In terms of strength, the military generals of Chiang Kai-shek's group were no worse than the instructor camp. His generals are full of talents, and the stars of Wenchen are shining, including Dai Jitao, Dai Li, Chen Bui, Chen Lifu, Zhang Qun and others, among these people, Zhang Zhizhong is the most refined egoist who understands the general trend of the world.
Zhang Zhizhong is a native of Hongjiatuan, Chaohu City, Anhui Province, his family background is very ordinary, his father runs a pottery shop, his mother is frail and sickly, there are 4 brothers, the family burden has come up, and life is hard. But his mother insisted on saving money, made up the tuition fees, and sent him to a private school.
However, Zhang Zhizhong is not willing to be ordinary and poor at all, and his innate utilitarianism can be seen from his ten years of experience in private school. Most of the classmates are day students, Zhang Zhizhong and the other two classmates live on campus, and they have to bring them from home every day to eat, and the other two classmates have a good family background, and they have meat to eat, but Zhang Zhizhong has eaten boiled vegetables for many years.
He couldn't help it, and asked someone to bring a message to the family to ask for some meat, the family really didn't have any money, and it was definitely a luxury to be able to eat a bite of meat. Children who grow up in a difficult environment from an early age are often extremely utilitarian when they become adults, and if they are stumbling for a long time, the shadow of childhood is likely to lead to psychological distortion.
Zhang Zhizhong has become an unlucky child who has been stumbling for a long time. At the end of his ten-year private school career, Zhang Zhizhong took the imperial examination. The ideal is very plump, the reality is very skinny, Zhang Zhizhong, who thinks very highly of himself, soon came to a dull stick, he fell off the list, and even Xiucai couldn't get it, in desperation, he only got Yangzhou to defect to his relatives, and was ready to apply for the local garrison to open the camp school, but the school was not opened, Zhang Zhizhong had to go home, through relatives, to be a guy in the grocery store.
While doing grocery store timing, Zhang Zhizhong happened to see the newspaper published the enrollment notice of Anhui Army Primary School, immediately quit his buddy, went home to pester his mother, scraped together 24 yuan, walked a full 150 kilometers to Anqing, and applied for the army primary school, but unfortunately God still did not favor him, and he fell off the list again.
It's over, 24 yuan has been spent on the road, and he is now in an embarrassing situation, and what is even more terrifying is that eating and surviving has also become a problem. He was unwilling, continued to stay in Anqing, and through the introduction of his fellow villagers, he went to the mansion of Tang Qiyao, the general office of the Anhui Supervision and Training Office, to accompany the second son of the Tang family, and prepare to take the Anhui Surveying and Mapping School again. As a result, he was humiliated by the Tang family, pointing his nose and humiliating himself, "Who are you?"He is a young master, you are a poor boy, do you deserve to live in this mansion with him?”
Zhang Zhizhong, who was ashamed and angry, left Tang Qiyao's mansion and signed up to be the doorman of the Anhui Surveying and Mapping School.
Whenever there was no one in the middle of the night, he couldn't help but feel a sense of desolation that he had fallen into his subordinates. In the continuous tossing and turning, he went to Yangzhou to work as a reserve soldier in the salt defense camp, and was bullied, insulted and discriminated against, and finally left the salt defense camp and was admitted to the Yangzhou patrol police training institute and became a formal policeman. After so many years of tossing, he finally got a serious job, which was not easy, and God began to favor him at this time.
In 1911, the Xinhai Revolution broke out, he was depressed for many years, keenly felt the changes of the Qing Dynasty about to fall, he immediately resigned from his police job, went to Shanghai to participate in the student army, Emperor Xuantong abdicated, China ** was established, the Shanghai student army was organized into the enlistment regiment, the enlisted student regiment went to the army officer preparatory school in Wuchang for two years, and then promoted to the third phase of the Baoding Military Academy.
In December 1916, Zhang Zhizhong graduated from the Baoding Military Academy and was assigned to Anhui to serve in Ni Sichong's Anwu Army. The academic qualifications of the Baoding Military Academy are equivalent to the current Qingbei academic qualifications, and Zhang Zhizhong has this academic degree, and the wheel of history was officially launched for him.
The military selection of officers in the Beiyang Department pays attention to the origin rather than academic qualifications, while Sun Yat-sen's Guangdong ** values academic qualifications, and a large number of graduates of the Baoding Military Academy went south to Guangdong and defected to Sun Yat-sen. At the beginning of 1924, Zhang Zhizhong accepted the invitation of Wu Xiaoyan, commander of the Fourth Division of the Gui Army, to serve as the captain of the Gui Army Military Academy, responsible for education and training. Less than a year later, the Guijun School was closed and merged into the third phase of the newly established Huangpu Military Academy, and the gate of the famous Huangpu Military Academy was opened to Zhang Zhizhong, and his glorious life started here.
He became the first captain of the third enlisted student corps and the colonel staff officer of the Eastern Expedition General Headquarters. Here, he got to know his superior, Chiang Kai-shek, for most of his life. The core of the Second Division of the National Revolutionary Army was a graduate of the Whampoa Military Academy, with Chiang Kai-shek as the division commander, and he served as the chief of staff and chief of staff of the Guangzhou Garrison Command.
