Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Go to Kanto without leaving grandpa here

After Cao Kun accepted Zhang Zongchang's eight golden immortals, he became really excited. "Zhang Zongchang is a good friend, such a generous man with a big belly can accomplish great things!" He wanted to use him and give him a high position. Cao Kun, who graduated from the Tianjin Armed Forces Academy, spent 30 years in the military camp. It was really not easy. It was not until the Wuchang Shouyi that he became a teacher.It was a difficult start, a difficult fortune, and it was difficult to achieve today—— Cao Kun's hometown is in Dagu, Tianjin, and his father supports his family by rowing boats for others.Boat rowing is an ascetic business, and the father does not want his son to inherit this industry.Cao Kun was the third in the family. He was born with big arms, broad waist and tall stature. His father wanted him to be a good cropper and go to farm;His father asked him to sell cloth, and Cao Kun was a big drinker, often lying drunk on the street, and even the cloth was stolen.The old man lost confidence in him and let him wander.As a result, he voted for the Huai army, and he started as a soldier and became the overlord today.He still wants to climb again, so he has the idea of ​​"the talents in the world are for me".Zhang Zongchang came in time.Cao Kun thought about it for two days, then he brought Zhang Zongchang in front of him, served wine and food, and they drank together.

"Xiao Kun, I originally wanted to send you to an important place and ask you to take charge of the army. But after thinking about it, I think it's not appropriate..." When Zhang Zongchang heard this, his heart turned cold. "What? Cao Laosan wants to dump me, want to swallow my golden immortal birthday for nothing?" He looked at him, but didn't speak.But the sudden frown made Cao Kun understand. "Xiao Kun, don't get me wrong, I don't mean anything else." Cao Kun shook his hand and head again. "You are a person who has led soldiers. The knowledge of leading soldiers is not very good. It is not a good thing to send you to lead other people's soldiers. If it is not done well, it will be thankless. I think so. In the early days, I learned from Duan Qirui's border guards collected a batch of firearms and counted the quantity. It is enough to equip a division. I want to allocate it to you. Wouldn't it be better for you to tidy up the old division and organize a division by yourself to do your own work.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Zongchang fell to the ground with a stone, and felt grateful to Cao Kun. "Yes, I can't lead other people's teams. Other people's teams don't necessarily listen to me. I have to organize my own soldiers." Zhang Zongchang also believed in the batch of ordnance Cao Kun mentioned. Duan Qirui was defeated in Qirui's "War of Zhili and Anhui".So he decided that Cao Kun was telling the truth. "Xiao Kun is grateful for the great love of the commander. I admire the commander's meaning from the bottom of my heart. I will organize a team, and I will definitely live up to the love the commander has for me."

Coming out of Cao Kun's inspection mansion and walking back to the post house where he was temporarily staying, Zhang Zongchang was excited for a while, and suddenly frowned again. "Hey boy, where are we going to organize a team? Go to Jiangxi to ask Chen Guangyuan for it. Can Chen Guangyuan give it back to me? Go to Kanto to take in the bandits. I can't trust them for a few years. How many bandits are there? Will you come here? ?Besides, pulling up a division is not something that can be accomplished in a short period of time. It will take some time to squeeze it with mud." After all, Zhang Zongchang is bare-boned, so where should he go to recruit a division? He has no idea.

Zhang Zongchang sat on the bed, took out his bong, hooked his head, and smoked one bag after another.Wisps of white clouds and smoke swirled in front of him, gathered and dispersed, and spun around; the mystery became bigger and bigger, so that the small house was soon cloudy and cloudy and foggy. "This firearm can't be collected for the time being, until I organize a team." Zhang Zongchang made a decision helplessly. Long nights and dreams! Accidents will happen! Just when Zhang Zongchang was about to recruit troops, a person under Cao Kun who could control the situation found out about the matter, and immediately stopped him.He is Zhang Zongchang's fellow villager, Wu Peifu from Penglai - Wu Ziyu.

Wu Peifu, born as a scholar, is a well-known Confucian general. He is currently the commander of the third division of the army.Wu Peifu regards himself as a Confucian general, never associates with bandits, and even discriminates against them. Wu Peifu learned that Cao Kun was going to hand over a division of ordnance to Zhang Zongchang, and immediately complained: "Nonsense! Who is Zhang Zongchang? Zhang Zongchang is a bandit! Give the weapons to the bandits and let him organize the team? The team he organized is still Bandits. How can we be with bandits?!" Wu Peifu sent a team to transport away all the weapons promised to Zhang Zongchang.Then, he told Cao Kun about it.

