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Chapter 7 The Lost Princes: The Diangui Circle

Many of the main figures in the Yunnan Army during the Revolution of 1911 were graduates of Japanese non-commissioned officers, such as Cai E, Tang Jiyao, Li Gengen, Li Hongxiang, Xie Ruyi, Gu Pinzhen, Li Liejun, Luo Peijin, and Liu Cunhou. Church.Afterwards, a large number of graduates from the Jiangwutang entered the army and began to take control of the military. In 1928, Long Yun replaced Tang Jiyao and served as the "King of Yunnan" for 18 years, which represented that the "Jiaowutang Department" finally replaced the "Non-commissioned Officer Department". Birthplace: Shaoyang, Hunan

Birth and death years: December 18, 1882 ~ November 8, 1916 Graduate school: Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy Honorary title: Together with Jiang Baili and Zhang Xiaozhun, they are called the "Three Heroes of China" in the Non-commissioned Officer Academy Status: The first governor of Yunnan in the Republic of China, military leader The proudest work of life: the leader of the War to Protect the Nation Famous quote: Strive for personality for 40 million people Birthplace: Huize, Yunnan Birth and death years: August 14, 1883 to May 23, 1927 Graduate school: Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy

Honorary title: King of Yunnan (in charge of Yunnan for more than ten years) Positions: Governor of Yunnan, Commander of the Fujun Army of the National Defense Army, President of the French Guardian Army, Commander-in-Chief of the Yasukuni Allied Forces of the Eight Provinces Main achievements: Wen You founded Donglu University (predecessor of Yunnan University), and Wu You launched the National Defense Movement Birthplace: Zhaotong, Yunnan Birth and death years: November 19, 1884 ~ June 27, 1962 Nationality: Yi Birthplace: Tang Jiyao, captain of the imperial guards, highly skilled in martial arts, was known as the Three Musketeers of Zhaotong along with Lu Han and Zou Ruoheng in his early years

Graduate school: Yunnan Army Lecture Hall Honorary title: King of Yunnan (in charge of Yunnan for 18 years) Position: Chairman of Yunnan Provincial Government Li Liejun (1882~1946): Born in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, a famous soldier, graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy. After the Republic of China, he successively served as the governor of Jiangxi, the chief of the general staff of the Guangzhou Military Government, and the chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Government. He participated in the "Second Revolution" and the War to Protect the Country. . Lu Han (1895-1974): native of Zhaotong, Yunnan, Yi nationality, and Long Yun's cousin, who was born in the Yunnan Army Lecture Hall, and later succeeded Long Yun as the chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Government. He was the last king of Yunnan in the Republic of China.

Wang Jialie (1893-1966): Born in Tongzi, Guizhou, he was born in the Guizhou Army Lecture Hall, a representative of the Guizhou Clan, once served as the chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Government, known as the "King of Guizhou".
⊙The main figures of the Yunnan Army during the Revolution of 1911, many of them were graduates of Japanese non-commissioned officers, Cai E, Tang Jiyao, Li Gengen, Li Hongxiang, Xie Ruyi, Gu Pinzhen, Li Liejun, Luo Peijin, Liu Cunhou, they either led troops in the new army, or held speeches Wutang.Later, a large number of graduates from the lecture hall joined the army and began to gain military power. In 1928, Long Yun replaced Tang Jiyao and became the "King of Yunnan" for eighteen years, which represented that the "Jianwutang Department" finally replaced the "Necessary Officer Department".

⊙During the Dharma Protection Movement, Zhang Taiyan went to the southwest to fight for the warlord Tang Jiyao to join the Dharma Protection Army, and was accepted by Tang Liyu and hired as the secretary-general.He was so happy that he asked someone to make a big banner and wrote: "Secretary General of the Grand Marshal's Mansion".When setting off with the army, this big flag can be seen dozens of miles away, and it is much taller than Tang Jiyao's handsome flag, which is very eye-catching. ⊙ Tang Jiyao's guard of honor is very majestic.The cavalry are at the front, and the horses are green, jujube, yellow, and white, each forming a team without mixing.The soldiers are neatly dressed, with carbine on their backs, sabers on their waists, leather boots on their feet, and steel helmets on their heads.The second is the Yi Fei Army (that is, Tang's personal guard army), dressed in the same clothes as the cavalry, but with ten guns on their backs, a steel helmet on their heads, and Fang Tian's painted halberd.The third is the flag officer, riding on a tall horse, carrying ten guns on his back, and supporting a large apricot flag rolled with golden silk ears, with the word "Tang" embroidered on it.

