Good afternoon, friends! Ziyuan has introduced a lot of anecdotes about the "King of the Northeast" Zhang Zuolin before, which has aroused the strong interest of readers, and today we will talk about the story of Zhang Zuolin leaving a will before his death, asking his son Zhang Xueliang to strictly prohibit the warlord Zhang Zongchang from entering the northeast.
▲Zhang Zuolin's old photo
In the early years of the Republic of China, after the death of the Beiyang leader Yuan Shikai, the Beiyang warlords continued to fight and fight, and the strongest of them was probably Zhang Zuolin, the "King of the Northeast". As the leader of the Fengzhi warlords, Zhang Zuolin not only controlled the three northeastern provinces for many years, but also defeated the warlord leader Wu Peifu in the second "Zhifeng War", entered the city of Beijing, and appointed himself grand marshal of the army and navy, exercising the right to rule on behalf of the Republic of China, becoming the last ruler of the Beiyang government. During his reign in the northeast, Zhang Zuolin tried his best to prevent the Japanese Kwantung Army from invading and occupying China's rights and interests. Because of his high authority, the Japanese officers did not dare to be arrogant when they met this "king of the Northeast" and had to delay the pace of aggression. From this point of view, Zhang Zuolin has made a lot of contributions to safeguarding the rights and interests of the state, but he has also annoyed the Japanese side, and many people in the Japanese military department can be said to want to get rid of it quickly.
▲Shenyang Zhang Shuai Mansion
In order to retaliate against Zhang Zuolin and invade northeast China at an early date, Daisaku Kawamoto, a senior staff officer of the Japanese Kwantung Army, disregarded the Japanese government's ban and planned to launch the "Huanggutun Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries. Due to the sudden and detailed planning of the "Huanggutun Incident", the special train that Zhang Zuolin was riding on was destroyed by the huge impact caused by the explosion, and the grand marshal Zhang Zuolin was unfortunately seriously injured. Fortunately, Zhang Zuolin did not die immediately, nor did he lose consciousness, and after Liu Shangqing, the governor of Fengtian Province, led his men to send him back to the Shenyang Grand Marshal's Mansion, zhang Zuolin, who was dying, disregarded his pain and rushed to confess his will to Lady Lu and a number of lieutenants, demanding that he not be mourned after his death, and Zhang Xueliang, the sixth son of Fengtian, secretly returned to Fengtian to take over the Northeast Army and preside over the major events behind him. In addition, Zhang Zuolin also left a last word to warn Zhang Xueliang that after his death, many warlords and generals of the Feng clan would come to mourn, but zhang Zongchang should not be allowed to enter the customs.
▲ "Huanggutun Incident" old photos
Zhang Zongchang, mentioned by Zhang Zuolin, is the famous "dog meat general". Zhang Zongchang had long been in Shandong and was one of the important warlords who held local real power during the Republic of China period, although he belonged to the same fengzhi warlords, Zhang Zongchang's reputation was much worse than that of Zhang Zuolin, the "King of northeast China". The local people of Shandong have such a song about the warlord Zhang Zongchang: "There are also green onions, there are also ginger, and it is Zhang Zongchang who is boiled in the pot." Zhang Zongchang, eat meat first, then drink soup. It can be seen that his reputation is stinky, because Zhang Zongchang himself ate, drank, gambled and smoked the "five poisons", and people also called him "the general of the five poisons". During Zhang Zongchang's overseer of Shandong, he not only sucked the marrow from the bones of the people of Qilu, but also created the tragic "Qingdao Massacre", and the warlords under him also learned from each other, fishing and fleshing the people everywhere.
Zhang Zongchang had such a bad deed, but he could still become a provincial overseer because he had a strong backer behind him, Zhang Zuolin, the leader of the Feng clan warlords. At the beginning of Zhang Zongchang's enlistment, he worked under Zhang Zuolin, and after being promoted to battalion commander, he was gradually promoted because of his "meritorious efforts in suppressing bandits", thus becoming Zhang Zuolin's right and left arm. Zhang Zuolin knew that Zhang Zongchang and his subordinates were full of anger, but Zhang Zongchang himself was quite capable, brave in battle and dared to be bold, and was a rare and fierce general, which was convenient for himself to do some inconvenient things, so he was willing to support him and send him to Shandong To oversee a province.
▲Zhang Zuolin stills
Of course, although Zhang Zuolin attached great importance to favoring Zhang Zongchang, he had to be wary of him, so he would leave a last word to Zhang Xueliang, ordering him not to let Zhang Zongchang enter the customs. Zhang Zuolin was well aware of Zhang Zongchang's bad character and was the kind of person who could do whatever it took to do anything for his own interests, and his son Zhang Xueliang obviously did not have enough ability to control this general, and if he allowed him to lead his troops into the northeast, I was afraid that the shandong incident would probably repeat itself in the northeast. In addition, due to Zhang Zongchang's close and ambiguous ties with the Japanese side, the northeast was already being spied on by the Kwantung Army and was full of crises, and if Zhang Zongchang entered the customs, he would definitely cooperate with Japan inside and outside, and then the three northeastern provinces would inevitably be in danger.
▲Old photo of young marshal Zhang Xueliang
After a series of events, it confirmed Zhang Zuolin's expectations - Zhang Zongchang, who was defeated by the "Northern Expedition", in order to seek a comeback, the first thing he found was Zhang Xueliang, who requested to take refuge in the pass and borrow troops to counterattack. Zhang Xueliang obeyed his father's dying will, played Tai Chi with Zhang Zongchang, and said a lot of polite words, but there was no substantive action, and he did not explicitly agree to Zhang Zongchang's request. In desperation, Zhang Zongchang had to cross the East to Japan to temporarily avoid the limelight, fight for the Japanese, and become a traitorous lackey. I have to say that Zhang Zuolin's vision is very precise and poisonous, and he has long seen through Zhang Zongchang's nature.