From left to right, Kong Lingkan, Song Meiling, Kong Lingwei
In the biography of Chiang Kai-shek, there is a sentence like this: "Chiang Kai-shek's tragedy was caused by himself." ”
Later generations of research on it have many contradictions depending on the genre, but this sentence has made everyone deeply believe.
In this life, there have been big ups and downs, there are flowers when he is soaring, and there are sharp setbacks when he falls into the dust, but in general, he has never really ended up with an embarrassing end.
Even if the four major families of the monstrous "Jiang Song Kong Chen" were juxtaposed, Jiang Zi was always the one at the top.
In addition to the supreme status laid by Lao Jiang himself for the family, it is naturally inseparable from the unity of the Kong Song family.
However, the two major families helped him a lot in the early years, but in his later years, they frequently became the real life-urging little ghosts.
From right to left, Kong Lingkan, Song Meiling, Kong Lingwei
Among them, Kong Ling kan Kong Lingwei brothers and sisters first.
The two brothers and sisters are subordinates to Chiang Kai-shek, and they are not supposed to pose such a big threat to them, but they are fortunate to have a father surnamed Kong and a mother surnamed Song.
They are born well, with a good time, a good family background, and a good background.
Kong Lingkan was born in 1916, Kong Lingwei was 3 years later than him, and was born at the beginning of the revolution.
The chaotic world produces heroes, and even more heroes.
His father, Kong Xiangxi, can be called a generation of tyrants.
Kong Xiangxi
At that time, the Qing Dynasty had been overthrown for a long time, and the pseudo-Manchu wind did not become a climate, but the feudal classes such as "scholars, peasants, industrialists, and merchants" still remained like gangrene attached to the bones.
Kong Xiangxi was born in Taigu, Shanxi, the capital of Jin and Shang, and was rich enough to rival the country.
In order to find a way out in the chaotic world, Kong Xiangxi studied abroad in his early years, and after accepting new ideas, he actively carried out revolution.
He had far-sighted vision and was knowledgeable, and married song Ailing, the eldest sister of the three sisters of the Song family, and backed by two huge families, and soon had his own place in the chaotic world.
Because he was good at amassing wealth and joined chiang kai-shek group as finance minister early, Kong Xiangxi's family once soared, and the status of the two circles of commerce and government was almost like a bull's ear.
From left to right, Song Meiling, Song Qingling, Song Qingling
The children of kong born under such conditions are naturally the existence of the proud sons of heaven.
At that time, when the Kong family's reputation was at its peak, even Chiang Kai-shek had to temporarily avoid its sharp edge, because he was also an elder, and his compliments were also said a lot.
After Kong Xiangxi and Song Qiling got married, they ran around the battlefield of the mall for many years, and they inevitably raised very little of their children.
Although the husband and wife advocate enlightened education, they are indeed too enlightened for their children.
Prominent family lineages and the slackness of their parents have mostly led these children to develop an arrogant style of behavior.
Because of the face of his parents and uncle, everyone naturally did not want to offend these young masters
This has led to their "glorious deeds" from childhood to adulthood becoming more and more vigorous.
Kong Xiangxi and Song Qiling and his wife
Kong Lingkan did not like to learn since he was a child.
It is rumored that no matter where Kong Lingkan went to school, he was quite large, with a separate luxurious dormitory, a special person responsible for eating and drinking, and bodyguards around him at any time.
Seeing this situation, the students in the school naturally have a lot of criticism.
But after several reports, not only was no one in charge, but it brought trouble to themselves.
After that, everyone heard that it was the great young master of the Kong family who went out on the street, and they were able to avoid it.
Kong Lingkan also liked a woman with a husband, and once liked the sister of Song Ziwen's wife, he thought that the wife with a husband was more charming and loved her to the extreme, so he proposed to marry her several times later.
The Kong family's parents were naturally extremely opposed to this matter, and at that time, Kong Lingkan was still young, and he could not gain a foothold without the power in the family, so he could only let go.
Naturally, there was also the lady who reluctantly refused to be in it.
Kong Lingkan
But this lady refused, and naturally more women wanted to take on the body of this young master of the Kong family.
There are many Friends of the Kong Family, among which there is a person named Sheng Shengyi.
