The author has also studied the history of Zhang and his son for many years. According to the research of many historical materials, the meeting between Zhang Xueliang and Miss Zhao Si in Beidaihe on 1927 has historical basis. However, it was not the hero in Zhang Shaoshuai who saved the United States, but Zhang Xueliang and Miss Zhao Si were already familiar with each other, so they often chatted together, often swam together and had picnics together. Naturally, Zhang Xueliang and Miss Zhao Si met. But how did they get together? There are many versions. It is said that Zhang Xueliang found a kung fu master in the Northeast Army and rescued him from Zhao's home in Tianjin. It is also said that Zhang Xueliang called Miss Zhao Si and asked her if she could come to Fengtian for a trip. A few days later, Zhao Yidi called back and got her parents' permission, so she was going to be invited. So Zhang Xueliang sent someone to Tianjin to meet him.
However, Zhang Xueliang's own statement is different from these. Let's talk about Miss Zhao Si's family background first. In my opinion, there are two little-known things: First, Miss Zhao Si had a marriage partner before she met Zhang Xueliang; Second, Miss Zhao Si's mother is a Sheng Xuanhuai girl who belongs to a concubine.
Zhao Yidi was indeed born in a noble family, and his father, Zhao Qinghua, was the transportation undersecretary of Beiyang government. When Zhao Yidi was born, a magnificent rosy cloud appeared at the junction of the sea and the sky, so he named his daughter Qixia. Zhao Qinghua has six men and four women, and Qixia is the fourth among her sisters, so her family calls her Huei-fang. Zhao Qinghua has three wives successively. Zhao Si's mother, Lu Baozhen, was originally a servant girl of Sheng Xuanhuai's family, and his first wife was a lovely girl of Sheng Xuanhuai. Sheng Xuanhuai is a famous representative of the Westernization School in Qing Dynasty, and is known as "the father of China industry". After his death, a funeral cost 300,000 pieces of silver.
According to Zhang Xueliang, 1929, Zhang was ill in Fengtian and came to see him with a small bag. Originally, she was going back after reading it, because there was a marriage partner in her family, and Zhao Yidi had a good impression on that person. Later, however, things changed. Zhao Yidi's half-brother complained to his father that his sister had eloped, in order to attack Zhao Yidi's mother through this incident. Hearing this, my father was furious and broke away from the father-daughter relationship in the newspaper. Now, Miss Zhao Si can't go back, she can only stay with Jong.