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Chapter 6 Laozi is a hero and lustful: the unstoppable Siberian tiger

The Feng family, with Fengtian as the center, and the three northeastern provinces as its bases, reached the Yangtze River Basin when its power was strongest.The Feng family has the most obvious regional color and is also the most united.From the time of Yuan Shikai, although there were disputes among the warlords in the Northeast, they were basically self-contained and separated from the central government.The circle of the Feng family centered on Zhang Zuolin.Zhang is straightforward, generous, and pragmatic, and he recognizes godfathers and teachers to those at the higher level; at the same level, Zhang is sworn brother with him. It can be said that almost all the senior generals of the old Feng family are Zhang's brothers; As a subordinate, Zhang is regarded as a nephew, with a kind attitude and a generous hand.Zhang Zuolin is fond of playing mahjong, no matter in Fengtian, Beijing or Tianjin, there are always a group of poker players around him.

Nickname: Dashuai Zhang Birthplace: West Xiaowa Village, Majiafang Village, Jiazhangsi Township, Dawa County, Liaoning Province Hometown: Hebei Birth and death years: March 19, 1875 to June 4, 1928 Graduation school: a forest in Northeast China Main achievements: unification of Northeast China and Inner Mongolia Occupational experience: Selling sesame cakes, carpenter, beggar, veterinarian, cavalry, green forest, militia leader, Qing military leader, Russo-Japanese War for both sides, suppressing the revolutionary party Catch Phrase: Damn it Zhang Zuoxiang (1881~1949): Zhang Zuolin worshiped his brothers in his early years and personally trained and promoted Zhang Xueliang.His ancestral home is Huapen Town, Shenxian County, Hebei Province, and was born in Zamulinzi Village, Yixian County, Liaoning Province.Born in poverty, he studied in a private school for three years.The first job was Green Forest.He served as the governor of Jilin Province many times. After the September 18th Incident, he was forced to resign and live in Tianjin.He has repeatedly rejected olive branches from Japan and Nanjing.

Zhang Jinghui (1871~1959), was born in Tai'an, Liaoning.At first, it was militia armed, and later became sworn brothers with Zhang Zuolin.He once went to Fengtian Lecture Hall to study, served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Fengjun Army, and was permanently stationed in Beijing. He was seriously injured in the Huanggutun incident in 1928.Later, he served as the Prime Minister of the State Council of the Puppet Manchukuo. He was arrested by the Soviet Army in 1945 and extradited back to China. Tang Yulin (1871-1949) was born in Fuxin, Liaoning, and his ancestral home is Yantai, Shandong.In his early years, he followed Haishazi as a bandit, known as Tang Erhu.After Haishazi died in a duel with Zhang Zuolin, Tang returned to Zhang Zuolin. When the Japanese army attacked Rehe in 1933, Tang Yulin collected more than 200 vehicles and fled with his family property. Only 128 cavalrymen of the Japanese army occupied 190,000 square kilometers of territory in Rehe.From time to time, there is a folk song saying that "the summer resort is really a summer resort, and the people cook in 'soup' (referring to Tang Yulin)."

Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001), courtesy name Hanqing, and baby names Shuangxi and Xiaoliuzi.Born in Sanglin, Tai'an County, Liaoning Province, known as "Young Marshal", the eldest son of Zhang Zuolin, the leader of Feng Faction warlords, one of the "Four Sons of the Republic of China", a famous playboy at that time, he lived to be 101 years old.
⊙Zhang Zuolin had more than 40 godfathers and godmothers in his life, and twelve of them left written records. Among them were poor old women, wealthy gentry, and high-ranking officials with power in the Northeast.The latter include Zhang Xiluan, a member of the Northeast, Zhao Erxun, the governor of the three eastern provinces, and Duan Youheng, the father of Duan Zhigui.

