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The Song family occupies an important position in modern Chinese history and is one of the wealthy families at that time, but the Song family seems to be
A close-knit family actually has complex internal contradictions.
As one of the representatives of the Song family, Song Ziwen has a pivotal position in the political and economic fields. However, after Chiang Kai-shek came to power, Song Ziwen, who should have been taken seriously, was gradually snubbed.
Faced with this situation, someone suggested that Song Ziwen ask his sister Song Meiling for help. However, Song Ziwen did not hesitate to reject this suggestion.
Song Ziwen and Song Meiling are brother and sister, and they are affectionate, why don't they choose to ask their sister for help?
Click to pay attention and walk into the story of Song Ziwen being snubbed by Chiang Kai-shek.
Brother and sister of the Song family
Speaking of the brothers and sisters of the Song family, whether it is Song Qingling or Song Meiling, they are both well-known figures in modern China, and Song Ziwen used to be in a high position in the Kuomintang, but he was snubbed in the later period.
In fact, among these brothers and sisters, Song Meiling and Song Ziwen had a good relationship in the early days, Song Ziwen was born in 1894, and Song Meiling was born in 1897, the two are only 3 years apart, they had a lot of common topics when they were young, and the two often played together.
The sisters of the Song family are all trained according to the Western elite, so Song Meiling was sent to the United States to study in her teens, and she naturally felt lonely in a foreign country, but fortunately, Song Ziwen was also sent to the United States to study at that time.
During her stay in the United States, Song Meiling relied on Song Ziwen very much, and Song Ziwen also loved this sister very much, and the relationship between the brother and sister was the most harmonious during her stay in the United States.
In 1913, Soong was studying at Harvard University, while Soong Meiling was studying at Wesleyan Women's College in Georgia. Although both are in the United States, the two regions are separated by more than 200 kilometers, and because they are both busy with their studies, they have not been able to see each other for a long time.
In order to get closer to her brother, she decided to transfer to Wesleyan College in Massachusetts, which is only 20 kilometers apart, and Song Meiling only needs to take half an hour by car to meet Song Ziwen.
At that time, Song Ziwen was 19 years old, and Song Meiling was only 16 years old, but he still did his duty as a brother and took care of his sister with all his heart.
Because Song Meiling is too young, when she was studying at Wesleyan College, she needed to register as a guardian, and her "guardian" column happened to be filled in with Song Ziwen's name.
During their study abroad, the brother and sister relied on each other, and when their father wrote to them from China, he simply wrote them directly on a letter, and the instructions to the two were always written together and sent to Song Ziwen. Song Ziwen will give it to Song Meiling after reading the letter.
Even in the 40s, there was a rift between the brother and sister, Song Meiling would often recall the life of him and his brother when they were studying in the United States, and once she rose, she wrote a letter to Song Ziwen, and there was a sentence in the letter that evoked the memories of the two, Song Meiling asked: "Do you remember that I always cook hot cocoa for you every morning before you go to school?"
There won't be too many scruples when talking between brothers and sisters, but this is also a reflection of the family affection between the two.
During Song Meiling's study, Wesleyan College occasionally held activities, and once Song Meiling was fortunate enough to be selected as a performer, she happily shared this joy with her brother, but Song Ziwen was a little worried about this matter.
On the day of the performance, Song Ziwen specially rushed over from Harvard to cheer his sister, and before performing on stage, Song Ziwen asked all the details to ensure that his sister would not be in danger, and then agreed to Song Meiling on stage.
For Song Meiling, the only thing she could rely on during those years in the United States was her brother, so before she made a major decision, she would ask Song Ziwen's opinion first, and her classmates talked about Song Meiling and agreed that she cared about her family very much, she often talked about her family with friends and classmates, and was willing to listen to her brother's opinion.
In the eyes of Song Ziwen and his friends, Song Meiling is a well-behaved and sensible child.
In 1917, Song Ziwen waited until Song Meiling finished her studies in the United States, and then took her back to China and went home to live with her mother.
After returning to China, Song Meiling is different from before going abroad, she has received Western cultural education and has become enthusiastic and cheerful, flamboyant and likes to perform, her mother is a traditional woman, and she is also a typical lady, in the eyes of her mother, Song Meiling's behavior is a little "unruly".
After returning to China, Song Meiling quickly became famous in the Shanghai celebrity circle because of her maverick, and in her mother's social circle, the ladies she saw in Shanghai were basically dignified and elegant, and her personality was more restrained, even her speech was soft-spoken, and her every move was orderly.
