Chapter 45 third quarter

In the north, Zhang Zongchang, who came out more than 20 years later than Lu Rongting, although he also came from a reckless background, his family background is stronger than Lu Rongting's.He is a native of Ye County, Shandong Province, born in the Northeast.His ancestors left their homeland and entered the Kanto region during the Qianlong period. After several generations of hard work on the fertile black soil of the Northeast, by the time of his grandfather's generation, the family was already relatively prosperous. His father resembles and does not resemble Lu Rongting's father.The similarity is that both of them will prodigal, and Zhang's father also ruined the property accumulated by his ancestors; the difference is that Lu's father can only eat, drink and steal, while Zhang's father can kill and set fire to be a "beard" (bandit).

In a bandit fight, the gang belonging to Zhang Zongchang's father, Zhang Wanfu, was wiped out, and Zhang Wanfu was seriously injured. Fortunately, his big-footed wife, Zhu Shi, rescued him desperately and dragged him out of the siege. Unable to gain a foothold outside the customs, Zhang Wanfu and his wife brought their young Zhang Zongchang back to their hometown, Ye County, Shandong Province.Zhang Wanfu, who was severely injured by this, became disabled after returning to his hometown, and died soon after.Zhu Shi also quickly found a man surnamed Wang to live with him. Zhang Zongchang had a rough temperament, but he was sweet-mouthed, and he got on well with this stepfather.

When Zhang's father was seriously ill, Zhang Zongchang once accompanied his mother to beg along the village.Begging is the most humble thing, but the worst thing is that Mrs. Zhu has grown the most contemptuous big feet at that time, and she is bullied everywhere.One time, a group of urchins sang a self-made ballad to Zhu, mocking her for "big feet, twisting all over the street, trampling a big yellow dog to death with one foot".Zhang Zongchang couldn't bear it anymore, and fought violently, and a bunch of little kids were beaten to pieces by him. This can lead to disaster.How dare a beggar beat someone?Especially since you're still a beggar with big feet!So a group of women came up aggressively to ask the crime.Zhu Shi had no choice but to humbly apologize one sentence after another.Seeing his mother being so bullied, the young Zhang Zongchang stood aside, gritted his teeth and remembered it bitterly.

Zhang Zongchang, who grew to seventeen or eighteen years old, showed his father's bandit blood, was brave and ruthless, caused troubles, and gradually brought disaster to the village.At that time, he was working as a waiter in a tavern, and he caused trouble for the boss for three days and two days.The boss surnamed Wu wanted him to leave early, but he didn't dare to fire him, so he told him, it's too embarrassing for you to be a boy in your hometown, why don't you go to the Kanto like your ancestors, Kanto That is a treasure land, and everyone who went there has made a fortune!

At that time, there were indeed many people in Jiaodong who entered the Guandong, and there were indeed many people who developed because of this. Zhang Zongchang was persuaded, and in 1900, he and his fellow countrymen went to the Northeast. When Zhang Zongchang arrived in the Northeast, he began to do serious jobs, such as doing odd jobs in Yingkou Casino, mining in Jilin, panning for gold in Harbin, and working as a bodyguard in a security agency.But he thinks these things are too hard, and the money comes too slowly, so he thinks it is better to rob.During his stay in Harbin, he and his fellow countrymen ransacked a watch shop run by a Russian couple, killed the owner, sold the clocks, bought guns, and began to commit crimes.

Years of wandering life made Zhang Zongchang develop a style of making friends and not stinging money. He also practiced good marksmanship and superb horse skills. He soon became the leader of a gang of gangsters and initially developed his "leadership" ". After several years of robbing and robbing houses, he quit. He moved to Vladivostok in Russia and became the head of the guard at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, which is equivalent to the captain of the security guard. Although Vladivostok is a Russian city, most of its population is Chinese immigrants. Apart from serious businesses, they also run casinos, brothels, and tobacco dens, so the city's law and order is extremely poor.The Russian side was too lazy to manage this Chinese city, so the Chinese Chamber of Commerce had to set up its own guards. The merchants paid monthly to the gate guards, and the gate guards were responsible for ensuring safety and assisting the Russian police in detecting large and small cases.

Just like Lu Rongting, who was born as a bandit, was very good at dealing with bandits after being recruited, Zhang Zongchang, who had just changed his job from the robbery industry, was as familiar with catching thieves and robbers.During this period of time, Zhang Zongchang, who had never read a book, needed a lot of flattery because of his frequent contact with Russians. He also learned some Russian. Zhang Zongchang, who has gradually grown in power, has become a tyrant in Vladivostok, and merchants engaged in legitimate or illegitimate businesses have to curry favor with him.If he wants to watch a play, good seats in the theater should be reserved for him;Before he became the "King of Shandong", he had already dominated the society of this Far Eastern city in Russia once.

