Under the Beiyang government system, there were three periods, the direct warlords, the Anhui warlords, and the Fengzhi warlords, the Fengzhi was the last, directly led by zhang Zuolin, the "King of the Northeast", and in the "Tokyo Trial" after the War of Resistance Against Japan, the "Huanggutun" incident was also regarded as the starting point of Japanese aggression.
Zhang Zuolin's life is also a legend, not only the family style is strict, under his "rule" the northeast is even more jealous of the Japanese, but such a majestic "northeast king", but he is very afraid of his eldest daughter Zhang Shoufang, why is this?
Zhang Shoufang and Zhang Xueliang's mother is Zhao Chungui, also Zhang Zuolin's original wife, Zhang Zuolin's father is a gambler, he was influenced by his father since childhood, but also love to gamble, at the beginning, he sold burnt cakes on the street to make money, but sometimes the itch was not controlled, he lost.
His mother let him learn carpentry, Zhang Zuolin was tired, he ran away after a few days of study, there was no money, Zhang Zuolin was begging on the street, a car shop saw that he was young, but also had hands and feet, let him do miscellaneous work in the car shop, Zhang Zuolin although lazy, but he was smart, the opposite of the big car shop is the medicine store, he occasionally listened to the doctor to give people treatment.
Zhang Zuolin did not learn the craft of diagnosing and treating people, but the mule was sick, he casually got a few medicines, and really cured, one after another, he became a veterinarian, and also opened a veterinary shop, but a good business is not necessarily a good thing, a few peers see that his business is good, they deliberately make trouble, the shops are smashed, and no one dares to come to him to see a doctor.
Just when he was at the most depressed, Zhao Chungui's father Zhao Zhanyuan passed by the veterinary shop, he saw that Zhang Zuolin was extraordinary, and he would do great things in the future, and he thought that his daughter Zhao Chungui had also reached the age of marriage, so he asked Zhang Zuolin if he would like to marry his daughter, although Zhang Zuolin did not know what purpose he had, but the purpose was just a death.
Zhang Zuolin followed Zhao Zhanyuan to Liaoxi, in 1894 the Sino-Japanese War broke out, the Qing court was defeated, the bandits in the western Liaoning area were horizontal, this chaos, so that Liaoxi became a region of three disregards, beggar refugees are everywhere, Zhang Zuolin married Zhao Chungui, with the support of his father-in-law, set up a security regiment to be responsible for the security of several nearby villages.
Zhao Zhanyuan bought several guns through his own connections, and with Zhang Zuolin's courage and these guns, the bandits were contained, plus Zhang Zuolin never bullied the township, he got a lot of support, his power gradually grew, there were more people following him, and more women.
Although Zhao Chungui was the original match, Zhang Zuolin also respected her, but after all, she was old and fading, so she took Zhang Shoufang, Zhang Xueliang, and Zhang Xueming to Xinmin, and Zhang Zuolin had already monopolized the military power of Fengtian at this time, from the governor Zhao Erxun to those subordinate generals who only Zhang Zuolin was the head of the horse, all of whom hoped to be promoted.
As soon as Zhao Chungui left, he thought he was angry with him, in 1912, Zhao Chungui contracted a stubborn disease, Zhang Shoufang secretly sent news to Zhang Zuolin, but Zhang Zuolin refused to believe it, thinking that Zhao Chungui wanted him to bow his head, he waited for a few months, and on April 12, he let the second wife Lu Shi visit Xinmin.
Unfortunately, when Lu arrived, Zhao Chungui was already terminally ill, and Lu sent a telegram from Xinmin to Zhang Zuolin, but when Zhang Zuolin arrived, Zhao Chungui had already died, only 38 years old, Zhang Shoufang hated Zhang Zuolin very much, and Zhang Zuolin was also very guilty of her, and he was humble everywhere.
However, in order to consolidate his power, Zhang Zuolin married him to Bao Yinglin, the son of Bao Guiqing, the principal of the Beiyang DaowuTang, and later divorced with the support of Zhang Xueliang.