Chapter 47 Section five

Zhang Zongchang knew very well that in order to gain a firm foothold, he must have an army, so he expanded the army without restraint, and the army establishment was completely out of control. Zong Chang himself couldn't figure out how many troops he had.As soon as he arrived in Shandong, people in Jinan discovered that "Adjutants walk all over the street, and their adjutants are like dogs"; soon, the folk song became "Adjutants walk around the streets, and adjutants are like dogs"; Walking down the street, staff officers are more like dogs"! With so many troops, money is needed to support them. Although Shandong is not poor, it cannot support so many people who are not engaged in agriculture, industry and commerce.Therefore, the treatment of Zhang Zongchang's troops was extremely poor, and it was common for them to owe wages and supplies. Soldiers who could not survive fell on the people like wolves under Zhang Zongchang's connivance.In the name of "suppressing bandits", wherever the troops went, they looted, burned and killed, and did all kinds of evil: chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep were killed, mules, horses, cattle and donkeys were pulled out, doors, windows and closets were demolished-this It is called "Sanguang"; check the boxes and cabinets, dig the yard and indoor brick floor to see if there are valuable things-this is called "Two Searches"; Empty - this is called "empty"!

Zhang Zongchang's army looted and blackmailed at any time.Soldiers never pay for shopping; soldiers never buy tickets for cars.If you ask for money, you will be scolded at the least, or beaten severely. In the words of the soldiers themselves, it is: "Mala Bazi is free of charge, and the back of the head is a passport!" Robbery by soldiers and bandits must be accompanied by rape.Especially shameless in this respect were the White Russian soldiers.Zhang Zongchang relied on them the most, because since the Opium War, Chinese people have developed a deep fear of Western whites. In every battle, Zhang Zongchang arranged for blond, blue-eyed, tall white Russian soldiers to charge, and the enemy would be frightened. , scattered and fled.The White Russian soldiers in Shandong drank heavily all day long, sang like wolves howled when they were drunk, ran around the streets, beat men when they saw them, and humiliated women. People feared them like plague gods.These White Russian soldiers frequently raped young girls and old women. One time, an old woman was gang-raped to death by them!

The taxes Zhang Zongchang collected in Shandong were also unprecedented.There are sixty or seventy kinds of taxation items he set up with official titles, mainly: land tax, deed tax, tooth tax, pawn tax, livestock slaughter tax, salt tax, "discuss red" donation, house donation, tobacco and alcohol special Donations, tea special donations, rich gentry donations, garrison support, barracks and garrison barracks fees, military shoe donations, ordnance donations, car donations, market stall donations, land mu special donations, condolences to soldiers, truck special donations, prostitution Donation, theater donation, population donation, pot head donation, dog donation, chicken donation, Zhang Zongchang Sheng Temple donation, Zhang Zongchang bronze statue donation...

This is not enough, there is a "dung tax"!Zhang Zongchang set up a "Golden Juice Shop" as the management organization of the "official operation" of Dung.The oppressed Shandong people have a couplet saying: "Since ancient times, I have never heard that there is a tax on manure, but now there is no tax except for fart."This is irony, but also accusation. Zhang Zongchang had begging experience in Shandong when he was a child, and he was bullied a lot because of his father's death from illness and his mother's big feet.Now that he has become the "King of Shandong" who rules the whole province, Zhang Zongchang is proud and proud.Every time he goes out, he must clean the street before three o'clock. The main road in front of the government office must be sprinkled with water to remove dust, and vehicles, horses and pedestrians are prohibited;In front of his special car were White Russian soldiers leading the way, and behind the car were ten or twenty large trucks full of guards, each of them holding a portable machine gun; moreover, there were two or three planes circling overhead, accompanying the guards.This ostentation far surpassed the majesty of any emperor.

Zhang Zongchang's personal life is even more corrupt. He has fifty concubines of different nationalities, known as the "Eight-Nation Allied Forces"; He saw a pair of sisters surnamed Chen in the park, who were beautiful, and immediately called soldiers to rob them back to the mansion.After the two sisters were raped together, they actually went to Chen's house to see their parents, "worship like new relatives".He saw a beautiful woman in the theater, and it was difficult to kill because there were so many people, so he asked his men to follow her, write down the house number of the woman's house, and then sent troops to rob her.