Cao Kun had no choice but to hesitate about this matter. Zhang Zongchang was helpless, he slapped his butt and cursed Wu Peifu: "Wu Peifu, the dog day! One day, I will let you know how powerful I am as a 'hu bandit'! I will make you homeless, and tell you to die without a place to bury!" Seeing 200,000 tens of thousands of oceans go to waste, Zhang Zongchang felt distressed! This matter was facilitated by Xu Kun, so he went to find Xu Kun. "Xingmen, Wu Peifu started first. Not to mention that the ordnance was all gone, he even scolded me. Why did I do this? This is digging a hole into a prison--asking for it! He Cao Kun doesn't even fart. Come on, I have to ask for an explanation."

Xu Kun is also anxious about this matter.He felt that Wu Peifu shouldn't do this.However, he had another fantasy, and he felt that Cao Kun would find another way to make up for it.So he said: "Don't worry, I'm going to see the tour envoy, I think he will have other ways. Otherwise, can he feel at ease?" Xu Kun went to see Cao Kun.Cao Kun spread his hands, sighed and said: "Xingmen, it's not that you don't know that Wu Ziyu has the final say on the matter of armaments. Back then, Xiaokun was able to hurry up and transport the arms away as soon as possible, so it's no longer the case today." Not only did Cao Kun not In another way, he blamed Zhang Zongchang for not being active and serious.Xu Kun said:

"Commander, organizing a new team is not so easy. Besides, Zhang Xiaokun is very unfamiliar in Zhili. Now it seems that it will be difficult to recruit a new team. Does the commander give Zhang Xiaokun something to do in the army? Never mind It's big and small, and there's a seat, so it's easy to explain." Cao Kun was silent—it turned out that when Wu Peifu was transporting weapons, he had greeted Cao Kun, telling him to "absolutely not take Zhang Zongchang in. That would damage the reputation of the army." Cao Kun did not dare to do so. Lord, just keep silent——.After thinking for a long time, he said again:

"Zhang Zongchang's reputation is too bad, no matter what job he is given, there will be people in the army who will object." "So..." Xu Kun wanted to ask for an explanation. "Stargate," Cao Kun hastily explained. "I will never forget Zhang Xiaokun's generous gift. How about this, when he has nowhere to go, he will stay at my house first, and when the opportunity arises in the future, I will naturally support him." Hearing what Cao Kun said, Xu Kun felt cold. "Cao Zhongshan regards Zhang Zongchang as a beggar. He has eight golden immortals, and three or five generations are enough for him. He must eat at your house?" He regretted it. He felt that he had misunderstood Cao Kun; At the same time, I felt that Zhang Zongchang was hopeless.

