In recent years, there have been many online articles about Zhang Zuolin, many of which have revolved around how Zhang Zuolin went from bandit to warlord, and how many aunts and wives Zhang Zuolin had, and few people explored the true inner world of Zhang Zuolin, the "king of the northeast". In fact, to understand a person's heart, as long as a few things can be, the same Zhang Zuolin is also.
preface
Zhang Zuolin is not a person who is willing to be subordinated. This "bearded" president, he did not shy away from calling himself a "green forest" origin. In fact, Zhang Zuolin's ambitions are very large, some people do not understand, some people are dissatisfied with it. For the obstacles on the road of life, from Zhang Xiluan to Duan Zhigui to Feng Delin, these people were all cleared by Zhang Zuolin one by one, which laid the foundation for him to become the "King of the Northeast".
Because Zhang Zuolin touched the interests of the Japanese in the northeast, Japan held a grudge against him and designed to kill Zhang Zuolin. If it were not for the Japanese design to assassinate Zhang Zuolin, he could continue to occupy the northeast, and perhaps modern history would be rewritten.
Judging from Zhang Zuolin's resume, after the success of the Second Zhifeng War, on June 18, 1927, Zhang Zuolin entered the capital, he served as the Grand Marshal of the Army and Navy, and exercised the right to rule on behalf of the Republic of China. A year later, Zhang Zuolin was forced to return to the northeast, and it was this time that he returned to the northeast and became the last. Zhang Zuolin was killed by a Japanese design in Shenyang.
Many people do not understand that Zhang Zuolin actually holds the power of the state, so why does Zhang Zuolin not choose to be president, but only wants to return to the northeast to become a warlord? If he had become president of the Beiyang government, perhaps Zhang Zuolin would have escaped the fate of being killed by the Japanese. Everything has no ifs, because Zhang Zuolin has his own ideas.
I don't want to be
From Sun Yat-sen to Xu Shichang, the head of state of the Republic of China was called the Great President, and it is reasonable to say that Zhang Zuolin can also be called president. But Zhang Zuolin did not do so.
In Zhang Zuolin's view, the so-called big president is a name, and he has no right to be famous. Except for Sun Wen and Yuan Xiangcheng, who really have the right to be famous, no one even has a name, and no one recognizes it. Because Sun Wen was the first president, he was also elected by one person and one vote in 17 provinces, which was an open election at that time and recognized by the whole country.
Even if Yuan Xiangcheng later became president, it was recommended by Sun Wen. Yuan Shikai had soldiers and guns in his hands, but at this time he could no longer convince the people, and there were too many warlords. In particular, his restoration to the throne caused opposition throughout the country, so the warlords throughout the country were even more opposed to him, and although he later became president, the legitimacy of the president was not believed.
Later, Li Yuanhong became president, Feng Guozhang, Xu Shichang, and President Cao Kun, who spent five thousand oceans to buy, at this time there were more than a dozen people who became presidents or exercised the power of the president, and the president was worthless in name and power.
Sun Wen later became the great president, and Zhang Zuolin was the leader of the Feng clan warlords, known as the "King of the Northeast". At that time, Zhang Zuolin was working against the Beiyang government. Therefore, after Zhang Zuolin grasped the power, he could not become the president, because there were too many warlords in the country at that time, fighting for each other, and if he became the president, he would inevitably become the target of the national warlord crusade, just like Yuan Xiangcheng was called emperor. Zhang Zuolin became the Grand Marshal of the Army and Navy, and some people looked down on him and even opposed him to taking up this post. Therefore, in the face of this situation, Zhang Zuolin will not rush to become a powerful president.
Strategic intentions
Zhang Zuolin started in the northeast, and although he had been a bandit, Zhang Zuolin had a lot of experience in fighting. When he rose in the northeast, many powerful people in the northeast tried unsuccessfully to overpower Zhang Zuolin. It was also in the northeast struggle that Zhang Zuolin laid his foundation. Therefore, Zhang Zuolin started in the northeast, and in the case that the warlords in the whole country were not pacified, he naturally had to return to the northeast first, and after consolidating his power in the northeast, he chose the opportunity to develop south.
Judging from the two zhifeng wars, Zhang Zuolin won and lost, but Zhang Zuolin's forces began to extend southward, including his subordinate Zhang Zongchang to Shandong and sit in Shandong, and the forces of the Feng warlords extended to Jiangsu. But after the defeat, Zhang Zuolin's power was recovered.
Judging from this war, Zhang Zuolin also took the northeast as his base and adopted the method of taking steps as a battalion, constantly consolidating his own forces, and then realizing his ambitions, but unfortunately he did not succeed.
Retreat
Although Zhang Zuolin was born with a beard and did not have much culture, Zhang Zuolin was considered to be a generation of tyrants, and Zhang Zuolin understood very well that the current situation of the Beiyang government was not something he could achieve on his own. Therefore, the title of president had been played by later presidents at that time, and he had lost interest in Zhang Zuolin.
Zhang Zuolin's Fengzhi warlords were very powerful at that time, so in the Zhifeng War, Zhang Zuolin lost first and then won, and could only achieve part of his strength.
Judging from the situation at that time, although the northeast was Zhang Zuolin's old lair, Zhang Zuolin was also known as the king of the northeast, but the Japanese power in the northeast was more powerful, and Zhang Zuolin could not be the only one himself. The purpose of his return is to use Japan to realize his future as a famous "national boss".
Unfortunately, Zhang Zuolin did not have the possibility of realizing this opportunity. Because of his relationship with the Japanese, he was also friendly and enemy, and the Japanese were also very wary of him, believing that Zhang Zuolin was an obstacle to the realization of the Japanese forces, and only by eliminating Zhang Zuolin could he hope.