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Emperor Qin Yingzheng was worried that Wang Jian would be the master of high merit, and had planned to get rid of Wang Qian, but Wang Jian obviously felt this situation, so when Qin Shi Huang was sealed without a reward and no reward, he proposed to ask for a beautiful woman as a reward, and Qin Shi Huang also understood Wang Qian's attitude of having no two hearts, so he was relieved to let Wang Jian take charge of the army.
In fact, there are many such examples throughout the history of human civilization. And there are some things in modern history, among which the most influential should be the "Tiger Hall Incident", that is, one thing that Zhang Xueliang did to get rid of Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai.
In fact, there are different opinions in history about whether Yang Yuting should be killed, and Hu Shi once said that "Yang Yuting will not die, and the Northeast will not be lost". So, is Yang Yuting's death really unjust?
Yang Yuting's deeds
Yang Yuting was born in 1885 in Faku, Liaoning Province, and as a young man, he was resourceful and praised by the locals for his outstanding resourcefulness.
After Zhang Zuolin made a fortune, when he was the commander of the 27th Division, he went out and saw a neat team, he thought it was the Japanese army, but the clothes on his body were not very similar, after inquiry, he knew that the leader of the army turned out to be the resourceful Yang Yuting, so he took the initiative to find Yang Yuting, hoping that Yang Yuting could work beside him.
After Yang Yuting took office as a staff officer of the 27th Division, he tried his best to rectify the military style and discipline, and Zhang Zuolin's army was trained by him in an orderly manner, and he was also reused by Zhang Zuolin.
But Yang Yuting has a shortcoming, that is, he doesn't know how to be a man, in our current words, he is "low emotional intelligence", he always only thinks about right and wrong, and will not pay attention to other people's attitudes towards this matter, which is also the reason why he was liquidated by Zhang Xueliang in the future.
In 1918, Yang Yuting, at the instigation of his classmate Xu Shuzheng, attempted to recruit troops and form his own army under the guise of Fengjun After Zhang Zuolin learned about this, he was dismissed. After that, he served as the military attache of the Presidential Palace in Beijing and the chief of staff of the Northwest Frontier Command.
In 1921, Zhang Zuolin finally reactivated him because of Yang Yuting's talent, and Yang Yuting lived up to his trust and did all kinds of work in the Northeast to the extreme.
His most important contributions were mainly the formation of the Northeast Navy and the construction of the Fengtian Arsenal, which greatly strengthened the combat strength of the Northeast Army.
However, the fact that Yang Yuting once planned to set up his own door still made Zhang Zuolin jealous, so Zhang Zuolin's disposal of him was to grant management and administrative powers, that is, not to give military powers.
At that time, as long as there was no army, then everything was empty, and Yang Yuting never did anything out of the ordinary.
But a birthday party and a different attitude towards the Northeast still made Zhang Xueliang attack him.
A young marshal who is not respected
Since the "Huanggutun Incident", the entire Northeast has entered a tense state, and before Zhang Xueliang rushed back from other places, the affairs of the Northeast were actually managed by Yang Yuting.
After Zhang Xueliang officially took charge of the Northeast, Yang Yuting relied on himself as a veteran of the Feng warlords, and often "taught" Zhang Xueliang to do things, which made Zhang Xueliang very uncomfortable in his heart, and Yang Yuting had opposing opinions when the Northeast changed banners, which made Zhang Xueliang even more dissatisfied.
In order to deal with the Japanese invasion, Zhang Xueliang knew that his own ability was not enough to fight the Japanese, and in order to smash the Japanese conspiracy to separate Northeast China from China, Zhang Xueliang reached a consensus with Chiang Kai-shek of the Kuomintang and decided to "change the flag".
This matter was not recognized by other generals in the Northeast at first, especially Yang Yuting, who reacted greatly to this matter, and Zhang Xueliang finally got other generals to agree to Yizhi after a long time of hard work, but Yang Yuting still disagreed.
Later, at the meeting to change the flag, Yang Yuting directly left Zhang Xueliang and did not take a group photo, which made Zhang Xueliang more dissatisfied with him, and what happened at Yang Yuting's father's birthday banquet made Zhang Xueliang even more angry.
This was the ninth day after the change of banner in Northeast China, and early in the morning Yang Yuting's home was decorated with lights, and it was Yang Yuting's father's 80th birthday banquet, and almost all the military and political dignitaries in Northeast China were present at that time, and even Chiang Kai-shek, Yan Xishan, and the Japanese let the delegates attend.
When Zhang Xueliang came to the venue, only a few people present stood up to signal, and the others just nodded slightly, and then when Yang Yuting arrived, almost all the people present stood up, and the compliments on their faces were extremely obvious. During the banquet, Zhang Xueliang has always been extremely restrained, and then he couldn't stand it anymore and left the Yang Mansion on the grounds of "stomach discomfort".
This incident made Zhang Xueliang, the new "King of the Northeast", almost lose face, and even his always docile wife Yu Fengzhi said: "Where are you like the master of the Northeast, Yang Yuting is the real master of the Northeast! Look at his virtue, does he still have you in his eyes?"
If this incident made Zhang Xueliang extremely angry, then the next thing made Zhang Xueliang have to kill Yang Yuting.
Zhang Xueliang killed Yang Yuting
Three days after the birthday banquet, Yang Yuting took his cronies Chang Yinhuai to Zhang Xueliang's marshal's mansion, and he told Zhang Xueliang bluntly: "Please appoint Chang Yinhuai as the supervisor of the Northeast Railway Supervision Office, I have already thought about it, you can sign it." ”
When Zhang Xueliang heard this, he finally couldn't hold it anymore: You don't have me in your eyes at all, so why should I keep you?
So, Zhang Xueliang lied that he would talk about it at dinner, and then called his security chief Gao Jiyi and asked him to prepare for the execution of Yang Yuting.
At night, Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai, who didn't know why, came to the Tiger Hall, but found that there was no Zhang Xueliang, and when they were about to leave, Gao Jiyi took people to the Tiger Hall and executed Yang Yuting and the two without any words.
After this matter was known to the outside world, it caused an uproar, and this also made Zhang Xueliang really sit firmly in the position of "King of the Northeast". So, should Yang Yuting be killed?
In fact, it is very appropriate to use the words of the direct warlord Sun Chuanfang: "He is now above Han Shuai, asking about everything, and even hindering Han Shuai by giving orders, which is really rare in ancient and modern China and abroad, how can he not die?" It can be seen from this that Yang Yuting's death is indeed too arrogant himself.
Brief summary:
In fact, there have always been many opinions on Yang Yuting's death in history, and Hu Shi's words are not unreasonable, but they are not entirely correct.
Indeed, if Yang Yuting had not died, he might have prevented the Japanese invasion, and the Northeast might not have been abandoned, but some people said that Yang Yuting was originally ambitious for power, and at the same time he may be pro-Japanese, and if he is in power, the Northeast may be more dangerous.
This question can only be said that everyone has a different opinion. However, the author thinks that Zhang Xueliang should regret it in his heart, after all, in his later years, he often said: "The most wrong thing in his life is to kill Yang Yuting by mistake." ”