Senior leaders of both parties deeply regret Zhang's death, but no one can compare with Zhang's wife in terms of pain. Wang Yuling, who is only 19 years old, just gave birth to our son less than 20 days ago, so it is impossible for her beloved husband to come back to her.
At this point, the two married only two years. Two years is enough time for her to love this man who is twenty-five years older than herself, and these two years have also made her remember for life.
Zhang had an unhappy marriage. Before Wang Yuling, he had three unhappy marriages. The woman in the first marriage was a child bride arranged by his parents in his hometown. Zhang himself was not satisfied with this arrangement, because he formally married a Mrs. Wu after joining the army, and they got married in Guangyuan, Sichuan on 1933.
There was a happy time after marriage, but due to a political incident, Zhang Yi was angry and shot his wife in his living room.
At that time, Zhang was already a teacher, and the "teacher's wife killing case" shocked the Kuomintang and all walks of life. Mrs. Wu's parents were particularly angry and handed the form paper to Xi' an; Song Meiling also told Chiang Kai-shek that "the prince has committed crimes against civilians".
Zhang was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment 10 years in Nanjing for killing his wife, but was released to his hometown in An 'an one and a half years later.
During his tenure as the 74th division commander, he married another Linda Gao and gave birth to two men and one woman. This marriage is not a happy life. The two divorced on the eve of the full-scale outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and their three children died one after another.
During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Zhang had no intention of getting married, so he remained single until the end of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in the second half of 1945. Zhang, who is in his thirties, needs a warm family after the war. At this moment, Wang Yuling appeared in front of him.
1928 was born in a noble family called "Wang Million" in Changsha. She is the only child in the family and is regarded as the apple of her parents' eye.
Unfortunately, her father died when she was five years old. Wang Yuling Jr. began to learn to be independent. /kloc-at the age of 0/4, she became a director and managed the rent of more than a dozen shops at home. This 14-year-old girl manages these things very well, but she is confident and frank, and is not contaminated with copper smell.
During the Anti-Japanese War, he moved from Changsha to Yuanling to study, where he met the wife of one of Zhang's directors. The more this lady looks at it, the more she thinks that she and Zhang are a match made in heaven. She has been thinking about how to fix them up. The first effort was that before the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the director's wife invited her to her home and showed her a new photo and calligraphy.
Zhang is tall 1 m 80, and his mental outlook is also very handsome. His imitation of Yu Youren's handwriting is a bit confusing. But Wang Yuling, who was only sixteen years old at that time, didn't take it to heart after reading these.
After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Zhang specially rushed to Changsha to meet him.
When Zhang first met her, she was washing her hair in the barber shop with her classmates. Zhang, a tall and handsome man, came in, which was very noticeable, but he noticed that he had been staring at her since the man entered the shop. Subconsciously, she felt that this was a lothario, so she turned around and gave him a hard stare.
After marriage, Zhang joked that if he turned around and smiled, he might not marry her.
After the meeting, Zhang was confirmed. He invited Wang Yuling's aunt and the young lady at home to dinner, and all the people he knew who were related to the Wangs got up and started his fierce wife-chasing offensive.
Although Zhang is twenty-five years older than Zhang, he is still a handsome boy, high flyers from the Department of History of Peking University, and a famous Confucian general in the Kuomintang army. After getting along for a period of time, Wang Yuling himself was tempted.
But this marriage was strongly opposed by Wang Yuling's mother. She thinks that the age gap of 25 years between them is too big, and Zhang's three unfortunate marriages, especially the past of "killing his wife", have made a mother tremble with fear.
In addition, although Zhang is a hero of the Anti-Japanese War, as the saying goes, marrying Zhang means that her daughter is much more likely to be a widow in the future than ordinary people.
Wang Yuling is a girl of her own mind. She agreed to Zhang's proposal against her mother's wishes. Mother was helpless and put forward a very harsh condition, asking the chairman of the provincial government to make an introduction.
For a senior Kuomintang official like Zhang, this requirement is not difficult to meet. Soon, Cheng Qian, Chairman of the Kuomintang Hunan Provincial Government, entered the Wang Family Courtyard and became the witness of Zhang He's marriage.
1In the autumn of 945, Zhang He held a grand wedding in Shanghai Golden Gate Hotel. Just then, Chiang Kai-shek also announced that Zhang would succeed the commander of the 74th Army and the Nanjing garrison commander, which was a double happiness.
Double happiness also means double busy, because Zhang has many official duties, and their wedding date has been postponed again and again. Zhang is always sorry. After many delays, the wedding date was finally determined, but when the newlyweds arrived, it was already the eve of the wedding.
