In 1931, after the September 18th Incident broke out, the Japanese army captured Shenyang. After entering Shenyang, the Japanese army first thought about plundering money. Zhang Zuolin, the king of Northeast China, was naturally their first target. After the Japanese army rushed

1931, after the September 18th Incident broke out, the Japanese army captured Shenyang. After entering Shenyang, the Japanese army first thought about plundering money. , as the Northeast King , is naturally their first target.

After the Japanese army rushed into Grand Marshal's Mansion , they quickly ransacked the mansion . However, in the bedroom of Zhang Xueliang's on the second floor, the Japanese army found a locked safe.

I thought it was a confidential file or valuable item, but after the Japanese army opened it, I found that it was just an inconspicuous silver dollar .

As the young marshal of Northeast Army , Zhang Xueliang only had one silver dollar in his safe. caused a great response at the time, but no one knew the meaning behind this silver dollar.

Until Zhang Xueliang admitted in his later years: I never believed in killing Yang Yuting , but I had to believe it after killing him.

This revealed the secret behind this silver dollar. It can be said that was this silver dollar that ended the life of the little Zhuge in Northeast China - Yang Yuting.

Picture | Silver dollar

Young marshal took office in danger

1928, with the loud noise of Huanggutun Station , the Japanese conspiracy finally succeeded. The leader of the Fengtian warlord , Zhang Zuolin, was bombed and killed. After the marshal was attacked and died, it can be said that the Northeast Army had no leader for a while and fell into trouble.

Because Zhang Zuolin has never clearly assigned who the successor was, maybe he thought no one could threaten his life, but in the end he underestimated the sinisterness of the Japanese. was like this, and the general died heroically at the age of 54.

When the news of the general's death came out, chaos began to begin within the Northeast Army. Everyone agreed that 's current top priority is to select the person who succeeded the general as soon as possible and continue to take charge of the Northeast Army.

After Zhang Zuolin died, he looked at the entire Fengtian army and could be said that there were three people who were most qualified to replace him. was Zhang Xueliang, Yang Yuting, and Zhang Zuoling .

If you want to talk about age, the youngest one is Zhang Xueliang. He has very shallow qualifications and low prestige. He seems to be inferior to the other two in all aspects. , but he is Zhang Zuolin's eldest son, so he is the most legitimate one.

Picture | Zhang Zuolin

, and Zhang Zuoling represents the leader of the senate school. From his name, one is Zhang Zuolin and the other is Zhang Zuoling.

It can be said that he and Zhang Zuolin have a very good relationship. He was a brother of a young man. has the highest prestige in the army and is also considered Zhang Xueliang's uncle.

, and Yang Yuting represents a representative figure of the foreign school. When Zhang Zuolin was alive, he served as Zhang Zuolin's senior staff officer. was deeply loved by Zhang Zuolin, and even Zhang Xueliang had to call him Uncle Yang.

When Zhang Zuolin was alive, although he deliberately trained Zhang Xueliang, Zhang Xueliang was still very young at that time. He did not explicitly say that he would designate Zhang Xueliang to take over his position.

Now, he sacrificed , everything afterward depends on Zhang Xueliang's own abilities and means.

Picture | Zhang Xueliang

When it comes to choosing a successor, after all, it is determined by multiple internal and external factors. cannot choose who has a good relationship with Zhang Zuolin, nor can it choose who because of blood relationship.

At that time, Fengtian warlords held consecutive meetings to discuss this matter. First of all, the general was killed by the Japanese attacks. is a deep hatred, and the heirs must not advocate pro-Japanese faction.

From the overall situation in Nanjing, with the sacrifice of the general, perhaps the next step is to start discussion with the Nanjing government, so it cannot be the conservative school that advocates the independent government of the Northeast Army.

Since we talk about the veteran , we will be the first to be affected. Zhang Zuoxiang must be eliminated in this battle for successors.

Picture | Zhang Zuoxiang

The second is Yang Yuting . Yang Yuting has always advocated overthrow Chiang, but if he rashly overthrows Chiang, will inevitably be divided by Chiang Kai-shek , so Yang Yuting is also inappropriate.

On the other hand, Zhang Zuoxiang also figured it out that since he was Zhang Zuolin's brother, should do his best to support his eldest son to the throne, which is also right for his brother's heroic soul.

