His wife loves money, he can't bear to openly confrontation, and finally won the lawsuit, but suffered in his old age

He is a well-known educator in modern China, and he has a well-known relationship with the famous writer Hu Shi; he has taken care of the school affairs for Cai Yuanpei, president of Peking University for a long time, and later became the longest-time in Peking University The principal, his status in the history of education in the Republic of China is second only to Cai Yuanpei; at the same time, he also served as the Minister of Education in the Kuomintang government and is a model of modern Chinese, this person is Jiang Menglin.

Jiang Menglin was notoriously dedicated when he was the principal, and people in the industry admire him. However, although Jiang Menglin was dedicated to his work and was never criticized, he often fell emotionally. Not to mention his affection, so he talked about his last failed marriage. Jiang Menglin's life was stained.

Picture | Jiang Menglin

Jiang Menglin's dedication-not afraid of hardships to take on the responsibility of the principal

On May 4, 1919, due to the May Fourth Movement triggered by the Paris Peace Conference, more than 3,000 students in Beijing gathered in front of Tiananmen Square and faced such a surge The radical student movement. The Beiyang warlord government at the time took measures to disband Peking University and remove the president Cai Yuanpei. They intended to suppress the student demonstrations. Cai Yuanpei felt sorry for the students, in order to prevent the students from being implicated and to prevent Peking University from being involved. Destroyed, he chose to take the initiative to resign. As soon as Cai Yuanpei resigned, the students became anxious, and their attention shifted to the task of keeping Cai Yuanpei. After careful consideration of

, ​​Cai Yuanpei took a step back. He planned to let his disciple Jiang Menglin act as the principal's affairs, and he would not resign first, and would bring the students back to class first. I have to say that Cai Yuanpei's method is really wonderful. It not only diverted the students' attention, but also stabilized his position, and also preserved Peking University.

Picture | Former President Cai Yuanpei

On July 20, 1919, when Jiang Menglin first arrived at Peking University, he received a warm welcome from all the students of Peking University at the door. Although Jiang Menglin was serving as the director of Cai Yuanpei, he had never been "fake tigers." When attending a faculty meeting, Jiang Menglin said: "I was only sent by Mr. Cai to stamp the stamp, and everything is still presided over by you." is such a humble and kind professor, who doesn't like it? Moreover, Jiang Menglin did put a lot of effort into working on behalf of Cai Yuanpei.

First of all, he successfully pulled the students from Peking University back to the classroom from the demonstration and restored the school to normal teaching order; secondly, in terms of school management, Jiang Menglin adhered to the principle of democratic school management and established a complete and effective administrative management. Because of this system, Peking University has also embarked on the road of professorship; moreover, in order to better develop academic career, Jiang Menglin also ran around borrowing money, only to improve the conditions for running a school and give students a better learning environment.

Picture | (From left) Jiang Menglin, Cai Yuanpei, Hu Shi, and Li Dazhao

As the acting principals of Peking University, Jiang Menglin is indeed dedicated to his duties, but unexpected circumstances make it impossible for Jiang Menglin, the acting principal to continue to be so smoothly. On March 18, 1926, due to the tragic death of three students during the anti-Japanese demonstration, Jiang Menglin unbearably condemned the atrocities of the warlord Duan Qirui's government at the memorial service. So the warlord leader began to hate Jiang Menglin and directly included him. Fortunately, Jiang Menglin successfully escaped from the blacklist of arrests and executions and was able to become the principal of Peking University again.

However, Jiang Menglin, who returned to Peking University, had conflicts with many professors on the issue of reforming Peking University's system, which triggered a wave of "turning Jiang Juhu", and Jiang Menglin's post of president ended.

Huo was married to the wife of a close friend, claiming to do his duty on behalf of his friend

Everyone can see Jiang Menglin’s dedication, but for Jiang Menglin’s love life, even his best friend Hu Shi can’t see through.

Jiang Menglin’s first marriage was an arranged marriage. The family arranged for him an old-fashioned country girl named Sun Yushu. The two respected each other as friends. Although their lives were harmonious, they had no feelings. For Jiang Menglin, Sun Yushu may be just a willingness. The person who was washing and cooking for him, perhaps it was precisely because Jiang Menglin had no feelings for Sun Yushu that he would so decisively divorced her later.

