General Jiang Gui is a legendary figure in the history of Bozhou, how much do you know about his title, deeds, boldness, success or failure, integrity, etc.? The following stories that happened to him may help you learn more about the admiral.
· Admiral's nickname ·
An era has an era of ethos, and most of the Bozhou generals of the same era as Jiang Guiti have nicknames, Sun Zhiyou is nicknamed Wulei, and Li Chengxian is nicknamed Moyun. And why is Jiang Guiti, the highest military official, such a nickname? Ginger is old, ginger is old, old bird is a crow, this name is not only bad, but also very evil.
There are various rumors about this nickname, but there is no consensus.
For example, when he was a child, his family was poor, and well-meaning people gave him a cotton robe, because he was tall, and after putting it on, he would be "over-the-stomach"; some people said that he was hunchbacked in his later years, called back pot in Bozhou dialect, and called Luo Pot in Beijing; and even there are also sayings that he often did wrong things in his childhood, so he was called "old", or he once stole a pot from others, so it is almost nonsense.
Since it is a matter of separate expressions and no conclusion, we may as well boldly speculate: old or old pot, just remember the sound, in Bozhou dialect, guo pronounces guiyin, such as "country" is pronounced as "homecoming", then the real pronunciation is Jiang Lao "gui"? Namely Jiang Laogui. Referring to his contemporaries, Duan Mounan is called Lao Mou, Zhang Lexing is called Lao Le, and his Jiang Gui title is called Lao Gui.
There is a recorded anecdote that can be used as circumstantial evidence. One year, Jiang Gui asked back to visit his relatives, and his nephew took the door to meet the new daughter-in-law, and the new daughter-in-law was thin and small, and Jiang Gui said: Is this ma Muji's daughter-in-law? How about this hanging point. The speech is vulgar and spread as a joke, but the appearance of the name "Ren Laojun" is circumstantial evidence from the examination of evidence, "old" plus the first word in the name, there is indeed such a title in the local area, it is a kind of "uprooting", but only a particularly prestigious figure can be worthy of this "old" word.
·The Skill of the Admiral ·
The incredible must have something extraordinary.
Jiang Guiti fights bravely and has expertise in battle. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, he led his troops to attack the Twister At night, broke the Huang Shuangbu of "Plagiarism", killed Huang Shuang, and won the trust of the monk Gelinqin. He was from the rebel army, familiar with the tactics of the rebel army, and understood the psychology of the rebel army, so he was able to make many contributions in suppressing the rebel army, such as suppressing the Shaanxi-Gansu peasant uprising, suppressing the Boxer Rebellion, and suppressing the Bailang Uprising after entering the Republic of China.
After fighting for many years, he had no teacher and knew the way to use soldiers. In the first year of Guangxu, when the peasants in Henan revolted, Jiang Guiti was guarding the funeral for his mother in his hometown, Wen Xun rushed to Henan, led an army to blitzkrieg, and killed the rebel leader Wang Hu leopard in one fell swoop; while when the Rehe peasants resisted by force in the Republic of China, he understood the people's feelings, announced that the taxes of that year were waived, and accepted the leader of the uprising, Hou Wenguang, as a righteous son, so that the great chaos could be eliminated.
Jiang Gui is good at understanding the general trend and can follow the right people. His father was killed by the Qing army for the crime of "twisting", and his mother sent him to his uncle Lei Yan, the lord of the Big Citi of the Twister Army, to become the lord of the trip, which is a model of bitterness and great vengeance. However, when the monk Greenqin forced the Pheasant River to gather, he knew that the Qing army was irresistible, so he persuaded Lei Yan to surrender with him.
Zhao'an can also be regarded as the habitual consciousness of the peasant rebel army, and Jiang Guiti's life has thus embarked on a "smooth road". In the monastic army, Jiang was subordinate to Chen Guorui's department, but he coldly saw that the Qing monks' military discipline was corrupt and could not be relied upon, and he resolutely led his troops to defect to Song Qing's Yi army, which later, the Twist army broke the monk king in Shandong, Chen Guorui was killed in battle, and Jiang Guiti escaped another disaster. Later, Jiang Guiti followed Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang, and Yuan Shikai, all of whom were famous marshals of a generation, so they could make the best use of their talents because of people.
