Lu Rongting, born in 1859 and died in 1928, was the first warlord of the Gui clan, strictly speaking, the first emperor of Guangxi, known as "Guangxi Shengxiong". As the first Warlord of the Gui clan, Lu Rongting had great power in his hands and countless financial resources, but in his later years he was so poor that after his death, his burial was only funded by the people and funded by Li Zongren, then chairman of Guangxi Province. Why is it said that Lu Rongting is the poorest emperor of the earth, look at the tomb of Lu Rongting and then follow the tomb of the warlord Zhang Zuolin, the direct warlord Feng Guozhang and other tombs to know how shabby Lu Rongting's tomb is.
Lu Rongting was born in a peasant family in Leixiong Village, Wuming County (Xiongmeng Village, Ningwu Town, Wuming District), Xiongmeng Village did not know when it was changed to Huanghou Village, but the impression of Lu Rongting's tomb is still Xiongmeng Village. Named Special Song, special in the Zhuang language is the meaning of male Ding, the birth of male baby is called Special, the birth of female baby is called Ya, Special Song is the name of Lu Rongting Zhuang language. Lu Rongting's father, who did not reach the age of 1, was framed by the villagers for colluding with the Taiping Army and was killed, after which his mother remarried to the county seat. Lu Rongting lived with his adoptive mother until he was 8 years old, then went to the county town to rely on his mother, entered a private school in the same year, and the next year his mother died of illness Lu Rongting dropped out of school, and Lu Rongting, who had no relatives and no support, could only wander around.
At the age of 16, Lu Rongting could not gain a foothold in Wuming and could only wander to Nanning, and then followed the boat owner Zhu Lasuo to Longzhou to survive. Lu Rongting was forced to flee after killing one of the dogs of the French missionaries, and then joined the gang on the premise of not robbing the Chinese, and fled to Shuikou Village in Longzhou during a pursuit by officers and soldiers, where he met Tan Taiyuan's family, who later became Lu Rongting's husband. At the age of 23, he was recruited into the military camp by Cheng Wuying, a Qingbing pipe stationed at Shuikou, and then secretly joined the Three Points Society, becoming the leader of the local Three Points Society, and married Tan Taiyuan's daughter in the same year. The Three Points Society is a branch of the Heaven and Earth Society in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, with the slogan of anti-Qing and restoration of the Ming Dynasty, the Three Points Will be called Hongmen, and the Hongzi has three points of water side, so it is called the Three Points Society.
In 1844, he participated in the Sino-French War with the army, and was promoted by Liu Yongfu to be a sentinel commander (leading more than 100 people equivalent to the current company commander) for his bravery in battle. Lu Rongting led his men to take some of their uniforms and firearms with them, and were active in fighting the French army on the Sino-Vietnamese border. After the victory over the French army in Naran in 1892, the reputation of the You Yong army led by Lu Rongting was greatly enhanced, and the number of troops grew to more than 5,000, becoming a small warlord on the other side. In 1896, the qing court's general in Guangxi requested Lu Rongting to lead his troops to Jingxi to suppress bandits, and then led his troops to participate in the pacification of the Yulin Three Points Society, and from then on they did not share the heavens with the Three Points Society.
After the Pacification of the Three Points meeting yulin uprising, Lu Rongting can be described as a career in the sky, and the Jianzi battalion was divided into commanders (more than 500 troops were equivalent to battalion commanders), former battalion commanders (1500 troops were equivalent to regimental commanders), and ten battalion commanders of the Rongzi Army (18,000 troops were equivalent to division commanders) all the way up. In 1907, Lu Rongting revolted at ZhennanGuan (Friendship Pass), because he could not get the full trust of the revolutionaries, the Strength of the Qing Army was greater than his own, and he had to pretend to cooperate with the Qing Army to attack the Revolutionary Army and drive the Revolutionary Party Army to Vietnam. Afterwards, he was promoted by the Qing court to the post of commander-in-chief of the Named Commander-in-Chief, and was appointed as the Military Governor of Guangxi Border Defense, and in May 1911, he was promoted to the commander-in-chief of Zuo Jiang and the Admiral of Guangxi.
The brightest moment of Lu Rongting's military career may have been the first viceroy of Guangxi after the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, and he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general plus general, becoming the true emperor of Guangxi. During the same period, the provincial capital of Guangxi was moved from Guilin to Nanning, laying the foundation for Nanning to become the capital of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the future. Lu Rongting's appearance in Waterloo was against Sun Yat-sen's inauguration of the The President of the Republic of China, which led to the outbreak of war between the two sides, and the internal division and bribery of the Gui army led to the collapse of the entire line. The rebel general Wei Rongchang led the "Reinforcement Gui Army" to attack Nanning, and Lu Rongting led his troops to retreat to Longzhou and live in Shanghai through Vietnam.
I thought that Lu Rongting's warlord career would end here, but I did not expect that Wei Rongchang's "reinforcement Army" would withdraw from Nanning, and the leaders of various roads asked Lu Rongting to return to Guangxi. In 1923, the Beijing government appointed Lu Rongting as the aftermath supervisor of Guangxi Province, and in 1924, he led more than 4,000 of his subordinates on a tour of Guilin, surrounded by Shen Hongying, who was appointed commander-in-chief by Sun Yat-sen. Lu Rongting was appointed by the Beijing government, which was the warlord of the direct line at that time, and Sun Yat-sen was the The President of the Republic of China, and although Shen Hongying was once a member of the Gui army, he was the master of each other at this time, and he could only meet each other for a short time. Shen Hongying attacked Guilin with more than 10,000 men, and Lu Rongting led his troops to hold on behind closed doors, and then Li Zongren and Huang Shaohu sent a message to persuade Lu Rongting to go down to the field to send electricity. After that, Ye Qi, the commander of the Xiang Army, led his troops into Guizhou, mediated by force, lifted the siege of Guilin, Lu Rongting telegraphed the wilderness, and went to Shanghai through Hunan, where he died of illness in 1928, and the first "Emperor of The Soil" of Guangxi ended his brilliant life.
Lu Rongting was born in a poor rural family, his parents died since childhood, although he later mixed with good people in the green forest and also robbed his family, but what he did was not internal. Perhaps the good man of the green forest is not very famous outside, but the people in Wuming love this "earth emperor". Compared with cao kun, Wu Peifu, Feng Guozhang and other warlords who searched out tens of millions of family properties after their deaths, the only value of Lu Rongting's death was a scarf worth 5 dimes, and even after death, he had to rely on the financing of local villagers and the financial support of Li Zongren to be buried. However, Before his death, Lu Rongting had already prepared a nanmu coffin with relatively good materials, and he heard that he would take this coffin with him wherever he went. After Shanghai's death, it was directly loaded into a coffin and then transported back to Nanning, where the coffin was stopped for a month before being buried.
Before his death, Lu Rongting liked to eat pigs and stir-fry them with a good hand, and every time he returned to his hometown, he would learn cooking skills with the villagers and fight with the villagers happily. After his death, the sabre was also brought into the coffin, and a pearl was stuffed into the ass hole and mouth, and the sabre and two pearls were stolen by Lieutenant Touch Gold decades ago. When the tomb robber opened the coffin, the flesh was not completely decayed, which showed how good the sealing and material of the Nanmu coffin were, but he spent his whole life in fighting and killing, and he did feel some regret that he was not at peace after death. Looking at the many disputes between Lu Rongting's life and death, let history interpret it, and as a strong family member, I feel very fortunate to have such a prominent figure in history.
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