The conductor of the Harbin railway station had seen such a posture, dozens of people were scattered on the platform in twos and threes, and all the passengers on the platform dispersed in a hurry, and it was not long before the police from Harbin came in full armor.

Lu Guangbiao was happy, and the police who hurried to lead the team were his old classmate, Zhu Sen, a classmate of the Northeast Martial Arts School.

"Jussen! When did you come to Harbin? ”

"Lu Guangbiao? Biaozi? Put away your guns. Jusen instructed the police. He saw that it was his classmate Zhang Zuoxiang, the battalion commander of the Guards Brigade, Lu Guangbiao, who was the most promising classmate of their class.

Zhu Sen listened to Lu Guangbiao's narration in surprise, fleeing thousands of kilometers was not an ordinary feat, and Zhu Sen immediately reported the situation. The news was immediately transferred to Zhang Zuolin's official residence in Fengtian, and Zhang Zuolin rubbed his hands happily.

Nima, it's been almost four months, and it's rare to have good news that 79 officers have successfully escaped from Xuzhou and returned to the northeast after a long journey of thousands of kilometers.

Zhang Zuolin rubbed his hands and said excitedly to the adjutant: "Damn, good news, last time I exchanged Zhang Zuoxiang for 100 catties of gold, and this time I didn't spend a penny to escape 79 officers." ”

"Inform the principal officers in Mukden to come to the Grand Marshal's Mansion immediately for a meeting."

"Do you want to inform the young marshal?" The adjutant asked cautiously.

"Little Liuzi? What did you tell him to do? Tell him to come to the venue to yawn? Damn it! My old Zhang doesn't have this son, a big smoker. ”

"Dashuai, I know." The adjutant turned to leave.

Zhang Zuolin thought about it and called the adjutant again: "Wait a minute, you still call the sixth child, let him not embarrass me, you can't yawn at the venue." ”

Zhang Zuolin has no other way, his son is the only son who can show his hand, but he is a and an addict, and he is not enough to succeed in the war, and he almost can't return to the Northeast.

In contrast, Lao Tzu Zhang Zuolin is more like a general, a warlord who divides one side. Zhang Zuolin is a Han nationality, born in the area of what is now Liaoning, and is also a native of Northeast China. He was born very poor, so he went to join the army to eat, and also participated in the Sino-Japanese War.

Later, everyone also knows that the Qing Dynasty was defeated, first in Korea by the Japanese, to the sea again defeated by Japan, this battle is also a turning point in Sino-Japanese relations, since then Japan has been more determined to annex China's idea, learn from the Manchus to occupy the Central Plains, and their first step is to occupy the Northeast, therefore, Zhang Zuolin is their biggest friend or enemy.

Zhang Zuolin is a very capable person and has good luck, because he was originally a member of the underworld who occupied the mountains as kings, but because of his huge power, the Qing Dynasty recruited them. After having an official identity, Zhang Zuolin began his journey against the sky. He first made meritorious contributions to suppressing bandits, and later eliminated the hidden dangers of Mongolia, and was able to step by step to the center of the power arena. In his most glorious time, he lived in Beijing and became the de facto first person in China.

Compared with the heroes of the same era, Zhang Zuolin is inferior to Wu Peifu in military strategy, inferior to Duan Qirui in power strategy, and inferior to Sun Chuanfang in terms of education and eloquence, but his achievements are much greater than these people. Zhang Zuolin, as a person who was born poor, barely studied, and later joined the green forest to become a bandit, was able to win the Central Plains.

Throughout Chinese history, the future of a man with a small eye is often bleak; Those with far-sighted vision are destined to have a bright future. Those who are in high positions and pretentious, even if they are well-educated, if they are narrow-minded, they will definitely lose all their money in the case of big waves and sands, such as He Jin and Cao Shuang during the Three Kingdoms.

