The chaotic world can always encounter warlord scuffles, such as the Three Kingdoms era, and the late Qing Dynasty also has. There are four warlords who have been in the northwest for decades, these four are the four horses in the northwest, and all four of them are surnamed Ma, named Ma Buqing, Ma Bufang, Ma Hongbin, and Ma Hongkui. Among them, Ma Hongkui was known as the Emperor of Tu, and he later fled to the United States with three aunts and wives and 7.5 tons of gold.
Born in 1892, Ma Hongkui was a native of Hezhou, Gansu, who had joined the League in his early years and later worked under Yuan Shikai and Li Yuanhong. In 1919, when Duan Qirui took office, Ma Hongkui was successfully promoted to brigade commander, and in 1926, Feng Yuxiang responded to the Northern Expedition in the South, and Ma Hongkui began to follow him again. In 1929, Ma Hongkui, who had become a military commander, defected to chiang kai-shek and became the chairman of Ningxia Province for seventeen years in 1932.
The military and political power is all in his hands alone, which can be said to be the local land snake. After he took office, although he said that in order to prevent the implementation of the armor protection system, he also recruited a large number of soldiers during the anti-Japanese period, but he also did some good things. For example, the establishment of local education, the Ma family in this area is actually more than a time of scenery, he and Ma Hongbin are cousins, their fathers were once the leaders of the Northwest Ma family army, their grandfather's generation has held military power.
Ma Fuxiang, who was also his father, left a last word after his death to pay attention to education, so Ma Hongkui took his father's investigation and most of them to love and found a school. Perhaps many people think that the warlords' ranks are a group of illiterates, Ma Hongkui's army is different, he developed education at the same time, requiring soldiers must also be literate for three thousand. However, the warlord is a warlord in the end, and Ma Hongkui also has a life creed, if there are soldiers, they have power, and if they have power, they have money.
To put it simply, the military power and money must be grasped, and when all sides are fighting and taking sole power, Ma Hongkui uses various ways to collect a lot of money. After 1949, his good days were over, and he himself understood this truth very well. On October 14, 1949, he took his wife and children to Taipei to settle down, but he could not stay here. Not long after arriving, Guo Jiyao and Ma Bufang's father and son accused him of taking responsibility for the defeat in the northwest.
Therefore, Ma Hongkui was punished with dismissal and investigation, the old fox is the old fox, Ma Hongkui quickly realized that staying here again may be doomed, and immediately had the idea of leaving. First sort out all the property she got, and then let the beloved fourth aunt Liu Muxia pretend to be ill and let her carry money to Hong Kong to "treat the disease". Later, Liu Muxia was asked to send a message in Hong Kong saying that he was "critically ill", and Ma Hongkui had a good excuse to leave.
When he arrived in Hong Kong, he went to the United States for medical treatment under the pretext of medical treatment, and almost all of Ma Hongkui's plan was realized. Years of accumulated wealth, as much as 7.5 tons of gold, and three of the most favored aunts. Of course, he has so much money, and naturally there is no need to worry about it materially in the United States. Embracing beauty, living luxury, life is very dashing. But how can a foreign land replace the motherland? The older he gets, the more he misses his homeland and doesn't want him to die in a foreign land.
But he could not go back, but even so, he never forgot the motherland. On January 14, 1970, Ma Hongkui died of illness in the United States, and before his death, he could not forget to return home. His son did not go to the United States until 1991, and then died of illness in the United States, and finally failed to fulfill his father's last wish.