In his lifetime, Zhang Zuolin married six wives, namely zhao Chungui, the second wife Lu Shouxuan, the third lady Dai Xianyu, the fourth lady Xu Pengyang, the fifth lady Zhang Shouyi, and the sixth lady Ma Yueqing.
These six ladies also have their own characteristics.
The original Zhao clan was the wife of the chaff and accompanied Zhang Zuolin through a lonely and nameless bitter life, giving birth to the young marshal Zhang Xueliang.
The second lady, Lu Xianhui, once replaced the position of the Grand Lady and was in charge of the Shuai Mansion, and died at the age of 94.
The third lady, Dai Shi, was an ice beauty, stubborn and independent, and later became a nun.
The fourth lady, Xu Shi, was low-key and devoted to teaching her children, and trained a rear admiral who died at the age of 90, the last of the six ladies.
The fifth lady, Zhang Shouyi, was knowledgeable and open-minded, and became Zhang Zuolin's inner helper.
The sixth lady, Ma Yueqing, is gentle and elegant, and the fifth lady is in love with the same sister.
Among these six ladies, in terms of feelings, Zhang Zuolin must have the deepest feelings with Zhao Chungui, after all, he was a husband and wife in distress, and he also gave birth to his eldest son Zhang Xueliang.
However, if you want to be favored, it is none other than the fifth lady Zhang Shouyi.
Zhang Zuolin was a warlord who led troops to fight and commanded battles for many years, and even stationed in Beijing in the last two years of his life, controlling the power of the state. It was Zhang Shouyi who was in Fengtian, helping him to keep the Marshal's Mansion in order, and there was no trouble between the wives of all parties, so that Zhang Zuolin saved a lot of worries.
Zhang Zuolin is a rough person, and his mouth is, so the woman he likes is definitely not a little girl who is only a promise. Zhang Shouyi is smart, cultured and assertive, and she can always understand Zhang Zuolin's intentions just right and make decisions for Zhang Zuolin.
For example, Zhang Zuolin saw a play, but the age gap was too big, Zhang Zuolin was not easy to mention, so Zhang Shouyi took the initiative to take this play to his side, first as a maid, and then offered to be a little wife for Zhang Zuolin, this play, that is, the sixth lady Ma Yueqing.
Changing to another woman, I heard that her husband liked a play, and he was eager to peel off this play, but Zhang Shouyi did not do this, because he understood Zhang Zuolin's thoughts.
Therefore, in the second half of Zhang Zuolin's life, a huge marshal's mansion was all managed by the fifth lady, Zhang Shouyi, and Zhang Zuolin also deliberately built a building for her in the marshal's mansion, named "Xiaoqinglou". He also bought her two small courtyards in Shenyang City and allowed her to bear the surname of Zhang, called "Zhang Shouyi".
These are treatments that several other ladies do not enjoy.
However, no one could have imagined that this once mighty fifth lady of the Handsome Mansion was an illegitimate child who grew up with her mother in the theater.
Perhaps, it is precisely because he has been accustomed to the coldness and warmth of human feelings since he was a child that he has cultivated Zhang Shouyi's eight-faced and exquisite personality.
Born illegitimate, he was displaced from an early age, but insisted on going to school and studying
Zhang Shouyi's biological father was the famous Heilongjiang general Shoushan, the sixth grandson of the Ming Dynasty general Yuan Chonghuan. However, it is a pity that Zhang Shouyi is only one of his illegitimate children.
When Shou Shan was watching a play in the theater, he took a fancy to a woman surnamed Wang, so he pulled her into the hut and rained a bit. However, as Shoushan, it is impossible to marry a theater woman. However, Wang's stomach was very contentious, and he soon won the lottery, giving birth to a girl named "Shouyi".
In 1900, the Gengzi Incident, Tsarist Russia took the opportunity to do things in the northeast, Shoushan advocated resolute resistance, died on the battlefield, only 40 years old.
After Shoushan's death, the Wang clan had no one to rely on, and once again took her daughter back to the drama team, and she renamed her daughter "Wang Yajun". Little Wang Yajun was thus mixed up in the theater.
The ancient drama team was the working people living at the lowest level, and the poorer they were, the weaker their feelings were. In the drama team, not enough to eat, beaten and scolded, and being calculated are commonplace.
Living in this environment since childhood, little Wang Yajun has developed a delicate personality.
