"Our family's officials were fished out of blood." This sentence was said by Ma Bufang, the "King of the Northwest" who has been traversing Qinghai for decades, and just as this sentence says, the Qinghai family warlord represented by Ma Bufang, whether in the late Qing Dynasty or during the War of Resistance or even liberation, carried a smell of blood that could not be washed away.
Where does this smell of blood come from? Why is there? If you want to know this answer, you must first find the answer from Ma Bufang's ancestors.
Ma Bufang's ancestor is Ma Haiyan, and his fortune also started from here, Ma Haiyan mainly engaged in the trafficking business of medicinal materials and wood, and was the leader of the local gang, good at riding, good at boxing, good at making meteor hammers and guns. At the age of twenty-six, he rebelled against the Qing with his cousin Ma Zhan'ao and became Ma Zhan'ao's right-hand man, but he soon surrendered to the Qing army Dong Fuxiang.
The Qing general Dong Fuxiang used Ma Anliang and Ma Fulu to suppress the anti-Qing Muslims, Ma Haiyan, the flag officer of Ma Fulu's department, was rewarded for his bloody massacre and suppression, and his son Ma Qi was also awarded the Liupin Military Merit Medal. The Ma family tasted the sweetness of blood for the first time.
During the Gengzi Fist Rebellion, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, and the Qing government transferred the Gan army under the command of Dong Fuxiang to the Weijing Division, and at the same time ordered Ma Haiyan to bring a concise army into Beijing, garrisoned in the area of Zhili, and soon transferred to guard the Yongding Gate.
On July 21 of the same year, Cixi fled Beijing with the Guangxu Emperor, and Ma Haiyan was escorted by the order, and after receiving the order on the 23rd of the same month, the starry night chased after him, and on August 15, he caught up with the palace car in Xuanhua County. Sixty-three-year-old Ma Haiyan died of illness in Xuanhua due to running all night and overwork.
Remembering his loyalty and merits, Cixi posthumously awarded the title of commander-in-chief, and his post was taken over by his eldest son Ma Qi, since the history of the Ma family's family began.
Ma Haiyan and Ma Lin's family started in rebellion in the late Qing Dynasty, and after countless open and secret struggles of all sizes, they became a local warlord, and it is precisely for this reason that Ma Bufang, who inherited the family business, rightfully regarded Qinghai as his own territory and forbade others to dye their hands.
In 1932, the Kashag government of Tibet, with the support of the British, sent troops to invade Yushu, the gateway to Qinghai, and Ma Bufang fought a fierce battle to protect the southern border of Qinghai and recover Yushu, ostensibly maintaining the unity of the nation.
In 1933, Chiang Kai-shek believed that the Qinghai troops were disloyal to him, so he ordered Sun Dianying, commander of the 41st Army, to lead a 100,000-strong army to chaydam, intending to divide Ma Bufang's rights, ma Bufang was extremely disgusted by this, and brazenly sent troops to Ningxia in the name of "defending Sangzi", causing Sun Dianying's move to enter Qinghai to directly become a failure.
In 1936, the Hongxi Route Army that entered Gansu on the Long March entered Ma Bufang's eyes, and this army that had experienced the Long March and was already very tired was a great enemy in his view, so a battle began, and more than 20,000 Western Route Army finally connected to Xinjiang with only more than 400 people, but Ma Bufang also paid a tragic price, the original more than 30,000 regular troops died more than 20,000, and the family was almost beaten, and in a hurry, Ma Bufang launched an extremely cruel retaliatory action.
Whether it is the Red Army, the Japanese or the Nationalist government, as long as it wants to seize the territory of Qinghai or threaten Ma Bufang's rule in Qinghai, then Ma Bufang must spare no expense and fight hard, which accurately shows his attitude.
In Ma Bufang's view, Qinghai was desperately fought down by their Ancestors of the Ma family, then, this land must always be surnamed Ma, he absolutely cannot allow any external forces to encroach on this land of Qinghai, he spent so much effort, this climbed to the position of acting chairman of Qinghai Province, who wants to replace him, can not, must be killed.
All the people in this land are his family's domestic servants, his family's slaves, must be obedient all their lives, Ma Bufang once said: "I regard Qinghai as my own household chores."
In the local dialect, the word "housekeeper" means to buy a family business, so whether Ma Bufang is engaged in economy, education, or expanding the army to fight against Japan, he is doing "family affairs", since he is buying his own "family affairs", why not dress up well in the "family"?
In 1940, Ma Bufang forced all counties in Qinghai to shoot lepers and burn and disinfect their bodies. All the property of the family need not be said to be naturally their own, so after the defeat of the horse infantry, the gold and silver dollars they carried almost crushed the plane.
Further, it is absolutely a great shame that more than half of one's own family property and one's own soldiers have been killed, so revenge is also deserved. Therefore, in October 1936, Ma Buqing and Ma Bufang led their troops to frantically block the Western Route Army of the Red Army in Hexi, Gansu Province, which lasted for 7 months and inflicted heavy casualties on the Western Route Army. The Western Route Army was buried alive, heart-wrenching, tongue-cutting, whipped to death, and many people dug up their guts.
The captured female fighters of the Western Route Army were even more brutally shot, buried alive, and enslaved. But after all, these are already a thing of the past, and Ma Bufang, the once-beautiful "Lord of Qinghai", was finally defeated and fled to Saudi Arabia in a hurry, and even the family's house became someone else's sightseeing spot.
If Ma Bufang has any influence on the present, at the beginning of this century, if you go to Ma Jiajun's hometown Linxia area and walk around, you will definitely see many Hui old women wearing white hijabs, dressed in Hui clothes and speaking the authentic dialect, and all of them are full of children and grandchildren.
Although it looks no different from the locals, if you ask Ma Bufang and their experiences, they are full of tears, but they will never mention the past fifty or sixty years ago.