(This article is based on Mr. Sima Nan's video program, and the content has been deleted)
Everyone knows that Chiang Kai-shek's wife is called Soong Meiling. Song Meiling has a lot of shots in our TV movies, which are perfectly shaped. How perfect is it?
In particular, a large number of articles about Song Meiling in recent decades have declared that "Song Meiling is the most noble and greatest woman in the world in the 20th century".
During the arduous War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were many scenes of Lao Chiang condolences to the hungry people, disaster victims, and the army, and many people were moved by them, but is this the true face of the matter? We may have reason to doubt the authenticity of this scene itself.
Soong Meiling is a political figure, a historical figure, a first lady who has ruled China for so long, and there are other aspects of her life.
60 years ago, when I was a child, I heard adults say: "It's hard for us to drink milk, Song Meiling bathed with milk!"
The legend that milk bathing may not be comfortable, is untrue, but it can be seen that there was some discussion about Madame Chiang's luxurious life at that time. And now some people still say this? Now it is said that Madame Chiang is the greatest and noblest woman in the world! Heh, it is just a reversal of black and white history.
Some people say that the Song family where Song Meiling belongs is one of the four major families of Jiang, Song, Kong, and Chen mentioned in Chen Boda's article.
I have a shallow interest in historical issues, and recently I read Wang Zhongxin's article on how Soong Meiling played the role of a "thief of the country".
Everyone still remembers that Song Meiling gave a speech in the U.S. Congress, and appeared frequently with Lao Jiang, wearing a graceful and gorgeous cheongsam, full of "dear dear...... Do you remember the three Song sisters?
I lived in Hainan for more than two months, eating and drinking on Wenchang Street, which is the hometown of the three Song sisters.
宋美龄曾经被一些人誉为榜样,说人家知书达理,懂英文,Talking something English,no Chinese! 优雅的不得了。
Many people scold Sima Nan for being a professional bad person, I have also done good things, I am a normal person, you think I am bad because you don't like me.
So objectively speaking, especially historical figures, it is certainly not true that someone has to be said to be perfect like a white lotus. But if you say that someone hasn't done anything good, that's not objective.
With regard to historical issues, we must face up to the facts and analyze people in the context of the historical conditions of the time. Not by what he says, but by how he does it. Otherwise, according to Lao Jiang's diary, he is a white lotus, and everyone else is a stupid and stupid thief, only he is amazing.
More than 10 years ago, when Chiang's diary had just been unsealed, a scholar from Taiwan came to Beijing and borrowed my study to take pictures.
I said next to me, it's a bad thing, people are not here to record it. If you don't record it, you won't record it! It's the same study, and I'm recording a program in my study, and I'm just here to talk about what's wrong with Jiang Gong? Why can't I say it?
Now, in the perception of some people, Chiang Kai-shek's bald head has become a perfect moral person! Chiang Kai-shek's "Darling" is even more of a perfect woman! In view of such a background, I am not afraid of offending the Chiang family and the Song family, so I will talk about those things that ordinary people do not know about Soong Meiling.
Song Meiling's private life is chaotic, and she lives extravagantly, which is obvious to all, and Nanjing people should know better.
In the autumn of 1930, Lao Chiang ordered the construction of a holiday villa. In the spring of 31, Shanghai Xinjin Jikang Construction Factory was built at a contract price of 240,000 yuan. 240,000 yuan, which was a sky-high price at the time, but the result was not enough and exceeded the budget.
For Chiang Kai-shek's Soong Meiling villa, the Army, Navy, and Air Force Headquarters gave another 30,000 yuan, which was not enough; the Nanjing Municipal Finance Bureau gave another 16,500 yuan, which was not enough; in the end, I don't know where to transfer the money, and the actual project cost reached 316,500 yuan.
In 1932, 1 silver dollar in Shanghai could buy 16 catties of rice, and the final project cost was 316,500 yuan.
The main building of Meiling Palace is an ancient Chinese palace-style building (you don't think it is the same as our townhouse or villa), carved beams and painted buildings, flying eaves and corners, covered with green shade, that is called a magnificent, foreign, atmospheric!
Old Chiang, Song Meiling, the two of you can get a villa, after all, Chiang Kai-shek only has one darling. But now someone has taken the lead, so the whole Kuomintang has followed suit.
Lao Jiang took the lead, Lin Sen also had to do it, and Wang Jingwei had been following Lao Jiang, and he was even more emulate. Sun Ke, that is, the son of Mr. Zhongshan, was also unsuccessful, and lived in the mansion as a big official.
He Yingqin, Zhang Zhizhong, Chen Guofu, Chen Lifu, Feng Yuxiang, Tang Shengzhi and other high-ranking Kuomintang officials all came to build villas, and as a result, they built a large number of mansions in Nanjing's Purple Mountain.
Even during the Anti-Japanese War, Song Meiling maintained a consistent standard of living. Everyone knows that she loves cheongsam, and there is a full-time tailor named Zhang Ruixiang, who is often around. If you think about it, there is a tailor next to her, who doesn't do anything else every day, just makes cheongsam for her.
