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On the afternoon of January 10, 1929, in the Young Marshal's Mansion, Zhang Xueliang tossed a coin, and the coin hovered in the air for tens of seconds before gently falling.
"Positive again." This is the third time, all positive, Zhang Xueliang is very surprised.
"No, I'm afraid there is something wrong with this silver coin."
In desperation, he silently recited in his heart again: "If I don't do this, it is not right, then there will be the opposite." ”
Zhang Xueliang tossed the coin in his hand, the first time: reverse, the second time: the reverse.
The third time he turned around and did not dare to look: "Madam, the front or the back." ”
He asked Yu Fengzhi next to him.
Yu Fengzhi did not answer, and asked him in horror if he wanted to kill. Zhang Xueliang didn't speak, turned to look at the coin on the ground, and it was the reverse again.
"It seems that Providence is so." Surprised, he made up his mind.
This is the first time that Zhang Xueliang decided the life and death of people by tossing a coin in this way, and in a later interview, he said that he has never been superstitious, and this time he believed.
Tiger Hall massacre
On the afternoon of January 10, 1929, Gao Jiyi was ordered by Zhang Xueliang to come to the marshal's mansion.
Gao Jiyi was the police commissioner at the time, and he went to Jilin with Zhang Xueliang and Guo Songling to suppress bandits in the past. When Zhang Xueliang was the commander of the 27th Division, he served as the adjutant chief of the division headquarters.
The two were born and died on the battlefield, and Gao Jiyi was Zhang Xueliang's trusted subordinate. Since he became the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Army, Zhang Xueliang will hand over many things to him.
This time, Gao Jiyi had a hunch that the young marshal was likely to have something big to do.
Sure enough, after Zhang Xueliang saw him, his eyes were full of anger and murderousness:
"The two of them are so deceitful, I order you to shoot them!"
Zhang Xueliang said that these two people, one is Zhang Zuolin's old subordinate Yang Yuting, and the other is Yang's henchman and governor of Heilongjiang Province, Chang Yinhuai.
Gao Jiyi was very surprised after hearing this, after all, the two were not small people, but in addition to being shocked, he unconsciously showed an imperceptible smile.
He had long hated Yang Yuting, and in 1925 he and Zhang Xueliang's mentor Guo Songling died at the hands of Yang Yuting due to rebellion. He always wanted to take revenge, but Yang Yuting held a high position in the Fengjun, which caused him to have a heart and was powerless.
Now, the new owner wants to get rid of Yang Yuting, and the opportunity to take revenge has come.
Therefore, under Gao Jiyi's arrangement, Zhang Xueliang's adjutant Tan Hai joined him in deploying the operation with full authority. He first arranged for six guards to hide in the shadows, and Liu Duofen, the commander of the headquarters guard, served as the internal and external guards of the marshal's mansion.
At the same time, he arranged for Wang Yizhe, commander of the Northeast Army Brigade, to be in charge of the city's prevention and security. On the same day, Wang Yizhe ordered the regiment commander Wang Tiehan to go to the Shenyang Arsenal, saying that there might be a riot, but in fact it was just a careful arrangement for the assassination of Yang Yuting and the two.
After everything was deployed, he waited for Yang Chang and the two to arrive.
At seven o'clock in the evening, Yang Chang and the two came to the Shuai Mansion according to the prior agreement between them and Zhang Xueliang, and walked straight into the Tiger Hall.
However, not long after, six guards armed with guns suddenly snatched in and controlled Yang Chang and the two. Yang Yuting panicked:
"What are you doing?"
"On the order of the chief, the two of you obstruct the new policies of the country, undermine unity, put you two to death, and execute them immediately."
After saying that, only listening to a few gunshots, Yang Chang and the two did not have time to resist, so they fell in a pool of blood.
Not long after, Rong Zhen, then lieutenant general of the 17th Army of the 4th Front (later Zhang Xueliang's aide-de-camp), was ordered to come to the marshal's mansion to meet Zhang Xueliang.
As soon as Rong Zhen stepped into Zhang Xueliang's office, he stepped forward and took Rong Zhen's hand:
"Lao Rong, Lao Rong, do you touch my heart and see if it's still jumping?"
Rong Zhen looked at Zhang Xueliang suspiciously, not understanding what he meant.
"Yang and Chang told me to kill."
Zhang Xueliang's voice had a hint of trembling. His words surprised Rongzhen, and he couldn't believe that Yang Yuting, who was so beautiful, died like this.
Northeast "Little Zhuge " - Yang Yuting
In 1922, after the defeat of the First Zhifeng War, Zhang Zuolin was very frustrated and unwilling.
Inside the office of the Grand Marshal's Mansion, he paced back and forth. After thinking for a moment, he ordered someone to write a letter, and the recipient was his former confidant, Yang Yuting.
This person is ten years younger than Zhang Zuolin, and is very different from the rough man Zhang Zuolin, Yang Yuting is a solid "show talent" background, and is also a "Kochi" talent who has studied abroad and has a stomach full of foreign ink.
Therefore, Zhang Zuolin has always attached great importance to Yang Yuting, and not only gave him the post of general counselor, but also let him serve as the supervisor of the Fengtian Arsenal.
