In a chaotic world, parties and doctrines belong to explicit rules, and the rules of jianghu and sectarianism are unspoken rules, the former can fool the younger brother, and the latter is suitable for the united front. Although the thing of righteousness is not reliable, it can always fill the façade on weekdays. According to statistics, Zhang Zuolin has recognized more than 40 dry mothers in his lifetime, and Chiang Kai-shek likes to worship the handle, and the box containing the post does not know how many have been sent. In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek proposed to worship with Tang Shengzhi, chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government, but the latter shook his head and said: "Worship is also unreliable, from this great change in Hunan, I have found out, in the past with me to worship the people who have worshiped the master, shouting brother in their mouths, touching guys in their hands." Bye to do the brothers, more ruthless than outsiders. ”
On October 12, 1889, Tang Shengzhi was born in a family of eunuchs in Dafengtang Village, Dong'an County, Hunan Province, with the character Meng Xiao and the milk name Xiangsheng, who was the eldest of the four brothers. His grandfather Tang Benyou was lonely and bitter since childhood, and when he grew up, he joined the Xiang Army, where he made many achievements in the Xiang Army, captured the Wing King Shi Dakai, and eventually became the Viceroy of Guangxi. His father, Tang Chengxu, served as the salt director of Hunan in the Qing Dynasty and the county magistrate of the Republic of China, and also opened a mining and metallurgical company. As the saying goes: the next generation is like, the next generation is like. Tang Shengzhi was not only extremely favored by his grandfather, but also had a chivalrous character of daring to be bold.
At the age of eight, Tang Shengzhi attended a private school and had a good foundation in traditional Chinese studies, and at the age of 18, he was admitted to the first phase of the Hunan Army Primary School and began to contact new ideas. In November of the following year, the Guangxu Emperor and Empress Dowager Cixi died one after another, and at the ceremony of mourning, Tang Shengzhi laughed below, and thus received a punishment for his demerit. After graduating from the Army Elementary School, he entered the Wuchang Nanhu Army Middle School and joined the League under the influence of Tan Renfeng and others.
Tang Shengzhi was twenty years old at the time, but he grew a beard, and his classmates called him "Meng Beard", looking like a teenager and an old man, but in fact, he was quite idealistic in his bones, and sometimes very romantic. When the Xinhai Revolution broke out in 1911, Tang Shengzhi invited several classmates to Shanghai to participate in the revolution, and later served as a clerk in the Shanghai Military Governor's Office. Once, he asked his friend Ouyang Qixin to return to Xiangxiang to create an original situation, and Ouyang said: "You don't know my character yet, I am cowardly, I can't be a general, I can only be a staff officer, or let me follow you!"
Tang Shengzhi likes to fight unevenly, and once beat up the Indian patrol of the concession in Zhaofeng Park. After leaving Shanghai, Tang Shengzhi went to Yantai as a staff officer for a period of time, and then transferred to the army as a company commander. He idealistically reformed the troops, but was forced to leave because he accused his superiors of empty pay. In October 1912, he entered the first infantry section of the Baoding Military Academy, still naughty and active, but deeply loved by the principal Jiang Baili. After Jiang committed suicide, he was devastated and stayed by the coffin, not sleeping for several days and nights.
Once, Tang Shengzhi and his classmates argued about the difference between "benevolent men" and "heroes and good men", and because they had overdone their heads, they were locked up together. Seeing that it was getting late, everyone else was shouting hunger, but he said angrily, "Isn't it hungry?" What are you afraid of?" When he was about to graduate, Tang Shengzhi deliberately made fun of a classmate with a numb face, causing the two sides to fight. For this reason, Tang did not enter the Beiyang Army and the Model Regiment, but was assigned to the Mixed Brigade of the Hunan Army as a probationary platoon leader. He didn't think so, and said to the people: "This is exactly what I am pursuing, just go back to my hometown to make a revolution!"
In 1915, Tang Shengzhi participated in the war against Yuan and defended the country, and after his defeat, he fled to Liu Renxi's house and hid. Soon, the revolutionary army made a comeback and drove out Tang Qianming, the governor of Hunan in the Beiyang department, and Liu Renxi became the temporary governor, and immediately appointed Tang Shengzhi as the battalion commander of the Guard Battalion of the Overseer's Office. There are always several inflection points in a person's life, and the most rare thing is that noble people support each other. Tang Shengzhi did not live up to Liu Renxi's trust, and promoted regimental commanders, brigade commanders, and division commanders one after another with his military achievements.
