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In 1911, the Xinhai Revolution led by Sun Yat-sen broke out, and Chiang Kai-shek, as an alternate cadet of the 19th Regiment of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army, received a telegram from Chen Qimei and returned to Shanghai from Japan.
Chen Qimei
After Chiang Kai-shek returned to Shanghai, he was assigned by Chen Qimei to lead a vanguard of more than a hundred people to Hangzhou to participate in the Battle of Zhejiang Restoration, and because of Chiang Kai-shek's outstanding performance, Chen Qimei, the governor of the Shanghai Army, appointed him as the commander of the 5th Regiment of the Shanghai Army, and Chiang Kai-shek married Chen Qimei and Huang Qi, commander of the Second Division of the Shanghai Army, as "allied brothers."
Among them, Chen Qimei is the eldest, Huang Hao is the second oldest, and Chiang Kai-shek is the third oldest.
After the three of them worshipped, Chen Qimei, as the eldest brother, took Chiang Kai-shek and others to the very famous group art workshop in Shanghai to have fun.
Qunyifang is a very famous Changsantangzi in Shanghai, which refers to the high-end Qing Dynasty in Shanghai and refers to luxurious and exquisite brothels.
The girls in the Changsan Hall are called girls' school books, also known as geisha, have high cultural and technical literacy, and know how to play chess and calligraphy. Guests who come to Changsantangzi, whether they drink, spend the night, or listen to music, they will pay the ocean three yuan first, so it is called Changsantangzi.
As the governor of Shanghai, Chen Qimei is very familiar with the Qinglou in Shanghai, especially the high-end Qinglou.
Chen Qimei, a native of Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, who followed Sun Yat-sen to the revolution very early, often engaged in secret activities in Shanghai, for which Chen Qimei often used the Qinglou as a cover, and Chen Qimei himself liked to play among fireworks women. Chen Qimei is not too shy about this, he once confessed:
"In the past, it was because of the secret association, and occasionally borrowed the flower room as a private discussion, and the edges were not repaired."
Before that, Chiang Kai-shek had followed Chen Qimei in some anti-Qing revolutionary activities. Chen was Jiang's eldest brother and the object of Jiang's worship. When Chiang Kai-shek was in Shanghai before, he often accompanied Chen Qimei in and out of brothels, went to tea parties, drank flower wine, and was debauched.
However, this time to go to the Qinglou is different from before, before they were the target of the hunt, and this time after the success of the revolution, so the mood is more relaxed, the economy also has considerable security, they are all in a high position, especially Chen Qimei, as the governor of the Shanghai Army, is the highest official in the Shanghai area.
Chen Qimei is a regular visitor to Qunyifang, and the old bustard is very enthusiastic when he sees Chen Qimei leading people to come, so that the "mr." of Qunyifang comes to accompany the guests. The so-called "sir" refers to the top card in the Qinglou.
Chiang Kai-shek was not interested in this head card, but he was interested in a beautiful maid of this "gentleman", Chen Qimei and Zhang Jingjiang were old jianghu, and they could see the doorway from Chiang Kai-shek's eyes.
Chen Qimei immediately summoned the old bustard and carefully asked about the young and beautiful maid.
Chiang Kai-shek
This young and beautiful maid's name was Yao Yiqin, and her nickname was Ah Qiao, and she was born in the ancient town of Nanqiao in Yechangjing Hebei, Wu County, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, and later moved to Zhuangbang Township in Yechangjing Henan.
Yao Yiqin's father's name is Yao Abao, and his uncle's name is Yao Xiaobao, and their family's ancestral home is in Anhui, and they fled to Jiangsu in the war, and settled down in Wu County, Suzhou after several generations.
Yao Yiqin has been smart and clever since she was a child, and her parents have only one daughter, who is regarded as a pearl in the palm of her hand by her parents, but her parents died when Yao Yiqin was young, and Yao Yiqin lived with her uncle Yao Xiaobao.
