Zhang Wenming/text
Source: "Jinan Cultural and Historical Materials"
Wang Yaowu Wang Yaowu
Wang Yaowu and I are both from Tai'an, Shandong, and we are a little related. He kept me working by his side from 1933 to 1948 in order to support me. Because I have followed him for 15 years, I have witnessed and heard about everything from a certain battle he commanded to the trivial matters of life around him. These fragmented memories may have some reference value for the study of a certain period of history or for the study of Wang Yaowu himself, if it can play such a role, then I, an old man who has reached the twilight of his life, can enter Jiuquan with a smile.
In 1933, when I was 18 years old, I couldn't find a way to make a living in my hometown in Tai'an, and my family told me that Wang Yaowu was now a senior official and a brigade commander of the Central Army in Hubei. At this time, he was encircling and suppressing the Red Army in Hubei. In addition to being the brigade commander of the Central Supplementary Brigade, in order to increase his income to support his family, he also opened a biscuit factory in Hankou (Wang Yaowu worked as an apprentice at the Tianjin Bei Anli Biscuit Company before entering the Whampoa Military Academy). Soon the Red Army broke through to the west, and from Guizhou to the north, Wang Yaowu was ordered to lead his troops to move to the south of Shaanxi to block the Red Army. Then the king transferred me to his mansion. He takes care of his wife, Zheng Yilan, and several children. Soon, I and his family also went to Hanzhong, and from then on, I served as a guard by Wang Yaowu's side.
When Wang Yaowu was stationed in Hanzhong, Shaanxi, the brigade headquarters was stationed in Hanzhong City, and the regiments were stationed in the areas of Baocheng, Mianxian, and Chenggu in an attempt to intercept the Red Army marching north from Sichuan. One day in December 1936, Wang Yaowu suddenly received an order from the Nanjing government, saying that Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng had rebelled in Xi'an, detained Chiang Kai-shek, and ordered Wang Yaowu to go north to Xi'an to crusade against Zhang and Yang. At that time, the order was as urgent as a spark, and I hurriedly set off from Hanzhong with Wang Yaowu and marched north. When the troops arrived in Zexian, Wang Yaowu suddenly received another order to "stop standby". During the "standby" period, Wang Yaowu saw that the city wall of Zexian County was incomplete and the streets were uneven, so he ordered the troops to strengthen the city wall and repair the road. About a week later, the Xi'an Incident was resolved peacefully, Zhang Xueliang personally sent Chiang Kai-shek back to Nanjing, and Wang Yaowu's troops were ordered to return to Hanzhong. At this time, it was the beginning of 1937, and we had celebrated the New Year in Hanzhong.
On July 7, 1937, the Japanese army provoked the Chinese army at the Lugou Bridge in Beijing, and the Chinese army rose up to resist, and the Sino-Japanese War broke out. The Japanese army soon occupied Beiping and Tianjin. In August, the Japanese army landed in Shanghai again and launched an invasion, and the Chinese and Japanese armies fought again in Shanghai. At that time, only Zhang Zhizhong led part of the army to resist the Japanese army in Shanghai, and Chiang Kai-shek ordered Wang Yaowu to rush to Shanghai to participate in the war, and reorganized his supplementary brigade into the new 11th Division. I rushed from Hanzhong to Baoji with Wang Yaowu's rapid march, and prepared to take the train from Longhai Road to Shanghai quickly. On the way, he received an order to reorganize his newly formed 11th Division into the 51st Division, with Wang Yaowu as the division commander and Zhang Lingfu as the deputy division commander. His troops were also equipped with new equipment, and the original "Hanyang-made" (rifle) was replaced by "Zhongcheng" (rifle). On August 28, Wang Yaowu led his troops to Suzhou, and after getting off the bus, he quickly rushed to Jiading, and the division headquarters was stationed in Yangshupu. On the 29th, it took over Hu Zongnan's defense line from Luodian to Shixianggong Temple, and the whole division immediately fought with the Japanese army. At that time, the Japanese army was much better equipped than our Chinese army, they had planes on and tanks under, while we only had rifles, machine guns, grenades. In terms of equipment, the Japanese army is in an absolute advantage, but the morale of our Chinese army is high, and when I see the plaster flag on the Japanese tank