Speaking of Zhang Zongchang, he is actually a very interesting figure, he is a famous "three unknown generals" in the history of the Republic of China, do not know how many troops he has, do not know how much money he has, nor do he know how many women he has, in addition, he is also jokingly called the five poisonous generals, eating, drinking, gambling is all kinds, the women around him are uncountable, even the march to fight he also has to gather crowds to gamble, because of this, the people around Shandong hate him to the bone.
Let's first talk about the history of this character's development, in essence, Zhang Zongchang is a bandit, he can make a trace, it is entirely because he is cruel enough to be shameless, and in the chaotic world, such people can often get ahead, Zhang Zongchang's life in childhood is very bitter, he used to be a gambling maid in the casino, all day with thieves, gamblers and pickpockets, 16-year-old Zhang Zongchang also and the desert escape team on foot into the Kanto, to the northeast he wandered around selling coolies, also did odd jobs, and also gave the landlord old rich family cattle, to Fushun to dig coal.
At the age of 18, Zhang Zongchang went to the Middle East Railway as a railway worker, mixed with the contractor, because the railway was built by the Russians, he learned to speak fluent Russian for a long time in dealing with the Russians, in 1904 the Russo-Japanese War broke out, the Russian side needed a large number of Russian translators, Zhang Zongchang went to the Russian troops, the Russian army found that the Japanese used a large number of traitors against them, so they also imitated Japan to form a Chinese armed force, Zhang Zongchang became the leader of this armed force.
After the northeast slowly gained some power, the Chinese worshiped him as the eldest brother, and even found a prostitute to send him the right to the first night, was Zhang Zongchang really dead set on Russia? In fact, he did not have a firm faith, adhering to the principle of having milk is a mother, in 1912, Zhang Zongchang was encouraged by the Southern Revolutionary Army, so he participated in the revolution in such a vague way, when Sun Yat-sen launched the second revolution, Zhang Zongchang also stood on the side of the Southern Revolutionary Army to fight against the northern warlords.
Once defeated and injured, Zhang Zongchang felt that the revolutionary army could not become a climate, so he directly defected to the warlord Feng Guozhang, and at that time Yuan Shikai gave him 50,000 pieces, he actually assassinated the revolutionary Chen Qimei without restraint, Feng Guozhang went to Beijing to become the acting president of the Beiyang government, and sent Zhang Zongchang to the Hunan front to attack the troops of the southern revolutionary army.
As a result, when he arrived in Hunan, Zhang Zongchang shrank up in order to preserve his strength, and also allowed the soldiers to burn and kill and plunder, and later his troops were scattered, and he became the commander of the light pole, and fled back to Beijing, Zhang Zongchang did not know how to deal with the big man, when he arrived in Beijing, he bought the people of the War Department and received more than 200,000 military salaries accumulated over the years.
At that time, in order to please his direct family Cao Kun, Zhang Zongchang almost poured money into customizing eight gold birthday stars on his sixtieth birthday, that would make Cao Kun, although he gained power, he had not seen anyone willing to be so extravagant and wasteful for him, so he brought Zhang Zongchang with him to help him make a comeback, but Wu Peifu did not agree, because Wu Peifu hated most in his life was this kind of rogue bandit who had no ability and would only pull relations and shoot horses.
Zhang Zongchang, who was helpless, returned to the northeast again, and surrendered very unobtrusively to Wu Peifu's sworn enemy Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Zuolin also distrusted this incompetent bandit, and only gave him a battalion commander position, which made Zhang Zongchang, who had been a division commander, extremely annoyed, in 1922, the Zhifeng War broke out, the Fengjun army was defeated, when the Fengjun brigade commander Gao Shiyi and the bandit Lu Yonggui began to rebel against Zhang Zuolin, this year's China was chaotic anyway, the warlords were fighting around, and it was quite difficult for the old Jiang to unify the whole country.
Zhang Zuolin at this time had more than enough heart and insufficient strength, did not have the energy to suppress the bandits, Zhang Zongchang volunteered, and as a result, he found that many of the bandits were his old acquaintances, so he effortlessly quelled the bandit rebellion, Zhang Zuolin was overjoyed, and immediately promoted Zhang Zongchang to an official, after the outbreak of the October Revolution in Russia, a large number of White Russian troops fled into China, Zhang Zongchang gave full play to his advantage of being fluent in Russian, and arbitrarily recruited more than 10,000 White Russian bandit troops, obtained a large number of weapons and equipment, and rapidly increased his strength.