However, wang does not intend to let her daughter follow her own old path, she knows too much about the life of the drama team, and the drama is a kind of person with the lowest status in ancient times. He decided to let his daughter go to school because she understood that only going to school could change her destiny.
In this way, Zhang Shouyi began to go to school, and along the way to the end of middle school, on the day of her high school graduation ceremony, she finally ushered in a change in her destiny.
On that day, Zhang Zuolin, who was the governor of Fengtian Province, came to the graduation ceremony of this middle school for the first time in the world. As a student representative, Zhang Shouyi gave a graduation speech on the podium.
Looking at Zhang Shouyi, who was young and beautiful on the podium and had an extraordinary temperament, Zhang Zuolin inexplicably had a good feeling and conveyed his idea to the school principal, and not long after, 19-year-old Zhang Shouyi married into the Marshal's Mansion and became Zhang Zuolin's fifth wife.
It was in the Shuai Mansion that she was given the surname "Zhang" that her name officially became "Zhang Shouyi".
He emerged as the first head of the Grand Marshal's Mansion
In fact, zhang Zuolin went to attend the graduation ceremony of the middle school that day, neither on a whim nor concerned about education.
He was originally running to pick his daughter-in-law. Because with the improvement of Zhang Zuolin's status, he urgently needs a well-read, cultured and literate woman to be his own sage.
After Zhang Shouyi passed the door, he did not disappoint Zhang Zuolin, he spoke and behaved decently, handled things perfectly and thoughtfully, and was shrewd and capable, which made Zhang Zuolin very satisfied.
In 1918, Zhang Zuolin went out to inspect the troops, just in time to take Zhang Shouyi with him, and at the end of the day, Zhang Shouyi made an impromptu speech, talking about how Zhang Zuolin loved soldiers like sons, how to sympathize with his subordinates, and rewarded all the soldiers in the name of the fifth lady.
Zhang Shouyi's speech was unanimously applauded by all the soldiers of the unit, and Zhang Zuolin also felt that his face was very face-saving. From then on, Zhang Zuolin attended important social occasions with Zhang Shouyi, and the Grand Marshal's Mansion was gradually managed by Zhang Shouyi.
Slowly, Lady Lu handed over the management, and Zhang Shouyi became the first head of the Shenyang Grand Marshal's Mansion.
The Dashuai Mansion was expanded, and Zhang Zuolin deliberately built a small two-story building with green bricks for Zhang Shouyi in the small courtyard to the east, which people called "Xiaoqinglou".
Originally, this was exclusive to Zhang Shouyi, but she did not do this, but instead took over the wives of each room to live in, and let them choose the best room to live in, and instead lived in a room on the north side.
Zhang Shouyi's generosity won the favor of everyone in the Marshal's Mansion.
At this time, the original Zhao Chungui had died, the third lady was ordained as a nun, and there were only the second lady Lu and the fourth lady Xu in the palace. These two people are traditional women, low-key and introverted, do not argue or grab, and Zhang Shouyi is the same sister.
Zhang Zuolin once inspected the troops, saw a small man among the soldiers, and became angry: "Such a short man, how can he be recruited to be a soldier", and his subordinates quickly whispered to him: "This is recommended by the fifth lady." Zhang Zuolin immediately changed his tone: "Mother Bazi, no wonder he is so spiritual, let him be the squad leader."
It can be seen from this that the influence of the fifth lady Zhang Shouyi in Zhang Zuolin's heart is great.
In 1927, the most brilliant moment in Zhang Zuolin's life, he entered Beijing, became the grand marshal of the national navy and army, and became the de facto leader of the country.
In order to better take care of Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Shouyi offered to let Zhang Zuolin marry Ma Yueqing as the sixth lady, and take care of him in Beijing, while he concentrated on taking care of the Grand Marshal's Mansion in Shenyang.
It is said that Zhang Zuolin at this time was already a leader in the country, not worried about eating or drinking, but in the Grand Marshal's Mansion, Zhang Shouyi managed very strictly.
The six ladies usually eat a few dishes, and the people usually eat a few dishes, there are strict rules, if anyone wants to eat something good, they must pay for it out of their own pockets, and they are not allowed to squander it at will, including Zhang Shouyi himself.
Zhang Shouyi's strict management has further consolidated her position as the first internal leader.
In the face of danger, one of her actions saved the entire northeast
In 1928, Zhang Zuolin was defeated in the battle with the Northern Expeditionary Army, and under the persuasion of many parties, he decided to return to his hometown in Shenyang and regain his strength.
