Speaking of the four major families in the Republic of China, I think most Chinese people are familiar with them.
The so-called "four major families of the Republic of China" refers to the four major families that controlled China's political and economic lifelines in the first half of the 20th century, namely the Chiang Kai-shek family, the Song Ziwen family, the Kong Xiangxi family, and Chen Guofu and the Chen Lifu family.
During the period of the Republic of China, there was a saying: "Jiang's family belongs to the Chen family party, and Song's sisters, Kong Jiacai." Chiang Kai-shek controls politics, Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu control the Kuomintang, Song Ziwen , Kong Xiangxi controls finances.
The four major families are headed by the Chiang Kai-shek family, and the three Chen, Song, and Kong families rely on Chiang Kai-shek's power to monopolize China's financial and banking, yarn, mining, and agricultural industries, making great fortunes for the country.
According to incomplete statistics, the four major families have amassed wealth in the name of Anti-Japanese War and , and obtained a huge wealth of at least 20 billion US dollars.
You must know that before the reform and opening up of the People’s Republic of China , there were only foreign exchange reserves of less than 500 million U.S. dollars a year on average, and the four major families were able to amass 20 billion U.S. dollars during the Anti-Japanese War. The family is broken.
As the Chinese People’s Liberation Army led by our party liberated the whole of China, the Kuomintang reactionary regime was overthrown, and Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan, China. newborn.
So, more than seventy years later, where are the descendants of the four major families of Jiang, Song, Kong and Chen? What is the status quo?
Chiang Kai-shek’s family
Chiang Kai-shek had three wives and one concubine in his life, his first wife Mao Fumei had a son Jiang Jingguo , his second wife Chen Jieru adopted a daughter Jiang Yaoguang, his third wife Song Meiling had no children, his concubine Yao Yecheng adopted a daughter Son Jiang Weiguo .
After Chiang Kai-shek was defeated and retreated to Taiwan, Jiang Jingguo and Jiang Weiguo also went to Taiwan, China, while Jiang Yaoguang stayed in mainland China with her husband Lu Jiuzhi. After
arrived in Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek wanted his two sons to inherit his career.
Chiang Kai-shek clearly arranged the life paths of Chiang Ching-kuo and Chiang Wei-guo in the future. The former developed in the political field, while the latter developed in the military field, trying to let one of them be in power and the other be in charge of the army.
After the death of Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Ching-kuo and Chiang Wei-kuo, the only two second generations of the Chiang family, were indeed heading in this direction.
In 1975, the year of Chiang Kai-shek's death, Jiang Weiguo was promoted to "Second General of the Army" and served as the president of the "University of the Three Armed Forces", while Jiang Jingguo served as the chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang and the chairman of the Central Standing Committee.
A few years later, Jiang Jingguo became the "President" and Jiang Weiguo became the "Commander-in-Chief of Joint Logistics".
Perhaps it is in response to an old Chinese saying: "Wealth does not last for three generations." The second generation of the Chiang family performed well in the military and political circles of Taiwan, China, but it can be said that the third generation has suffered a complete defeat. An illegitimate child recognized by the family. Although the number of members of the third generation of the
Jiang family exceeds that of the second generation, they are far behind in terms of quality.
The third generation of the Jiang family includes the eldest son Jiang Xiaowen of Jiang Jingguo, the second daughter Jiang Xiaozhang, the third son Jiang Xiaowu and the fourth son Jiang Xiaoyong, and the eldest son Jiang Xiaogang of Jiang Weiguo.
In addition, there are two illegitimate children who have not been recognized by the Jiang family for a long time. They are Jiang Xiaoyan and Jiang Xiaoci born to Jiang Jingguo and his lover Zhang Yaruo .
Jiang Xiaowen, Jiang Xiaowu and Jiang Xiaoyong were trained by Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo successively as their heirs, but the three of them are muddy and cannot support the wall. Jiang Xiaowen is lustful, Jiang Xiaowu loves power, and Jiang Xiaoyong is fond of money. Useful.
Jiang Jingguo could only be forced to give up training them in the end.
Jiang Xiaogang, the eldest son of Jiang Weiguo, is not as dandy as Jiang Jingguo's three sons, and has some skills, but he is not Jiang Jingguo's son, and in the final analysis, he does not flow from the Jiang family's blood.
Therefore, no matter how capable he is, Jiang Xiaogang has no chance to be trained as an heir.
