In 1875, Cixi took her 4-year-old nephew to the throne, the emperor who was later known as the Guangxu Emperor, and thus began her own life of humiliation.
In the same year, in Panjin, Liaoning Province, nearly 500 kilometers from the Dragon Chair of the Qing Dynasty, a child named Zhang Zuolin was born in a small mountain village.
Unlike the Guangxu Emperor, who was dressed in fine clothes and jade, as soon as Zhang Zuolin was born, his family faced the dilemma of lack of clothes and food, partly because the population of the old Zhang family was large, but the main reason was because Zhang Zuolin's father Zhang Youcai was not doing the right thing.
Zhang Youcai's father left him with enough food and clothing for his family property, as well as a small grocery store that can continue to make a profit, but Zhang Youcai relied on his own strength to lose the family business through gambling.
As the saying goes, it is better to teach by example, there is such a good father as Zhang Youcai, although Zhang Zuolin was more intelligent when he was a child, but his intelligence was not used in the right place.
In 1987, Cixi, who had been in charge of the government, under pressure from many sides, ostensibly let the 17-year-old Guangxu Emperor begin to pro-government, while Zhang Zuolin, who was only 12 years old at this time, also began to worry about the family's livelihood because his father was killed by gamblers.
I don't know if he really didn't want to study, or if he couldn't open the pot at home, but after his father's death, he quickly ended his studies for less than a year.
Zhang Zuolin's initial means of supporting his family was to go to the countryside to sell goods, but the needle and thread brain could make a few dollars in that year and month, so he used the cost of selling goods to go to the gambling stalls on the street. Gambling was a mild kind of robbery, so Zhang Zuolin was quickly looted.
No matter how difficult life is, as long as you don't want to take the last step, then you can only continue to bury your head and arch forward.
Zhang Zuolin later worked as a handyman, but he did not continue to work, and later he found a job as a miscellaneous worker in a big car shop to stabilize.
The reason why he likes to work in the big car shop is not that there is more money here and less work close to home, but that there are many people coming from the south to the north, and ask which teenager does not like to listen to the story, and the story of which place is comparable to the crowded car shop.
Because he stayed for a long time, Zhang Zuolin learned a lot of things here, the most important of which are two things, first, he learned to become a half-hanging veterinarian by mistake, and the "beast" here refers specifically to the horse, second, Zhang Zuolin learned here how to see people and how to get along with different people, which is an important cornerstone of his future achievements in hegemony, and Guangxu, who is surrounded by a golden wire cage, does not have such a lucky learning opportunity.
Cage chickens have food soup pot nearby, and wild cranes have no grain and wide world.
In 1894, a peasant uprising broke out that swept across Korea, and the Japanese, who had been trying to get involved with China, immediately sent troops to Korea and tried to use Korea as a stepping stone to have friction with China.
Li Hongzhang, who was an old man of the State of Cheng, knew that Daqing was already terminally ill, so he suggested that peace be compromised, but Guangxu, who had nothing but hot blood, advocated using war to seek peace.
To seek peace through struggle is to survive peacefully, and to seek peace by compromise is to die peacefully, this sentence itself is correct, but in addition to the direction of doing things, we must also pay attention to timing and strength, a great man can reach a million soldiers, but Guangxu can't do it, and no one in the Qing Dynasty at that time could do it.
Therefore, this war named after "Jia Wu" ended in the defeat of the Great Qing, and Li Hongzhang had to harden his scalp to clean up the aftermath of the war, and then continue to live for the Great Qing with the reputation of losing power and humiliating the country.
At this time, Zhang Zuolin had already left the big car shop, because he had listened to the emperor and general in the story and imagined becoming a corner of the story.
No matter how big the dream is, the first step must be to start from scratch.
In the year of the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Song Qing, a famous general who had followed Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang, entered the northeast with the oath that "if this trip cannot play the role of wu, the only one who dies will repay the country" is to prevent the wukou.
As the commander-in-chief of 40,000 soldiers and horses, Song Qing would not know that a man named Zhang Zuolin had entered his command at this time through the introduction of a friend who had once been in the big car shop.
