hu Shi also learned from his mouth that he planned to give up his intention to get married, and a week later, Hu Shi was surprised to receive Jiang Menglin's wedding invitation.
Before getting married, Jiang Menglin also rushed to the hospital for a full body examination and boasted: "There is nothing wrong with my body!" What he didn't know was that this impulsive marriage had set the stage for the tragic second half of his life. Only one year after the two were married, Jiang Menglin was admitted to the hospital because he accidentally injured his foot.
Xu Xianle was immediately dissatisfied with the "bad old man" in front of her, so she lied about going home to run errands, and when Jiang Menglin was lying on the hospital bed and could not move, she quietly moved her account out of the Jiang family, and then she secretly transferred Jiang Menglin's property, transferred the passbook, stocks, etc. to her name, and impersonated his bonuses and interest without Jiang Menglin's consent.
Although Jiang Menglin is old, he is not confused, after learning of Xu Xianle's betrayal, Jiang Menglin immediately sued her in court, demanding that the two divorce, this lawsuit lasted for a year, during which Xu Xianle continued to use tricks, showing weakness and other ways to pull with Jiang Menglin, Jiang Menglin was overwhelmed, and finally had to promise to give Xu Xianle 500,000 yuan of living expenses before getting a divorce.
Jiang Menglin won the case, but his divorce lawsuit spread throughout Taiwan Province, people are laughing at him to lose his reputation in old age, only half a year later, Jiang Menglin died because of humiliation and illness, how he abandoned his original match, it was considered to be returned by Xu Xianle one by one.