History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
During the Beiyang government, the old rules have been broken, the new rules are still being reshaped, and everything is possible. In this era of great change, some people have seized the opportunity to change their destiny and create surprising results. In the autumn of 1924, Feng Yuxiang staged a coup d'état and occupied Beijing. Not long after, a general was hastily tied to the overpass and executed by firing squad.
This general was none other than Li Yanqing, director of the Revenue and Expenditure Department of the Presidential Office, deputy director of quartermasters, and director of military stations.
Regardless of whether the logistics general fights or kills people, why is Feng Yuxiang so resentful that he must kill him first?
Slowly, some soft knives kill without blood. This logistics general, Li Yanqing, has consistently squeezed the troops, extorted money, pampered himself, and committed one ugly deed after another, which is worse than directly killing people, and all the generals of the army hate it to the bone. It is sooner or later that they are killed.
Speaking of which, this Li Yanqing is also a talent. He broke into the Kanto region from an early age, digging ginseng, cutting wood, and later working as a receptionist in a bathhouse in Changchun. Li Yanqing is knowledgeable and clever, and he is also a talent, although he was born low, but his development is unlimited. One day in 1912, the third town commanded Cao Kun to take a bath. The boss specially arranged for Li Yanqing to scrub a bath. This rubbing, can't help. Li Yanqing used all his strength to entertain attentively, to meet and greet, to figure out the psychology, and to make Cao Kun laugh. Soon, he specially recruited Li Yanqing to his side as an errand boy, and also married the daughter of a domestic servant to him. Li Yanqing climbed the big tree of Cao Kun, just like sitting on a helicopter, changing from a servant to an aide-de-camp, and then promoting him to the chief of the quartermaster department of the direct army and the director of the revenue and expenditure department of the presidential palace, and was in charge of Cao Kun's property power.
The reason why Li Yanqing can rise step by step is that he is good at speculating on psychology. Cao Kun often said to people: "I rely on the overseers of my faction to protect me as the president on the outside, and on the inside it is li Yanqing who takes care of my health." I have both in this life, and I can travel for a lifetime and die without regrets. "Li Yanqing can not only help him massage, but also help him accumulate wealth." There were 25 divisions in the direct army, and When Li Yanqing was paid, each division withheld 20,000 yuan, and the miscellaneous army had even more. This alone swept away 500,000 oceans for Cao Kun. Cao Kun was so satisfied that he awarded him the title of Army General. Cao Kun had five close associates, known as the "Five Rabbits", namely: Li Yanqing, deputy director of quartermasters, Lu Jin, director of the military department, Wu Yulin, director of the general of communications, Wang Yuzhi, secretary general, and Zhou Mengxian, deputy director of the department. Li Yanqing was at the top. The limelight is unmatched, the power is tilted towards the opposition, and the celebrities in beijing are all vying for help.
Even Feng Yuxiang, who had always been unruly, had to swallow his anger under Li Yanqing's power. When the Zhifeng War broke out, Feng Yuxiang was in urgent need of weapons and equipment, and after being approved by Cao Kun, he went to Hyogo to collect them, but Li Yanqing did not give them. Feng Yuxiang gritted his teeth and raised 100,000 ocean kickbacks before receiving this batch of urgent guns.
However, out of the mix, sooner or later have to pay back. Feng Yuxiang was indignant about this and staged a coup d'état in October 1924, leading a large army back to Beijing from the front. As soon as he entered Beijing, Feng Yuxiang issued two orders: one was to arrest Li Yanqing, and the other was to arrest Former Finance Minister Wang Kemin. Feng Yuxiang believed that these two men did not give him military salaries and let the soldiers go hungry. After Li Yanqing was arrested, he handed over 450,000 yuan of property, but refused to hand over Cao Kun's property. Feng Yuxiang was furious and ordered Lu Zhonglin to shoot him.
Li Yanqing's hometown is in Li Yuanzhai Village, Ling County, Dezhou, Shandong. Li Yanqing used the withheld military salary to build a large mansion in his hometown and built a palace-style mansion. Anyone who went to Ling County to become a county magistrate must come to Li Yanqing's house to send gifts and greet an. There was a county magistrate who didn't follow the rules and didn't give gifts at the door. Li Yanqing's family did not receive him. The county magistrate was very worried, afraid of sitting unsteadily, so he invited a feng shui gentleman. Mr. Feng Shui instructed him to dig a large ditch in the east of the city and destroy the feng shui of Li Yanqing's family yard. Coincidentally, as soon as this ditch was dug, Li Yanqing was killed, and no one in the compound dared to live there ever since. After liberation, the courtyard became a local cultural relics protection unit.