On August 15, Shandong's new supervisor, Zhang Zongchang, actually, created a new record of unprecedented warlords during the warlord period of the Republic of China. From the date of his inauguration, in less than five days, he and his army made the whole province of Shandong uneasy, and all officials, gentry and people in the province regarded him as enemies.

If Zhang Zuolin's direct troops were only concentrated in the Beijing-Tianjin area, then there was no limit on the scope of Zhang Zongchang's army. As long as they could go, wherever they passed, rape, robbery, or even torture the people, they could see everywhere. The degree of cruelty could not even be seen by the Japanese consultants of the army. Okamura Yasuji, one of the Japanese consultants of the army, wrote in his report: "It is hard to imagine that the Chinese general who nodded and bowed to our Japanese a few minutes ago, and then he was arrogant to his unarmed compatriots in a few minutes. He shouted and shouted, his contempt for the dignity and life of his compatriots had reached an outrageous level. In the whole of Shandong, the atrocities of the Chinese army can be seen everywhere. Even Zhang Zuolin, who was far away in Beijing, authorized the Chinese general to form his army into the Zhilu coalition, and no longer had the Feng army sign. Such inferior nations as China, which were tolerant outside and cruel inside, were indeed rare in the world. I believe more and more that as loyal and brave warriors of His Majesty the Emperor, we will definitely be able to conquer this inferior China for His Majesty the Emperor. Long live His Majesty the Emperor,.”

Zhang Zongchang doesn’t care what others think of him, he only has one word now, it’s great.

Zhang Zongchang, whose courtesy name is Xiaokun, is 36 years old. He is from Ye County, Laizhou Prefecture, Shandong Province (now Laizhou City). He was born on March 4, 1882 (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month). Since this day was Shangyuan Festival, also known as Lantern Festival, there is a saying among the people that "the official of the first lunar month of the first lunar month", he gave Zhang Zongchang a nickname "Lengguan". When Zhang Zongchang was young, he received a brief private school education, which laid the foundation for Zhang Zongchang to be able to study and write later. The tutor Zhu Xiude named him Zhang Zongchang, which means to flourish the Zhang family.

But no matter how good the name is, it is not as good as the life. Zhang Zongchang, in his youth, often had no food and clothing, and suffered from hunger and cold. In order to make a living, Zhang Zongchang let the cows go, worked as a gunman, and drank, etc. The painful childhood life not only made him taste the coldness of the world too early, but also honed his will, strengthened and improved his adaptability to harsh environments. In 1897, the Jiaodong area encountered another famine year, and the people were living in poverty. Zhang Zongchang fled outside the famine. During his wandering in the northeast, he worked odd jobs, worked long-term work, and let his old family go pasture. In 1899, Zhang Zongchang was recruited as a road construction worker on the Middle East Railway. During this period, he worked as a loader and a switcher. Because Zhang Zongchang was tall, brave enough to do heavy work, generous and generous, and valued righteousness over profit, he was very prestigious among the workers and gradually gained favor from the Russians. He also learned to speak fluent and accurate Russian. Later, he went to Siberia to become the chief foreman. When he was the chief foreman of the gold mine, he not only learned excellent gold digging techniques, but also trained himself to become an outstanding hunter for shooting beasts and killing beasts and trained extremely accurate marksmanship. In Northeast dialect, this person's life experience was excellent, and it can be said that he had experienced the cold eyes and sufferings of the world.

The subsequent resume surprised Wang Zhenyu. He was a scoundrel when he was a teenager. During the Revolution of 1911, Zhang Zongchang, who was a bandit, led the Green Forest brothers to join the commander of the Shandong Civil Army Governor Hu Ying. Later, he followed the army to Shanghai and became the commander of the Restoration Army under Chen Qimei, the governor of the Shanghai Army Governor's Office. In 1913 (2nd year of the Republic of China), he served as the commander of the 3rd Division of the Jiangsu Army. In the same year, during the Second Revolution, Zhang Zongchang was ordered to go to Xuzhou to resist the attack of Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army, and turned against him in front of the battlefield and became a subordinate of Feng Guozhang, the Beiyang Army.

During the National Protection War, Zhang Zongchang was the commander of the 1st Division of the Jiangsu Army. However, he was thrown by Feng Guozhang in the back and as a broken tail during the battle in Tongling area. As a result, Tao Zhiyue's troops beat him up. Zhang Zongchang and his ten thousand guns obediently became prisoners. However, Zhang Zongchang was cautious and changed into a soldier outfit. In addition, he was very good to his soldiers, so the youth army failed to catch the big fish out of the prisoners of war. Zongchang became a fish that escaped the net and was successfully repatriated. At this time, Zhang Zongchang had no place in Jiangsu, so he had to go north to Baoding, Zhili Province, and surrender to the Zhiluyu inspection envoy Cao Kun. Cao Kun originally wanted to take in Zhang Zongchang, but Wu Peifu and other generals could not tolerate the division commander who was born as a bandit. In anger, Zhang Zongchang and Cao Kun, a frustrated officer under Cao Kun, went to Fengtian to surrender to Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Xueliang and his son, and transferred from the Zhili clan to the Fengtian.