Of course, Jiang Xiaogang himself is not interested in politics at all.Interested, he only wanted to work as a lawyer, so after studying law at Cambridge University, he went to New York, USA to take the bar exam, and after passing the exam, he worked as a lawyer in New York, USA.
I don't know if it's a trick from the heavens, the most promising third generation of the Jiang family and the illegitimate son Jiang Xiaoyan who continues the Jiang family's political incense.
Jiang Xiaoyan entered Taiwan's political arena after he obtained a master's degree in science from Georgetown University. Although Jiang Xiaoyan's identity as the third generation of the Chiang family is not recognized by the Chiang family, he is the grandson of Chiang Kai-shek in the eyes of others.
Therefore, since Jiang Xiaoyan entered Taiwan's political arena, with the identity of Chiang Kai-shek's grandson and his ability, he has been very successful in Taiwan's political arena.
In 2008, Jiang Xiaoyan became the vice chairman of the Kuomintang, and in 2014 became the honorary vice chairman of the Kuomintang.
is the fourth generation, and the Jiang family has more and more members. It can be said that the family is full of children and grandchildren!
Jiang Xiaowen had a daughter Jiang Youmei Jiang Xiaowu had a son Jiang Yousong and a daughter Jiang Youlan Jiang Xiaoyong had three sons Jiang Youbai Jiang Youchang and Jiang Youqing Jiang Xiaogang had a son Jiang Youjie and a daughter Jiang Youjuan Jiang Xiaoyan had a son His son Jiang Wan'an and his two daughters Jiang Huilan and Jiang Huiyun, Jiang Xiaoci had a son Jiang Jinsong and a daughter Jiang Youju.
Only one member of the fourth generation of the Jiang family is in politics, and that is Jiang Xiaoyan's son Jiang Wan'an.
Jiang Wanan graduated from University of Pennsylvania with a Doctor of Laws.
According to Jiang Xiaoyan, the name "Wan'an" was obtained by Jiang Jingguo himself. After Jiang Wan'an was born, Jiang Jingguo learned about this and thought about it for several days. Because Jiang Xiaoyan grew up in Wan'an, Jiangxi, he decided to name his grandson "Wan'an".
Like Jiang Xiaoyan, Jiang Wanan is also very interested in politics, and chose to enter the political arena after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania.
In 2016, Jiang Wanan was successfully elected as the ninth regional "legislator" in Taiwan, China, thus continuing the political incense of the Jiang family. In 2017, Jiang Wanan was elected as a member of the Kuomintang Central Committee by a high vote.
In September 2020, Jiang Wanan stated to the outside world that he would participate in the 2022 Taipei mayoral election, which shows his political ambitions.
The fourth generation of the Jiang family, except Jiang Wan'an, went into politics, and the rest mostly developed in the fields of commerce and art.
For example, Jiang Youmei is a well-known realist painter in the UK. Her works are very popular and valuable in the European art circle. In 1997, her debut work "Enigma" was sold at Sotheby's auction. It was auctioned at a high price of 18,000 pounds.
Another example is Jiang Yousong, a well-known venture capitalist who founded Taiwan Baodian Investment Group.
Of course, if you want to talk about the fourth generation of the most famous and most popular Chiang family in Taiwan, it must be Jiang Youbo.
Jiang Youbai is tall and heroic, and his wife is Taiwanese movie star Lin Hengyi. The combination of the two of them was hailed as the combination of a prince and a princess by the Taiwanese media at that time. In July 2003, the two gave birth to a daughter, who was named Jiang Dexi according to the order of the Jiang family's "filial piety and friendship".
At that time, the news of the fifth generation of the Chiang family became a hot topic in the Taiwanese media at that time. On the day of Jiang Dexi's full moon, heavyweight figures in Taiwan's political circles, such as Kuomintang Chairman Lien Chan, People First Party Chairman James Soong, and New Party Chairman Yu Muming, came to congratulate him one after another.
Nowadays, most of the Chiang family lives in Taiwan, China, and only a small number of them settle overseas. For example, Chiang Ching-kuo's beloved daughter, Jiang Xiaozhang, settled and lived in the UK.
Song Ziwen’s family
Song Ziwen’s family actually made a fortune as early as the generation of his father Song JiashuSong Jiashu was a very famous comprador businessman in Shanghai at that time, relying on the printing industry and the import and export business to accumulate 500,000 to 600,000 silver The family property is strong.