Sheng Shengyi's wife was beautiful as a flower, with a remarkable posture, and was good at maintenance and loved to communicate, so she was known as "white orchid" in the high society at that time.
Sheng Shengyi's family was well-off, and his father was also a high-ranking official and industrialist in the late Qing Dynasty, so he was able to catch the big ship of the Kong family and often brought his wife to visit.
One after another, The White Orchid hooked up with Kong Lingkan.
Compared with the reluctance of the previous girl, the white orchid is quite eager to climb Kong Lingkan, although she is half old, but she has a lot of charm, which is exactly the type that Kong Lingkan liked at that time.
Left hole Ling kan
Everyone had a bottom for this matter, and tacitly agreed, as long as this young master did not make any big news on a whim, thank God.
But kong Lingkan didn't do something earth-shattering, it wasn't Kong Grand Young Master.
In 1939, Radio Television Hong Kong, which Kong was in charge of, was shut down, and the reason given by the British government of Hong Kong was that it was a private radio station.
This is not a small crime, even if the powerful parents and aunt are at the bottom, Kong Lingkan was still driven out of Hong Kong, and Song Weiling had to find a boat to temporarily send him to the United States to study.
Just when everyone was in chaos, Kong Lingkan contacted the white orchid,
After asking her to leave with him, the two finally met on a ship bound for the United States.
Even more surprising happened later, when the ship was traveling to the small country of Manila, Kong Lingkan suddenly instructed everyone to buy wedding utensils and called Song Qiling to inform him of the news.
As a result, it can be imagined that Kong Song's popularity was in a state of turmoil, and Kong Lingkan finally got what he wanted.
A little can be seen comprehensively, and the wayward nature of Young Master Kong is more or less able to find one or two in the children of the Kong family.
Kong Lingwei at Chiang Kai-shek's Song Meiling wedding
Kong Lingwei, compared with his brother Kong Lingkan, can be said to be more than enough.
The study of Kong Lingwei in later generations revolves around one word- strange.
Strange appearance, strange dressing, strange personality, strange work.
Kong Lingwei is a down-to-earth girl, but she has dressed herself up as a man all her life.
With short hair and a big back, wearing a robe and a horse coat, or a suit and leather shoes, it is also a completely man's style.
Riding horses, shooting, and doing business, there is nothing she can't do, compared with the traditional women who also got married and had children and taught their husbands and children first, in some ways, she had some modern feminine flavor.
However, more people think that her man's personality tends to be a deformed cognition.
When he was a child, Kong Lingwei was still a cute little girl with Yuxue, and the reason why he became what he later became,
Perhaps it is inseparable from her aunt Song Meiling.
From left, Song Qingling, Song Qiling, and Song Meiling
It is said that when Kong Lingwei was still young, one hot summer, Kong Lingwei, who had long hair and a long skirt, was covered with hot prickly heat on his head.
At that time, Song Meiling came to visit, and she was distressed to see the situation, and complained to her sister:
"You covered him so much, it was very hot, and he still had long hair, wasn't he guilty?"
Then he instructed the servants to cut off Kong Lingwei's long hair, leaving only a hairy tip, put on shorts, and really looked like a boy.
When she was a child, Kong Lingwei didn't understand anything, but she looked a little funny when she cut her hair, and the servants of the family often laughed at her "like a man." ”
Kong Lingwei
Kong Lingwei had a strange personality, and he was even more angry and irritable in the face of ridicule, so in a fit of anger, he did not have long hair and showed people with short hair and men's clothes all his life.
But this is, after all, idle anecdote, in addition,
There are also many theories that she was deeply influenced by the social and family background at that time.
However, although the news that "Song Meiling caused Kong Lingwei to have gender cognitive disorder" is half-true and half-false, it is also true that Song loves this little niece to the extreme.
Not only Kong Lingwei, but also the second brother and sister of the Kong family were born, which was the time when the two families of Jiang and Song were proud of the spring breeze.
Therefore, Song Meiling, who has nothing to do in her life, can be said to have doted on these two brothers and sisters as her own children.
In view of Song Meiling's special political status, Kong Lingkan and Kong Lingwei had long held important positions in the Chiang Kai-shek clique.
