Zhang Zuolin, as a feng clan among the Beiyang warlords, was once strong enough to occupy half of the country. Zhang Zuolin's evaluation of this person in history is very complicated, he has both done bandits and killed Li Dazhao. Moreover, circling around the Northeast with the Japanese, the Japanese never let the Japanese take advantage, but even took advantage of the Japanese. However, Zhang Zuolin was eventually hated by the Japanese, and the Huanggutun incident was the japanese's dead hand against Zhang Zuolin. Therefore, Zhang Zuolin is not confused on the issue of national interests, which is also the side that he is talked about by posterity.
Of course, there are also many legendary stories in Zhang Zuolin.
People who were born in a chaotic world and grew up in a chaotic world have no luck and ability, and it is really difficult to achieve a career.
Unlike the prosperous world, as long as you have a good relationship. And Zhang Zuolin went from being a bandit to eventually becoming the ruler of Power in China, and if Zhang Zuolin is defined by a warlord, it is obviously not accurate.
1, poor thinking change
Zhang Xueliang once said that their ancestral home was Dacheng County, Hebei. However, according to the "Chronicle of Dacheng County", Zhang Zuolin's ancestral home is indeed Feng Zhuang, Zhao Fu Town, Dacheng County. According to the data, during the Zhifeng War, Zhang Zuolin once went to his hometown in Dacheng County to recognize his ancestors and return to the ancestors, but he did not expect to be resolutely opposed by the elderly in the clan.
As for the reasons for the objection, there are two historical records:
First, the Zhang family believes that Zhang Zuolin has dried a beard, that is, a bandit, insulting the family and cannot accept him. The second is that wu Peifu blames the Zhang family.
Regardless of whether Zhang Zuolin denied his relatives, zhang Zuolin grew up in the northeast, and his ancestor Zhang Yonggui ran from Hebei to the northeast to reclaim and earn a living, and his grandfather's generation of families was relatively wealthy. But when zhang Zuolin's father Zhang Youcai came, the family was broken and declined. The reason for the decline was that Zhang Youcai loved to gamble, but also smoked opium, owed a bunch of debts, and was eventually forced to die by the creditors.
Zhang Zuolin was born in 1875, and when he went to private school at the age of 13, his father was beaten to death. There was no way to learn, no way to go, he had to join the army. He served in the Qing Army and participated in the Sino-Japanese War. After retiring from the Qing Army, Zhang Zuolin worked as a bandit.
Then from the bandits were recruited again, from the deputy battalion commander, battalion commander, brigade commander, division commander, Fengtian overseer, patrol envoy and other positions, step by step to become the imperial court official.
After the Second Zhifeng War, Zhang Zuolin won the victory, he led his army into Beijing, and served as the Grand Marshal of the Army and Navy, which was actually the supreme ruler, exercising sovereignty on behalf of the country.
From bandit to supreme ruler of the country, how did Zhang Zuolin achieve it?
In fact, there is the idea of poverty and change in it, the father is beaten to death if he does not do the right thing, as a man, he must establish a career, and he must be looked at. But from the bandit all the way to the actual controller of the country, this period requires Zhang Zuolin's courage and luck, but more importantly, the mind. Without a certain mind, it is difficult to achieve this goal.
2, beard life
The people in the northeast region are fierce and have more beards. Zhang Zuolin had worked as a bandit and fought as a bandit, and he was very familiar with the profession of bandit. Some people say,
None of Zhang Xueliang's grandfathers and fathers died in bed. His grandfather was killed, and Zhang Zuolin was killed by the Japanese. One is related to the local folk customs, the other is related to the Japanese, and it is also related to Zhang Zuolin's fierce personality, and it is precisely Zhang Zuolin's desire to drive the Japanese out that makes the Japanese move to kill.
When Zhang Zuolin went to a private school, he was ready to beat Mr. Private School, and the private school students were too frightened to teach Zhang Zuolin.
As we said earlier, Zhang Zuolin's father owed a bunch of debts, and after his death, the family always had to live, Zhang Zuolin went to become a soldier and learned to treat horses in the Qing Army. According to Zhang Xueliang's later recollection, at that time in the northeast, most of the people who had horses in their families were bandits or horse thieves.
