Chapter 3 Chapter 3 He Has Voted to Allah

Zhang Zongchang, who was full of banditry, transformed himself into the captain of the police team of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, showing off his might in the northeast border city of Vladivostok.Therefore, the prostitutes, gamblers, old sea ghosts, brothels, casinos, and smoke dens in this area, no one, no one, nowhere, serve him as a Buddha; hooligans, local ruffians, and toubob also show love to him.Since Zhang Zongchang was born as a horse bandit, he was well versed in the bandit's whereabouts and methods, and under the banner of the government, he also handled several beautiful arrests.So he became a magical figure in the area, and even the neighboring Russian police had many leading figures befriending him.

Just when Zhang Zongchang made his fortune in Northeast China, an earth-shattering event happened in China—the Chinese bourgeois democratic revolution broke out in Wuchang Uprising! This revolution not only shook China’s feudal autocratic monarchy system for more than two thousand years, but also made the democratic republic The concept is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it awakens all people of insight in China to rethink the relationship between their own destiny and the future of the country, and then decide to follow. When the news reached Vladivostok, Zhang Zongchang's forehead suddenly became hot. He bought a jar of old wine, packed a few packets of stewed meat, and dragged Cheng Guorui and other fellow villagers into a secret room. While eating and drinking, he talked about the Wuchang Revolution coming.

The poor brothers Zhang Zongchang have changed their appearance a long time ago. Not only are everyone rich and wealthy, but they also have a bunch of small armed forces. When they speak, they naturally become rough.Zhang Zongchang was still their leader. He raised his face and drank a bowl of wine. While wiping the corners of his mouth, he said, "Brothers, we have good luck. Congratulations! We have been promoted and made a fortune." Cheng Guorui looked more and more sophisticated, he was not thirsty while holding the wine, and he was not smiling happily, but he poured cold water on it:

"Our luck is not bad. We will arrive at the Kanto when we say we are going to the Kanto; we are astonished when we say that the pole is a horse bandit; now we are a majestic government team. We have climbed from the bottom of the lake to the top of the mountain. There is no wind, no fire, An An Let's hang around on the top of the mountain for a few years; if you move again, you must go downhill and towards the bottom of the lake." "Why are you disappointed?" Zhang Zongchang said, "You don't understand the world's major events. It's chaotic! Do you know Wuchang?"

Cheng Guorui shook his head.Question: "Where is Wuchang?" "I don't know either." Zhang Zongchang said, "It doesn't matter if you don't know where Wuchang is, you have to know what happened in Wuchang!" "What is it?" "Revolution!" "Revolution? What is it?" "Overthrow the Qing Dynasty? Build a new dynasty." "Build a new dynasty?" "I know how to build a dynasty?" Zhang Zongchang drank half a bowl of wine angrily, and said: "It is better to change the dynasty than not to change it. It is good luck to catch up with the change of dynasty. As long as you stretch your head, you will be the founding father of the country! Like Liu Bang Xiao He, Liu Bowen next to Zhu Hongwu, even Fan Kuai, who sells dog meat, was named a general!" This is what Zhang Zongchang heard from storytelling when he was a child, and he never forgets it.But whose general was Fan Kuai? He couldn't tell.He felt that these words had already been scratched his head, and everyone would definitely be in awe.But he raised his eyes to look at everyone, but saw that everyone was not very moved, just staring blankly.He knew his words weren't working.He just "coughed—" and went to drink again.Cheng Guorui was afraid of spoiling Zhang Zongchang's interest, so he quickly picked up the bowl and said:

"There are too many things we don't understand. Don't break the sand tank and ask (texture) to the end. What do you say? Let's follow you. Don't talk about Wu (Wu) Chang, even Liu Chang, Qi Chang, and Ba Chang, we all know Go. Come, do it!" Everyone raised their bowls and said in unison: "Yes, if you go up the mountain, we'll go up the mountain with you; if you go down to the sea, we'll go down the sea with you. Never mind!" Zhang Zongchang laughed. "Where, what's the matter. I have to find out. If you can go, we will go; if you can't go, we will only go when you are tied."