in the distance (the Japanese flag is shaped like a plaster of traditional Chinese medicine), my eyes are on fire. During the day, Japanese planes bombed in turn, and Wang Yaowu led a few of our guards to the front line at night to command. At that time, bullets flew over our heads, shells exploded around us, and the soldiers fell one after another, but Wang Yaowu still took us to shuttle through the rain of bullets. When I first came to the battlefield in person, I couldn't help but feel a little timid, but seeing Wang Yaowu so calm, I was not so afraid. In this way, he fought with the Japanese army in Shanghai for three months, and at the end of November, Wang Yaowu was ordered to retreat from Shanghai and participate in the defense of the capital Nanjing. We set up camp in Shangzhen, 9 kilometers outside Nanjing, and the Japanese quickly pursued them from Shanghai to Nanjing. One day, Wang Yaowu led the commanders of each regiment to inspect the position, but was suddenly surrounded by the Japanese army, and the regiments and battalions of the 51st Division quickly rushed to reinforce them. After breaking through, Wang led his troops to retreat to Yuhuatai and Shuixi Gate. At that time, Tang Shengzhi was in charge of the defense of Nanjing, and in order to find out the situation of the enemy and us and Tang Shengzhi's defensive intentions, Wang led several of our guards to Tang Shengzhi's headquarters in Nanjing by car. But there were only a few guards in front of the headquarters, but the building was empty, and it turned out that Tang Shengzhi had abandoned the city and fled every day. The king led us into a chariot in a hurry, intending to return to the garrison, when the rout was so crowded that the chariot could not move at all. Wang then ordered us to throw away the car and go west on foot, and when we arrived at the edge of the city, we met a platoon commander of Song Xilian's department, Wang explained his identity, and handed the platoon commander a business card of his own, and the platoon commander helped us tie a rope with a gaiter belt and go down the city. When they arrived at the bank of the Yangtze River, a small boat prepared by the engineer battalion for Wang Yaowu was already waiting by the river, and Wang hurriedly boarded the boat and went to the north bank. There were many people on the boat, so I had to find a sleeper to hold onto, drift down the river, and finally arrived in Jiangbei. I stood on the north bank of the Yangtze River and watched the dead floating on the river flow down like autumn leaves, while the Japanese troops pursuing the Chinese army on the south bank of the Yangtze River kept shooting at the routs fighting for the crossing. Half a century has passed since this tragic scene, but I still feel it floating in front of my eyes.
When I arrived on the north bank of the Yangtze River, I found Wang Yaowu, who was ordering the soldiers to post a notice on the telephone pole that read, "The 51st Division has assembled in Chuzhou." I followed Wang Yaowu as I went, and while containing the soldiers who had broken down along the way. When I arrived in Chuzhou, Japanese planes bombed every day, and I followed Wang into an air-raid shelter, and it happened that the bomb fell on the air-raid shelter, and the hole collapsed, killing some people, but Wang Yaowu was not hurt, and people talked one after another: "Commander Wang is really a blessed general, and those of us who are soldiers have also been stained with light!"
After staying in Chuzhou for a few days and sheltering some of the defeated generals, Wang Yaowu received an order to assemble in Kaifeng, Henan. When we arrived in Kaifeng, we happened to encounter an emergency alarm, and we thought that there was another Japanese plane, but when the alarm was lifted, we asked and learned that it was Chiang Kai-shek who had arrested Han Fuyu, chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government. During the Kaifeng assembly, Wang asked me to call the Zhenxing Biscuit Company he started in Hankou and ask the company to inform his wife, Zheng Yilan, that we had escaped from Nanjing to Kaifeng. After stopping in Kaifeng for more than ten days, Wang was ordered to lead his troops to Shashi and Yichang in Hubei Province for training. When I arrived in Hubei, Wang promoted me to be the secretary of his guard platoon, and asked me to count the number of guards in the platoon, only 22 of the 40 people remained, and Zhang Zhong, the leader of the guard platoon, only cared about his personal escape, regardless of the guards, and was removed by Wang.