After Yao Yiqin grew up, she was even more pleasant, although she was not a stunning beauty, but she was also born with bright eyes and teeth, a beautiful face, fair skin, slender and moderate, and a plump posture. In addition, she is easy-going, intelligent and capable, a good hand of female red, and she is admired by female companions and favored by young men when she is young.
Because Yao Xiaobao did not have a son, in that era of "no filial piety has three, no queen is greater", Yao Xiaobao recognized his niece as a dry daughter and prepared to recruit relatives for Yao Yiqin to continue the incense.
In the neighboring village of Shanggang, there is a family surnamed Shen, whose family has many heirs and has been living on a living by farming and renting land for generations. Yao Xiaobao then entrusted someone to talk to the mediator and recruited a young man named Shen Tiansheng into the house. Shen Tiansheng also changed his name to Yao Tiansheng.
Yao Yiqin and Yao Tiansheng had a very good emotional life after marriage, and the economy at that time was not developed, so the two decided to make a living in Shanghai, where the economy was relatively developed.
Yao Tiansheng followed his uncles Qixiang and Yunxiang in the area of The Eight Immortals Bridge on Tibet Road in Shanghai to engage in physical labor such as funeral and foot strength, which was hard work and had a bad reputation, but the salary was relatively high.
As the saying goes, when a man has money, he becomes bad, and this sentence is most appropriate for Yao Tiansheng, because Yao Tiansheng's life is relatively rich, so he often goes to the Chaoyang Building at the intersection of Zhejiang Road and Ningbo Road to eat tea, and soon after he is infected with the vice of smoking opium smoke.
Smoking opium is drug use, which requires a lot of financial support and harms one's own body, and this is accompanied by alcoholism.
Originally, the wealthy family became impoverished because Yao Tiansheng smoked opium smoke, and the drunken Yao Tiansheng was slightly unsatisfied, so he punched and kicked his wife Ah Qiao without any pity, and the relationship between the husband and wife deteriorated day by day.
As Yao Tian's addiction to smoking grew larger, Yao Tian's natural income could not make ends meet, and his body gradually lost so much that only skin and bones remained, and he could no longer do physical labor such as funeral and foot strength, and Yao Yiqin also lost her financial resources.
In the case of last resort, Yao Yiqin had to go to a hall in Qunyufang on Wuma Road in Shanghai as a mother-in-law, and the mother-in-law was also called a big miss, which was actually a servant of Mr. Qunyufang, and there was only one "sir" in Qunyufang at that time.
"Sir" is actually the top card of the Qinglou, to be able to chant poems and lyrics, play and sing for socializing, which requires a certain cultural accomplishment, a "sir" usually has two aunts to serve her.
And Ah Qiao's beautiful appearance and skillful mind were immediately favored by the "mr." of Qunyufang, so he let her be a servant, mainly responsible for managing the clothes and jewelry of "Mr." He, combing the hair of "Mr." and doing light work such as executive guests, so this was also called "fine mother-in-law".
Photos of old Shanghai
After the old bustard introduced the situation, Chen Qimei asked the old bustard to ask Yao Yiqin if he was willing to go with Chiang Kai-shek.
At this time, Yao Yiqin's life was very hard, and the relationship between husband and wife was not good, she lived in Qunyufang and did not go home, she wanted to have a warm home.
And Chen Qimei's gang, she can also see that they are powerful people, and now that people can look at themselves, it is their own blessing, and she has long wanted to get rid of the sea of suffering, so even if she agrees. But at this time, Chiang Kai-shek wanted to take Yao Yiqin with two difficulties:
First, there is no place for the golden house to hide. At this time, although Chiang Kai-shek was the commander of the 5th Regiment of the Shanghai Army, he lived in the regimental headquarters, and he could not take Yao Yiqin to live in the regimental headquarters.
Second, although Yao Yiqin's husband and wife relationship is not good, after all, she is a wife with a husband, and she must send Yao Yiqin's ex-husband Yao Tiansheng away.