People with a lot of skill often stand out everywhere. At that time, Zhang Zuolin's superior had a disease on the mount, and Zhang Zuolin healed the chief's horse with the attitude of trying it out, and the chief officer repaid the favor with peach, and also promoted him to a minor official with the purpose of trying it out.
Under the command of Song Qing, Zhang Zuolin did not soar like the "white-robed young general under the moon", but he learned a lot of knowledge about marching and leading the army in the army, and also broadened his horizons.
Some people say that before starting a business, it is best to go to a large company to learn the experience, and then when starting a business, it is often possible to do more with less, Zhang Zuolin should not have heard this sentence, but he inadvertently practiced this sentence.
Song Qing's army later shrank back to Guannei, and Zhang Zuolin, who did not want to leave his hometown, relied on the connections he had laid in the army to take the guns that should have been handed over to the public when he returned to his hometown.
It is worth mentioning that when Zhang Zuolin was from Rong, he relied on his work in a state-owned enterprise to marry a wife in his hometown, and at that time he would not have thought about how much benefit this temporary marriage would bring him.
After Zhang Zuolin returned to his hometown, he became a veterinarian again with his own craftsmanship. At that time, because the northeast was in chaos, there were many bandits who lived by robbing houses, and bandits came and went like the wind, so horses were standard, and there were many horses, and it was inevitable that there would be a demand for veterinarians, so under the coming and going, Zhang Zuolin's friends on the road began to increase.
Friends spend more money. Zhang Zuolin was certainly not enough to make friends with a veterinarian alone, so he began to look for opportunities in the casino again. Since the word ten gambles and nine losses can be widely circulated, it proves that the truth here is universal, and even Zhang Zuolin cannot jump out of this law.
Gambling lost no money to give, naturally have to be scolded by the casino, and in order to raise money, gamblers inevitably do some unseemly things, Zhang Zuolin is no exception, and later some people felt that there was no way to take him in person, they reported to the officials that he was a bandit, he also went to prison for this, if it were not for his husband's way to save him, the future king of the northeast would never appear again.
After Zhang Zuolin fell again, he was really embarrassed to mix in the local area again, so he simply took the gun that was hidden and scared and went to "Liangshan". Although Zhang Zuolin was "high and short" at that time, he did not want to just mess around, so he jumped several times.
In the end, he simply pulled up the team himself, but his name to the outside world was not the "silk" who robbed the house, but the "insurance team" that protected the border for the people. However, the inside is actually similar to the "silk", eating local protection fees while also going out to "hunt".
However, just when Zhang Zuolin's income was stable, a large strand of silk sneaked up on his chassis during the New Year, and he had to run away with his family and Zhang Xueliang, who was in the womb. Later he fled to a place called the Octagonal Terrace.
Originally, there was its own "insurance team", but Zhang Jinghui, the head of the gang, saw that Zhang Zuolin's men were many and powerful, and Zhang Zuolin was also a man with a heart, so he gave up the top spot, and at that time he never thought that this concession would give himself a position as the prime minister of the puppet state of Manchukuo.
After Zhang Zuolin arrived at the octagonal platform, he not only merged Zhang Jinghui's team, but also recognized Zhang Ziyun, the president of the local chamber of commerce, as his father, because Zhang Ziyun had money, and Zhang Zuolin had seen the world in the army, so Zhang Zuolin quickly developed in the octagonal platform.
Moreover, at this time, Zhang Zuolin because he already had a lesson from the past, so he began to unite the surrounding "insurance team" as much as possible, because he far exceeded the organizational ability of the people, and his superior wrists, and soon became the main backbone of these people. Later, under his leadership, the "insurance team" led by Octagon Tai defeated several large strands of people who wanted to invade.
Since then, Zhang Zuolin's reputation has been completely established.
And just when Zhang Zuolin raised the banner for the future Caomang Empire, Guangxu, who once had an infinite scenery on the surface, had been imprisoned by Cixi in Yingtai in Zhongnanhai, and could only watch the Western Mountains of the Great Qing Dynasty every day.