Regarding Chiang Kai-shek's history, most people focus on his political and military past, after all, many of his stories are tied to another great man, and his failures have made that great man's legend.
Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek also has a lot of nicknames, such as the captain of the transport brigade and the master of micro-manipulation......
However, with the emergence of Chiang Kai-shek's diary, scholars began to learn more about Chiang Kai-shek. Our eyes are not only focused on his military politics, but suddenly we also have the possibility to observe this person in detail.
The "Chiang Kai-shek Diary" began in 1915 and was interrupted until 1972, and a total of 53 years of diaries have been preserved. It should be said that Chiang Kai-shek's diary did not fall for almost a day, not only recording Chiang Kai-shek's life, but also recording in detail Chiang Kai-shek's true inner world.
With the publication of "Chiang Kai-shek's Diary", scholars from the mainland also came to this work one after another and began to have in-depth contact with Chiang Kai-shek. So what is the real heart of this big loser we know in our mouths?
- The answer is surprising, Chiang Kai-shek's inner world is even more unbearable than his military politics.
The first mainland scholar to read Chiang Kai-shek's Diary was the famous historian Yang Tianshi, who carefully read Chiang Kai-shek's diary and learned more about the past. When a reporter asked him to summarize Chiang Kai-shek's life in a few words, he commented like this: lustful, irritable, suspicious, withdrawn, and narcissistic.
That's an incredible assessment. Because even today, although we always ridicule Chiang Kai-shek's failure, after all, Chiang Kai-shek lost to Chairman Mao, not to others, which invisibly makes us look up to him a few times.
In addition, Chiang Kai-shek was also a figure who stirred up the storm back then, so there were still die-hard followers of him, calling him "Mr. Chiang". So how did Chiang Kai-shek get such an evaluation from Mr. Yang?
And especially the first lecherous, will Mr. Yang's evaluation be biased?
There is nothing to say about irritable and suspicious, because in the process of understanding Chiang Kai-shek's failures, we can see that his micro-manipulation and distrust of his subordinates are excellent manifestations of these personalities. So what's going on with this lust?
According to Yang Tianshi's explanation, Chiang Kai-shek often reflected on himself in his diary, such as guarding against arrogance and rashness, but the most frequent occurrence was abstinence.
For example, Chiang Kai-shek once went shopping and suddenly saw a girl walking across the street and thought she was very beautiful, and Chiang Kai-shek was very moved. After returning home, Chiang Kai-shek wrote in his diary: Seeing Yan's heart, remember a big mistake.
We ordinary people will certainly not take this record seriously, after all, we ordinary people will be moved when they see beautiful women, so how can we have to remember a major demerit? But everyone ignores one point, Chiang Kai-shek is not an ordinary person, he is different from us.
According to records, Chiang Kai-shek followed a big brother named Chen Qimei in his early years, this person was a famous thug of the Kuomintang, not only a representative of the underworld, but also rich and powerful.
In this context, Chiang Kai-shek saw that beauties were very easy to make mistakes, and there were rumors of Chiang Kai-shek's indulgence back then, but later it was really because he wanted to do great things, Chiang Kai-shek didn't dare to be so indulgent anymore, so he appeared in the diary to see the phenomenon that beauties need to remember big mistakes, which shows the chaos of Chiang Kai-shek's private life.
However, this is not over, because he played too much with Chen Qimei in the early years, so it was difficult for Chiang Kai-shek to restrain himself in this aspect, and he often rose on a whim, and then delayed the right thing.
In his diary, he was sent to Fujian by Mr. Sun in 1912 to serve as an important duty, Chiang Kai-shek felt that his number one enemy was lust, so he recorded in his diary: lust is the end of self-defilement and self-deprecation, and caution should be cautious!
But here I wrote such a cautionary word, and the next month he passed through Hong Kong, and the result was that he was happy again, so he gave himself another big note. On the second day, he relapsed in the hotel, and wrote in his diary: Seeing lust, lust, madness, and relapse, he can't suppress it.
After a while, like a schizophrenia, I reviewed myself in my diary: I read Zeng Wen's book every day, and I can't suffocate my desires, and I will never be able to improve in my life.
Obviously, in Chiang Kai-shek's diary, lust and abstinence have become his daily life, compared with Chairman Mao's study of political and economic philosophy, Chiang Kai-shek's performance is really a little emotional.
