(Old photos of Zhang Jinghui)
Let's start with Zhang's insurance group.
At the end of Qing Dynasty, refugees and bandits were everywhere in Northeast China. Because these people wander around and hurt one side, the local government can't do anything about them.
In this case, some people set up armed groups to protect themselves. This kind of organization is called an insurance group.
Generally speaking, for the sake of peace, people and squires are willing to pay a protection fee to the insurance group, so that they can protect their homes and homes for everyone.
Zhang has an insurance group of more than 20 people.
Zhang is not only conscientious and disciplined, but also very strict with his subordinates. So the village he is in charge of is rarely harassed by bandits. His men didn't hurt the village, and the squire and the people praised him. In the long run, his reputation spread further and further, and more and more villages sought him for peace.
At that time, there was a bandit named Jin Shoushan in the northwest of Zhaojiamiao. He netted more than 65,438+000 hooligans and formed a big group.
Jin Shoushan is cruel and overbearing, forcibly taking the security business of the surrounding villages into his own hands. However, he not only failed to ensure peace, but also made these villages restless. The villagers who really couldn't stand it had to find Zhang and ask him to dispose of it.
Zhang led the troops to retreat and occupied the lair.
However, Zhang never imagined that he would sneak attack on the eve of the year. As a result, unprepared, he was almost killed by Jin Shoushan. Finally, under the protection of the remnants, he escaped by luck.
In order to protect himself, Zhang took the remains and planned to take refuge in the Feng family, an old acquaintance.
(photo of Feng Lao)
When Zhang Zuo Lin passed the octagonal platform, he met Zhang Jinghui.
Zhang Jinghui made tofu in his early years.
As the saying goes, life is difficult, sell tofu while the iron is hot.
Zhang Jinghui is young and smart, where can he sell tofu all his life?
Zhang Jinghui likes gambling. In the casino, he made many friends. Egged on by those people, he simply gave up the tofu stand and went up the mountain to become a bandit.
Later, Zhang Jinghui slowly pulled up the bandit team and set up an insurance group in Bajiaotai.
Zhang Jinghui has long heard of Zhang's fame. When I saw this, the two chatted happily, and they had a feeling of brief encounter.
Zhang Jinghui thinks that Zhang is a very clever man, and with his extraordinary bearing, he can achieve great things at first sight. So, Zhang Jinghui decided to leave him in Bajiaotai, voluntarily abdicated and gave way to Zhang as the boss of the insurance group, while he was willing to be the deputy.
Zhang Jinghui's move moved Zhang deeply. The two became a blood alliance and became sworn brothers.
However, with the Qing government's control of public security in Northeast China, the social order was greatly improved, and peace preservation corps, who was once in the limelight, had no value of existence, and finally he could only be dismissed on the spot.
Zhang, who is eager to become a loyalist, naturally does not want to see such a result. It happened that Zhang Jinghui had a good friendship with Zhang Ziyun, president of the Octagonal Chamber of Commerce, so under the mediation of Zhang Jinghui, Zhang Ziyun introduced Zhang Zuo Lin to Zeng Yi, the magistrate of Xinmin House. After some operation, he became Zhang's confidant as he wished.
As Zhang Yue grew stronger, Zhang Jinghui followed suit and became an indispensable right-hand man.
(an old photo)
So why did Zhang Jinghui betray Zhang Zuo Lin?
This is going to talk about the first direct war.
At that time, Zhang, the warlord leader, clashed with Wu Wei, the leader of the direct warlord, for sovereignty, and finally the first war broke out.
However, what Zhang never expected was that after the fighting started, Zhang Jinghui, commander-in-chief of Feng Jun West Road, was slow to respond and fell into a passive position. Later, the 16 division he commanded simply defected and surrendered to Wu, which led to the failure of Wu. Zhang was so angry that he cursed Zhang Jinghui and said that if he dared to return to the Northeast, he would be shot.
