In Shenyang, almost no one knows about the "Tang Mansion", in fact, there are two Tang Mansions in Shenyang, one is the Tang Mansion Tea House next to the Shenyang Daily Newspaper, and the other is the Tang Yulin Mansion at No. 26, Eleven wei Road, Heping District, which is now used by the Shenyang Municipal CPPCC and used to be the former site of the Liaoning Provincial Museum.
Tang Mansion Tea House in the south of Shenyang Daily Newspaper
The former site of the Tang Yulin Mansion of the Former Liaoning Provincial Museum
The former owners of these two mansions were all prominent figures, Tang Yulin.
We listened to Mr. Shan Tianfang's commentary, "The Tyrant of the Troubled World", and we were very impressed by Tang Yulin, whose nickname in the novel is "Tang Erhu", has a very distinct personality, is impulsive, does things recklessly, and belongs to the characters of Mangfu.
In the real history, Tang Yulin's nickname is really called "Tang Erhu", but some people say that it is not erhu, but "Tang Dahu", at least Zhang Xueliang and Wang Huayi's memories are called "Tang Dahu". Let's not care about the tiger, anyway, this nickname can reflect his character, in the words of the Northeasterners, it is "tiger bar chi"!
Tang Erhu rides a tiger photo, who is the real tiger?
Tang Yulin is a native of Yixian County, Jinzhou, when he was a child, his family was very poor, he came out to pull people at a very young age, once when he rushed to the car and pulled his feet, he was robbed in the middle of the road, even the car with the goods was gone, Tang Yulin wanted to cry without tears, he was unable to compensate at all, a gamble, desperate to take risks, fell into the grass for Kou, and also did "no business without money".
At that time, there was a pair of bandit brothers along the Daling River in western Liaoning, named Yuan Si and Yuan Wu, and Tang Yulin defected to them, because Tang Yulin's gun was accurate and his strength was great, so he quickly became the "second boss", so at that time, everyone in the green forest called him "Tang Erhu".
In the commentary book "The Tyrant of the Troubled World", it was said that Zhang Zuolin was deceived when he gambled with people in his early years, resulting in pennilessness, and then he cut off a piece of thigh meat with his own heart, which shocked other gamblers. In fact, this matter is indeed a matter, but it is not Zhang Zuolin who did it, but Tang Yulin did it.
Tang Yulin is a particularly fierce person, in today's words, he will be afraid of himself, he can use his hands to catch a scale in a hot oil pot for the treasure hunting bureau; when he competes with people for the dock, he can put the briquettes on his thighs and burn his ribs with red iron bars; when he gambles and lacks money, he once cut the flesh on his thighs as collateral, such a person you say who can not be afraid?
In fact, Tang Yulin did not become the "Eight Great Gunners" under Du Lisan as stated in the commentary, but after leaving the Yuan brothers, he "established himself as king" and led a group of outlaws into the Hongluo Mountain in The West of Zhanjin to recruit soldiers and horses to become the king of the mountain. After the Sino-Japanese War, many scattered soldiers defected to him, so Tang Yulin once dominated the side in western Liaoning.
In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900), the insurance team led by Zhang Zuolin was attacked by the bandit Jin Shoushan, and Tang Yulin led his troops to rescue him, saving Zhang Zuolin from death. Zhang Zuolin was very grateful to Tang Yulin for saving his life, and he worshipped him as a brother, Tang Yulin was 4 years older than Zhang Zuolin, belonged to the monkey, and ranked fourth in the later re-worship with Ma Longtan, Zhang Jinghui and other eight people, so he was called "Tang Fourth Master". It was precisely because of this rescue that Zhang Zuolin saw Tang Yulin's bravery in battle, so he made up his mind to wake up and invite Tang Yulin to join the company and join his insurance team. Later, Jin Shoushan secretly attacked Zhong'an Fort, and Zhang Zuolin and Tang Yulin broke out of the siege and defected to Zhang Jinghui of the Octagonal Terrace. Zhang Jinghui admired Zhang Zuolin's ability very much, so he gave up the position of the first hand to Zhang Zuolin.
Zhang Zuolin, Tang Yulin and others took a group photo
Later, Zhang Zuolin's ranks continued to grow, and he successfully won the Qing court recruitment, and Tang Yulin also became a junior officer, with the military position of left sentry officer. After helping Zhang Zuolin "plan to kill Du Lisan" and "Heilongjiang bandits", after the establishment of the Republic of China, Tang Yulin became the commander of the cavalry regiment of the 27th Division of the Army. Later, he was promoted to brigadier general and lieutenant general of the 53rd Brigade of the Army.
