On December 15, 2004, Chiang Ching-kuo's wife, Chiang Fang-leung, died at Taipei Veterans General Hospital due to respiratory failure caused by lung tumors. The descendants of the Jiang family accompanied her on the last journey, and the sharp-eyed reporter noticed that jiang xiaozhang was the only one who did not see Jiang Xiaozhang in a large group of people in the Jiang family.
Among Chiang Ching-kuo's children, Jiang Xiaozhang is his only daughter, a collection of thousands of pets, she has lived in the United States for a long time, and whether she can return to Taiwan to attend her mother's funeral is the focus of many gossip media. A reporter asked Jiang Xiaowen's wife, Jiang Xu Naijin:
"Will Jiang Xiaozhang come back?"
Jiang Xu Naijin replied lightly:
"Don't know".
The reporter chased after it:
"Did you notify her?"
Jiang Xu Naijin replied in the affirmative.
On December 26, Jiang Xiaozhang's husband, Yu Yanghe, returned to Taiwan alone to attend his mother-in-law's farewell memorial service, but Jiang Xiaozhang still could not rush to his mother's side. According to Yu Yanghe, Jiang Xiaozhang was not in good health and could not travel a long way back to send her mother on her last journey, and she was devastated by her mother's death.
Pictured: Jiang Xiaozhang, Yu Yanghe
At the memorial service, Yu Yanghe read the memorial essay written by Jiang Xiaozhang on "The Most Beloved Loving Mother" written by Jiang Xiaozhang, and the crowd burst into tears after listening to it, Jiang Xiaozhang had a deep understanding of her mother's difficulties over the years, and she could truly feel her mother's greatness.
In my memory, the loving mother's life is only dedication, very little leisure enjoyment, and it is difficult to have the opportunity to travel on vacation, only to come to the United States to spend more than a month in the home of her beloved daughter, so that the old man thinks that it is the warmest and most precious period of her life.
Jiang Fangliang and Jiang Jingguo raised three sons and a daughter, Jiang Xiaowen, Jiang Xiaozhang, Jiang Xiaowu, and Jiang Xiaoyong. On January 13, 1988, Chiang Ching-kuo died suddenly, and Jiang Fangliang fell into grief, but in the following eight years, her three sons left her one after another, and her daughter Jiang Xiaozhang has been living in the United States.
Jiang Fangliang once went to the United States to visit her mother-in-law Song Meiling for the only time, and she was eager to see Jiang Xiaozhang, that is, the time when Jiang Xiaozhang said that her mother lived in her home for more than a month. I can't personally send my mother on the last journey, and I have to say that this is a major regret in Jiang Xiaozhang's life.
In April 1937, Chiang Ching-kuo, who had spent twelve years in the Soviet Union, took his wife Jiang Fangliang and son Jiang Xiaowen on the road back to China. In February 1938, Jiang Xiaozhang was born in Fenghua Xikou, the only child of Chiang Ching-kuo's sons and daughters born in her hometown. After Jiang Xiaozhang was born, Chiang Ching-kuo was arranged by Chiang Kai-shek to work at the Inspectorate office of the Fourth Administrative Region of Jiangxi, and some people said that Jiang Xiaozhang was a lucky star in Chiang Ching-kuo's career, but as far as the influence of the Chiang family is concerned, it is only a matter of time before Chiang Ching-kuo enters the political arena.
Photo: Jiang Xiaozhang
For the birth of Jiang Xiaozhang, both Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo were full of joy, and with the birth of Jiang Xiaowu and Jiang Xiaoyong, Jiang Xiaozhang's favor increased unabated. Song Meiling had a high evaluation of Jiang Xiaozhang's favor:
"Xiao Zhang is the most precious granddaughter of the three generations of the Jiang family."
Jiang Xiaowen's three brothers were naughty when they were young, and usually they were afraid of being scolded by Jiang Chingguo, so they went to beg Jiang Xiaozhang, as long as she interceded with her father, she could make big things small and small things. Jiang Chingguo, who has a calm personality, no matter what worries he has, as soon as he sees his precious daughter, he disappears, and if Jiang Xiaozhang is unhappy at home, Jiang Chingguo will try to coax her.
The three brothers Jiang Xiaowen, Jiang Xiaowu and Jiang Xiaoyong are notoriously clumsy children, and Jiang Xiaozhang, who was born with a golden key, did not resemble his brothers, but inherited the low-key and introverted personality of his mother Jiang Fangliang. Jiang Xiaozhang did not like to let the driver pick up and drop off when she went to school, preferring to ride a bicycle by herself, the driver was familiar with Jiang Xiaozhang's personality, she was afraid of being seen by her classmates for her special treatment, and the food was only placed at the school guard waiting for her to pick it up.