Zhang Zongchang is a restless person and also a dissatisfied person. He thinks he will make a name for himself, "In such a vast world, I don't believe there can be no one who looks like a dog?" He finally figured out what happened in Wuchang.He sighed, "What kind of party is the Revolutionary Party, and how many people does Sun Yat-sen have? Can he overthrow the Qing Dynasty?" He remembered the story he heard in the past that rebellion could not be executed, "Hey, go with the Revolutionary Party , If the Revolutionary Party is defeated, wouldn’t I become a rebel, and my whole family will be beheaded, and the whole family will be exterminated! Be careful, and watch it before you talk.”

However, the Wuchang Shouyi revolution, after all, hit all the souls on the land of China like a raging tide. Where should we go? People are making their own choices.Zhang Zongchang couldn't keep silent anymore, he wanted to try it in that trend.He suddenly thought of a person - Zhang Zuolin. "He, Zhang Zuolin, is also a bandit. He got into Erdaogou and never came out. So far, he is still not a bandit? Look at others, he broke out. It only took a few days, and Ye Jing became a teacher! What if he didn't break in." Zhang Zuolin is a figure in the Northeast. A few days earlier, Fengtian Governor's Mansion received an order from the Army Department of the Beijing Government, conferring him the rank of lieutenant general and appointing him as the commander of the 27th Division. The whole Northeast knew about it.Zhang Zongchang thought: Zhang Zuolin also has one head, two arms, and no one more egg! He can be a teacher, but I can't? He has that fate, but I don't? But I don't believe it.I don't think I'm any worse than him.Do it, I have to do it big!

Having made up his mind and made things clear about Wuchang, Zhang Zongchang decided to go south.He calculated that he only had one battalion in his hand, and it was difficult for the first battalion to go south.Not to mention that you cannot vote for the Revolutionary Party in the south, even this road to the south is difficult to get through. "I want to have a group of people, and there will be no difficulties." He frowned and thought hard for two days, but he still thought of two friends in the deep mountains and old forests: one was Sun Jingli who was taken away from the chamber of commerce, and the other was in the suburbs of Harbin The Hu bandit Liu Bold that he got acquainted with.Right now, these two people have a group of troops under their command, "Bring them over, and the military power will be greatly shaken!"

du8.com copyright Zhang Zongchang left Vladivostok alone and found Sun Jingli first. Sun Jingli was extremely cold to him—because Zhang Zongchang tricked him into handing over his weapon and then became the captain of the chamber of commerce’s police. I don’t want to enter the officialdom again, I’m not interested in the officialdom”, so he pushed Zhang Zongchang away.After Zhang Zongchang left, Sun Jingli cursed at his back: "You bastard, beg for glory. You still want to trick me, but I won't do it! One day, I'll have to deal with you." Zhang Zongchang had no choice but to meet Liu Bold.