Jiang Guiti was lenient to the army, and the soldiers used their lives. As a general, there are mostly two ways to make a non-commissioned officer dare to fight hard, one is to strictly enforce military discipline and make subordinates fearful, but this has not been done in the late Qing Dynasty, which has no faith to speak of. Ginger's method is the second one – paternalistic and broad management. When he was in Rehe, once he was sheltering from the rain in the temple, he heard two soldiers gossiping: Jiang Laogui zhensheng. He came out and said, "You're a bitch." The second soldier was afraid, and was caught deserting. Ginger just fell: Didn't I scold you too? There is really no seed, go back to the camp.
The military discipline of the army he brought with him was not good, and when he was stationed in Beijing, it was common to smash theaters and kilns, and some people sought out his theories, but he said: If it is my person, please catch and send it, you must do it again, and if you do not catch people, you cannot count. A leading big brother who protects the nest to the extreme can also give birth to prestige. After the Republic of China, he once reported in Beijing, laowo rehe there was a rebellion, he rushed back, Rehe's subordinates discussed, the marshal returned home is not good-looking, so the whole army fought bravely, three days in a row to seize seven county towns, a song and dance to welcome his return, so that Jiang Laogui smiled happily, this big old man, walked or "moral" to serve people's road.
In fact, Jiang Guiti's biggest strength is his popularity. Because Jiang Guiti's culture is not high, he is natural and simple, and his image is relatively better, but he is very popular. He was deeply trusted by Cixi, and after Gengzi welcomed Luan back to the palace, he was appointed as the governor of the Nine Gates of "Tai'an of Kyoto", and he was able to gallop horses in the Forbidden City, and he was blessed. Once, when I was watching a play in the palace, I saw the liveliness and overheard a shout, "Good acting!" "Shocking driving is a great sin, and the crowd panics to see who it is?" Jiang Gui question! Lafayette laughed and scolded, "This wild boy." "I let it go gently.
Jiang Guiti once married Yuan Shikai and entered the Republic of China, in the Beiyang system, he was an elder, and he was not close to any faction, and he was detached in the army, so he often came forward to reconcile the contradictions of various departments, and everyone sometimes sold him some old faces. Jiang Guiti lived to the age of seventy-nine, and after his death, he mourned and was unparalleled. There were four generals guarding the mausoleum for him, President Xu Shichang personally officiated, and the abdicated emperor Fu Yi also sent representatives to pay tribute, and the festival lasted for more than 50 days, receiving more than 10,000 pieces. After the ceremony was completed, tens of thousands of visitors along the road when the coffin was sent out of Beijing, and the president personally ordered the governors of the provinces along the road to properly protect it. After Jiang Guiti's coffin returned to Bozhou, he was buried with Lady Chu on June 20 of that year in Maozhuang, twelve miles north of Bozhou City.
Jiang Gui's epitaph was written by Xu Shichang himself. This is a three-piece monument! First, Xu Shichang personally wrote the inscription as a serving president, and there was no one who came before and since; second, Xu Shichang, the great president, is the only head of state in Chinese history who has the status of a jinshi, writing books and making speeches, calligraphy and painting are exquisite, known as "President Wenzhi", and the stele is a good look; third, the deceased and the bookish person have deep affection, and this friendship has shed the barrier of character and culture, leaving the authenticity on the darkest and chaotic political jianghu. If you think about it, it is really a once-in-a-lifetime, incredible number.
Jiang Guiti Mansion in Xuejia Lane, Downtown (data map)
·The Story of the Admiral ·
One of the marshal's soldiers had broken the military law and was punishable by death. The marshal waved his hand and pulled out to shoot! The grand marshal thought again and came back! Q: Where are you from? Say bozhou. The marshal groaned for a moment and changed his speech: Your crime is too heavy, the shooting does not solve the hatred, there is a black cat hole in Bozhou, I sent two people to escort you to the black cat hole to feed the black cat. The law enforcement team stared wide-eyed, who knows where to go to find the black cat hole? Xia Dong, the head of the camp affairs department, knew what was interesting, ordered him to be escorted away, went out of the camp door and circled around, and gently released the prisoner.
