Everyone was arguing endlessly about the warlords of the Republic of China period. Compared with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, many warlords mostly came out of the grassroots, just like Zhang Zongchang, the "strange warlord" today. Why is it that he is a strange person, because he not only eats, drinks, gambles and plays, but also likes to write poetry.
Zhang was born in Shandong, but because his family was particularly poor, he often did not have enough to eat, and when he was a child, he supported his life by herding cattle for others or working for others, so he understood the difficulty and cruelty of society at a very young age. Later, due to the famine, he could not go outside to make a living, and he also learned fluent Russian and skilled marksmanship, which also laid the foundation for his later military life.
At that time, as soon as the Xinhai Revolution broke out, he felt that he wanted to join the revolutionary camp, so in this way, from a small soldier to the regimental commander of Chen Qimei's Guangguang Restoration Army, and later when the Qing Dynasty was destroyed in 1913, he was already the commander of the Third Army Division of the Jiangsu Army.
Later, he turned to Beiyang again, but people did not accept him, there was no way, and no one was powerful, so he had to start from scratch, so at the beginning he started from the battalion commander of Zhang Zuolin's gendarmerie battalion. Later, in a war, he did not pay a single soldier to bring out the bandit gang set up by the Shandong compatriots, so Zhang Zuolin slowly noticed him.
Later, he collected a lot of Small Soldiers from Belarus, and at that time he probably had nearly tens of thousands of people in his hands. Although he said that he was already a very big officer, he still couldn't change the banditry he had before, and he still couldn't govern military discipline, and his troops were also notorious. Because he can't manage money, he often asks Zhang Zuolin for money, but it doesn't take long to spend it. He actually began to plant poppies in large quantities in his official position, and in a short period of time he had recovered a lot of land. In this photo is a group photo of Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Zongchang and Wu Peifu.
In addition to the stupid thing of growing opium, he was also particularly and greedy. Not only did he put a lot of foreign wine in front of the house, but the women in the family were even more countless, even if he didn't know what some people were, and then slowly he was called "General Of Three Unknowns" by the common people. In this photo are Chu Yupu, Zhang Zongchang and Zhang Xueliang.
This photo is part of Zhang Zongchang's aunts. It is said that he has 23 concubines alone, and many of them do not even have names. And what's even more bizarre is that he sometimes gets drunk and sends his concubines out.
The beautiful-looking woman in the middle of the picture is Zhang Zongchang's nineteenth aunt. In the chaotic world, the warlord holds a gun in his hand, and whoever he likes is a woman will directly issue a dowry, saying that he will send someone to marry him on a day, regardless of whether the other party wants to or not.
Later, when he entered Shandong, he felt that as an official in charge of this land, he certainly could not make people feel that he was uncultured, so he began to compose poetry from time to time, although it was still passable in form, but the things written in it could make people laugh to death. For example, this song he created "Wing Xue": something flies in the sky, and a bunch of east and west piles come. Could it be that the Jade Emperor covers the golden hall, and sifts lime and sifts lime. In this photo are Sun Chuanfang and Zhang Zuochang.
Later, when he fell, he wanted to return to Shandong to regain his prestige, and at that time, someone introduced Han Fuyu, the chairman of Shandong, to him as a brother, and the two of them were still dreaming of big things at that time. At that time, he told Han Fuyu: "Many of my old subordinates are here, as long as I give an order, they will slip over." This sentence made Han Fuyu particularly afraid, and at that time he decided that Zhang Zuochang must die, otherwise his position would not be guaranteed, so Zhang Zuochang was killed at the railway station.