At 6 p.m. on June 3, Zhang Zuolin boarded his special train in Beijing and prepared to return to Shenyang, accompanied by the sixth wife Ma Yueqing, the third son Zhang Xuezeng, Jin Yunpeng, Pan Fu, He Fenglin and others.
In the early morning of June 4, when the special train passed the Sandong Bridge at the intersection of the Beijing-Feng Railway and the South Manchuria Railway, with a loud noise, Zhang Zuolin's special train was blown into two pieces, and Zhang Zuolin was blown up into a blur of blood and flesh, and was immediately sent back to the Grand Marshal's Palace.
It turned out that just before Zhang Zuolin decided to return to the northeast, the Japanese found Zhang Zuolin, and seeing that Zhang Zuolin was losing and retreating, they persuaded him to return to the northeast and asked him to sign relevant documents to recognize the de facto independence of Manchuria and Outer Mongolia, but Zhang Zuolin sternly refused.
The Japanese are very dissatisfied with Zhang Zuolin's performance, in fact, they have been dissatisfied with Zhang Zuolin for many years. Over the years, Zhang Zuolin's attitude toward the Japanese has been uncompromising and uncooperative, so that the Japanese have always been like a fish in the throat.
For example, when Guo Songling defected, Zhang Zuolin asked the Japanese for help at a critical moment, the Japanese took the opportunity to ask for benefits, Zhang Zuolin verbally promised to come down, and after quelling Guo Songling, Zhang Zuolin refused to admit it, which made the Japanese very annoyed.
This time, they decided to completely get rid of Zhang Zuolin and re-choose a suitable puppet.
Therefore, whether Zhang Zuolin was killed on the spot has become a matter of great concern to the Japanese, and they have sent a large number of personnel to inquire in many ways.
When Zhang Zuolin was sent back to the Marshal's Mansion, in fact, there was only one breath left, he was carried into the small green building of the fifth lady, Zhang Zuolin took advantage of his last breath and said a word to the fifth lady: "I can't do it, tell the little sixth son to come back quickly, and put the country first." When I finished, I gasped.
Zhang Shouyi was of course sad that her husband was dead, but he knew that at this time, he did not know how many Japanese spies were investigating Zhang Zuolin's death, and once they knew that Zhang Zuolin was dead, then they would immediately send troops to occupy the entire northeast, and September 18 might be staged in advance.
Therefore, Zhang Shouyi endured grief and told everyone in the Shuai Mansion to strictly seal the news, let the military doctors come in normally to see a doctor, let the subordinates deliver meals every day normally, and spread the news, the marshal's injuries were not serious, and he would soon recover.
Secretly, he had Zhang Xueliang secretly informed to return to Shenyang as soon as possible and preside over the overall situation.
The Japanese were not satisfied, and sent several ministers and wives to the Shuai Mansion in name to visit and secretly spy on intelligence. Zhang Shouyi led Zhang Xueliang's wife Yu Fengzhi, who deliberately dressed up beautifully, came out to negotiate with the Japanese minister's wife, and also opened champagne to celebrate the murder of the grand marshal.
Zhang Shouyi's behavior made the Japanese suspect that Zhang Zuolin was not dead, so they did not dare to act rashly. It was not until June 18, when Zhang Xueliang returned to serve as the commander-in-chief of northeast security, that he officially mourned Zhang Zuolin.
It can be said that Zhang Shouyi's composure saved the entire northeast and prevented the people of the northeast from falling under the iron hooves of the Japanese prematurely.
After 9/18, Zhang Shouyi moved to Tianjin and later to Taiwan. She gave birth to 4 sons for Zhang Zuolin in her lifetime, of which Zhang Xuesen has been following his brother to do revolutionary work.
In 1966, Zhang Shouyi was critically ill, and she contacted Zhang Xuesen through layers of relationships, hoping that he could go over and see the last side, but because of the general reason, Zhang Xuesen finally failed to make the trip. Zhang Shouyi died of illness at the age of 68.
Although Zhang Shouyi came from a humble background, she knew how to change her fate by reading and going to school. As a woman, she did not fight all day like other women. On the contrary, she can always think about problems from Zhang Zuolin's point of view and solve problems for him, which is one of the reasons why Zhang Zuolin likes her the most.
From an illegitimate daughter to the first hostess of the Marshal's Mansion, Zhang Shouyi completed the gorgeous turn of his life.
If her mother had not insisted on letting her go to school, perhaps, Zhang Shouyi would have only repeated the path of the Wang family throughout her life.
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