This Wang Yunqing is a native of Shenyang in Northeast China, and his ancestors are SD people, and his family went to the Northeast to make a living during the Qing Xianfeng period. His father made a living in Shenyang by driving horse-drawn carriages and soliciting customers, and his mother did some needlework for others. The couple has two sons, the eldest is Wang Yunqing, the second Wang Yunlong, and the youngest daughter is Wang Yufeng. A family of five lived a poor life just enough to make ends meet.

Most men like to rely on drinking to relieve their worries when things are not going well, and Wang Yunqing's father is like this. He has a very high heart but has no ability, he can only drive a carriage to solicit customers in the wind and rain every day to make a living, and work hard to earn some money just enough to support his family and raise this horse pulling the cart, he can only borrow wine every day to drown his sorrows with a stomach of complaints and nowhere to vent. Whenever he drank too much, he loved to complain endlessly, and would nag a few children about the experience of several generations of the Wang family with a mouth full of alcohol: "Don't look at the few copper coins in our poor pockets now, our predecessors were rich and powerful when they were in SD." My grandfather was a man and a county grandfather, and at that time, the good land in our family was connected into a large area, and the life of our Wang family was beautiful! Everyone in the village within a radius of several miles has to rush to catch up with our old Wang family! Hey, who knew that later my grandfather played with money, smoked a lot, played with women, and married five or six little wives alone, and he later lost money and sold houses and land, and even his own aunt and wife were given to others to pay off debts, and a good family let him lose like this. Since then, the descendants of the Wang family have not been as good as the next generation, and when it comes to me, I can only do this shabby thing of driving a big car and serving people! Nod your head all day long, and work hard to earn a few small amounts of money just enough to make ends meet. Alas, it's been a very annoying day! ”

Whenever this happens, Wang Yunqing, who is young and old, will comfort his father: "Dad, we are not short of ambition!" Didn't the ancients say, 'Princes and princes will have a kind of Xiangning?' 'I am studying hard now, and I must be successful when I grow up. In the future, high-ranking officials will have to ride on horses, and the glory of the ancestors will be the majesty of my royal family! Although this is just a child's words, it shows that Wang Yunqing has had lofty ambitions since he was a child, and his parents naturally love this child who has great ambitions and understands filial piety, and would rather lack food and clothing than raise money for him to study.

Wang Yunqing has been gifted and intelligent since he was a child, diligent and studious. "Everything is inferior, only reading is high" is the motivation for him to study hard, he was already talented and full of poetry and books when he was a teenager, but real life broke his dream of reading and becoming an official to help the world. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the whole country was already poor and weak, with internal and external troubles, and the people were struggling to make a living. Under natural and man-made disasters, Wang Yunqing's family was already destitute, and even wanting to eat a full meal every day became a problem. He saw his parents' sad faces all day long, and knew that it was impossible to continue studying, and the family had no money. He thought that he had grown up and could no longer rely on his parents to support him, so he had the idea of going out of the house and into the world, and he wanted to go outside to find hope for his own development. The old father didn't want Wang Yunqing to drop out of school, but he couldn't afford to provide him with education, so he had no choice but to agree with his idea. So Wang Yunqing said goodbye to his parents and came to City B alone with the five oceans borrowed by his father.

When Wang Yunqing first arrived in the capital, he was not familiar with the place, except for reading and writing, he did not have any skills to make a living, it was difficult to find a suitable job, and the ocean given by his father was soon running out, in order to save expenses, he only ate one meal a day and slept in the bathhouse at night. Later, a pawnshop shopkeeper saw that Wang Yunqing could write and calculate, so he asked him to be the pawnshop's account. Wang Yunqing is a high-minded and arrogant person, he can't stand the arrogance of the shopkeeper, and he can't get used to the pawnshop's black-hearted exploitation of the pawnshop, so he picked his son and left after a few days. Later, he worked as a drummer, as an apprentice in a pharmacy and as a restaurant runner. In order to make a living, as long as he has food and shelter, he has done almost all the work.

Wang Yunqing is a person with great ambitions who always wants to get ahead, but he is tired of running around every day to survive in Beiping, and he has not made a name for himself after several tosses in a year or two. He wants to go home for fear of losing face, and he is always unwilling to be at the bottom of the society, so he can only endure it silently and wait for the change of fate. Every day, he has to read until midnight after a day of fatigue to accumulate knowledge to prepare for the imperial examination, and he fantasizes every day that he will live up to the hardships of ten years, and the title of the gold list is known to the world. It was one of the most painful and difficult periods of his life.

