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In other words, recently many friends will browse on the Internet to a lot of soft articles that deliberately beautify Zhang Zuolin's life and past, mainly about how Lao Zhang fought with little Japan in that period, all kinds of confrontations, in the face of little Japan as grass mustard, even if their force is fierce, but still do not yield, do not fear them.
Even, there are some scenes, the little devil bullied to the head of Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang is also a violent temper directly ordered his subordinates to copy the guys directly on the street to beat the little devil, let people see that it is called a pain. But, in real history, is the real Zhang Zuolin really as described by "those"?
In fact, if we want to say that Zhang Zuolin in historical facts, he was able to rise in that chaotic world, all of this is also based on his own interests, as long as it is in his own interests, then he will not hesitate to cooperate with Little Japan.
As we all know, our Zhang Zuolin Zhang Dashuai was born from the green forest bandits, a person who can grow from the lowest level of society, with his own means and courage, step by step and become the most powerful warlord in the Republic of China period, so it can be seen that this old Zhang's boldness is not comparable to ordinary people.
Zhang Zuolin can be said to be a very ambitious person, independent of the chaotic world of internal and external troubles, in order to be able to compete with the national authorities, he constantly and vigorously developed the production capacity of the military and heavy industry in the northeast region.
Moreover, through his own means, he also built a railway in the northeast, which directly led to the local economic development, not only that, Lao Zhang also built a private military factory in the Shenyang area at that time, which can be said to be the largest military factory in Asia at that time.
The annual production capacity can reach the production of 150 cannons, 200,000 shells of various types, 70,000 rifles, and hundreds of millions of bullets.
Of course, in addition to the large investment in hardware at all costs, and he also attaches great importance to the cultivation of talents, he deliberately founded the Northeast Lecture Hall, every year will train a large number of reserve officers and other talents, in the past 10 years, a lecture hall has cultivated many military talents.
Lao Zhang knew very well that the ratio of domestic equipment to that of the Western powers was nothing more than a burning stick, and he had a lot of vision, and directly introduced a large number of advanced equipment and ordnance production equipment abroad through relations, and at the peak of the Fengzhi dynasty, his combat ability was much stronger than that of the central army of the authorities.
Lao Zhang fought against the Authorities of the Republic of China for his own interests, completely disobeyed the orders of the authorities, and he completely controlled the three northeastern provinces in his own hands, in order to consolidate his own dominance, Zhang Zuolin did not hesitate to choose to cooperate with the Japanese.
However, the skin of the tiger will be reversed, and in the series of subsequent developments, It seems that Zhang Zuolin also buried himself and his great northeast because of this move.
To say that this Zhang Zuolin cooperated with Little Japan, his fundamental purpose of departure was entirely for his own interests, and he wanted to make his own forces become dominant in the northeast, but he would never allow the Japanese to be stationed in the northeast to surpass himself.
This is also why there have been rumors that Zhang Zuolin will not give the Japanese any face in some aspects, however, little Japan is not a fool, and the fundamental purpose of their cooperation with Zhang Zuolin is to pocket the entire northeast.
For them, Zhang Zuolin was just a pawn and stumbling block to use, so when the interests of the two sides later clashed inevitably, the Japanese naturally wanted to get rid of Zhang Zuolin by means.
It is precisely because of this that Zhang Zuolin has become a controversial figure, although Zhang Zuolin is an arrogant and arrogant warlord, but many people will still think so, if the little devils launched the "918 Incident" that year, it was Zhang Zuolin who ruled the entire northeast, then maybe our northeast would not have fallen.
References for this article: "Biography of Zhang Zuolin", "Biography of Zhang Zuolin", "Baidu Encyclopedia Related Terms - Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Zuolin's Relationship with Japanese, etc."