The Survival Wisdom of the Beiyang Era (278): Lao Ji Futuo.
The Beiyang warlords have a tradition that even if the troops are in turmoil, they will try to avoid the notoriety of "committing crimes below", so the hot war of the Zhiwan War lasted only three or four days to solve the battle, and the defeated Duan Qirui was still just a gray-headed and quiet end, but his life was not in danger. It seems to be a showdown between the two camps of the direct warlords and the Anhui warlords, but because the war ended too quickly like a tornado, the warlords of the two clans everywhere were still waiting to see whether they would win or lose. The border defense army created by Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng was defeated because of the sword of the jade marshal Wu Peifu, and the soldiers were defeated like mountains, of course, behind them, they could not help but take advantage of the fire and robbery of the Feng army, and the result was that they were divided up by the Zhifeng coalition army. However, the strength of the Anhui warlords who divided the areas was not damaged, and the changes in territory and status naturally took great pains, and the gluttonous warlords who directly served the warlords only left Zhejiang as their own land.
But the reason is also very simple, Zhejiang overseer Lu Yongxiang, including the Songhu garrison, there are two divisions and a mixed brigade of men and horses, this piece of fat is not so easy to nibble. After defeating the Anhui warlords, the Zhi and Feng warlords entered Gyeonggi as the victors, and the consequence of the uneven division of the loot was that Wu Peifu gambled and ran to Luoyang to train his troops, cao Kun was obsessed with taking the throne, wanting to sit in the top seat of the stomach, and Zhang Zuolin was fluttering at various cameras, boasting that his 300,000 feng army was unmatched. The turf battle between the warlords directly under the Yangtze River Basin and the warlords of the Feng clan has made the Beiyang Temple even more nerve-wracking. In the process of wrestling between the two sides, Li Chun, the head of the three governors of the Yangtze River under the leadership of Feng Guozhang, a warlord and the head of the Three Governors of the Yangtze River, suddenly chose to commit suicide, and the cause of death was controversial, until the Overseer Bureau published the suicide note he left behind in the world to calm the rumors.
In fact, the reason is very complicated and pale, that is, Li Chun has always been relatively famous. After the Zhiwan War, he, the envoy of the Su, Gan, and Anhui Patrols, who was at this time the only beiyang army division commander and was awarded the title of yingwei general, had always been regarded by the temple as a figure who could be on a par with Zhang Zuolin, the inspector of the three eastern provinces, and Cao Kun, who was patrolling the three eastern provinces, and Cao Kun, and was far above the governors of the provinces. However, in the process of ascending to the throne, because of his old partner, Chen Guangyuan, who was the overseer of Jiangxi at the time, actually resisted by asking for leave and delaying, unwilling to accept his restraint. Chen Guangyuan's attitude greatly stimulated Li Chun, and at this time Li Chun's spirit was already in trouble, and the successive years of electrification had made him pessimistic and world-weary, and he had frankly revealed his heart in a telegram to his friends: "Wear a hair into the mountains and say goodbye to the world forever." Then he called his wife and brother, saying that his overseers did not want to do it, and asked him to take seven thousand yuan in subsidies to make a living for himself. On October 11 of the ninth year of Beiyang, Li Chun stayed up all night and then shot himself.
In the end, in Li Chun's five suicide notes, it is not difficult to see the enlightenment and struggle of this warlord elder before his death. The first letter was about the distribution of inheritance, and a quarter was donated to the direct subordinate disaster relief, a quarter to the Nankai School, and the remaining half to dismiss the family members. The second letter is to confess that his life is short, and he is ashamed of the people, willing to die to apologize for his sins, and be willing to do things. The third letter was a warning to Beiyang Robe Ze not to dispute again, pure in the Nine Springs, but also with a smile of gratitude. The fourth letter was to ask the zhejiang overseer Lu Yongxiang to maintain the harmony between the two provinces, and the center allowed Qi Xieyuan to take over as the overseer of Jiangsu. The fifth suicide note instructed Qi Xieyuan and other successors to appease the An Wu army left by Ni Sichong and allocate 200,000 yuan to maintain the stability of the two provinces. Li Chun ended his life in contradictions and struggles after leaving a suicide note, and this old subordinate whom Feng Guozhang was a confidant no longer had to participate in the dispute between the Beiyang robes and the wall.