In 1905, the Empress Dowager Cixi instructed the world: abolish the imperial examination and establish a new school. This edict completely cut off the path that scholars had used for thousands of years to gain fame through the imperial examinations. This pair of Wang Yunqing, who made a name for himself by studying, was really a bolt from the blue, and he didn't know where he would go in his future life without the imperial examination. When the Qing Empire was poor and weak, Li Hongzhang and other Beiyang ministers stood up and advocated learning from the West and learning from the West. They gave rise to the Westernization Movement: opening factories, running new schools, and building new armies, so as to enrich the country and strengthen the army. At this time, Wang Yunqing, who was frustrated and depressed, heard that the Qing Dynasty had opened an army martial arts hall in Baoding to train China's future military talents with advanced Western military concepts. Wang Yunqing is familiar with history, and he knows that in ancient times, there were many people who threw their pen from Rong and made meritorious contributions to win fame, such as Zhang Liang, Han Xin, Ban Chao and others. Wang Yunqing felt that instead of doing nothing at the bottom of society, it was better to join the army, and maybe he would break into a new world, so he immediately returned to his hometown in Shenyang and told his parents his thoughts.

Hearing that her son was going to join the army, the old mother disagreed, she said: "Since ancient times, the family of soldiers and bandits has said that good men should not be soldiers. Let's just say that many of these soldiers in our Shenyang City turned out to be beards who occupied the mountains and robbed the house for the king, ** robbery is all evil, how can you, a white-faced scholar, mix with them? ”

The old father applauded the eldest son's thoughts, and he retorted to his wife, saying, "What do you women know! I think that Zhang Liang, Han Xin, and Xiao He, who helped Han Gaozu Liu Bang fight the world, are not scholars! Let me tell you, if you want to be a master in this world, you have to play with a gun! It's useless to play with a pen, whoever has a gun is the master! But if there were no scholars to give advice and strategize for those martial artists, where would they become a great climate? It's not that I'm bragging, but my son's brain is many times stronger than those stupid soldiers, how can he be mixed with a staff officer or a military advisor or something when he enters the army, maybe he will become a character like Zhang Liang and Han Xin in the future! Tell your wife, anyway, I agree with my son's becoming a soldier, and I want him to apply for a military school even if I smash the pot and sell iron! ”

Wang Yunqing said: "Dad, you don't need to smash the pot and sell iron, I heard that the military school is free, and uniforms are also issued for food and accommodation." ”

When the old father heard this, he slapped his thigh happily: "Ho, that's a great thing!" Kid, you have to sign up quickly, or there won't be this store in this village after that! ”

Seeing that the father and son were in agreement, the queen mother did not stop her.

A few days later, his father borrowed a few pieces of ocean for Wang Yunqing to wrap around, and he patted his son's shoulder vigorously and said: "Son, being a soldier is a business that pins your head in the belt of your trousers. It's up to you to know from now on! Wang Yunqing nodded, he gently hugged his mother who was crying, turned his head and strode away.

Wang Hongju came to Baoding to apply for the army martial arts hall, because he has a cultural foundation, good health and appearance, he passed the exam. A year later, Wang Yunqing was sent to the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School to study because of his excellent studies. After studying in Japan, he was sent to study at the German Military Academy, during which he traveled to most of Europe and was proficient in Japanese, German, English, French and other Chinese. Wang Yunqing accepted the enlightenment of advanced Western ideas and had a profound foundation in traditional Chinese culture, and was a rare talent among young officers at that time. At that time, China's Manchu imperial family was in the waning state and was not far from dying, and the Beiyang ministers and various warlords controlled the political situation, and many of these soldiers were Wang Yunqing's mentors and classmates and friends when he was a martial artist. Wang Yunqing has the experience of gilding in foreign countries, in the Xinhai Revolution and the war against Yuan to protect the country, he has been brave and strategic, and has made military exploits, coupled with the strong support of his mentor and friends, he became an official smoothly, and after many years of hard work, he was promoted to the senior commander of the War Department of the Beiyang Military Government. He had to be a high-ranking official to ride a horse, and finally realized his childhood dream of honoring his ancestors.

