<h1>Text/Xu Yongchao</h1>
He held important positions around Chiang Kai-shek for a long time, but little is known. He roamed the political arena of the Republic of China, known as "Chiang Kai-shek's sword", but mocked himself as "Chiang Kai-shek's lackey". He is Zhang Qun, who calls himself a "cook's staff".
Zhang Qun, Zi Yue Jun, a native of Huayang, Sichuan. In his early years, he studied at the Baoding Army Academy, and after crossing to Japan, he met and became a brother with Chiang Kai-shek.
Shortly after the Wuchang Uprising broke out, they returned to Shanghai and served under Chen Qimei. In 1913, because of his failure to participate in the struggle against Yuan Shikai, Zhang Qun went into exile in Japan. In 1917, Sun Yat-sen became the Grand Marshal of the Army and Navy of the Military Government of the Republic of China, and Zhang Qun became one of his subordinates, and was ordered to contact the powerful warlords in Sichuan to jointly oppose the Beiyang government.
There are two sides to the conversation. In 1926, Chiang Kai-shek became the commander-in-chief of the powerful Northern Expeditionary Army, and Zhang Qun, who heard the news, went to Guangzhou to congratulate him. Chiang Kai-shek said excitedly: "It is very good that you come to Guangzhou. As long as we are in the same boat, the Great Cause of the Northern Expedition will certainly succeed. So he appointed Zhang Qun as the general staff officer of the Northern Expeditionary Army, deeply involved in the major affairs of military aircraft, and became Chiang Kai-shek's think tank.
In view of the situation at that time, Zhang Qun suggested that the Northern Expedition should first break Wu Peifu, and then march eastward to eliminate Sun Chuanfang's troops, and at the same time contact Feng Yuxiang in the west, contain the Feng family, and then seek an opportunity to go north and annihilate Zhang Zuolin. In order to divide Sun Chuanfang, he also took the initiative to ask for help. Chiang Kai-shek was overjoyed and agreed to let him go.
At first, when secretly meeting with Sun Chuanfang, Zhang Qun used the military and political governors of the five southeastern provinces as bait and asked him to join forces with the Nationalist army to attack Wu Peifu, but instead urged him to remain neutral. Soon, under the attack of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Wu Peifu's army collapsed, and Sun Chuanfang, who felt that the danger was imminent, sent people to contact Chiang Kai-shek, hoping to preserve the southeastern half of the wall. Chiang Kai-shek, who had won a great victory, did not take it seriously, pursued and fiercely attacked Sun Chuanfang's troops entrenched in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, and obtained a large amount of territory, and led the capital of the Nationalist government to Nanjing.
In August 1927, when Chiang Kai-shek went to the wilderness for the first time, Zhang Qun decided to advance and retreat with this brother and accompanied him back to his hometown in Fenghua, and Chiang Kai-shek was greatly moved. In order to help Chiang Kai-shek make a comeback, Zhang Qun specially went to Japan to meet with Ni Guizhen, the parent of the Song family, and conveyed Chiang Kai-shek's sincerity to the old lady, which led to his marriage with Song Meiling.
The following year, Chiang Kai-shek regained power again. Soon, under the pretext of protecting overseas Chinese, Japan created the Jinan Massacre. At that time, the Nationalist government was planning to complete reunification, and Japan's move was obviously to hinder the Northern Expedition.
In order to properly solve the problem, Zhang Qun went to Japan to meet with Prime Minister Yoshiichi Tanaka. After returning to China, he went to the northeast to persuade Zhang Xueliang to support the National Government, and finally let Zhang Xueliang announce the change of banner, and the National Government was only then formally unified.
Because he held important posts around Chiang Kai-shek for a long time, as the head of the Department of New Political Sciences, (evolved from the Political Science Society of the Beiyang Period, which was a loose political organization that melted the old bureaucracy, new scholars, and celebrities of politicians, and its members were Zhang Qun, as well as Yang Yongtai, Chen Yi, Xiong Shihui, and so on) Zhang Qun became a bridge between various warlords and powerful factions within the Kuomintang to contact Chiang Kai-shek, but he was well aware of Chiang Kai-shek's disposition, and he had always been respectful and did not dare to make the slightest mistake. Someone once ridiculed Zhang Qun like this: "Yue Jun can only be called Jiang's maid and not called a lady (a concubine), because when lady is still pampered and proud, zhang only knows what he wants, and no one can resist."
When these words reached Zhang Qun's ears, he smiled indifferently: "Who is Zhang Qun?" Chiang's lackeys also. "
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the people of Sichuan made the greatest contribution, and human, material and financial resources supported the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression as the highest in the country. In 1940, Zhang Qun became chairman of Sichuan Province. At the beginning of his term of office, that is, to lead by example, he often warned his subordinates: "During the period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, when the country is in trouble, we must attach importance to state affairs, strive to achieve the completion of the day's affairs, and never slack off a little and delay in political affairs." "During the six years of the provincial government chairmanship, he made a great contribution to strengthening the economic strength of the government in the stable rear area.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhang Qun became the president of the Executive Yuan. At the end of 1948, the Kuomintang was defeated again and again, and Chiang Kai-shek, who was not willing to withdraw from the stage of history, sent Zhang Qun to serve as the military and political chief of the southwest, in a vain attempt to use the four provinces of Sichuan, Kang, and Yunnan-Guizhou as another counter-offensive base. But it turns out that this is just their yellow sorghum dream.
After retiring to Taiwan, someone asked Zhang Qun: "You have followed Mr. Jiang the longest and have the closest relationship with him." If the mainland falls, are you also responsible for part of it? He replied with a bitter smile: "I am just a cook, what dishes the owner likes to eat, what I do."
In 1990, Zhang Qun died of heart-lung failure in Taiwan at the age of 103.