Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Biography of Two People

But time will tell.When it was discovered that the Zongsha Party was no longer good, the Japanese finally realized that Zhang Zuolin still had a few tricks, so they gradually reached a consensus: if you want to support such a powerful faction, you must support such a powerful faction. If you want to take it, you must first give it. "Old Japan" understands this truth very well. They feel very regretful for ignoring this "pro-Japanese faction" who offered to send them to their door. Whether the troops are good or not, weapons are very important.In view of the fact that China has been in constant war for years, in order to avoid the flames of war from escalating and jeopardizing their respective interests in China, the big powers all agreed at that time: You don’t care which one you help, as a principle, you cannot sell weapons to China.

Of course, the agreement is the agreement, how to do it in private is another matter. Japan sold 1 million arms to Zhang Zuolin in the first year of Fengjun's "reorganization of the army and military affairs".In the second year, the number of arms shipped to the Northeast tripled to more than 3 million.Since Zhang Zuolin could not directly import weapons from Europe and the United States, Japan also set up a purchasing agent, first buying guns and guns from Italy, and then reselling them to Fengjun. Such an upside-down method is no longer a matter of just hitting the sidelines. Everyone is not a fool, so they can't see it at all.There is a lot of gossip, and the Japanese feel that it is not a long-term solution to always be sneaky like this. The so-called "teaching a man to fish is worse than teaching him to fish", so let me invest and build an arsenal for you.

The main machinery, equipment and engineers of the Northeast Arsenal are all from Japan.At that time, apart from the Hanyang Arsenal built by Zhang Zhidong in the late Qing Dynasty, there were not a few decent arsenals in the whole of China. No matter what school or faction, most of its weapons had to rely on imports.Compared with them, Feng Jun immediately had an advantage. In addition to weapons, military advisers are also stationed in the Fengjun. "Old Day" issued a call internally to work for Fengjun if you want to work, and introduced a large group of people to work as military advisers for Lao Zhang.Of course, these guys themselves have ulterior motives, and their main job in their spare time is to spy on the military situation in the Fengjun, find and train pro-Japanese officers.

However, in terms of military quality, the Japanese advisers were not given in vain. Later, the famous "Kanto heroes", such as Honjo Shigeru (later commander of the Kwantung Army) and Itagaki Seishiro (later chief of staff of the Kwantung Army) all served in the military service. Advisor to the military. Most of these people are high-achieving students of the Japanese Army University. Everyone is not idle in military command. When encountering an emergency, they can't control their desire to show off and often want to go up and show off.In such a situation, based on the principle of "use it for nothing, use it for nothing", Lao Zhang is also happy to let these "senior wage earners" go up and sell some strength to block him.

For example, during the first Zhifeng War, Fengjun was chased by the Zhijun and had nowhere to escape, and it seemed that he couldn't even go home.Ben Zhuangfan ran out and asked to be the commander.The future commander of the Kwantung Army was really not a cover, he blocked the Zhijun at once, and the remnants of the Feng army were able to withdraw from the pass smoothly. Sometimes I even saw that Lao Zhang, who was "one of his own", suffered a disadvantage in a fight. , I was stunned to change Lao Zhang's 11-a-side football team into 12-a-side. A typical event is to stop Guo Songling's rebellion.

Guo Songling, who is tall and burly, is known as "Guo Guizi", and his troops have always been the elite of the Feng army.Xiao Guo is proud of his talents, and looks down on both the old school (those buddies who have been born and died with Lao Zhang, and the two sides) and the "non-commissioned officer department" (mostly Japanese non-commissioned officer school graduates) who are also new schools. To his boss Zhang Zuolin, he also often plays with his attitude in person, to show face. In his view of Zhang, he was not satisfied with his "enthusiasm for civil war and compromise with Japan" except that he favored the old school and the "non-commissioned officer system".

Faced with such an angry youth, Lao Zhang was very annoyed, so he simply let him go abroad for investigation. After returning from the inspection, Xiao Guo reported the results of his studies, the first of which was to drive Lao Zhang out of office. At first, he made an appointment with the old cynic Feng Yuxiang, and the young and old cynics were going to join hands to settle accounts with the "traitor" Lao Zhang.Unexpectedly, Lao Feng was defeated in a few strokes.There was no turning back arrow when he opened the bow, Xiao Guo gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, he ordered the three soldiers and horses, and went straight to Lao Zhang's nest in Fengtian.