⊙After Yunnan raised troops to challenge Yuan, only two spies of the Yuan Party were arrested in this jurisdiction: one was He Guohua, the special envoy sent by Yuan Shikai to Yunnan for propaganda, and the other was Zhang Yikun, the governor of Ami Prefecture who failed to murder Cai E . ⊙Tang Jiyao participated in the Tongmenghui in his early years, and his relationship with Sun Yat-sen deteriorated shortly after the Republic of China, and changed several times later. In 1919, Sun Yat-sen changed the Chinese Revolutionary Party back to the "Chinese Kuomintang." Someone tried to persuade Tang Jiyao to join the Kuomintang, but Tang refused, threatening: "I will not join the Kuomintang even if I am too poor to beg for food."

⊙Cai E originally made a "baby marriage" with Liu Changgu, the elder sister of his first wife Liu Xiazhen, but because Liu Changgu looked down on the son of this small peddler, she staged a comedy of marrying a sister for a sister on the wedding day. ⊙After the Yunnan Uprising, everyone elected the governor, and there were differences of opinion. Tang Jiyao stood up and said: "Mr. Cai Songpo (Cai E) is an old man, and he participated in the revolution with the status of the Association. He should be a suitable candidate for the governor. I recommend Mr. Cai, if Senior Cai insists on quitting—” Tang patted his chest and said, “Then I will do it!” In the end, Cai E became the first governor of Yunnan after the Revolution of 1911.

⊙When the North and the South were negotiating whether to establish the capital in Beijing or Nanjing, Tang Jiyao sent a telegram to express his support for Yuan Shikai's inauguration in Beijing.The reason is that Beijing is a treasure land of geomantic omen and a place of great shape.If Nanjing is established as the capital, it will "not only be covetous, but foreign aggression will come, and it will collapse, and the situation will collapse internally. I want to save myself, but I will perish quickly."As soon as Yuan heard this, he immediately appointed Tang as "Guizhou Governor".

⊙In the autumn of 1914, Long Yun was studying at the Yunnan Academy of Martial Arts. At this time, a French strongman came to Kunming, claiming to be "invincible in the world", and held a three-day martial arts competition at the Yunnan Academy of Martial Arts.In the first two days, Hercules won and swaggered.On the third day, Long Yun, wearing a pair of straw sandals, stepped onto the ring and knocked the mighty French Hercules to the ground with lightning speed.As a result, Long Yun became famous. ⊙Chiang Kai-shek went to the wild for the first time, and used the Guizhou warlord Wang Tianpei to kill him. Wang Tianpei was very superstitious. Before his execution, he took out a "relic" in the hope of saving his life with Buddhism, but he was killed in the end.