Song Meiling and Kong Lingwei
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo, the grand duke born to the original match, were already in a high position and had accumulated great power.
Song Meiling was afraid that his position would be affected, so he often intervened in some Chiang affairs to facilitate Kong Ling's kanshitu prosperity.
Perhaps the most famous is the duel between Chiang Ching-kuo and Kong Lingkan in the business arena in 1948.
At that time, the Chiang Dynasty was on the verge of collapse, the four major families also walked, scattered, chicken feathers on the battlefield, and the shopping mall was not peaceful, making Chiang Kai-shek angry every day, and it was difficult to show a smile.
In August 1948, in order to save the decline, Chiang Kai-shek personally went to the battlefield to supervise the battle, but the rear gate was on fire.
There are merchants who hoard and make a fortune in the country.
Chiang Ching-kuo
The collapse of the economic market is related to the people's livelihood plan, and Chiang Kai-shek waved his hand and handed over the matter to Chiang Ching-kuo.
Although he has been in an important position for many years, Chiang Ching-kuo really does not have many opportunities to make meritorious achievements, so he is full of confidence and thinks that he is bound to make a name for himself.
He was stationed at the central bank in Shanghai and said, "Don't fight flies, only tigers."
This investigation did not matter, he really found out two big tigers - Du Weiping and Kong Lingkan.
One is the son of du Yuesheng, a gangster, and the other is the nephew of his stepmother Song Meiling, who is regarded as a treasure, and Chiang Ching-kuo has made trouble.
Young Chiang Ching-kuo
But the words were all released, and it was impossible to say that it was impossible to take a big tiger, and Jiang Jingguo gritted his teeth, sealed Du Weiping's warehouse, and sent people to prison.
These Du Weiping's fathers were unwilling, and Du Yuesheng gave him face at the rally organized by Chiang Ching-kuo:
"My son broke the law, and it should be punished, but as far as Du knows, the person who hoarded a large amount of goods this time is also the grand duke of the Kong family, and I don't know how Jiang Dashao plans to deal with it?"
After all, Chiang Ching-kuo is still young, and it is very difficult to ride a tiger when he sees this situation, and in the end, he has not been subjected to the attention of everyone or ridicule or secret:
"Whoever violates the laws of the country this time will not let me go!"
Du Yuesheng, a big gangster in the Green Gang
Jiang Dashao spit three nails in one mouth, and soon sealed the warehouse under Kong Lingkan's name and thousand tons of goods.
This kong made Kan zhen panicked, and hurriedly looked for the fastest plane to find Song Meiling and ask for help.
Song Meiling naturally turned to her nephew.
She quickly dialed an urgent telegram to Chiang Kai-shek:
"Jiang Chingguo grabbed and killed indiscriminately in Shanghai and disposed of his own family!"
Jiang Zhongzheng could not wait until he heard this, and the overseers in front of him did not sit still, and rushed back to Nanjing.
Shortly after recalling Chiang Ching-kuo to Nanjing, the Nationalist government in Nanjing issued a statement:
"The Yang subsidiary case was revoked, and Shanghai's economic control ended."
This matter ended with Kong Lingkan's great victory.
After Chiang Ching-kuo experienced this incident, he said only one sentence:
"I can only do filial piety at home first, and then I will be loyal to the country."
Chiang Kai-shek, Song Meiling, Chiang Ching-kuo's family
In the face of the home country, some people choose home, some people choose the country, and perhaps the end is already doomed.
The troubles caused by the Kong Song family to the Chiang dynasty followed until Chiang's death.
Chiang Kai-shek is defeating and retiring to Taiwan, especially after Chiang Ching-kuo, Kong Lingkan, and other children came to power, the hidden dangers were slowly revealed.
And this revelation directly took Old Jiang's life.
In November 1974, less than a year before the death of a tyrant who had been a horseman for the rest of his life.
In his later years, Chiang Kai-shek suffered a lot from hydropulmonary fluid, but according to the professional medical team, there was no better treatment.
At this time, Miss Kong Er, who was then the "General Medical Consultant of the Shilin Official Residence", claimed that she had a way to eradicate her uncle's spirophyle.