Finally, with the support of Zhang Zuoxiang, Zhang Xueliang formally took over the Northeast Army and inherited the Fengtian regime.

At this time, if Yang Yuting knew his status, he would not have caused any disaster of killing. However, he ultimately relied on his qualifications and age to suppress the young marshal. had to make the young marshal finally have a murderous intention towards him.

Picture | Yang Yuting

Northeast General Wolong, Zhang Zuolin is a capable general

If we talk about the earliest Northeast Army, we can say that we all know that it started with the horse bandits, Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Zuoling are the green forest heroes who worship their sons.

However, no one could have imagined that later, the Northeast Army became the most complete equipment and gun configuration and the strongest combat effectiveness in the country. Even the Japanese dared not to be small in the Northeast Army. All of this can be said that Yang Yuting made great contributions.

Yang Yuting is a person who has read books and has excellent military qualities. He can be regarded as a rare talent in the Northeast Army. In the initial warlord melee, the Northeast Army could not compare with the Zhili and Anhui factions in terms of equipment or military training.

. In order to expand the strength of the troops, Yang Yuting planned an extremely clever "Qinhuangdao Ordnance Case" in 1918

Direct warlord leader Feng Guozhang , and bought a sum of arms from the Japanese. The Japanese transported the ordnance to Qinhuangdao to prepare to hand over to the direct troops.

Picture | Feng Guozhang

And Yang Yuting learned from his insider that he immediately sent someone to forge the contract, and cheated away these excellent equipment from the Japanese.

It is because of this batch of weapons that Zhang Zuolin recruited troops and added 7 regular brigades' equipment at once. made Zhang Zuolin's back suddenly hard, and all of this can be said to be Yang Yuting's credit.

Later, Yang Yuting was also awarded the position of General Staff by Zhang Zuolin and became a celebrity around Zhang Zuolin. Yang Yuting's contribution was not only that. He was responsible for the armament work of the arsenals in the three northeastern provinces in 1924.

Yang Yuting understands the importance of talent . He respects talents and introduced technicians from Germany and Britain with generous treatment.

Under his leadership, the arsenal produced as high as 60,000 guns per year, and the arsenal produced as high as 400,000 bullets per day. Even the Japanese , who had always looked down on our country at that time, unanimously commented that this arsenal was the first arsenal in the East.

Picture | Zhang Zuolin

solved the weapons problems. Yang Yuting also has a unique vision in agriculture. The so-called "the army has not moved, the food and grass are the first" is enough to illustrate the importance of food to the army.

In the northeast that year, there were a lot of wastelands, and unlike the years of war in the pass, many fertile lands were very suitable for the development of agriculture.

, and Yang Yuting took this eye on this, so he organized farmers to start a "pioneering campaign" , turning many wastelands into high-quality fertile fields for growing grain, so that the Northeast Army can have stable logistical support.

Many people have commented on Yang Yuting as "the left and right hand of the Northeast Zhuge, Zhang Zuolin".

pic | Yang Yuting

One day emperor

If Yang Yuting can assist the young commander in the future, it may not have become the worst situation. is just his actions, which often aroused Zhang Xueliang's disgust.

Not to mention anything else, just take Zhang Zuolin as he was still alive, he privately led the military department to allocate 3.7 million yuan. This behavior was also removed from his post by Zhang Zuolin after learning about it. Although he was later activated, there was still a knot.

After Zhang Zuolin's death, Yang Yuting often relied on his past relationship with Zhang Zuolin to put his position higher than Zhang Xueliang.

After Zhang Xueliang took office, he needed to establish a certain prestige immediately, but Yang Yuting was against him.

relied on his old age in front of the young Zhang Xueliang, preached Zhang Xueliang in public, which made Zhang Xueliang angry, and the relationship between the two slowly broke down.

Picture | Zhang Xueliang

Of course, there is another person among them, who is also an important factor in the young marshal's killing Yang Yuting later.

This person is Yang Yuting’s right-hand assistant Chang Yinhuai . Speaking of which, is also a person with outstanding abilities, otherwise he would not have been accepted by Yang Yuting as a celebrity around him.

He was also the governor of Heilongjiang Province at that time and the chairman of the Transportation Committee. was in charge of the Northeast Railway Bureau, and he grabbed Yang Yuting's territory openly and secretly, occupying Zhang Xueliang's assets.