Zhang Zongchang accumulated the first pot of gold in Vladivostok. Later, he brought a large sum of money and returned to Suifenhe on the Sino-Russian border. He called some people who were both farmers and robbers to reclaim and run the farm. When the 1911 Revolution broke out in 1911, Huang Xing sent Li Zhengwu to the Northeast to recruit troops.Zhang Zongchang didn't know what the revolutionary army was at all. He only knew that revolution was a rebellion. He also heard that Huang Xing recruited troops and bought horses. He could recruit a battalion of people and he could be a leader. In Zhang Zongchang's opinion at that time, a leader was a great official. So he told his brothers that everyone wanted to follow him, so he called a thousand or two thousand people.

Zhang Zongchang defected to the revolution at this opportunity, and this team joined the Shanghai Restoration Army. He served as the regimental commander under Chen Qimei, the governor of Shanghai, and was promoted to the commander of the 3rd Division of the Jiangsu Army two years later.In the "Second Revolution" against Yuan Shikai after Song Jiaoren was assassinated, he was ordered by Huang Xing to block Feng Guozhang and Zhang Xun's troops in Bengbu, Anhui. He suffered a big defeat and was injured himself.At this time, he saw that Yuan Shikai was powerful and the second revolution would fail, so he speculated again and led the team at the front to surrender to Feng Guozhang.

Zhang Zongchang, who took refuge in the Beiyang warlord, had no ambitions at first, and became a gentle adjutant under Feng Guozhang's subordinates.What made him stand out was Chen Qimei, who was ordered to assassinate his old boss. After the Second Revolution, Chen Qimei went into exile in Japan, and joined the Chinese Revolutionary Party organized by Sun Yat-sen in Japan. After that, he did two major events that shocked Yuan Shikai: one was to arrange for more than ten people to assassinate Zheng Rucheng, the guardian envoy of Shanghai and Yuan Shikai's best friend. The second is to instigate the Zhaohe warship uprising.