Brother-sister emotions
Song Meiling's style of being incompatible with everyone's girlfriends once gave Song's mother a headache, and she often criticized Song Meiling for these things.
Song Meiling disagreed with her mother's point of view in her heart, but she didn't want to see her mother's disappointment in herself, and she was very entangled in her heart.
After this incident, Song Ziwen stood up, of course, he also had a background in studying abroad, and he had also been in contact with Western women, thinking that his sister's behavior was just a performance of "true temperament", her personality was no problem, and she didn't need to listen to her mother's advice to correct it, he was very supportive of his sister being himself.
This incident was also mentioned by Song Meiling in a letter to her friend Emma, in which Song Meiling wrote: "Because I am too active, unlike traditional Chinese girls, my family thinks I am not good-looking, only Ziwen thinks so." ”
Of course, Song Ziwen's maintenance of Song Meiling is more than this, whether it is at home or outside, as long as Song Meiling has something to ask him for, Song Ziwen will come forward to help her solve it.
This also led to the young Song Meiling's lack of experience in dealing with some things, once Song Meiling went out in the car, the driver accidentally hit the child next to her, the child's family did not forgive, Song Meiling was anxious.
If Song Ziwen was present, he would naturally find a way to deal with it and not let Song Meiling worry about it, but unfortunately Song Ziwen went to the field to do business that day, and Song Meiling could handle it personally.
However, the degree of trouble in the matter was far beyond Song Meiling's expectations, and she was so busy all day long that she even had an illness because of this.
The relationship between the two has always been very good before Song Meiling married Chiang Kai-shek, to be precise, before she stepped into the political arena, but after Song Meiling married Chiang Kai-shek, the two stood on different positions, don't look at the Song family seems to be in the same group as Chiang Kai-shek, but Song Ziwen does not agree with many of Chiang Kai-shek's ideas and views.
We all know that Chiang Kai-shek's power back then was not as powerful as the Song family, and Song Meiling was one of the best figures in the Shanghai celebrity circle, how did she fall in love with Chiang Kai-shek?
That was the result of Chiang Kai-shek's pursuit of Soong Meiling for many years, in fact, when Chiang Kai-shek was pursuing Soong Meiling, her sister Soong Ching-ling had already jumped out against it, she thought that Chiang Kai-shek was not a good match.
Don't look at Chiang Kai-shek always coaxing Song Meiling, he can still deal with the Song family, but he has a wife and son in his hometown, and he has a family and comes out to contact other women, so Song Qingling is not optimistic about him.
It's a pity that Song Meiling was immersed in the beautiful world outlined for her by Chiang Kai-shek at that time, and she couldn't see it clearly in time.
At that time, the mainstream of society, especially among some young people with foreign education, opposed arranged marriages and advocated free love was the mainstream, and the wives of arranged marriages in their hometowns were just forced to marry, and they didn't seem to care so much.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek pursued Song Meiling for many years, and finally got the beauty back, and he also relied on the power of the Song family, a big family in the Republic of China.
You must know that the Song family had an important position within the Kuomintang regime at that time, and Song Meiling's father was once a good friend of Sun Yat-sen, and later the second lady of the Song family married Sun Yat-sen as his wife, and was respectfully called the "mother of the country".
The husband of Song Ailing, the eldest lady of the Song family, is not simple, Kong Xiangxi is the richest man in Shanxi, and his property is as rich as the country.
For Chiang Kai-shek, his marriage to Soong Meiling was related to Sun Yat-sen's power and Kong Xiangxi's financial resources, which was a huge boost to his career.
Chiang Kai-shek had a "habit", that is, cronyism, he liked to use people around him, or people related to his own family or him, such as the talents of the Song family or the talents of the Chiang family in Zhejiang.
Take Chiang Kai-shek's trusted subordinates as an example, they often have several characteristics, such as being a fellow villager in Zhejiang, Chiang Kai-shek is a native of Zhejiang, so he has more trust in his fellow countrymen.
Either he graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, Chiang Kai-shek served as the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy, and for him, the graduation and promotion of the Whampoa Military Academy was his students, and the teacher-student relationship must be closer than the ordinary relationship between superiors and subordinates.
or someone who is related to him by blood, such as the Jiang family, or the wife family.
Chiang Kai-shek married Soong Meiling in December 1927, and in early 1928, he and Soong Ziwen reached a cooperative relationship, with Soong Ziwen serving as Minister of Finance of the Nationalist Government in Nanjing.