Xu Kun hurried out of the patrol gate, went to see Zhang Zongchang, and told him the truth. Zhang Zongchang jumped up, threw his hat on the ground, pulled back his lapel, and spit and cursed: "I'm fucking Cao Kun's grandma! One day I will have a man, and I won't be Zhang if I don't dig up his ancestral grave in Tianjin!" Xu Kun also added fuel to the fire, saying: "There is no foster father in this place, there is a foster father's place! I don't believe that there is no place for you to stand in the vast China? If you want to leave, go quickly, not under the hands of this ruthless and unintentional warlord. I will go too, and I will walk with you." "Go, let's go together!" Having said that, Zhang Zongchang felt a little cold again when he really wanted to leave.If you don't come to Baoding, you still have tens of thousands of oceans in your hands, which is more or less a capital.Now, there are no soldiers, no money, where are we going? Should we go back to the deep mountains and old forests, and pull the bandits again? Thinking about it, he couldn't help but chanted "Kandong, Kanto". This chanting opened Xu Kun's vision.He hurriedly said: "Yes, go to Kanto!" "You agree with me going to Kanto?" "Of course I agree." Xu Kun said, "Didn't you get acquainted with Zhang Shaoshuai Zhang Xueliang a few days ago? I think that man is an honest gentleman. You can go to him." When Xu Kun said this, Zhang Zongchang's eyes lit up, and he suddenly remembered what happened a few days ago—— In the living room of Cao Kun’s conference, when people were paying attention to the eight golden immortal birthday stars, a young general walked up to Zhang Zongchang, stretched out his hands, and with a smile on his face, he first called out "Mr. Zhang", and then said: "Mr. Zhang Xueliang, I have admired your name for a long time. Meeting here today is not a friendship. My father often praises you, saying that you are brave and righteous. When you are happy, you are welcome to go to Kanto again, Mr. Zhang!" Zhang Zongchang knew that standing in front of him was the young marshal Zhang Xueliang, so he hurriedly said enthusiastically: "Dashuai Zhang is one of the heroes that Zhang Xiaokun admires the most. Please ask the young commander to say hello to him for me, and say that Zhang Xiaokun misses him! One day, I will go to the Northeast to greet him!" "Xueliang is waiting for Zhang in Fengtian Master!" Thinking of this meeting and acquaintance, Zhang Zongchang felt that he could go to the Northeast.But then I thought: "Zhang Xueliang said so many good things to me, probably because of those 8 pure gold birthday stars? If he really goes, will he be like Cao Kun, and he will be given a cold bench." Think again , but felt that Zhang Xueliang was sincere and his conversation was extraordinary.Besides, when I had nowhere to go, I finally made up my mind: "Okay, let's go to Kanto!" Xu Kun hurriedly said: "Go to Kanto, I will accompany you!" Zhang Zongchang left Baoding without saying goodbye, and together with Xu Kun, rushed to Fengtian in the starry night.The two entered Shenyang, first found an inn to stay, and then tried every means to get close to Zhang Zuolin in order to see each other. Zhang Zuolin, who was born in Greenwood, became the commander of the 27th Division shortly after he became the governor of the Fengtian Army and the governor of the province. From 1918, he also served as the patrol envoy of the three eastern provinces and became the leader of the Fengtian warlords.Since then, he has formed a tripartite confrontation with Duan Qirui, the warlord of the Anhui Clique, and Cao Kun, the Zhi Clan Clique, and divided China. After 45-year-old Zhang Zuolin became the "Northeast King", he had the ambition to enter the customs and take the Central Plains, so he secretly recruited talents and expanded the team.Zhang Zongchang came just in time. Zhang Zuolin decided to invite Zhang Zongchang in the newly built living room of the Governor's Mansion, and sent his son Zhang Xueliang to the inn to pick him up. After arriving in Fengtian, Zhang Zongchang was in a very contradictory mood. After he settled down, he lay down on the bed and thought wildly: "Zhang Zuolin is from the green forest. He won't discriminate against me, a horse bandit. Maybe it's for the sake of 'hat dear,'" In the future, I will be given a path to prosperity!” Zhang Zongchang was driven by this emotion to a large extent when he went to Guandong.However, he, Zhang Zongchang, came to Fengtian with a bare pole after all, and he couldn't even give the gift to Cao Kun. Then what should we do?" Zhang Zongchang tossed and turned, unsure, and wanted to discuss with Xu Kun, but he didn't want to explain.When he learned that Zhang Zuolin was going to meet him and sent his son to meet him, he hurriedly asked Xu Kun: du8.com copyright "Xingmen, Zhang Zuolin is going to see us, what do you think is good or bad?" Xu Kun knew that Zhang Zongchang's attack on Baoding was still fresh in his memory, and he was afraid of repeating the same mistakes.So he said to him in a comforting mood: "Don't worry, Fengtian is not Baoding, and Zhang Zuolin is not Cao Kun and Wu Peifu." "This can further verify whether Zhang Zuolin is a hero or a coward!" "You are right." Zhang Zongchang became courageous. "Zhang Zuolin has good vision and treats us warmly, so we will stab him; Zhang Zuolin treats us coldly, so we turn our backs and leave." "Where to?" Xu Kun asked. "It's a big deal to go back to the old job, and go to the mountains and old forests to be a horse bandit!" Xu Kun laughed. "Don't talk about being angry, I don't think Zhang Zuolin is that kind of villain." "People's hearts are separated by belly, and tiger's heart is separated by sweaters. People who have too many soldiers