Chiang Kai-shek (left) and Wang Yaowu (right)
At the beginning of 1938, after occupying a large area of Shandong, the Japanese invading army moved south along the Jinpu Road in an attempt to join forces with the Japanese army from Nanjing to the north in Xuzhou. At this time, Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater of Operations, was stationed in Xuzhou, and he ordered his headquarters to block the Japanese army moving south, and launched a large-scale battle with the Japanese Itagaki and Jirong divisions in Taierzhuang, more than 50 kilometers northeast of Xuzhou. In early April, Wang Yaowu was ordered to lead his troops to aid the Chinese defenders who were fighting hard against the Japanese army in the Taierzhuang area. Wang quickly led his troops to the front line, and a fierce battle broke out with the Japanese troops blocking the Chinese reinforcements at Sanyi Village in Dangshan County, west of Xuzhou, and the commander of Wang's first regiment was killed. Wang Yaowu's younger brother, Wang Zheen, the commander of the first battalion, was almost shot by Wang Yaowu because of his ineffective combat. The Battle of Taierzhuang lasted for a month, and the Japanese army suffered heavy losses, and it was rumored that the Japanese army suffered more than 20,000 casualties. The Chinese army also suffered heavy casualties, rumored to be more than double that of the Japanese army.
After the Battle of Taierzhuang, Wang Yaowu was ordered to lead his troops to retreat to Hunan. In mid-October, our army arrived at the outskirts of Changsha City, and saw that the sky was full of red, saying that the Chinese defenders of Changsha were ordered to carry out a scorched earth war of resistance and burned Changsha, which burned for three or four days, and most of the city became ruins. The day after our troops arrived in Changsha, Chiang Kai-shek also arrived in Changsha, and Wang Yaowu went to see Chiang and sent troops to guard Chiang. A few days later, three people, including the commander of Changsha City Defense, were shot by Chiang for lying about the military situation and burning Changsha.
From the autumn of 1938 to the spring of 1941, Wang was training in Changsha. In the late spring of 1941, Wang went to Yichun and Fenyi in Jiangxi Province to resist the westward invasion of the Japanese army, and the battle of Zhanggushan was the most intense. The Japanese army suffered heavy casualties in this battle, and it is said that the Japanese commander was Kenji Dohihara. Because the Japanese army had planes to help in the battle, our army suffered heavy casualties, and Chiang Kai-shek's nephew, Yu Jishi, commander of the 74th Army, commanded each division, and each division had less than 500 men left after the battle. Yu Jishi was transferred to Chongqing, the wartime capital, and the post of commander of the 74th Army was taken over by Wang Yaowu. Soon after, Wang Yaowu was promoted to commander-in-chief of the 24th Group Army, under the jurisdiction of the 74th Army (commander Zhang Lingfu), the 100th Army (commander Li Tianxia), and the 73rd Army (commander Shi Zhongcheng).
In the autumn of 1941, Wang Yaowu approved my application for the 18th session of the Second Branch of the Central Military Academy in Wugang, Hunan, and returned to the Wang Department after graduation. At that time, I thought of Wang Yaowu's unit leading troops, but Wang refused to allow it, and said: "You are still by my side! In the past few years of fighting against Japanese devils, my relatives and fellow villagers have died so much, how can I explain to my fathers and fellow villagers in my hometown in the future!" So Wang Yaowu sent me to the oil depot to manage the gasoline for him, and when he left, the king said to me: "Don't despise this work, gasoline is the lifeblood of modern military warfare, and war cannot be carried out without gasoline, you must take care of the gasoline for me!"
In April 1944, the Japanese army attacked Changsha in a major attempt to open up the north-south communication line of Chinese mainland. During the Japanese attack, Wang Yaowu commanded operations in the areas of Hengyang and Zhijiang in Hunan.
In August 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally. At this time, Wang Yaowu served as the commander of the Fourth Front Army, and his headquarters was stationed in Zhijiang, Hunan.
In late August 1945, Army Commander-in-Chief He Yingqin, Chief of Staff Xiao Yisu, Deputy Chiefs of Staff Leng Xin and Cai Wenzhi came to Zhijiang, and Butler, Chief of Staff of the US Army in the China Theater, and Takeo Imai, Deputy Chief of General Staff of the General Headquarters of the Japanese Invasion of China, also arrived one after another, and they came to discuss Japan's surrender to China. Wang Yaowu and his headquarters personnel have been particularly busy these days, and the local garrison is responsible for matters such as security and reception.