At that time, Fengtian was empty, and the guards were caught off guard, and were beaten up by Xiao Guo until their noses and faces were bruised.Lao Zhang has been shrewd all his life, but this time he fell into the hands of his own people. He was so anxious that he almost lost his mind. In his panic, he even drafted the telegram in advance.Thanks to Zhang Zuoxiang and Wu Junsheng's desperate efforts to protect the Lord, and Guo Jun's internal disunity, he was finally able to turn the crisis into safety. During this process, Japan dispatched the Kwantung Army to help, and mobilized heavy artillery units to prevent Guo Jun from attacking, which saved Lao Zhang's life at a critical moment.

It was thanks to the "great assistance" from Japan, the backstage boss, that the Feng faction, which originally did not have an absolute advantage, quickly became the number one in the old warlord system. The military medal, you have half of it, and I have half of it. The Japanese military and political leaders were very pleased as the "heroes behind the scenes", and then they took it for granted that the harvest season was coming.Brother Zhang should have said something. But they waited and waited, and when the flowers withered, there was not much substantial good news.Could it be that Generalissimo Zhang was ill or suddenly lost his mind and couldn't deal with it?

I sent someone to look at it. Lao Zhang is in good health. He is calm and ruddy. He is more energetic and shrewd than anyone else.They just came here to make a big fortune, and after receiving the benefits, they acted like a normal person, as if nothing happened. The Japanese understood that Lao Zhang was neither sick nor stupid, he was just playing a rascal. This means that all previous investments in him will be in vain without exception. One cannot be so shameless!No matter how much the Japanese can pretend to be grandsons, they can't help but be irritated. Judging from the various signs before and after the event, many Japanese politicians are not Lao Zhang's opponents if they are playing tricks, even veteran bureaucrats who have been tested in the officialdom.

No, Lao Zhang stretched out his enthusiastic hand again.Let's talk, let's talk, the kindness of a drop of water should be repaid by the spring. Although I, Zhang, came from a reckless background, I am not the kind of person who waits for no loyalty. Facts have proved that Lao Zhang is such a ungrateful person. He stretched out his hand again and again, obviously to negotiate with the Japanese, but secretly to get some arms and benefits through deception. The experience of the former king of the mountain left Lao Zhang with precious spiritual wealth.To deal with the Japanese, he also used the tried and tested three axes in the past: gambling, mixing, and fighting. He knew what the Japanese wanted him to do.From the heart, it is ten thousand reluctance.But he knew clearly in his heart that this was a bait, and it was a tried and tested bait.With this bait, it can make you want to eat and feel like vomiting. Therefore, he bet that no matter how annoyed the Japanese become, they will not be able to openly turn against him.Because I still count on this bait. Mixing is a consistent secret in the process of dealing with the Japanese. In fact, through previous negotiations, Japan has obtained a lot of benefits on the surface, such as relaxing immigration restrictions, obtaining land commercial lease rights and inland residence rights in the Northeast, and adding a Japanese consulate in the Northeast.The Japanese were also ecstatic about it for a while, and they were so happy that they couldn't even sleep at night. When I woke up the next day, I found that was not the case at all. They originally had a pretty good idea. They wanted to expand immigration to 200,000 people today, 500,000 tomorrow, and 1 million the day after tomorrow. In the end, the Han Chinese in the Northeast would become a minority, and the Japanese would become the mainstream of society. Tohoku became an integral part of Japan. Unexpectedly, you are fast, others are faster.Lao Zhang is a descendant of the Guandong, engaged in immigration?Who is afraid of whom. With his secret support and encouragement, the speed and number of Chinese crossing the Guandong increased by N times. The Han Chinese who poured into the Guandong from the inland provinces were like the water of the Yangtze River, and they all ran fast. , I was stunned to leave behind the Japanese who were walking slowly in clogs. To make matters worse, when they finally moved over, they found that there was no room to live in.The reason is that the Fengtian government issued an unofficial order prohibiting the Chinese from renting houses to the Japanese. The so-called informal order is relative to the formal order. To put it bluntly, it is something that the person concerned understands, but makes others unable to grasp anything. In my opinion, this move is the worst. People in the south don't have a deep understanding, and people in the north, especially those in the northeast, can hear the air-conditioning between their teeth. The global warming effect in the early 20th century was not as serious as it is now. Needless to say, the climate in the Northeast... Not all Japanese are legendary Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.So, very unbearable. At this time, Lao Zhang hid in the room and laughed: Xiao Mian, I can't cure you. If you want to use our old Zhang as a gunman, our old Zhang will use him as a gunman.Wanting to fool our old Zhang, our old Zhang made a crutch into a wheelchair and sold it to him. The wisdom of Northeast Two Biography turns out to have historical origins.