During the Republic of China, the warlords of the Feng clan had such a "tu emperor", who looked tall and tall, "ate, drank, gambled and smoked" in everything, and was known as the "Five Poison Generals", but in the end he was assassinated, but he did not know who it was.
This person is Zhang Zongchang.
Zhang Zongchang was born in 1881 in his hometown of Shandong. When he was a child, his family sent him to a private school for a while, but he did not learn much knowledge, but he could only read and hyphenate. In 1897 (the twenty-third year of Guangxu), there was a famine in the Jiaodong area of Shandong, and most of the peasants did not have enough to eat, and the people did not have enough to live. Zhang Zongchang's family was even more difficult to sustain, so he fled with the villagers to Guanwai. During his wanderings in the northeast, he worked odd jobs and gave people a shepherd. In order to make a living, he eventually fell into the grass, worked as a pickpocket, and later became a bandit.
Zhang Zongchang is a straightforward person, and he has a flexible brain and many ideas, plus he can read. So, he quickly established himself in the bandits' den. He became the "Emperor of the Land" in the bandits' den.
In the face of changes in the world, Zhang Zongchang showed his far-sighted vision than ordinary bandits. He led a group of his brothers to defect to Feng Guozhang, the leader of the warlords. Later, after Feng Guozhang stepped down, he turned to cao kun, the successor of the warlord of his direct lineage.
Zhang Zongchang did not do a good job under Cao Kun. Zhang Zongchang was born as a bandit, and Cao Kun was very dismissive of this. In addition, Zhang Zongchang's troops have extremely poor combat ability, which can be said to be some rabble-rousers, and they will be defeated in every battle, so Zhang Zongchang has a nickname: "Long-legged General", which means that they can run faster than anyone else.
Wu Peifu was Cao Kun's right-hand man, and he advised Cao Kun to get rid of Zhang Zongchang so that he would not affect the reputation of his immediate troops.
Zhang Zongchang saw that Cao Kun did not want to see him, so he had to take his "ragtag crowd" and find another place. Later, he defected to Zhang Zuolin, the king of the northeast.
Zhang Zuolin was also born as a bandit, and when he saw that Zhang Zongchang was a quick wit, he respected him very much. Gradually, Zhang Zongchang became the main general of the Fengzhi warlords.
On June 18, 1927, Zhang Zuolin entered Beijing as a grand marshal of the navy and army of the Beiyang government. At this time, the Southern Revolutionary Army was carrying out the Northern Expedition under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek, and Zhang Zongchang was ordered to meet Chiang Kai-shek's Northern Expeditionary Army. In early October, Zhang Zongchang and Feng Yuxiang's army engaged in a fierce battle in the Lankao area of Henan, and finally Zhang Zongchang's troops captured Zheng Jinsheng, deputy commander of feng's Eighth Front. Zheng Jinsheng and Feng Yuxiang are brothers and have a close relationship. Zhang Zongchang rose on a whim to kill Zheng Jinsheng. But his men advised him not to kill. However, he did not listen and insisted on killing Zheng Jinsheng. This incident made Zheng Houren remember and hate him, laying the foundation for the future.
On June 4, 1928, Zhang Zongchang's immediate boss, Zhang Zuolin, the "King of northeast China", was killed by the Japanese. After ascending to the throne, the young marshal wanted to reorganize the power structure, and Zhang Zongchang was forced to surrender power and then went into exile in Japan.
In 1932, Zhang Zongchang, who was not willing to be lonely, wanted to make a comeback and returned to China from Japan. Han Fuyu, then chairman of Shandong, received him warmly.
It should be known that the position of chairman of Shandong was zhang zongchang before, and the old Zhang had a certain network of contacts in Shandong for many years. In the process of drinking, Zhang Zongchang bragged loudly, saying that as long as he raised his arm, his old department would respond...
Hearing this, Han Fuyu was not happy, but felt threatened. He was afraid of Zhang Zongchang's resurgence, and in that case, there would be nothing for him to do.
What to do? Zhang Zongchang must be contained, so Han Fuyu came up with a plan to kill people with a knife. After much thought, Han Fuyu decided to "borrow a knife to kill people". Zhang Zongchang once killed Feng Yuxiang's brother-in-law Zheng Jinsheng, and now Zheng Jinsheng's son Zheng Jicheng is a senator from Shandong Province, and I heard that he has been looking for Zhang Zongchang to avenge his father.
That night, the banquet dispersed, and on the way to send Zhang Zongchang, Han Fuyu and Zhang Zongchang agreed to go to Shandong three days later to discuss things.
Zhang Zongchang said: "I arrived in Shandong on time to wait for Brother Han. ”
Han Fuyu said: "One word is certain, and it is not scattered when it is not seen." ”
That night, Han Fuyu told Zheng Jinsheng's son Zheng Jicheng the news.
Three days later, Zheng Jicheng shot zhang Zongchang at the Jinan station of the Jinpu Railway, and finally avenged his father's revenge, And Zhang Zongchang was killed, and he did not know who betrayed him until his death.
Due to Feng Yuxiang's efforts, Zheng Jicheng passed the customs safely and was not punished in the slightest.
Zhang Zuolin's generals died at the guns of their enemies. Zhang Zongchang himself had no idea who had killed him. If he had known about it, would he have realized the truth of "but do good deeds and don't ask about the future"?