The evil son is a naïve Confucian, filling in the great righteousness and resisting the strong Hu.
This is Zhang Xueliang, praising Zheng's feat of successfully recovering Taiwan, but this poem was written after he was placed under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek, which is not a true portrayal of what he has done.
There is no doubt that Zhang Xueliang can bear the title of national hero, and in the critical moment of national survival, he has twice stepped forward and reversed the overall situation with the strength of one person, but why did he end up in one end and be imprisoned for half a century.
After Zhang Xueliang was placed under house arrest by Chiang Kai-shek, some people said that he lived a luxurious life like money, and some people said that he was in a difficult situation and was not clothed.
As the former fourth son of the Republic of China, the young marshal of the Northeast Army, and the brother-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek, what happened before and after Zhang Xueliang was put under house arrest, and what kind of life did he live after he lost his freedom?
"Idol of the Republic of China" cultivation record
In June 1901, Zhang Xueliang was born on a bumpy carriage, although zhang Zuolin's eldest son, but Zhang Zuolin, who had just become a father, in addition to a little joy, was more worried about the future of himself and this child.
Perhaps Zhang Zuolin at that time would not have dreamed that he would become the king of the northeast from a liukou to a mighty world, and he would not have thought that his son Zhang Xueliang would hand over the northeast region that he had painstakingly managed for many years after his death.
After Zhang Xueliang was born, Zhang Zuolin accepted the edict of the Qing court and transformed from a liukou to a member of the regular army.
Relying on his rich "experience in the industry", Zhang Zuolin leveled out several streams of streams that had been entrenched in the northeast for many years.
With this title, he rose step by step, and relied on the ability of Fengyuan left and right, and continued to grow bigger, and finally became a veritable king of the northeast sitting on an army of 300,000.
While expanding his power, What Zhang Zuolin valued most was the cultivation of his eldest son, Zhang Xueliang.
Zhang Zuolin regarded Zhang Xueliang as his successor very early, and in order to allow him to inherit his authority, Zhang Zuolin arranged for Zhang Xueliang to devote himself to the army for training at the age of 16, and received a complete military education.
After graduating from the Army of the Three Eastern Provinces with excellent results, Zhang Xueliang was even a pioneer and shined in the two Zhifeng Wars.
Although Zhang Xueliang did not temper himself in the army, he still could not change the habits of his children, even after marriage, he still attracted bees and butterflies everywhere, and he was nostalgic for the land of wind and moon.
However, due to Zhang Xueliang's young and handsome appearance, his arbitrary behavior has become a celebrity, and the market even ranked him side by side with the dignitaries at that time as the "Four Princes of the Republic of China", becoming a "national idol" that all walks of life and competed to climb at that time.
However, with the loud noise of Huanggutun, Zhang Xueliang's life of drunken gold fans also came to an end.
"Secluded" for a long time
After the Huanggutun Incident, Zhang Zuolin died, and Zhang Xueliang, who was only 27 years old, was put in charge of the northeast in danger.
At the beginning of his reign, Zhang Xueliang's behavior was still remarkable, and because of the hatred of the country and the family, he also made an unexpected decision - northeast Yizhi.
With the strength of the Northeast Army at that time, it was not difficult to compete with the Nationalist government in Nanjing, but Zhang Xueliang ended the era of warlord chaos with a letter "Never Hindering the Unification Of Electricity" and reunited China in form.
After the September 18 Incident, the Northeast Army's move to withdraw from the Northeast without firing a shot caused Zhang Xueliang's reputation to plummet, and his attempt to slow down the invasion of the Japanese invaders by avoiding war was also disappointed.
Although China and Japan did not declare war at this time, everyone knew that a major war was about to break out.
However, at this time when the country was in crisis, Chiang Kai-shek demanded that Zhang Xueliang launch an offensive against the Red Army in northern Shaanxi on the grounds that "if you want to be outside the country, you must first be at home" and suppress the students in Xi'an who marched for the united anti-Japanese front.