However, compared with Chiang Kai-shek's diary's reflection and vigilance on his own lust, in the records, Chiang Kai-shek's actions in lust are even more unsightly.
As mentioned above, Chiang Kai-shek followed his eldest brother Chen Qimei to linger in the Qinglou all the year round, not only was he a frequent visitor to the Qinglou, but also had some love, so that Chiang Kai-shek lingered in the Qinglou and even regretted it deeply.
For example, Chiang Kai-shek's concubine Yao Yecheng, who was born in Qinglou.
At that time, it was recorded that Chiang Kai-shek followed his eldest brother Chen Qimei to the Qinglou to have fun, but he took a fancy to Yao Yecheng at a glance, and finally Chiang Kai-shek indulged in it, and finally promised to take him as a concubine.
Chiang Kai-shek was very fond of this person, and it is rumored that Yao Yecheng had taught him in times of crisis, so Chiang Kai-shek was always grateful to him, loving and respecting him.
Another example is Chiang Kai-shek's other lover, Jiemei, who was also born in Qinglou.
When Chiang Kai-shek was on a heavy duty, he secretly met with him on the ship, and delayed the important event for a whole week for the sake of the woman, so that Chiang Kai-shek was very painful afterwards.
He recorded in his diary: The mother and sick child cry, as if they lived on the sea without looking at it, but their conscience was clear! Because this matter was out of line, Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly scolded himself in his diary, and then decided to sever relations with the other party.
Unexpectedly, Chiang Kai-shek's front foot recorded: Don't forget to mind your eyebrows, why do you want to start a business? In the next year, Chiang Kai-shek thought of the other party again, and for a while, he had a lot of thoughts and was ready to move.
So he recorded again in his diary: color is emptiness, and emptiness is color. The world can wake up. In this regard, even Mr. Yang sighed that Chiang Kai-shek even used the Buddhist concept of color emptiness in order to quit sex, which shows his inner mania.
It is precisely because Chiang Kai-shek lingered in the Qinglou that in Chen Jieru's recollections: The reason why Chiang Kai-shek did not have children later was because he lost his fertility due to gonorrhea, which shows the influence of the Qinglou on Chiang Kai-shek.
Then Chiang Kai-shek started a family and started a business, and then gradually matured, will it still be like this?
As we all know, Chiang Kai-shek had two favorite women in his life, one was naturally his later first lady Song Meiling, and the other was his white moonlight Chen Jieru. So in front of these two women, did Chiang Kai-shek restrain his lustful impulses?
First of all, let's look at Song Meiling, Chiang Kai-shek really loves Song Meiling very much.
In December 1927, the 40-year-old Chiang Kai-shek and the then 30-year-old Miss Song Meiling held a grand wedding at the Shanghai Majestic Hotel.
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek sighed in his diary: This is the most glorious and happy day of his life.
In the years that followed, Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling had always maintained a honeymoon state, even though Chiang Kai-shek had been running around and working outside, he often blushed and heartbeat because of receiving Soong Meiling's letter.
Later, Chiang Kai-shek reached the peak of politics, and he ceremoniously introduced Soong Meiling and made her the first lady. Even at the most glorious moment of Chiang Kai-shek's victory in the Anti-Japanese War, he did not forget to build a beautiful house for Song Meiling to express his love for Song Meiling.
It stands to reason that Chiang Kai-shek has poured his lifelong love into Soong Meiling, and he should not make the mistakes of the year again, but in fact, Chiang Kai-shek was also the most hurt to the person he loved the most, so much so that he engaged in a farce of "catching rape in bed".
At that time, according to the report of "Guangming Books", Song Meiling lived in her eldest sister's house when she reached menopause, and Chiang Kai-shek was inevitably lonely, so she went out.
During this period, he and Dai Li came to Chen Lifu's house, and before they could talk, they met a girl in her 20s who came to make tea, and Chiang Kai-shek couldn't sit still when he saw the other party wearing a cheongsam and a sexy and slender body.
Chen Lifu thought that Chiang Kai-shek was very unfamiliar with this girl, so he introduced this as his niece Chen Ying. Chiang Kai-shek was very happy after hearing this, and he actually dipped his finger in the tea and wrote several words on the table.
