Preface:
During the Republican period, the Sichuan warlords generally had the problem of wanton conquest and cleverness in their respective defense areas.
They use a variety of names, both written and unwritten, to loot money from ordinary people. These include "public utility donations", "road insurance fees", "security fees", "drought relief fees", etc., which are actually illegal extortion methods by warlords.
At the same time, warlords also amassed wealth in this way, and many warlords took "food color" as a motto, and plundered women with outstanding appearance.
At that time, most generals would marry young wives, and "concubinage" seemed to have become a social trend, and one of them was still strong at the age of 91, insisted on exercising every day, and had children with a 17-year-old girl.
Absurd warlords
Among the warlords in Sichuan at that time, there were a few wives and one concubine, and each had to serve at least three women.
For example, the young Liu Wenhui, he had a total of one wife and three concubines, and he married his first wife Gao Shi under the arrangement of his parents at the age of 17, and within a few years, he fell in love with a girl with clear eyebrows Li Shi, and it happened that Gao Shi had never had children, which became the reason for Liu Wenhui to take a concubine.
But I didn't expect that in three years, Li Shi only gave birth to a daughter, and in that era of backward scientific and technological thinking, it was logical to attribute it to a woman if he couldn't give birth to a son, so Liu Wenhui married his third wife Yang Shi.
An officer like Liu Wenhui, who has three concubines, will be considered "incompetent", and the commander of Sichuan, Yang Ren'an, originally like Liu Wenhui, still feels lonely and lonely, and when he was 71 years old, he met the graceful Tang Jinying, because she was not valued by her parents and her family was poor, Yang Ren'an simply gave some dowry, and the old cow ate tender grass.
It is said that Yang Ren'an's mother-in-law was a full 30 years younger than him, and people would laugh and close their mouths whenever they mentioned it.
Maybe you think this is incredible, is there no royal law in this society? Can a local warlord act so recklessly?
But they are not the most serious, among these Sichuan army generals, the most popular is Yang Sen, a senior general of the Kuomintang.
He has gathered "twelve golden golds" in his home!
There is a folk song in Sichuan that sings: "General who picks flowers, his name is Yang Sen." His wives and concubines were all beautiful. ”
Yang Sen married 12 wives in his life, the last one named Zhang Lingfeng, 72 years younger than Yang Sen, but the two got along quite harmoniously, and after marriage she became her husband's personal secretary.
At work, Zhang Lingfeng once quipped: "You have married so many wives, how many are willing?" Janssen actually understands that even if there are some people who stay by his side, it is for his money and power, but Janssen said: "I really love them!" ”
But the fact is that two of the concubines have already been killed by him by extreme means, and even if a woman really takes a fancy to him, after entering the Yang family, she will end up in tears all day.
Janssen's special proclivities
Yang Sen has been looking for flowers and asking Willow all his life, happy and happy, not at all loving his women as he himself said, but has no feelings for many wives and concubines, they are just tools for venting their desires, a little gesture, smart and clever has become Yang Sen's social tool.
Once old and decaying, it is discarded. His treatment of his wives and concubines can be described as mean and unkind.
However, Janssen does have a set of family management, in order to prevent wives and concubines from competing for favor, Janssen adopts the principle of balance and takes turns staying at each wife's place, although he is amorous by nature, but he has never violated the law in this regard, and has never let anyone "fall out of favor" for no reason.
For Janssen, if a family wants harmony, it is not enough to rely on men to rain and dew, and the lives of wives and concubines must also have clear rules, so that there will be no chaos.
Therefore, he instituted countless house rules and prohibitions that everyone must strictly enforce.
For example, everyone must get up early in the morning, and they must wear uniform military uniforms, tie belts, and they have special adjutants to lead the team to exercise, such a rule rain or shine.
In addition, wives and concubines were not allowed to entertain, play cards, drink, dance, watch plays or movies, and all entertainment was in his prohibition.
