Yuan Shikai, a controversial figure in modern Chinese history, was the originator of the Beiyang warlords. The traditional impression is to steal the fruits of the Xinhai Revolution. In the 80s movie "Zhiyin", Yuan Shikai is a negative image. At the same time, it should be admitted that Yuan Shikai has contributed to China's modernization to a certain extent.
Li Yuanhong, former president of the Republic of China. Yin and yang were wrong, and were forced by the soldiers of the Wuchang uprising to become the governor of the Hubei military government with guns. When the Provisional Government of the Republic of China was established in Nanjing, Li Yuanhong became the vice president of the Republic of China because of the Wuchang Uprising, only after Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Many of the major events in modern history are related to Li Yuanhong, such as the "dispute between the government and the courtyard".
But, you know what? Yuan Shikai and Li Yuanhong were actually the sons and daughters of the family, and Li Yuanhong also sacrificed his second daughter --- Li Shaofang.
Li Shaofang is the second daughter of Li Yuanhong and his wife Wu Jingjun. In 1911, when the Wuchang Uprising broke out, he was not yet six years old and did not know anything.
One day in 1914, Yuan Shikai invited Li Yuanhong to the Yuan mansion as a guest. Yuan Shikai called out all his sons and said to Li Yuanhong, "My son, you choose one to be your son-in-law, and I will marry a daughter to your son."
Yuan Shikai should be in order to consolidate his own power and engage in political marriage with Li Yuanhong. After all, Li Yuanhong is vice president, and Yuan Shikai is the president. Li Yuanhong felt that he could not afford to provoke, so he said to Yuan Shikai, "I will still climb a daughter high first."
Li Yuanhong went back to his wife Wu Jingjun and told his wife Wu Jingjun that Yuan Shikai wanted to marry the two families, and Wu Jingjun was afraid of Yuan Shikai's power, worried that the daughter of Yuan Shikai's family was powerful, temperamental, and grandiose, and that marrying into the Li family would make her mother-in-law bad. But it could not offend Yuan Shikai. Eventually, he discussed with Li Yuanhong to marry his daughter to the Yuan mansion.
Yuan Shikai happily agreed to Li Yuanhong and his wife, asking Li Yuanhong to choose one of his fifth and ninth sons as his son-in-law. Both sons were born to Yuan Shikai's fifth aunt, Tai Yang.
Although Wu Jingjun wanted his daughter to marry the son born to Yuan Shikai's wife, he did not want his daughter to marry the son born of the concubine. But Li Yuanhong realized that this was a political marriage that could not be rejected. He patiently persuaded his wife Wu Jingjun, "Even Puyi wants to marry Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai's ninth son Yuan Kejiu looks rich and noble, maybe he can become a big thing in the future."
In this way, Li Yuanhong chose Yuan Kejiu as his son-in-law and wanted to marry his daughter Li Shaofang to the Yuan mansion. Wu Jingjun resolutely opposed Li Yuanhong's decision, felt sorry for Li Shaofang, and was unwilling to let his daughter marry into the Yuan mansion. But in that era of male power, Wu Jingjun could not influence this marriage in the end. At that time, Li Shaofang was only eight years old.
As Li Shaofang grew up, she became more and more dissatisfied with the marriage decided by her father, and she was depressed and sullen all the time. In order to make Li Shaofang happier, Li Yuanhong and his wife sent Li Shaofang to Nankai School to study, hoping to change the school environment to Li Shaofang. As a result, Li Shaofang studied at Nankai University for only one year before dropping out of school and returning home.
Li Shaofang also once asked her sister Li Shaofen to discuss retiring from marriage with her father Li Yuanhong. However, Li Yuanhong's old thinking was a curse, believing that since he had betrothed, he would resolutely not repent. His father's ruthlessness made Li Shaofang feel the darkness of life, and eventually made Li Shaofang insane.
In 1928, Li Yuanhong died of illness. The Yuan government constantly sent people to urge marriage. In 1930, Li Shaofang's birth mother, Wu Jingjun, also died of illness. For the sake of his sister's happiness, Li Shaofang's brother sent someone to the Yuan family to retire from marriage, on the grounds that his sister Li Shaofang was mentally abnormal. As a result, the Yuan family resolutely disagreed with the resignation. Yuan Kejiu asked Li Shaofang's brother Li Shaoji for a huge dowry.
In 1934, Li Shaofang finally married Yuan Kejiu. Before the wedding, Yuan Kejiu's mother was very unhappy after seeing the dowry of the Li family, believing that the dowry of the Li family was small and naturally dissatisfied with Li Shaofang.
Yuan Kejiu and Li Shaofang, a pair of young people who were arranged by shengsheng, had a bad relationship after marriage, because there was no emotional basis before marriage. A year after marriage, Yuan Kejiu took a concubine. Li Shaofang was seriously ill. In the face of Li Shaofang, who was mentally ill, the Yuan family showed an iron heart and sent Li Shaofang to a mental hospital. Li Shaofang spent her life in a mental hospital, and by 1945, before the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, she died of illness.
Li Shaofang, born in a political tycoon, is set to be a political tycoon, depressed in a political tycoon. If you are a commoner, you may be able to find an ordinary person you like and run for food and clothing all day long, but you can have children and grandchildren around your knees and enjoy the happiness of the world. However, it has become a victim of political marriage. This is the sadness of the times.