⊙Long Yun was born in the Yi nationality. He has good physique, knows boxing skills, and is courageous and knowledgeable. When Tang Jiyao, the governor of Yunnan, heard about it, he transferred Long Yun to his side as an attendant.This was Tang's first time seeing a dragon, and he was very disappointed. He said to his subordinates: "Long Yun's words are not overwhelming, and his appearance is not impressive, so it is not suitable for me to be around!" ⊙When Tang Jiyao ruled Yunnan, there were four most powerful generals, known as the four pillars: Hu Ruoyu, the guardian of Mengzi, Long Yun, the guardian of Kunming, Zhang Ruji, the guardian of Zhaotong, and Li Xuanting, the guardian of Dali. On February 6, 1927, these four pillars joined forces to launch the "February 6th" coup, forcing Tang Jiyao to surrender military and political power, which drove Tang to death. ⊙Before the "February 6 Coup", Long Yun, Hu Ruoyu, and Zhang Ruji swore to be Jinlan brothers.After the success of the coup, the contradiction between Long and Hu among the three brothers was quickly aroused. Hu felt that he had the oldest qualifications, and Long believed that he was the strongest. On June 14, 1927, Hu, Long, and Zhang Huo merged, and Long Yun was arrested and imprisoned in a special iron cage. A portrait of Tang Jiyao was hung on the wall, making Long Yun think about it. ⊙When Long Yun was the garrison commander in Liuzhou, Guangxi, food and pay were in short supply, but he made an unexpected windfall: During one day's rest, a horse kept kicking the dirt on the ground, and a stone slab was exposed after a while. Long Yun saw it and called People dug up the stone slabs, and as a result, they dug out a large pile of cash, totaling as much as 250,000 yuan!Putting such a large amount of money together was too much of a goal, so Long distributed the money to all the soldiers, keeping 200 yuan per person, and rewarded each person with 5 or two cigarettes, and successfully brought the money back to Yunnan. ⊙In 1918, Yunnan warlord Ye Quanbu confronted Shaanxi warlord Chen Shufan.Ye Bu was so poor, and Chen's officers and soldiers distributed airship, Jinhua and other famous brand cigarettes to Ye's officers and soldiers. ⊙ Li Liejun has ten children in total.After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Li sent all five of his sons who had reached the age of military service to the army; two of them were studying at university.In his gift poem to his sons, he wrote: I will send my sons out of the hometown, and return them only after killing all the Japanese pirates.There is no need for hometown to bury bones, there are green hills everywhere in the world. ⊙In 1918, Tang Jiyao's power reached its peak, controlling Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou provinces, as well as parts of Shaanxi and Hubei.In September of this year, Tang came to Chongqing from Bijie, Guizhou, under heavy guard and heavy guard.In the streets that pass by, shop residents are all closed and are not allowed to enter or leave. There is one guard at three steps and one whistle at five steps. Twenty-one salutes are fired.As soon as Tang got out of the car, he threatened: "Today, the word "provincial boundary" is not worth laughing at." ⊙After Tang Jiyao returned to Yunnan for the second time, he neglected internal affairs and resorted to military actions, which aroused dissatisfaction from all parties.Long Yun's fifth army and Hu Ruoyu's second army are planning to overthrow Tang.Once Tang Jiyao's secretary-general, Bai Zhihan, was beaten up by soldiers of the Second and Fifth Armies on Kunming Street. After the incident, he posted a doggerel on the street. Army), don't beat white people and beat white dogs; when you beat a dog, you don't look at the owner, why don't the owner go down the mountain.Tang Wenzhi couldn't bear it. ⊙After Long Yun became the chairman of Yunnan Province, the walls of the reception room, the cushions on the chairs, and the spread on the table were all dragons embroidered with red and yellow satin, and he claimed to be the Dragon King.There are many sentry posts outside the office. Whenever a guest comes, the sentry post at the door shouts "report to the captain of the guard, and the officer will enter the mansion", and then the next sentry post repeats the same content, passing the report one by one. ⊙Long Yun's subordinate, Lu Han, is famous for his courage to fight tough battles. During the war between Yunnan and Guangxi in 1930, Lu Han led his army to surround Nanning for three months. Seeing that the ammunition and food were running out, the Nanning defenders even ate the last bag of black beans, so they ordered to break out of the encirclement.The breakout oath is very simple, "Go out and find something to eat, or starve to death."As a result, the breakthrough was successful and the Gui army won. ⊙Lu Chongren was the director of finance during the Long Yun period, and Li Peitian was the director of civil affairs. They both had bad reputations. Someone wrote a couplet in the names of Lu and Li and pasted them on the doors of the two families: "Don't cultivate a good conscience, sell officials and sell nobles Yan Hu Thick; if you don't respect benevolent government, how can you be safe by extortion and violence?In order to satirize Li's "selling an official" and Lu's "gathering money". ⊙Long Yun joined the Yunnan Army with his cousin Lu Han, and later entered the Yunnan Army Lecture Hall to study. Long and Lu's cultural background is very poor, and their rankings in each exam are relatively low. When looking at the rankings, they dare not go from the front to the front Look from the back, but look from the very end to the front. ⊙Long Yun recalled: When he was under house arrest in Nanjing, his house was surrounded by people watching him. The most powerful thing was that the spies built three temporary houses and opened a small cold drink shop opposite the gate of Long’s house. In fact, there are spies hiding in the house. ⊙At the end of 1934, Xue Yue led the Central Army into Guizhou. Guizhou Provincial Chairman Wang Jialie kindly sent people to meet him, but Xue Yue mixed with the army and deliberately refused to meet Wang. Wang was very angry.Soon Xue Yue was stationed in Guiyang, recruited a large number of soldiers, and received good treatment. Wang Jialie secretly dispatched his soldiers, pretending