In the early years of the Republic of China, it was a period of chaos in China, with various warlords in chaos and various ideas colliding. Although this period was a period of chaos, it was also considered to be the most active period in history. This also responds to the phrase "heroes born in a chaotic world", some bandits have turned into warlords, and even dominated one side, such as Zhang Zuolin, who occupies the northeast and is known as the "King of the Northeast", who is regarded as a "legendary figure" by posterity, and even the evil deeds done by Zhang Zuolin have been erased. But There is also a warlord under Zhang Zuolin, that is, Zhang Zongchang, who is known as the "King of Shandong", who is a funny warlord in the early years of the Republic of China, who has not been vilified, but from the historical data, there are also merits.
Zhang Zongchang is most impressed by the fact that he likes to find a wife, likes to write poetry, and he is very good to his wife, even if he is wearing a "green hat", he does not care.
Zhang Zongchang, like other warlords in the early years of the Republic of China, has a lot of legendary colors in his life, although he has been scandalized, he is not a warlord who can become a warlord casually, and he also has his own superiority. In 1881, Zhang Zongchang was born in Laizhou, Shandong, which was once called Ye County, and it is said that many people in this area have gone northeast. Zhang Zongchang grew up and went to the northeast to earn a living, and in 1899, he worked as a worker in the Middle East Railway. Zhang Zongchang was tall and tall, and he could speak fluent Russian, which was highly regarded by the Russians. Moreover, in Russia, Zhang Zongchang practiced gold panning techniques and also practiced a good marksmanship. Therefore, don't always ugly Zhang Zongchang, there is no real thing that can be mixed into a warlord?
Zhang Zongchang later served as a beard in the northeast, and after the Wuchang Uprising, Zhang Zongchang returned to Shandong, defected to the Shandong warlord Hu Ying, and then went to Shanghai with the army and became a regimental commander under Chen Qimei, which began his years of warlord melee.
Because Zhang Zongchang is from Shandong, he attaches more importance to Shandong people, and as long as shandong people come to rely on him, he will reuse them. Zhang Zongchang rose all the way to the commander of the division, and later he wanted to defect to Cao Kun, but Wu Peifu advised Cao not to take in Zhang Zongchang, who was born of banditry, so Zhang Zongchang went to the northeast to join Zhang Zuolin. Both had been bearded, and they also had a feeling of pity for the same disease. Zhang Zongchang started from the battalion commander under Zhang Zuolin.
Later, when quelling the bandit Lu Yonggui, Zhang Zongchang relied on many of Lu's leaders to be compatriots from Huang County, Shandong, and soon the three regiments of bandits were taken back. Moreover, Zhang Zongchang, with his fluent Russian language, recruited some White Russian remnants to his men. Zhang Zuolin was very happy, and the number of people surged to 10,000 people. Moreover, he served as a brigade commander stationed in Jilin and a guard envoy to Suining Town.
In 1925, Zhang Zongchang was appointed commander-in-chief of bandits stationed in the three provinces of Suzhou, Anhui and Lu, stationed in Xuzhou. In April of the same year, Zhang Zongchang entered Shandong again, became the military governor of Shandong Province, and appointed himself as the chairman of the province, thus opening his era of being the "King of Shandong".
When Zhang Zongchang was in Shandong, others were familiar with him, and he dared to do anything after becoming a warlord, so the common people gave him a lot of nicknames, such as the saying "dog meat general".
When Zhang Zongchang was in Shandong, Shandong folk circulated an oil poem: "There are peppercorns and ginger, and Zhang Zongchang is boiled in the pot." Come early, eat some meat, come late, drink some soup! "Comparing Zhang Zongchang to the dog meat in the pot is mainly his bandit habits, and his men also have bandit habits, and there is no evil in Shandong. As long as Zhang Zongchang passed by, the geese plucked their hair and snatched them all in one jump, there was no organizational discipline at all. Therefore, the common people hate Zhang Zongchang, which is all the money obtained from the people's anointing of the people.
The grain of the common people was harvested by Zhang Zongchang's people, and the people's stored grain was also robbed. Therefore, it is no wonder that the common people vilified Zhang Zongchang, who made it impossible for the people to get by.
Zhang Zongchang also has a famous nickname called "Three Unknown Generals", which is what we often say: "I don't know how many guns, I don't know how many people, I don't know how many wives." "It can be seen that it is a confused warlord.
Zhang Zongchang has 23 aunts and wives, and he is also very tolerant of his wife. Zhang Zongchang had a leg with the original sister-in-law yuan Shu'e, so Yuan Shu'e also found a lover in a rage. Later, after Zhang Zongchang knew, he actually didn't care and didn't ask. If it were someone else, their heads would have moved a long time ago. Zhang Changzong played even more fiercely by marrying 5 White Russian women as his aunts, and even taking these foreign women to flaunt on the street, without regard to the eyes of the outside world, in his words, "winning glory for the country.".
Although Zhang Zongchang did not have much culture, he loved to write poetry, was known as the "poet general", and left many poems, such as the "Daming Lake" he wrote: "Daming Lake, Ming Lake is big, there are lotus flowers in Daming Lake, there are toads on the lotus flowers, poking and jumping." "Actually, it doesn't even count as oil poetry.
Zhang Zongchang also wrote a "Song of the Great Wind" modeled on Liu Bang, with a sentence: "Count the heroes Zhang Zongchang, and the giant whale swallows Fusang." This sentence is still a bit of a look, so some people call him "Poet General". This sentence is much stronger than the famous writer's daughter's and urine body poem.
Although Zhang Zongchang was a warlord, he did not do less evil things, such as suppressing the Jinan workers' movement and creating the "Qingdao Massacre", but compared with other warlords, Zhang Zongchang's evil deeds were still small. As for the robbery in the civilian sector, this was also a common problem among the warlords at that time. And looking for a lot of wives, not only Zhang Zongchang has, which is also related to the folk customs at that time, those big guys in the late Qing Dynasty and early Minchu, there are a few who do not have three rooms and four rooms.
Although Zhang Zongchang is a villain, and he has not done much to leave a name, there is one thing that later gave him a thumbs up. The Japanese tempted him many times, and Zhang Zongchang actually did not apostatize, so Zhang Zongchang was not confused about the issue of national integrity.
In the early years of the Republic of China, there was a phenomenon that many warlords and bigwigs, although they fought in the war and hurt the people and money, rarely turned to the Japanese as traitors. For example, Wu Peifu, Sun Chuanfang and others are such people.
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