Dr. Sun Yat-sen had and only one son, named Sun Ke, who gave him the nickname "Prince of the Republic of China".
As the only son of the father of the country, Sun Ke can be said to have a good hand at the beginning, to have connections and resources.
When Sun Ke was mayor of Guangzhou, Chiang Kai-shek was still speculating in stocks on the beach.
In order to establish relations with the Sun family, the Song family, and the Kong family, Chiang Kai-shek went to great lengths to marry Song Meiling into the door, and Sun Ke could get these without much effort.
It is reasonable to say that with such conditions, Sun Ke should have made a big career.
But this is not the case.
Sun Yat-sen was so angry that he pointed at Sun Ke's head and said that he was going to kill him, and Chiang Kai-shek also scolded Sun Ke in his diary to the point of bloodshed. How did he play a good hand?
Sun Ke
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Sun Ke's mother, Lu Muzhen, was Sun Yat-sen's original wife.
Lu Muzhen was born in the family of scholars who had accumulated good deeds for generations, and his father once traveled across the sea to the United States to do business, and became rich because of it.
Don't underestimate this "accumulation of goodness over the years", even now, few families can do this.
Since childhood, Lu Muzhen has been famous for filial piety to elders, and has also done a good job as a female red.
After becoming related to Sun Yat-sen, although the latter rarely returned to his hometown, as long as he returned, Lu Muzhen would always sew new clothes, new shoes and socks for him, and even the clothes on his mother-in-law were mostly made by Lu Muzhen.
In the spring of 1888, Sun Yat-sen's father was seriously ill, and he and his brother Sun Mei were in the field at that time, and it was Lu Muzhen who stood in front of his father-in-law's sickbed, serving soup and feeding medicine.
Lu Muzhen
When the Sun Yat-sen brothers returned home and saw this scene, they were moved to tears.
Lu Muzhen gave birth to a son and two daughters for Sun Yat-sen, who had to take care of her children, serve the elders, and do a lot of heavy housework, and the villagers praised her for being virtuous.
It is a pity that an old-fashioned woman like Lu Muzhen, who has not received a high education, is obviously not what Sun Yat-sen really wants.
In 1915, Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching-ling fell in love in Japan, and in the same year, Lu Muzhen received a letter from her husband, inviting her to Tokyo, Japan, to discuss divorce.
At that time, the elders of the League were opposed to Sun Yat-sen's doing this, but Lu Muzhen said in front of everyone that Sun Yat-sen was on the run and needed someone to take care of his life, and he was willing to divorce.
The Lord has said this, and it is natural that others will not be able to persuade him again.
Just divorced a month ago, the next month Sun Yat-sen married Soong Ching-ling into the door, and the abandoned Lu Muzhen not only did not complain, but also warned his son Sun Ke that he must respect Soong Ching-ling.
Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching-ling
In fact, Sun Ke was two years older than Song Qingling.
When Sun Ke was young, Sun Yat-sen was busy campaigning for the revolution, often not at home, and the father and son gathered less and left more.
But no matter how busy Sun Yat-sen was, he never forgot to educate his children.
In those years, Sun Yat-sen often sent his son a large bag of books, if he was in Nanyang, he would send his son Chinese thread-bound books, if he was in Europe and the United States, he would send English masterpieces.
In the early years, when Sun Ke was in middle school in Honolulu, Sun Yat-sen specially sent him a set of more than 100 English literature books from Britain, all of which were novels and plays written by famous British and American writers.
Sun Yat-sen also specially instructed his son in the letter: If you want to learn English well, you can't rely solely on books in school, you must read more famous works, and after a long time, you will naturally make progress.
Many good habits are formed from an early age.
"Love of reading" later became the most important label on Sun Ke's body, which has to be said to be the credit of his father Sun Yat-sen.
After graduating from middle school, Sun Ke wanted to study agriculture, and Sun Yat-sen was very supportive of his son's idea and personally chose a school for him.