In addition, Song Jiashu was also one of the first batch of people in China to participate in the revolution. He was an important financial pillar for Sun Yat-sen to strive for the success of the national revolution. He used most of his property to support Sun Yat-sen in carrying out the democratic revolution.
Song Jiashu has three sons and three daughters: the eldest daughter Song Ailing and the second daughter SongQingling, eldest son Song Ziwen, third daughter Song Meiling, second son Song Ziliang, youngest son Song Zian . These six people are the second generation of the Song family .
Let's not talk about other things, just talking about achievements, the second generation of the Song family can be said to have produced a large number of elites, and all of them are promising people.
The "Three Song Sisters" are known to everyone in China. They are the most prominent sister group in China in the 20th century.
Song Ailing married Kong Xiangxi, good at accumulating wealth, wealth can rival the country;
Song Qingling is respected as the mother of the country, patriotic and loving, and admired by all people;
Song Meiling married Chiang Kai-shek, powerful and influential.
It can be said that the Song family was able to become one of the "Four Great Families of the Republic of China", thanks to the three sisters of the Song family.
Father Song Jiashu is a veteran of the Kuomintang, and his sister Song Meiling is the wife of Chiang Kai-shek. One can imagine the future of the three Song brothers.
may be born in a merchant family. The three Song brothers all held important positions in economic-related departments or institutions. Song Ziwen was the Minister of Finance, Central Bank President and Chairman of the Council, and Chairman of the KMT’s Supreme Economic Committee;
Song Ziliang used to be the general manager of China National Products Bank , the general manager of China Construction Bank Corporation, and the director of the Guangdong Department of Finance; Song Zian used to be the director of China National Products Company and the chairman of the board of Guangzhou Bank.
As the saying goes, "Success is Xiao He, and defeat is Xiao He". The three Song brothers relied on Chiang Kai-shek's power to gain a prominent position, but also lost their prominent position because of Chiang Kai-shek's defeat.
On the eve of liberation, the three Song brothers did not choose to flee to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek, but chose to quit politics, and then all went to the United States and settled there. Song Ziwen and Song Ziliang settled in New York, and Song Zian settled in San Francisco, USA.
After that, none of the descendants of the Song family entered the political arena, and they mostly developed in the business field, and they were usually very low-key and mysterious.
Song Ziwensheng has three daughters, namely Song Qiongyi , Song Manyi and Song Ruiyi. Feng Yanda, the husband of
's eldest daughter Song Qiongyi, is the grandson of Guo Biao, the founder of Shanghai Yongan Company.
Feng Yanda graduated from Stanford University with a master's degree in business management. In the early years, Feng Yanda worked as a stockbroker in the United States. Later, after Song Ziwen passed away, Feng Yanda accepted Song Ziwen's Guangdong Bank business in San Francisco, USA.
In 2008, after Feng Yanda died of cancer, Song Qiongyi lived in the United States with his two sons Feng Yinghan and Feng Yingxiang.
Song Qiongyi's eldest son, Feng Yinghan, works in the news media and once served as the group manager of "Washington Post". The second son, Feng Yingxiang, inherited the financial acumen of his grandfather Song Ziwen, engaged in financial work, and once served as the executive director of the US private banking department of Credit Suisse Group.
's second daughter, Song Manyi, and her husband, Yu Jingpeng, are Singaporean Chinese. They started their business with traditional Chinese medicine. After making a fortune, they opened a local department store with a lot of assets. Song Manyi and Yu Jingpeng currently live in Hong Kong, China, and have one son and two daughters.
The third daughter, Song Ruiyi, and her husband, Yang Chengzhu, are of Filipino Chinese descent. The Yang family is a well-known family in the Philippines with a lot of wealth.
Song Ziliang and his wife Xi Manying have only one daughter named Song Qingyi.
Song Qingyi does not like publicity by nature, and the third generation of the Song family seems to have reached a certain tacit understanding, rarely showing up in front of the media, very low-key and mysterious, so everything about Song Qingyi is almost blank, and the outside world knows nothing about her.
Song Zian and his wife Wu Qiying have two sons, Song Boxiong and Song Zhonghu.
's eldest son, Song Boxiong, lives in New York, USA, and works in finance. Song Zhonghu, the second son of
, can be said to be the most promising of the third generation of the Song family. He graduated from Harvard University and founded a mineral water brand called Crystal Geyser in California, USA in the 1970s. Crystal Geyser used to Occupying 75% of the market in California West Bank, it is all the rage and is the originator of the mineral water industry in the United States.
