Hunan overseer Zhang Jingyao was originally from Huoqiu County, Anhui Province, and he had four brothers: Zhang Jingyao, Zhang Jingshun, Zhang Jingyu, and Zhang Jingtang.

Zhang Jingyao's view of the north and the south was very deep, and his army killed people and set fire to Hunan, doing everything, and he took it for granted, and it was to kill the enemy and achieve results. The Hunan people called him Zhang Poison in place of Zhang Du, as a sign of hatred in their hearts. It is also known as Zhang Doujun as Zhang Toadstool. There is also a saying: In the past, the people of the Xia Dynasty wanted to "die with Yao", and today the people of Hunan want to die with "Yao Shunyu Tang". Yao Shunyu soup refers to the four brothers of Zhang Jingyao.

Zhang Jingyao's Seventh Division was the most disciplined division in the Northern Army, and the troops stationed in Changsha were the worst of this division. As a result, the people of Changsha have suffered more than the counties. Zhang Jingyao once expanded a brigade in Hunan and sent his fourth brother Zhang Jingtang as the brigade commander. Zhang Jingtang is known as the four handsome, comparing himself to Zhuge Liang, his understanding of Zhuge Liang is Mr. Kong Ming who borrowed the east wind on the stage, so he sewed a gossip clothes, held a goose feather fan in his hand, walked on the stage, called himself a mountain man, and asked his Ma Ben to say: "Do you think I look like Mr. Wolong?" ”

The horses replied: "Mr. Wolong can only use tactics, not fight, that is comparable to our four marshals who use soldiers like gods, wise and brave." ”

He was overjoyed to hear it. This "Mr. Wolong" often went to the people's homes in Changsha to borrow from the east and the west, and the borrowed money was not returned, so the people of Changsha had the joke that Kong Ming was a thief. Mr. Wolong has knowledge underground, but I don't know how to feel?

When the Northern Expeditionary Army entered Hunan, Zhang Jingyao lost several battles in a row, and Zhang Huang declared martial law in Changsha in a panic and asked Yanjing Zhengaxe for reinforcements. At this time, the 11th Division automatically withdrew from Ping and Liuxian counties to Changsha, and the local teams of the two counties were stationed in the county seat, and there was a tendency to brew independence. The 11th Division was close to the direct Northern Army, and it was on guard with the 7th Division in Changsha City, like an enemy country.

When Zhang Jingyao was in Xuzhou as the supervisor of the Sulu-Henan-Anhui border defense and suppression of bandits, he once appeased the bandit Mao Sizhong, accepted him as his righteous son, changed his name to Zhang Jizhong, and sent him as the head of the fifth regiment, known as the young marshal. The fifth regiment was legal robbers in uniform. The fourth marshal and the young marshal were all Zhang Jingyao's cronies, so Zhang Jingyao kept them by his side to protect them.

Zhang Jingyao's search made the people of Hunan grit their teeth. Xiong Xiling, who used to be the prime minister of the cabinet, was originally a moderate figure who had never wanted to offend people, but he had something to say about Sang Zi. Zhang Zeng sent a telegram to Xiong Xiling as the supervisor of the Hunan disaster, but he refused to accept it, and advised Zhang to take care of Hunan and not to be too much for himself. Zhang asked Xiong what evidence of corruption and perversion of the law, Xiong was also angry, and replied to Zhang Yidianyun:

"According to the servants, if the deacon earns in Hunan in a year, he will withhold 2 million yuan in the central salt tax, more than 200,000 yuan in additional salt tax, more than 1.5 million yuan in salt stamps plus protection fees, more than 1 million yuan in money and grain, more than 120,000 yuan in copper yuan, hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold, and more than 1 million yuan in auction public property, totaling more than 8 million yuan. In addition, the central government will raise military salaries and tens of millions. Its extortion income is set at more than 40 strings per dollar, and the issuance of money bills set at 15 strings per dollar. The deacon's army is only more than 40,000, and the expenditure of more than 20 million yuan of income can be offset by half, so why is there still three months of military supply? Cruel people and deaths, rich families are cut off without the world, money is harmful, not for the sake of blessing and the words and deeds of soldiers are based on faith, deacons ask themselves the facts, is it consistent with the official words on the e-paper? That is, the contract with the British merchant for the sale of the current mining profits in the province is conclusive, and the deacon's electricity department has not yet recognized it"

Zhang Jingyao once cut most of Hunan's education funds by half, and later stipulated that when the funds were issued, they should be issued with depreciated Yuxiang Bank banknotes, but each school had to receive the money with full receipts.