After joining the Fengtian clan, Zhang Zongchang could only start from scratch and served as the battalion commander of the military police battalion. Soon, Zhang Zuolin excluded the Jilin Governor Meng Enyuan with the support of the Japanese, resulting in the Jilin Army Commander Gao Shigui (formerly the nephew of the Jilin Governor Meng Enyuan) joining forces with the Hu bandit Lu Yonggui to fight with Zhang Zuolin. At that time, most of Zhang Zuolin's army had just been formed, training was still in progress, and the equipment had not arrived yet, which was a situation where there were no large soldiers to be sent, so he decided to send Zhang Zongchang to lead the military soldiers. The camp went to fight, which was originally a battle of great power disparity, but because Lu Yonggui's leaders were many of them, many of them were fellow villagers who had gone to Guandong with Zhang Zongchang. With this relationship, Zhang Zongchang's troops were bloodless and he was recruited into three regiments. Zhang Zuolin was very happy and appointed him as the commander of the 3rd Brigade of the Jilin Provincial Defense Forces and the garrison of Suining, Jilin Province. In this way, Zhang Zongchang had a foothold. Soon, Zhang Zongchang had nearly 10,000 troops.

Due to the large number of people and guns, Zhang Zongchang's military expenditure was huge. Although Zhang Zuolin continued to allocate funds from Fengtian, he was unable to make ends meet. Helplessly, Zhang Zongchang asked soldiers to plant opium in his jurisdiction to make up for the shortcomings. This incident caused dissatisfaction among all departments of the Feng army and asked Zhang Zuolin to dismiss the team. In the spring of 1917, Zhang Zuolin took advantage of the exercises of various departments of the army to send Yang Yuting, a member of the school reading committee, to Zhang Zongchang's third brigade, called Jianyu, but in fact he was dismissed. He inspected Zhang Zongchang's troops once. When he touched, he was distracted. Yang Yuting opened his mouth and scolded her, and fucked her mother. Unexpectedly, Zhang Zongchang said, "Fuck my mother, you'll be fine." It's my father." Then he knelt down for Yang Yuting, which made Yang Yuting, three years younger than Zhang Zongchang, blushed, and the sanction was left unresolved. Obviously, this kind of impatience had to be matched with extraordinary shamelessness. Zhang Zongchang thought of joining Yang Yuting again. As a result, Yang Yuting not only did not dismiss, but instead spoke good things for Zhang Zongchang in front of Zhang Xueliang and Zhang Zuolin. Therefore, Zhang Zuolin favored Zhang Zongchang very much and immediately transferred him from Jilin to Chenyang, and changed Zhang Zongchang's troops to the third brigade of the Fengtian Army, with four regiments under his jurisdiction. This is Zhang Zongchang's life trajectory within a year after the end of the National Protection War.

The subsequent story broke away from the original historical track. Zhang Zongchang became the second beneficiary of the Fengtian army entering the pass and participating in the war. The first one was naturally Zhang Zuolin, but compared with the return on investment, Zhang Zuolin suffered a great loss. Zhang Zongchang forced to expand his troops to a scale of 200,000 with a brigade of troops, and became the second leader among the Fengtian forces. After Zhang Zongchang took over the military and political power of Shandong alone, he used Shandong's wealth to vigorously expand his armed forces. However, Zhang Zongchang seemed to be a little confused. Now he has a very good nickname: "Three Don't Know Generals". Specifically, he doesn't know how many soldiers there are, how much money there are, and how many women there are.

This is not because of Zhang Zongchang's pretentiousness, but because of this kind man's nature. Zhang Zongchang recruits soldiers very simply. He has a military uniform and a weapon. There is neither the standard standard of the youth army nor any political and ideological education. Zhang Zongchang's task to the officers is very simple. How many soldiers can you bring? How big an officer are you? So the troops under Zhang Zongchang's hands spring up like bamboo shoots after a rain. At first, Zhang Zongchang was interested in giving these troops a number, but later he got annoyed and asked the staff under his command to issue numbers in order. In this case, it is naturally impossible to know how many troops he has. According to the estimates of some Shandong officials at that time, Zhang Zongchang's army was about 250,000 to 400,000, which is a very terrifying number.

As for not knowing how much money he had, it was because Zhang Zongchang was afraid of being poor when he was young, so he was in power and naturally tried his best to scrape the land. In addition, although he was from Shandong, he left home at a young age and stayed outside the pass for many years. Naturally, his feelings for his fellow villagers were very shallow. Within just one week, Zhang Zongchang sent no less than ten payments to the Japanese Bank of Japan in Dalian. In addition, the gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings he had accumulated in his family. He could not tell how much money he had. It is worth mentioning that the upper beam was not straight, the lower beam was crooked, and the officers in Zhang Zongchang's army also followed suit. What's strange is that such an army is very powerful in many cases. After all, for people without culture or belief, the temptation of money always exists.

As for how many women are, this also reflects that our classmate Zhang Zongchang is really busy. After seven days of entering Shandong, he actually married five concubines. Wang Zhenyu had to bow to this and be willing to give in.

Behind Zhang Zongchang's pride is the heavy suffering of the people of Shandong. If it were just Zhang Zongchang, it would be fine. He only had three meals a day and only had one bed to sleep. It would be impossible for a girl to fight for twenty-four hours. But in addition to Zhang Zongchang himself, there are hundreds of thousands of small Zhang Zongchang, all of whom are all small. Now the people of Shandong are quit. Are you planning to give everyone a way to live? Shandong people are indeed honest and simple, but that is when you can survive and when you can't live, you will know why the heroes of Liangshan made their fortune in Shandong.

For a moment, the land of Qilu was filled with thunder, but Zhang Zongchang was still trying to capture the dream of Henan before Sun Liechen.
Chapter completed!