To tell the truth, Zhang Jinghui, as a father-in-law figure, enjoys high prestige in the army and is highly valued by Zhang. Supposedly, such an abnormal thing should not happen, so what does he think?
It turns out that with the continuous expansion of Feng Jun's power, the interior of Feng Jun has been formed? New school? And then what? Old school? Two camps. Like Zhang Jinghui and others, all of them? Old school? The representative of. And Yang Yuting and other people who graduated from military schools, for? New school? On behalf of.
Obviously, whether it is running the army or directing operations, the new faction? I appreciate Zhang's views and practices. So as? Old school? Zhang Jinghui's heart is quite useless.
Before the first direct service war broke out, Zhang held a special meeting of senior generals to discuss whether to wage war.
According to Zhang Helin's idea, this battle is definitely going to be fought.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Jinghui, who has always been obedient to Zhang Yan, openly opposed the war at the meeting. While Yang Yuting and others are struggling. Naturally, the main battle thought of others coincides with Zhang Cai's, and Zhang Cai adopted the decisive battle policy.
(Old photos of Yang Yuting)
Zhang didn't think much about the operational arrangements, but he still handed an important task to Zhang Jinghui and made him the commander-in-chief of the marked army.
Zhang Jinghui was dissatisfied with Zhang's dependence. So, after the war broke out, he simply fought without anger and lived happily in the Six Kingdoms Hotel in Beijing.
When Wu learned this, he felt that he could just use the contradiction between Zhang Jinghui and Zhang to disintegrate Zhang. So I came into contact with Zhang Jinghui through the direct warlord Cao Kun. And with the help of Cao Kun, Zhang Jinghui was bribed with a large sum of money.
Although Zhang Jinghui and Zhang have been brothers for many years, he has always been a mother. After Wu's many benefits, he also forgot about brotherhood. Therefore, when Cao Kun bought more from the 16 division, he just pretended not to know, and the 16 division defected and surrendered.
Although Zhang was furious with Zhang Jinghui's rebellion, he gradually calmed down with the victory of the second direct war.
1925, Zhang Jinghui's mother died of illness, and Zhang Jinghui was afraid of Zhang Zuo Lin and didn't dare to go home to mourn.
Zhang and others told the news to Zhang out of brotherhood.
Zhang, after all, is a man who values affection and righteousness. With the persuasion of Zhang and others, he decided not to mention the past and sent Wu back to Beijing to meet Zhang Jinghui.
Zhang Jinghui was deeply moved by Zhang's generosity. After seeing Zhang, he knelt down to apologize while crying, and said that he would never have second thoughts again.
After burying his mother in Zhang Jinghui, Zhang used him again, making him a member of the Senate of the Fengtian Military Supervision Department to handle some Beijing-Tianjin affairs on his behalf.
But anyway, Zhang Jinghui's prestige in the army has plummeted. Zhang continued to hire him, which has always been a nominal position. He is very different from the previous scenery.
(Zhang Xueliang's old photo)
1928, with the attack of the northern expedition of the national army, Feng Junjun was completely defeated. In order to save his strength, Zhang had to return to the northeast again. However, on the way back, Zhang's special train was ambushed by the Japanese, and both Zhang and Zhang Jinghui were seriously injured. Soon after, Zhang died in the commander's office, but Zhang Jinghui was lucky to get his life back.
After Zhang's death, Zhang Xueliang took over the affairs and military service in the three northeastern provinces.
Zhang Jinghui, who supported Zhang Xueliang, was reused and was appointed as the Chief Executive of the Eastern Special Administrative Region.
Not only that, after Zhang Xueliang changed his flag in the northeast, the Nanjing government specially left him the post of Speaker of the Military and Political Council and arranged for him to be nice to Zhang Xueliang. Because Zhang Jinghui was highly valued, Zhang Xueliang arranged for him to take office.
Zhang Jinghui is a very greedy man. He is reluctant to part with the post of Chief Executive of Dongfang Province or to give up the post of Chairman of the Military Senate of the government. So at his request, he firmly grasped both positions.