Yuxiang Bank is a bureaucratic capital bank set up by Zhang Jingyao and other relevant people, which indiscriminately issues paper money and absorbs cash. Hunan's educational undertaking is of course extremely difficult under such circumstances. In the end, Zhang Jingyao's surname raised the education funds to supplement the military salary and enrich his own pockets. The principals of various schools in Hunan were forced to borrow money to settle their debts, and the teachers were also in arrears. In Changsha City, schools were generally garrisoned, soldiers and soldiers were noisy, teachers and students were inspected whenever they entered and exited, the school retreated to a small place in the school to hold classes, classrooms, dormitories, and canteens, school furniture, instruments and books were seriously damaged, and doors, windows, and floors were also torn down for firewood burning. Zhang Jingyao ordered that the machinery of the workshop be merged into the army workshop and that the opium be boiled in a boiler.

Teachers and staff in Changsha resigned because they could not make ends meet.

During this period, the school boycotts in all provinces and cities across the country were all initiated by diplomatic issues and were launched by students at the same time, but the Changsha school boycott was started by teachers and staff due to the lack of education funds, which was a characteristic of the strike movement!

The Hunan Federation of Students was disbanded twice, but there were still activities in secret. During the school closure, students engaged in a boycott campaign. Unexpectedly, Zhang Jingyao, the fourth marshal of Zhang Jingyao's younger brother, led troops to intervene and commanded the soldiers to beat the students, and dozens of students were seriously injured. Xu Qingyu and five others were tied up with hemp rope by the soldiers, photographed, and threatened to be shot immediately. Zhang Jingtang scolded the students for daring to interfere with the business of businessmen and sabotage diplomatic relations between China and China at the instigation of Xiong Xiling and others.

At the same time, Zhang Jingyao intensified his efforts and instructed soldiers to beat students in the streets, so that the students in Changsha did not dare to go to the streets and go to school. All schools above the primary level in Changsha, including Yale-China University, which is run by the church, have been dissolved. Only two churches, Yifang and Fuxiang, continued to attend school.

The people of Hunan suffered from the annihilation, robbery, murder, and arson of Zhang's subordinates, and thought that they were no different from living robbers, but under Zhang's silver power, they dared to be angry but did not dare to speak. Because in the 5th year of the Republic of China, Zhang Jingyao led the Seventh Division to be stationed in Luoyang, and all those who accused the soldiers of looting were all beaten to death with sticks, so the bitter master did not dare to come forward to accuse.

The people of Hunan are stubborn, but under the high pressure of Zhang Jingyao's bandit army, they are helpless.

Long before the Northern Expeditionary Army entered Hunan, there was a "Petition Group to Drive Zhang" in Hunan, which petitioned the North and South Political Axe, the Shanghai Peace Conference, and Hengyang of Wu Peifu's garrison. Soon the provincial assembly and various organizations secretly joined, and Hunan students from Hunan Province in Beijing, Shanghai and Hunan from outside the province also joined, and a group of moderate elements such as Hunan gentry Xiong Xiling, Fan Yuanlian, and Guo Zongxi also joined. Finally, the "National Peace Federation" also gave full support to the Hunan people's expulsion movement.

To commemorate the liberation of Hunan, the Hunan people held a class strike and a procession, and all walks of life held a silent tribute at the martyrs' shrine to commemorate the difficulties of the martyrs in creating the Republic of China.

After the second time, Tan Yanmin sent out a telegram, saying that the people of Hunan were "deer pigs", which were worse than the black slaves in Africa.