However, what made him angry was that Yang Yuting, who was used by himself, did not know the height of the sky and the thickness of the earth, and he had an external heart.
In 1918, Yang Yuting and Xu Shuzheng secretly embezzled Feng's military funds. Zhang Zuolin was angry and dismissed his official. Yang Yuting has no official position since then, and is idle at home.
Xu Shuzheng
Having made such a big mistake, Zhang Zuolin took the initiative to invite him out of the mountain in 1922, because Yang Yuting certainly had extraordinary skills. During the period of assisting Zhang Zuolin, Yang Yuting did four major things.
The first is to establish the Northeast Navy, the Liaoshen Peninsula is surrounded by the sea on three sides, if the enemy attacks, such as Japan, the number one enemy, the military strength of the navy is particularly important. Therefore, Yang Yuting recommended Shen Honglie, an international student who graduated from the Japanese Merchant Marine School, to be the commander of the Northeast Navy and establish the Northeast Navy.
The second is to lead the formulation of the talent system, Yang Yuting used his own power to buy a large number of rich people's fields, distribute them to ordinary people, and cultivate the cultivated land by farmers, greatly developing local agriculture.
Third, a war-ready highway was built, and at that time the management of the South Manchuria Railway was controlled by the Japanese, which was a major threat to Zhang Zuolin. The completion of the construction of the war-ready road was able to quickly counterattack the provocations of the Japanese, so that Zhang Zuolin did not have to be in a very passive situation.
The fourth is to supervise the Fengtian Arsenal and create an independent weapons and equipment system. In the years of war, weapons are also the most critical part of war.
At that time, due to the melee of warlords, weapons and equipment were consumed at an alarming rate. If you do not have the ability to manufacture weapons and can only rely on outsourcing, it will be a great hidden danger.
But Yang Yuting solved this big problem for Zhang Zuolin and built the largest arsenal in China.
It can be said that with Yang Yuting by his side, Zhang Zuolin almost does not have to worry about it to a large extent, most of the things are decided by Yang Yuting, and he basically can't make mistakes.
Since Yang Yuting left, many things have not gone well for Zhang Zuolin, and the people around him are not conducive to doing things. Coupled with the defeat of the Zhifeng War, Zhang Zuolin realized that without Yang Yuting, neither politics, military nor diplomacy would work.
Therefore, Yang Yuting returned to the Fengjie department under Zhang Zuolin's summoning and continued to serve as a military master beside Zhang Zuolin.
Zhang Xueliang and Yang Yuting are full of contradictions
Just when Yang Yuting's career was thriving, the news of Zhang Zuolin's death suddenly came.
A month after Zhang Zuolin's death, the 28-year-old Zhang Xueliang officially became the commander-in-chief of security in the three eastern provinces.
For the newly appointed commander-in-chief, how does Yang Yuting see it, how can he not look at it. Yang Yuting never regarded Zhang Xueliang as a superior, and even used inappropriate titles such as "Han Qing", "Commander's Son", and "Sixth Master" for him.
In addition, Yang Yuting always reprimanded Zhang Xueliang in the tone of an elder. In the eyes of many people, he seems to have some hatred for Zhang Xueliang.
But is that actually the case?
Some people believe that Yang Yuting held a high position in the Fengji lineage, and after Zhang Zuolin's death, his fox tail was also exposed, and he wanted to seize the opportunity to seize power.
Indeed, when the local representatives came to the northeast, the first thing they looked for was Yang Yuting. And Yang Yuting also openly stated: I can be the master, Zhang Xueliang is just a child.
Yang Yuting's self-proclaimed position as king made Zhang Xueliang feel threatened.
The internal contradictions between the Fengjian families came to the Japanese who had long wanted to destroy Yang Yuting.
Therefore, the Japanese took the opportunity to make a good article on Yang Yuting. They first conducted a Northeast opinion poll in the Manchurian Daily. That is, let the people choose Zhang Xueliang, Yang Yuting, and Zhang Zuoxiang to see who is the most popular with the people.
The result is not important for the Japanese, but rather the intensification of internal contradictions between several people.
Later, the Japanese also specially sent Zhang Xueliang a book - "History of Japan", and specially circled the story of "Tokugawa Ieyasu" in the book.
Image of Ieyasu Dekawa
Tokugawa Ieyasu was a very important courtier of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and before his death, Toyotomi Hideyoshi handed over his son Toyotomi Hideyori to Tokugawa Ieyasu, a bit like Liu Bei's deathbed care.
However, Tokugawa Ieyasu did not do his best to assist the young lord like Zhuge Liang, but immediately killed Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his death and took his place.
After Zhang Xueliang read it, his heart could not calm down for a long time. He naturally thought of the red man who used to be his father's side, and now he can't get used to his Yang Yuting.
How similar is the relationship between them and that between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Toyotomi Hideyori.
Thinking of this, Zhang Xueliang gasped.
Soon, on the issue of "Northeast Yizhi", the two had disagreements again.
When Zhang Zuolin was alive, Zhang Xueliang repeatedly persuaded his father to "return to Nanjing and achieve reunification." However, Zhang Zuolin disagreed with him.