These two problems naturally did not overwhelm Chen Qimei, the governor of the Shanghai army, and Chen Qimei immediately ordered someone to find a good place for Chiang Kai-shek. Soon the residence was found, No. 13 Xinminli on Pushi Road (now Changle Road) in the French Concession of Shanghai, which was a small single-family building that became Chiang Kai-shek's secret residence.
Chiang Kai-shek soon took Yao Yiqin to his secret residence, and Chiang Kai-shek told Yao Yiqin that her name was too vulgar and changed her name: Yao Yecheng.
Yao Yecheng is from Qinglou, she has a bad habit of gambling, when Chiang Kai-shek is not there, she often goes out to play cards and mahjong to pass the time, and she is also generous.
The paper could not contain the fire, Yao Tiansheng quickly learned the situation, he found Chiang Kai-shek's secret residence, he questioned Chiang Kai-shek why he occupied his wife, Chiang Kai-shek asked Yao Tiansheng why he did not care about his wife.
Yao Tiansheng was dumbfounded by Chiang Kai-shek's questioning, and Chiang Kai-shek took out a stack of banknotes and gave it to Yao Tiansheng, and then sent him away. Chiang Kai-shek spent money to send Yao Yecheng's ex-husband away, and finally succeeded in winning love with a horizontal knife and eliminating the troubles.
Soon after, at the behest of Chen Qimei, Chiang Kai-shek assassinated Tao Chengzhang, the leader of the Guangfu Society, and in order to avoid the limelight, Chiang Kai-shek took Yao Yecheng back to his hometown in Fenghua, Zhejiang, and because of Yao Yecheng's origin, Chiang Kai-shek's mother did not allow her to have a name.
According to the custom of allowing concubines at that time, Yao Yecheng actually became Chiang Kai-shek's concubine, and because Yao Yecheng had a gentle temperament, he showed filial piety to Chiang Kai-shek's mother and also showed respect for Chiang Kai-shek's original wife, Mao Fumei, so Yao Yecheng got along very well with everyone.
Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling
Since then, Yao has lived in Shanghai and Fenghua from time to time. When Chiang Kai-shek had a second son, Jiang Weiguo, Yao took on the responsibility of raising him and settled in Suzhou.
In 1916, Chiang Kai-shek's son Jianfeng was six years old and attended Xikou Wuling School, taking the academic name Jingguo. On October 6 of the same year, another child came to earth and became the second son of Chiang Kai-shek, who gave him the name Jianhao and the scientific name Weiguo.
Here it is necessary to explain jiang Weiguo's life, and with the emergence of more information, the truth is gradually becoming clearer. Jiang Weiguo's biological father was Dai Jitao, who was born to a mother of Dai Anguo, and his biological mother was Tsugen michiko.
After the failure of the "Second Revolution" in 1913, some of the revolutionaries went into exile in Japan, jiang and Dai rented a room together, and the landlord hired a Japanese girl to take care of life affairs, and this beautiful girl was Michiko Tsubaki.
Soon after, Dai Jitao and Michiko fell in love and lived together, and in October 1916, they gave birth to Jiang Weiguo.
When Jiang Weiguo was a child, he was successively fostered in the home of a relative surnamed Zhu and Qiu in Shanghai, and had frequent contacts with the Dai family. After the age of four, he was adopted by Chiang Kai-shek.
The reason why Chiang Kai-shek adopted Chiang Wei-kuo was because Chiang Kai-shek originally wanted to have a second son.
Because Chiang Kai-shek once obeyed his mother's wishes, in order to establish an heir for his deceased brother Ruiqing, he had passed chiang ching-kuo to Ruiqing. Chiang Ching-kuo was chiang kai-shek's only son, and after Chiang Ching-kuo was succeeded, he nominally had no sons, which made Chiang Kai-shek very worried.
Therefore, he was very willing to adopt Jiang Weiguo, and Yao Yecheng followed Chiang Kai-shek and never became pregnant, and Chiang Kai-shek later brought Jiang Weiguo back to Xikou and handed him over to Yao Yecheng to raise, Yao Yecheng loved Jiang Weiguo very much and regarded him as his own, and Jiang Weicheng called Yao Yecheng his mother.
Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Wei-kuo
In his oral autobiography to the Taiwanese scholar Liu Fenghan in his later years, Jiang Weiguo, when talking about his early life, said that he was born in 1916 in Tokyo, Japan, his biological father Dai Jitao, and was later adopted by Chiang Kai-shek and moved to Shanghai to take care of Yao Yecheng for education. He first lived in the attic on the third floor of Chen Guofu's house, then moved to Xikou, moved to Fenghua in 1922, and moved to Ningbo less than a year later. After the Northern Expedition, he moved to Shanghai, and in 1927, Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling officially married and settled in Nancheng, Suzhou.
However, Chiang Kai-shek and Yao Yecheng did not love for a long time, and the two spent half a year together in Xikou, and later the two lived together in a small bungalow on Baylor Road (now Huangpi South Road) in the French Concession of Shanghai for a period of peaceful and distant life, and the separation time was more than happy.
Because Yao Yecheng was accustomed to spending time by playing cards, and Chiang Kai-shek during this time always felt "depressed" politically, his temper became grumpy, and he was very dissatisfied with Yao Yecheng's frequent outings to play cards and play mahjong, so the two often quarreled, and the relationship between the two gradually became estranged.
Later, for the sake of Yao Yecheng's meticulous upbringing of Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek did not leave her, and said: "In dealing with Yecheng's affairs, we decided to stay and live in isolation to see what followed." ”
At the end of 1927, after Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling married, he entrusted Yao Yecheng and Chiang Weiguo to Wu Zhongxin, who was Chiang Kai-shek's classmate who stayed in Japan, because Yao Yecheng continued to live in Chiang Kai-shek's hometown, which would affect Soong Mei-ling's name, so Yao Yecheng moved to his hometown of Suzhou, but Chiang Kai-shek still bore the cost of living.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek was already different, so Yao Yecheng was also rising and very prestigious in Suzhou, and he selected a piece of land in Cai Zhenfang in the South Garden and built a beautiful small building as a new home.
In 1929, after the completion of the new residence, the local people called The Chiang Mansion, people know that Yao Yecheng is Chiang Kai-shek's wife, in order to catch up with Chiang Kai-shek's relationship, people often look for Yao Yecheng, which makes the new residence often like the city, so that Yao Yecheng, who loves the lively, quite likes.
In her later years, Song Meiling
During his stay in Suzhou, Yao Yecheng often exchanged letters with Chiang Kai-shek, and sometimes Chiang Kai-shek also went to Suzhou to visit Yao Yecheng, but the two did not live apart.
Sometimes when Chiang Kai-shek was passing through Suzhou, his special train would stop specially, and Yao Yecheng would take Jiang Weiguo to meet him in Chiang Kai-shek's special train at the railway station to comfort the pain of lovesickness.
Yao Yecheng also knew that at this time, Chiang Kai-shek was very different from when he first met, and it was impossible for the two to repeat the love of that year, not to mention that there was a Song Meiling, so during his time in Suzhou, Yao Yecheng was pure-hearted, although he was 60 years old, he still had a silky hair and looked much younger.
In 1949, Yao Yecheng followed Jiang Weiguo to Taiwan, where she lived near the Taoyuan Daqin Textile Factory, where she was next to her relative, Shi Fengxiang. After Jiang Weiguo remarried, the Yao clan moved to Taichung.
Jiang Weiguo was the commander of the armored corps at that time, stationed at the Qingquangang base, and it was easier to take care of. But it is said that Yao's mood is not as good as when he lived in Suzhou South Garden, and his body ages rapidly. She lived with her niece, Wang Guibao, until her death in 1966.
In the middle is Yao Yecheng
On April 5, 1975, nine years after Yao Yecheng's death, Chiang Kai-shek died at the Shilin Residence in Taipei.
Tianxuan is the author's pen name, who has studied history and philosophy and is welcome to pay attention to it.