The Hunan petition group in Yanjing was divided into two groups: one was the student petition group, which accused the Northern soldiers of occupying schools, stopping the payment of education funds, and expelling celebrities in the education circle; The first is a petition group from all walks of life, stating the facts of Zhang Jingyao's arson and corruption and looting.

The Yanjing authorities replied to the petition group: "The key to the difficulty of Governor Yi lies in the fact that Hunan is a military front, and I am afraid that it will affect the overall situation, and the political axe does not understand the minds of the people of Hunan, and now the political axe intends to appoint a provincial governor to divide his power, but this is also difficult to do, and the political axe feels ashamed of Hunan." Guo Zongxi, former governor of Jilin Province, retorted: "Now it is the responsible cabinet, and the responsible cabinet cannot talk about the word shame." At this time, the prime minister was still Jin Yunpeng, although Jin wanted to change Zhang, but he was powerless, so in the face of the criticism of the Hunan people, he had to make a bow.

Fan Yuanlian led the charge against Zhang Jingyao's five major crimes in Hunan, and said in the last few sentences: "If Hunan Province is the land of the Republic of China, and the Hunan people are the people of the Republic of China, then please go to the people of Hunan first, and give more benefit to the government of Hunan." He took the submission and handed it to Xu Shichang, stating that if any of the accusations were untrue, he was willing to be punished.

Since Yanjing Zhengaxe refused to remove Zhang Jingyao, the petition to expel Zhang was fruitless. Before the Northern Expeditionary Army entered Hunan, the Hunan people had no way out, and the petition was invalid, so they had to resort to the Hunan army in the end.

At this time, the Hunan army was really pitiful, there was a shortage of salaries and weapons, and the number was only a division of the regular army, and some miscellaneous armies, and the guns that could be used were only about 3,000 in total, and the bullets were even more lacking. The common people of Hunan deprecatingly called them "called the chemical army". The Hunan army has always fought side by side with the Gui army, and the Gui army is better than the Hunan army in terms of equipment and training, and there are more people than the Hunan army, but the Gui army is not necessarily an ally of the Hunan army.

After the Northern Expeditionary Army entered Hunan, the morale of the Hunan army was greatly boosted, and the general attack order was immediately issued, and the soldiers of the whole army were thunderous with joy, grinding their fists, in order to save ammunition, Zhao Hengti ordered not to wait for the enemy to approach, and not to put a shot indiscriminately.

The Hunan army occupied Qiyang and Leiyang counties, and the forward advanced to Dongyangpu, which was more than 20 miles away from Hengyang. The Hunan army advanced rapidly, but the northern army retreated quickly.

When Zhang Jingyao heard that the Hunan army was attacking, and the Northern Expeditionary Army was like a bamboo, it was like a catastrophe was coming, so he immediately took emergency measures, withdrawing the military dependents on the one hand, and urging Yanjing to issue a crusade order on the other hand. His distress telegram ranged from 100,000 to 100,000 and 10,000,000. The telegram requesting money and equipment flew to Yanjing like snowflakes.

The people of Hunan have launched a guerrilla war all over the mountains, and the kind people who were oppressed by Zhang Jingyao in the past have now become fighters who outflank the back of the northern army!

The 3,000 broken guns killed Zhang Jingyao in fear.

On the frontal battlefield, the Northern Expeditionary Army advanced extremely fast, and Zhang Jingyao's generals were defeated one by one without a fight, so he had to send his younger brother "Mr. Wolong" Zhang Jingtang as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, and promised to let himself be the commander of the Seventh Division as a reward. Zhang Sishuai swore generously, took the eight-person green tweed bridge, set off majestically, hung two big lanterns behind the sedan car, Zhu Shu "Commander-in-Chief Zhang" four big characters, the armed guards hugged in front of and back, up to hundreds of people. The situation of swallowing bulls in anger made the people of Changsha look forward to it, and they were all worried about the Hunan army and the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Of course, Zhang Jingyao at this time still has an expectation:

Wu Peifu!

(To be continued)