In the early days of the founding of the Republic of China, there were four brothers in Beijing who were known as the "Four Princes of the Republic of China" because of their feud and great value.
Among them, Zhang Xueliang is not only handsome in appearance, but also his father is Zhang Zuolin, a local powerful warlord who dominates the northeast.
Under the protection of Zhang Zuolin, the young Zhang Xueliang was not only extraordinary, but also had a heavy army, known as the object of admiration of countless women, and there were all kinds of women around him.
It is said that when Zhang Xueliang was on a mission to Europe, the daughter of The Italian fascist leader Mussolini was captivated by Zhang Xueliang's style and even wanted to marry him.
In his later years, Zhang Xueliang once said that in his lifetime, he had about 11 girlfriends, but most of them were over-the-top, and only three people had really entered his life.
They were the eldest lady Yu Fengzhi, the second lady Gu Ruiyu, and Miss Zhao Yidi, who accompanied him through the years of captivity.
Among them, Gu Ruiyu is a mixed-race Child of Chinese and Russian descent, tall and rich, who once accompanied Zhang Xueliang to the battlefield, was called the Lady of the Army by the soldiers, and was called "Ocean Horse" because of his outstanding stature.
The young marshal has a good life, and there are only three famous ones
Zhang Xueliang has had countless scandals in his life, and only two people are more famous.
One is that Zhang Xueliang's original wife is Yu Fengzhi, who belongs to the arranged marriage of her parents, and Zhang Xueliang has always called each other "big sister" and has great respect for her.
The other is the famous "Miss Zhao Si" Zhao Yidi, after the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Xueliang was supervised by the Kuomintang secret service for a long time.
Zhao Yidi accompanied him and officially married Zhang Xueliang in 1964, eventually accompanying him to the end of his life and becoming a beautiful conversation with each other.
In addition to Yu Fengzhi and Zhao Yidi, Zhang Xueliang also had a love affair with a woman, and this person was Gu Ruiyu, known as the "Second Lady".
The Gu family has been in business for generations, and the ancestors are quite famous in the local area, but in Gu Ruiyu's generation, the industry has fallen a lot, but the family is still very wealthy.
Gu Ruiyu's father is Russian, so when he grew up, Gu Ruiyu integrated the characteristics of China and Russia, with a slender figure and excellent style, becoming a standard mixed-race beauty.
Both of her sisters were married to Fengjun officers.
Among them, the husband of the second sister was a high-ranking general who helped Zhang Zuolin fight the world, which made Gu Ruiyu quite familiar with the situation of the Northeast Army.
The third sister married the retinue of the young marshal Zhang Xueliang, so that she was given the opportunity to meet Zhang Xueliang.
Meet at family gatherings, and feel affection for each other in getting along
In 1922, at the age of 18, Gu Ruiyu met Zhang Xueliang for the first time at a family cocktail party.
At the cocktail party, the two talked happily.
Zhang Xueliang's charming appearance left a deep impression on Gu Ruiyu, and Gu Ruiyu's tall figure also made Zhang Xueliang difficult to forget, especially her fluent English, which made the young marshal even more admired.
Zhang Xueliang joined the Christian Church at the age of 17, but the English books of the church gave him a lot of headaches, and when he communicated with the foreign missionaries of the church, he felt extremely painful.
Therefore, he attaches great importance to the study of English and has a special admiration for those who can speak fluent English.
In order to improve his English, Zhang Xueliang enrolled in a training class.
Just as he entered the classroom to prepare for class, the sound of a man and a woman communicating in English came from behind the classroom.
The man is a foreigner, and the woman is a Chinese with a mixture of Eastern and Western appearances.
She wore a traditional Chinese qipao, which was originally tall, and the tight qipao showed her figure exquisitely, which made Zhang Xueliang on the side also look fascinated, and this person happened to be Gu Ruiyu.
After the two broke up from the party, Gu Ruiyu fell in love with Zhang Xueliang, and Zhang Xueliang hurriedly returned to the army because of the busy military affairs, leaving Gu Ruiyu alone.