After repeated lobbying by those around him and what he had seen and heard in recent days, Zhang Xueliang finally made up his mind to consult Chiang Kai-shek, but the development of the matter soon fell out of his control.
The local troops complained a lot about Chiang Kai-shek in their daily lives, and many generals even suggested directly killing Chiang Kai-shek at this time, thanks to the intervention of various forces at home and abroad, and finally a peaceful solution was achieved.
The Xi'an Incident not only changed the course of the War of Resistance Against Japan, but also profoundly affected Zhang Xueliang's future, and after accompanying Chiang Kai-shek to Nanjing on December 26, he ushered in a 54-year life of house arrest.
It is said after the merits of the latter
Zhang Xueliang, who accompanied Chiang Kai-shek back to Nanjing, was taken control of as soon as he got off the plane, and was successively placed under house arrest at the Song Ziwen Mansion and kong Xiangxi Mansion in Nanjing.
It is not difficult to see from the location of the resettlement that although Chiang Kai-shek intends to dispose of Zhang Xueliang, forced by the interference of public opinion and various political forces, the pair of former worship brothers cannot openly turn their faces in a short period of time.
After all, Nanjing is full of people, no matter where Zhang Xueliang is under house arrest, the news will "go away without a stick", and there is an endless stream of people who come to visit and intercede at the door, and Chiang Kai-shek has no choice but to compromise and find a newly built hotel for Zhang Xueliang in his hometown of Fenghua Xikou as a quiet place.
During the period of house arrest, Chiang Kai-shek also agreed with "generosity", and Zhang Xueliang's wife Yu Fengzhi and his lover at the time, Zhao Yidi, took turns to take care of his living, except that he could not go out at will, everything was business as usual.
Although he was already in prison, Zhang Xueliang's style of work did not diminish in the slightest, and his daily expenses even frightened the "frugal" Chiang Kai-shek.
When his wife and lover came to visit him, he left behind a servant in charge of food, clothing, and living; plus Chiang Kai-shek arranged to take care of Zhang Xueliang's military command agents and gendarmerie, and there were always dozens of people who lived with Zhang Xueliang.
In addition to the large number of people, Zhang Xueliang is also very particular about the details of life, clothes should be tailored by tailor-made tailors; seasonal fruits and vegetables are eaten every day, and from time to time, some local specialties are airlifted.
As for his favorite cigar, he had to import it from Cuba, which at that time cost enough for a middle-class family to live for a year.
Zhang Xueliang's expenses for acting in this way are naturally astronomical, and the monthly meal expenses alone are tens of thousands, and in Chiang Kai-shek's words, the cost of these dozens of people is actually close to the expenses of a regiment.
However, such days did not last long, with the worsening of the War of Resistance Against Japan and Chiang Kai-shek's gradual defeat on the mainland, during his seclusion in Taiwan, Zhang Xueliang also had to go to the field to grow vegetables and live a difficult life.
epilogue
Horizontally, it is a peak on the side of the ridge, and the height of the distance is different.
In the eyes of a hundred people, there are a hundred Zhang Xueliang, and people are complex and unified, just like Zhang Xueliang's changing treatment during house arrest.
We cannot judge a person out of context and discuss a thing, but we should look at everything that happens objectively and fairly.
After Zhang Xueliang regained his freedom, he was already an elderly man with two white sideburns, and he had long lost the spirit of the young marshal in the northeast.
He had enjoyed and fallen in this life, brave and cowered, but at the last moment, he no longer thought about the great righteousness and resistance to Hu but the evil son and lonely subject, and he thought of the unfortunate encounter of the two generations of the Zhang family.
Zhang Zuolin died because of the anti-Japanese resistance, and Zhang Xueliang himself was imprisoned because of the anti-Japanese resistance, whether this was their fault or the fault of the times.