How many people dream of a life of gold clothes and jade food, in Jiang Xiaozhang's eyes, she is more willing to live the life of ordinary people. Jiang Xiaozhang graduated from high school and faced a strict university joint examination, her goal was to be admitted to Tunghai University, but at that time, the admission rate of the university was less than one-tenth, and Jiang Xiaozhang, whose grades were not outstanding, was likely to miss out with the ideal university.
Photo: Jiang Jingguo, Jiang Xiaozhang, Jiang Fangliang
Jiang Chingguo wrote a letter to Zeng Yunong, president of Tunghai University, the general content of which was that his daughter very much wanted to enter Tunghai University to study, but I was afraid that it would be difficult to reach the admission score line with my grades, and I hoped that Zeng Yunong would give convenience. After reading it, Zeng Yunong wrote a reply to Chiang Ching-kuo, saying that the school has always paid attention to fairness and justice, but it can make an exception for Chiang Ching-kuo once. Chiang Ching-kuo was furious after reading the letter, which was clearly a satire on his abuse of power, and Chiang Ching-kuo simply sent his daughter to study in the United States.
Jiang Xiaozhang's study in the United States completely changed the trajectory of her life, and also laid the groundwork for a rift in her relationship with the Jiang family in the future.
To study in the United States, Jiang Xiaozhang's food, clothing, housing, and safe work are what Jiang Chingguo is worried about, and he must find someone who can help Jiang Xiaozhang in the United States. Yi Fu'en, who had served as the captain of Chiang Kai-shek's special plane, had a good relationship with Chiang Ching-kuo, and he recommended a person to Chiang Ching-kuo.
This man's name was Yu Yanghe, and his father, Yu Dawei, was an old acquaintance of Chiang Ching-kuo, and the two once worked together in the "defense department", which belonged to the relationship between superiors and subordinates. Yu Yanghe settled in the United States, and there was also a free room at home for Jiang Xiaowen and Jiang Xiaozhang's brothers and sisters to live in the United States temporarily, and Yu Yanghe could also help them in their lives.
Pictured: Yu Dawei on the right
Yu Dawei came from a family of official eunuchs, and his mother, Zeng Guangshan, was the granddaughter of Zeng Guofan, a major minister of the late Qing Dynasty. Yu Dawei once entered Harvard University with honors, obtained a doctorate in mathematical logic at the age of 21, was the third person Chinese to obtain a doctorate at Harvard, and later went to the University of Berlin in Germany for further study. Within a few years of his return to China, he became the director of the Bureau of Ordnance Engineering, leading the development of the continental military industry system during the War of Resistance Against Japan and contributing to the research and development and production of the ordnance industry.
Yu Dawei studied in Germany, obsessed with a German piano teacher, the two are in love, but when talking about marriage, they were opposed by the woman's parents, but unexpectedly the two have secretly cast a fetus and gave birth to a baby boy, which is Yu Yanghe, Yu Dawei gave his son to his sister to raise.
Yu Yanghe grew up in the absence of parental care, and later joined the Air Force, went to the United States in 1941 for flight training, and returned to China to fly to participate in the war against Japan. At that time, the military strength of China and Japan was very different, the air force fighters were almost exhausted by the Japanese army, Yu Yang and his unit still flew the plane to meet the battle, in a battle his fighter was hit, Yu Yang and parachuting escape unfortunately injured. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Yu Yanghe moved to the United States, and before leaving, his wife did not want to accompany him, and the two ended their marriage.
Yu Yanghe's second wife was a Chinese flight attendant, but the marriage was lit up with red lights due to personality incompatibility. Jiang Xiaozhang, who had just arrived in the United States, temporarily lived in Yu Yanghe's home, and after the school arrangements were in place, he and his brother Jiang Xiaowen moved into a rented apartment. Yu Yanghe is fourteen years older than Jiang Xiaozhang, and he has lived in the United States for many years, giving care to the Jiang brothers and sisters in their daily lives.
Pictured: The first one on the right in the back row is Jiang Xiaozhang
Jiang Xiaozhang's family is prominent, when she went to school in Taiwan, she let the male classmates in the class stay away, and when she arrived in the United States, there was suddenly a handsome-looking, attractive male who cared for her very much, Jiang Xiaozhang's heart was like a fawn, and she could not restrain her feelings that had sprouted. Although Yu Yanghe was deeply involved in the quagmire of marriage, with many contacts, he found that the big miss of the Jiang family he knew was completely different from what he imagined, Jiang Xiaozhang was beautiful as a flower, with the unique temperament of a mixed-race child, but he was low-key and easy-going, like the little sister next door.