Seeing that the little sister was frowning, her sister asked to be the husband of Zhang Xueliang's attaché, hoping to promote the two of them to meet again.
At this time, in order to gain an advantage in the war, Feng Jun ordered a batch of aircraft with the British, and the person responsible for the negotiation was Zhang Xueliang.
After learning this news, Gu Ruiyu's brother-in-law immediately told her and recommended Gu Ruiyu, who was quite good in English, as an English translator in front of Zhang Xueliang, and Zhang Xueliang gladly agreed.
In this way, the intersection of Zhang Xueliang and Gu Ruiyu began to increase, because of his solid English skills and flexible negotiation skills, Gu Ruiyu successfully completed his work, so that Zhang Xueliang could buy the plane he wanted.
At the same time, during this period of time together, Zhang Xueliang also developed a good feeling for her and had the idea of marrying her.
However, because of the urgency of the war, Zhang Xueliang did not dare to focus on his children's private affairs, and he left Tianjin in a hurry shortly after the negotiations ended.
In 1924, the Zhifeng War broke out again, and Zhang Xueliang, as the commander of the legion, led the Northeast Army to the first line of Shanhaiguan garrison.
After Gu Ruiyu in Tianjin learned the news of his expedition, his heart was very nervous, so he wrote a letter in English and sent it to Zhang Xueliang.
In the war-torn battlefield, Zhang Xueliang saw this letter full of tenderness and sweetness, and his heart was very moved, and he was eager to go to Tianjin to see Gu Ruiyu immediately.
At this time, Gu Ruiyu was anxiously waiting for Zhang Xueliang's reply in Tianjin, and after waiting for several days without receiving the letter, Gu Ruiyu decided to go to the front line to visit his sweetheart.
Although his family tried to dissuade him, the stubborn Gu Ruiyu came to Zhang Xueliang's headquarters at Shanhaiguan.
Seeing the rich lady who was pampered and habitual from childhood, willing to risk her life and come to visit herself, Zhang Xueliang was very touched and abandoned the shackles of the family and combined with it as a couple.
In this way, this pair of mandarin ducks spent a period of life and death on the battlefield.
Because Gu Ruiyu was tall and tall, and often accompanied Zhang Xueliang to inspect the position, the soldiers of the Feng army called her "Lady of the Army", and some people jokingly called her "Big Ocean Horse".
Although the two people's days together were very happy, in his spare time, Zhang Xueliang also began to be distressed.
He has an original wife, and it is the marriage personally pointed out by his father Zhang Zuolin, if he wants to marry Gu Ruiyu, one is afraid that his wife will not agree, and the other is that his father will reprimand him.
At this time, after Gu Ruiyu's family learned the news of the combination of xiaomei and Zhang Xueliang, they began to disclose the information to Zhang Zuolin intentionally or unintentionally by her second brother-in-law.
Zhang Zuolin knew his son's personality very well, so after knowing that things had been nailed down, he was silent and did not express any opinion.
After seeing his father acquiesce in his behavior, Zhang Xueliang's hanging heart finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Soon after, the Feng army achieved a comprehensive victory, and Zhang Xueliang also returned to Tianjin with Gu Ruiyu.
In October 1924, the two were officially married.
Although she became the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family, she could not step into the gate
Although Gu Ruiyu became the young marshal's wife, she still could not enter the gate of the Marshal's Mansion, and Zhang Xueliang's main chamber, Yu Fengzhi, was even more unable to accept her psychologically.
In 1925, she returned to Shenyang with Zhang Xueliang and bought a villa to live in Jingsan Road.
Although Zhang Zuolin acquiesced to this daughter-in-law, until Zhang Zuolin was killed, she did not officially recognize her identity in the Marshal's Mansion.
In the middle of 1925, Zhang Xueliang received orders to garrison the Zhejiang area, and Gu Ruiyu once again accompanied him to the south.