Seeing Chiang Kai-shek's outrageous behavior, Chen Lifu was still full of question marks, and Dai Li, who was on the side, observed his words and looks, and hurriedly strongly recommended Chen Ying to serve as Chiang Kai-shek's secretary. Chen Lifu reacted at this time, but he did not refuse this, so Chiang Kai-shek accepted the new secretary with a smile.
So when Soong Meiling was busy with the air force and comforting the wounded everywhere, Chiang Kai-shek and his female secretary fooled around every day. However, Chiang Kai-shek also knew that this move was unfair to Song Meiling, so he kept hiding it, for fear that the East Window incident would happen.
But the matter still couldn't be hidden, and Song Meiling quickly found out about it.
According to many sources, Song Meiling was so angry that she jumped like thunder, and then ran to her sister's house and cried, saying that she wanted to catch the rape in bed for a while, saying that she wanted to expose the couple for a while, and saying that she wanted to divorce for a while, which shows Song Meiling's resentment at that time......
However, Song Meiling still calmed down, their marriage was not simple, so she decided to take a way to warn Chiang Kai-shek.
Soon she seized the opportunity, after a time Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Ying made love, Chiang Kai-shek left in a hurry, Chen Ying had not cleaned up the messy bedroom, Song Meiling suddenly broke in, and then in the fear of the other party, he sent the other party to the other side of the ocean with 500,000 US dollars and a ticket and an American passport.
The next day, Chiang Kai-shek came to find his female secretary again, but he didn't find anything, and he found out that his wife did it, and Chiang Kai-shek lost his temper angrily for several days, and things fell to the ground, but he was helpless.
I have to say that Song Meiling's practice is absolutely amazing! Moreover, with such a "traitor catch," Song Meiling stabilized her marriage and beat Chiang Kai-shek hard.
However, this incident was later shaken out by Chiang Kai-shek's female secretary Chen Ying, and at this time we learned that Chiang Kai-shek had also not been able to get rid of his bad habits after becoming famous.
In addition to Song Meiling, Chiang Kai-shek was also unbearable to Chen Jieru, whom he called "White Moonlight".
In many records, Chiang Kai-shek's love for Chen Jieru is innocent and can forget everything. For Chen Jieru, Chiang Kai-shek gave up a lot of things, and even took an oath. But what is the truth?
According to Chen Jieru, Chiang Kai-shek's unbearable situation was simply outrageous.
When Chiang Kai-shek saw Chen Jieru for the first time, Chiang Kai-shek became interested in it, and then launched a crazy pursuit. At that time, Chen Jieru was embarrassed to refuse, and accepted the other party's date at the suggestion of a good friend.
According to Chen Jieru's records, it happened on their first date. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek refused to let the other party go after completing the date, and threatened to take him to see his sister.
Chen Jieru did not refuse out of politeness, and as a result, Chiang Kai-shek took her to the hotel, and later closed the door.
Chen Jie, like a girl who didn't understand anything about men and women, was so frightened that she cried and made a fuss, and then the movement became so loud that Chiang Kai-shek let it go. Chen Jieru herself recorded: Fortunately, I thwarted his evil attempts, and I have escaped the catastrophe of rape... Therefore, I hate him.
But after that, Chiang Kai-shek was like psoriasis, and he couldn't get rid of it, and then he called and harassed Chen Jieru every day, which made Chen Jieru very painful. Later, he took advantage of Chen Jieru's father to pass away, and he took advantage of the weakness to enter, so he barely succeeded in this matter.
It is worth mentioning that in order to force the other party to agree, Chiang Kai-shek was even ready to cut off his own fingers, which can be described as a matter of moral kidnapping.
Everyone knows the later history, Chiang Kai-shek ruthlessly kicked Chen Jieru away in order to marry Song Meiling.
This is Chiang Kai-shek, who did not start a family in his early years, and often delayed major events for the sake of good things. Later, when I got married and started a business, I still looked evil, and I was still the same when I was old.
It is said that the details of character determine success or failure, with such a character as Chiang Kai-shek, how could he not be defeated back then?
References: "Chiang Kai-shek's Difficult Journey to Quit Sex", "Chiang Kai-shek's Four Women and Two Loves", "The Marriage Story of Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Jieru"