On September 28, 1927, Jiang Menglin's best friend Gao Renshan was arrested and executed by Feng Faction warlord Zhang Zuolin because of some revolutionary activities. Without husband, hisHis wife Tao Zenggu can only depend on each other with two children. Jiang Menglin couldn't bear to see his best friend's wife being so miserable, so he asked her to act as his secretary. After the two got along for a long time, feelings would develop. So, in 1933, Jiang Menglin abandoned his original wife Sun Yushu, and soon after the two agreed to divorce, he married Tao Zenggu, completely ignoring the attacks of public opinion. At the wedding, he said: "I love and respect brother Gao Ren the most in my life, so I am willing to continue his voluntary education. Because I love brother Gao, I love the people he has loved more and love her even more. This is worthy of a dead friend."

Picture | Jiang Menglin and Tao Zenggu's marriage photo

Although this marriage is very unpopular, Jiang Menglin is indeed very good to Tao Zenggu, and their lives are stable and harmonious, and until Tao Zenggu Two years after his death, Jiang Menglin has been living in the memories of the two.

She fell in love with a gold-worship girl in the ancient years, and married secretly despite the advice of her friends.

A few years after Tao Zenggu passed away, people often went to Jiang Menglin as a matchmaker and wanted to find a companion for this widowed old man, but no matter what they persuaded, Jiang Menglin refused to remarry. , Just when everyone thought that Jiang Menglin was an infatuated person, it came out that Jiang Menglin was going to get married and continue.

In 1960, Jiang Menglin and Xu Xianle met for the first time at a dinner in the Grand Hotel. Jiang Menglin felt affection for her at the first meeting. He felt that Xu Xianle had temperament and elegance, and was a person worthy of deep friendship. In order to develop further, he She also wrote a love letter to her, and finally touched Xu Xianle with the love poem "I change my heart for you, I know each other deeply". The signature is still "To you in my dream" , which sounds pretty good. Romantic, but Jiang Menglin's friends shook their heads, especially Hu Shi. At the beginning, he agreed with Jiang Menglin to marry Tao Zenggu because Tao Zenggu is trustworthy, but Xu Xianle has more black history.

Picture | Ms. Xu Xianle

Xu Xianle was once the chief of staff of the Northern Expedition and the wife of General Yang Jie, the former "national ambassador to the Soviet Union". She is really good-looking. She was a school flower when she was in college. After graduation, she went to work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "Flower", later went to work in the Central Trust Bureau, is also a "bureau flower", and there are always a steady stream of suitors. But looking good, Xu Xianle has a bad character, that is, he is greedy for money. She and Yang Jie divorced because of money issues. Hu Shi disagrees with Jiang Menglin marrying her because he heard about Xu Xianle. He once wrote to Jiang Menglin:

"In these ten days, I have heard many words about friends who love you and care about you, so I know you. The news of the renewal of the string has really caused ups and downs in the city... These words are roughly like this: a certain lady (press: refers to Xu Xianle) has asked you 200,000 yuan, and you only gave 80,000 yuan: of which 60,000 yuan was for an engagement ring, two Wan is making clothes. This is what a lady told someone herself. She felt very wronged and dissatisfied. Friends who care about your happiness came to me and told me that I should try to persuade you to "return the horse"."

Picture | Hu Shi and Liang Shiqiu

Hu Shi had always been on Jiang Menglin's side, but this time for the happiness of his old friends, Hu Shi could no longer support him. Even Chen Cheng, the leader of the "Civil Department" of the National Army, could not sit still, and moved the first lady Song Meiling out, and directly told Jiang Menglin: "My wife received a call from Mrs. Jiang, she firmly opposed you and this Miss Xu’s marriage, my wife also objected to me, and I must tell you. If you must marry her, then we will not be able to meet in the future, at least, your wife and we will not be able to meet.” At that time, Jiang Menglin’s All his relatives and friends are rushing to prevent him from getting married. Hu Shi kept writing letters to "educate" Jiang Menglin even when he was in the hospital. He kept saying that Xu Xianle was a "vulgar woman." Jiang Menglin was told by these people. He hesitated. On July 11, 1961, Jiang Menglin went to visit Hu Shi. As soon as he entered the ward, he said: "The child is not obedient, and the doctor wants you to live in the city. You did not listen to the doctor and moved back to Nangang. Your letter to me , I have listened to you. Now what I say, you also want to listen?" Hu Shi felt at ease when he heard this. He was very pleased that Jiang Menglin finally understood his lesson, and Jiang Menglin was also very cooperative at the time. , Said he would cancel the wedding. Of courseHowever, a week later, Hu Shi learned that Jiang Menglin and Xu Xianle had been married quietly on July 18. At that time, Jiang Menglin was 75 years old and Xu Xianle was 54 years old. They were 21 years old.