In the Zhejiang area, Gu Ruiyu was very uncomfortable with the local climate and diet, and even had a serious illness, but she resolutely persevered.
Later, Zhang Xueliang was ordered to form a northeast navy in Qinhuangdao, and Gu Ruiyu still spared no effort to accompany her husband.
This attitude of not being afraid of hardships made Zhang Xueliang love and loved, and also made the feelings of the two people reach a peak.
In 1925, Guo Songling, the right-hand man of the Northeast Army, was not accustomed to Zhang Zuolin signing a secret agreement with the Japanese army, so he turned against the enemy and attacked the Fengjun troops.
Guo Songling led tens of thousands of troops to capture the first line of Shanhaiguan, which greatly panicked Zhang Zuolin, so he quickly ordered Zhang Xueliang to rush to the front with heavy troops, so that Zhang Xue must completely annihilate Guo's troops.
This incident made Zhang Xueliang bitter, because Zhang Xueliang and Guo Songling's personal relationship was extremely close, his wife and Guo Songling's wife were still university alumni, and the two families often interacted.
At the same time, Zhang Xueliang also admired Guo Songling's military and political insights, and regarded him as a teacher in his heart.
Now, the former close friends want to fight each other, and this emotional torture makes Zhang Xueliang sleepless all night.
At this time, Yang Yuting, who had ulterior motives, sent Zhang Xueliang opium cream and speculated that he could treat insomnia.
Seeing her husband's sluggish demeanor, Gu Ruiyu, who was in a hurry to go to the hospital, asked Zhang Xueliang to use opium to ease his emotions, not wanting to let Zhang Xueliang become addicted to opium from then on.
Although she later tried her best to help him quit smoking, it was still ineffective.
Later, under the treatment of a Japanese quack doctor, Zhang Xueliang became a victim of morphine again.
Zhang Xueliang's health was greatly damaged, and sometimes even when a military conference was held, Zhang Xueliang would leave the table immediately, just so that he could take two mouthfuls of drugs.
A general who is full of life and tigers has become a languishing smoker, which makes the Zhang family resentful of Gu Ruiyu.
In 1925, the Fengjun general Guo Songling, dissatisfied with Zhang Zuolin's collusion with the Japanese, led a 70,000-strong army to attack Fengtian, and broke through all the way, causing great pressure on Zhang Zuolin.
In the end, Zhang Zuolin had no choice but to betray the sovereignty of northeast China, and only with the help of the Japanese army did he thwart the incident.
Zhang Zuolin hated Guo Songling to the bone, and even exposed his body to the river for three days.
After Guo Songling was killed, the Northeast Army found more than a dozen letters from Guo's family from Gu Ruiyu and Guo Songling's wife Han Shuxiu, and was given to Zhang Zuolin by Yang Yuting, which made him furious and asked Zhang Xueliang to leave her immediately.
This series of mistakes has made Gu Ruiyu caught up in the accusations of the Zhang family, and the distance between her husband, who is deeply addicted to drugs, is getting farther and farther away from her.
Feelings fade, and frequent accidents make each other more distant
After the end of the war in Henan, Zhang Xueliang sent Gu Ruiyu to Beijing to live, where he settled a property for her, and then went to the front line to stay in the Baoding area for a long time.
With the passage of time, the fire of love began to gradually fade in Gu Ruiyu's heart, because the two people had been separated for a long time, her complaints about Zhang Xueliang were also increasing, and several fierce quarrels broke out over the phone.
In Zhang Xueliang's eyes, Gu Ruiyu's gentle and understanding style has disappeared, and the relationship between husband and wife has taken a sharp turn.
Gu Ruiyu, who lived alone in Tianjin, began to fill his life with dancing, playing cards, and drinking.
Sometimes, as the young marshal's wife, she invited Mei Lanfang and other famous artists to sing at home.
After Zhang Xueliang learned of this, he severely reprimanded her, but Gu Ruiyu was not moved at all, and still went his own way.