Tang Yulin, a man who fought bravely and fiercely, but his level of education was very low, he also looked down on educated people, coupled with the "strong banditry", the Fengjun under his hands also lacked discipline, and once had a conflict with Wang Yongjiang, the then chief of the Fengtian Security Department, because of the protection of his subordinates, he also offended his brother Zhang Zuolin.
On March 19, the 6th year of the Republic of China (1917), Zhang Zuolin ordered Tang Yulin to be removed from all positions. Of course, Tang Erhu refused to accept defeat and show weakness, and the next day he dragged two regiments out of Fengtiancheng and defected to the 28th Division of Feng Delin, Zhang Zuolin's "opponent" at that time. Not only that, he also jointly issued an anti-Zhang telegram with Feng Delin, asking Zhang Zuolin to go to the field immediately, and the brothers completely tore their faces.
Zhang Zuolin and Tang Yulin are dressed up
Because there is no culture, so even out of the way, when Zhang Xun was restored, Feng Delin and Tang Yulin (two Lin) rushed to approve of Puyi's restoration, but they did not expect that with only 12 days, Zhang Xun's restoration failed, Feng Delin was arrested, and the cunning Tang Yulin ran to Mongolia to avoid disaster.
In January 1918, nearly a year after opposing Zhang Zuolin, Tang Yulin asked Ji Jinchun and Zhang Jinghui for help, and even Tang Erhu's mother, the old lady of Shang, personally came forward to intercede, Zhang Zuolin remembered the past, only to forgive his fourth brother, let Tang Erhu return to Fengtian, serving as a lieutenant general adviser to Zhang Zuolin, the inspector of the three eastern provinces, please note that at this time, Tang Erhu had no military power.
However, in the subsequent Zhiwan War and the Two Great Wars of Zhifeng, Tang Erhu was given military power to help Zhang Zuolin to be born into death and kill the enemy bravely, so Tang Yulin was promoted to the commander of the 11th Division of the National Defense Force of the Three Eastern Provinces, and the garrison was directly placed in the front line of the Feng army's resistance to Feng Yuxiang in the area of Rehe Chaoyang and Beipiao.
Unexpectedly, Feng Jun did not fight with Feng Yuxiang, but he and his own people did it first, that is, "Guo Songling anti-Feng". Tang Yulin's contribution to this war was not lost, not only in the footsteps of the new people, Guo Songling, but also in his hometown of Dalinghe, Yixian County, Jinzhou, to ambush Guo Jun (I guess it was because he was a bandit in this generation and was particularly familiar with geography, so he could effectively set up an ambush). Once, in a battle, Zhang Zuolin saw the loyalty and reliability of the fourth brother, so the two brothers completely released their previous suspicions, also known as intimate good brothers.
Later, Tang Erhu was promoted to the commander of the 12th Army of the Fifth Front of the Anguo Army, and later appointed as the commander of the Rehe Capital.
Tang Yulin riding a horse
At the time of Chiang Kai-shek's Northern Expedition, Yan Xishan came out of Shanxi to supply Zhang Zuolin's Fengjun army from the west, at this time, Tang Yulin was "possessed by the god of war" and led his troops to counterattack Yan Xishan from the Jingsui Line, and the two sides launched a decisive battle in the Xuanhua area of Hebei Province, fiercely fighting for six days and six nights, and the left route army of the Jin army was beaten by Tang Yulin's troops and lost their armor, collapsed and retreated to Tianzhen, Shanxi, and Datong. After this defeat, Yan Xishan was forced to announce his resignation. Tang Yulin was regarded as the "God of War" by the Feng army because of his bravery and good command in the "Battle of Jinfeng".
On June 4, 1928, Zhang Zuolin was killed by the Japanese army, after which Zhang Xueliang announced at the end of that year that he would change his mind and submit to the leadership of the Nationalist government. Tang Yulin was subsequently appointed governor of Rehe Province, a member of the Standing Committee of the Kuomintang Rehe Provincial Party Department and the commander of the 36th Division, stationed in Chengde, the provincial capital of Rehe.
However, during this period, Tang Yulin was nepotistic, installing his brothers and sons and sons-in-law in key departments, collecting harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes on the people, and also planting opium, which led to a sharp decline in the combat effectiveness of the army.