and powerful people have dark hearts and dead souls. I have to put my bad heart first." "How do you plan to meet Zhang Zuolin?" "I have my plan, and you will understand when the time comes." This is a spring. The new year in Fengtian is always so late, the "official document" of the season has already been issued, and the sky is still thin and cold on the ground, and even the snow does not melt; the old and new trees are sleeping soundly, and the branches are iron. Generally, there is no life; urbanites and countrymen walking on the street are still in cotton robes and felt hats, with faint clouds coming out of their mouths. When Zhang Xueliang came to invite Zhang Zongchang, Zhang Zongchang said, "If you want to meet the commander-in-chief, you must bring some greetings." Zhang Xueliang smiled: "My father is not celebrating his birthday, but welcoming friends." Zhang Zongchang also shook his head and smiled: "My Zhang Xiaokun is not worth 8 golden immortal birthday stars even with bones and flesh, only one goose feather!" When Zhang Zongchang was talking, he pulled out a gift from the bed, which turned out to be two baskets made of wicker.The weaving was also very poor.What does it mean? Zhang Xueliang and Xu Kun were both stunned and puzzled.They had no choice but to take it on sullenly. When the car arrived at the Governor's Mansion, Zhang Zongchang followed Zhang Xueliang to the living room with a pick basket in his hand. Zhang Zuolin was sitting in the living room waiting.Seeing Zhang Zongchang's behavior coming in, he jumped in his heart: "Zhang Zongchang, is this the way of etiquette?" He squinted his eyes and thought for a while, and understood: "Well, what a kindness!" Thinking, he hurriedly stood Get up and hurry out to meet. As soon as Zhang Zongchang saw his actions, he knew that the person who came out was Zhang Zuolin.Busily put down the two baskets, arched his hands, bowed deeply, and said: "Zhang Xiaokun greets Marshal Zhang!" Zhang Zuolin stepped forward, took Zhang Zongchang's hand, raised his face, laughed and said: "Greetings? That's the business of the old ladies of Cixi and their dynasty. Why should we learn from them? Let them die with the old ladies! Let's learn from Sun Yat-sen and just hold hands. Don't you blame me for letting the sixth son pick you up?" Zhang Zongchang knew that "Six Sons" was Zhang Xueliang's childhood name, and Zhang Zuolin called him that regardless of the occasion.then said: "The young commander-in-chief and I are considered old friends. He went to greet me, which shows that we have deep affection. It's too late to be happy, what's wrong!" Zhang Zuolin led Zhang Zongchang into the living room, sat down in Xuli, and said: "The six sons said that they met you in Baoding, and they praised you like a god. I said, 'Then why don't you bring Zhang Xiaokun to Shenyang? Too……" Zhang Zongchang smiled. "The commander-in-chief really knows how to joke, I Zhang Zongchang is really beautiful in front of Cao Kun. I am as beautiful as a dung beetle!" "I know you'll come someday." "Ah—?!" Zhang Zongchang was a little surprised. "Didn't you come today?" Zhang Zuolin said, "It's very grand: you only brought 8 golden immortal birthday stars to Cao Laosan, but you brought me two big baskets!" "Master..." Zhang Zuolin hurriedly waved his hands to prevent him from continuing. "Xiaokun, you are willing to carry heavy burdens for my Zhang Yuting's career, and you are carrying two baskets, I thank you. But I also tell you something from my heart: I will give you a mulberry pole, so that you will never stop carrying it!" Only then did Zhang Xueliang and Xu Kun understand what Zhang Zongchang meant by bringing the basket.Zhang Xueliang thought: "Zhang Zongchang is trustworthy!" Xu Kun thought: "Zhang Zongchang has courage and heart, he is a character!" Bear pole, when you are ready, let the six sons find you." Then he turned to Zhang Xueliang and said, "Take good care of their lives, and show them around the city when you have time. I have something to do in the future, maybe I don't have time to watch it." .” Zhang Xueliang agreed, and walked out with Zhang Zongchang. When the melee continued frequently in the Central Plains, Kanto gradually became a peaceful place, and some frustrated politicians from the Zhili and Anhui factions came to Fengtian one after another.Zhang Zuolin would not refuse anyone who came, and he would entertain him warmly and arrange a seat.Feng's army was not yet strong, and there were too many monks and few porridge for a while, so Zhang Zongchang's seat was hard to come by.A month later, Zhang Zuolin only appointed Zhang Zongchang to the gendarmerie battalion as battalion commander. Hearing the appointment, Zhang Zongchang jumped up again: "What? You want me to be the battalion commander! Damn, Zhang Zuolin isn't good enough friends either. My division commander only leads a battalion soldier? Go pee!" Seeing that Zhang Zongchang wanted to leave again, Xu Kun tried to persuade him: "Brother Xiaokun, don't be too thin if you have a salary. It's better to have a battalion commander than to sit on the bench. What's more, the military police are still soldiers of the Feng family. It is always good to be close to Zhang Zuolin. Besides, we met Zhang Zuolin by chance after all. , people will inevitably be a little bit concerned, it would be good to give it to a gendarmerie battalion commander." After listening to Xu Kun's persuasion, Zhang Zongchang thought about it carefully and found it reasonable. "Right, if you buy a donkey, it will pull the mill. You have to put on a splint to try it! When you are a battalion commander, be a battalion commander, and show them how to do it." Zhang Zongchang became the commander of the gendarmerie battalion in Fengjun.