List of high-quality authors **It is very important to control your relatives, because even if you are a warlord who fights the country by yourself, you may be pitted by your relatives, and if you are not careful, the young marshals of the warlord's family can pit them to death. ** Xiao Xizi and Xiao Zhuge in the period, no, Li Zongren, were all cheated by their own relatives. 
Li Zongren was cheated by his younger brother Li Zongyi, and his younger brother Li Zongyi not only did not help him dominate the world, but also almost made him lose the foundation of Guangxi. Of all the warlords, Li Zongren's experience is the most inspiring. In 1915, Li Zongren was only a military training instructor and gymnastics instructor in the senior class of the Guangxi Provincial Primary School, and it was not until 1916 that he returned to the military. In 1921, as a battalion commander, he was qualified to contact more than a dozen company commanders and establish his own forces.
In 1924, when Zhang Shaoshuai was in full swing, Li Zongrencai and his friends in the Xingui department succeeded in starting a business. By 1928, after four years of hard work, Li Zongren and the Xingui faction had laid down a vast territory from Zhennanguan to Shanhaiguan, and the military strength had expanded to 14 armies plus three divisions, while the military strength of the Xingui faction was only 15 armies of the chairman of the committee, which was slightly inferior in strength. In order to surpass the chairman, Bai Chongxi even formulated a battle plan to seize the northeast. Li Zongren and others boasted that they had built a great cause that surpassed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and considered their Gui trio to be the strongest Guangxi people in history.
But all this was ruined by his own brother Li Zongyi, Li Zongren is different from his elder brother who only attended military schools in China, he is an authentic returnee, he studied at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, and among his alumni are Jiang, Deng and Zheng Jiemin. Li Zongyi is not too familiar with Jiang and Deng, but he has a good relationship with Zheng Jiemin. Zheng Jiemin happened to be ordered to dismantle the Xingui clique at that time, and with the help of Li Zongyi, Zheng Jiemin came and went freely within the Xingui faction, contacted many military officers, and used the chairman's money to dig into the corners. In addition, the chairman of the committee also disintegrated two-thirds of the Gui faction's troops through the relationship between Chen Cheng, Tang Shengzhi and others, and the two sides fought for just over three months, and Li Zongren lost all his territory and almost started a new business.
Li Zongren has his own brothers, and Yan Xishan also has nephews. Yan Xishan's nephew Yan Yiting is not well-known in China, but in the base camp of the Japanese military department, he is a big name, and Tojo Hideki and other military bigwigs know his name. Yan Yiting had contact with the Japanese army at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, and often patted his chest and told the Japanese spies that he could persuade his uncle Yan Xishan to "set things right". The Japanese base camp also believed him, so they formulated the so-called Bo plan, preparing to draw the entire Jin Sui army to their side. On the Japanese side, the boss who was directly responsible for the plan was the commander of the First Army in North China and the chief of the General Staff (the Japanese First Army occupied Shanxi), and Yan Xishan also felt the need to negotiate with the brothers and sisters of Seishiro Itagaki .
Yan Xishan took one step at a time, he accepted the money and materials given by the Japanese army, and he did not dare to ask for the equipment directly when the Japanese army gave them. In September 1941, the two sides signed a basic armistice agreement, the content of which was that the Japanese army would no longer actively attack the Jin Sui army, and the Jin Sui army could not take the initiative to attack the Japanese army, and the Japanese army should support the finances and equipment of the Jin Sui army. The chairman of the committee also knew about this, but the chairman did not say anything, because according to the Japanese estimates, there was also a secret agreement between the chairman and Yan Xishan that could not be said. After the outbreak of the Pearl Harbor Incident, the commander of the First Army, Iwamatsu Masao, also openly publicized that he would regard the co-optation of Yan Xishan as "opening the gap for the collapse of the Chongqing regime" and promoting the end of the "China Incident."
Yan Xishan never gave the Japanese army a happy word, but the Japanese were confident that they would win it over to their side in 1942, believing that 1942 was the year when the work of the Japanese army would blossom and bear fruit. In May of that year, the commander and chief of staff of the Japanese First Army met with Yan Xishan in Anping Village, and the two sides had a long conversation. Yan Xishan still had to slow down, and this delay came to the Battle of Midway. After the Battle of Midway, the Japanese offensive slowed down, and Yan Xishan may not have been very clear about how many ships the Japanese lost (Tojo Hideki is not clear), but he also understood that the Japanese army was in difficulty, so he did not become a traitor.
Yan Xishan and Li Zongren are all big names in the history books, but they were almost killed by their unknown relatives, how harmful do you say it is to not manage your relatives well?