Sun Yat-sen and Sun Ke for a group photo
Later, under the influence of his father, Sun Ke also joined the League.
In his spare time, Sun Ke would also publish articles in publications such as the "Freedom New Paper" sponsored by the League to stimulate the revolutionary enthusiasm of overseas Chinese. For his son's performance, Sun Yat-sen was very pleased in his heart.
During this period, the father and son's correspondence mentioned most of them was reading.
After the Xinhai Revolution, sun ke and his two younger sisters went to the United States to study, and by the way, the study abroad funds of several brothers and sisters were still helped by Yuan Shikai.
Sun Ke was later admitted to the University of California, Berkeley, which is a veritable first-class school.
During his studies at the school, Sun Ke mainly studied liberal arts, and also took courses such as banking, law, and railway studies, hoping to make a career after returning to China.
In 1912, Sun Ke and Chen Shuying married in Honolulu and had two sons in the following three years.
Sun Yat-sen was overjoyed, and named the two grandsons "Zhiping" and "Zhiqiang", which means "the way to govern the country, first seek peace, and then seek strength and prosperity." ”
As a father, Sun Yat-sen can be said to have high hopes for his only son, but in state affairs, he did not give Sun Ke the opportunity to enjoy special treatment.
When Sun Ke first returned to China, Liao Zhongkai thought that he had studied municipal administration in the United States before, and had also written some treatises on urban planning, which could make him the mayor of Guangzhou.
Sun Yat-sen felt that his son was too young and inexperienced to take on a big job.
Later, it was Hu Hanmin who persuaded him from the side, and Sun Yat-sen issued a letter of appointment to Sun Ke.
In addition to his father, two of the three elders of the Kuomintang, Hu Hanmin, Liao Zhongkai, and Wang Jingwei, have shown enough kindness to him.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Sun Ke had a good hand of cards at the beginning.
Next, it depends on how Sun Ke fights.
I have to say that as the first mayor of Guangzhou, Sun Ke actually did not do a good job.
He formulated a series of municipal institutions, and under the city hall, set up six bureaus of public security, finance, public works, health, public utilities, and education, of which "public security" was in charge of police and fire fighting, and "public" was in charge of transportation and water and electricity, which were pioneered by Sun Ke.
In the hands of Mayor Sun, Guangzhou has been rejuvenated. It is also from Sun Ke that the word "municipal" has gradually become popular throughout the country, and other cities have also borrowed from Guangzhou in terms of governance.
Professor Zhou Xingliang, who has studied the history of the Republic of China, once said that Sun Ke can be called the founder of China's modern urban system.
Looking at this achievement alone, it is indeed a little unfair to him to say that Sun Ke is "incompetent". However, soon, Sun Ke did a stupid thing, or the extremely stupid kind.
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Once, Sun Yat-sen asked Hu Hanmin to go to the Guangzhou City Hall to raise 500,000 oceans to be used as military expenses for attacking his old rival Chen Jiongming.
Hu Hanmin sent the bodyguard Officer Zhang Meng to withdraw the money with a warrant, and Sun Ke saw that when I was a money-making machine, I actually wanted so much!
Zhang Meng did not ask for money, so he had to go back to his life empty-handed.
If you can't raise military funds, you can't fight. Sun Yat-sen waited left and right, and when he was in a hurry, he went to find Hu Hanmin.
Hu Hanmin has a stall, your son does not give money, what can I do.
Sun Yat-sen was furious and reprimanded Sun Ke for a good time.
Lao Tzu scolded his son, and when he scolded, he scolded, but Sun Ke had a big temper, and he had just been scolded by his father on the front foot, and he went to scold Hu Hanmin on the back foot.
In Sun Ke's view, Hu Hanmin deliberately provoked the discord between their father and son, and Sun Keguang was still angry when he scolded, and later directly picked up his cane and greeted Hu Hanmin.
This can stab Lou Zi.