Seeing Zhang Zongchang's move, Zhang Zuolin became defensive and began to withhold his military salary, and Zhang Zongchang did not take him seriously, but planted opium to supplement military expenses, and the people of the whole country were denouncing Zhang Zongchang, but he did not care at all, at that time he was scolded as a drug trafficking general.
The Second Zhifeng War broke out, the Feng clan won a complete victory, Zhang Zongchang killed to Guannei, went to his hometown of Shandong as the commander-in-chief of the Zhilu coalition army, during the reign of king of Shandong, how much hatred did he attract? Feeling that it was time to enjoy life, Zhang Zongchang began to marry his wife wildly, and the types of life were all married, and as a result, he could not count themselves, lin Yutang also said: "This guy has about 80 wives, some are Chinese, some are foreigners, and there are dramas and bitches, some are good-looking, some are also extremely ugly." "
In addition to the sound of life, Zhang Zongchang also formulated a variety of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, where he can think of he ran to tax, such as livestock slaughter tax, tobacco and alcohol tax, mining tax, salt tax, banquet tax and goods landing tax, stamp tax, green vegetable tax, etc., he specially designed a kind of military tax, that is, the soldiers under his command can buy things without paying, the people have no way to exchange it for cash after taking this military ticket, if the soldiers find change, they must also give cash, of all the harsh taxes, the most famous is the dung tax and the accumulation tax. His stepfather held a birthday party and invited dignitaries from all walks of life to pay 50% of a year's salary as a congratulatory gift.
Due to Zhang Zongchang's tyrannical conquests, a large number of businesses in Jinan faced closure, and a large number of Shandong people were forced to flee to the northeast.
Speaking of his misdeeds, it is said that a dog bit him, he beat all the dogs in the city to death, he was chatting with people, a reporter handed a business card to the guard, said that he wanted to interview him, he saw the business card and let people kill the reporter, on the grounds that the reporter's business card listed more than a dozen titles, more than his.
In 1925, there were six Japanese spinning mills in Qingdao, Shandong Province, oppressing Chinese workers, the workers held a general strike, Zhang Zongchang, who was bribed by the Japanese, actually sent an army to suppress the workers, which led to the national shock of the Qingdao massacre, it is funny to say, Zhang Zongchang did not refuse to come to the soldiers, the discipline of the troops was quite loose, almost all of his subordinates were bandits with guns, he did not know how many soldiers he had, he falsely reported the number of soldiers to deceive the military salary or loot the people's fat and people's paste, he was left alone, which also led to many officers being his hometown, As soon as the people saw him, they took a detour.
In April 1928, Zhang Zuolin's troops were defeated one after another during the Second Northern Expedition, and In order to prevent Chiang Kai-shek from advancing north, Zhang Zongchang secretly colluded with the Japanese to let the Japanese army send troops to occupy Jinan.
In June of the same year, Zhang Zuolin was killed in Huanggutun, Zhang Zongchang, who felt that the trend had gone, began to ask Zhang Xueliang for help, and Zhang Xueliang looked down on this undisciplined wall grass and rejected him, and then Zhang Zongchang, who was beaten by the revolutionary army, fled to Japan, where he was too to gamble, and soon spent all his money, and Zhang Zongchang, who wanted to make a comeback, contacted Zhang Xueliang again, and Zhang Xueliang gave him 30,000 oceans every month as funds, but this loser thing spent money and flowed, and immediately squandered clean. Let Zhang Xueliang no longer believe him.
Han Fuyu had just controlled Shandong at that time, according to the instability, he was also afraid that Zhang Zongchang would come out and make trouble, so he pretended to be very enthusiastic to invite Zhang Zongchang to dinner, and said that he wanted to worship with him as a brother, Zhang Zongchang's people around him said that this was a dragon gate banquet, but Zhang Zongchang was overwhelmed by the hope of a comeback, did not listen to it and gladly went to the appointment, he drank high at the dinner table, bragged hard, said that he could bring the old part back in minutes, and when he was reminded, Han Fuyu felt that this was a big problem, so he took the opportunity to take his gun. And let his subordinates assassinate him at the railway station, And Zhang Zongchang, who was beaten to death, because his reputation was too bad, there was no one to collect his body for him.