⊙Zhang Zuolin had been a bandit for many years, but he wanted to be recruited but had no way out, so he devised a plan.When the family members of Shengjing General Zengqi passed by a certain place, Zhang sent people to rob them all, entertained them with delicious food and opium, and arranged a room for Mrs. Zeng.Zhang deliberately showed the helplessness of being forced to be a bandit, and the entourage persuaded Zhang to accept the government's appeasement, and explained that they robbed Zengqi's family members.Zhang Zuolin pretended to be frightened and bowed to apologize, so the entourage recommended him to see Mrs. Zeng.Mrs. Zeng saw that Zhang was so respectful and well-spoken, so she agreed to give him some pillow talk about his recruitment.Therefore, Zhang Zuolin took the top spot in the Qing army's patrol battalion.

⊙ Zhang Xiluan, the general manager of the Fengtian Patrol Division, was known as "the fast horse Zhang". Zhang Zuolin gave him a good horse and worshiped Zhang Xiluan as his "foster father".When Zhang Xiluan left, Zhang Zuolin personally led 250 cavalry to escort Luan.Soon, Zhang Zuolin was promoted to the commanding officer of the Fifth Patrol Battalion. ⊙Zhou Shumo, the chief counselor of Xu Shichang, governor of the three eastern provinces, asked Zhang Zuolin: "Why did you accept recruitment?" Zhang replied: "I want to get promoted and get rich!"

⊙ Zhang Jinghui’s parents passed away relatively early, so he inherited the family business and sold tofu dishes in the streets and alleys of Tai’an, hence the name “Hujiawobao Tofu Zhang”.In the future, Zhang became the prime minister of the puppet Manchukuo, and he was nicknamed "Prime Minister of Tofu Craftsman". ⊙Wu Junsheng, the governor of Heilongjiang, paid New Year's greetings to Zhang Zuolin, and gave each of Zhang's sons 5,000 yuan in lucky money.When Zhang saw it, he said: "Brother Wu, you are wrong. It is okay to give children lucky money, how can you give so much?" Wu said: "Marshal, you gave everything to me?" Zhang said : "Are you telling the truth?" Wu replied: "Then can what I say be false?" Zhang said: "Since you say so, you don't give them money, you go back to Heilongjiang and do things well, don't let them The common people scolded my ancestors."

⊙Wu Junsheng thinks he is a "black bear reincarnated" and usually raises a few big bears, and often imitates the big bears when he walks; Zhang Haipeng calls himself "Zhang Fei reincarnated". Shouting "Second Brother"; Tang Yulin said that he was "a tiger reincarnated" and loved tigers. When sitting and talking, he threw his clenched fists on the table to show his "tiger power". ⊙Zhang Zuolin and Feng Delin are usually brothers, and they fought for the position of Northeast King.Zhang pointed the fort at Feng's garrison, Feng was very annoyed, Zhang Zuolin asked Wu Junsheng to talk to Feng.When Wu met with Feng, he just mentioned the word "general" (referring to Zhang Zuolin), and Feng Delin cursed: "What general! Damn it!"

⊙Bi Guifang, governor and military governor of Heilongjiang Province.Bi is a diplomat, and once worked as a staff member of the Chinese embassy in Russia.Because he was rather muddled in his work, everyone gave him the nickname "Bi don't care".During Bi's wife's birthday celebration, the county magistrate of Tailai County, who was newly removed from his post and investigated, came to celebrate his birthday. After kneeling three times and knocking nine times, he still couldn't kneel for a long time, saying: "The gentlemen in this county have falsely accused me, so I ask my wife to make the decision for me. " Dujun Bi smiled and helped him up: "I don't need my wife to make decisions about such trivial matters, I will make decisions for her, okay, go back to work as an errand!"

⊙Tang Yulin, nicknamed "Tang Tiger", has led the army for more than 30 years and has never killed an officer or a soldier. If his subordinates make mistakes, the biggest punishment is to expel them. If they come back later, they will still be retained. ⊙Meng Enyuan, the governor of Jilin, was illiterate, but could only write the Chinese character for "tiger" in cursive, which he often gave to others.When he wrote tiger characters, he had a special official to serve him. When he wrote the vertical line at the end, he stopped the pen on the paper and the official took advantage of the momentum to pull the paper towards his arms. Therefore, the vertical line was flat and straight, as if very interesting. The pen is strong, straight and vertical without slanting.

