Zhang Qijun was born in Guangzhou in 1877, but his ancestral home is Guilin, he has studied as early as the age of six, and at the age of nine, he can write exquisite calligraphy and won the praise of his elders, and at the age of nineteen, he entered The Guangya Academy, which is a high-quality school in the Qing court, but a year later his father died of illness, although he was a county official, but because of his integrity and integrity, he never embezzled, and as a result, when he died, he had more debts and the family became poor.
At this time, his mother also had a heart attack, which made his life more stressful, during the study period, he ate with sauerkraut, he did not eat meat for several months, and when he took the exam every month, he could receive a scholarship with excellent results, and he subsidized the family with a scholarship every month, and because of this, he has been studying very hard. At that time, his father had already engaged him, and after the expiration of his filial piety, he married Miss Pan. His father-in-law donated officers for him, and he also served in his barracks. But he would prefer to use the imperial examination to get to the shi.
In 1902 he went to Guilin, the next year he participated in the township examination, high school lifting people, and in the second year won the second place in the temple examination, passed the entrance examination, and then has been an official in Hunan region, because of the diligence and love of the people has won the praise of the people, there are more bandits in the Zhijiang area, he knows and immediately orders arrest, only two months to capture half of the people, the result triggered the bandits retaliation, once he went out to catch the bandits when he was ambushed, the result was beaten and tortured by the bandits, which made him very angry.
To this end, after that, he began to learn kung fu, visiting famous teachers everywhere, so as to make his kung fu more profound, and he could jump directly to the roof, which was called a cultural relic. At that time, Zhang Qiyong's wife died early, and Zhejiang Inspector Nie Jishu's tutoring was more strict and his son-in-law's requirements were relatively high, so his daughter was not too old to marry, but he was not willing to easily ration his daughter to Yongcai. Zhang Qi's tenth sister-in-law thought of introducing him to Nie Qide, and Nie Qide's father was overjoyed when he heard it, after all, he had long heard of Zhang's good reputation, and Wen Wushuang was the good son-in-law he wanted in his mind.
However, the relatives of the Nie family opposed this, they believed that Zhang Qijun had no money and it was difficult to feed so many people, but Nie Qizhuo was still determined to marry his daughter to him, in 1910 Nie Qide married Zhang, the day before the marriage, Nie Qide told his daughter that marrying him was to suffer hardships, and when he lacked money, he wrote a letter in time not to let him increase the burden. Less than half a year after the marriage, Zhang's mother died of illness, Zhang needed to return to his hometown to mourn, and on the day of his resignation, the people of Zhijiang were reluctant to let him leave.
After Yang Wending served as the governor of Hunan, he was very recognized of Zhang's talent, he could not bear that the other party had been mourning at home for too long, and sent a number of telegrams in succession, Zhang Qipeng only returned to his post in 1911, but within a few months of the Wuchang Uprising broke out, and the governor Tan Yanmin and Zhang were friends, and the friendship was relatively good, inviting him to join the army. In 1912 he was appointed Head of The Military Department, in charge of the province's army, and in 1913 he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
Yuan Shikai knew that he was talented and extended an olive branch, and after he heard about it, he knew that Yuan's ambitions were relatively large, so he immediately resigned from the government and took his family to live in Shanghai. In 1914, he was elected as a parliamentarian, and Yuan wanted to appoint him as an envoy to Guangdong, but at the meeting someone proposed a knighthood, and he heard that he immediately opposed it, and rushed to Shanghai that night.
After the launch of the Patriotic Movement, Cai Yi led his army to fight bitterly in Sichuan, and at this time Lu Rongting in Guangxi was still on the sidelines, which was very crucial to the success or failure of the protectorate, and Zhang Qiyi immediately went to say that the other side was uprising, which made the battlefield situation one-sided. In 1917, Li Jingxi prepared to invite him to serve as secretary general, but zhang xun could not be restored. During the Period of the Protector's War, the southern provinces resolutely opposed the dictatorship of the Beiyang warlords, and Duan Qirui decided to send troops to deter and suppress it, and sent Zhang Jingyao, Zhang Huaizhi, and Cao Kun to attack Hunan.
Cao Kun sent Wu Peifu to go, so more than 100,000 Beiyang troops attacked the Southwest Alliance, because the Beiyang Army was strong, full of ammunition, and the battlefield was singing, and Wu Peifu took a number of cities in succession. Duan Qirui had a strong sense of faction, and immediately made Zhang Jingyao the overseer of Hunan, and sent more troops to seize the territory. At this time, it was difficult for the Southwest Coalition Army to make a difference, and at the critical moment, Tan Yanmin thought of Zhang Qiyong. When asked how many troops were needed to hold Hunan, he said that as long as three hundred people were enough.
The crowd was astonished, Wu Peifu's army of 40,000, 300 people can resist? But Tan still gave three hundred people and asked him to hold Yongzhou. Wu Peifu heard that it was he who helped Yongzhou and did not dare to send troops, and Zhang Miao immediately wrote a long letter to persuade him to negotiate peace in the form of national righteousness, Wu Peifu did not want to fight again, after all, he had made great achievements, but the overseers were someone else's. He therefore agreed to the peace and invited him to serve as his staff.
After the two met, they also worshiped as brothers, with the assistance of Zhang Qipeng, Wu Peifu also became a great warlord, but Zhang knew numerology, calculated the death date of his father-in-law, and also calculated that he had a blood disaster in 1927, he insisted on leaving his post, and as a result, Wu Peifu insisted on staying, who knew that he died at the hands of a pawn in a battle.
Reference: "The Wizard of the Early Ming Dynasty Zhang Qijun"