There is a saying that Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou, but there was a loan but no return. There is another saying that it was easy to invite gods to send gods. Zhang Zuolin divided his troops into three groups, and he personally led the first, fifth, sixth, and eighth mixed brigades from Dingbian County, Shaanxi to Shaanxi, and the old brother Sun Liechen led the second, the seventh mixed brigades from Shenmu County to Shaanxi, and the tiger general Wu Junsheng led the third, fourth and ninth mixed brigades from Hengshan County to Shaanxi.

Zhang Zuolin, both at home and abroad, has a very high evaluation of him in later generations. People can clearly understand what this person does and his thoughts by revealing historical materials. This person is scheming, ambitious, good to his subordinates, good to the people, and he is not a cold-blooded and bloody master. In the Northeast under his rule, the people still miss his goodness for many years.

Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Dashuai became famous in the militia in the Northeast. In fact, the militia in the Northeast is similar to the bandits. The militia was collected and collected protection fees. It was called insurance premiums at the time, similar to the Black Shui Association in later generations (homophonetic) . Of course, sometimes it is inevitable to play a guest appearance in bandits and looting. At the same time, the bandits in the Northeast are called Huzi, and the beards also follow many rules on the Tao. Not everyone can rob them. The bandits in the Northeast have the morality of not robbing them seven times and eight times. The so-called robbers also have a way. If a bandit is to survive, they naturally cannot do everything.

The so-called seven-day robbery is not to take the eight-day robbery: the neighboring villages do not robbery, the sender (postman) do not robbery, the receiving brides do not robbery, the seeker of the doctor, the attending burial, the funeral robbery, the laying of milk for women during confinement, and the wife does not robbery when she returns to the door. The eight-day robbery: the women do not robbery, the property of small households, the treasures of life-saving, the money of prostitutes (bridehouses), the cattle and horses used for farming land, the property of brothers and family members in the pole, the property of digging graves and graves to seize property, the property of pharmacies, and doctors (doctors).

It is precisely because Zhang Zuolin followed the rules of the green forest even as a green forest, because he was able to stand out from the group of heroes of the Northeast Green Forest. Later, he became the governor of Fengtian, and he followed this rule in his heart, but he changed the neighboring villages to the territory of his subordinates. What are the people asking for? It is just that they can survive. The Chinese people have not demanded high, so Zhang Zuolin treated the people well and became his principle of success repeatedly. Just imagine, if Zhang Zuolin learned from Lu Jianzhang and Chen Shufan, let alone the Northeast, even Fengtian could not become a climate. This is also the reason why Lu Jianzhang and Chen Shufan were just inconspicuous shooting stars in the Republic of China, and Zhang Zuolin could dominate the king.

Looking at the warlords who later achieved outstanding achievements, Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, and Zhang Zuolin, who were not good at treating the people well, the Anhui branch was just like a passing cloud.

In May of the seventh year of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin led his army across the unguarded Great Wall and entered the northern Shaanxi area of ​​Shaanxi Province. Due to the invitation of Chen Shufan, he was unstoppable along the way. After Zhang Zuolin entered Shaanxi, he announced that he would be exempted from agricultural tax on his territory for three years!

The northern Shaanxi region is the Loess Plateau, and people are not full of food and drink. Most people grow a crop called "frozen" with low yields. Frozen, also known as millet, is one of the five oldest crops in my country. Northern Shaanxi is barren. In many places, they can only grow millet into yellow steamed buns as delicacies. In northern Shaanxi, they can actually get more than 100,000 yuan a year to collect agricultural taxes in northern Shaanxi.

Wang Zhijiang, an important aide under Zhang Zuolin, then told Zhang Dashuai that Liu Bang had three chapters of the law on Xianyang. After Zhang Zuolin heard that Wang Zhijiang said that all newly developed land in the Northeast were exempt from three years of agricultural tax. In this way, he won the hearts of the people in the Northeast. How could he make money? He used big smoke, commerce, mines and factories to make money. In fact, for Wang Maoru, that little agricultural tax was really not much. But it was precisely because he exempted the farm tax from new fields and reduced agricultural tax that he hid in the Northeast. If we came to the Northwest, it would not be possible to be the king of the Northwest by peeling off the farmers. It would be better to change to plant big smoke, and the agricultural tax was exempted and only collected tobacco tax. We also fired Wang Maoru's Northeast established a smoking ban bureau, but in fact, it was to make money by growing big smoke. Zhang Zuolin agreed deeply, so he ordered Wang Zhijiang to be the director of the smoking ban bureau and ordered the exemption of the three-year agricultural tax on the territory under his jurisdiction.