Received a snub
Soon after Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling got married, his "brother-in-law" Song Ziwen was arranged by him to the position of Minister of Finance of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, what does this mean?
This position was very important to Chiang Kai-shek and the entire Kuomintang, and he was in charge of all the assets that the Kuomintang was fighting for, and even the military expenses were allocated from here. If there is chaos in this position, the whole national experience will be devastated.
With such an important position, with Lao Jiang's suspicious character, he would definitely not arrange a person who had nothing to do with him to go up, he had to arrange "his own family" in order to reassure him
The initial cooperation between the two was very pleasant, but with the changes in the domestic situation and Lao Jiang's request, the atmosphere between the two sides became more and more.
First of all, Lao Chiang was eager to get rid of the Communist Party, and he often sent a large number of troops to encircle and suppress the Communist Party, but failed to achieve the expected results, but instead of reflecting, he also wanted to continue to send more troops to fight the Communist Party, which led to the annual military expenditure of the national army was a large amount of money.
After Song Ziwen became Chiang Kai-shek's "money bag", it looked like a beautiful scenery on the outside, but Chiang Kai-shek demanded too much for military spending, and he had to allocate a large number of troops in the New Year, and corruption was rampant inside the pot, and half of the military spending taken out could really be used to fight the war and improve the treatment of the soldiers.
In the face of this situation, Song Ziwen was unwilling to allocate funds again and again, hoping to change the internal shortcomings of the national army, but Lao Chiang believed that it was more important to fight a war to eliminate the Communist Party, so Song Ziwen and Lao Chiang had a lot of disputes.
Secondly, Soong Ziwen and Chiang Kai-shek often disagreed politically, but the contradictions between the two became bigger and bigger.
Song Meiling could still act as a "peacemaker" between the two at the beginning, and Chiang Kai-shek and Song Ziwen would sell her face, but there was no big problem.
However, the contradiction between Soong Ziwen and Chiang Kai-shek involved political issues and involved many forces, and Soong Meiling's "peace" could only temporarily alleviate the anger of both sides, but could not solve the root cause of the problem.
Although Song Meiling has always persuaded Chiang Kai-shek not to be rash, but the two husband and wife, honor and disgrace are one, and from her point of view, they still have to consider Chiang Kai-shek's interests, so she had to use the identity of "Song Ziwen's sister" to force Song Ziwen to constantly compromise.
In 1930, Song Ziwen withheld the military expenses and did not pay them, Song Meiling personally found Song Ziwen, strictly understood the danger of the defeat of the war, and used his identity as his own sister to ask him to quickly issue military expenses, Song Ziwen had no choice but to relax. However, the occurrence of these things caused the relationship between Song Ziwen and Song Meiling to become more and more strained.
As the contradictions between Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Ziwen deepened, the relationship between the two gradually became strained. The domestic situation is complicated, and the struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party is becoming increasingly fierce. In order to raise military spending, Chiang Kai-shek constantly put pressure on Soong Ziwen in the hope that he could provide more financial support. However, Soong was not willing to meet Chiang Kai-shek's demands without limits, and the controversy between the two sides grew.
In 1933, Song Ziwen resigned from the post of Minister of Finance and was taken over by Kong Xiangxi, and the team between Song Ziwen and Kong Xiangxi and Chiang Kai-shek became deeper and deeper, and Song Meiling also chose her sister Song Ailing's side in the internal struggle.
Around the 40s of the last century, Song Ziwen's career was not smooth, not only Chiang Kai-shek, but also between him and Kong Xiangxi and Song Ailing, but Song Meiling still had a trace of family affection for him in her heart.
Song Ziwen, who is in the United States, received news from a friend, and Song Meiling has been thinking about the brother-sister relationship with him, and hopes to repair the relationship.
In the late 40s, Song Ziwen had been snubbed by Chiang Kai-shek, and his only breakthrough was on Song Meiling, so someone persuaded him to ask Song Meiling for help, and Song Meiling would definitely not turn a blind eye.
But Song Ziwen refused without thinking about it, and threatened that he would never do such a thing, and he was already disheartened with Chiang Kai-shek and his ilk at that time.
It was not until the Kuomintang was defeated and fled to Taiwan in 1949 that the intra-party struggle eased to a certain extent, and the relationship between Song Ziwen and Song Meiling eased, and the two exchanged letters until Song Ziwen's death in the 70s of the last century.
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