The real Song Meiling in history
The corruption of the government of the Republic of China has a lot to do with Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling.
The upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, corruption and corruption, and the looting of people's wealth Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling did not do less.
Song Meiling's personal life is extremely luxurious, and she spends money like running water. Lovers of sweets, sweets, chocolate, are imported from abroad at a high price. At that time, the common people did not have enough to eat, could not eat enough to wear warm clothing, and starved to death on the streets.
When I was a child, I heard adults say: "It's hard for us to drink water, Song Meiling bathes with milk!"
Life is extremely luxurious and corrupt, and the woman I have heard of in history, one Cixi, and the other may be Song Meiling.
Song Meiling likes to hold banquets, inviting the wives of rich families, young masters and daughters from various families in the military and political circles.
After the banquet, Song Meiling fell asleep, and when she woke up, it was already the afternoon of the next day, and the first thing she did when she woke up was to ask a special masseuse to massage the meridians for her and stretch her body.
Song Meiling loves cheongsam, and there is a full-time tailor named Zhang Ruixiang, who specializes in customizing each cheongsam for her.
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 Song Meiling moved to the United States, she had a total of 99 large suitcases, of which 55 boxes were cheongsams and other clothes. Most of them are admired and never worn.
Soong Meiling liked to be quiet, and in the autumn of 1930, Chiang ordered the construction of a holiday villa specifically for Darling, Meiling Palace. It is said that the villa cost 320,000 yuan. At that time, one yuan could buy 16 catties of rice. It is equivalent to the purchase of 5.12 million catties of rice. According to the current price of rice is 4 yuan a catty, which is equivalent to spending 20.48 million yuan.
In that era when the country was at peace, internal and external troubles, poor and weak, and the people were struggling to make a living, Jiang still had the heart to spend so much money for her Song Meiling and engage in these things that cost the people and money.
What is even more tragic is that this is not the end, the Kuomintang has followed suit, and those national officials who have worked with President Chiang have also followed suit. 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.
In 1942, with Soong Ailing and Kong Xiangxi in the Ming Dynasty and Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling in the dark, the four of them also jointly embezzled public bonds and transferred illegally obtained assets abroad. Invest in real estate, stocks and securities in Hong Kong, the United States, Brazil and other places. and focus on investing in economically critical sectors such as rail and air transport in South America.
As the matchmaker between Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling, Soong Ailing facilitated the marriage of Chiang and Soong Hao. Since then, she has a sister and colleague of the first lady of the Republic of China, and her husband Kong Xiangxi is also the Minister of Finance.
Soong Ailing began to arbitrage state economic secrets, use state treasury funds, engage in favoritism and irregularities, spare no effort to make a fortune in a big way, and squeeze out the hard-earned money of the broad masses of the people.
In this regard, Song Meiling not only turned a blind eye. And the two sisters formed an alliance and made a lot of money together.
Every time Song Ailing took state secrets and used Kong Xiangxi's power to hoard a large number of goods such as department stores and commodities in advance, and then sell them when the price skyrocketed, making dozens of times the profit, a considerable part of the money flowed into the pockets of Song Meiling and Chiang Kai-shek.
During the extraordinary period of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek fled from Nanjing to Chongqing, and then the city of Nanjing was massacrated by the Japanese. Soong Meiling's U.S.-supported plane. The plane was filled with Soong Meiling's personal belongings. It's all furniture, cosmetics and clothing that Song Meiling likes.
Because there were so many things that the plane couldn't fit, the American pilot was disgusted and threw her piano out of the plane on the grounds that the plane was malfunctioning.
During the Anti-Japanese War, the whole country donated more than 50 million taels of gold to let Song Meiling go to the United States to buy 1,300 planes, and more than 40 million taels were deposited into the Jiang family's account in the United States, but only 300 planes were bought back.
In 1937, Chiang Kai-shek convened a supreme military meeting in Lushan and learned that only about 300 aircraft could be used for combat. He sharply questioned Zhou Zhirou, director of the Aviation Committee: "Why are there only these planes? Where did you get the Air Force funds?"
Zhou Zhirou had no choice but to say that all the funds of the Air Force were deposited by Soong Meiling in a foreign bank in Hong Kong.
General Yang Jie, then chief of staff of the Military Commission of the Nanjing Nationalist Government and commander of Nanjing's urban defense, also angrily exposed the matter to Chiang Kai-shek (Shen Zui's memoirs also said that he was transferred to a private account by Soong Meiling to "increase his value").
Soong Meiling raised a total of about 400 million US dollars in the United States, and only about 100 million US dollars were used in the anti-Japanese war back home, and the rest are missing. The Americans were furious and gradually cut off money donations, and only sent them to China in the form of material aid.
Originally, Song Ziwen was in charge of obtaining American aid in the United States for a long time. But Song Meiling also wanted a piece of the pie, so she volunteered to go to the United States to take over Song Ziwen's work, which actually cut off Song Ziwen's wealth.
Song Ziwen was very resentful, and since then he has not been in contact with Song Meiling since his old age.
After Chiang Kai-shek's defeat and retreat to Taiwan, Soong Meiling pounced on the United States and gave a speech at the White House to seek asylum. (Like the little brothers of the allies of the United States now, they only go to the United States to complain if there is something wrong, hoping to get help from the United States.) Such as Zelensky in Ukraine, Japan Jr., South Korea).
After Soong Meiling's speech, a reporter asked her how the Chinese people would react if the United States dropped an atomic bomb on China.
Soong Meiling replied: "The United States welcomes the use of atomic bombs."
The President of the United States listened to Soong Meiling's words and felt that this woman was simply crazy.
Soong Meiling has lived in the United States since she was a child and fully accepts Western cultural ideas. Worship foreigners, worship Western ideas. Although as the first lady of the Republic of China, she once said to the American people: "The only thing about the East in me is my face."
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.
The land bandits and warlord Sun Hemp Sun Dianying illegally robbed the tomb and dug up the Qing Dynasty's royal mausoleum - Qing Dongling. The mausoleum of the Empress Dowager Cixi, the mausoleum of the Qianlong Emperor, was blown up with explosives and stolen for five days and five nights. It is said that more than 20 carts were used to pull away the stolen treasures.
Sun Dianying was not punished for robbing the tomb because he bribed officials at all levels of the Nationalist Government headed by Chiang Kai-shek and Dai Li.
Among them, the night pearl in the mouth of the Empress Dowager Cixi was given to Song Meiling, and Chiang Kai-shek got a Nine Dragons sword in the tomb of Qianlong.
It is said that Cixi, the pearl of the night, weighed 787 carats (4 taels), and was worth 10.8 million taels of silver at that time, which is more than 10 billion yuan now, of course, its actual value is far from being measured by money, and it can be called a priceless treasure.
After Soong Meiling arrived in the United States, she lived in a Long Island residence in Manhattan, New York, where Soong Meiling lived for 20 years.
It is said that this villa was bought for Song Ailing's eldest son and Song Meiling's eldest nephew in September 1975.
Later, the house was auctioned and it is said that it sold for more than 70 million yuan.
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.
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.
The three sisters of the Song family, Song Ailing loves money, Song Qingling loves the country, Song Meiling loves money and power, but she doesn't love the people.
Wang Zhongxin said that he was a thief of the country, and not only were her hands stained with the blood of the people, but she also embezzled the people's fat and ointment, and her whole body exuded the smell of copper.
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