In many stories since ancient times, heroes only love beauty and disdain the country. In modern times, there is a figure, beauty and Jiangshan, who does not want, and both are sent to the same person, Chiang Kai-shek. Who is this? There is such a "massive mind", but is it not because of the indifference to fame and fortune, so it is far away from these?
If you read his story, you may find the "benevolence, righteousness, and wisdom" in traditional Chinese culture from him. He was Tan Yanmin, a politician in the early years of the Republic of China, who served as chairman of the National Government and president of the First Executive Yuan. Tan Yanmin had political ambitions and a good personal cultivation, was a calligrapher at that time, and was also good at poetry.
Follow Sun Yat-sen
Tan Yanmin has understood since he was a child that if he wants to "get ahead", he must make more efforts on his own. This should be related to his origin, the Tan family is the family of official eunuchs, but Tan Yanmin's birth mother is only a concubine of his father, he is extremely filial, he can't bear his mother to stand when eating, and has been trying to get a meritorious name, until he is admitted to the membership, his mother is not eligible to sit down to eat.
Experiences in a young age can have a huge impact on an individual's choices as adults. Tan Yanmin was 28 years old and was already the editor of the Hanlin Academy, but he supported the revolution and favored the revision of the Constitution, so he chose to follow Sun Yat-sen. In order to support Sun Yat-sen, he also sold his land property, and all the 50,000 yuan he earned was used as a military salary.
Resigned as the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy
Sun Yat-sen used Tan Yanmin very much, appointing him as minister of the interior and commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition, and later when the Whampoa Military Academy was founded, Sun Yat-sen wanted Tan Yanmin to be the principal. Tan Yanmin had run education in Hunan, which in Sun Yat-sen's view was the most suitable candidate.
However, Tan Yanmin declined. The reason given is that military schools are different from ordinary teaching and education, and he is not suitable. However, he also recommended another candidate, that is, Chiang Kai-shek.
Refused to marry Song Meiling
This is not the first time that Tan Yanmin has rejected Sun Yat-sen's "beautiful intentions", before Sun Yat-sen wanted to protect the media and wanted to marry Soong Meiling to Tan Yanmin. Although Tan Yanmin was born in a feudal family, his ideas were as avant-garde as he was, and he already had a wife at this time, and he did not want to take a concubine.
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In fact, think about it, Sun Yat-sen's proposal, which is to let him take a concubine, but people are very insistent, not willing to sacrifice their own family for some kind of interest. ）
The Song family has always been very worried about Song Meiling's lifelong events. Song Meiling has had several love histories, but for various reasons, it has not ended up, and later Chiang Kai-shek appeared, fell in love at first sight, and wanted to marry Song Meiling. However, the Song family did not look at him. (There is a private style factor, and more political factors). Only Song Yiling approved.
At that time, after Tan Yanmin rejected Sun Yat-sen's kindness, it did not affect his continued contact with the Song family, and he also recognized Song Meiling's mother as a dry wife, so that his relationship with the Song family became closer. In order to persuade his family to accept Chiang Kai-shek, Song Xialing thought of Tan Yanmin, which Tan Yanmin did not refuse, and under his persuasion, the Song family no longer opposed this marriage.
(December 1, 1927, the day chiang kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling got married.) The media reaction was very direct, a published newspaper, under the wedding photo of the two of them, actually added four words "Sino-US cooperation", not hiding the outside world's comments on the marriage. From this moment on, China's then-prominent forces had formed an alliance. ）
Some people may say that it is precisely because of Tan Yanmin's two "courtesies" that Chiang Kai-shek has more room to act. In fact, Tan Yanmin has always adhered to his "duty" as a person, not arrogant or greedy, and because of this, he has won the weight of Sun Yat-sen. Isn't this the moral code that Chinese readers have always adhered to?