Everyone said that the women around Yang Sen were greedy for his money, but where could the women around him take advantage, he stipulated that no one in the family was allowed to use it privately, and every month adults and children stipulated a certain amount of "monthly money".
He is impartial to everyone, not only in "husband and wife" life, but also in the family affairs on a monthly rotation.
And whenever Janssen was at home, the young wife and concubine could not even sleep peacefully, and had to get up every morning at 5 o'clock to accompany him to exercise, either playing tennis or riding horses.
and so on a series of family rules, so that wives and concubines complain one after another, but they can't complain in person.
But this is not the most hateful thing about Janssen, once someone disobeys him, Janssen will use any means.
"Its joy" to pieces
Yang Sen treats his wives and concubines only intimately at the moment when they are just included in the mansion, and they do not treat these women as people for a long time.
There are even more pitiful, from the moment of taking a concubine, the beginning of a tragic fate has already been reached.
According to Janssen's children, his second concubine room was originally a maid in the family, and one day Janssen got drunk and defiled the maid, and could only helplessly take it as a concubine, but this maid was born poor and had no education, and often provoked Janssen's displeasure.
One day, she inadvertently violated the rules set by her husband and brought ivory chopsticks to her room privately, but she didn't expect to be almost killed by Jan Sen, and then she became mad.
His sixth concubine, Zeng Guizhi, had been sent by him to Shanghai to study at a university in order to return from his studies so that he could use it for Yang Sen, but Zeng did not know that he had eyeliner placed by his husband.
Later, she met a burly man, the two behaved somewhat intimately when dancing, and after Yang Sen knew about it, he set up a bureau to beat the two to death in the wilderness, and afterwards Yang Sen felt that he was not relieved, and ordered people to tie the two to the boulder Shenjiang together.
This happened more than once, and what was even more pitiful was that he was chained to the bed and whipped to death, and other wives and concubines came to watch, the purpose was to threaten everyone, and they must stay by his side wholeheartedly, and they must not be disobeyed.
But how can the days of arbitrariness last a lifetime, and Janssen's family in his later years was actually falling apart.
Yang Sen grew up with a total of 32 children, due to the excessive number of wives and concubines in the family, Yang Sen was away all year round, occasionally returning home without even knowing his own children, which became a laughing stock at that time.
Yang Sen's eldest son, Yang Hanxing, once led a group of people to distribute leaflets on the streets to commemorate the May Fourth Movement, was unfortunately arrested, and was later bailed out by Yang Sen's old ministry, and later Yang Hanxing returned from the Soviet Union to specifically advise his father not to be an enemy of the people.
But Janssen has always said that how can he tolerate his son's opposition, and the father and son are in a fight, and the father-son relationship has been severed since then.
Yang Hanxiu, the daughter of Yang Sen's second brother, who was doing underground work in Sichuan after participating in the revolution, was arrested by the Kuomintang and imprisoned in a dregs cave, and was later released on bail by Yang Sen, but because of the political disagreement between the two, Yang Sen personally ordered the killing of his niece.
By the time Yang Sen was in his 80s, he finally found a woman who truly loved him, and Hu Jieyu became Yang Sen's concubine at the age of 14, and gave birth to a child to him when Yang Sen was 86 years old.
There is no clear record in history about this child, and many people doubt that such an age can really have children? If that's really the case, I have to sigh that Yang Sen is really old.
When Janssen was 90 years old, he was still recruiting personal secretaries everywhere, in fact, to put it bluntly, he was looking for another young and intelligent concubine, and soon met the last concubine in his life, 17 years old, and confessed to him that he liked young people.
In March 1977, Yang Sen finished dealing with official affairs and couldn't wait to pull his concubine to make out, but this time he was a little weak, and it didn't take long for him to faint and die, and he learned that he had lung cancer after an examination in the hospital.
In 1980, Janssen died of illness at the age of 96.