⊙Once, Zhang Zuolin met Puyi, and Zhang personally sent Puyi to the door when he parted.At this time, Zhang saw a Japanese plainclothes policeman standing next to the car, so he deliberately said loudly: "If the little Japanese bullies you, just tell me, and I will punish them!" ⊙After the Zhiwan War, the relationship between Zhang Zuolin and Cao Kun was very close.Cao Kun sent a carload of watermelons to Zhang Zuolin, and Zhang Zuolin returned a carload of smoked soil. ⊙After Zhang Zuolin gained a firm foothold in Beijing, he kept pushing Sun Yat-sen and Feng Yuxiang aside. In March 1925, Sun Yat-sen died of illness, and Feng Yuxiang also retreated and went to Tiantai Mountain in the west of Beijing to recuperate.Zhang took Feng's hand and said, "You can't go, if I let you go, I'll be a bastard!" ⊙The Beiyang government wants to reorganize the Ministry of Finance. Zhang Zuolin originally planned to appoint Duan Yongbin as the deputy finance minister, but Zhu Youji also wanted to get this position.So Zhu invited Zhang and Duan to play mahjong together.When playing cards, Zhu deliberately fed cards to Zhang, but Duan refused to give up a single card.Zhang believes that Duan "sees money as life, how can he do great things."After leaving the poker table, Zhang immediately replaced Duan with Zhu as the deputy finance minister. ⊙ Zhang Zuolin has no doubts about employing people. His subordinates reported to him "how many people have been added to a certain brigade" and "now such and such has been added". ⊙Guo Songling rebelled against Feng, the first telegram was written by Rao Hanxiang.His prose is "gorgeous in diction and appropriate in speech", which is very wonderful.Zhang Zuolin said: "Can beautiful articles be eaten? If there is no civil war, where will the glory and wealth come from? Don't pay attention to him!" Zhang also said: "Rao Hanxiang is used to playing with flower guns and bragging. Lai Bodhisattva (Yuan Hong) is not He blew it up." ⊙After Guo Songling rebelled against Feng, Zhang Zuolin once scolded: "Guo Guizi, this bastard! Before, he came to Shenyang and carried a luggage bag with two tea bowls, one of which was missing." 'Little Six' (Zhang Xueliang) Said he is a talent, able to bear hardships and stand hard work, so I gave him two thousand oceans at a time, and gave him a home. Unexpectedly, I raised a 'white-eyed wolf' instead." ⊙After Guo Songling’s rebellion failed, Zhang Zuolin held a military summit meeting and said: “I made a mistake in employing people, and a prodigal son surnamed Guo was born. I feel very sorry for the folks in Kanto. There are so many heroes in the world, so you should choose someone else!” Everyone silent.At this time, Wu Junsheng said: "Except for the commander-in-chief, who can be called a hero, let alone us bears!" ⊙After the suppression of Guo Songling's rebellion, Zhang Zuolin celebrated with a feast of "Hundred Civil and Military Officials".When the wine was hot, Zhang's entourage carried a box and reported to Zhang: "The box is full of secret documents from the people in the city and Guo Guizi that were found after Guo Guizi's death." The contents of the box were burned on the spot. ⊙In 1918, Germany was defeated. They wanted to disassemble and sell the machines of Krupp and other arsenals, and entrusted the Dutch to sell them on the newspaper in Shanghai.When Zhang Zuolin saw the newspaper, he sent Han Linchun, the director of the arsenal, to buy it.Unexpectedly, Han was lured into the casino and lost all his funds.Han wrote to Zhang, saying that he wanted to commit suicide by jumping into the Huangpu River.After seeing this letter, Zhang scolded: "Fucking bastard, you bastard! If you lose, you lose. You want to commit suicide!" Immediately, he went to the director of military supplies and ordered, "Send one million yuan to the person who bought the machine in Shanghai. Go, note what I instructed, get half of the capital, and half buy the machine, and come back when you buy it, don’t delay any more.” The two received the remittance, went back to the casino, and finally won four times their capital.The two used them all to buy machines, and the Shenyang Arsenal became the "Krupp of China." ⊙Zhang Zuolin owns a shipping company that has been operating poorly