During the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, Wang Yaowu, as a military commander, fought in the south and the north, and almost died in artillery fire many times, but he finally did not fall, on the contrary, his official rank rose step by step. On the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, he was only a brigade commander of a supplementary brigade, but at the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War, he became the commander-in-chief of the group army from division commander and army commander to the end of the Anti-Japanese War. At the end of 1945, Chiang Kai-shek appointed him as the commander of the second appeasement zone, and in January 1946, he led his troops into Jinan, Shandong. A poor farmer at the foot of Mount Tai more than 20 years ago, a young man from Tianjin North Anli Biscuit Company, turned the world upside down 20 years later, he actually returned with glory and became a feudal official, the parent official of the people in his hometown. If the country is on the right track from now on, he will be able to sit back and enjoy the blessings as a minister. However, the heavens were not beautiful, and Chiang Kai-shek ordered him to "go back to his hometown and destroy the Communist Party." He had already fought against the Communist Party 10 years ago, and he knew that it would not be easy to deal with; Today, the Communist Party is very different from 10 years ago, it is already a group with more than one million troops, it occupies such a vast area, and so many people support it and support it, how can this be eliminated? However, he is a soldier and is also a protégé and descendant of Chiang Kai-shek, so how dare he disobey the will of the "principal"? At the end of 1946, after he concurrently served as chairman of Shandong Province, he once said to a few of us who were close to him: "I have fought hundreds of battles and battles in my life, but I have not lost many times; But today, we came to our hometown in Shandong to fight the Communist Party, and I think the time has come to be embarrassed!" At that time, there was a Xiangshi in Jinan nicknamed "Mr. Turtle" (some people called him "Xiao Zhuge ") to Wang Yaowu and said: "I won't talk about the commander's previous affairs, there are gains and losses, and there are no dangers; But after the age of 43, please forgive me for saying that the official star is obscure, and there may be some trouble. "Wang was born in the thirtieth year of Guangxu (1904), 11 years older than me, and "Mr. Turtle" showed him in early 1947, when Wang happened to be 43 years old. As far as I know, Wang was not superstitious in his ordinariness, and did not necessarily regard the words of the Xiangshi as a golden rule; But in the face of such a powerful opponent as the Communist Party, Xiangshi's words made him nervous for a long time. Judging from the situation on the battlefield in Shandong, it is indeed worrying, at this time the battle of Laiwu has ended, and even Li Xianzhou, deputy commander of the second appeasement zone, has become a prisoner of the communists. After the Battle of Laiwu, Chiang Kai-shek was afraid that the People's Liberation Army would take advantage of the victory to attack Jinan, so he personally flew to Jinan to find Wang Yaowu. I was not present and did not know what Chiang Kai-shek said to Wang Yaowu, but afterwards Wang's adjutant Song Guangyi said to me: "This time, the chairman spoke to the commander in a very stern tone, saying that if there was a problem in the defense of Jinan, the commander would be fully responsible. "No wonder I can't see Wang's smile when I go to Wang's house these days!
Wang Yaowu (first from left)
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, I came to Jinan with Wang Yaowu, and by this time I had been promoted to major. One day I went to his house, and he said to me, "Even though you are now a major, I still want you to take care of the petrol for me." Of course, as you know, we now need more gasoline than we did during the war, and we can't fight this war without gasoline. I'm not at ease with someone else managing gas. So he appointed me as the chief of the oil depot in the second appeasement zone.
By 1948, the military situation in Shandong had become even more severe. In the summer of 1947, after the 74th Division, one of the five main forces of the Kuomintang Army, was annihilated in the Battle of Menglianggu in Lunan, the situation in Shandong deteriorated, and in March 1948, Zhoucun, Zhangdian, Boshan, and Zichuan on the Jiaoji Railway Line fell one after another; At the end of April, the important town of Weixian also fell, more than 40,000 troops were annihilated and captured, and Chen Jincheng, the commander of the reorganized 96th Army, also became a prisoner. By May 1948, only the two major cities of Jinan and Qingdao were left in Shandong, like two isolated islands in the ocean. Because all the counties in Shandong were occupied by the Communists, the Kuomintang officials, exiled landlords, homecoming regiments, security teams, exiled students, and wealthy wives and ladies, all fled to Jinan for refuge, and even the bridge cave was full of people. At that time, some people changed the words describing the scenery of Jinan in Daming Lake, "lotus flowers on all sides and willows on three sides, a city with mountains and half a city lake", saying that Jinan was "bandits on all sides and on three sides, and a city wife and half a city soldier", which shows that Jinan was in a mess and the wind was rumoring at that time.
