Zhang Zuolin was a famous warlord during the Republic of China period and was known as the "King of Northeast China". Since the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War, Japan has been paying attention to China. After the Japanese intelligence agencies investigated, they believed that if they wanted to invade China, they must first occupy the northeast. The northeast has abundant resources, and after occupying here, it attacked from north to south, and the south was all plains, and it would be able to fully occupy China in less than three months.
If the Japanese wanted to occupy the northeast, they had to deal with Zhang Zuolin. As a local warlord, Zhang Zuolin wanted to occupy the northeast and confront the central government, and at that time, the three northeastern provinces were under his control, and even the Japanese did not dare to openly occupy it. Although Zhang Zuolin cooperated with the Japanese, he would never allow the Japanese to infringe on his own interests. Therefore, the Japanese could cooperate with Zhang Zuolin, but it was very difficult to occupy the northeast.
Although the Japanese later occupied the northeast, they had to be jealous of Zhang Zuolin's strength at that time. Zhang Zuolin vigorously developed the military industry in the northeast, and the military strength of the northeast army at that time was even considered to be the strongest in all of China. Zhang Zuolin founded one of Asia's largest military factories in the northeast and established a naval force with dozens of warships, not even the central army at that time.
Seeing this, many people may think that the northeast under Zhang Zuolin's rule is very rich and the people live and work in peace and contentment. However, a set of old photos taken at that time released by the Japanese intelligence agencies made us find that we had been deceived. Zhang Zuolin's military factory was indeed very large, and it is no wonder that the Japanese did not dare to confront him at that time, but only dared to plant bombs on the railway and kill him.
The gap between the rich and the poor is extremely large, and this is the northeast under Zhang Zuolin's rule. The rich naturally don't have to worry, but the poor don't even have enough to eat. During the Qing Dynasty, these Manchus received subsidies from the imperial court every year. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, they had no skills to make a living, and in the end they could only sell their property and heaven and earth, and ended up in such a poor situation.