But the young marshal is not a playboy. Although he doesn't like what the two of them do, he also knows that even his father valued the two when he was alive, it is enough to show their extraordinary qualities.

However, what happened later made the young man kill.

pic | Yang Yuting

forced the young marshal to the palace and destroyed Great Wall

1929, Yang and Chang came to Ship Mansion . The purpose of was to discuss with Zhang Xueliang and let Chang Yinhuai take charge of the supervision of Northeast Railway .

. At that time, someone was already doing it in this position. Yang Yuting meant to ask the young marshal to directly remove the original person and let Chang Yinhuai take the lead.

This made Zhang Xueliang feel dissatisfied. Why did let Chang Yinhuai take over the power? All power is concentrated in his hands. . Should I take care of myself next?

Zhang Xueliang refused righteously, but Yang Yuting, who has always despised the young marshal, did not agree with . He directly took out the documents that had been prepared long ago and asked Zhang Xueliang to just sign a letter on it. It was completely a matter of forcing the ward.

It was at this moment that Zhang Xueliang finally decided to get rid of the two. He said quietly that this matter still needs long-term planning. he asked the two to go to the coach's mansion for dinner first, and discussed together after the meal. At the same time, he began to arrange a plan for the execution.

Picture | Zhang Xueliang

But when he really reached this point, the young young man still couldn't make up his mind after all. After all, both of them were their uncles and their abilities were stronger than him. He didn't understand whether he was doing this was right.

After thinking about it, Zhang Xueliang, who had never believed in the sayings of ghosts and gods, decided to use something to bet on God's will, so he took out a silver dollar and used this silver dollar to guess what God meant.

Zhang Xueliang, in his later years, said in his memoir: "I was not superstitious at first, but in this matter (execution of Yang Yuting), I had to superstitiously."

He threw out the silver dollar at that time, three times in a row, all facing upward, and facing upward means that Tianyi believes that Zhang Xueliang should get rid of Yang and Chang.

Zhang Xueliang felt very evil. Should he really be the capable general who killed his father? So he threw out the silver dollar again. If is the opposite, then it will be time for him to decide and he must get rid of Yang Yuting.

Picture | Silver dollar

The first two times were both negative, which made Zhang Xueliang even more frightened at that time. He threw it out again. For the third time, he no longer dared to look at , so he asked his wife Yu Fengzhi to help him look at it, and Yu Fengzhi started crying when he saw it.

Zhang Xueliang asked her quickly why she cried, but she didn't know that Yu Fengzhi knew him well for so many years. She had guessed what Zhang Xueliang meant, so she said: "I know you are going to kill someone again."

Zhang Xueliang saw that, as expected, the coin showed the opposite. If it were the front three times, it might mean that Yang Yuting's life would not last long, and the reverse three times, it means that Yang Yuting will die, just as God doesn't want to give him a way out.

Seeing this result, Zhang Xueliang, who was struggling in his heart, stopped struggling and decided to arrange a execution plan.

It was like this. After dinner, Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai arrived at the living room on time. They thought that the young marshal could sign the signature smoothly tonight, but waiting for them was a sudden gun.

Picture | Yu Fengzhi

Before they could speak, the person who executed the execution said first: "According to the command of the superior, you must destroy the unity and execute the gun immediately and execute it immediately."

Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai had no room for refutation at all. didn't even have time to say a word, and immediately turned into two cold corpses as the gunshots were fired.

Perhaps this also shows that Zhang Xueliang was still a little confused and was even afraid to face the sight of the corpses of the two.

Until Zhang Xueliang's adjutant Rong Zhen arrived at the coach's mansion in the evening. Zhang Xueliang immediately held Rong Zhen's hand, perhaps in order to seek psychological comfort, Rong Zhen found something was wrong with Zhang Xueliang and hurriedly asked what had happened.

Zhang Xueliang slowly told the story of the matter. Rong Zhen was shocked after hearing this. felt that this matter was too hasty, but the situation was done and he could only carry out the aftermath.

Picture | Chang Yinhuai

Many years later, the people at the scene recalled that everything was arranged in advance. After Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai came in, there was no extra thought, and the gunman around them immediately shot them a few times. The whole process was very straightforward and decisive.