After the notice of exempting the agricultural tax for three years was posted throughout northern Shaanxi, the people in northern Shaanxi were all grateful, and the local gentry also gave Zhang Zuolin the umbrella of the people. Zhang Zuolin did not know that this thing was a magical horse, and he thought that the umbrella of crying was filled with names. Isn’t this a funeral?

Yu Hanchong was very knowledgeable and said that this thing was equivalent to the sign of "Qingda Tian Da Master". We don't have this in the northeast, but there is one in Guanli.

Because Chen Shufan invited Zhang Zuolin, he did not send troops to set up checkpoints in the northern Shaanxi area where the terrain was dangerous. This was cheaper, and Zhang Zuolin seized the steep northern Shaanxi without a group of soldiers. If he fought, his 60,000 troops entering Shaanxi would not be able to fight half of the disabled.

After Zhang Zuolin hid in the vital land of northern Shaanxi, he began to annex northern Shaanxi and drove away the officials appointed by Chen Shufan. Zhang Zuolin drove away the officials of Chen Shufan, but did not send his own Northeastern people to be local officials. Instead, he invited Shaanxi people to be local officials. On the one hand, he wanted people to win over the hearts of the people, and on the other hand, he stabilized the hearts of the people, and the third, he made the towns from the northeast not excluded by the people and officials. This shows that what our town wants is not Shaanxi, but to be in love with the world. The small northern Shaanxi is not worth our nostalgic exploitation.

The people of Shaanxi governed Shaanxi, which made Shaanxi Province have a good impression of Zhang Zuolin's town and support them. Landlords and tyrants from various major families also contributed money to support Zhang Zuolin's town.

Zhang Zuolin's army was unstoppable and seized all the land north of the Wei River in Shaanxi within 20 days. Chen Shufan was stunned, Jing** was stunned, and Zhensong Army was also stunned. Among them, Chen Shufan was the most breathless. This was really a wolf driving away the front door and the back door attracted tigers, but the wolf had not left, and the tiger had already arrived. Chen Shufan's Shaanxi army and Zhensong Army were originally black-hearted. Chen Shufan wanted to use Zhensong Army, and Zhensong Army wanted to use Chen Shufan, but Zhang Zuolin came, and he wanted to destroy them. So the two groups cooperated sincerely, not only to fight against Guo Jian's Jing**, but also to fight against Zhang Zuolin's Zhensong.

Three military forces in Shaanxi have made the people of Shaanxi extremely uneasy.

If it was Wang Maoru at this time, he would definitely stop and take the opportunity to win over the people into Suiyuan to strengthen himself first and wait for a good opportunity to attack again. But Zhang Zuolin was not Wang Maoru, he would not wait. He did not stop and sent Wu Junsheng to lead three mixed brigades across the river. His target was not the Shaanxi army, but the Guo Jianjing who was fighting bigger and bigger. He made a strategic mistake, thinking that he would eliminate Jing, who was making trouble behind the scenes, and then fought with the Shaanxi army to death.

The situation in Shaanxi was like the Three Kingdoms period, Wei, Shu and Wu, Zhang Zuolin was equivalent to Wei, Guo Jianjing was equivalent to Shu, and Chen Shufan Shaanxi army was equivalent to Wu. Zhang Zuolin simply thought that his military strength could definitely be eliminated, which was far inferior to his Jing** and Shaanxi army. At that time, the Shaanxi army and Zhensong army united more than 30,000 troops. Although Jing** was more than 10,000, most of Jing** came from swordsmen, and Zhang Zuolin was difficult to eradicate Jing** despite the army being in the fortress.

Then Shaanxi entered a melee, with soldiers attacking the company and the people living in poverty.