It was a den deep in the mountains. When Zhang Zongchang was brought to Liu Dadaran, Liu Dadaran was worrying about some gangsters' careless attack and falling into the government. When he saw Zhang Zongchang coming, he hurriedly said: "Captain Zhang, have you been ordered to arrest me?" "What's wrong with you?" "Several brothers committed a crime." "Which gang did it?" "The government." "Oh!" Zhang Zongchang smiled: "You think I came here on the orders of the government? I came here on the orders of Zhang Zongchang." "What do you want from me? Tell me." "Help you get some brothers out of trouble." "Do you have a way?" "Why, don't you believe me, Lao Zhang?" "I'm afraid it will hinder your future." "What future? A small future like mustard, still sucking my soul? Uh, I don't know one day, I won't be able to go back to the mountains. Can you?" When saving brothers, I will not stand still." "I would like to thank Brother Zhang first." "Thank you, I just wanted to ask you for help with something." "Let's talk, if you want a head, I have one; if you want men, I have a team, all of which belong to you." "You got it right," Zhang Zongchang said again about the expansion of the team going south, and then said, "I've made contact with the south. As soon as the troops arrive, I'll be the head of the regiment, and you will be the deputy. Revolutionary Army. How is it?" Liu Bold had heard of the Revolutionary Army, but the distance between the south and the north was far away, so he didn't take it to heart.Today I said I was going to join the Revolutionary Army, but I didn’t know what to do for a while? So, I just frowned and didn’t speak.Zhang Zongchang thought that he was thinking about some brothers who had been arrested, so he said: "Don't worry, if you want to do it, you have to rescue our brother and do it together." "It's better if you can do this, and I can be considered worthy of the brothers." Two days later, Zhang Zongchang sent some of Liu Daudao's brothers back from the government.Liu boldly did not break his promise, and returned to Zhang Zongchang with his troops. In 1912, Zhang Zongchang pulled the team out, went to the coast of Liaoning, captured another official ship, sailed across the ocean, and came to Shanghai. He joined the Third Division of the Jiangsu Army of the Restoration Army and formed a cavalry regiment. Long, settled down in Shanghai. In the Great Shanghai at the beginning of the century, the lights were feasting and the demons were dancing wildly.Even Orientals and Westerners came to Shanghai to blow the wind and light will-o'-the-wisps.This emerging city on the banks of the Huangpu River has long been tossed into a miasma, with people and ghosts indistinguishable. Zhang Zongchang had a team under his command and silver dollars in his pocket. Once he entered Shanghai, he felt like a fish in water. What's more, he had already been familiar with brothels, casinos and smoke dens in Vladivostok. Soon after he arrived in Shanghai, he became a prominent figure in these places.At that time, the revolutionary army had not yet become a major force, and after the 1911 Uprising, the North-South peace talks were launched, and military and political figures from all sides were involved in Shanghai.As a result, disputes of all sizes, jealousy, and power struggles have arisen one after another, and more and more people are fishing in troubled waters.Zhang Zongchang's immediate boss is Chen Qimei, a member of the revolutionary party who is the governor of the Shanghai Army.Zhang Zongchang acted even more presumptuously. On that day, he suddenly thought of Hua Sibao, a famous prostitute on the Bund who slept with him for two nights. She was a very likable little girl, with a slender, rosy face.The small mouth is sweet, and when speaking, it is like a copper bell; when laughing, the cheeks rippling.When Zhang Zongchang met her for the first time, he paid a sky-high price. "Little boy, I bought this golden body of yours, don't you make me angry." Hua Sibao lay in Zhang Zongchang's arms, and said coquettishly: "Si Bao belongs to Uncle Zhang, and won't take any customers anymore. I'm afraid Uncle Zhang has a different heart." "Don't worry, the uncle will always be your backer." The mountain alliance has sworn to each other, and Zhang Zongchang is relieved.I don't want to, as soon as Zhang Zongchang entered the door today, the bustard told him that "there is someone in Si'er's room".Zhang Zongchang was furious immediately: "What kind of a dog, dare to take four?" "It's a master." The bustard said. "Master Turtle, I asked him how much money he has? Dare to go here." "Master Zhang, don't