for many years and has been losing money.Later, a small staff member wrote a letter to Zhang Zuolin with some suggestions.After Zhang read the letter, he immediately promoted this small employee to be the general manager and entrusted him with full authority to manage shipping.The people around him persuaded: "We don't know this person well, so it's hard to say whether he can handle the matter. What if he fails to do so with just a letter?" Zhang said: "I think this kid is good. Can’t be wrong!” A year later, the shipping company turned around and turned a profit, and the small staff handed over the 100,000 yuan they earned a year.Zhang said: "My boy, I read you right. I will reward you with the hundred thousand oceans. Work hard!" ⊙Instigated by Zhang Zuoxiang, Zhang Xueliang decided to study in the lecture hall of the three eastern provinces.Zhang Zuolin heard about it and said: "What? You want to go to the martial arts hall? Don't embarrass me. You come out after a few days. Isn't that embarrassing to me?" Once Zhang Xueliang was provoked, he said: " If others can, why can’t I do it?” Zhang Zuolin said, “If you can graduate from the lecture hall, I’ll give you a team leader when you come out.” ⊙Zhang Xueliang once served as the brigade commander of the third brigade of the Fengjun Army. The third brigade was an independent brigade, Zhang Zuolin's trump card army.Once, Zhang Zuolin was wandering in the city in casual clothes, and heard several people sighing that the people in the third brigade were domineering and plundering.When Zhang Zuolin came home and saw Zhang Xueliang furious, he scolded him.In the end, Zhang Zuolin ordered Zhang Xueliang to be locked up for three days and no one was allowed to visit him. ⊙At the end of 1928, Jiang Tingfu passed through Shenyang and wanted to visit Yang Yuting. Jiang was just an ordinary professor at Nankai University, and Yang was the most powerful figure in Northeast China at that time.Jiang didn't know how to meet Yang. Someone told him that if he really wanted to see Yang, he just needed to call Yang's home.Jiang made a phone call with the idea of ​​trying, and Yang immediately asked Jiang to meet him. ⊙On the evening of January 10, 1929, Zhang Xueliang summoned Yang Yuting, who was detained as soon as he entered, and was shot dead immediately.A few days before the event, Yang asked someone for divination, and got a shaman's saying: "It's messy and disorderly, and go away." After Yang's death, people at that time interpreted the shaman's words as: "Wu (Junsheng) Zhang (Zuolin), Yang (Yu Ting) died. ) Chang (Yin Huai) and went away." "Wu Zhang" were all killed in the Huanggutun Incident, and Chang Yinhuai was the governor of Heilongjiang Province and was executed together with Yang Yuting. ⊙Zhang Zuolin once said to people: "It doesn't matter if you are a horse thief or a bandit. If you succeed, you will become a king or a thief if you lose. If you become famous, everything is easy to talk about. But you must not be a traitor. That will leave you with infamy after death." ⊙In 1928, Jiang Tingfu was doing tourism research in Heilongjiang Province. The train passed a vast land that was almost uninhabited. Jiang asked the secretary of the provincial government who accompanied him: "Who owns these lands?" The secretary replied: "These lands belong to General Wan Fulin. After half an hour, Jiang asked again, but the secretary still replied: "These lands belong to General Wan Fulin." At night, Jiang stayed in a small town, and the shop owner told Jiang: The electric lamp factory was established by General Wan Fulin, " Regardless of whether we need it or not, every house charges for electricity, and the charging standard is also set by him.” ⊙ Zhang Zuolin once attended a Japanese reception, and a Japanese celebrity asked him to present a letter.Zhang picked up the pen and wrote the word "tiger" and signed it "Zhang Zuolin's hands are black".At this time, the entourage reminded: "The word 'earth' is missing at the bottom of the 'hand ink' of the commander-in-chief, and it has become 'black'." Upon hearing this, Zhang Zuolin scolded: "Damn it, I don't want to Can you write 'ink'? When dealing with the Japanese, can you do it without black hands?" ⊙During the suppression