Zhang Zongchang was also particularly fond of innocent female students. He often arranged for school girls to go to his office for "meetings" under the guise of "military school gatherings".At that time, people said angrily: "It is so extreme to play with female students!" Knowing that others know that he is lustful and shameless, Zhang Zongchang said: "It is often said that I, Lao Zhang, love women. Yes, I am really lustful. In fact, I only have this shortcoming, but my strengths are many, who knows!" Like this beast is inferior, among the warlords of the Republic of China, only Ma Bufang of Qinghai can compare with Zhang Zongchang.Ma Bufang blatantly stated: "Except the one who gave birth to me and the one who gave birth to me, everyone can be raped!" He did rape his own niece and granddaughter, and even made his granddaughter pregnant. Ma Bufang crushed this little "scumbag" to death with his own hands.It is said that Ma Bufang raped more than 2,000 women.After the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan, Ma Bufang was appointed as the ambassador to Arabia, and she continued to insult the embassy's female staff. The complaints of the female staff were later exposed by Taiwanese newspapers, causing an uproar.The national government transferred this old animal back to the island, and since then it probably cut off his prostitution.

Zhang Zongchang has no shame, so many of his concubines have also cheated on him.Several aunts and wives have their own lovers, Zhang Zongchang turned a blind eye to this.One time, a concubine and his adjutant were caught on the spot, and the two trembled. Zhang Zongchang said, "Are you two really on good terms? I will help you!" They paid money to send the two of them to open the way, but did not arrange to kill them on the way. Zhang Zongchang's theory is: "When it comes to communism and wives sharing, of course it is good to share wives, and communism is wrong. What you can get is yours, and what you can't get is not yours; sharing wives is different, you can't sleep. It's okay for the woman who arrives to sleep with someone else."

Zhang Zongchang is greedy, shameless, and cruel.During his rule in Shandong, he spared no effort to suppress the revolutionary forces.When he took office, a labor movement broke out in Qingdao where workers in Japanese-owned spinning mills rebelled against the abuse of Japanese capitalists.He had just arrived in Shandong at that time, so the workers didn't know his face. The strikers even put up the slogan "Qingdao Workers' Petition Group Welcomes Superintendent Zhang".Unexpectedly, Zhang Zongchang mobilized more than 2,000 military and police officers to surround three Japanese yarn mills and worker dormitories, and brutally suppressed the unarmed workers. Eight people were killed on the spot, seventeen were seriously injured, seventy-five were arrested, and hundreds were arrested. Wanted, more than 3,000 workers were sent back to their hometowns. This is the "Qingdao tragedy" that shocked China and the world.

After suppressing the labor unrest, he destroyed the trade unions and arrested more than 20 people including Li Weinong, secretary of the Sifang District Branch of the Communist Party of China, and Hu Xinzhi, editor-in-chief of the Citizen Daily. He also arrested Lun Kezhong, a worker representative who went to Beijing to petition and expose Zhang Zongchang's atrocities.Zhang Zongchang tortured them. Li Weinong's arm muscles were knocked off, and Lun Kezhong was beaten "broken arms and bones, and his body was completely shattered."The two were later murdered in secret. After committing this series of atrocities, Zhang Zongchang began to control the press.He sent reporters from various newspapers and news agencies to the supervisory office, and blatantly threatened: "I invite you all to come today. I have nothing else to say, that is, your newspapers publish my news. You are only allowed to say that I am good, and you are not allowed to say that I am bad." , if someone says I'm bad, I'll do it with military law!"

In order to stabilize his rule, Zhang Zongchang often sent military police to check people's communications, and if they found suspicious items or words, they would be arrested and tortured immediately.Under his despotic power, Shandong was shrouded in a gloomy terror. The only good thing Zhang Zongchang did in Shandong may be the founding of Shandong University in 1925.He himself was basically illiterate. At a certain military affairs meeting, the officers present boasted to each other which university they graduated from; Now that he has power, he wants to set up a university for himself to direct in order to seek pleasure. In 1928, he simply became the president of Shandong University. When he came to the school motto, he made obscenities, which were unbearable: "I, Zhang Zongchang, can't read a few big characters. Fuck your sister! Today we are talking about being the president. I don't have much to say. Bullying our children, we want to fuck, and we still don't agree to him!"

After hearing this, the students may feel that this "Principal Zhang" is a little frank and cute, but the next thing is: "I am your principal, you rely on me to get out, you don't study hard, you make revolution , Watch your heads!" In the land of Qilu, there is such a "Shandong King", the people are full of grievances, and heaven and man are all angry.The curses on Zhang Zongchang can be heard everywhere in the towns, villages, factories and schools in Shandong.People can't wait to peel their skin and eat their flesh.