On June 4, 1928, the Japanese Kwantung Army blew up Zhang Zuolin at Huanggutun in a vain attempt to invade and occupy the northeast region.
In order to stabilize the situation, the Zhang family did not mourn, creating the illusion that Zhang Zuolin was still alive to confuse the Japanese.
In order to confirm the true situation of Zhang Zuolin, the Japanese not only constantly sent people to visit the Marshal's Mansion, but also let the spy agencies pay close attention to the Zhang family's every move, hoping to find clues from relatives.
At this critical moment, Gu Ruiyu, who was in Tianjin, returned to Shenyang without consulting Zhang Xueliang, which caused the Japanese to be highly suspicious and almost failed in the plan designed by the Zhang family to confuse the enemy.
Fortunately, Zhang Xueliang returned to Shenyang in time to maintain the stability of the situation in the northeast.
Gu Ruiyu's disregard for the overall situation made Zhang Xueliang greatly annoyed, and his previous feelings were swept away.
After the Japanese bombed Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Xueliang, who was hated by the country and the family, intended to submit to the rule of the Nationalist government in Nanjing, and planned to change the flag in 1928.
This move of his was strongly hindered by old warlords such as Yang Yuting and Chang Huaiyin, who had deep ties to the Japanese government, and planned to kill Zhang Xueliang and then replace him.
Zhang Xueliang was also aware of their plot, and the double hair once reached the place where the sword was raging.
In order to be able to grasp Zhang Xueliang's movements, Yang Yuting used the excuse of playing mahjong and drinking tea to let his aunt and wife intentionally approach Gu Ruiyu, and intentionally or unintentionally asked Zhang Xueliang about his behavior during the party.
This immediately aroused Zhang Xueliang's vigilance and gave Gu Ruiyu a kind reminder, but Gu Ruiyu took Zhang Xueliang's warning as a side note.
In December of the same year, Yang Yuting, thinking that his father had a birthday, invited Gu Ruiyu and Zhang Xueliang to their home for dinner.
At the banquet, Yang Yuting arranged for the Japanese ronin to assassinate Zhang Xueliang, but fortunately he was recognized by his wife Yu Fengzhi and was lucky enough to escape the disaster.
After this incident, Zhang Xueliang was even more disappointed in Gu Ruiyu to the extreme, and Gu Ruiyu, who had a stubborn personality, also ran back to Tianjin to live in a huff.
At the end of the marriage, I can't let go of the love in my heart
In 1931, the marriage finally came to an end, and after signing the divorce agreement, Zhang Xueliang returned to Shenyang.
At the moment of parting, Zhang Xueliang told Gu Ruiyu that he hoped that she would not show herself in the name of the young marshal's wife in the future, and also allowed her to marry freely.
After the divorce, Zhang Xueliang gave her a property in Tianjin and left her 100,000 yuan as alimony.
After Gu Ruiyu and Zhang Xueliang divorced, they changed their name to Meng Xiaoyu, studied in the Physics Department of Nankai University, and stayed on to teach after graduation, becoming an educator cultivating talents.
In 1958, Gu Ruiyu left his teaching position and enjoyed his old age.
What Zhang Xueliang did not expect was that after Gu Ruiyu divorced him, he did not remarry, but kept this feeling and spent the rest of his life in a bland way.
On the walls of her home, there are pictures of Zhang Xueliang when he was young, guarding this dancing boy who haunts her soul.
In 1983, Gu Ruiyu died of illness in Tianjin at the age of 83.
This divorce also hit Zhang Xueliang quite hard, and once made him depressed.
It was not until 1927, under the introduction of friends, that he met the lively "Miss Zhao Si" and regained his strength and fell in love with him.
In Zhang Xueliang's ups and downs in his life, Gu Ruiyu and his love are the most bumpy.
They once fell in love with each other vigorously, but in the end, because of Gu Ruiyu's personality problems, the two failed to stay together for a lifetime, becoming each other's eternal regret.