Take a look at the following things to know how extraordinary Zhang Zuolin is:

On the Chinese New Year's Eve of 1901, after Zhang Zuolin was attacked by Jin Shoushan, his vitality was greatly injured and he went to Feng Lin Pavilion with the remnants of the defeated army. Passing by the Octagonal Terrace, and the local squire Zhang Ziyun hit it off at first sight, Zhang Jinghui, the head of the Octagonal Insurance Team, was willing to live under him, and gave up the position of the head of the regiment to Zhang Zuolin, so that Zhang Zuolin lost the east, harvested the mulberry, and became the leader of a "big group".

However, Zhang Zuolin, who had great ambitions at a young age, was not satisfied with this kind of insurance group that belonged to another book, and he said to his brothers Zhang Jinghui, Zhang Zuoxiang, Tang Yulin and others more than once: "You look at the current Northeast, it is messy, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and if there is a gun, it is the king of grass, I think we can't just do it and wait, we have to move, unite the small insurance teams around it, form a powerful force, and then dominate the Northeast."

Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared. On February 7, 1902, Liao Pengshang, the same governor of the Xinmin Department, sent a secret message to General Shengjing Zengqi, proposing to appease the "private groups" in various places to resist the expansion of Tsarist Russia and the ravages of bandits. General Zengqi of Shengjing adopted Liao Peng's suggestion and decided to set up a "Recruitment Bureau" to incorporate "insurance teams" from various localities to supplement the shortage of officers and soldiers.

After learning the news, Zhang Zuolin wrote, directed, and acted in a "appeasement" show of "attracting and increasing porcelain".

One day in the early spring of 1902, Zhang Zuolin received a secret report from his subordinates: the third lady of Shengjing General Zengqi returned to Fengtian from Beijing, and the area around Octagonal Terrace was the place where the third lady of Zengqi returned to Fengtian. Zhang Zuolin immediately gathered his subordinates together and said, "From now on, let's ambush next to the Great Imperial Road, as long as Mrs. Zeng arrives, even people and things will be robbed for me." But there is one thing, no one is allowed to hurt them. ”

A few days later, when Mrs. Zengqi and her entourage passed through the octagonal platform on the Great Royal Road, Zhang Zuolin's men and horses rushed up from all directions and surrounded the third lady and her entourage.

Mrs. Zeng and her entourage were escorted to Xinlitun, and Zhang Zuolin sent someone to take Mrs. Zeng and her entourage to two rooms. In Mrs. Zeng's room, there was good wine and food, and there were good opium cigarettes on the couch.

Zhang Zuolin came to the entourage's room, first toasted a glass of convulsion wine, and then said: "I see that you are not ordinary people, please forgive your subordinates for not knowing the depth and offending the nobles." Seeing that Zhang Zuolin was speaking kindly and looking extraordinary, Mrs. Zeng's entourage asked, "Excuse me, which mountain are you from?" Hearing this, Zhang Zuolin pretended to be full of grievances and said, "I knew that you must have thought we were bandits, misunderstanding, brother." ”

Zhang Zuolin took the opportunity to talk about his experience in the insurance team, revealing the idea of accepting the court's appeasement. After listening to Zhang Zuolin's words, several entourages looked at each other, and one of the entourages said: "I won't tell you, the lady we sent is the third aunt who is the most favored third aunt of Shengjing General Zengqi, if you want to accept the appeasement, you might as well talk to the third aunt, the words of the third aunt are in our master's place, but it is very effective." Hearing this, Zhang Zuolin patted his thigh again and again, and said remorsefully: "It's over, it's over, these bastards, it's not good for you to rob anyone, why did you rob Zengqi's third aunt?" Seeing Zhang Zuolin's remorse and fear, the entourage said, "Since it was a misunderstanding, can't you just explain it to the third aunt?" Let's go, we'll take you to see the third aunt. ”

After seeing Mrs. Zeng, Zhang Zuolin knelt on the ground with a plop, kowtowed three times in a row, and said: "There are many offended subordinates, Zhang Zuolin frightened Mrs., and the crime deserves death, but listen to Mrs. Fall." ”