Hu Hanmin
Who is Hu Hanmin?
In the Kuomintang, he was the second most important person after Sun Yat-sen, the most loyal and trusted close friend and assistant of Sun Yat-sen, and the first person to appoint a successor before Sun Yat-sen's death.
For example, if Sun Yat-sen is the chairman of the company, then Hu Hanmin is the elder figure of the board of directors and the candidate for the next chairman.
If nothing else, Sun Ke can become the mayor of Guangzhou, or Hu Hanmin said good things to him.
Sun Ke often played the temper of the young master, and the crowd was not accustomed to it, and Hu Hanmin still had a lot of maintenance.
As a result, Sun Ke didn't distinguish between good and bad, and even he dared to fight, which was really not an ordinary stupidity.
Ten thousand steps back, but whenever there is a political struggle, even if the other party's eight generations of ancestors have been scolded ten million times in their hearts, they must remain light on their faces.
If they all talked with their fists and feet like Sun Ke, wouldn't the officials have a blue nose and swollen face every day, and their legs and feet are incomplete?
All in all, Sun Ke's cane went down, Hu Hanmin had not said anything, and Sun Yat-sen, who heard the movement, had already rushed in.
When the father's eyes were black with anger, without saying a word, he grabbed the gun of the guard next to him and shot at his son.
Sun Ke was so frightened that he turned around and fled, and Sun Yat-sen, carrying a gun, chased him to the gate of the Shuai Mansion, not even knowing that the slippers were thrown off.
In the end, it was Li Liejun and others who rushed over to persuade Sun Yat-sen to stop him.
From this incident alone, it can be seen that Sun Ke is not only temperamental, but also a proper political idiot.
Sun Ke's series of actions after Sun Yat-sen's death also prove this.
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After Sun Yat-sen's death, relations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party deteriorated rapidly.
In November 1925, a group of Kuomintang rightists held the so-called "Fourth Plenary Session of the First Central Committee of the Kuomintang" in a temple in Xishan, Beijing, at which a series of reactionary documents such as "anti-Soviet, anti-communist, and anti-Kuomintang cooperation" were adopted.
West Hill meeting site
Sun Ke, who was far away in Shanghai, actively responded to the peace, completely forgetting that "uniting with Russia, uniting with the Communist Party, and supporting peasants and workers" were the three major policies set by his father when he was alive.
What is even more surprising is that in the following year, the Guangzhou government moved to Wuhan, and the Northern Expedition army won successive victories, at this time Sun Ke quickly turned from "rightist" to "leftist", openly expressing support for the three major policies.
Another year later, Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup d'état, and the three major policies came to naught, and Sun Ke gradually "turned to the right" and completely forgot what he had said before.
In just three years, Sun Ke's position has changed back and forth. He thought he could bend and stretch, to put it bluntly, that is, the political concept was immature.
In fact, as the only son of the Father of the Nation, as long as Sun Ke adheres to one direction and implements it consistently, no one dares to do anything to him.
But in the years since, "varied positions, swaying left and right, and capriciousness" have become the most obvious labels on Sun Ke, especially in his relationship with Chiang Kai-shek.
For example, in 1927, when Chiang Kai-shek was massacring Communists and Leftists of the Kuomintang in Shanghai, Sun Ke shouted that "Chiang Kai-shek must be overthrown" and was eager to swallow Chiang Kai-shek alive.
Only a year later, Sun Ke and Hu Hanmin committed themselves to the Nationalist government in Nanjing and began to cooperate with Chiang Kai-shek.
Not long after, Sun Ke believed that Chiang Kai-shek's ruling philosophy was not in line with his wishes, and the contradictions between the two began to intensify.
In 1931, Chiang Kai-shek and Hu Hanmin quarreled over whether to convene a National Assembly, and the former put the latter under house arrest in a fit of rage.
Although the detention of Hu Hanmin was expected to provoke opposition, the opposition clearly exceeded Chiang Kai-shek's expectations.