Love came unexpectedly, Jiang Xiaozhang felt for the first time the wonderful experience of liking a person and being liked by a person, and Yu Yanghe also ended his original broken marriage. The news of Jiang Xiaozhang's love affair soon spread to Taiwan, and when he learned that her boyfriend was Yu Yanghe, who had two marriages and his eldest daughter was fourteen years old, Jiang Jingguo could not calm down, he fidgeted.
Jiang Jingguo sent Yi Fuen to the United States to check on Jiang Xiaozhang's situation, and when Yi Fuen arrived at her residence, he found that she and Yu Yanghe were cooking porridge on the phone, completely immersed in the joy of love, Yi Fuen, as a person who came over, knew that this relationship would not disperse and disperse, and had no choice but to go back to Chiang Ching-kuo.
Jiang Chingguo quickly called back Jiang Xiaozhang, who was far away in the United States, and he and his wife bitterly persuaded their daughter to give up this relationship, but how could Jiang Xiaozhang in love listen to it, her heart was already completely in Yu Yanghe's body. Seeing that his persuasion was ineffective, Chiang Ching-kuo reprimanded Jiang Xiaozhang extremely severely, and he never reprimanded Jiang Xiaozhang in this way. Jiang Chingguo told his younger brother Jiang Weiguo of his daughter's love affair, and in the course of the conversation between the two, Jiang Weiguo found that Jiang Jingguo, who had always been calm and sophisticated, appeared to be six gods and no master, and said vigorously:
"What can I do, what can I do?"
Photo: Jiang Xiaozhang, Jiang Jingguo, Jiang Fangliang
Jiang Jingguo saw that persuasion and reprimands did not work, and he thought of a way, he simply ran to Yu Dawei's home and asked him to persuade his son to stay away from Jiang Xiaozhang. Yu Dawei looked at the impatient Chiang Ching-kuo with a look of embarrassment, and he helplessly said that his son was already almost forty years old, and he had long since stopped listening to his own words. Chiang Ching-kuo was restless in the face of his daughter's emotional problems, and according to his attendants, Chiang Ching-kuo once cried and cried, a situation that only happened when Chiang Kai-shek died.
Although Jiang Xiaozhang promised her parents that she only fell in love and did not consider marriage during her school days, she obviously had greater expectations for marriage. Jiang Xiaozhang moved his grandmother Song Meiling out as a patron, Song Meiling found Chiang Ching-kuo, she said that the age difference between men and women is not a problem, she and Chiang Kai-shek are not also eleven years apart, the most important thing is that she pointed out the seriousness of the problem, Jiang Xiaozhang is young and does not understand things, in case the rice cooked in a lifetime is ripe rice!
Song Meiling woke up the dreamer with a word, Jiang Jingguo patronized and objected, he did not expect that his daughter insisted on being with Yu Yang, in case the development of things exceeded his imagination, the Jiang family's family affairs would not become a joke, others should laugh at him for teaching women without a party. That's it, the red line of the old man of the moon, the pair made up by God, and the marriage stick can't be broken.
In May 1960, Jiang Xiaozhang and Yu Yanghe married in Nevada, usa, and their parents did not attend their wedding, but in their view, loving each other was the best blessing for the marriage. After marriage, Jiang Xiaozhang was immersed in sweet love, and the next year their son was born, and Chiang Kai-shek gave him the name "Yu Zusheng", which means Ke Shao Zuqiu and his prestige spread far and wide.
Pictured: Yu Yanghe, Jiang Xiaozhang, Yu Zusheng
Jiang Chingguo complained about Jiang Xiaozhang's marriage, but with the birth of the child, the tension between Jiang Chingguo and his daughter gradually eased, and when he saw Yu Zusheng and Jiang Xiaowen's daughter Jiang Youmei playing, he was interested in playing with the children, but he still had a grudge against his son-in-law Yu Yanghe. With the passage of time, Chiang Ching-kuo finally accepted Yu Yanghe, and in 1976, Jiang Xiaozhang and Yu Yanghe returned to Taiwan to visit their relatives, and Chiang Ching-kuo heard about it and ordered people to make a delicious meal to welcome their family of three home to visit their relatives.
Jiang Chingguo and his son-in-law Bing released their previous suspicions, but the three brothers of the Jiang family have always been dissatisfied with Yu Yanghe, especially Jiang Xiaowen, who feels that it is precisely because he did not take good care of his sister in the United States that Yu Yanghe has an opportunity. Once they heard that Yu Yanghe was going back to Taiwan, the three of them drove directly to the airport, and even tried to teach Yu Yanghe, who "abducted" Jiang Xiaozhang, a lesson in his hands.