There was another small mistake before the wedding-the clothes didn't fit. Zhang 1.80 meters is high even now. At that time, the tailor didn't ask in detail, and the suit made on the spot was much shorter.
It's too late to change the scene. Zhang can only borrow the clothes of Mrs. Luo's relatives to make her own wedding dress. Fortunately, Wang Yuling's wedding dress is appropriate, and people are gorgeous and incomparable. All the guests present said that she was the most beautiful bride in Shanghai.
Zhang, who was busy with official business, hurried back to Nanjing on the wedding day. His wife Wang Yuling accompanied him without complaint and spent her wedding night on the train. After marriage, their lives are inseparable, and their personalities and hobbies are very compatible.
Zhang loves his little wife very much. Although Wang Yuling is young, she is dignified and steady, and she is considerate in everything. For example, when she visits her husband in the Zhang family, she always grasps the time and pays attention to some confidential places to prevent others from gossiping.
On the eve of the battle, she and Zhang's only son were born.
Zhang, who was actively preparing for the war, was very happy after hearing the news and immediately sent a telegram to his wife to express his joy. But in the telegram, he also said helplessly: "I am really happy and worried now." I am naturally happy that my beloved wife and I have children, but I am worried about the current war.
Zhang is known as the "ever-victorious general" in the Kuomintang, which also makes him seem a little arrogant in the war. The so-called pride goes before a fall. Zhang was defeated, but he paid the price of his life for it.
Of course, the failure of the campaign can't be attributed to Zhang alone. He stayed in Meng Lianggu for a long time, and the infighting within the Kuomintang made reinforcements who could have arrived on time wander around, so that a generation of famous soldiers hated the civil war.
Before Zhang died, he had a premonition that the battle would fail. In desperation, he wrote a suicide note and handed it to his entourage, and especially told him: "If you want to be good to me, you must be good to my wife!"
A few months later, Yang Zhanchun, a captured entourage, gave this suicide note and several relics of Zhang. The last sentence reads: "wife Yuling, forever."
The news of Zhang's death was blocked for some time. At that time, she was still wondering if her husband could go home as soon as possible to see himself and his son. Just over a month ago, eight months pregnant, she deliberately bumped for five or six hours to go to Zhang's residence. The two of them lay in bed and chatted for a while. When she left, she also watched her car go away.
It was not until the suicide note was handed over to her that she had to believe the fact that her husband really couldn't come back.
There are many stories about Zhang's death in battle. Some people say that he was killed, while others say that he committed suicide. In this regard, Wang Yuling saw it thoroughly, and she summarized it as "becoming a martyr of the Kuomintang".
Indeed, when the Kuomintang fell, all the soldiers who died in the war of liberation were martyrs of the defeated party.
As a martyr's widow, Wang Yuling didn't get any special pension and treatment at that time-although she deserved it.
However, due to the Kuomintang's own self-care, the financial crisis in the Kuomintang-controlled areas became more serious in the later period, and the meager relief rations that could not be distributed on time were completely insufficient to feed Wang Yuling's family of three. She just goes out to work alone, relying on her knowledge to make money for her mother and young son.
In the most difficult time, Wang Yuling couldn't help drinking a bottle of DDT and committed suicide. But she was young, was found in time, and was quickly taken to the hospital for rescue. At that time, her consciousness was clear, but her whole body could not move. Even the hair blown by the wind on her face, she can't brush it away.
Wang Yuling, who was lying quietly in bed, was suddenly angered. He felt that he could not sink down in such a miserable and boring life and should try to change the rest of his life.
Fortunately, because of her husband, she learned English very early. After the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek had intended to make Zhang an ambassador abroad, so he hired an English teacher to teach him English at home.
As Zhang's wife, she learned some basic English conversations during this period, which will at least make her have less language barriers when she first arrived in the United States.
Other obstacles were overcome by Wang Yuling with her strong perseverance: for example, she was born in a noble family and later married a senior officer, but after more exercise, her cooking was quite good;
She has never suffered since she was a child. During her work in the United States, she had to wear high heels for one morning every day and walk more than ten kilometers to go home. She used to have to take a bus. However, Wang Yuling made constant efforts to adapt to the work and did a good job, and finally got a high salary of $ 15 per day.
Wang Yuling, 29, graduated from new york University and soon found a job as an accountant in Roosevelt Hospital. Because of the complicated interpersonal relationship in this hospital, after working for two years, her financial director found another job. She quickly changed her job and applied for a world-class hotel in new york.
