A few months after Zhang Zuo Lin's death, Zhang Xueliang shot and killed the expert Yang Yuting. Is this a helpless move?

Bong warlord Zhang was killed by the Japanese Kwantung Army in Huanggutun. Subsequently, Zhang's eldest son, Zhang Xueliang, took over as the security commander-in-chief of the three northeastern provinces and began to rule the Northeast.

Zhang Xueliang invited Yang Yuting, the supervisor of Arsenal in three northeastern provinces, and Chang Yinhuai, the governor of Heilongjiang Province, to talk about things in the reception room of Tiger Hall in Dashuai House. As soon as Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai were seated, the guards arranged by Zhang Xueliang rushed up and said, "On orders from the chief, you are opposed to changing the flag, obstructing national reunification, and want to put you both to death, immediately." Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai were shot on the spot.

As we all know, Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai can be called the heavyweights of warlords. He is Zhang's chief strategist, with heavy power and important position. Chang Yinhuai is also a political leader in Northeast China. He also served as Acting Minister of Communications, and the post of Governor of Heilongjiang Province was even more powerful. Zhang Xueliang was in power in Northeast China for only half a year. Why did he execute these two heavyweight warlords at the same time when he needed to attract talents?

In a sense, it is Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai who want to die.

Chang Yinhuai, a veteran of the Feng Department, won Zhang's trust. Because of this, they also formed a bossy style, and no one obeyed except Zhang. After Zhang Zuo Lin died, they didn't take Zhang Xueliang seriously at all. Yang Yuting disobeyed Zhang Xueliang's work arrangement and didn't respect Zhang Xueliang's new leadership. Chang Yinhuai once wrote to Chiang Kai-shek, responding to Zhang Xueliang's duplicity, saying that "there is no need to find Zhang in the Northeast. He dances with a poisonous needle every day and does not engage in politics. He can ask Yang for supervision or me if he has something to do. "

Ignoring and disrespecting leaders may lead to fatal disasters in any dynasty.

However, although Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai were killed, they did not commit the capital crime. After Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai were executed, Zhang Xueliang made public their seven major charges, namely, "secretly forming a group, plotting civil strife, colluding with the * * * party, subverting state power, obstructing peace talks, controlling ordinary politics, and committing corruption and dereliction of duty."

Among the seven major crimes, except for "obstructing peaceful discussion" and "controlling ordinary politics", the rest are crimes of desire. Although Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai have a good relationship, they have not colluded with anyone. As for "colluding with the party" and "subverting the government", it is even more nonsense. "Corruption and dereliction of duty" is even more groundless. After Yang Yuting's death, Zhang Xueliang sent someone to his house to check his property, with only 600,000 yuan, which was accumulated for decades. In the era of warlords who amassed wealth, this was simply an "honest official."

In addition, Zhang Xueliang executed Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai without any legal procedure. Zhang Xueliang didn't discuss with anyone beforehand. Zhang Xueliang executed Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai in this almost "assassination" way, which was quite hasty and made many veteran warlords feel chilling.

As early as Zhang's death, Japanese military leaders came to offer their condolences. Tetsutaro Muraoka, commander of the Kwantung Army, told Zhang Xueliang: "Take care of yourself, and pay attention to someone who is eyeing up in the dark and trying to replace it." Kenji Uehara, a military adviser to the Northeast Army, "advised Zhang Xueliang many times that if Yang Yuting was not excluded, it would endanger the position of commander". Quanzhu Lin, a Japanese diplomat, said more implicitly: "The actual situation in northeast China today is very similar to Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Japanese shogunate."

After listening to this passage, Zhang Xueliang bought a Japanese book, Oriental History, and learned that after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a great Japanese warlord, his son Toyotomi Hideyori inherited the political power. But Toyotomi Hideyori's father-in-law, Tokugawa Ieyasu, staged a coup, forcing his son-in-law to usurp power and set up the Tokugawa shogunate.

When Zhang Xueliang saw this, he was naturally frightened and drew a circle on the book.

We believe that here, Zhang Xueliang has already had the idea of killing Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai.

Later, Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai committed suicide and offended Zhang Xueliang many times. They insisted that Zhang Xueliang agree to set up the "Northeast Railway Supervision Office" and even asked Zhang Xueliang to sign it immediately, just giving Zhang Xueliang an excuse.