Twenty years of depression and depression were finally swept away, and in a year in the south of Guangdong, he was appreciated by Chiang Kai-shek, and since then he has been on the rise.
After the Battle of Tingsi Bridge, Chiang Kai-shek, commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army, inspected the battlefield, and then convened officers above the company level at the Tingsi Bridge Railway Station to give a lecture. Zhang Zhizhong saw that Chiang Kai-shek's leather boots were stained with blood, he knelt on one knee in front of everyone, and wiped Chiang Kai-shek's leather boots with a white handkerchief.
Is Zhang Zhizhong a stupid person?He lost face in this way because he was completely loyal to Chiang Kai-shek and was dead set on him. Since then, "this guy is a shoeshine" has become a curse in the National Revolutionary Army, and Bai Chongxi, who is also the third phase of the Baoding Military Academy, has looked down on Zhang Zhizhong all his life.
From then on, no matter whether Zhang Zhizhong lost the battle or made a mistake, if he knelt down and admitted his mistake, Chiang Kai-shek would just scold him, gently take it over, and not pursue it.
Zhang Zhizhong's position is nondescript, saying that he is a general, and his war record is a mess, saying that he is a civil official in internal affairs, but he is also doing political work as a descendant, and he is also doing very ordinary.
In 1929, Chiang Kai-shek wanted to disarm and reduce the feudal domain, but Feng Yuxiang, commander-in-chief of the Second Army, was unwilling, so he rebelled and a war broke out with Chiang Kai-shek. In the course of the war, it is necessary to have cronies stationed in the rear in order to feel at ease, and the biggest cronies are Zhang Zhizhong, whom Chiang Kai-shek appointed as the director of the Wuhan camp and sits in Wuhan. Zhang Zhizhong was a talented person and calmed the hearts of the military and people in Wuhan.
In August 1937, China and Japan broke out in the Battle of Songhu in Shanghai, Zhang Zhizhong's position was the commander of the Ninth Group Army, the commander of the Shanghai garrison, it was originally his chance to become famous in World War I, but he messed up, he had nothing to do with the Japanese army, the war was extremely ugly, and the telegram sent to Chiang Kai-shek, either the combat mission was not completed, or the Japanese army was not good at fighting, and there was no solution to it, so angry that Chiang Kai-shek scolded: "Zhang Wenbai should be withdrawn." ”
During the war, Zhang Zhizhong ran to Suzhou and found that his 18th Army was commanded by Chen Cheng of the 15th Group Army, which was equivalent to depriving him of his military power, Zhang Zhizhong was particularly angry, and Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing could not contact Zhang Zhizhong for two days, and he was also very angry.
On the battlefield of the Battle of Songhu, Zhang Zhizhong's military and political performance was very poor.
Later, Zhang Zhizhong was reappointed as the chairman of Hunan Province ** and the provincial security commander, under his rule, there was a fire to Changsha, during the Anti-Japanese War, the national ** in order to reduce the supply of materials to the Japanese army, decided to clear the wilderness, whenever the Japanese army is about to break through a city, ** is about to retreat, then set fire to the city, do not leave the complete city to the Japanese army.
However, Zhang Zhizhong's performance in Changsha, Hunan Province was not good, and when the Japanese army approached Changsha, Chiang Kai-shek sent him a telegram saying that if Changsha fell, the city must be burned. As a result, Zhang Zhizhong did not see the Japanese army falling, and accidentally set fire to Changsha City on all sides, causing huge losses of personnel and materials. After investigating the reason, it was found out that the translator translated the news of the Japanese army in the telegram, and wrote the "Xinqiang River" 250 miles away from Changsha as the "Xinhe" 12 miles away from Changsha.
The main responsibility for burning Changsha in advance could not be escaped, but after Chiang Kai-shek flew to Changsha, he was held accountable, and only executed Changsha garrison commander Xu Qi, security regiment chief Xu Kun, and Changsha City Police Chief Wen Chongfu, and protected his descendant Zhang Zhizhong, and no longer held accountable. After this incident, Zhang Zhizhong completely lost his prestige among the military and civilians in Hunan, and was transferred back to Chongqing three months later to serve as the director of the first division of Chiang Kai-shek's chamberlain.
He was not a good politician at all, nor was he a general, but just a descendant of Chiang Kai-shek's fortunate ministers.
He is not at a high level, but he has a unique skill - judging the situation.
On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and at this time, preparing for a civil war, Chiang Kai-shek invited the instructor to Chongqing, and Zhang Zhizhong personally went to Yan'an to greet the instructor and others.
After arriving in Chongqing, the negotiator of our party was the premier, and the negotiator of the Kuomintang was Zhang Zhizhong.
There are so many **, but Zhang Zhi** was selected to negotiate with our party, mainly because Zhang Zhizhong has a good relationship with our party, when he was young, Zhang Zhizhong and Qu Qiubai had dealings, and they were quite like-minded. When he was at the Whampoa Military Academy, Zhang Zhizhong was also nurtured, and his thinking once followed our party, and when he was in Whampoa, he and the prime minister were both colleagues and friends.