It is not an exaggeration to say that there were "half-city soldiers" in Jinan at that time, there were more than 110,000. It is said that the population of Jinan was only 300,000 at that time, so soldiers accounted for more than one-third of Jinan's population. With these hundreds of thousands of soldiers to defend a city like Jinan, which is not too big, it is not too small; But Wang Yaowu knew in his heart what kind of goods these hundreds of thousands of soldiers were. Taking the so-called regular army as an example, most of them are reorganized troops that have been annihilated by the PLA, and many officers and men have been captured by the PLA and then released, and they all understand the CCP's prisoner policy. No matter how many such soldiers were, they could not win the battle, so they could only receive weapons and send them to the Communist Party. As for those local teams, the vanguard of national salvation, and the youth teaching corps, they are just indiscriminate. Wu Huawen brought 20,000 soldiers, Wang Yaowu was not at ease, he knew that Wu Huawen was a famous Changchang general, the Northwest Army, the Central Army, and the traitor team, he had done it; But in this dangerous city, Wu's 20,000 troops are still a force to be reckoned with. Therefore, in order to encircle Wu Huawen, Wang Yaowu tried his best to ensure that Wu was the commander of the reorganized 96th Army and the commander of the 84th Division, and appointed Wu as the commander of the Jinan West Garrison Area. Although Wang Yaowu was not at ease with Wu, he felt that Wu would not defect to the Communist Party, because Wu had fought against the Communist army for many years. He had a grudge with the Communist Party, which was the reason why Wang was not at ease with Wu but entrusted him with a heavy responsibility.
It was precisely because Wang Yaowu knew his strength in defending Jinan that after losing the big strongholds of Zhangdian and Weixian in the first half of 1948, Wang Fei went to Nanjing to meet Chiang Kai-shek in mid-May. According to Song Guangyi and others, who had accompanied Wang to Nanjing, they told me after they returned that Wang proposed to Chiang Kai-shek to abandon Jinan in Nanjing, but Chiang criticized him, saying that Wang was not angry and that he would be discouraged before the enemy could attack him. Wang Yaowu ran into a gray nose in Nanjing, and flew back to Jinan helplessly to start his strategic deployment. He took the line from Luokou on the south bank of the Yellow River to Baliwa in the south of the city as the boundary, and divided Jinan into two garrison areas, east and west. Cao Zhenduo, commander of the 73rd Division, was the commander of the eastern garrison area, and Wu Huawen, commander of the 96th Army and commander of the 84th Division, was the commander of the western garrison area, with about 50,000 people in each of the two garrison areas. However, there are more miscellaneous armies and local teams in the western garrison area, and relatively speaking, the combat effectiveness is poorer; There are more regular troops in the East Garrison Region, and relatively speaking, the combat effectiveness is stronger.
September 16, 1948. The old calendar is August 14, the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival. On this night, the settlement army launched a large-scale offensive against Jinan. At the beginning of the Battle of Jinan, the fighting in the eastern suburbs was the fiercest. Perhaps it was because the PLA understood that the eastern front was strong, so at the beginning of the campaign, it first launched a powerful offensive in the eastern suburbs to gnaw off this hard bone. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) used howitzers and heavy pursuit artillery to bombard Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain, the forward positions of the Kuomintang army in the eastern suburbs, and the positions were in a sea of fire, and after a night of bloody fighting, the two mountains were occupied by the PLA. Wang Yaowu shot and killed Zhu Guohua, a battalion commander of the 15th Brigade who retreated without authorization, but he failed to regain his declining momentum.