Today, although Crystal Geyser is not as brilliant as before, it is also a brand of a listed company in the United States.The cards are worth a lot.
Relying on the wealth accumulated by Crystal Geyser, Song Zhonghu has already become a billionaire and serves as the director of several well-known companies such as Triple A, the largest auto insurance company in the United States.
Compared with Ding Xingwang, the fourth generation of the Jiang family, the fourth generation of the Song family can be said to be thin.
Song Boxiong has only one daughter. Song Zhonghu had one son and four daughters. His son Song Yuanxiao graduated from University of California . His daughters Song Yuanci, Song Yuanai, Song Yuanxiao, and Song Yuanshun all graduated from the University of California. The youngest daughter Song Yuanshun graduated from the same university as Song Yuanxiao. According to Song Zhonghu, Song Yuanshun is a The smartest of the five children, a born leader.
Nowadays, all descendants of the Song family have settled overseas.
In April 2009, Song Zhonghu's wife Song Caolixuan took her daughter Song Yuanci, son Song Yuanxiao and Song Ziwen's eldest daughter Song Qiongyi's son Feng Yingxiang and their two sons Feng Yongkang and Feng Yongjian to Wenchang, Hainan to seek their roots and ask their ancestors. This is the first time in 73 years for descendants of the Song family return home.
Kong Xiangxi Family
Kong Xiangxi Family is the richest family among the "Four Great Families of the Republic of China" and originated from Kong Xiangxi.
In 1914, Kong Xiangxi married Soong Ailing in Japan. With the prestige of his father-in-law Song Jiashu and sister Soong Ching Ling, Kong Xiangxi gradually gained a firm foothold in the Kuomintang and had his own place.
In 1924, Kong Xiangxi became the director of the Finance Department of the Guangdong Revolutionary Government. Three years later, because he facilitated the marriage of Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling, he became a successful official in the Nationalist Government. Since then, Kong Xiangxi has successively served as Minister of Industry, Minister of Finance, Chief Executive, President of the Central Bank, and President of Bank of China of the Kuomintang government. He was in charge of the national government's finances for 11 years. During the
period, Kong Xiangxi used his power for personal gain and was corrupt. During the Anti-Japanese War, he organized Qixing Company in Shanghai with Song Ziliang and others, specializing in speculation in securities , standard gold, cotton yarn, flour, etc., making a fortune for the country and amassing countless people's fat.
In 1939, Soong Ailing’s deposits in the United States ranked first in the Chongqing government’s deposits in American banks, and was called “the money bag of the Chinese people” by American journalist Salivan. Therefore, Kong Xiangxi has been repeatedly criticized by public opinion.
However, because of Chiang Kai-shek's backing, Kong Xiangxi was never dismissed, let alone held accountable.
Until November 1944, because of the case of splitting the U.S. government debt, the domestic public was indignant, coupled with the pressure of the US President Roosevelt , Chiang Kai-shek was overwhelmed by the pressure, and was forced to let Yu Hongjun replace Kong Xiangxi as Minister of Finance. So Kong Xiangxi was forced to step down.
In 1948, Kong Xiangxi took his family to settle in the United States.
Kong Xiangxi and Song Ailing have two sons and two daughters, namely the eldest daughter Kong Lingyi, the second son Kong Lingkan, the third daughter Kong Lingwei and the fourth son Kong Lingjie.
The second generation of the Kong family has completely inherited Kong Xiangxi's insatiable style of greed, and made great fortunes through own family power.
For example, when Kong Lingkan was appointed as the executive director of the Central Trust Bureau at the age of 21, he used his authority to import arms and received huge kickbacks; Windfall profits.
Another example is that when Kong Lingwei was in charge of Xiangji Company, Guangmaoxing, Jinfengtai and other enterprises in Chongqing, he engaged in improper operations such as hoarding and making a fortune for the country.
The Kong family has accumulated a huge amount of wealth by relying on the wealth of the country. This wealth provides an extremely luxurious life for Kong Xiangxi's four children.
During the Anti-Japanese War, when the people were displaced and living in dire straits, Kong Lingyi could drink bird’s nest soup every morning and eat all kinds of high-end snacks specially airlifted from Hong Kong. Once changed, the cosmetics used are all famous brands bought from France, and even the bath powder is British.
For such a luxurious life, every penny spent is the fat of the people, and the Kong Xiangxi family has committed a heinous crime.
