What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, China entered the Republic of China period, but the turmoil in the Republic of China was still non-stop, the country was a chicken feather, and the foreign country was looking at the tiger. However, with chairman Chiang Kai-shek's rise to power, the National Government in Nanjing was formally established, but there were many warlords in the country, each occupying the throne, and it was Zhang Zuolin's father and son who occupied the northeast at that time, after Zhang Zuolin's death, Zhang Xueliang took over the northeast, but in order to complete the formal unification of the country, Zhang Xueliang chose to join the National Government and was appointed as a general, but his entanglement with Chairman Jiang had just begun.
After Zhang Xueliang joined the Beiyang government, Zhang Xueliang was busy rectifying military affairs in the northeast, while Chairman Jiang was also busy with state affairs. It wasn't until a party six months later that the two met for the first time. But this meeting between the two triggered their first conflict. At that time, when the two were facing the Middle East Railway, Chiang Kai-shek's attitude was very resolute, he said that he must bring back this railway at all costs, and he must fully support it when the time comes.
Zhang Xueliang felt that he had a strong backing, and after he returned to the northeast, the first thing he did was to send the Soviet personnel on this railway and recover all the telegraph and telephone business. Because of this incident, Zhang Xueliang also exchanged fire with them, but after the exchange of fire, the casualties on his side were relatively heavy, and he had already lost nearly 10,000 people, and the enemy did not even lose a single person. So he hurried to ask Chairman Jiang for help, but he couldn't wait for Chairman Jiang's million troops and 100,000 troops.
But this did not make Zhang Xueliang too angry, he himself silently endured everything, but after that, Chairman Jiang prepared to weaken the forces of those warlords in order to consolidate the power of the central government, so the Central Plains War broke out. Zhang Xueliang also participated in it, and even performed very well. In the end, Chiang Kai-shek also firmly controlled Zhang Xueliang in his hands, and what really entangled the two was the "Xi'an Incident", which happened after the 918 Incident, a bold attempt by Zhang Xueliang.
At that time, Chairman Chiang Kai-shek insisted that "foreign countries must first be safe inside," and vigorously suppressed our Party figures at home, and even many troops participated in them, but Zhang Xueliang felt that their top priority was to resist the Japanese army. Chairman Jiang did not adopt Zhang Xueliang's opinion, and finally Yang Hucheng and Zhang Xueliang launched a military advisory, and Chairman Jiang was forced to compromise and issued a statement on the united anti-Japanese front. But in the end, Zhang Xueliang's end was to be put under house arrest, basically without any freedom.
In 1975, Chairman Chiang Kai-shek died of illness, and Zhang Xueliang also appeared at his funeral, soong Mei-ling personally arranged for him to go to Chiang Kai-shek's body, while Zhang Xueliang gently touched the crystal coffin and wept silently. The most eye-catching thing is that the elegy sent by Zhang Xueliang reads: The care of Yin, love is the same flesh and blood; the dispute of political opinions is like a vendetta. And people evaluate that these 16 words show the entanglement of the two people's grievances, of course, because of the death of Chairman Jiang, the two people's grudges have disappeared.