Before the start of the Jinan Campaign, the oil depot was set up on the 12th Road in the western district of Jinan, and there were 1,200 barrels of "Mei Foo" gasoline. Since I left Tai'an to follow Wang Yaowu as a soldier, I have not returned to my hometown because the Japanese soldiers forcibly occupied Shandong. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, I came to Jinan, and as soon as my parents heard about it, they took my wife Zuo Bingying to visit Jinan. One day, my primary school teacher, Zhao Pingwu, came to visit with his primary school colleague Yu Chen, who is a relative of my wife and has been in contact with me a lot since then. Later, I learned that Mr. Yu was an underground worker of the Communist Party, but because of his relatives, it was inconvenient for me to speak out. Later, due to the increasingly tense situation in Jinan, Wang Yaowu asked me to move the oil depot to Jingqi Road and Xiaowei 6th Road. On the evening of August 13, 1948, Yu Chen sent a note to my wife, on which were written the words "Let civilization keep gasoline". My wife handed me the note, gave me a set of civilian clothes by the way, and told me to act on the occasion and pay attention. During this period, people from my hometown (which is a liberated area) often came to my house, which attracted the attention of the staff office of the pacification zone. One day, Guan Xitian, director of the General Staff Office, called me over and said, "Wenming, you are an old subordinate who has followed the commander for many years, and you are also his fellow villager and relative. If you have dealings with the communist army and leak our secrets, no matter how many years you are a subordinate who has followed the commander, you must be dealt with in accordance with military law!" At that time, I told him that the people who came to me were my parents, wife, and teachers, and that I had been a soldier for many years, and that they had heard that I had arrived in Jinan, so they naturally came to visit me. This is how we finally got through it. After the start of the Battle of Jinan, Wu Huawen revolted after two days of fighting, and then I received an order from the Quartermaster Department of the Suijing District: "Strictly guard the gasoline, wait for the car to arrive, and prepare to break through." Then he received an order: "Gasoline can be guaranteed, but if it can't, it will be blown up!" At this time, I sent my wife to look for Yu Chen, but I didn't find it. A platoon of soldiers sent by the special mission to guard the oil depot also withdrew to the city, and the storekeepers Wang Jinsheng and Xuan Xuzhen also fled, leaving me and He Yuyou, the sergeant clerk, to guard the oil depot. When the battle was raging, Yu Chen came to me, and as soon as they met, he asked if the gasoline had been burst, and I said no. Yu Chen took me to meet Meng Wu, the liaison section chief of the People's Liberation Army, and I handed over my pistol to Meng by the way. Meng ordered Yu Chen to take me to the Jinan Military Control Commission and meet Zeng Shan, deputy director. When asked why the gasoline was not blown up, I said, "The gasoline is owned by the state, it is the wealth of the people, and it should be kept." Director Zeng shook my hand and said, "You know me very well. "Then I handed over the gasoline diary and 1,200 barrels of gasoline to the Military Control Commission. I was treated like an insurrectionist.
Wang Yaowu in renovation (middle)
Wu Huawen's uprising on the Western Front disrupted Wang Yaowu's strategic deployment, and the airlift of aid to Jiji was forced to be suspended, and the People's Liberation Army on the Western Front quickly advanced to the commercial port, Wang Yaowu's command center, the Second Appeasement Zone Command, moved to the city, and my oil depot was also moved from the 12th Road to the 6th Xiaowei Road. On the evening of 21 September, the Quartermaster Department of the Headquarters informed me that 50 trucks would be sent to load gasoline to prepare for the breakout, but before the gasoline could be delivered, I was told to blow up the oil depot. I procrastinated, and then I handed over all the gasoline in the oil depot to the Military Control Commission, and I went back to my hometown in Tai'an. But a few days after the Battle of Jinan ended, I heard that Wang Yaowu was also captured on the way to Qingdao.
From 1933, when I defected to Wang Yaowu as his guard, to 1948, when Wang Yaowu was captured after the liberation of Jinan, I followed Wang for 15 years. In the past 15 years, I have witnessed the entire process of Wang Yaowu from being a supplementary brigade commander to being the commander of the appeasement zone and the chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government. I think the reason why Wang Yaowu was able to become the king of the south of Shandong in 20 years from a poor man at the foot of Mount Tai and a young man in the Tianjin biscuit factory is because he was born in Huangpu and is the so-called "protégé of the Son of Heaven"; But on the other hand, I think it is also related to his military talent, light wealth and righteousness, goodness and talent envelopment. For example, he once gave his biscuit factory in Changsha to Li Bingyan, the biscuit factory in Hankou to Duan's father, and the biscuit factory in Chongqing to Duan Wenbing; For each graduate of the Central Military Academy, he sent people to select outstanding students to enrich his troops; After he came to Shandong, he set up a guest house in Jinan, where food and accommodation were free to attract all kinds of people. So his subordinates always said: "Follow Boss Wang (the honorific title for the king), don't be afraid of having nothing to do, I'm afraid of not having the ability." The boss is promoted quickly, and we will be promoted too!" After Wang Yaowu came to Jinan, the saying "three Li is not as good as one king" circulated in the society. Sanli refers to Li Yannian, Li Xianzhou, and Li Yutang, all of whom are from Shandong, all from Huangpu, and graduated two times earlier than Wang; However, in terms of status, position, power, and the degree of trust that Chiang Kai-shek placed in them, San Li was far inferior to Wang. Some people say that this is the king's luck, but I don't think it's good luck, but the king surpasses them in the three words "wisdom, benevolence and bravery".