Zhang Zuolin believed that even the defeat of the northeast was his last backer, and he would never return to Chiang Kai-shek.
Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Xueliang
After his father's death, Zhang Xueliang faced this choice again and still advocated submitting to the Nanjing government.
Yang Yuting was the first to stand up against it, believing that if it is not easy, then they have a lot of choices and can move in and out freely; On the contrary, if they choose Yizhi, then their fate will be uncontrollable, it is possible to anger the Japanese, and then there will be no peace in the northeast.
The two had a great conflict over this matter.
Zhang Xueliang finally declared his submission to the Nanjing government despite Yang Yuting's disagreement.
Yang Yuting was extremely angry about this and refused to take photos at the "Yizhi" ceremony. The contradiction between him and Zhang Xueliang deepened day by day, and he did not know that Zhang Xueliang had murderous intentions on himself.
One coin determines life and death
On January 7, 1929, Yang Mansion sang and danced, very lively, Yang Yuting was making a big birthday for his father.
The people who came to congratulate were not small, including Chiang Kai-shek, Bai Chongxi, Yan Xishan and other local factions sent representatives to congratulate them. People from all walks of life in the military and political circles in the northeast also attended the scene one after another.
Zhang Xueliang and his wife Yu Fengzhi came to congratulate him, and after arriving, people from all walks of life just said hello to him politely, and then went their separate ways, not caring about him.
But when Yang Yuting appeared, the audience instantly fell silent, and everyone looked at him. Yang Yuting held his head high, smiled and walked in, that scene was not beautiful.
One for the prince and the other for the courtier, this courtesy seems to have been reversed.
Even Yu Fengzhi saw the clue and said that Yang Yuting was like the master of the northeast.
This made Zhang Xueliang, who had long been dissatisfied with Yang Yuting, suddenly aggravated the murderous intent in his heart.
One afternoon three days later, Yang Yuting took Chang Yinhuai to the Shuai Mansion to meet Zhang Xueliang.
As soon as they met, he proposed to establish a "Northeast Railway Supervision Office".
Yang Yuting said that the Chinese Eastern Railway is a Sino-Soviet joint railway, which has not accepted the command of the Northeast Transportation Committee, and it is necessary to establish a supervisory office to consolidate China's position and let China also have a say in the Middle East Railway. At the same time, Yang Yuting also recommended Chang Yinhuai as the supervisor.
Eastern Provincial Railway
Zhang Xueliang was very dissatisfied in his heart, Chang Yinhuai was originally the chairman of the Fengtian Transportation Committee, and the governor of Heilongjiang Province, and now he plans to go to Jilin to serve as the supervisor of Middle East Road.
"Chang Yin Huai's ability is also too great, is there no one in the three eastern provinces? Only Changyin Huai, this person is available? ”
Zhang Xueliang thought so, but he still didn't get angry, just said calmly:
"The northeast has just stabilized, and major matters involving diplomacy should be cautious, not rushed, and should be considered in the long run." Moreover, we have submitted to the Nanjing government, and this matter should be decided by the Nanjing government. ”
Yang Yuting was very angry after hearing this, saying that this matter must be done in this way, and even took out the documents prepared in advance and asked Zhang Xueliang to sign them.
Zhang Xueliang and Yang Yuting
Zhang Xueliang did not expect that Yang Yuting would be so disrespectful to himself, thinking that he was always suppressed and humiliated by Yang Yuting, he made a killing intention.
However, he did not act immediately, but told Yang Yuting that he would consider it and discuss it after the meal.
Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai didn't say anything more and left.
Zhang Xueliang suddenly hesitated again, after all, Yang Yuting is not an ordinary person, but also a hero around his father, and killing him may cause civil unrest in the Fengjun. Whether it was right or wrong to do so, Zhang Xueliang had a hard time deciding.
Without negotiation, he was never superstitious, and decided to hand over Yang Yuting's fate to a silver dollar.
He meditated in his heart, showing the front if this should be done, and then picked up the silver dollar and threw it out.
The result is one bounce to the front, two to the front, and the third time to the front. He thought that the silver dollar was wrong, and on the other hand, if he did not do it, it would be wrong, and the silver dollar would come out of the opposite. As a result, the first bounce is the reverse, the second bounce is the reverse, and the third time is the reverse.
In the end, Zhang Xueliang decided to get rid of the two, informed Gao Jiyi of the plan, and ordered him to make relevant preparations.
In his later years, Zhang Xueliang
Before Yang Chang and the two died, they would not have thought that a silver dollar would actually determine their life and death.
However, many ordinary people regretted Yang Yuting's death. In any case, Yang Yuting's talent is undeniable. Some people even believe that if Yang Yuting is still there, perhaps the northeast will not fall without firing a single shot from the northeast army.
Zhang Xueliang said in an interview in his later years:
"I wasn't very superstitious before, but after killing Yang Yuting, I had to believe it."
In his eyes, the death of Yang Chang and the two was attributed to the will of God.
And Zhang Xueliang also hinted that he should not do things impulsively.
Whether it is providence or human will has no meaning in terms of results.