In order to eliminate Jing** as soon as possible, Zhang Zuolin recruited bandits from northern Shaanxi to join the army, expanded his troops, and finally drove Jing** to Shanxi. At this time, he planned to take advantage of the victory to pursue, eliminate or transfer the coalition forces formed by the Shaanxi army and the Zhensong Army to Shaanxi. However, after several months of hard fighting, he was unable to eliminate the Zhensong Army and drove them to Hanzhong. The Shaanxi army defended a dangerous place. The Zhensong Army attacked several times and damaged soldiers and generals, which eventually led to Zhensong being unable to eliminate them. At this point, Shaanxi Province was temporarily divided into two, Zhang Zuolin occupied Xi'an and drove the Zhensong Army and the Shaanxi coalition forces to Hanzhong.

The Shaanxi army occupied the lands of Lueyang County, Ningqiang County, Nanzheng County, Gucheng County, Feng County, Yang County, Foping County, Xixiang County, Mian County, and Baocheng County. The rest of the lands were occupied by Zhang Zuolin.

The Shaanxi Army eventually clashed with the Zhensong Army of the Kejun in Hanzhong. The two sides were crowded here, and they were already resentful, afraid that the other party would not work hard, and afraid that the other party would stab the knife in the back, which led to successive defeats. Zhang Zuolin attacked fiercely, and Chen Shufan and Liu Zhenhua could still work together. Once Zhang Zuolin retreated, the two of them would actually have a grudge against each other.

At this time, Yang Yuting sent someone to find Liu Zhenhua, the leader of Zhensong Army, saying that my Yushuai was quite admired by General Liu. If General Liu could lead Zhensong Army to abandon the secret and go to the Ming Dynasty, my general would later adapt your unit into a ** division, either guarding Hanzhong or holding you as the governor of Gansu. After Yang Yuting's temptation, Liu Zhenhua was overjoyed and conspired with Yang Yuting to assassinate Chen Shufan. After making a plan, he romanced Chen Shufan to attend his son's wedding. Liu Zhenhua's son was only fourteen years old, so he took advantage of this moment to get married? This attracted Chen Shufan's attention. He sent someone to investigate and investigate openly and secretly, and learned that Zhang Zuolin's subordinates had entered and out of Liu Zhenhua's military camp and had plans. So he took advantage of Liu Zhenhua's son's wedding that night and sent troops to take the lead in the name of working in the army.

Both sides were ready to attack each other, but now they were equally matched. Both sides fought hard in Hanzhong. Due to the scarcity of bullets and weapons, both sides had to use the Shaanxi thick-backed sword to fight hand-to-hand combat in many battles. In the end, Liu Zhenhua was killed by his subordinate Sun Dianying, and Chen Shufan was also betrayed by his subordinate general Liu Shilong. Chen Shufan was captured and handed over to Zhen**. The town that entered Hanzhong was the fifth mixed brigade Kan Chaoxi's unit. Kan Chaoxi people called Kan's guillotine and were bloodthirsty. He thought that Chen Shufan was a general of Beiyang and was able to be in Shaanxi by Yu Shushuai. Let him go, for fear that he would make a comeback in the future, so he ordered his soldiers to let Chen Shufan go privately.

Chen Shufan really thought Kan Chaoxi let him go, so he bowed to Kan Chaoxi and said, "The green mountains are often green and waters flowing. Chen will definitely give me a favor in the future. I am grateful to you." He then left after returning the horse, no horse ran away. With a gunshot, Chen Shufan, the heroic people, was lost here.

Kan Chaoxi returned to Zhang Zuolin and said that Chen Shufan escaped at night. The sentry was not sure that it was him, and he should have been restrained by him. He told Zhang Zuolin privately that he had killed him and asked the victim to make trouble. Zhang Zuolin smiled and reused Kan Chaoxi.

Zhang Zuolin was completely defeated by Shaanxi and forced the Central Committee to change him to the governor of Shaanxi and appointed Zhang Zuolin as the governor of Suiyuan. His colleagues also won over the Ningxia escort Ma Xiangfu and Gansu governor Zhang Guangjian. It turned out that Cai Chengxun came to Gansu after being driven away from the Suiyuan escort, but it caused public grievances in Gansu. With Zhang Guangjian's encouragement, Gansu military and civilian general Cai Chengxun was expelled.

The Beiyang government then appointed Zhang Guangjian as the governor of Gansu. This man did not accept the trick that Zhang Zuolin wooed. He was also an important member of the Anhui clan. He was also afraid of the killing of Chen Shufan of the Anhui clan by Zhang Zuolin. Therefore, he was unmoved by Zhang Zuolin's win over and returned all the gifts he sent to Zhang Zuolin. (To be continued...)
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