Sun Liren, who was under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek for 33 years: had an affair with a female nurse during marriage and gave birth to 4 scientists, what is going on? The next content will take us to find out.
During the Republican period, there was a Hunan girl named Zhang Jingying, she was from a good background, lively and cheerful, especially liked to make friends with people, if anyone held a dance, she would always go to participate.
When she was 17 years old, Zhang Jingying met a middle-aged man named Sun Liren at a dance, Sun Liren was 30 years old, in that era, generally men of this age, the children in the family are very large, although Sun Liren has no children, but he has already had a marriage, so when Zhang Jingying and Sun Liren fell in love, Zhang Jingying's family was strongly opposed, saying that they did not agree with them being together.
However, Zhang Jingying was determined to marry Sun Liren, and Sun Liren was also deeply fascinated by Zhang Jingying, before he met Zhang Jingying, he had just experienced an arranged marriage and lived a very unhappy life. Therefore, after falling in love with Zhang Jingying, even though the love between them was resisted in every way, he still insisted on marrying Zhang Jingying.
Of course, they are also very happy after marriage. Because Sun Liren was a general of the Kuomintang, when the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan in 1949, Sun Liren also took Zhang Jingying with him to Taiwan.
Speaking of which, Sun Liren was born in 1900, and when he went to Taiwan, he was almost 50 years old, although Zhang Jingying was 13 years younger than him, but Zhang Jingying was also in his 30s.
They have been married for almost 20 years, but the two have never had children, which makes Zhang Jingying miserable. She loves Sun Liren very much, she feels that she has no way to pass on the lineage to Sun Liren, and she has not fulfilled the duties of a wife.
Although Sun Liren didn't say anything and has always loved and cared for her after marriage, whenever Zhang Jingying sees Sun Liren and is happy holding other people's children, she knows that Sun Liren is also eager to have her own children.
In this way, after she went to Taiwan, she began to look for medical treatment everywhere, wanting to give Sun Li a child, but soon Zhang Jingying lost to reality, it turned out that they had no children for so many years because she suffered from infertility. Zhang Jingying knew that he had delayed Sun Liren.
What to do? Zhang Jingying felt guilty, so, she thought about it, she wanted to take advantage of Sun Liren's good health, let him find another wife, and then let this woman give Sun Li a child.
At first, Sun Liren did not agree, but later, Zhang Jingying secretly gave Sun Liren a color, and soon, she took a fancy to a woman named Zhang Meiying, Zhang Meiying is not old, a female nurse next to Sun Liren.
Zhang Jingying found that Zhang Meiying has been secretly in love with Sun Liren for a long time, although Sun Liren is more than half a hundred years old, he is still very charismatic, so, after understanding Zhang Meiying's thoughts, Zhang Jingying began to create opportunities for them.
At the beginning, Sun Liren did not give in, but Zhang Jingying thought of many ways and finally achieved the goal, and when Zhang Meiying and Sun Liren were together, the two really gave birth to several children, a total of two boys and two women.
When Sun Liren's first child was born, Zhang Jingying was simply more excited than Sun Liren, she was very grateful to Zhang Meiying, and she was also very good to Zhang Meiying, just like that, the two women served a husband, they got along very harmoniously, and the three took care of the children together, and the family of 7 was also happy.
However, I did not expect that after Chiang Kai-shek retired to Taiwan, he was still uneasy about the people around him, and later Chiang Kai-shek actually put Sun Liren under house arrest, and the happy life of the family of 7 ended.
So why did Chiang Kai-shek treat Sun Liren like this? This also needs to start with the Xi'an incident. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek was "forced to Liangshan" by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, and he became suspicious of the people around him, originally Chiang Kai-shek was suspicious by nature, and after this incident, he looked at no one like a good person.
Sun Liren was also quickly targeted by Chiang Kai-shek, because Sun Liren's battle exploits were still very prominent within the Kuomintang, and his popularity within the Kuomintang was also very good, Chiang Kai-shek was worried that one day Sun Liren would be a great master, he would overthrow himself, and then he would become the ruler of the Kuomintang.