Before her arrival, this hotel had an unwritten rule that only white employees were used. But Wang Yuling stayed in a hotel and worked as an accountant. Three years later, she was "poached" by American Airlines and worked there until 1982 retired.
During this period, Premier Zhou learned from the returned overseas Chinese, ordered Huang Hua to try to find it, invited her to visit Beijing, and welcomed her back to China.
At first, Wang Yuling hesitated, because she was, after all, the widow of a senior Kuomintang general. However, after receiving a sincere letter from Huang Hua, she dismissed her concerns. In the autumn of 1973, Wang Yuling came to Guangzhou from the United States via Hongkong, and returned to his motherland after 25 years' absence.
In September, she flew to Beijing, and Premier Zhou, who was still ill, met her in Hunan Hall of the Great Hall of the People.
At the meeting, Premier Zhou said with great regret that when he was the director of the political department of Huangpu Military Academy, he was responsible for failing to win over Zhang in time. This sentence has narrowed the distance between them. After all, Wang Yuling felt that her husband's death was not worth it for many years.
This visit to China left a very good impression on Wang Yuling. The leaders of China, represented by Premier Zhou, carefully arranged her trip to ensure her safety.
She made careful arrangements, secretly visited several big cities, and was protected along the way, and the reception standards everywhere were also very high. Since then, Wang Yuling has returned to Beijing to visit relatives once or twice a year. After Premier Zhou's death, Comrade Deng took over his "burden" and continued to receive her, which also made her feel at home.
The diplomat who received her said to her, "If you want to go back to the mainland, you can get a visa at any time and come and go freely!"
Wang Yuling himself has done many useful things for the motherland overseas. For example, during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan Province Province, in the name of Taiwan Province Province, two buildings, "Guanghua Liao" and "Tsinghua Liao", were purchased in Ginza, the most prosperous area in Tokyo, Japan, with considerable value.
After Japan surrendered, it still shamelessly retained the property rights of these two buildings, which were used until the 1980s. After learning about this, Wang Yuling made continuous efforts through his interpersonal relationship abroad and got the real estate licenses of these two buildings. She gave the title certificate to People's Republic of China (PRC) and the State Council.
In the United States, Wang Yuling has served as the president of American Huamei Society for two consecutive terms since 1974. The original intention of this organization is to help Chinese who have difficulties in living in the United States, and Wang Yuling has played a very good role in this organization.
After the reform and opening up, she supported her son Zhang Daoyu to return to China to set up a factory and invest in her mulberry garden. It should be said that Wang Yuling's education of children is very successful, but she always insists on not letting her son do military service. She said: "You should not go to Taiwan Province Province as a soldier, let alone go to the United States as a soldier!"
Wang Yuling has always loved the mainland. She helped establish a friendly bridge between Yangzhou Medical College and Queen's Hospital of Hawaii and promoted the development of Yangzhou Medical College. In her spare time, she also helps her son to do business.
1973 after returning to China for the first time, she went to different places every year to visit Zhang's ex-wife's children. Mrs. Ou's daughter already has two sons and one daughter, the child of the child bride has become the vice chairman of the Shanxi Provincial Political Consultative Conference, and she has two sons and two daughters ... All these make Wang Yuling feel at ease and happy.
There are many calligraphy and paintings and photos hanging in Wang Yuling's bedroom, the most striking of which is the photo of Comrade Deng receiving her, and the most is the photo of her and Zhang, which is also the only photo of Zhang 18 years old. The girl in the photo smiles like a flower, and her eyes are full of emotion.
Looking at this photo, Wang Yuling couldn't help sighing that if it weren't for the civil war, she wouldn't have lost her "dream girl".
Someone once asked Wang Yuling if he regretted not remarrying all his life. Wang Yuling's answer to this is: "I have loved once in my life, and I have been loved once, which is enough."
Someone also asked her, if there is an afterlife, would she choose Zhang? Wang Yuling replied: "I think so, because I admire honest people and people who can stick to their ideals."
If it weren't for the civil war, such a fairy couple would have become a legend for some time.
A well-known professor in Changsha once wrote a couplet for Wang Yuling: "A piece of pure jade with pure heart, a thousand years of jade cypress wishes her old age". The second half sentence is to congratulate her birthday, and the first half sentence is to praise her character.
Now we admire "independent women", but as early as several decades ago, Wang Yuling became a model of outstanding independent women under the pressure of environment and its own potential.
No matter her strong experience or her patriotic feelings, she can afford such beautiful sentences and such beautiful compliments.