As soon as Mrs. Zeng saw that Zhang Zuolin was handsome and white, she was liked when she looked at it, and she looked sincerely afraid, so she said: "I just heard your follower talk about your situation, I think you are also an ambitious and accomplished young man. As long as you can guarantee that our group will arrive in Mukden City safely, I will definitely protect you in front of the general. ”

The next day, Zhang Zuolin led his men and horses to escort Mrs. Zeng all the way to the gate of Fengtian City. Before saying goodbye, Zhang Zuolin ordered someone to pull over a few carts and said to Mrs. Zengqi: "Madame's things are all in the car, in addition, Zuolin has also prepared a thin gift, please accept it with a smile." Mrs. Zeng looked at Zhang Zuolin, who had a sincere face, and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely protect you in front of the general." ”

In October 1902, the Xinmin Office was changed to the Xinmin Mansion, and Zeng Yun took over as the Xinmin Governor. On the sixth day after Zeng Yun took office, the approval of Shengjing's general Zengqi to recruit Zhang Zuolin was issued. After Zeng Yun got the approval, he invited Zhang Zuolin to the prefect to meet him. On November 9, Zeng Yun came to the Octagonal Terrace in person and officially organized the 250 people of Zhang Zuolin's department into the "Xinmin Mansion Patrol Police Front Battalion Horse Team", and appointed Zhang Zuolin as the horse team leader (equivalent to the deputy battalion commander).

Some people will say, "What's so clever about accepting appeasement?" Didn't Song Jiang accept the appeasement and put the heroes of Liangshan on the road to death?! "The two kinds of appeasement with different endings of Zhang Zuolin and Song Jiang reflect Zhang Zuolin's high vision. Zhang Zuolin regarded accepting the Qing Dynasty's appeasement as a means of "bleaching" himself from "blackness", and he strengthened his power through the legalization of his identity, rather than being used by the Qing government to damage his own strength. In the years that followed, his strength grew stronger day by day. Song Jiang was recruited to be used as an eagle dog of the Song Dynasty willingly, so he embarked on the road of destruction in the mutual fight with other peasant rebels.

In terms of network talents, Zhang Xueliang is also difficult to compare with his Laozi, Zhang Zuolin has a shipping company, which has been operating poorly for many years and has been losing money. Later, a small staff member wrote a letter to Zhang Zuolin and made some suggestions. After reading the letter, Zhang Zuolin praised this small staff, and immediately promoted him to general manager and entrusted him with full management of shipping. The people around him persuaded: "We don't know this person, it's hard to say whether we can do things, and we can entrust such a heavy task with just one letter, what if we mess up?" Zhang Zuolin said: "I think this kid is good, and the person I see can't be wrong!" ”

A year later, the shipping company turned losses into profits, and the small staff handed over to Zhang Zuolin with the 100,000 oceans he earned a year. Zhang Zuolin said: "Good boy, I didn't misunderstand you, the 100,000 oceans will be awarded to you, do a good job!" ”

Zhang Zuolin had a brigade commander Wu under him, who lost 240,000 yuan in military pay because of his soybean business. Brigade Commander Wu was very scared, and when he was planning whether to escape or commit suicide, Zhang Zuolin knew about it, because Brigade Commander Wu was a rare military talent, Zhang Zuolin immediately called Brigade Commander Wu and asked face to face: "Have you had anything to do recently?" ”

Brigade Commander Wu had no choice but to say: "I am in the soybean business and have lost my military salary. Zhang Zuolin heard it and accused him sharply: "You kid has a few heads, you dare to lose your air salary, what should you do now?" Brigadier Wu said: "I want to commit suicide now, and I will repay the commander in the next life." Zhang Zuolin said: "You kid is too unproductive." Is a person's life worth more than 240,000? Are you afraid that you won't have the money to do things with us? You take the army well, I will allocate this money to you. "Brigadier Wu was very grateful, and in the subsequent battles, he commanded well, fought bravely, and often won battles.