In the situation of conflict between the north and the south, Hunan has become a place of hundreds of battles, and more than a dozen large and small forces do not pay attention to the governor. After Wu Peifu, a direct descendant, went north, Tang Shengzhi occupied half of the xiangnan mountains, and vaguely had the ability to fight with the boss Zhao Hengti. At that time, many warlords were in a hurry to seek medical treatment and talk about Buddhism, the most famous of which were Tang Shengzhi, who was known as "Tang Monk" and Li Jishen, who was known as "Li Monk".
Tang Shengzhi worshipped the tantric master Gu Boxu as his teacher, and also held a great light festival in Hengyang. Zhao Hengti saw that someone was openly calling for the board, and immediately invited a Yellow Sect master, the White Lama, to hold an unprecedented scale of the Golden Light Festival in Changsha, realizing that the east wind overwhelmed the west wind. Tang Shengzhi was even more desperate, and simply ordered all the troops to be ordained and turned into "Buddha's Army." The two men did Buddhist deeds one camp at a time, and the ordination was passed on by the master, and each person was given a "ordination certificate", with the word "Buddha" on the front and the five precepts on the back. At the same time, Tang Shengzhi gave a speech on Buddhism, saying the meaning of the three-body Buddha, and encouraging officers and soldiers to be loyal to themselves. It is said that Master Gu himself does not eat vegetarian food, eats fresh offal of chicken and duck every day, sometimes can drink two bottles of brandy at a time, has a six-room aunt wife, the eldest is only 30 years old, and the youngest is only 17 years old.
The fighting method was a superficial kung fu, and when the time came, Tang Shengzhi began to drive Zhao away. After beating Zhao Hengti away, his relationship with the Nationalist government in Guangzhou began to strain. In a hurry, he sent Ouyang Qixin to negotiate with Beiyang. Wu Peifu pulled out a brush, and in the middle of a piece of paper, wrote a "soldier" character, drew an arrow upwards, wrote a "north" word and said, "I originally planned to use soldiers to the north"; Then he drew an arrow down and wrote a "south" and said, "But you can also change it to use troops for the south." As a result, he sent troops to Changsha and beat Tang Shengzhi into the wilderness and fled.
Tang Shengzhi fled to the Xiangyue Border Region in defeat, regrouped, and became the commander of the Eighth Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army, with four divisions under his command. In June 1926, he reoccupied Changsha and later served as chairman of the Hunan provincial government. During the military parade, Tang Shengzhi gave up his horse to Chiang Kai-shek to ride, who knew that the military band gongs and drums were so loud that the horses were frightened and threw Commander-in-Chief Chiang to the ground. Jiang didn't say anything, and walked to the parade one by one.
From the victory of the Northern Expedition to the beginning of the War of Resistance, Tang Shengzhi ambitiously fought everywhere, although there were liao mengzi and other good warriors, in the end they could not defeat famous generals such as "Little Zhuge Ge" Bai Chongxi, and they were repeatedly defeated. He had always been separated from Chiang Kai-shek, helpless, and later lost his military power, and hung up some idle posts such as the president of the Military Senate and the director of the training director department.
In December 1937, when the Japanese army attacked Nanjing, Tang Sheng intellectually defended himself and took the initiative to ask Miao to be the supreme commander, but as a result, he repeatedly lost his way, resulting in a large number of soldiers and civilians unable to evacuate, and was killed by the Japanese army. He himself crossed the river in a boat in the midst of the rebel army, took a board cart stained with cow dung, and withdrew. Back in Wuhan, he resigned from all his posts and returned to his hometown in Dong'an, Hunan Province, where he founded yaoxiang academy to cultivate anti-Japanese talents and save the dead while chanting the sutras and reciting the Buddha.
Tang Shengzhi's attitude toward the kuomintang-communist civil war was negative, and he always felt that the Chinese people should rest and recuperate. By 1949, seeing that the situation was already clear, he used his influence to instigate the Hunan Uprising. In April 1950, Tang Shengzhi went to Beijing to meet Mao Zedong and said: "... Follow the Communist Party, bow down, and die. When the Taiwan side heard about it, it immediately publicly wanted this army general.
In the early days of the Cultural Revolution, Tang Shengzhi refused to expose his compatriot He Long, shouting: "If you want to shoot, come here!" During the review, he once said with emotion that Cheng's death was worth it, and even Premier Zhou attended the memorial service. After these words were reported, a rebel leader of the Provincial CPPCC Committee ran to slap Tang and scolded, "Do you still want this kind of treatment?" On April 6, 1970, Tang Shengzhi died in Changsha at the age of 81.