Gu Yingfen, Chen Jitang, and others openly impeached Chiang Kai-shek, and the liangguang generals subsequently sent a telegram of support, demanding that Chiang Kai-shek step down within 48 hours.
At this point, Chiang Kai-shek can be regarded as poking the honeycomb.
He hurriedly asked his confidants to go to Sun Ke, hoping that Sun Ke could mediate from it.
Who knew that Sun Ke was not slippery, and before he could start chatting, he excused himself from going to the toilet, slipped out of the back door, and went straight to the dock.
It didn't take long for Chiang Kai-shek to receive news that Sun Ke and Wang Jingwei had set up a new Nationalist government in Guangzhou, specifically to confront themselves.
Wang Jingwei, Sun Ke and other backbones of the new Nationalist government
Chiang Kai-shek estimated in his heart that he had already scolded Sun Ke's eight generations of ancestors.
However, this time against Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Ke did not get any benefits, and although Chiang Kai-shek was forced to go to the wilderness, he also left a Song Ziwen.
Mr. Sun Ke, the newly appointed president of the Executive Yuan, was held back by Song Ziwen at every turn, and he had no money and could not do anything, and he was forced to step down in less than a month.
After another two years, Sun Ke served as the president of the Legislative Yuan, responsible for drafting the constitution. He proposed that a cabinet system should be implemented, while Chiang Kai-shek insisted on a presidential system.
Neither of them will give in to each other, you write a stroke, I change it, stunned to make the draft constitution unrecognizable.
Of course, there are no permanent enemies in politics.
In 1948, Sun Ke ran for vice president, and Chiang Kai-shek firmly sided with Sun Ke in order to deal with Li Zongren.
However, a rare cooperation between the two also failed, and the reason was still due to Sun Ke himself.
Sun Ke's original wife, Chen Shuying, was like her grandmother, virtuous and shuda, and Sun Ke also inherited her father's affair.
In the early years, Sun Ke fought with the socialite Yan Qijuan in Shanghai, and the two lived together for nearly four years.
In 1935, Sun Ke left Yan Qianjuan, who was already pregnant with Liujia, and fought with the famous lady Lanni.
Lan Ni was born in a declining family in Yunnan, young and beautiful, outstanding temperament, put a group of promising young people do not choose, but looked at Sun Ke, who has entered middle age and is seriously blessed.
In a strong way, Sun Ke also specially wrote a note to Give To Lani, saying that he only had the original two wives, Chen Shuying and Lanni, and in addition, there was no third person.
Lennox
Lenny later went overseas, and she still kept this note, always thinking of herself as Mrs. Sun.
In 1986, Lan Ni returned to China to settle down, Deng Yingchao called her "Mrs. Sun", and the 70-year-old lady Lan happily closed her mouth.
However, the reason why Sun Ke made such a statement at that time was probably because the abandoned Yan Qianjuan often asked Sun Ke for living expenses, and Sun Ke always let Lan Ni come forward to negotiate with her.
Using "Little Four" to deal with "Little Three" also lost sun ke to do it.
In the 1948 vice presidential election, just as Sun Ke was in full swing with the support of Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren, a newspaper report was published saying that after the victory of the War of Resistance, the government had confiscated some of Lanni's imported pigments according to regulations, but Sun Ke wrote to ask the person in charge to "return" these pigments to Lenny.
As soon as this report came out, Sun Ke's image plummeted, and in the end, he naturally lost to Li Zongren.
This time, Sun Ke was not only frustrated in his career, but even his confidant with a red face abandoned him.
Because after this incident, Sun Ke not only did not preside over "justice" for LanNi, but also frequently gave Lan ni a cold face in order to shirk his responsibility.
Lan Ni was both angry and sad, and directly dumped Sun Ke and never returned.
However, even if Sun Ke won Li Zongren and became vice president, it would not be interesting, because soon the People's Liberation Army forced Chiang Kai-shek's army into a desperate situation.