On January 23, 1963, Jiang Menglin commissioned Duan Mukai, a well-known barrister in Taiwan, to write to Xu Xianle. He wanted to write a letter to Xu Xianle, "Because the two people have different living habits, ideological interests, and interests, the longer they get along, the deeper the gap. Seeing a doctor, there are more disagreements with each other." The reason for was to separate and divorce Xu Xianle. For this reason, Jiang Menglin volunteered to give Xu Xianle NT$3,000 a month. But Xu Xianle disagreed. She considered herself a "weak woman" and rejected this proposal. On February 8, Jiang Menglin sent a second letter, publicly accusing Xu Xianle of not caring about him and transferring property privately. In this regard, Xu Xianle wrote "Xu Xianle Covering Jiang Menglin's Book" on March 14. She said: "Because you once said to me:'In the past, every plant and tree belonged to Tao Zenggu, now it belongs to you." Later Xu Xianle also said that Jiang Menglin himself gave her the stamp and asked her to transfer the ownership. Perhaps because he felt that the counterattack was not big enough, Xu Xianle began to accuse Jiang Menglin, saying that he hadn't paid a penny for living expenses in the past two months, nor did he drive her car, nor did he use his savings. After the

battle lasted more than three months, Jiang Menglin finally couldn't bear it. On April 10, he formally requested a divorce from the Taipei District Court on the grounds that "unbearable mistress abuse" , and also held a press conference to explain the matter. , He said:

"I muster up the courage to marry Ms. Xu Xianle and hope to have a happy family to help my career. I have been disappointed for more than a year now. I have suffered unbearable pain and my home is mine. In the abyss of pain, I deeply regret that I did not accept the advice of my old friend Hu Shizhi (note: Hu Shi passed away on February 24 a year ago) before I made a mistake. I am ashamed of my old friend, and I should also have an old friend. The courage to admit mistakes, but also the courage to correct them."

Picture | Old friend Hu Shi

Jiang Menglin is about to divorce publicly, Xu Xianle still did not stop, she showed some relevant documents to the reporter, saying that Jiang Menglin avoided her. She also claimed that their relationship problems were provoked by Jiang Menglin’s friends. She said: “Marriage is a lifelong matter. It is to love Dr. Jiang’s people, not his money. Marrying him at the beginning was to be his lifelong partner, so she would never divorce. "No matter how Jiang Menglin publicly condemned the public divorce, Xu Xianle rejected them one by one. Jiang Menglin published the long letter that Hu Duanian wrote to him in the "Central Daily News", and Xu Xianle published a " In the article "Me and Jiang Menglin", Jiang Menglin wrote a complaint after filing for a divorce, and Xu Xianle filed a ten-thousand-character defense. Whatever Jiang Menglin said, she rebutted. At that time, the marriage turmoil between the two people was well known throughout the city. Major newspapers and magazines reported on the two people's divorce lawsuits live, for fear of missing some wonderful drama.

It was not until January 23, 1964 that the divorce lawsuit ended with Jiang Menglin’s victory. The divorce agreement was as follows:

1. Jiang Menglin paid alimony of 500,000 yuan and Xu Xianle

2. Xu Xianle’s current agricultural rehabilitation association The house should be moved out and returned, and all furniture left

3. Stocks and deposits taken by Ms. Xu should be returned to Dr. Jiang; as for jewelry and other items, they should be given to Ms. Xu. z2Although the marriage of z

was a successful divorce, Jiang Menglin was already overwhelmed by the "battle" in the past few years. He once said to reporters: "If you eat less and get more troubles, how can you last for a long time?" True, in the early morning of June 19, 1964, less than half a year after the divorce, Jiang Menglin died of illness at the age of 78.

Picture | Jiang Menglin in his later years (third from left)

Throughout Jiang Menglin’s life, he did his best in front of his career; in front of his friends, he valued love and righteousness; but in front of feelings, he was indeed planted. In front of love, It's better to be more rational and less impulsive.

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