A few years ago, CCTV broadcast an annual drama "Jade Fragment", perhaps everyone focused on the fate of the zhao Rugui family of the boss of "Hengyazhai", but ignored the background of this drama - the Tianjin Incident.
When it comes to the Tianjin incident, we have to mention one person, Zhang Xueliang's younger brother: Zhang Xueming.
At that time, Zhang Xueming was serving as the mayor of Tianjin and the chief of the police, and it was his effective response and tenacious resistance that defeated the Japanese attempt to create friction.
After the September 18 Incident, the great secret agent Kenji Toihara was preparing to create chaos in Tianjin, and they had no reason to send troops, so they thought of gathering a group of scoundrels, thieves, and smokers to set up a plainclothes team to take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble.
At that time, Zhang Xueming had just been promoted by Wu Tiecheng, the elder of the Kuomintang, to become the mayor of Tianjin and the chief of the police, and soon after taking office, he received information that the plainclothes team was going to do things, and while deploying his defenses, he went to Beijing to report the situation to Zhang Xueliang.
After careful consideration, he proposed to Zhang Xueliang to eliminate the root cause of this disaster, which was supported by Zhang Xueliang. In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Zhang Xueliang also specially instructed Wang Shuchang, commander of the Second Army of the Northeast Army stationed in Hebei, to cooperate with Zhang Xueming.
After Zhang Xueming returned to Tianjin, he began to secretly deploy defenses and wait for the plainclothes team to move, as a result, as soon as the action appeared, Zhang Xueming personally commanded the police force to fight back, killing more than 80 people and arresting more than 700 people in one night, and the rest fled back to the Japanese concession in a daze.
Twenty days later, the Japanese gathered more than 2,000 men, plus more than 400 Japanese soldiers, to open the way with armored vehicles and tanks, and attacked the Tianjin municipal government and police station. This time, Zhang Xueming made more adequate preparations, sent all the policemen who could go on, fought with the Japanese to the death, and finally won a big victory, the plainclothes team died, fled, the Japanese were killed more than 230 times, and they did not dare to make trouble anymore.
This battle also made Zhang Xueming famous, the Nanjing government awarded him a medal, all provinces and groups across the country also sent congratulatory telegrams, the headlines of major newspapers made detailed reports on this, and Zhang Xueming suddenly became a hero.
However, under the pressure of the Japanese, Chiang Kai-shek once again became a soft bone and let Zhang Xueming go abroad to investigate, which actually resigned him.
It was not until after the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance that Zhang Xueming returned to China, but unfortunately he was pulled away by Wang Jingwei and became a member of the Wang pseudo-clique.
Of course, Zhang Xueming was forced to go to the Wang pseudo-clique, and he did not do anything bad, so after the victory of the War of Resistance, the Nationalist Government did not pursue his faults, but instead made him the director of the Senate Office of the Northeast Governor's Department of the Nationalist Government, with the rank of lieutenant general.
(Photo: Zhang Xueming (right) with Zhang Xueliang and Zhang Xuesi)
Zhang Xueming is Zhang Zuolin's second son, but compared with his brother Zhang Xueliang, Zhang Xueming's fame is much smaller, and Zhang Zuolin's cultivation of him is far less than zhang Xueliang's.
The first reason is the traditional concept that Zhang Xueliang is the eldest son and should become the successor, so Zhang Zuolin also focuses on cultivating him.
The second reason is that when Zhang Xueming was born, Zhang Zuolin had a dream that a lama wanted to hunt him down, because Zhang Zuolin had previously shot a lama who was pretending to be a ghost in the army, so he thought that Zhang Xueming was the reincarnation of a lama to come to him, so he did not like Zhang Xueming since he was a child.
The third reason is that Zhang Xueming received a patriotic education from an early age, and when he grew up, his thinking became more and more mature, and he became more and more incompatible with Zhang Zuolin's warlord thoughts, so the two people could not get along more and more. Later, Zhang Zuolin arranged a marriage for him, and Zhang Xueming deeply resented this and completely broke with Zhang Zuolin.
After the founding of New China, Zhang Xueming became the director of Tianjin People's Park. After the completion of Tianjin People's Park, he specially entrusted Zhang Shizhao to ask the chairman for an inscription, and the chairman gladly agreed. In this way, Tianjin People's Park became the only park in the country where the chairman inscribed the name of the park, and its reputation was greatly enhanced.
Zhang Xueming is also a recognized gourmet, relatives and friends ushered in, are his personal chef, in the 80s of the last century, Tianjin's famous hotel Dengyinglou Restaurant, once launched a set menu: "Shao Shuai Mansion" banquet, which dishes are composed of Several famous dishes that Zhang Xueming often recommends to friends.
After Zhang Xueming retired in his later years, he lived a quiet and simple life, and the most regrettable thing in his life was that he could not see his brother Zhang Xueliang again in his later years.
On April 9, 1983, Zhang Xueming died of illness at the age of 75.
History Inn Author: Desert Sand