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One day in August 1929, the former warlord Chu Yupu was captured on the Jiaodong Peninsula by Liu Zhennian, an old subordinate known as the "King of Jiaodong". Liu Zhennian did not care about the feelings of his colleagues for many years, and on August 20 of the same year, he buried Chu Yupu alive in an unknown corner of Muping County, Jiaodong. In this way, the leader of a murderous Beiyang warlord completed his dirty and brutal life.
Briefly introduce chu Yupu's family history.
Chu Yupu, male, Han ethnicity, character Yunshan, born in 1887, From Boxpu Town, Wenshang County, Shandong Province (now part of Liangshan County). In his early years, he worked as a bandit, and then accepted the recruitment and defected to Zhang Zongchang, who was still a warlord directly under Beiyang at that time. In 1918, he followed Zhang Zongchang to Fengtian to join Zhang Zuolin, and after Zhang Zongchang's departure in 1924, he successively served as the commander of the Zhilu Coalition Army and the direct subordinate supervisor, and became the leader of the warlords on the prominent side.
It should be said that this Chu Yupu, who was brave in battle, flexible in mind, and good at embezzling money, was relatively well mixed among the warlords of the Beiyang Feng clan. But Chu Yupu has a very frightening habit, that is, he is addicted to killing.
In January 1927, he killed his fifth aunt and the famous Peking Opera characters Liu Hanchen and Gao Sankui, causing an uproar. What's going on? In the early years, when Chu Yupu went to the Tianjin brothel to have fun, she fell in love with the 16-year-old prostitute Xiaoqing Girl, redeemed herself, and became her fifth aunt. Chu Yupu was usually busy with war, and there were many wives and concubines in the family, and once the freshness passed, it was inevitable that he would snub the fifth aunt. When the fifth aunt was too bored, she went to the Tianjin Theater to watch a play and fell in love with Liu Hanchen, a young Peking opera star. Although the two did not break through the moral bottom line, after all, they had a private meeting and left photos of each other. After Chu Yupu received the servant's report, he rushed home from Beijing in a rage and arrested the adulterer. The fifth aunt did not admit to having an affair with Liu Hanchen, and confronted the grumpy Chu Yupu, who was killed by Chu with a pistol on the spot. Chu Yupu killed his fifth aunt, blamed all his resentment on Liu Hanchen and Gao Sankui, who helped the two men thread the needle, arrested them on charges of banditry and propaganda, and planned to shoot them. Liu Hanchen is not an ordinary person, his family has a wide façade in the Beiyang government, and he asked Mei Lanfang, Li Jinglin, Bi Shucheng and even Chu Yupu's immediate boss Zhang Zongchang to come forward to intercede and rescue. As a result, Chu Yupu played a slippery head, came a first slash and then played, ordered people to shoot Liu and Gao first, and then sent a telegram to Zhang Zongchang to say that the telegram was late, and the person had been shot. Liu and Gao were shot without trial, and they were shot under the circumstances of Zhang Zongchang's personal intercession, and you said how vicious Chu Yupu was in doing this.
From the summer of 1927 to the beginning of 1928, Chu Yupu arrested and killed dozens of revolutionaries, including underground party members Jiang Zhenhuan and Ji Da, committing heinous crimes.
Chu Yupu poisoned the resentful person, even if it was for his own people, he was still cruel. Bi Shucheng was a colleague of Chu Yupu for many years, and when Bi Shucheng was the commander of the Zhilu Coalition Army, Chu Yupu was only the division commander and chief of staff of the Zhilu Coalition Army. Within the Zhang Zongchang Group, Bi Shucheng's seniority and military achievements were higher than Chu Yupu's. In early 1927, during the Northern Expedition of the Guangdong Revolutionary Government, Bi Shucheng was then the defender of Jiaodong Town and the commander of the Eighth Army of the Zhilu Coalition Army, responsible for the defense of Shanghai. In March of the same year, the people of Shanghai, under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, staged an armed uprising that overthrew Zhang Zongchang's warlord government, and Bi Shucheng fled to Qingdao with a small number of his cronies to see Zhang Zongchang. Originally, according to Zhang Zongchang's meaning, as long as Bi Shucheng admitted his mistake and paid for it, he would let him have a way to live. However, Chu Yupu did not obey Zhang Zongchang's orders, and when he was ordered to receive Bi Shucheng, he set up an ambush and killed Bi Shucheng on the spot. It is said that before his death, Bi Shucheng pleaded with Chu Yupu to let him meet with Zhang Zongchang or have a phone call, but was also ruthlessly refused. Chu Yupu's actions led to a further split in the Zhilu coalition, and most of its men and horses soon defected to the Northern Expeditionary Army.
In May 1928, the Northern Expeditionary Army defeated Zhang Zuolin of the Feng Dynasty, and the Zhilu Coalition Army collapsed. After Chu Yupu announced his resignation, he hid on the Jiaodong Peninsula in an attempt to rely on the old department to make a comeback. At this time, the actual controller of the Jiaodong Peninsula was Chu Yupu's old subordinate, Liu Zhennian, the head of the local warlord known as the "King of Jiaodong". Liu Zhennian had already defected to Chiang Kai-shek and was appointed commander of the Provisional First Army and Commander of the First Division of the National Revolutionary Army. Chu Yupu played a ghost on his own turf, pulling his brigade and regimental commander to eat and drink and worship the handle, which made Liu Zhennian have a headache. After some thought, Liu Zhennian also figured it out, no poison is not a husband, instead of being swallowed up by you Chu Yupu and playing dead, it is better for me to start first and trap Chu Yupu in August 1929. On August 20 of the same year, Liu Zhennian ordered people to tie up Chu Yupu and bury him directly in a remote corner, and then sent a telegram to the Nationalist government to shoot the rebel Chu Yupu. The Nationalist government was naturally pleased to see the death of such a brutal and unmerciful warlord leader, and also sent a telegram to commend Liu Zhennian.
After Chu Yupu's death, his family did not dare to show it, after all, it was Chu Yupu who did the first one in the front, and Liu Zhennian who did the fifteenth in the back. The eldest brother said the second brother, both are similar.