Speaking of which, Sun Liren's military ability is indeed very outstanding, he once went to the United States to study, so in terms of leading troops, he is also a combination of Chinese and Western, and each of the troops under him is a division of tigers and wolves.
Including during the Anti-Japanese War, Sun Liren also annihilated Japanese devils, which also made Sun Liren famous and had an increasingly high position within the Kuomintang.
Because of Sun Liren's experience in staying in the United States, coupled with his excellent personal ability, at that time, Americans also thought about replacing Chiang Kai-shek, because the "boss behind the Kuomintang" has long been an American, although the Americans support Chiang Kai-shek, but they feel that Chiang Kai-shek's ability is not good, and they still appreciate Sun Liren.
Later, Americans became more and more dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek, and they also unabashedly and directly inclined to cultivate Sun Liren, which made Chiang Kai-shek very afraid, because Chiang Kai-shek's dream was to become the dictator of China, how could he let Sun Liren threaten his status?
Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek began to look for opportunities to attack Sun Liren, including after he later took Sun Liren to Taiwan, he also had plans in this regard, but Sun Liren was difficult to pick out any faults, Chiang Kai-shek investigated for a long time, and did not grasp Sun Liren's handle, which made him very unhappy.
It was not until 1955 that Chiang Kai-shek arrested Sun Liren, when Chiang Kai-shek claimed to have intercepted a secret report saying that Sun Liren wanted to "rebel", but in fact, Sun Liren did not have this mind, because Sun Liren already had children, and he put all his energy on taking care of his wife and children, and he was not interested in ruling Taiwan at all.
Therefore, this is actually Chiang Kai-shek's use of a "trumped-up" charge to deliberately go to Sun Liren's trouble, so Chiang Kai-shek took this as an opportunity to remove Sun Liren from all his positions and make him a commoner, but even so, Chiang Kai-shek did not intend to let Sun Liren go.
Chiang Kai-shek, just as he did with Zhang Xueliang, put Sun Liren under house arrest, and this house arrest lasted for more than 30 years, and it can be said that Sun Liren spent the second half of his life under house arrest.
Fortunately, Chiang Kai-shek did not drive away Sun Liren's wife and children, but let them all stay with Sun Liren, of course, they were all under house arrest like Sun Liren, and in this way, the family of 7 lived under Chiang Kai-shek's close surveillance.
Sun Liren, who had no position and became a common man, also lost all sources of livelihood, at first, the family lived by selling property, but so many people in the family waited to eat, and soon they could not make ends meet.
What to do? Sun Liren also once managed Chiang Kai-shek's living expenses, but Chiang Kai-shek did not care about him at all, because Chiang Kai-shek's mind at that time was to let Sun Liren fend for himself.
As soon as Sun Liren saw that Chiang Kai-shek did not give money, he wanted to go out to work, but Chiang Kai-shek did not allow him to go out, so Sun Liren was forced to have no choice, so he planted fruit trees in his backyard, and when the fruit was ripe, he let his wife go to the market to sell, just like that, the family barely survived.
Because after being placed under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Liren had only time left, and he began to raise his four children, and he repeatedly asked Chiang Kai-shek for the opportunity to go to school.
I have to say that these four children of Sun Liren are really competitive, their grades are very good, and they were all admitted to prestigious schools later, and they all became scientists in different fields.
The eldest Sun Zhongping, admitted to Tsinghua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan, studied nuclear engineering, went to the United States after graduation, studied for a doctorate at MIT, and later became a nuclear engineer as a researcher in the research center of IBM in New York, after more than 20 years of hard work, she also became the general manager of IBM.
The second eldest Sun Anping, also went to the United States to study, worked in Silicon Valley after graduation, became a physicist, and did not return to Taiwan, but he has been rehabilitating and complaining about his father, wanting to get his father out of Chiang Kai-shek's house arrest.
The third grandson, Tianping, later went to Tsinghua to study, became a computer engineer after graduation, stayed in Shanghai to work, and once participated in the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War on behalf of his father in Beijing.
The fourth grandson Taiping also went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, stayed in the United States after graduation, became a biochemistry expert, and taught at Duke University in the United States, and was a university professor.