In addition, Tang Erhu, like Sun Dianying, stole the imperial tomb. However, what he stole was not the Qing Tombs, but the imperial tombs of the Liao Dynasty Emperors, and respectively excavated the tombs of the three emperors of Liao shengzong, Liao guangzong and Liao Daozong located in the tomb ditch of the white pagoda king of the Left Banner of Balin in Inner Mongolia, and occupied all the excavated cultural relics and transported them to the private residence in Shenyang for collection. Now everyone goes to the Liaoning Provincial Museum and sees the epitaph (stone carving) of the Liao Daozong, which was excavated at that time.
After the September 18 Incident, in order to win Tang Erhu over, the Japanese returned all the tang family members and money left in Shenyang to him, trying to buy it, but Tang Yulin did not loosen up.
After the establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo, the Japanese wanted Tang Erhu to surrender, and Xu Yi was a high-ranking official Houlu, but the envoy sent to Tang Erhu was immediately scolded by Tang Yulin, and Tang Erhu said at that time: "Zhang Yuting (Zhang Zuolin) is my brother who worships his son, you kill him, I am not so bastard, go and be your official!" "Shows a very noble national integrity! This is much more valuable than Zhang Jinghui, who surrendered to Japan, at least he is a Chinese who stands tall in the sky!
Tang Yulin in Rehe
In the face of the Japanese invasion, Tang Yulin said: "I am a state official, and it is my duty to defend the land, and I swear to fight to the death and never lose the land of the country." But to say that, doing practical work, although Tang Erhu had 200,000 heavy troops in his hands at that time, he did not obey Zhang Xueliang's discipline, because he believed that it was precisely because Zhang Xueliang issued the order of the Northeast Army not to resist that the three northeastern provinces were lost and trapped under the iron hooves of the Japanese Kou.
Zhang Xueliang, enraged, wanted Zhang Zuoxiang to replace Tang Yulin, take charge of the Rehe garrison, and demote Tang Yulin to deputy commander-in-chief. As a result, the contradiction between the two gradually deepened. When Song Ziwen and Zhang Xueliang inspected the positions, Tang Erhu said angrily: "Why don't you provide the Rehe army with salaries and guns? Not even a fart, can you hit the Japanese? But these words did not come in exchange for military pay and equipment.
Group photo of Zhang Xueliang, Song Ziwen and Tang Yulin
When the Rehe War of Resistance broke out, Tang Erhu did not listen to the command of Zhang Zuoxiang, the "commander of the Third Army," and Zhang Zuoxiang could do nothing about this fourth brother. In the face of the attack of 100,000 Japanese troops and puppet troops, Tang Yulin's men either surrendered or retreated, and even Zhang Zuoxiang ran away in a car. Tang Yulin really had no choice but to lead his army back to Beiping, but Zhang Xueliang would never allow him to do so. Tang Yulin had no choice but to lead his army to retreat to Fengning, and the Japanese army occupied the entire territory of Rehe Province in only seven days. The people of the whole country pointed the spearhead of the defeat at Tang Yulin and demanded that Zhang Xueliang bring him to justice, but because Tang Erhu had fled to Chahar, he could not be caught. The government of the Republic of China could only announce that Tang Yulin had "removed from his post and investigated the matter." Zhang Xueliang, however, was finally forced to resign and go abroad to investigate.
A photo of Tang Yulin in the newspaper at that time
At this time, the Japanese army found Tang Yulin again and persuaded him to surrender, but Tang Yulin once again scolded the Japanese. Later, Tang Yulin was appointed as the commander of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army Chadong Guerrilla Army, continued to lead the army to resist Japan, and cooperated with Ji Hongchang to launch campaigns to retake Duolun and Guyuan, dealing a heavy blow to the Japanese Kou. However, in October 1933, Song Zheyuan absorbed Tang Yulin's troops, and Tang Yulin became the general counselor of the 29th Army, and lost military power.
After that, Tang Yulin was forced to resign and lived in a villa in the Tianjin Concession because of the accusations of the Chinese people, until February 1949, after the liberation of Tianjin, he died of illness in Tianjin at the age of 78. His sixth brother, Zhang Zuoxiang, who was also a fellow villager, also died of illness in Tianjin in the second month, that is, in March 1949, at the age of 68.
Tang Yulin's villa in Tianjin
Regarding Tang Yulin and his people, the world has mixed praises and criticisms, and many people say that he has done equally good deeds, that he can live at the right time, but that he cannot save the world, and that he is a man without great ambitions and great talents.