Zhang Zuolin, as a warlord in the northeast, after Zhang Xueliang's death, many people wondered whose hands his huge wealth eventually fell into.
Fengtian (Shenyang) Huanggutun exploded, and Zhang Zuolin, the "King of the Northeast", was seriously injured and died four hours later. On June 18, 1928, Zhang Xueliang secretly returned to Shenyang in disguise. The next day, he was formally appointed as the Military Inspector and established the Northeast Provisional Security Committee, chairman of the committee. From then on, Zhang Xueliang began to rule the northeast.
Since Zhang Zuolin was killed by the Japanese, the descendants of the Zhang family have no longer been sheltered. Zhang Xueliang's generation, 8 brothers all independently followed their own path. During the Beiyang period, the total private property of 71 bureaucratic warlords reached 630 million yuan, while Zhang Zuolin personally occupied 50 million yuan, ranking first in the list. He has 200,000 hectares of land (1 hectare per hectare), businesses throughout the three eastern provinces, hundreds of factories and mines, and the aircraft artillery and tanks of the Fengjun army... In the following 26 years, wealth increased rapidly. ”
In addition, there is a folk saying that after the Japanese invaded Shenyang, they openly said that they hoped that the People of the Zhang family would return to the northeast to receive the Zhang family's property. In the end, it was the bold and careful Lady Shou who took back the property from the Japanese army. But Zhang Zuolin's grandson, Zhang Lushi, said that this was completely fabricated. "On the night of the '918' incident, my grandmother was on vacation in Tianjin, and according to the dictation of his uncle Zhang Xueliang in his later years, honzhuang Fan, the commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army, who had a good personal relationship with him, paid for it himself and filled the treasures and belongings of the Shuai Mansion with 3 trains and drove to Beijing.
But Uncle Dabo refused to accept it, and told Honjo Fan, 'If you want to pay it back, you should return the northeast to China.' Honjo Fan had no choice but to order the train to return to Shenyang. "It is said that as soon as the train left Shanhaiguan, it was looted by Japanese soldiers. Therefore, Lady Shou, who was in Tianjin at that time, only had very little coiling in her hands, and even once had to rely on relatives in Tianjin to help her.
Zhang Lushi also mentioned "Zhang Sanyitang", the institution that oversees the Zhang family's wealth and industrial accounts in the northeast. Before leaving Shenyang, Lady Shou entrusted Zhang Xueliang's eldest sister Zhang Shoufang to take charge of Zhang Sanyitang on her behalf. After the "918" incident, Zhang Shoufang fled to Tianjin with the Zhang family. It was not until after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression that the Zhang family returned to Shenyang to find out where Zhang Sanyitang and the Zhang family's property had gone, and only then did they realize that they had basically been plundered by the Japanese.
A generation of tyrants eventually fell, and the family wealth was scattered. Money is really something outside the body, life does not bring, death does not bring. In the face of national disasters, no amount of money will help!