Before talking about this warlord, let's first look at a small story -
In the early days of the Republic of China, various warlords held meetings at the Taihe Temple in Beijing, and during the break of the meeting, someone proposed that Lu Rongting and Zhang Zuolin, who were also called "Nanlu (Lu) Beihuang (Zhang)" at that time, try their marksmanship.
Lu Rongting was a famous sharpshooter, who took the gun and casually threw it into the sky, and saw a bird fall.
When it was Zhang Zuolin's turn, Lao Zhang said very frankly: I am not as good as Lao Lu than the marksmanship, so we are better than who has more scars on his body!
The two took off their clothes on the spot and counted the scars, and as a result, there were 24 on Zhang Zuolin's body and 26 on Lu Rongting's body. Zhang Zuolin laughed loudly and worshiped Lu Rongting as the eldest brother on the spot.
Today,we want to introduce this legendary Guangxi warlord - Lu Rongting.
Lu Rongting was born in Nanning, Guangxi in 1859, the same year as Yuan Shikai, and was 16 years older than Zhang Zuolin, so Zhang Zuolin worshipped him as the eldest brother, and it was not a grievance.
When Lu Rongting was two years old, his father was beaten to death by the villagers (why he was killed, I will talk about it later), so Lu Rongting was lonely and suffered from human suffering since he was a child.
Such a person can often become a great instrument, Lu Rongting is such a person, he has done business, he has also worked as a bandit, and finally made him the governor of Guangxi.
Chinese all pay attention to "returning to the hometown", after Lu Rongting became the governor of Guangxi, the first thing he did was to go back to his hometown to see.
Unexpectedly, after Lu Rongting entered the village, he found that many people in the village had a cold, and some of them were bitten by snakes and rats. This brings us to the death of Lu Rongting's father.
When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom invaded Wuming County that year, it was burned and looted, and some people rumored that it was Lu Rongting's father who led the way, and the people in the village were angry, and they surrounded Lu Rongting's father and beat him fiercely, and finally beat him alive.
Now, Lu Rongting has become the "boss" of Guangxi, although he said that he came back to visit his relatives, but the people in the village were frightened, and those who participated in the siege were frightened and hid in the mountains. Later, It was Lu Rongting who spoke, saying that this time he would never pursue the past, that is, to see the villagers, and everyone went down the mountain.
Lu Rongting instructed his subordinates to kill pigs and slaughter sheep, invite the whole village to eat, invite Langzhong to see the villagers, and praise Lu Rongting's benevolence and righteousness with a handful of snot and tears.
But that's not the end of it. That night, Lu Rongting called a subordinate into the house, smiled and said, "Boy, your news has spread well." ”
It turned out that this was a plan set up by Lu Rongting.
As the saying goes, "The revenge of killing the father is not to wear the heavens together", but Lu Rongting is now the governor of the capital, can not openly retaliate, and he was only two years old at the time, and he did not remember who killed his father, what to do? Lu Rongting thought of such a method.
He asked this subordinate to pass on the news first, saying that Lu Rongting was now a high official, and that he would definitely take revenge when he returned this time, and that the murderer of that year wanted to live, so he should hurry up and hide!
As soon as this news came out, the people who participated in the siege were frightened and quickly hid in the mountains, suffering a lot of sins.
When they had finished their sins, Lu Rongting came forward and said that they were not to blame in the past, and also invited them to drink and see them.
This is Lu Rongting's brilliant plan, not only punishing the murderer of the year, but also winning a good reputation for himself, which is indeed wonderful!
Lu Rongting is such a smart person. In 1917, Lu Rongting went to Beijing to do business, because of his great achievements in the Patriotic War, Duan Qirui specially set up a banquet at home to entertain him warmly.
However, Lu Rongting was not willing to go, because of the dispute between the government and the court, he was more inclined to Li Yuanhong, but at this time, Qirui was in power and had to go.
During the banquet, Duan Qirui introduced Lu Rongting's marksmanship to the guests and invited him to perform live. Lu Rongting pushed back, but he stood up, looked out, and said to everyone: "Lu Mou is not okay now, when I was young, I showed people the cemetery, holding a gun to practice every day, at that time, there was a small river next to the cemetery, the fish in the river came out at noon, it swam while I hit, a hundred shots." Now that you're old, let's use that old marksmanship to sacrifice ugliness. When the crowd heard this, they immediately applauded.
Duan Qirui said that there is an artificial pond behind the house, which raises a lot of fish... But before he could finish speaking, Lu Rongting had already walked to the courtyard and said to a jar of goldfish in the courtyard, "Then I will sacrifice the ugly!" Just listening to the "bang", the fish tank shattered to the ground, and a fine ornamental fish was also killed.
After the fight, Lu Rongting laughed loudly, and everyone applauded and applauded continuously, but Duan Qirui next to him blushed and white, because this fish was his beloved thing, and it was so ruined by Lu Rongting!
After Lu Rongting left, Duan Qirui broke out and scolded, but what was the use? You came up with the show marksmanship, who is to blame?