After Zhang Zuolin came into contact with these people, he met many brothers on the "Daoshang", laying the foundation for him to later mix in the northeast.
Around 1900, the boxer rebellion was all over the country, and Tsarist Russia even wanted to invade the northeast, and General Shengjing could not beat Maozi and ran away, so the northeast became a place where no one cared. At this time, bandits in the northeast increased, and there were often cases of family robbery, and some villages set up some village protection teams in order to protect themselves.
At that time, Zhang Zuolin was already married, and he married Zhao Chungui, the daughter of the local landowner Zhao Zhanyuan. It was with his father-in-law that Zhang Zuolin formed a rural self-protection team of more than 20 people. In addition to ensuring the safety of the village, there is also a protection fee. Zhang Zuolin, an armed force of more than 20 people, also often engaged in firefights with bandits, often in order to seize the land. Some people say that Zhang Zuolin was a beard, that is, the kind of work That Zhang Zuolin was engaged in at this time was a beard.
Zhang Zuolin's self-protection team has brought security to the local countryside and has been recognized by the villagers. The team led by Zhang Zuolin listened to him and obeyed the rules, so people from other villages asked Zhang Zuolin to protect him, and Zhang Zuolin's protection reached more than 20 villages, and he was famous far and wide.
Among these teams led by Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Zuoxiang, Zhang Jinghui and others were all involved in Zhang Zuolin's self-protection team at that time.
3. See the doorway clearly
After two years, the northeast society stabilized, and Zhang Zuolin saw that the gang had no way out, and if it was not good, it would be suppressed as bandits.
So on the recommendation of Zhang Ziyun (then the head of the Octagonal Taiwan Chamber of Commerce), he went to Xinmin Mansion to meet the prefect Zengyun, and worshiped as a teacher, accepted the Qing Dynasty's recruitment, and became zengyun's next assistant, equivalent to deputy battalion commander, and soon promoted to pipe belt, that is, battalion commander.
Zhang Zuolin's fate also began to change from then on. At that time, Zhang Zuolin was recruited, and it was the Qing Dynasty that was worried that if these people became bandits, it would be difficult to deal with, of course, the purpose of Zhao An could not be idle, let them fight bandits. As a result, Zhang Zuolin became the leader of the bandit army.
Zhang Zuolin worked very hard in suppressing bandits, and he relied on the number of bandits he was familiar with to eliminate several bandits of all sizes in the local area. In particular, the booby-trapped and killed the big bandit Du Lisan, and the outside world believed that Zhang Zuolin's hand was very poisonous. If Zhang Zuolin does not kill them, his life will be difficult to protect.
Zhang Zuolin relied on this knife to lick blood until 1908, when he was appreciated by Xu Shichang, then the governor of the three eastern provinces, and was transferred to the Tongliao and Taonan areas of western Liaoning to suppress the Mongol bandits, which were said to have been bought off by Tsarist Russia.
This was the most difficult gang for Zhang Zuolin to suppress, these bandits were not only active in the grassland for a long time and familiar with the terrain, but also fierce and proficient in horsemanship, and it was difficult for the officers and troops to catch them.
In the suppression of bandits, Zhang Zuolin adopted the method of outsmarting on the basis of the lessons learned in the early stage. Send people to break into the bandits, adopt the method of combining the inside and the outside, and annihilate several powerful Mongolian bandits in one fell swoop. Some remnants fled to Outer Mongolia under Zhang Zuolin's blows, and Zhang Zuolin pursued more than 400 kilometers. It was precisely by suppressing the Mongol bandits that Zhang Zuolin became famous again.
4. Seek wealth and wealth in risk
As the saying goes, "seek wealth and wealth in danger", Zhang Zuolin's days of suppressing bandits are very dangerous, but they step by step lead to the road to wealth and nobility. However, on the road to success, Zhang Zuolin is always seeking in danger, and suppressing bandits is only a small step. If he wants to achieve greater success and wealth, he needs greater opportunities, and this greater opportunity is the Xinhai Revolution.
When this revolution came, as a person in the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Zuolin saw an opportunity. At that time, the provinces broke away from the Qing Dynasty and declared independence, and the new army in Fengtian was secretly discussing how to drive out the governor Zhao Erxun.
