Life in the world is a road that cannot be turned back, and whenever we are faced with an important choice fork in the road, each of us will fall into contemplation, but no matter what decision is made, time cannot be turned back, and we cannot return to the beginning again.
Every important decision will affect the lives of the next few decades or even hundreds of years, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Yuting are all well-known figures, but they are inevitably like us ordinary people who cannot choose when faced with choices.
Zhang Xueliang once trusted Yang Yuting very much, but in the end he tried to kill him, Zhang Xueliang confessed that he did not believe in fate, but after killing Yang Yuting, he believed it. So what kind of story happened between two people?
During the Xinhai Revolution, Zhang Zuolin led the army to stabilize the situation in the northeast, so he made meritorious contributions and became famous in the northeast region. In such an emergency situation, Zhang Zuolin was in great need of people who were proficient in military affairs and had superior abilities to assist him, and Yang Yuting appeared in front of him at this time.
In this era of very poor knowledge, all-round talents like Yang Yuting are very rare. Because he studied in Japan, Yang Yuting has a broader vision than his peers, which is exactly in line with Zhang Zuolin's requirements for employment. So he became the best candidate.
In 1912, Yang Yuting became one of the important figures in the army, and because he repeatedly put forward constructive suggestions in important decisions of the army, Yang Yuting was appreciated and reused by Zhang Zuolin.
But Yang Yuting is not perfect, at this time Yang Yuting is in the youth of the mad, talented he often rely on his talent to look down on others, so many people show dissatisfaction with him behind his back.
In addition, what made Zhang Zuolin even more intolerable was that Yang Yuting secretly embezzled military funds to develop his military strength, and after learning of this, Zhang Zuolin was furious and stripped Yang Yuting of all his military powers.
But after a long time, Zhang Zuolin found that no one could replace Yang Yuting's position, and when Yang Yuting came to ask for peace, Zhang Zuolin could only turn a blind eye and let him go, still regarding Yang Yuting as his confidant.
However, after Zhang Zuolin's death, everything changed.
Whenever the leader of a group is gone, it is bound to set off a bloody storm. When Zhang Zuolin was alive, his right and left arms were his son Zhang Xueliang and his most trusted subordinate Yang Yuting, so the two were bound to compete.
Logically, the person his father trusted the most must be reliable, and Zhang Xueliang should trust him. However, Yang Yuting often relies on the old to sell the old, as an experienced veteran, he is worried that Zhang Xueliang is too young to dare to entrust the task to him, and as time goes by, the differences between the two are getting bigger and bigger.
Contradictions do not erupt in a day, but are piled up by countless small things, and there are three main things that Zhang Xueliang cannot bear.
First of all, the contradiction between the two began when Guo Songling died, Guo Songling was Zhang Xueliang's mentor during the enlightenment period, which brought him a lot of help in his future life, and Zhang Xueliang naturally respected his mentor quite much.
However, after the anti-Feng incident, Guo Songling was arrested for being involved in this activity, and yang Yuting immediately executed him after hearing about it, without the slightest hesitation, without considering the teacher-student relationship between Zhang Xueliang and Guo Songling.
Secondly, after Zhang Zuolin's death, Zhang Xueliang took over his army, which should have been the inevitable result of his son inheriting his father's business, but Yang Yuting always opposed Zhang Xueliang, and the two often quarreled over some small matters.
Relying on the advantage of age, Yang Yuting often regarded himself as an elder in front of Zhang Xueliang, accused Zhang Xueliang of his living habits and ability to deal with problems, and called him "imparting experience", so that Zhang Xueliang could not get off the stage in front of everyone, shaking Zhang Xueliang's absolute dominance and shaking the hearts of the military.
Finally, the main reason was the conflict of military ideas between the two, after the change of flag in the northeast region, Zhang Xueliang wanted to defect to the Nationalist government and rely on the strength of the Nationalist government to resist Japanese aggression.
But Yang Yuting was completely opposed to this idea, in his idea, the best solution should be to deal with the relationship with Japan, so he often secretly contacted Japanese agents, and his pro-Japanese behavior caused Zhang Xueliang's strong dissatisfaction.
The conflict between the two deepens, and finally reaches an insoluble point, when the wooden strip will ignite with just a little spark, and the real fuse of the matter really happened on January 10, 1929.
On this day, Yang Yuting took the initiative to find Zhang Xueliang to request the establishment of the Northeast Railway Supervision Office, which on the surface seemed to be a very reasonable request, but Zhang Xueliang saw through Yang Yuting's real purpose, which was to expand his power in the northeast region.
Such an arrogant and uninhabited attitude completely angered Zhang Xueliang, but at this time, Zhang Xueliang still did not dare to act rashly.
First, there was no justification for killing Yang Yuting. Second, as a close confidant of his father, Yang Yuting spoke very heavily in the army. If he is dealt with, it will definitely shake the hearts of the army and is not conducive to commanding the troops later. Third, talent was scarce at the time, and no one could take his place.
Zhang Xueliang, who was difficult to decide, finally decided to leave everything to fate, and he took out a coin and set the front as "kill" and the reverse side as not kill. But what he did not expect was that the result of three consecutive coin tosses was all face up, as if it was a predestined arrangement of heaven.
Under the guidance of fate, Zhang Xueliang finally decided to kill Yang Yuting.
He arranged his cronies to his side and waited for the target to arrive, and Yang Yuting, who was originally arrogant, arrived at the scene and found that something was wrong, but everything was too late, and Zhang Xueliang finally killed Yang Yuting.
Flipping a coin is a magical thing. Maybe we have a decision in our minds the moment we throw the coin, but we don't want to face our hearts, so we blame everything on the arrangement of fate.
Zhang Xueliang once said that he did not believe in fate, but after killing Yang Yuting, he believed it. In order to comfort himself, Zhang Xueliang often takes the initiative to care for Yang Yuting's family, perhaps so that he can feel more at ease.
After that, Zhang Xueliang's dominance was shaken, and he also believed that this was the arrangement of fate, if he did not kill Yang Yuting, perhaps with his support, his life would be better, but all this was already in the past tense.
Each of us is responsible for the decisions we make, that was the real idea in our hearts, and since we can't change it, we should face the fate arrangement with the best posture.