In 1912, the Qing Dynasty officially fell. In the same year, the Republic of China was established, and Sun Yat-sen became the interim president. However, in order to force the Qing emperor to retreat and promote cooperation between the north and the south, Sun Yat-sen voluntarily abdicated, and the fruits of the national revolution were stolen by Yuan Shikai. Yuan Shikai became a great dictator and was resisted by the entire Chinese people, so he died in depression, and China entered a period of warlord chaos. At this time, Japan tried to annex the three northeastern provinces. Its approach was to win over individual warlords and instigate internal relations with other warlords.

But among them there was a warlord who played tricks on Japan, and he was Zhang Zuolin.

Zhang Zuolin was born in a poor peasant family since he was a child. He participated in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1898-1894 and later joined the Green Forest. His power grew so powerful that the Qing government recruited him because it was unable to suppress him. Zhang Zuolin assisted the Qing government in wiping out Du Lisan

and other bandit forces. Later, he eliminated the troubles, maintained the unity of the country, and gradually rose up the ranks. He successively served as the governor of Fengtian and the patrol envoy of the three eastern provinces. He was known as the "King of the Northeast" and became the leader of Beiyang. The leader of the military department.

However, during Zhang Zuolin's control of Northeast China, the three northeastern provinces were already in danger. Tsarist Russia in the north and neighboring Japan had been eyeing the three northeastern provinces. For this reason, Zhang Zuolin also weighed in on all parties. He formed an alliance with Tsarist Russia in the north and superficially united with Japan, creating a "three-legged" situation in Northeast China.

What I will tell you today is one of his schemes. At that time, the warlords had fierce internal struggles, each fighting for their own interests. During the Zhili-Fengtian war that took place within the warlords, Zhang Zuolin called Little Japan again and offered resources such as the Northeast Railway and mines to seduce Japan. Japan was greedy again this time , providing Zhang Zuolin with a large amount of military power. Soon, Zhang Zuolin won the Zhili-Fengtian War and became the President of Beiyang. The Japanese learned well this time and put Zhang Zuolin's promise on paper in advance, and came over with the document for Zhang Zuolin to sign and fulfill it. Zhang Zuolin took a look at it this time, wrote "read" on the article with a stroke of his pen, threw it to Japan, turned around and left.

Japan took the document excitedly and presented it happily. When he opened the document and took a look, he was very angry. It turned out that this kind of document must be signed and agreed to be effective.

This is Zhang Zuolin