of Guo Songling's rebellion, Zhang Zuolin signed an agreement with Japan, and the Japanese asked him to honor it immediately.Minister Fangze said: "There is an old saying in your country that if a gentleman speaks, a four-horse horse is hard to chase." Zhang said: "I am not a gentleman, and you all call me a horse thief behind your back. Why do you have to deal with horse thieves?" The Empire of Japan will consider taking decisive measures." Zhang said: "You want to scare me? I used to lick blood on the blade of a knife and roll around in the dead. What kind of battle have you never seen? You declare war tomorrow. It's all right." After saying that, he turned and left. ⊙ Zhang Zuolin has been in politics for decades, and the only time he went abroad was in 1915, when he was sent by Duan Zhigui, the military governor and patrol envoy of Fengtian, at the invitation of the Consul General of Japan, to North Korea to visit the Product Development Conference held by Japan in Seoul. ⊙Zhang Zongchang's army has "three major pieces": Xu Kun, commander of the first army of the Lu army, known as "Red Middle"; Wang Dong, commander of the second army, known as "white board"; Cheng Guorui, commander of the third army, known as "Get rich". ⊙Zhang Zongchang's "Da Ming Lake": Daming Lake, Ming Lake is big.There are lotus flowers in Daming Lake.There are toads on the lotus.One poke and one bounce. ⊙Zhang Zongchang came back from Heilongjiang, and before reaching Zhang Zuolin's office, he yelled: "Old man! Xiaokun is back..." Zhang Zuolin cursed: "Get out! Are you a soldier? Mom, why don't you stay at home? Give me Re-enter!" Zhang Zongchang immediately stood still, turned back, stepped out, and then raised his hand at the door to salute and shouted: "Report! Zhang Zongchang is here!" Zhang Zuolin then let in. ⊙When Chen Guangyuan was the governor of Jiangxi, he formed a relationship with Zhang Zongchang and handed over Zhang Zongchang's weapons.After Zhang Zongchang entered Tianjin, Chen Guangyuan lived idly in Tianjin, and his subordinates suggested that Zhang go and tie Chen Guangyuan.Zhang said: "A man who doesn't remember the past, forget it! If we do this, people will call us bandits." ⊙Zhang Zongchang loves to use relatives and fellow villagers.Zhang is from Zhujia Village, Ye County, Shandong Province. After he became the governor of Shandong, people from Ye County and Zhujia Village went on a common path, from governors, department heads, army commanders, division commanders, brigade commanders, down to errands and odd jobs, except for relatives. fellow.The proverb says: "If you can speak Yexian dialect, hang your saber!" "Learn Yexian dialect, and you can be a teacher!" ⊙After the outbreak of the Zhi-Wan War, the Feng Army took twelve planes parked at Nanyuan Airport from the Anhui Faction outside the pass, and the ammunition and supplies were filled with hundreds of wagons. Even two searchlights were snatched from the Zhi Army.Wu Peifu was so angry that he cursed: "I really ran into a group of live bandits, even two broken lamps!" ⊙When Zhang Zuolin ruled the Northeast, he didn't think about food for a while.Once, the chef picked up cucumbers, green onions, and hot peppers, cut them into shreds, and cut coriander into sections, then put in salt, vinegar, and sugar, mixed them coldly, and served them on the table.As soon as Zhang tasted it, his appetite was whetted, so he asked the name of the dish.The chef said: "This dish is called tiger dish." Zhang Yi heard: "Eating tiger dish is very appetizing." Later, tiger dish came out of Zhang's handsome mansion and became a famous dish. ⊙ Zhang Zuolin's third wife Dai Xianyu became a nun because she hated Zhang Zuolin for being ruthless.Afterwards, Zhang regretted it very much, and specially arranged for the chef to make a dish of her favorite fat sausage for Dai.Because monks can't eat meat, chefs use gluten to make fat sausages, and then cook them into vegetarian dishes, named "red oil vegetable fat sausages".On the fifteenth day, Zhang sent his servants to deliver it to the third wife, but they were all thrown to the ground by the third wife.Zhang knew that his fault was his own. Since then, the whole family will eat the dish "red oil vegetable fat sausage" every