Zhang Zuolin, as the leader of the warlords during the Republic of China period, occupied the northeast king of the three eastern provinces for more than ten years, under his leadership, the industry of the three eastern provinces at that time was developed, and the economic development was far away from other regions, not only the northeast, according to the investigation of the Republic of China newspapers, Zhang Zuolin's personal wealth was the head of the Beiyang warlords. The reason why Zhang Zuolin was able to do this was not to rely on bribery and pervert the law to squeeze the people, he had three major methods of accumulating wealth, which still seem to be very clever.
Zhang Zuolin was born as a bandit, and later accepted the recruitment of the imperial court to join the army, and became the person in charge of "suppressing bandits", and Zhang Zuolin's first bucket of gold in his life was also derived from this. Because he was familiar with the mountain bandit Zhang Zuolin's repeated military achievements, the imperial court rewarded him with a lot of silver. After having the money, Zhang Zuolin began to participate in arms trafficking. Moreover, unlike other people's arms, Zhang Zuolin's arms were all suppressed from mountain bandits, so he did not need any initial investment, and then sold to another batch of mountain bandits at a high price, and the next time the arms were returned to Zhang Zuolin's hands.
In this way, the left hand went in and out of the right hand, and Zhang Zuolin not only got a batch of arms in vain, but also earned a lot of silver from the mountain bandits. Zhang Zuolin was able to come up with this method, which had a lot to do with his life experience at the bottom when he was young.
After having the money earned from the mountain bandits, Zhang Zuolin began to invest in real estate, buy fields, and exchange the real money and silver in his hands for practical properties. According to the incomplete statistics of the Household Registration Department of the Shenyang Real Estate Bureau in the last century, there are more than ten Zhangjia real estate in Shenyang alone, more than 400 bungalows, and the real estate is countless. In addition, Zhang Zuolin also took out his own money and invested in bank investment enterprises, relying on these real estate properties, Zhang Zuolin's daily income is very considerable.
After Zhang Zuolin became the king of the three eastern provinces and became the king of the northeast, people began to give him "money", and the way of "sending money" was also very unique. The memoirs of the Republic of China Go master Wu Qingyuan recorded such an incident, Zhang Zuolin's family gambled continuously, every day someone went to lose money to the marshal, Wu Qingyuan's uncle played mahjong with Zhang Zuolin, and lost half a million yuan in one night, which was exactly the amount he and Zhang Zuolin agreed. Afterwards, Wu Qingyuan's uncle was given tens of thousands of hectares of farmland on the outskirts of Beijing.
Zhang Zuolin's three major ways to make money can be described as incomparably clever, and he was able to rank first among the three major warlords of the Republic of China, also because he could not do without the tiger and wolf master he spent a lot of money to build.