Wang Yunqing's wife was introduced by a friend after he returned to City B from studying abroad. Mrs. Zhang was the daughter of the owner of a large SX business outside the front door at that time, this woman was dignified, gentle and knowledgeable, and Wang Yunqing was full of joy when she saw Zhang. Zhang's family thought that finding a high-ranking official of the Beiyang government as a son-in-law in the era of war and chaos was a stable backer, and the two sides hit it off. Although this marriage was matched by a matchmaker, the two were in love and hated to see each other late.

After Wang Yunqing took up his post in the Beiyang government, he no longer followed the team to fight in the south and the north, and his life was stable. He bought a house in the capital and took his parents' family in Shenyang to live there. Through an acquaintance, he found an errand for his younger brother Wang Yunlong at the police station in City B, and then took the initiative to marry his sister Wang Yurong to his subordinate Feng Xuanxia, and his sister Yurong went to SX with her husband's army a few years later.

Wang Yunqing is well-versed in the past and the present, has stayed in the West, is proficient in Chinese studies and has been baptized by Western cultural thoughts, and is considered a new figure in the army, but he is still very traditional in his bones. The ancients said: There are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great. In the second year after marriage, Mrs. Wang gave birth to a daughter, and for more than ten years, she never gave birth to a son who inherited the lineage of the old Wang family; The old father was afraid that Wang Yun would persuade him to take a concubine and have children many times after he was killed, and the old mother was so anxious that she often went to the temple to burn incense for the eldest son and beg for a child. Although Wang Yunqing is often annoyed that he has no son, he does not take a concubine considering the relationship between husband and wife. He thought that in the future, if his wife did not give birth to a son, he would pass on his younger brother's child as a son. Just when Wang Shiqing felt hopeless for a son, the second child was born, a son, and the whole family was overjoyed; Two years later, his son was born. After having two grandchildren in a row, Wang Shiqing's old father passed away without worry, and his mother also passed away quietly in her sleep a few years later.

Although Wang Shiqing has a future, his career has gradually gone downhill. At that time, China's political situation was like a big stage, and warlords and politicians vied with each other to appear on the stage, including the Anhui line, the direct line, the Feng line, the warlords in the north, the revolutionary army in the south, the pro-Japanese, the pro-British and American, and all the ugly characters at the end of their lives. All kinds of forces are complex and intertwined, coaxing you to step down, and I will appear again. The warlords of all factions are fighting and killing, the political situation is chaotic, the officialdom is corrupt, the bureaucrats are intriguing for power, fame and fortune, and Wang Yunqing is also trapped in it and cannot extricate himself. After the fall of the Beiyang government, the new warlords came to power, and most of the old warlords died down and withdrew from the stage of history. After Wang Yunqing left the officialdom, he became an apartment that turned his ears to things outside the window and only read the books of sages. On weekdays, in addition to playing with antique calligraphy and paintings, raising flowers and birds, he also translates some military works published in Japan or Germany. Although the days are leisurely, they are inevitably depressed and depressed. During this period, he was invited to return to his hometown Shenyang to serve as a senior staff officer in the Northeast Army, but he did not do well, and resigned a few years later and returned to his home in Beiping.

In 1937, the Japanese army launched the "77 Incident" at Lugou Bridge in City B, launching a full-scale invasion of China. At the end of 1937, with the support of the Japanese, some traitors established the "Provisional Government of the Republic of China" in Beiping. At the behest of the Japanese, these national scum went around recruiting rebels. Some of these traitors were Wang Yunqing's classmates and friends, and they found Wang Yunqing and asked him to go out of the mountains to work for the Japanese. Several high-ranking Japanese generals invited them out of the mountain in the name of old classmates of the Japanese non-commissioned officer school, but Wang Yunqing excused himself from the mountain.

