History is like a tragedy, without lust, sin, disaster, and making waves in it, it will appear lifeless and annoying. - Voltaire
Just as the so-called heroes of the chaotic world were born, in modern China, the Qing government was facing internal and external troubles, revolutionary uprisings in various places were continuous, and there were invasions by foreign powers, and the whole of China could be described as a pot of porridge. After the Xinhai Revolution, it was thought that China could develop and become stronger, but there were often wars between warlords, and they did not hesitate to fight for a little benefit, and even lured wolves into the house. In the northeast region, there was the warlord Zhang Zuolin, who was more willing to be called the "King of the Northeast" by history buffs, and Zhang Zuolin was the de facto ruler of the northeast at that time. Whether it is from the biography of the characters or from the film and television works, it can be seen how powerful Zhang Zuolin's ruling methods are, and his ability is indeed beyond doubt.
After the death of Yuan Shikai, the leader of the Beiyang warlords, warlords everywhere wanted to compete for the position of "dragon head", and since then the warlord melee has begun, and the country has once again fallen into war. After the failure of the "Hongxian Imperial System", Zhang Zuolin was appointed by President Li Yuanhong as the governor of Fengtian Province, and later because Feng Delin participated in Zhang Xun's restoration, Zhang Zuolin took advantage of the situation to seize the military power of his Twenty-eighth Division and unify the military administration of Feng Province. Zhang Zuolin used His Japanese power to gradually control the three provinces of Bong, Ji, and Hei, and eventually became the leader of the Bong clan.
Zhang Zuolin was born into poverty, once became a beard, and devoted himself to the green forest. Years of trial and error have made him look particularly sophisticated and meticulous in handling things. I have to say that Zhang Zuolin's ability to recognize people is really powerful, he dares to use people, he will use people, such as Yang Yuting. In 1925, Feng Jun's power expanded to Shanghai, and Zhang Zuolin's power reached its peak. On June 18, 1927, Zhang Zuolin was inaugurated in Beijing as grand marshal of the Army and Navy of the Beiyang government, exercising the right to rule on behalf of the Republic of China, becoming the supreme ruler of the country, and he was also the last ruler of the Beiyang military regime.
During his reign, Zhang Zuolin repeatedly refused the demands of the Japanese and refused to sign unequal treaties. In 1928, the situation of the Feng army took a sharp turn for the worse, and the Northern Expeditionary Army Jiang, Feng, Yan, and Li launched an attack on the Feng army, and the Entire Feng Army collapsed, and Zhang Zuolin telegraphed to withdraw from Beijing. Because Zhang Zuolin refused to meet the unreasonable demands of Japanese imperialism, on June 4 of the same year, when Zhang Zuolin was driving on a special train from Beijing back to Fengtian to the vicinity of Huanggutun, he was destroyed by a bomb planted in advance by the Japanese Kwantung Army, and Zhang Zuolin, a tyrant of the chaotic world, was killed at the age of 53.
In fact, after the explosion, Zhang Zuolin did not die on the spot, but was sent to the hospital for rescue. Zhang Zuolin knew that time was short, so he confessed his last words to his cronies: "Secrets do not send mourning, and the sixth son (Zhang Xueliang) of the emergency telegram returns to take over the Northeast Army to prevent chaos." In addition, Zhang Zuolin also deliberately stressed: This person must not be allowed to enter the northeast, and it was proved afterwards that Zhang Zuolin's vision was really too poisonous.
This person is Zhang Zongchang, one of the leaders of the warlords, who is known to the world as "general of dog meat", "general of the five poisons", "general of the three unknowns" (the soldiers do not know how much, the money does not know, the aunt does not know how much), can be described as the worst among the Beiyang warlords, and even regarded as a warlord who has brought calamity to the country and the people, and is an out-and-out villain. Zhang Zongchang is a man with little culture, but he also likes to write poetry:
"I heard that Xiang Yu pulled up the mountain, and It frightened Liu Bang to go away. Not The little Zhang Liang of the family, Grandma has long returned to Pei County. "If you want to ask women how geometric, I don't know how many." Yesterday a child called out to his father, I don't know which one his mother is? --Zhang Zongchang
Although Zhang Zuolin appointed Zhang Zongchang before his death, he also knew his personality, and even believed that Zhang Zongchang was likely to be a traitor in the future, and he did not hesitate to use any means to achieve his goals, and his means were extremely cruel. Unlike Yang Yuting, Zhang Zongchang may have betrayed everything for the sake of profit, and after Zhang Zuolin's death, if Zhang Zongchang was allowed to lead his troops into the northeast, the consequences would be unimaginable. Zhang Zuolin's admonition to Zhang Xueliang before his death was not unreasonable, the so-called defensive heart is indispensable, and the facts have also proved that the old marshal's eyes are poisonous.
After the Huanggutun incident, Zhang Zongchang still had 50,000 horses under him, and he pleaded like Zhang Xueliang to get out of the customs, but Zhang Xueliang had already taken precautions, and he was really afraid that he would replace him after he left the customs, not only was he not allowed to leave the customs, but he sent his troops to control the situation. After the Northern Expeditionary Army occupied Beijing, Tianjin and other places, Zhang Zongchang saw that the general situation had gone, and even left tens of thousands of troops to flee in disguise. Zhang Zongchang went into exile in Japan, but his thief was not dead, and he even pretended to be a representative of the National Government, signed treaties with foreigners, even defected to the Japanese, and came together with Puyi. Zhang Xueliang was worried that Zhang Zongchang was really a traitor, so he telegraphed him to return to China, and eventually, Zhang Zongchang was assassinated.
Zhang Zuolin's vision was indeed poisonous, if Zhang Xueliang had not been reminded that year, perhaps Zhang Xueliang would have allowed Zhang Zongchang to lead his troops into the customs later, and Zhang Zuolin could not say that he could completely control Zhang Zongchang before he died, let alone the newly appointed young marshal. If Zhang Zongchang led his troops into the customs, it was likely to launch a mutiny to seize power, or even cooperate with the Japanese, and if the "pro-Japanese faction" took over the northeast, the consequences would be unimaginable.