When the guard squad of the coach's mansion heard the gunshots, what he saw was the corpses of two people. The young coach ordered people to wrap the corpses of two people with a carpet and send them to their respective homes.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Xueliang wrote documents with Rong Zhen overnight. Early the next morning, publicly announced documents such as "Yang Chang's Judgment" and "Record the Details of Yang Chang's Judgment", and announced the crimes of the two people, such as the crimes of rebellion and privately building an army. After

, Zhang Xueliang wrote a letter to Yang Yuting's wife explaining Yang Yuting's mistakes. sent someone to send condolences to Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai's families, and ordered the soldiers to protect their property , and then count them all and hand them over to their families.

Picture | Zhang Xueliang

The few young marshals blame him

In fact, according to Zhang Xueliang, he did not think about executing Yang Yuting at that time. He just wanted to put Yang Yuting in prison after the shot of Chang Yinhuai.

is his wife. Yu Fengzhi said to him: "If you want to keep Yang Yuting, then afterwards, the boss of Yang Yuting's faction wants to protect him. How should you make a choice?"

is just this sentence, awakening Zhang Xueliang. Only when Yang Yuting dies can everyone keep silent, otherwise he will only be in trouble.

Someone later interviewed Zhang Xueliang, "Did you think about detaining Yang Yuting first?" Zhang Xueliang said: "The so-called "one word will prosper the country, one word will lose the country." may be the words of his wife Yu Fengzhi, which became a post on the King of Hell that ended Yang Yuting's life.

Picture | After Yu Fengzhi

and shot Yang Yuting, Zhang Xueliang has been in self-blame for many years. Not to mention anything else, Yang Yuting is indeed a very capable general.

He studied in Japan for many years. After returning to China, he has been helping the general manage the troops, establish an arsenal and implement a military farming system. All these contributions can be said to be Yang Yuting's. No one will risk the world's brilliance to be greedy for merit.

, and Zhang Xueliang also publicly stated: "If Yang Yuting had not been killed, even the September 18th Incident would not have happened." Since then, the silver dollar that made Yang Yuting lose his life was locked up by the young coach and put it in an iron cabinet.

This incident also made Zhang Xueliang, who has never been superstitious, feel a little strange. Perhaps the result of six times was God's intention, and of course, perhaps from the bottom of his heart, it is also the result that Zhang Xueliang wants to see the most.

In this matter, Zhang Xueliang decisively shot Yang and Chang without any procedures. At that time, many bigwigs praised and criticized this matter.

Picture | Zhang Xueliang (left)

Some people think that Zhang Xueliang did too hasty. Although the two of them were their fault , they should never be killed so hasty.

did not even give the two people a chance to speak, nor did they give each unit of the Northeast Army a notice. Instead, they directly "take first and report later".

Some people think that the two are arrogant. relies on their qualifications to bully the young marshal and commit a big taboo and the crime is unforgivable. Generally speaking, this incident has brought many impacts to the Northeast, both positive and negative.

Because although Zhang Xueliang successfully established his authority through this incident, some subordinates were also disappointed by his behavior, thus losing two external social talents in politics.

As for internal affairs, Chang Yinhuai also has very good abilities. After losing him, the management of transportation in Northeast China was greatly affected.

Picture | Chang Yinhuai

In terms of negotiations with Japan, facing the aggressive Japanese army, without Yang Yuting's sleekness and wandering, he often seems to be stretched. Since then, , the three northeastern provinces, , has ushered in earth-shaking changes in the situation.

Zhang Xueliang also felt very guilty about this. After being under house arrest, he also wrote about Yang Yuting's death in his memoirs after .

When Yang Yuting secretly established an army and developed its power, the general Zhang Zuolin did not kill him, but used other methods to punish the Northeast Zhuge.

Zhang Xueliang said that if he could be more tolerant back then and chose to deal with in a more tolerant and tactful way like his father, perhaps the situation in Northeast China and even the history of China may change in the future.

Picture | Zhang Xueliang

Conclusion

Just the young marshal in front of him is only in his early 30s, and he is still young after all, and he is prone to act impulsively, which leads to the worst results. However, for Zhang Xueliang's behavior, it is not only right or wrong to evaluate, but everything has two sides.

Even people are no exception, especially those in power and those with high positions and power, they should consider the overall situation from the perspective of the whole picture, and no matter when, national interests should be put first.

and Yang Yuting is a pro-Japanese faction. Perhaps this is also the fundamental factor for Zhang Xueliang to insist on executing Yang Yuting.