In the early years, Wang Yunqing had a good impression of Japan, and he believed that Japan gradually became stronger after the Meiji Restoration, and was ahead of China in terms of politics, economy, and military, and that Japan was even stronger than some Western countries. He believed that Japan's experience in the Meiji Restoration was worth learning from China, and he very much deplored the failure of the Wuxu Reform at the end of the Qing Dynasty, otherwise China today would certainly be a strong and democratic China, and would never be inferior to Japan. Some of his colleagues jokingly called him a pro-Japanese faction, and he did not want to put a pro-Japanese hat on his head, saying that he was a Japanese-knowing faction and a Japanese-learning faction, but he still had a sense of closeness to Japan in his bones. After the "September 18 Incident", the Japanese army's invasion and occupation of China's three eastern provinces shattered his favor and illusion of Japan; The bloody massacre of the Chinese by the Japanese army aroused his incomparable hatred for the invaders. Although Wang Yunqing hated the Japanese, he was also an out-and-out defeatist, and he believed that Japan was far behind in all aspects of China, that although Japan was small, it was like a solid iron lump, that although China was big, it was like a soft scarecrow, that Japan's industrialized civilization was much stronger than China's agricultural civilization, and that the modern Japanese army was absolutely impossible for the backward Chinese army to defeat. Although he was a defeatist, he was unwilling to be a slave to the country, let alone a traitor, and had no choice but to take a non-cooperative attitude towards the occupiers to express his protest against the invaders.

When it was time for Wang Yunqing's eldest daughter Shuzhen to get married, he married Shuzhen to a gentleman who taught history at a middle school in Beiping, and his eldest son-in-law was called Ma Liangchen, the son of a distant cousin of Wang Yunqing in Shenyang. The "918" incident was occupied by the Japanese in the three eastern provinces, Ma Liangchen's mother was killed by a stray bullet on the day of the incident, and a few days later, the father and son of the Ma family, who were penniless, fled to Beiping in a hurry and took refuge with Wang Yunqing. Wang Yunqing gave them some silver taels, gave them his two empty rooms near the Baita Temple in Xicheng, and found Ma Liangchen a more decent job as a teacher. Wang Yunqing and this distant cousin have a very close relationship, when the children of both parties reach the age of talking about marriage, they will become in-laws, Wang Yunqing married his eldest daughter Shuzhen to Ma Liangchen. Wang Yunqing began to be more satisfied with this eldest son-in-law, thinking that this son-in-law can speak well, has ambitions and ambitions, treats Shuzhen very well, and is very polite to his parents-in-law. But after a year or two of getting along, Wang Yunqing felt that this person was very deep in the city, and there always seemed to be something inscrutable in his heart, and his words and actions made people feel a little vain and mischievous. Wang Yunqing became much colder to this son-in-law later. After the "77 Incident", the Japanese occupied Beiping, and the top leaders of the Japanese occupation army asked Wang Yunqing, who had a background in Japan, to go out of the mountain to do things, but Wang Yunqing politely refused. On the attitude of whether to cooperate with the Japanese, Weng and his son-in-law had a disagreement.

Ma Liangchen was not very satisfied with his father-in-law's refusal to cooperate with the Japanese occupation forces, and he believed that with his father-in-law's experience and capital, he could completely regain his fortune. He pessimistically believed that China had been defeated by the Japanese anyway, and there was no way out of resistance. Everyone has to dress and eat, and they all want to live a good life, it doesn't matter who rules China, the most important thing is to have a prosperous personal life. Why didn't the Japanese do it? He couldn't understand what his father-in-law did, so he found his father-in-law and asked him why he didn't come out to do things, and Wang Yunqing told Ma Liangchen categorically: Even if the Japanese give him a mountain of gold and silver, he can't cooperate with the Japanese, because he is a Chinese, and he will never do anything to betray his ancestors! He warned Ma Liangchen not to mix with those devils and traitors under his banner. Ma Liangchen agreed on the surface, but in his heart he was not convinced, he thought that his father-in-law was an old-fashioned man who did not know the times. Ma Liangchen's philosophy of life is that "people do not destroy the heavens and the earth for themselves", as long as they can soar and flourish, they don't need any principles, and their conscience can also be betrayed. Driven by interests, he did not listen to his father-in-law's teachings, but under the banner of Wang Yunqing's son-in-law, he got together with the Japanese and the traitors in Beiping, and finally threw himself into the arms of the Japanese.

In the first winter after the fall of Beiping, the whole city was shrouded in a cold and oppressive atmosphere. In this severe cold season, the traitors hung up the plaque of "Beiping Local Maintenance Association" in Fengze Garden. On the day of the establishment of the maintenance association, the traitors of all sizes went in and out of Fengze Garden to celebrate, so lively! Ma Liangchen was also mixed in.