We generally say that cattle people with drivers, secretaries, bodyguards, nannies, and agents are enough for cattle. And Song Meiling brought everything, and there was a tailor next to her, was she majestic? Why? Because she liked cheongsam. Song Meiling's life is extravagant and luxurious.
Since the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Ruixiang followed Song Meiling to Chongqing, so of course Song Meiling had to follow when she went to the United States, Zhang Ruixiang made cheongsam for Song Meiling almost every day.
Can you wear a cheongsam? When you're done, it feels good, so admire it and put it away, she won't wear it for the rest of her life. The subordinate who served Jiang Song and his wife said: "The number of cheongsams in Song Meiling's wardrobe is probably unparalleled in the world now. ”
When Soong moved to the United States, she had a total of 99 large suitcases, of which 55 were cheongsams and other clothes.
When Chiang Kai-shek fled to Chongqing and the government of the Republic of China was completely blockaded by Japan, Soong Meiling returned to China from the Hump route on an American plane, and what things were loaded on the plane? The first was furniture, the second was cosmetics, and the third was clothing.
How abnormal was this thing, so abnormal that even the American pilot was so disgusted that he threw her piano out of the cabin on the grounds that the plane was malfunctioning.
In 1942, there was a famine in Henan, and the film "1942" directed by Feng Xiaogang reflected the situation at that time, and starvation was everywhere. Comparing the picture of Song Meiling's elegant life and the picture of the Chinese people struggling on the death line, is the luxury of life shocking?
There is an American writer named Seagrave, who mentioned in the book "Song Family Dynasty" that "a pair of shoes studded with diamonds on Song Meiling's feet is worth 800,000 yuan, and a coat is worth 500,000 yuan."
Even when the Anti-Japanese War was at its worst, Song Meiling often took a few months of rest in New York and San Francisco, enjoying the comfortable life of the West.
In 1991, Song Meiling left Taiwan and loaded 100 large wooden boxes of belongings, think about it, how many planes can an old lady fly to the United States?
At that time, the Taiwan government used four large planes to transport Soong Meiling's belongings to the United States, and what were in the wooden boxes? It is speculated that there were many peerless and rare national treasures inside.
In September 1975, after Song Meiling arrived in the United States, she lived in the house that Kong Lingkan bought for her in 1949, which was bought for her by Song Ailing's eldest son and Song Meiling's eldest nephew. The house was nominally bought by Song Meiling and her eldest brother-in-law Kong Xiangxi.
This Long Island home in Manhattan, New York, where Song Meiling lived for 20 years. How much did Soong Meiling's Changdao Former Residence later auction? The auction value was $11.8 million! That's $73.3 million! Note that this is not today's price, it's that time.
As I write this, I must say that I have reviewed it many times, when "saving the United States is saving China," when China bought a lot of US Treasury bonds, and when our 4 trillion yuan of real money was smashed, our family bought a small house in the United States for $250,000. Someone said, "You can't say a small house, it has to be a big house!"
Sima Nan bought a big house for 250,000 US dollars, and this matter was taken out by some people, and it is endless to this day, and some people have turned this matter over and over again, which proves that Sima Nan is a bad person, which proves that Sima Nan wants to defect, which proves that Sima Nan is the first rat at both ends, etc., including a very good old friend of mine who also can't get by with this, but my good friend never seems to have said anything about Song Meiling buying a house in the United States.
I'm curious, Song Meiling was said by you to be "the first perfect woman in the Republic of China", a perfect and elegant woman, why don't you say her house? Only say that she is elegant? Only say that she is good?
Song Meiling's house is more than 70 million yuan, which is more than 70 million yuan in that era, with nine bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a golf course, and a lower space large enough to accommodate a gym, cinema and sauna, like a palace.
The luxury villa covers an area of more than 50 acres, and the family employs more than 50 people just to serve an old lady, and the Taiwan government has to pay 5 million US dollars every year.
Someone said: "Sima Nan, are you more worthy than the first lady of the Republic of China?"
Of course I don't deserve it, but I see her kind of luxury, scraping the people's fat and ointment, serving herself extravagantly, and being a thief of the country, I don't want to admit your definition of her, I don't want to see you say that she is the noblest woman in the Republic of China, okay?
Song Meiling lives on Long Island, which is far away from the city, and it is inconvenient to see a doctor. So in 1995, Song Meiling sold her big house on Long Island and moved into a 15-story "Gracie" apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Song Meiling lives in a large suite on the tenth floor of the giant apartment, and female staff such as secretaries and nurses live in other rooms on the same floor as her, while the guards and drivers live on the ninth floor, and there is nothing important, and male staff are not allowed to step into the tenth floor apartment where Song Meiling lives.
In short, is Song Meiling a perfect woman? Is Song Meiling the greatest woman in the Republic of China? Song Meiling is praised by you so perfectly, why do some people still say that she is a national thief-level giant greed? I want to hear your unique views on this matter, and you are welcome to leave your comments.
Reference article: Wang Zhongxin, Red Culture Network
Responsible editor|Hu Yan Li Yuetan
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