At that time, Kong Lingwei often accompanied Song Meiling and had become her most trusted person, and what she said, Song Meiling naturally believed in it.
Song Meiling
Even if the "general medical consultant" only has a hospital under his name, he is completely an outsider.
Kong Lingwei touted a "Ha doctor" to Song Meiling, claiming that this was a divine doctor he and his brother met abroad, and he would be able to cure his uncle's swollen lung.
As for the treatment method, she believes that "lung puncture surgery" is the best way at the moment.
The so-called lung puncture surgery is to use a syringe to pump out the pus and blood in Chiang Kai-shek's lungs, and this operation must be done by the famous Doctor Ha.
The doctor is said to be famous, and countless people wanted him to operate on.
However, when the doctor informed everyone of the treatment plan, he was unanimously opposed by the medical team.
Jiang Zhongzheng Song Meiling group photo
Members of the medical team advised Song Meiling several times:
"The risk of surgery is too great, and if you are not careful, you may cause greater damage, and may cause irreversible damage to the body of the president (Jiang)!"
But at this time, how can Song Meiling listen to these words, seeing that her husband's physical recovery is in front of her, even if there is a risk, what can it be, surgery is always risky.
This lady was very strong in this matter, and even if her son Chiang Ching-kuo came to persuade her, she could not listen to it at all, and complained to him:
"Your father's health is getting better every day, and I hope he will get better as soon as possible."
"This doctor is very difficult to ask for, it was the Kong family who spent a lot of money to invite him over."
"You have to believe in the professionalism of this family, don't be as conservative as the medical team, and question people at every turn."
Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling are painting
In the face of the endless words of the old lady, Chiang Ching-kuo dared to express his opinion, and could only say "with his mother's decision" to this dialogue.
On the day of the operation, Jiang's family members were busy with official duties, and one did not participate in the operation on the grounds of fear of blood.
In the operating room, there was only the doctor Ha and a group of cold-eyed medical team members.
It wasn't a major surgery, not even anesthesia, and it was over quickly.
Chiang Kai-shek is elderly
It is worth saying that after the operation, the doctor quickly packed his bags and flew back to China by plane that night.
At night, Chiang Kai-shek's body temperature soared, reaching 41 degrees at one point.
Apparently, the procedure was indeed, as the medical team put it, "extremely risky and caused irreversible damage to the body." ”
After that, Jiang's body was indeed worse than a day, critically ill several times, rescued several times, and finally returned to heaven and died of illness at the Shilin Official Residence in Taipei.
For Jiang's death, the medical team that has been accompanying him to the end is undoubtedly the one with the most say.
"Although the wife and the general manager are well-intentioned, they are the main reason for the deterioration of Jiang's condition."
All walks of life paid tribute to Chiang Kai-shek on the day of the funeral
The decision was made by Song Meiling, and things deteriorated into the way they were later, and she was naturally ashamed in her heart.
The Kong brothers and sisters who just came up with this idea have really become the people who urge their lives.
It's just that in the face of Kong's brothers and sisters like their own children, and the surgery that they tried their best to promote, Song Meiling didn't know who to blame from beginning to end.
Because no one can blame, no one can blame, the "death of Chiang Kai-shek" that is full of confusion will eventually be submerged in the torrent of history.
It can be called "no longer".
The Kong siblings eventually died in Taipei and the other in New York, and they were extremely wealthy and wealthy, and they hardly suffered a bit of worldly suffering.
From left to right, Kong Lingyi, Kong Lingwei, Song Meiling, Kong Lingkan
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the people, while the people's livelihood was difficult, the new wind and new atmosphere also followed, and the countless love-hate and talented people who were derived from it are still enjoyable today.
There are a group of people who enjoy the resources at the top, and some dedicate themselves to the revolution, leaving behind the tragic and magnificent words of "Xu Guo is difficult and Xu Qing".
Some are content with the status quo and glimpse their figures in times of peace.
Some people are addicted to the world, doing the work of oppression, power struggle, and wealth, which cannot help but make people a little sad.
As the old saying goes, people do not perish for their own sake, but the reputation that can be left to future generations can be erased by a simple single sentence, then the final outcome is only to leave the four words of "harming others and harming themselves".