Seeing that his beloved person was not accepted by the whole family, Jiang Xiaozhang gradually reduced the number of times he returned to Taiwan, going back once a year to visit his family once a year, and occasionally going back once in later years. Time is the best medicine, can heal all wounds, Jiang Xiaozhang herself became a mother, she can also put herself in the shoes of her father to understand the original opposition. Jiang Chingguo was not in good health in his later years, Jiang Xiaozhang sought medical treatment for his father in the United States, heard that his father accidentally fell, she specially purchased non-slip rubber shoes for him in the United States, and then mailed them back to Taiwan.
However, jiang xiaozhang did not accept the special care given by Chiang Ching-kuo. After Jiang Xiaozhang and Yu Yanghe got married, Jiang Jingguo intended to arrange for Yu Yanghe to be the general manager of an airline in Taiwan, but he did not expect to be strongly opposed by Jiang Xiaozhang. Jiang Chingguo once went to the United States to temporarily live in Jiang Xiaozhang's home, in fact, at that time, their family's life was not satisfactory, Jiang Xiaozhang and his wife vacated the room for their father to live in their own bunk, Jiang Chingguo could not bear to see it, told his daughter that there were difficulties, despite opening his mouth, Jiang Xiaozhang still refused to accept help from his father.
Pictured: Jiang Xiaozhang celebrates his birthday
After the death of Jiang Jingguo, Jiang Xiaozhang and his wife returned to Taiwan to mourn, facing the portrait of their father, the bits and pieces of the past gushed into their hearts, the childhood time was short and beautiful in the company of their father, and although the love storm led to a tense relationship between father and daughter, the father was ultimately considering the happiness of his daughter.
Jiang Xiaozhang lives in seclusion in the United States, far from the spotlight, living the life he longs for without the attention of the outside world, and there is little news about her. In 1996, Jiang Xiaozhang was suffering from cancer and receiving treatment in the United States, and his body was weak for a while, but fortunately his condition was under control, and he never returned to Taiwan to visit his relatives.
In June 2001, Jiang Xiaozhang and Yu Yanghe, who rarely appeared, suddenly became the focus of media attention, and they accused Wen Haxiong, who was in Taiwan, in the United States, and several media followed up.
Wen Haxiong, who once served as deputy director of Chiang Ching-kuo's office, claimed to have mastered many of Chiang Ching-kuo's secrets, and published an oral history book about the Chiang family in December 1997. In this book, he mentions Jiang Xiaozhang and Yu Yanghe, and although the number of words is small, they have pushed them to the cusp of the storm.
Pictured: A book published by Wen Ha Xiong
Wen Haxiong wrote in the book that when Yu Yanghe and Jiang Xiaozhang were together before they were divorced, Yu Dawei even knelt down to Yu Yanghe's ex-wife and begged her to complete the two, and raw rice was cooked to make Jiang Jingguo have to accept this marriage.
Yu Yanghe and Jiang Xiaozhang, in order to correct the audio-visual, wrote an article "Yu Yanghe and Jiang Xiaozhang's Ruby Road", which responded to the content of Wen Ha Xiong's book about the two. Jiang Xiaozhang said that her husband is not the playboy as the outside world says, his two marriage histories have been introduced in detail to Chiang Ching-kuo, the combination of the two is because they have common interests, hobbies, values, marriage is also through the consent of both parents, and did not first cut and then coerce the father.
Five months later, the Taiwan court made a judgment, ruling that the plaintiffs Yu Yanghe and Jiang Xiaozhang lost the case, and according to their lawyers, when they heard the verdict of the trial, Yu Yanghe and Jiang Xiaozhang were indignant, could not sleep at night, and could not write with their hands, but they said that they would not appeal again, and a boiling defamation case came to an end, and the two returned to a peaceful life.
Jiang Fangliang died of illness, as a daughter Jiang Xiaozhang could not go back to the funeral, she lamented that this is the biggest regret in life, and in the twilight years, she can also feel the difficulty of her mother's lonely life.
Pictured: Song Meiling kisses Jiang Xiaozhang
The son of a thousand gold, obsessed with love, disobeying his father's orders, willing to be ordinary, this is a portrayal of Jiang Xiaozhang's life path, as she wrote in an article in response to the outside world: The family has a difficult scripture. Yes, high or low, poor or rich, everyone's troubles and sufferings are different. People in the world say that the road is uneven, others ride me a donkey, look back at the cart man, more than the upper than the bottom, and the king is encouraged!