Perhaps the Kong family did too many evils. Among the second generation of the Kong family, only Kong Lingjie had a son named Kong Deji.The other three are childless.
Speaking of Kong Lingjie, he used to be a well-known oil tycoon in the United States. Relying on those national disasters, he bought a large piece of land with a lot of underground oil in Texas, USA, and founded in Houston He bought the "Western Petroleum Development Company" and thus obtained a wealth that is incomparable to a country. It is said that his personal assets had reached 1 billion US dollars at that time.
However, maybe God can't bear to see that a person who has made a fortune in the country can be so rich. In the 1990s, Kong Lingjie's oil company declared bankruptcy due to poor management.
Now, the second generation of the Confucian family no longer exists, and only Kong Deji is left in the third generation of the Confucian family.
The news about Kong Deji is unknown to the outside world because of his low-key behavior and mysterious life.
Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu's family
Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu used to be in charge of secret agents in the Kuomintang for Chiang Kai-shek.
After Chiang Kai-shek was defeated and retreated to Taiwan, Chen Guofu followed him to Taiwan, but was kicked out of the circle of power centers by Chiang Kai-shek, and has since lost power.
Chen Guofu's life in his later years was very desolate. He didn't even have money to see a doctor before he died. Later, he wrote to Chiang Kai-shek to ask for it, and only asked for 5,000 yuan to see a doctor.
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Chen Lifu may have seen through Chiang Kai-shek. After the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan, he voluntarily quit politics and moved to the United States to set up a chicken farm. It is said that Chen Lifu borrowed the money to start the chicken farm from Kong Xiangxi.
In addition to running a chicken farm, Chen Lifu also started a preserved egg business, and made a living by making fermented bean curd and rice dumplings at home and selling them to nearby Chinese restaurants.
In 1969, Chen Lifu returned to Taiwan and settled down in China. He served successively as chairman of China School of Medicine and chairman of Confucius and Mencius Society. He devoted himself to the study of Chinese culture and the development of Chinese medicine.
After the first generation of the Chen family, all descendants stayed away from politics. Chen Guofu had no children in his life, while Chen Lifu had three sons and one daughter, namely, the eldest son Chen Ze'an, the second son Chen Zening, the third daughter Chen Zerong, and the youngest son Chen Zechong. These four are the second generation of the Chen family.
Among the second generation of the Chen family, except Chen Zechong, who lived in Taiwan during his lifetime, the other three all settled in the United States. The most famous member of the second generation of the
Chen family is undoubtedly Chen Ze'an, who graduated from Princeton University in the United States, and later became Professor of Botany at Princeton University, Plant pathologist, and enjoys a high reputation in the field of international plant pathology.
Of course, Chen Lifu’s other three children are not bad either. The second son, Chen Zening, is a doctor of MIT , and once worked in research and development for a company; After returning to Taiwan, he founded his own electrical engineering agency company; Chen Zerong graduated from an art major and worked in the library of Luzhou University.
Compared to the second-generation members of the Chiang Kai-shek family, Song Ziwen family, and Kong Xiangxi family, the life of the second-generation members of the Chen family is very ordinary, and can even be described as shabby.
For example, when Chen Lifu’s youngest son, Chen Zechong, was studying at Princeton University, he couldn’t even pay the tuition fees.
Now the third generation of the Chen family, apart from Chen Zechong’s two sons, Chen Shaocheng and Chen Shaoren, who live in Taiwan, the children of Chen Ze’an and Chen Zening both work and settle in the United States.
Among them, Chen Ze'an has three sons and one daughter, namely Chen Shaoyu, Chen Shaoshun , Chen Shaoling, and Chen Shaojin; Chen Zening also has three sons, namely Chen Shaowen, Chen Shaobin, and Chen Shaojie.
Most of the lives of the third generation of the Chen family are unknown to the outside world.
But from the few words they have revealed, it can be seen that they are all very good. They are all high-achieving students who graduated from famous schools such as Harvard , MIT, Purdue, Stanford, etc. After graduation, most of them work in financial institutions, medical engineering institutions and universities.
The only person in the third generation who is well known to the outside world is Chen Zechong's eldest son, Chen Shaocheng.
Chen Shaocheng, born in Taipei in 1979, studied at Shanghai Jiaotong University.
After Chen Zechong passed away, Chen Shaocheng took over the property left by his father Chen Zechong, and is now the chairman of the business left behind by his father and the "Lifu Pharmaceutical Research, Culture and Education Foundation"Foundation” Director and Deputy CEO.
