In the modern Republic of China period, it is indeed a day of warlords and foreigners running amok, and such a history is fortunately ended by our Communist Party, but history cannot be forgotten, and it reminds us all the time.
The character we want to introduce today is a warlord of the Republic of China period, who is considered to be the most vicious warlord in the northwest region at that time, and his name is Ma Hongkui.
Ma Hongkui is a native of Hezhou, Gansu, graduated from the Lanzhou Army School, joined the League earlier, and later held important positions under Yuan Shikai and Li Yuanhong, and after Duan Qirui came to power, Ma Hongkui's life changed completely, and he served as the brigade commander of the Fifth Mixed Brigade.
However, Ma Hongkui was also a famous wall-headed grass, first to Feng Yuxiang, and later to Chiang Kai-shek's command, in 1933, Ma Hongkui officially became the chairman of Ningxia Province, since then Ma Hongkui became the emperor of Ningxia, and in the next ten years, the people of Ningxia can be said to have suffered from Ma Hongkui's poison and lived a life worse than death.
Of course, at that time, in addition to Ma Hongkui, there were three other warlords in the northwest region, namely Ma Buqing, Ma Bufang, and Ma Hongbin, who were also doing evil, but this Ma Hongkui was the most notorious of these 4 people, and there was no one.
In fact, we can feel the sense of cruelty of Ma Hongkui from the photos, it is reported that there were many folk songs circulating in Ningxia at that time, all of which were related to Ma Hongkui, in fact, it is to say how brutal Ma Hongkui was.
In the more than ten years of ruling Ningxia, Ma Hongkui was indeed innocent and unscrupulous, plundering the money of the common people as much as possible, so that the people said that everything had to be taxed, it is estimated that in addition to farting, it is estimated that ma Hongkui only appointed his own cronies, and many of the people around him were Ma Hongkui's family, or friends or fellow villagers.
When Ma Hongkui first commanded Ningxia, the soldiers below were about 100 million, and after Ma Hongkui's long-term conscription, it was finally directly turned over to 70,000, and the total number of people in Ningxia at that time was estimated to be about 700,000, which was simply appalling, which meant that almost all young and middle-aged people were pulled to become soldiers, and the evil consequences could be imagined.
However, in his later years, Ma Hongkui lived a very unsatisfactory, even miserable life, when Ma Hongkui fled to the United States with his family and 8 tons of gold, but was later swept away by his favorite concubine Liu Muxia, so that Ma Hongkui's living conditions turned straight down.
In his later years, Ma Hongkui also proposed that he wanted to return to the motherland, and it was estimated that people would begin to love their families when they were old, but the result was obvious, naturally they could not be agreed, and it was better for such a notorious evil warlord to die abroad.