However, there was an agreement between the two parties that they could not dig into each other's walls, and Zhang Zhizhong wanted to join the party, but the premier advised him not to join for the time being, and promised to secretly support Zhang Zhizhong in the future, so that he could make a contribution to the cooperation between the KMT and the Communist Party.
The prime minister has already laid out the situation, let Zhang Zhizhong become a pawn of our party, let him secretly do things for our party when he has no will, and let him become a secret nail of our party when the KMT and the Communist Party are vying for hegemony. However, Zhang Zhizhong's hard experience since childhood made him concentrate on the pursuit of glory and wealth, so his will to the revolution was not so firm, but more like a wall-riding faction.
After returning to Chongqing to work during the Anti-Japanese War, he also took advantage of his position to propose the establishment of a cultural work committee in the Political Department to resettle leftist cultural figures. All these actions not only showed sincerity to our party, but also did not arouse Chiang Kai-shek's suspicion and vigilance, which shows that his methods are superb and secretive.
In fact, Zhang Zhizhong knew for a long time that our party was the winner who had the last laugh, and the Kuomintang was doomed to lose.
After the Chongqing negotiations, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party signed the "Double Tenth Agreement", which refers to the establishment of a new China in which all political parties in China are united, with the Kuomintang as the main party, and the first to cooperate.
According to the agreement, reorganization was required, and Zhang Zhizhong, a representative of the Kuomintang, and Marshall, a representative of our party, and Marshall, a representative of the United States, formed a meeting of the Supreme Military Three-member Group to study the issue of military reorganization. From December 1945 to February 1946, the three of them took special planes to Beiping, Zhangjiakou, Taiyuan, Jinan, Xuzhou, Yan'an, and other places to investigate and study the situation of the armed forces in various places.
The agreement is beautiful, the reality is cruel, and there must be only one future master of New China, and the war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party will inevitably unfold. On the plane to Yan'an for investigation, the prime minister said meaningfully to Zhang Zhizhong: "Wenbai, if you don't fight, everyone will build a democratic country, and if you fight, you will lose people's hearts." If those who lose the hearts and minds of the people lose the world, our Communist Party will unite with other democratic parties to build a new China, and that will be completely different from the current situation. ”
What the premier means is that if the Kuomintang and the Communist Party do not go to war and everyone builds the country peacefully, then New China will definitely have the status of Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Zhizhong, and if there is a war, the future New China will definitely not have the status of Chiang Kai-shek, but whether Zhang Zhizhong wants a position or not depends on himself!
After listening to the prime minister's words, Zhang Zhizhong was silent for a long time, and began to think about what to do in the future. After arriving in Yan'an, the faculty held a welcome party in the Yan'an auditorium, and when it was Zhang Zhizhong's turn to give a speech, he suddenly said loudly to the faculty and others: "I, Zhang Zhizhong, have been to Yan'an three times, and in the future, your Communist Party will write history, don't forget that I, Zhang Zhizhong, have been to Yan'an three times." ”
The instructor responded loudly: "Of course I can't forget you Zhang Zhizhong." ”
In June 1946, Chiang Kai-shek, with the support of the United States, tore up the "Double Tenth Agreement" and launched a large-scale attack on the liberated areas of our party, and the Liberation War broke out.
In 1948, Zhang Zhizhong had been promoted to the director of the Northwest Xingyuan and the military and political chief of the Northwest Military and Political Chief's Office, stationed in Lanzhou, but he did not pay attention to his work and handed over all affairs to Tao Zhiyue to deal with, and he began to plan to get out at this time.
He no longer obeyed Chiang Kai-shek, and openly wrote a letter of advice to Nanjing, criticizing Chiang Kai-shek's party affairs, politics, military, diplomacy, cadre policies, personal cultivation, etc., and demanding that Chiang Kai-shek give up the centralized system and implement a pro-Soviet policy, a peace policy, and a In April 1949, Zhang Zhizhong once again served as a negotiator to negotiate the armistice and peace in Beiping on behalf of the Kuomintang. This letter expresses their complete break.
After the failure of the negotiations in Beiping and the crossing of the river by a million heroes, after Mr. Zhou's persuasion, Zhang Zhizhong stayed in Beiping and officially threw himself into the arms of our party.
In June, Zhang Zhizhong announced his separation from the Kuomintang.
In September, the first CPPCC meeting composed of our party and the democratic parties was held in Beiping, and it was decided that Beiping, the capital of the new China to be established, would be changed to Beijing, and that the "March of the Volunteers" would be the national anthem and the five-star red flag would be the national flag, and the chairman, vice chairman, and members of the People's Committee would be elected.
In October, our party, together with the democratic parties, the masses of workers and peasants, the people of all nationalities, and democratic personages, jointly founded New China and named it the People's Republic of China.
In this new China, there is no place for Chiang Kai-shek, but there is a place for Zhang Zhizhong.
Zhang Zhi is middle-aged, prosperous, middle-aged and good-looking, and successful in his later years, this is a smart person who is refined and self-interested!