Regarding the Xi'an Incident and Zhang Xueliang, there are many relevant memoirs and oral historical materials, but one of the important figures ——— Zhang Xueliang's wife Yu Fengzhi has always faded from people's vision. In fact, as early as 1989, a year before Yu Feng's death, she left an oral memoir and confessed that it was published a hundred years after she, Zhang Xueliang, and others. This is a testimony to the responsibility of history, revealing for the first time the insider secrets of the family and politics such as the union with the young marshal and the "divorce".
Yu Fengzhi recalled that I was born in Daquanyan Village, Huaide County, Jilin Province, my father opened a grain store in Zhengjiatun, and I grew up in Zhengjiatun. At that time, the garrison once lived in a grain store, and the commander of the garrison, Zhang Zuolin, and my father became acquainted, and they had a good friendship with each other. Zhang Zuolin watched me study very hard, and often praised me as a female talent. Later, he proposed to my father that his eldest son was very obedient, willing to be enterprising, and would develop in the army in the future, and needed the help of a female show like me. At that time, the marriage was arranged by my parents, my father loved me, thinking that the officials had three wives and four concubines, would be wronged, and refused this offer, there was another reason, I was two years older than Zhang Xueliang, at first I did not agree at all. Zhang Zuolin said this, he asked Han Qing to come to Zhengjiatun to live, let the two of us get along, get acquainted, and decide for ourselves. Han Qing relied on me everywhere and listened to me, and his attitude made me very satisfied. When he took my hand he said, "I will always listen to you, and I will never change my heart." Hearing this, I nodded my head and agreed to this marriage, and I was destined to marry him!
We are older, for our marriage, my mother proposed that Han Qing's mother is deceased, and the wedding should be held in Zhengjiatun, and Zhang Zuolin also agreed. My father was saying at the time: The Zhang family is a love person, and values our old brother and sister-in-law! My mother said: This is because they value our children, and I am relieved. After the wedding, he went to Shenyang and lived in Zhang Zuolin's residence (later known as the "Grand Marshal's Mansion").
All the rooms in the house are very obedient to the marshal, and sometimes the marshal summons all the families of each room to a meeting, and this is the time when everyone meets and talks with each other. The Grand Marshal often talks about loyalty and filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, wisdom and faith, and other principles of being a man. It also talks about the situation in which Northeast China was invaded and occupied by Japan and Russia, and his struggle against Old Maozi (Russia) and Little Japan. He said that he wanted to drive Japan and Russia out of the northeast, and he often scolded the warlords everywhere for seeking personal fame and profit under the pretext of loving the country and the people, and That China's backwardness and corruption were all caused by these warlords, and that he wanted to unify the world and make China strong. He was born in the grass, but he tried to learn all aspects of knowledge and find people with knowledge in all aspects to help him. He listened to his advice and set up factories and enterprises on a large scale; built water conservancy projects; developed arsenals; established the navy and air force; founded the once-prosperous Northeastern University; and sent some young people from the northeast to study in overseas countries. He stipulated two rules for military and political officials in the northeast: first, only tax cuts were allowed, and no harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes were allowed; second, they were not allowed to withhold military salaries and abuse soldiers, and all those who committed these two articles were killed.
After so many years, now I often return to my father's side in my dreams, back to Zhengjiatun, back to the Marshal's Mansion. The faces of my old relatives and friends and villagers appeared in front of my eyes from time to time, and I remembered Han Qing's words when I parted: "I hope that we can survive this great difficulty, get freedom, and return to our hometown together." "Can this day come?"