say that." The bustard said, "This master is too poor to smoke old tobacco. When he comes, I have to offer the tea, not a penny." "Why would he dare to do this?" "Master Zhang, you don't know, he is a gendarmerie commander under Governor Feng, Lord Feng Guozhang, and he has great power!" "Did you say it was Chen Tiaoyuan and Chen Xuexuan?" du8.com copyright "It's not him!" Bustard said, "No one in Shanghai is afraid of him!" "I'm not afraid of him!" Zhang Zongchang raised his belly, "See how I teach him a lesson so that he will never dare to come again!" Zhang Zongchang tightened his armor, touched the fast and slow receiver gun on his waist, and walked upstairs in a "peddling" manner. "Chen, you are so courageous, you dare to occupy my 'private room'! Come out, come out, I will settle the score for you!" Commander of the Gendarmerie, a coward, has Chen Tiaoyuan ever met someone who dared to be so presumptuous in front of him?" Swish——!" He took out a pistol from his waist, "Hula——!" Pushing open the door. "Where did the bastard come from, dare to act wild here?" When Zhang Zongchang saw that Chen Tiaoyuan had pulled out the gun, he was about to fight, so he also drew the gun from his waist. "I Zhang Zongchang, I haven't met any opponents since I came to Shanghai, let's see how I deal with you!" When Chen Tiaoyuan heard that it was Zhang Zongchang, his heart went "-" all of a sudden.He had heard long ago that there was a Kwantung bandit named Zhang Zongchang who led his troops to Shanghai to join the Restoration Army, and the Restoration Army gave him a cavalry commander.This person has long been known as the "Devil King of Confusion" in Kanto, and he is a desperado who does all kinds of evil.Chen Tiaoyuan thought, "You can't fight him, it's not worth fighting to your death in a brothel." He stuck a pistol in his waist and smiled. "Who did I say? It turned out to be Head Zhang! I've looked up to you for a long time. I've wanted to visit you for a long time, but today we met like this. It must be considered fate." He pointed to the chair of the grand master beside the square table, "Head Zhang, please sit down!" Zhang Zongchang was stunned: "You know me? You want to visit me?" "The famous Zhang Xiaokun, 'No one in the world knows you!' I am preparing to organize a welcome meeting on the Shanghai Wharf to welcome you!" Although what Chen Tiaoyuan said was a bunch of lies, Zhang Zongchang felt hot in his heart-a soldier who was a bandit, he didn't scold him, he just recited Buddha.A gendarme commander in Shanghai wants to "receive the wind" for him, and this alone is worth a thousand dollars! As for being taken over by a prostitute, he has long since forgotten about it.Zhang Zongchang put the gun in his waist, arched his hands, and smiled: "The flood rushed into the Dragon King Temple—one family doesn't recognize the other family! Commander Chen, Zong Chang is rude and offends your good deed. Please forgive me." "Where, where." Chen Tiaoyuan also went along with the situation: "Xuexuan didn't know that Si'er was Zhang Tuanzhang's stunner, she knew, and she would not dare to be so wrong no matter what. I have to ask Zhang Tuan to forgive me!" "No fight, no friendship. From today onwards, I know Commander Chen, and we are destined. Zongchang, let me speak directly. Just now I heard from the bustard that the commander is a poor official. The official is poor, nine out of ten. Honest official, I admire you, I admire you! In terms of money, you are better than me, I am a gangster! Commander Chen, my money is not clean, let alone helping you. Don’t you like Sier? Here it is, I will pay for her to redeem her body tomorrow, so you can accept her as a concubine. Consider it a gift from me!" What kind of upright official is Chen Tiaoyuan, but he hasn't succeeded yet.When I saw Zhang Zongchang for the first time, he turned hostility into friendship again, and was even more loved by him.He hurriedly stood up, arched his hands, bowed and saluted, and said again and again: "The one who gave birth to me is also my parents; the one who knows me is Xiaokun! Thanks to the great love, I will never forget it!" The Revolutionary Party and the old Beiyang warlords represented by Yuan Shikai were always at odds with each other. From south to north, from east to west, they talked about peace and war, talking about fighting and fighting.In the middle of 1913 AD, the second revolution broke out, and Zhang Zongchang's recovery regiment was ordered to fight Zhang Xun, the governor of Liangjiang, the guardian of Jiangbei, and Feng Guozhang, the governor of Jiangsu and the governor of Jianghuai, who were stationed