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People in the world say that there were four entangled love stories during the Republic of China period: Chen Quzhen, the king of Xiangxi, was to Xiyuan, Jiang Baili was to Jiang Zuomei, Xiao Fengxian was to Cai Yi, and Xu Zhimo was to Lu Xiaoman.
But the truth is that the love story of Xiao Fengxian and Cai Yi is only an appendix of the good deeds, in fact, there is no such thing at all; Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman's broken things are not called love at all; only what happened between Chen Quzhen and Xiyuan, Jiang Baili and Jiang Zuomei is called love.
Compared with Nishihara's unusual enthusiasm for Chen Quzhen, Jiang Zuomei's love for Jiang Baili is obscure. If the love between Chen Quzhen and Xiyuan is fine wine, the love of Jiang Baili and Jiang Zuomei is mellow tea.
Jiang Baili "shocked the world with one shot", and Jiang Zuomei said that he would move the general
On June 19, 1913, a black luxury carriage driven by six horses, followed by 8 knights, sped in front of the Baoding Military Academy, but a beautiful girl got off the bus.
Picking up a girl in the principal's special carriage was the first time since the establishment of the Baoding Military Academy.
This beautiful girl was no one else, it was Jiang Zuomei, who accompanied Jiang Baili for 25 years in the future. At that time, his name was Sato Yaden.
Sato Yaden came this time for no other reason than to work as a nurse for a patient. And this patient is her future husband Jiang Baili.
In the early morning of June 18, 1913, jiang Baili, principal of the Baoding Military Academy, in order to fulfill his promise at the beginning of his term of office that "if Fang Zhen is incompetent, he should commit suicide to thank the world", shot himself in front of more than 2,000 teachers and students of the school in anger, in order to protest Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng's bad behavior of withholding teaching funds.
Jiang Baili's shot can be said to have alarmed the world. As soon as the news spread, Yuan Shikai, Duan Qirui, Xu Shuzheng and others were like needles, because no one knew better than them why Jiang Baili committed suicide.
In the face of public opinion and the reproach of the overseers who have real power in various places, Yuan Shikai and Duan Qirui are very clear that at this time, only by taking practical actions can the situation be avoided from further deteriorating. To this end, Yuan Shikai asked the Japanese legation to send excellent doctors and nurses to save Jiang Baili's life at all costs.
The Japanese legation dispatched Dr. Hirado and chief nurse Sato Yaden to Baoding by special car from Peiping, and then rushed to the Baoding Officers' Military Academy in this luxurious carriage purchased at a high price from London, England, at the Baoding Railway Station.
After intense rescue, Jiang Baili was finally freed from the danger of life. However, Dr. Hirado believes that although Jiang Baili is no longer in danger of life, the key problem is not the physical injury, but Jiang Baili's mental problem.
Judging from Jiang Baili's situation at this time, spiritual comfort is far more effective than drug treatment.
Therefore, after Dr. Hirado left Baoding, Sato Yaden stayed with Jiang Baili to do special care.
Sure enough, Dr. Hirado's judgment was correct. Although Jiang Baili was rescued, his will to die was not gone, and he accumulated sleeping pills to help him sleep every day and prepared to commit suicide for the second time, but was discovered by Sato Yaden.
Seeing that Jiang Baili was depressed, Sato Yadori began to persuade Jiang Baili:
The responsibility of life should be to break through all difficulties with a fearless spirit and seek the realization of their ideals. If you can't bear it, how can you achieve great achievements and victories in the future?
If a good boy with warm blood and ability speaks lightly of sacrifice, who will bear the responsibility of state affairs, and how can he be worthy of the country and the old predecessors who cultivate talents?
Jiang Baili did not expect that such arrogant and dry words would be uttered in the mouth of this weak woman of Sato Yaden, and he was stunned for a while.
Isn't this the lifelong partner of your dreams?
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Forced to die, Jiang Baili finally embraced the beauty and returned
At the age of 8, Jiang Baili had his mother's "doll kiss" wife Cha Pinzhen.
However, Cha Pin Zhen was illiterate and did not have the slightest common language with Jiang Baili. Therefore, Jiang Baili had the idea of wanting to repent.
But Cha Pin Zhen is a traditional woman and resolutely refuses to agree. In desperation, Jiang Baili had to marry Cha Pinzhen, but the bleakness of life after marriage can be imagined.
This phenomenon is the most helpless thing in old China, it is the father who makes friends, the mother who begs the daughter-in-law, and never the husband who chooses the wife.