to sign up as soldiers, and ran back after receiving weapons. ⊙In 1935, Chiang Kai-shek bought two division commanders under Wang Jialie, the warlord of Guizhou, and forced Wang to step down by means of internal and external attacks.The two masters acted hard and soft against Wang, openly proposing to persuade Wang to step down, and the two of them also expressed that they would never fail Wang in the future.Wang Jialie proposed to let the two teachers go to Chenghuang Temple to swear an oath to express their hearts.After the teachers took the oath, Wang Jialie stepped down immediately. ⊙Chiang Kai-shek sent people to Guizhou to preside over party affairs, in order to recruit Kuomintang members in Guizhou.Zhou Xicheng, a warlord in Guizhou, said: "There is no need to accept them individually. I join the party on behalf of all seven million people in Guizhou."The Provincial Party Headquarters had no choice but to randomly circle some Guiyang registered permanent residents as party members, including waiters in opium dens. ⊙During the Anti-Japanese War, Long Yun was the chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Government, and had conflicts with the central government.For all anti-Chiang forces, Long Yun will take a more or less protective attitude; for all anti-Chiang movements, although Long does not openly encourage them, he will not suppress them, so the democratic movement in Kunming is very lively, and there is even a "democratic fortress" known as.After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Long Yun was placed under house arrest in Chongqing and replaced by Guan Linzheng as the commander of the Yunnan police. Soon after, the "December 1st" tragedy and the assassination of Li Gongpu and Wen Yiduo occurred. ⊙Fan Shisheng of the Yunnan Army was a scholar in the former Qing Dynasty. He was born with a pen, and later entered the Yunnan Army Lecture Hall to study military affairs.With the barrel of a gun, Fan claimed to be capable of both literature and military affairs, and he regarded himself as Fan Zhongyan of the Song Dynasty, and was known as "a fan in the army".But Fan always loses in the warlord competition, and people laugh at him as "a good guy (bucket) in the army". ⊙Chiang Kai-shek sent secret agents in various places. Before the Anti-Japanese War, in order to win over Long Yun, Jiang said frankly to Long: "I have told him to withdraw all the personnel sent by Dai Li to work in Yunnan. Activities, you can do it." ⊙In 1922, when Tang Jiyao returned to Yunnan for the second time, the French Consul in Kunming, on behalf of the French government, presented Tang with a second-class medal.In order to please Tang, Xu Zhichen, Director of Foreign Affairs of Yunnan Province, translated the award certificate into a first-class medal.Tang has worn French medals in public many times, proud of himself. ⊙In 1904, the Qing government decided to select students to study in Japan, and Tang Jiyao was one of them.Before leaving, his father took him to Kunming to meet the famous scholar Chen Rongchang for advice.Chen suggested that Tang study engineering, and Tang's father asked Tang to study engineering after he came to Japan. ⊙In 1912, the successful revolution in Yunnan organized the Northern Expedition.Before leaving, thousands of people in Kunming saw him off.The banner on the first farewell said: If you don't pay the barbarians, please don't survive! ⊙In 1927, Long Yun, one of Tang Jiyao's subordinates, launched the "February 6th Mutiny" and ousted Tang from power, becoming the president of the Provincial Affairs Committee in name only.On March 8 of the same year, more than 3,000 women from all walks of life in Yunnan gathered to celebrate the "March 8 International Women's Day".Tang quickly backed away and went back home to settle the matter. ⊙After Gu Pinzhen drove away Tang Jiyao, King of Yunnan, Tang Mou was restored.A year later, he led the army back to Yunnan. Due to his haste, he did not have time to prepare the banner, so he had to write the words "Tang, Commander-in-Chief of the Yasukuni Allied Forces" on white bamboo cloth, and had the right to serve as the commander-in-chief banner. Unexpectedly, not long after the flag was hung, it rained that night.When we set off the next morning, everyone saw the flag with Tang characters hanging, which was completely changed. One point of the word "Tang" and other places are not changed much, except for the horizontal line of the second painting, where the two ends of the ink are thicker, and after being melted by the rain, they look like eyes with tears in the eyes. ⊙Yuan Shikai ordered the local governor of Hunan to search Cai E's home. Cai had no real property, and his mother and wife had also gone into hiding.There is only one brother who runs a wood factory, and the two have already separated. ⊙In March 1935, Chiang Kai-shek and his wife Song Meiling visited Guiyang.Wan Shufen, Wang Jialie's wife, wanted to curry favor with Mrs. Jiang. Early the next morning, she and the family members of senior officials of the Guizhou Provincial Government, with heavy make-up and beauties, rushed towards Luoshan Mountain in sedan chairs.Unexpectedly, after waiting left and right, Mrs. Jiang just didn't come.Wan Shufen was in a hurry and sent someone to urge her.As a result, Mrs. Jiang sent a message: "I don't feel well today, so I can't come." After hearing this, Wan Shufen shed tears sadly. ⊙At the beginning of April 1935, Zhang Xueliang flew from Wuhan to Guiyang to meet Chiang Kai-shek.After having lunch with Jiang, Zhang Xueliang got up and went back to Wuhan, and Wang Jialie and others went to the airport to see him off.When he was about to board the plane, Zhang Xueliang suddenly asked Wang Jialie: "Have you ever flown in an airplane?" How about a circle over Guiyang?" So, Wang Jialie happily boarded Zhang Xueliang's plane, and Zhang Xueliang drove it by himself. After flying for a week over Guiyang City, he flew northeast.When Wang Jialie saw that the plane never landed, Zhang Xueliang took out Chiang Kai-shek's order from his pocket and showed it to Wang Jialie when he was anxious and doubtful.The general idea is: Wang Jialie was removed from the post of commander of the 25th Army, transferred to the Military Senate as a lieutenant general, and then served in Wuhan.
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