in Xuzhou.As everyone knows, Zhang Zongchang is not an opponent of the Beiyang Army at all.In the battle of Erlang Mountain, Zhang Zongchang was defeated and his arm was seriously injured.Retreating to a hidden place, guarding the remnant soldiers and thinking about it, he suddenly realized: "The Guangfu Army is not the opponent of the Beiyang Army, but the Beiyang Army is more powerful." So he led the remnants to vote under Feng Guozhang's name.When Feng Guozhang invited Zhang Zongchang in his camp, Zhang Zongchang burst into tears and said: "Feng Dujun, I can vote for Allah! Zhang Zongchang will give it to you for the rest of his life!" Feng Guozhang smiled lightly and said: "We also welcome you. If you can walk, your road is very wide. It will be up to you in the future." Soon, Feng Guozhang sent someone to send Zhang Zongchang a considerable amount of funds, and promised to leave him a vacancy for brigade commander. , but there is a task: to get rid of Chen Qimei. After accepting the task, Zhang Zongchang hesitated.Think about it when he came to Shanghai with black eyes and voted under Chen Qimei's name. Chen Qimei didn't discriminate against him, and Dang even gave him a team leader, so that he had a very good reputation on the Shanghai beach of Shili foreign company.He took refuge in Feng Guozhang and betrayed Chen Qimei, and he never heard any accusations from Chen.Now, how can I assassinate him? Zhang Zongchang talked about the loyalty of the world, and he didn't want to do things that are sorry for others.However, Zhang Zongchang was ambitious after all, he was not satisfied with the position of regimental commander, Feng Guozhang promised him a brigade commander, he coveted it, he wanted this position.He warned himself: "Father and son are not allowed to give up in the casino, and benevolence and justice cannot be respected in the officialdom. If you practice benevolence and justice, you will not be able to get an official, and you will never be able to climb up in your life." Zhang Zongchang looked at the money again and thought it was enough. It took a while. "Feng Dujun is a friend! I can't let this friend be my boss." Zhang Zongchang selected several capable brothers and each gave a large amount of money.He also promised "everything is done, everyone will be promoted to three levels", and handed over the task of killing Chen.He also said: "It is only allowed to be done, not to be ruined! If it is done, it will be rewarded. If it is not done, it will be killed!" Under the heavy reward, there must be a brave man! The people sent by Zhang Zongchang to Shanghai really lived up to expectations. , about to assassinate Chen Qimei. Feng Guozhang kept his promises. Not long after Chen Qimei's death, Zhang Zongchang was promoted to brigade commander, and later changed to the supervisor of the officer education regiment. Later, he became the commander of the first temporary division of the army.There are too many officers and soldiers, and Zhang Zongchang really looks like a dog. While recruiting civil and military assistants and pretending to train the army, he "actively and earnestly" pleaded with Feng Guozhang, "willing to serve the country." In recent years, Feng Guozhang's life has not been smooth.He was born in the Beiyang Armed Forces Academy and assisted Yuan Shikai in running the Beiyang Army early on.After the Revolution of 1911, he was appointed as the President of the First Army by the Qing government and led the Beiyang Army to Hubei to suppress the revolution. In 1913, when the Kuomintang launched a war against Yuan, Feng was ordered to capture Nanjing and served as the governor of Jiangsu.After Yuan Shikai's death, the Beiyang Army separated, and he became the leader of the Zhili Warlord.Anhui warlord Duan Qirui controlled the Beiyang warlord government, and Feng joined forces with Wang Zhanyuan, the governor of Hubei, and Li Chun, the governor of Jiangxi, to oppose Duan. Elected vice president in 1916 and now acting president.Feng Guozhang knew that there were many people who opposed him. He wanted to send more confidants to occupy various places to consolidate his position. He naturally thought of Zhang Zongchang. He called him to him and said to him: "Xiao Kun! Every time you ask for your life, I always want to send you a place where you can use your force. Now it's decided, you take the team to occupy Jiangxi Province, and it will also be our base in the future." Zhang Zongchang was about to occupy a place. For the king, he hurriedly said: "President, don't worry, I will hold Jiangxi firmly." Zhang Zongchang led his temporary first division of the army to Jiangxi.