Seeing that the Rule of the Kuomintang was about to disappear, Sun Ke once again showed his "capricious" side.
On January 21, 1949, Chiang Kai-shek announced his "retirement", although he said that he was forced to go down by Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi of the Gui clan, but there was also Sun Ke's "credit" in this.
For Sun Ke, who was "two-sided, three-knife, swinging left and right," Chiang Kai-shek had long hated it and itched his teeth. When people can't show it, scold in the diary:
"Sun Ke's sexual behavior is despicable and greedy, and it is shameful and shameful, which is heart-wrenching. It is incomprehensible that the Prime Minister has such a great personality and has such an unworthy son.
When Chiang Kai-shek wrote this passage, he probably gritted his teeth: How could Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who is so great, give birth to such an inconspicuous son? I really don't understand.
It is said that the father of the tiger has no dogs, and Sun Ke is an exception.
In December 1949, Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan, and before leaving, he did not even say hello to Sun Ke, let alone invite him to Go to Taiwan with him.
Sun Ke also knew that he was not welcome and wanted to go to the United States, who knew that the Kuomintang would not even give him a passport, let alone give him money.
Later, Sun Ke really had no choice but to sell his house and leave the country with the money.
Because he was not good at amassing wealth, Sun Ke lived very hard during his time in the United States, and the family cut down on food and clothing, and sometimes even only ate sweet potatoes.
In the past, the grandson who did not stick to the spring water of the sun had to learn to grow vegetables and clean when he was old.
However, on the most bleak days, Sun Ke's mood was much calmer. His home was full of books, he read books and newspapers every day, and his spiritual life was very rich.
In 1961, Sun Ke celebrated his seventieth birthday, and Zhang Xueliang's wife Yu Fengzhi also received an invitation.
At the table, mentioning the matter of returning to Taiwan, Yu Fengzhi looked at Sun Ke and said:
"Taiwan, I will definitely not go, even if I live alone in the United States, I will not go to Jiang Someone's hilarity." I have a national vendetta with him, the national calamity is my hometown in northeast China was lost at his hands, and the family feud is that my husband has been detained by him for decades. Unlike Mr. Sun, if I return to Taiwan, I will be laughed at and said that I am spineless in Yu Fengzhi. ”
In fact, before Yu Feng arrived, she knew that Chiang Kai-shek had already sent someone to contact Sun Ke, and she deliberately said these words to Sun Ke.
But Fan Sunke was a bit spineless, and he would not easily accept Chiang Kai-shek's invitation to go back, after all, the feud between the two of them was no smaller than that of Yu Fengzhi.
Of course, Yu Fengzhi wants money and money, wants a house, and eats and drinks without worry, while Sun Ke obviously does not have this capital.
In 1965, Sun Kesi came and went, and finally went to Taiwan.
The son of the founding father and an old rival for many years actually "condescended to Taiwan" in his old age, which really gave enough face.
Chiang Kai-shek was overjoyed and held a grand welcoming ceremony for Sun Ke and asked him to be the "president of the examination institute." This is an idle job, which is suitable for Sun Ke's pension.
Sun Ke, who is already more than seventy years old, can't help but burst into tears, the two ice release their previous suspicions, and the years of enmity are written off.
Eight years later, Sun Ke died of illness.
Chiang Kai-shek held a solemn funeral for him and commented that he was "the founder of the revolution ... Great knowledge... Credit in the country..."
Of course, this kind of wording is mostly a part of the rhetoric. Looking at Sun Ke's life's behavior, it is really far from these praises.
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Objectively speaking, how many great people like Sun Yat-sen can there be in the world?
Sun Ke, if not as good as his father, at least is not a clumsy child.
He has his own political ambitions and has put forward his own political ideas, but he is constrained by the environment and lacks the means, so he can only continue to sink and float in the whirlpool of politics, and sink deeper and deeper.
In the final analysis, it is still people in the jianghu who can't help themselves.
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