Lan Tianwei, then the commander of the Second Mixed Brigade of the New Army, was a revolutionary and was stationed in Shenyang. Zhao Erxun was frightened and discussed with his men about preparing to escape.
At this time, Zhang Zuolin, who was in Taonan, received this news through his informant in Shenyang and rushed to Shenyang. At that time, Zhang Zuolin had 7 battalions in his hands after suppressing bandits, about 3500 people. It is also a strong armed force.
Zhang Zuolin, with 7 battalions of troops, rushed to Shenyang on the same day. In Zhang Zuolin's heart, this is the key time of his life destiny, he must be fast, he must win.
After Zhang Zuolin arrived in Shenyang, he immediately asked to see Zhao Erxun, saying that he had come to Qinwang. Zhao Erxun was overjoyed to see Zhang Zuolin. Zhang Zuolin was immediately appointed as the commander of the patrol battalion in the middle road, equivalent to the regimental commander. At this time, Zhang Zuolin's troops expanded by 15 battalions.
With Zhang Zuolin to protect himself, Zhao Erxun was confident, and on November 12, 1911, a security conference was held in Shenyang, and Zhao Erxun took Zhang Zuolin to the conference. Before the meeting, Zhang Zuolin arranged troops outside the venue. At the meeting, the revolutionaries advocated declaring independence from the Qing Dynasty. Zhao Erxun objected, but the revolutionaries forced Zhao Erxun to declare independence.
At this time, Zhang Zuolin appeared, he slapped the gun on the table, and then said to the people present: "I Zhang Mou only obey the orders of the marshal, I also love to make friends, but this gun does not make friends!" The implication is that whoever does not listen to Zhao Erxun will be killed. At this time, Zhang Zuolin's people also quickly appeared.
The revolutionaries present were dumbfounded, and in order to save their lives, they had to obey Zhao Erxun's orders, so the three eastern provinces set up a "security association" for royalists, with Zhao Erxun as the president and Zhang Zuolin as the minister of military affairs. At this time, Zhang Zuolin had already grasped the military power of the three eastern provinces.
Zhang Zuolin later suppressed the revolutionaries, so he was given the title of "Puyi"
Minister of Military Training outside Guanwai"
He put on a flower plume and truly became a person within the imperial system of the Qing Dynasty.
Zhang Zuolin was a very clever man, he saw that the Qing Dynasty had run out of gas, and after Yuan Shikai became the president, he quickly defected to Yuan and served as the commander of the 27th Division. Yuan Shikai returned to the west shortly after the emperor's downfall, and by this time Zhang Zuolin had become the governor of Fengtian Province and the governor, and had the military and political power of the three eastern provinces.
5. Recognize the situation
Although Zhang Zuolin was in charge of the northeast, there were also people who were not convinced of him, and at that time, there was a person named Feng Delin who disobeyed Zhang Zuolin. Feng Delin's seniority was older than Zhang Zuolin's, but later he was not as fast as Zhang Zuolin's promotion.
When Zhang Xun suddenly stood up to reorganize the Qing Dynasty, his men continued to keep braids and were called the "Braid Army". In June 1917, Zhang Xun was fooled by a group of so-called brothers and went north with a braid army to support Puyi's restoration again, and engaged in a restoration farce.
Zhang Zuolin initially supported Zhang Xun and asked Feng Delin to go to Beijing to help, but later opposed Zhang Xun. Zhang Xun made Zhang Zuolin the Inspector of Fengtian and did not seal Feng Delin.
After that, Zhang Zuolin saw that Zhang Xun could not accomplish anything at all, and entrusted people to meet Duan Qirui, the beiyang elder who opposed the restoration, and expressed his willingness to serve Duan. At this time, Feng Delin was sold by Zhang Zuolin and became a person involved in the restoration.
When Zhang Zuolin was swinging from side to side, 3 revolutionaries tried to assassinate him, two died, and 1 was arrested by Zhang Zuolin. Zhang Zuolin only knew the reason, and it turned out that after his support for the restoration, it caused dissatisfaction among the revolutionaries. If Zhang Zuolin had taken a step later, he might have really been assassinated.
In the chaotic world of Beiyang, only the person who knows the current affairs is Junjie. Zhang Zuolin had a very accurate grasp of the situation, not only killing his opponents, but also further consolidating his power.
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