At this moment, in front of Jiang Baili is a new woman who is both beautiful and gentle, but also has independent thoughts, if she can connect with her and fly together, it is not a happy thing in life!
Jiang Baili launched a love offensive against Sato Yaden.
Jiang Baili's sudden gesture of love caught Sato Yadori off guard. Her meticulous care and patient persuasion of Jiang Baili were all out of the duty of a nurse, and she did not have the slightest idea of falling in love with Jiang Baili.
In the face of Jiang Baili's love offensive, Sato Yadori felt very embarrassed. Fortunately, at this time, a Japanese lady in Peiping was facing childbirth and needed an experienced nurse to be present, so Sato Yaden took the opportunity to leave Baoding.
The so-called people who are related will definitely reunite. In September 1913, Jiang Baili came to Beiping for recuperation and was admitted to Kawada Hospital in Dongdan, Beiping. Since Jiang Baili's injuries were previously treated by Dr. Hirado and Sato Yadori, it is still the responsibility of the two of them.
In this way, Jiang Baili and Sato Yaden were reunited.
At this reunion, Jiang Baili was no longer as subtle as before, but went straight to the point:
"If you leave me in the future, what if I want to kill myself again and have a lot of pessimistic thoughts?" So I hope you can stay with me for a long time. ”
In the face of Jiang Baili's fiery love offensive, Sato Yadō's heart panicked, and she did not know how to deal with it. She had to look around at him, as if she didn't understand the meaning of Jiang Baili's words.
Seeing that Sato Yadō always refused to agree to his show of love, Jiang Baili began to take the upper route. He found Yuan Shikai and wanted Yuan Shikai to come forward to help him say something.
Yuan Shikai had always felt guilty about Jiang Baili's suicide, and when he saw Jiang Baili asking for a door, he immediately agreed. He called the Japanese minister and asked the Japanese minister to come forward to make peace. The Japanese minister again found Dr. Hirado.
So I went around in a big circle and finally found the right matchmaker. But this time, Jiang Baili miscalculated.
It turned out that this Hirado doctor, because his family members were all in Japan, usually harassed Sato Yadori and asked him to come to the media, which could be regarded as finding the wrong person.
To Dr. Hirado's mediator, Sato Yadō coldly faced:
"Absolutely not."
However, after all, this incident alarmed the Japanese minister, and the pressure on Sato Yadō was still quite large. So Sato Yadori wrote a letter to his parents and returned to Japan under the pretext of "her mother's illness and quick return".
Did Sato Yadori really have no good feelings for Jiang Baili? Nor is it.
It turned out that Sato Yadō was worried about the relationship between China and Japan. At that time, a Japanese girl who wanted to marry Chinese still had a lot of courage.
Japanese people with a little common sense know that there will be a war between China and Japan. After SatoYaden married to China, once a war between China and Japan broke out, where would she go? Moreover, Jiang Baili was also a general who specialized in dealing with Japan.
In the face of Jiang Baili's letters that flew like snowflakes, Sato Yadori finally opened his heart and revealed his heart to Jiang Baili:
He had mentioned this to his parents, but he was resolutely opposed by his parents. They believe that Japan is not without good young people, so why find someone who already has a wife in the family and is still injured?
After receiving Sato Yadori's letter showing his heart, Jiang Baili was overjoyed, and it turned out that Sato Yadō was not indifferent to himself, but chose to escape because of various difficulties.
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To this end, Jiang Baili decided to add another fire:
"I was born of you, and now you want to put me to death!" I'm going to Japan right away, and I'm going to die in your house. ”
This fire finally destroyed Sato Yadori's psychological defenses, and she decided to throw herself into Jiang Baili's arms desperately, closely linking the happiness and humiliation of her life with him.
Knowing that their daughter's determination had been made, Sato Yaden's parents gave their daughter freedom.
One day in the autumn of 1914, Jiang Baili got his wish to embrace the beauty, and he gave his newly married wife a Chinese name - Jiang Zuomei.
Who is a prisoner of the order? 16 months of prison companionship made Jiang Baili realize the meaning of marriage
In January 1916, Cai Yi raised the banner of anti-Yuan protection. In March, Jiang Baili left Beiping to follow his old classmates against Yuan. This was the first time that Jiang Baili and Jiang Zuomei were separated after marriage.
During this period, the husband and wife sang along, and the couple had a deep affection, which made the people envious.
Jiang Zuomei never interfered with what her husband was doing, she just silently took care of her husband's living with infinite affection, hoping that her husband's body would recover as soon as possible and do more things for the country.