This can also be regarded as the luck of Sun Liren's misfortune in his life, after all, his wife and children accompanied him in his later years, and each of them had their own talents, although he was down, but his family was happy.
Of course, during Sun Liren's house arrest, he also mentioned many times that the only person he felt guilty in his life was his first wife Gong Xitao.
As we mentioned earlier, Sun Liren and Gong Xitao were arranged marriages, Sun Liren and she were only 19 years old when they got married, speaking of which, the combination of Gong Xitao and Sun Liren can also be regarded as a door-to-door pair, because Sun Liren's father, who was once a late Qing dynasty official, was also very prominent.
Gong Xitao's father was the same, so both parents let them get married. But because Gong Xitao is a girl, her family neglects her education, which also makes Gong Xitao a very traditional, feudal woman, and there is no common language between her and Sun Liren.
Soon after the two got married, Sun Liren ran away from home, Gong Xitao has been waiting for Sun Liren silently at home, and the result is more than 10 years, she did not wait for Sun Liren to change his mind, but waited for Sun Liren to propose divorce to her.
Because Sun Liren knew Zhang Jingying at that time, he didn't want to be with Gong Xitao anymore. After Gong Xitao learned about it, she did not divorce Sun Liren, but told Sun Liren that you can marry another.
And Gong Xitao did not leave Sun Liren's home, but has been helping Sun Liren take care of his parents, Sun Liren looked at Gong Xitao's appearance, he was really angry and helpless, he later did not care about Gong Xitao, but after marrying Zhang Jingying, he completely ignored Gong Xitao.
After Sun Liren's father learned about it, he repeatedly asked Sun Liren to take Gong Xitao away and let her live with Sun Liren, but Sun Liren did not do this, and later it was Sun Liren's father, who sent Gong Xitao to Sun Liren's house, fortunately, Zhang Jingying is a knowledgeable woman, she saw Gong Xitao's arrival, she was not angry, but called Gong Xitao "big sister", and respected her very much.
At first, Gong Xitao was wary of Zhang Jingying, but later she was also moved by Zhang Jingying's true feelings, so when she saw the picture of Sun Liren and Zhang Jingying's affection, she took the initiative to leave Sun Liren's home and went back to serve Sun Liren's parents.
It was not until Sun Liren's parents died that Gong Xitao left the Sun family, of course, at that time, Sun Liren had followed Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan, so he also left all his family business in the mainland to Gong Xitao, after that, he and Gong Xitao had no contact, after all, at that time, the two sides of the strait themselves had no connection.
Speaking of which, Gong Xitao is really a very kind woman, she has no children, she helps Sun Liren's brother watch the child, and also left Sun Liren's family property to her, and also divided it among Sun Liren's brothers.
Speaking of which, Gong Xitao also suffered the loss of no culture, but she also changed later, because after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Gong Xitao's thinking also underwent a great change, in addition to taking care of Sun Liren's parents, she also participated in the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Movement many times, but at that time, Sun Liren was already with Zhang Jingying, naturally, there was nothing wrong with her.
From 1955, Sun Liren was under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek until 1988, during which he, like Zhang Xueliang, was not released, but continued to be under house arrest by Chiang Ching-kuo until after Chiang Ching-kuo's death in 1988.
At that time, as soon as Zhang Xueliang regained his freedom, he flew to the United States to reunite with his family. And Sun Liren, although he stayed in Taiwan, he thought about going to the mainland to take a look, especially he wanted to take his children to visit Gong Xitao's grave, but because Sun Liren's identity was too special, he did not come to the mainland in the end.
He had to let his children go instead of him, and also explained his children that he wanted to include Gong Xitao in the family tree of the Sun family, it is worth mentioning that in the last period of Sun Liren's life, he would sit dumbly every day, and then say something about Gong Xitao, he kept saying that he really owed Gong Xitao.
And he also regrets that if he can have a child between him and Gong Xitao, then when he goes to Taiwan, he can also leave a "thought" for Gong Xitao, so that Gong Xitao will not live alone in the mainland and be lonely in his old age.