Chapter 136 Section 14 Imperialism Testifies

We have to reevaluate Zhang Zongchang. This person is not only superior in military ability, but also extraordinary in political views-if he is really an idiot, how can he become the governor of Shandong who commands an army of 300,000?Those who mock and belittle him are only mocking themselves.If the idiot Zhang Zongchang still has such achievements in life, then what should he do with people whose life achievements cannot be compared with Zhang Zongchang? Acknowledging Zhang Zongchang's wisdom is just a fair attitude towards history. Thinking that Zhang Zongchang is an idiot is just humiliating his IQ-if your IQ is higher than Zhang Zongchang, how can you lose to Zhang Zongchang in life achievements?

At least, when the Beiyang Army entered the city, Zhang Zongchang's judgment, analysis and prediction of the current situation all came true. In his telegram to Feng Guozhang, he said that Zhang Xun's behavior would reveal the truth of the outsider, which is not false at all.In fact, Zhang Xun's performance in Nanjing almost ruined himself. Almost all historical materials record the numerous crimes committed by Zhang Xun's braided soldiers in Nanjing.Among them, the most authoritative information cited by people is the scene in "An American Diplomat's Mission to China" by P. S. Huang Enshi:

... When we entered Nanjing, this ancient city was lying alone and melancholy in the gray morning light. … Those tall soldiers with braids and black military uniforms stood on the street, "defending" the city, and the residents were frowning and hurried along the street in fear, seeing charred and ruined walls everywhere , everything in the house was destroyed and abandoned on the street; fragments of shells still remained in the walls.It all makes for a depressingly tragic scene... P. S. Huang Enshi, who wrote this book, was the US Minister to China who had just arrived. He had a very bad impression of Zhang Xun's braided soldiers.

The foreigners were unhappy, and the Allies were astonished, and it was also the credit of the party members.The Revolutionary Party had someone specially assigned to collect Zhang Xun's criminal evidence. For example, there was a book at that time called "Zhang Xun's Looting Records", signed by Gu Gongquan. This book included Nanjing people's angry complaints against Zhang Xun.An old man surnamed Gu who experienced the robbery recalled that he was 15 years old at the time. In order to avoid the military disaster, his family fled to hide in a nearby vegetable field: ... On the afternoon of September 3, I was discovered by a small group of bandit soldiers and asked me for big lace (referring to cash).As he said that, he pushed me under the big tree, and when he was raising his gun to shoot me, Feng Guozhang's department was ordered to dispatch to stop the robbery.

Pay attention to this record, please pay attention to this record, the revolutionaries carefully selected Zhang Xun as the target, collected evidence and launched a fierce offensive against him.In order to concentrate firepower, he even did not hesitate to acknowledge Feng Guozhang's contribution to maintaining order.Here, what's the mystery? At that time, there was a newspaper called "Shengjing Times". This newspaper had previously reported that after the revolutionary tycoon Zhang Zhenwu was killed, his sixth wife went to the eldest wife to discuss the funeral, but was beaten out by the eldest wife.The tendency of this newspaper is also obvious. It does not support the revolutionary party and is relatively fair.

This time, the "Shengjing Times" reported on the robbery of Zhang Xun's braided army: The situation of the looting in the city today could not be communicated by telegram. The officers and soldiers started looting on Monday afternoon, and before twenty-four o'clock, the whole city was robbed.Although there were no valuables from the restoration period in the previous year among the stolen goods, the looting this time was exhaustive and meticulous.There is an endless stream of supporters and bearers of soldiers, all of which are household items.Sometimes the residents are forced to carry the burden. Among them, there may still be the original owner of the property, but the Eighth Master forced them to bring their own property to the camp.Soldiers openly loaded their rickshaws with stolen goods, and there was nothing missing in the stolen goods. Although they were not worth much, they still wanted to take them quickly.All the rickshaws are now under their orders, although no Westerner can hire one.All kinds of stolen goods have no special value in the eyes of outsiders, but the residents claim that they are of great value in the eyes of small brokers and people.Although the value of a store's robbed property is less than a few yuan, if it is lost, its livelihood can be wiped out.Alas!The people of Ning were so unfortunate that they were repeatedly robbed. Although the looting was in a remote place, it seemed that there was no omission. Soldiers forced to serve, the situation is particularly pitiful.Stolen goods were transported to the city gates from all directions, and there was hardly a single street that was spared.

There is a fair report by the "Shengjing Times", which confirms Zhang Xun's braided army's crime of disrupting Nanjing.So how does Zhang Xun himself explain this? On September 9, Zhang Xun sent a telegram to Yuan Shikai, saying: The bandit army fled, took the opportunity to plunder, and the bandit aided the torture, becoming more and more cruel, and many of them pretended to be officers and soldiers.At this time, the orders of each army were different.Xun broke the renunciation and sent a team to patrol the streets. There were more than 200 Fa-rectification everywhere, and order was restored.This is what foreigners living in Jinling all over the world can see.Today's Reuters report is based on the fact that the blue-clothed soldiers account for the majority.Zha Xun's troops entered the city, occupying only a corner of the northeast, in a remote area with few households.For the rest of the prosperous areas, each army will be divided into camps, and it is not difficult to check whoever is looting and who is not.

Zhang Xun argued here: The imperialists testified for me, I didn’t do it, it really wasn’t me.Every army has its own territory in Nanjing City. It will be clear if the looting happened on my territory, and I also sent people to the streets to enforce the law and killed more than 200 rebels. There are so many people!The Revolutionary Party did not kill so many.Why do you want to wrong me, why? Did Zhang Xun be wronged, and if so, why? Just ask He Haiming, this old man is currently in the city of Nanjing, fighting the final battle with the Beiyang Army.