Jiang Guiti is the most nostalgic, and it is not easy to make a living in a chaotic world, but anyone who runs to him, as long as he is a fellow countryman, no matter how big or small his talent is, he is kind. But what if someone pretends to be a fellow? Jiang Gui's question is thick and thin, and he has to ask a few words. What did the sorghum in your house look like when you came? Sorghum grows well. Well, you go to the camp office and report. What's wrong? You really are from Bozhou, and you have to call sorghum "straw". The straw is good! Well, yes, you go to the General Affairs Office and find Director Tan to arrange a better errand for you.
"Wen has Tan Songsan, and Wu has Xia Dongxiao." Jiang Guiti commanded the army in Rehe, and these two people were in charge of military affairs and government affairs, and they were both Fellow Bozhou, and the marshal was very relieved. There are people in all provinces in the Yi Army, only bozhou nationals can be mixed and mixed well, and there is a saying in the army that "Bozhou compatriots return to the mansion to eat, and Jining prefecture compatriots go to the big kitchen to eat."
Tan Songsan has a young son, once with a few children in the former Qing Palace - summer resort play, guarding the lotus pond guards want to steal lotus to eat, but do not dare, just coax him, Young Master Tan, you see the lotus in the pool grows really well, do you want to eat? think! I'll fish it out for you. The guards were in the water, and soon a group of people were smiling and chewing lotus in a circle. Suddenly, there was a loud roar, and the big marshal came! The guard immediately said that it was Tan Xiaozi who told me to fish. The big handsome smirked: The little cock hanging child stole my lotus to eat. But Tan Xiaozi was not afraid of him at all, and handed the lotus in his hand to the opposite side, "Big handsome, your lotus is really delicious, I don't believe you can taste it." Jiang Guiti took a bite, crunched, nodded, yin turned sunny, and walked away with the lotus root. You see, where there is a big handsome in the eyes of Bozhou people, in the eyes of children, it is the same as the old master of the neighbor's house.
As the saying goes, returning home is a joy in life, Jiang Guiti went back to his hometown several times, always thinking of bringing some benefits to the hometown people, and also stained his blessings. Once, he hired celebrity chefs from eight major cuisine departments from Beijing and invited them to live in Bozhou for several months, and the chefs of bozhou's large and small restaurants all ran to learn cuisine. When you come, you will talk well, and you must not hide your teachings. Bozhou was originally a prosperous place known as "Little Nanjing", and after this group of masters such a sublimation, the level of cuisine is several stories higher than that of the surrounding prefectures and counties.
The admiral once collected a lot of classic cultural relics, and there was an all-bronze palace, the Japanese wanted to buy it at a high price, and everyone around him advised him to sell it to make up for the government's three years of military pay, but he resolutely refused to sell, which was undoubtedly a noble integrity. Later, the government issued an order, and Cai Yuanpei, president of Peking University, wrote him a letter, and he packed up all the cultural relics and various classics and sent them back to Beijing in vain. As a warlord who owns the military and regards his rule as private, this practice is really rare.
However, Jiang Guiti attaches great importance to the tobacco soil, the price of the tobacco soil is high, and the fertilizer water does not flow to the outsiders' fields. He encouraged the army and even the people in the Rehe area to grow opium and dumped a large amount of Rehe tobacco at a low price in Bozhou. As a result, the people of Bozhou became so widely addicted to opium that many people lost their homes.
He also valued arms, and in the Courtyard of the Jiang family, he hid more than 10,000 guns in six rooms. In the third year after Jiang Guiti's death, the warlord Sun Dianying, who had served as a company commander under Jiang Guiti, heard that there was such a "treasure" in Bozhou, and coveted the wealth of Bozhou, so he colluded with the local bullies, cooperated with the outside world, and attacked Bozhou, first robbing the Jiang family's arsenal, then searching for rich households one by one, torturing and killing people, setting fire to rape, and doing whatever it took. The prosperous and peaceful Bozhou City turned out to be a hell on earth for a while.
The content of this article was collected and sorted by Yang Yong, vice chairman of the Municipal Writers Association Editor: Mingguang