Chen Qimei's influence in Shanghai and the southeast region made Yuan Shikai sleepless and determined to get rid of this serious trouble, so he asked someone to organize the assassination of Chen Qimei.This person happened to be Zhang Zongchang's gambler, so he secretly entrusted him with the mission, with an initial sum of 50,000 oceans. The success of the assassination was due to a small favor that Zhang Zongchang gave to his subordinates before: when he was still on the side of the revolutionary army, there was a fellow platoon leader under his command, Cheng Zian. Zi'an's mother, and sent three hundred oceans.Zhang Zongchang, who was on an assassination mission, came to Shanghai and met Cheng Zian by accident. Cheng Zian was very affectionate and grateful to him.During the conversation, Cheng Zian said that he was running errands for Chen Qimei and was quite excluded.Zhang Zongchang was overjoyed and used a lot of money as a bait to win over Cheng Zian as an internal agent for the assassination. On May 18, 1915, Chen Qimei, Sun Yat-sen's capable general, was stabbed to death in Sapo Sailu, Shanghai. The assassination gang headed by Zhang Zongchang received a bounty of 700,000 oceans. After the failure of Zhang Xun's restoration in 1917, Li Yuanhong resigned. Vice President Feng Guozhang acted as the president and appointed Zhang Zongchang as his military attaché;During this period, he recruited more than 6,000 people. Duan Qirui, who regained power after the failure of Zhang Xun's restoration, refused to restore the "Temporary Constitution of the Republic of China", so Sun Yat-sen launched a movement to protect the law.The Sixth Mixed Brigade was sent to suppress the Dharma protection movement before it had time to train, and was completely defeated in Hunan.The supervisory group sent by the Beiyang government wanted to execute him on the spot. Fortunately, Feng Guozhang thought that he was someone close to him and excused him, and Zhang Zongchang escaped. In December 1919, Feng Guozhang died of illness, and Zhang Zongchang lost his backing and moved to Jiangxi.At this time, he had more soldiers and less money, and repeatedly demanded payment from the Beiyang government, but no one paid any attention to it, so he harassed the local government and caused complaints.Chen Guangyuan, the governor of Jiangxi, wished that he would open the way as soon as possible, but he was afraid that he would offend this group of cruel and poor soldiers.It happened that Zhang Zongchang fell in love with an acrobat actress in Jiangxi, and Chen Guangyuan fell in love with her, so he paid for it and gave it to him as his concubine.Just when Zhang Zongchang was indulging in Gentle Country, Chen Guangyuan sent heavy troops to surround him and disarm him, announcing that they were endangering the place, and they were dismissed and expelled.Knowing that Zhang Zongchang had been tricked by a beauty, he quickly disguised himself and fled Jiangxi. Zhang Zongchang had no place to stand, so he went north to Baoding, the provincial capital of Zhili, and took a huge sum of 200,000 yuan to join Cao Kun, the patrol envoy of Zhilu and Henan.Cao Kun originally wanted to take Zhang Zongchang in, but he met the famous "Confucian general" Wu Peifu. The noble Wu Peifu couldn't tolerate this guy who was born as a bandit and is still like a bandit today.Zhang Zongchang's 200,000 yuan was in vain. In a rage, he went to Fengtian (Shenyang) to seek refuge with "Northeast King" Zhang Zuolin. When Zhang Zongchang took refuge in Zhang Zuolin, he almost lost his family, but he carefully designed a good plan-the gift he brought to Zhang Zuolin was two baskets.Zhang Zuolin was very surprised, wondering what kind of trick this guy was playing.After careful consideration, it suddenly dawned on me: the one who carried the basket was the one who carried the soil. Zhang Zongchang brought this, meaning that he was willing to work for Zhang Zuolin; but he didn't have a shoulder pole, which meant that Zhang Zuolin had to give the pole—that is, authority—to do it.Zhang Zuolin admired his wit very much, so he was retained and arranged for him to be a military police battalion commander. He was not a big official, but he treated each other with courtesy. Although starting from scratch, Zhang Zongchang is grateful.He was uneducated and rude all over, but he was submissive to Zhang Zuolin and wished to kowtow whenever he saw him. The opportunity for Zhang Zongchang to rise again has come.Soon, Gao Shibin, the brigade commander of the Jilin Army, joined forces with Lu Yonggui, a horse bandit, to rebel against Zhang Zuolin.At that time, Zhang Zuolin had just been defeated in the Zhifeng War and had no army to fight, so he sent Zhang Zongchang, who had been raised for a long time, to lead the gendarmerie battalion. Zhang Zongchang faced thousands of people with a battalion, and he was bound to lose, but God helped Zhang, many of Lu Yonggui's bosses and bosses were fellow villagers who went to the Guandong with Zhang Zongchang back then!It was heard that Zhang Zongchang had brought soldiers, and they rushed over one after another.Before the battle was fought, Lu Yonggui's team broke up, and Zhang Zongchang organized them into three regiments.Zhang Zuolin was very happy to win this unexpected victory, and appointed him as the commander of the third brigade of the Jilin Provincial Defense Army and the guardian envoy of Suining, Jilin Province. Zhang Zongchang has gained a firm foothold in the Northeast, and something good will happen next.Nearly 10,000 white bandit troops from neighboring Tsarist Russia were defeated and fled to Northeast China under the attack of the Soviet Red Army. It happened that Zhang Zongchang knew some Russian, so he recruited them.Before long, Zhang Zongchang had tens of thousands of horses. Zhang Zongchang, who had regained his ambition, was a little smug, he was slack in training the army, and he was very active in growing opium for profit.During an autumn drill, his troops suffered terribly in the harsh weather, and many people were injured during the exercise.Zhang Zongchang was very upset. He was drinking and swearing in the barracks: "Fuck, what kind of grandson's plan is this, which made us like this." Really, he was furious immediately, pulled his face down and asked: "Who are you scolding?" Zhang Zongchang quickly apologized and explained: "I'm sorry, this is my spoken word, not who to scold." Guo Songling slapped the table and pointed to his nose Shouted: "I fuck you! -- that's my word too!" The people present were too nervous to vent their anger.Cao Mang really has a reckless way of life, knowing that an egg cannot touch a rock, Zhang Zongchang, a 1.85 meter tall man, smiled all over his face, and said: "Master Guo, if you fuck my mother, then you are my real father. I didn't say anything." Zhang Zongchang was many years older than Guo Songling, and Guo Songling couldn't laugh or cry, and couldn't get angry anymore. Guo Songling was dealt with in such a cheeky and impersonal way, but he couldn't fool Zhang Zuolin.Zhang Zuolin was very dissatisfied with him for being a fool after he became an adult, and reprimanded him face to face for spending 1.8 million yuan in military pay a year, but turned the army into a puddle of mud, and warned him to be busy growing opium again. For military affairs, don't blame me for being rude.Zhang Zongchang was sweating profusely and obediently, and the situation of the army has improved since then. In September 1924, the second Zhifeng war broke out, and the battle ended with the victory of Fengjun. Zhang Zuolin took control of the Beiyang government and became the last figure among the Beiyang warlords to rule the country.Zhang Zongchang made his first contribution. In November, he was appointed as the commander of the First Army; in April 1925, Zhang Zongchang led a brigade into his hometown Shandong and served as the military affairs supervisor of Shandong Province; Chairman Gong Boheng is also the provincial chairman. "Shandong King" Zhang Zongchang came to the stage, and the catastrophic Zhang Zongchang era in the local history of Shandong is coming.