The reason why Zhang Zongchang was able to mix with the position of a provincial overseer in the quagmire of the Republic of China, in addition to his ability to be open-minded, actually lies in his knowledge.
He learned this from his wife, who went out to beg when he was 9 years old, and was saved by a bachelor on the side of the road when he was hungry, and then followed the bachelor in order to have a mouthful of food, which was called "job hopping" by the locals.
Therefore, he later suffered from Guo Songling's anger under Feng Zhang, and when he was scolded by Guo Songling, in order to be able to continue to stay in Fengshi and gain a firm foothold, he was also willing to shave his body, called Guo Songling a "father", and gave Guo a kneeling prostration.
This open-minded kung fu, at that time, was absolutely unique, and there was no second person except Zhang Zongchang.
Zhang Zongchang's acquaintance is the way of survival that he has cultivated for decades.
His father took him to "break into the Kanto and break all the way to the outer northeast, although at this time the outer northeast had fallen into the hands of the Russians, but there were many Chinese who went there to make a living."
His father could not stay there, and returned to Shandong, but he stayed alone, vowing to make a name for himself. He knew that it was the domain of the Russians, so if he wanted to make a name for himself there, he naturally had to curry favor with and please the Russians, and for this reason he also learned fluent Russian.
Mixed and mixed, he also became the number one figure in the territory of Vladivostok, and later the Xinhai Revolution broke out in China, and the revolutionaries came to Vladivostok to recruit soldiers and horses, and found him.
What did he think? If you want to get ahead, how can you always shrink in Vladivostok? He was from a rough background again, and this was when he seized the opportunity to climb up, so he almost spent his continued recruitment and returned to China without much thought, and threw himself into Chen Qimei's command.
But later, when he saw that Mr. Sun was not Yuan's opponent, in order to save himself, he threw himself into Feng Guozhang's hands.
For Zhang Zongchang, of course, this is a good bird choosing a tree to perch, Yuan is in the limelight at this time, and the situation is "must be Yuan", then of course, he has to jump to Yuan's side and serve Yuan! It was precisely because he voted for Feng Guozhang, and later Feng Guozhang became the acting president, that he was able to sit in the position of deputy director of the presidential office.
Unfortunately, later Feng Guozhang lost his position and fell into difficulty, and Zhang Zongchang was also affected by the Jiangxi overseer Chen Guangyuan as the commander of the light pole.
Although Zhang Zongchang became the commander of the light pole, but he did not collapse because of this, he took out money to buy more than a dozen golden lions to give to Cao Kun, wanted to jump to Cao Kun's side, originally Cao Kun saw that the shining golden lion had agreed to accept him, but he did not expect to be kicked away by Wu Peifu.
To put it bluntly, Wu Peifu looked down on him.
Zhang Zongchang was not discouraged, he shook his head, picked up two dung baskets and went straight to Fengtian, there is no grandfather here, there is a place to stay!
After he cast Zhang Zuolin, he actually sat on the cold bench for a while, and later coincided with Zhang Zuolin's temporary inability to deal with Gao Shiyi, who was making trouble in Jilin Province, which allowed him to seize the opportunity to introduce himself and then climb up smoothly.
Whoever has the strength and can mix with him and give him benefits, then he will follow this person, from Chen Qimei to Feng Guozhang, from Feng Guozhang to Cao and Wu, and then from Cao and Wu to Fengzhang.
However, Zhang Zongchang's change of camp is not the same as Feng's "defection", which is rare and valuable, which is also his understanding, otherwise it is difficult to gain the trust and reuse of others.
Zhang Zuolin has been doing it for decades, and he is still very accurate in seeing people, which is also one of the reasons why he dares to use Zhang Zongchang, who has also made a lot of contributions to the Feng family.
Since Zhang Zongchang is a person who knows each other, it means that he is also very self-aware, and does he not know how different the strength of himself and Zhang Zuolin is?
The reason why Zhang Zongchang was able to sit in the position of Shandong Overseer was that in the end there was Feng Zhi behind him to support him, so he could quickly sit on the throne of the Overseer.
Zhang Zuolin controlled the territory of eight provinces and three cities at his peak, Zhang Zongchang only had one Shandong, did he dare to fight against Zhang Zuolin? Obviously, he didn't dare, this was not in line with his way of survival, not to mention that he had been beaten into the commander of the light rod after Feng Guozhang lost power, if there was no Zhang Zuolin to take him in, would he be Zhang Ludu today?
Zhang Zongchang is a real villain, but in fact he has his own bottom line, which is why he lost Zhang during the Northern Expedition, but did not force Zhang Zuolin.
Therefore, Zhang Zongchang is almost impossible to turn his face with Zhang Zuolin, unless one day Zhang Zuolin completely loses his position like Feng Guozhang, or he himself has enough strength to stand on his own.
If Zhang Zongchang had turned his face to Zhang Zuolin when he had just become the overseer of Shandong, Zhang Zuolin was in the limelight, not to mention that there was no possibility of winning, and it was estimated that he would be beaten into a pig's head.
If he had turned his face with Zhang Zuolin in 1928, unless Zhang Zongchang could have planted the Qingtian White Sun Flag at the head of the city like Feng and Yan, the ending would not have been much better, but if the Qingtian White Sun Flag was planted, he would also face the situation of being absorbed by Jiang, just like the later Zhang Shaoshuai.
Therefore, for Zhang Zongchang, there is no need to turn his face with Zhang Zuolin, as long as he is with Feng Zhang, it is most in line with his own interests.