fifteenth day. ⊙During the Zhifeng War, Zhang Xueliang led his army to the south. When he drove into Henan Province, he scattered thousands of small yellow papers along the carriage.Zhang's soldiers took a look and found that there were spells printed on it.The soldiers were terrified and all stopped.Zhang Xueliang immediately sent a telegram to his father Zhang Zuolin, asking him to bring a wizard from Beijing to deal with the spell. ⊙One time, Zhang Xueliang drank with his father.During the dinner, Zhang Zuolin said: "You boy! You pretend I don't know, and hang out with women all day. Let me tell you, it's okay to play with women, but don't be played by women." ⊙Once, Zhang Zuolin visited Lushun and Dalian, which were occupied by the Japanese army.After visiting the city, the Japanese boasted to Zhang: "After seeing the achievements of our Japanese in Luda, you must not want to take back Luda." Zhang replied: "On the contrary, after I saw it today, I want to take it back even more. .” ⊙The secretary-general who was replaced by Zhang Zuolin fell into a difficult life, so someone went to intercede for him.Zhang said: "I don't have anything to him, but he has been my secretary for eight years, but he never objected to me. Could it be that everything I said is right. He just flatters blindly. What's the use of such a person?" ⊙The Zhejiang-Feng war broke out, and the generals of the Feng army stationed in Nanjing fled in a hurry. Yang Yuxun snatched a donkey from a farmer on the road, rode the donkey all night, and arrived at a temple at dawn. He claimed that the common people lost their way and wanted to borrow a donkey place to rest.The monk in the temple smiled and said: "You don't have to hide it from me. The same person came yesterday. Please take a look, maybe you know him." Disguised as a monk.This matter was later spread as a joke in the Northeast, people said: "Yang Qishan (Yang Yuxun) robbed the donkey, and Liu Yifei became a monk." ⊙Shortly after the Huanggutun incident, Jiang Tingfu went to Shenyang to investigate. Jiang’s impression was: “The economic situation in any part of China at that time was not as good as that of Northeast China under Zhang Zuolin’s rule.” ⊙Zhang Zuolin's 50th birthday was very grand. Zhang gave all the birthday peaches and birthday noodles to the third company of the guard stationed in the Shuai's mansion, and more than 150 people ate for a full week.Later, some soldiers said: "I don't want to eat birthday noodles again in this life." ⊙When the September 18th Incident broke out, Zhang Zuoxiang, who was in charge of Jilin Province, was in Jinzhou to mourn for his father.He ignored the difficulties of the country and devoted himself to attending to the funeral.Zhang's father died for seven to forty-nine days. Among those who attended the funeral, there were hundreds of people who were recommended to be officials or above. There were as many as three or four thousand people in total. All the big hotels and restaurants in Jinzhou City were all booked out. Specializes in serving Zhang.There are fifty or sixty "zhike" entertaining guests. ⊙When Zhang Zuolin was in charge of Northeast China, he required each county to spend 40% of its annual education expenditure on the total annual expenditure of the county, and made this one of the contents of assessing the achievements of the governors of each county.In order to run Northeastern University, Zhang Zuolin once said: "It is better to raise 50,000 soldiers less than to run Northeastern University!" ⊙During Zhang Zuolin's period, Fengtian Normal School waived tuition fees and paid food expenses.Fengtian Provincial No. 1 Normal School, students eat rice porridge and pickles for breakfast; rice, four dishes and one soup at noon, two meat and two vegetables; dinner four dishes and one soup, all vegetarian dishes.The Saturday lunch is improved, including altar meat, mushu meat, roasted yellow croaker, braised sea cucumber, etc. ⊙During the September 18th Incident, the Japanese tried their best to win over Zhang Zongchang who had taken refuge in Tokyo, but Zhang flatly refused to return home.Zhang told reporters: "Our family does not know how to drill down the chimney (to be a traitor)."
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