Chapter 302: Successor (I)
In order to support this eldest son, Zhang Zuolin took great pains. From the beginning of the preparation of the Fengtian Lecture Martial Arts Hall, he arranged it for Zhang Hanqing.
Lao Zhang knows: If a person wants to achieve great things, he will definitely not be able to do it alone, and someone must help. The people who help are, in fashionable parlance, teams. Only with your own team can entrepreneurship be possible.
Zhang Zuolin has such a team by his side.
He started by relying on Zhang Zuoxiang, Sun Liechen, Zhang Jinghui, Tang Yulin and other brothers, who became the early members of Zhang's team and the core personnel. With the efforts of this "insurance team team", relying on a few **, they came to the metropolis of Fengtian from the poor countryside and created the Feng system of Weizhen Minjia, among which Zhang Zuolin is the natural leader.
Although Tang Yulin left halfway, Zhang Zuoxiang and Sun Liechen have already become big players and have completely become their right-hand men. is Zhang Jinghui, who is also the mainstay of the Feng army.
But what about Zhang Hanqing? It can be said that he is a pure rich second generation, ***, who grew up with a golden key. There is nothing wrong with saying that he is a son-in-law. Zhang Zuolin understands that he is alive, and everyone still respects you Zhang Xueliang as the eldest son, but when I die, how will people treat you!
Don't look at Zhang Zuolin who is only forty-three this year, but his sense of distress is very strong. The expansion of his power was accompanied by danger, and before he set out, he fought a duel for turf, was seriously wounded but killed, and killed his opponent and obtained seven or eight human guns from the opponent. But winning today does not mean that they will not lose tomorrow, the status of bandits is humble, there is no family rhyme, and they will lose their heads as soon as they lose. "None of the people in my family in the previous life died in bed seriously. My father burst into tears at the mention of this. This is the original words of Zhang Xueliang in history.
Zhang Zuolin often has a precarious fear in his consciousness, so he spares no effort in cultivating Zhang Hanqing. Especially after becoming an Overseer, this idea became even stronger. Zhang Hanqing was able to do so many things smoothly after his debut, of course, most of them were the IQ of his two lives, but it cannot be denied the credit of Zhang Zuolin's full support.
Zhang Zuolin, who came from the history of the late Qing Dynasty, although his culture was very low, had his own understanding that it was the Qing court's generations of petty emperors who caused the collapse of the huge empire. In order to maintain the prosperity of the Zhang family, the successor must be selected and determined as soon as possible. In addition, people in this era are limited to living conditions and do not have a long lifespan, although with the current conditions of the Zhang family, ordinary diseases are no longer a major problem, and hunger will not become a problem, but Zhang Zuolin still decided to pave the way for him in advance when he has the opportunity.
If Zhang Hanqing wants to take over smoothly, the first condition is that the successor must have his own team. This point can be found in ancient and modern Chinese and foreign examples. Li Shimin was able to successfully become a generation of heroes under the charge of "killing his brother and killing his father", the key is to have the strong support of Wei Chigong, Hou Junji, Li Jing and other eighteen scholars of Tiance Mansion; Cao Pi was able to successfully approach Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty after Cao **, relying on Hua Xin, a cronie cultivated by his father in the southern and northern wars, and a group of old courtiers.
There are also negative examples, Ming Taizu did not leave a few capable Wenchen generals to Emperor Jianwen, which led to Zhu Di joining the army, and the country changed hands. Although theoretically speaking, they are all descendants of Lao Zhu, but the reason is still the same. Why doesn't Zhang Zuolin, who has been familiar with the Three Kingdoms and the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties since he was a child, understand the trick?
If you have a gun, you are the king of grass. If you want Zhang Hanqing to take over, you have to let him grasp the military power, and if you want to grasp the military power, you have to be a soldier. But it is impossible to really send Zhang Hanqing to be a big soldier, which has no precedent to follow in traditional Chinese culture. Which prince and elder brother have you seen in history start as a small soldier? It's not that he's already a prince and a county king at a young age. This kind of thing is only possible in the royal family and aristocracy in the West, for example, Prince Harry of the United Kingdom was sent to fight in Afghanistan.
In the eyes of the Chinese, it is not the same thing to let children and grandchildren start from the big head soldiers, and it is not without precedent to be directly sent to become high-ranking officers. But in a place like Fengjun, where seniority is important, the old people who started out in the insurance team will not buy Zhang Hanqing's account, and the result is that they can't establish their prestige, and they don't go the same way. The best thing to do is to go to military school.
After graduating from the military academy, he will come out to become an officer, and the military academy can enable Zhang Hanqing to receive a preliminary military education and know what it is like to fight; Second, to prepare for the makeover of the Fengjun army in the future. At that time, the Feng army was full of banditry, and although the officers and men were accurate in marksmanship, the army was not fighting a house or robbing a house after all.
Napoleon said: "Two Mamluks can deal with three French soldiers, but a hundred French cavalry are not afraid of a hundred Mamluks, and a thousand French cavalry can defeat fifteen hundred Mamluk cavalry." "The military pays attention to organization and discipline in operations, and the progress of military technology has led to an increasingly complex military organizational structure. Isn't it asking a group of people who drink big bowls, eat meat, and don't know a lot of characters to fight with those armies trained by German and Japanese instructors? Zhang Zuolin's admission of Zhang Hanqing to the military academy can be regarded as a preparation for the growth and development of the army in the future and the improvement of the army's combat effectiveness.
Zhang Hanqing's limelight in the martial arts hall is really not stained with the light of Zhang Zuolin's son. You must know that the martial arts hall recruited all the officers at the company and platoon level of the Fengjun army, although the ones selected were all literate and hyphenated, but mathematics and physics were nothing less than heavenly books for these people. And Zhang Hanqing has a good cultural foundation since he was a child, and this Zhang Xueliang is not really Zhang Xueliang, and the knowledge he has absorbed is definitely wider than that of doctors in various disciplines in this era. The performance of the martial arts hall is real and not false.
If the lecture on martial arts is the most important first step for Zhang Hanqing to integrate into this era, then the crackdown on Babu Zabu tailored for him is the beginning of his emergence. The scheming Lao Zhang understood that the key to neutrality in the army was to be able to fight, be able to fight, and win battles. If you are a child soldier and have never been on the battlefield, others will not obey you.
So, before his son graduated, Zhang Zuolin transferred a regiment of companies, platoons, and squad leaders from the 27th Division, which had the best impact and strongest combat effectiveness, to form a team, and the cadres and backbones of the Guard Brigade were handed over to Zhang Xueliang to suppress the bandits. Do you need such a strong force to exterminate a few bandits? Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is called killing chickens with a knife to ensure that only victory is not defeated. Zhang Zuolin's purpose is twofold: one is to establish Zhang Hanqing's confidence in fighting, and the other is to be neutral in the Feng army, so that the soldiers of the Feng army know that the tiger father has no dogs.
Of course, Zhang Hanqing's performance is also eye-catching, not only making a good appearance, but also giving him a different guard brigade, which is a different kind of joy. Later, the founding of the party, land reform, and financial rectification were all let go of him. Fortunately, he did a good job, not only made a big noise, but also had great merit in improving his strength, which strengthened his desire to accelerate and support him.