On the eve of leaving Beiping, Jiang Baili asked Jiang Zuomei to return to Japan to visit his parents, and gave the 4,000 yuan he had saved to his wife to buy a diamond ring when she returned home. Although Jiang Baili and his wife advocate a peaceful and happy way, Jiang Zuomei has not returned to his mother's house after marriage, and if he returns to china to the province too shabby, he will definitely be looked down upon by his neighbors.
However, Jiang Zuomei did not buy a diamond ring, but bought a house in Beiping. This incident surprised Jiang Baili:
"I'm actually a propertied class now."
At the end of 1929, Jiang Baili's "proud protégé" Tang Shengzhi at the Baoding Military Academy "opposed Chiang Kai-shek" for the second time.
Because Jiang Baili had guaranteed between Chiang Kai-shek and Tang Shengzhi that Tang Shengzhi would not "oppose Chiang Kai-shek" again, and was a guarantor, he was implicated and imprisoned at the military law headquarters in Sanyuan Lane, Nanjing, waiting for the verdict to be pronounced.
Four months later, Jiang Zuomei received the news that he was allowed to visit the prison.
This weak woman showed her stoic character when Jiang Baili encountered the most dangerous life, she left her three daughters in Shanghai to study, let them live in the school, and took her two young daughters to rent a house near Sanyuan Lane and visited the prison every day.
From the time she was allowed to visit the prison, for 16 months, Jiang Zuomei came to the prison early every day and stayed late before returning, which was equivalent to her accompanying Jiang Baili to sit in prison for 16 months. This stoicism and this affection, like a mellow tea, nourished Jiang Baili's bitter heart, allowing him to spend a very difficult period of his life.
However, because Jiang Baili was imprisoned, the family lost its financial resources and lived in poverty. In the past, those friends and students who came to the door when Jiang Baili was in the scenery avoided it, lest they get caught in Jiang Baili and let them lose their black hats.
Jiang Zuomei had to sell the goods in her Shanghai home, and sometimes bought some stocks to make a little money. When Jiang Baili inquired about the source of income, the couple also deceived Jiang Baili that she had made money in the stock business.
At the most difficult time, Jiang Baili's socks were so broken that they could not be worn, or the two young daughters used their only two yuan to press the old money to buy a pair of socks for Jiang Baili. In order to fear that Jiang Baili found out that it was a new sock, the two young daughters also washed the socks several times.
Under such a difficult circumstance, Jiang Zuomei also made three meals a day to deliver food to Jiang Baili, what is this like
Affection? Such a wife is simply not worth a penny!
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After Jiang Baili's death, Jiang Zuomei suffered injustice and was buried with her husband 40 years later
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, between poor and weak China and a powerful mother country, Jiang Zuomei chose to firmly side with her husband, saying:
"The sino-Japanese war was the fault of the Japanese warlords and invaders."
When General Jiang Baili destroyed his family to relieve his troubles, Jiang Zuomei also took out all the gold and silver jewelry in his home and sold them, and personally rushed to the front line to participate in the treatment of wounded soldiers. In her later years, she mentioned:
"She did this because she believed that the fighting in China at that time was just."
However, due to overwork, General Jiang Baili died of illness while acting president of the Army University.
However, Jiang Baili's friend Feng Yuxiang suspected that Jiang Zuomei had poisoned her husband. The reason is that Jiang Zuomei once said,"You love your motherland, just as I love my motherland", combined with the fact that Jiang Baili had a sedative injection before his death, made Feng Yuxiang think that this was a poison.
In fact, what Jiang Zuomei meant by saying this was that she should not feel guilty about her because of her research on defeating Japan, because it is indeed easy for a general who specializes in studying the law of warfare against Japan to marry a Japanese wife.
Fortunately, Jiang Baili's fourth daughter, Jiang Hua, stepped forward and debunked the rumors in the newspaper, and only then did she clear up the injustices on Jiang Zuomei's body.
After taking care of her husband's affairs, Jiang Zuomei, who had suffered grievances and endured grief, lived in a house in Kunming, Yunnan Province, and relied on the pension of the National Government to make a living, and never wore a kimono or spoke Japanese again.
However, Jiang Zuomei's spirit did not collapse because of her husband's death and the injustice she suffered, but she devoted herself to raising her four daughters (the eldest daughter died early) so that they all became talents, in order to comfort General Jiang Baili's spirit in heaven.
On October 17, 1978, Jiang Zuomei died of illness in Beijing at the age of 78.
After his death, Jiang Zuomei and Jiang Baili were buried in The Nanshan Cemetery in Hangzhou. The tombstone is inscribed with the words "Jiang Zuomei", not Sato Yaden.
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