During the period of the Beiyang warlords, Xu Lanzhou, who served as the overseer of Heilongjiang, left a rare photo, in the camera, the Beiyang warlord general who held military power and was full of ambition was dressed in civilian clothes and had a beard, looking particularly leisurely!
Heilongjiang overseer Xu Lanzhou
Xu Lanzhou was a warlord general during the Beiyang warlord period, who briefly ruled Heilongjiang, and later joined the Feng department and became a general under Zhang Zuolin, the king of Northeast China.
Xu Lanzhou was born in Hebei Province, a major martial arts province, played Confucianism in elementary school, practiced the skills of swords and sticks, and became a well-known figure in the Nangong area of Hebei.
In 1890, 20-year-old Xu Lanzhou chose to join the Rongma and joined Li Hongzhang's Huai Army as the leader of the pro-army horse team, starting his career as a Rongma.
Subsequently, in order to improve his personal military literacy, Xu Lanzhou came to Hunan to study military affairs in the martial arts system, and after graduating from here, he was arranged by the Qing court to serve in Yuan Shikai's newly built Army Supervision and Training Office.
However, the good times did not last long, in 1901, Xu Lanzhou and the eunuchs in the palace fought, resulting in many people suffering varying degrees of injury, afterwards, the Minister of Military Aircraft Rong Lu punished Xu Lanzhou, removed him from the new army training office, and arranged him to Zhang Xun as a battalion officer.
In 1907, the Qing court appointed Xu Shichang, Minister of Military Aircraft, to govern the three northeastern provinces, and Xu Lanzhou, who was the battalion manager of the right horse team of the Beiyang Patrol Huai Army, followed Xu Shichang to the front.
After arriving in the three northeastern provinces, Xu Lanzhou, who was 37 years old at the time, was entrusted with an important position by Xu Shichang and was appointed as the commander of the second road of the Heilongjiang patrol battalion.
Xu Lanzhou, who became the commander of the Heilongjiang patrol front, had an unlimited future, but at this time, he violated military discipline because of poor military discipline and was removed from his position in the army, which made Xu Lanzhou very indicative and helpless.
On October 10, 1911, when the Xinhai Revolution broke out, Song Xiaolian, who was the governor of Heilongjiang Province at that time, was afraid that he would not be able to hold back and stabilize the situation, so he reactivated Xu Lanzhou, who had been removed from his post, and appointed him as the commander of the patrol team.
Xu Lanzhou, who was reactivated, especially cherished this opportunity to re-emerge from the mountain, so he worked step by step, cautious everywhere, and was promoted from the commander of the patrol team to the commander of the mixed brigade of the Heilongjiang Army.
Subsequently, the Mongolian county king Wutai rebelled, Xu Lanzhou was ordered to lead the army to suppress, encircle and suppress, after the suppression of the rebellion, Xu Lanzhou was promoted to the commander of the first division of the Heilongjiang Army by virtue of this merit, and awarded the rank of lieutenant general, and Fengtian Zhang Zuolin, who had not yet made a career at that time, became one of the several warlord leaders in the three northeastern provinces with military power.
After Xu Lanzhou had the military power in his hands, he began to look at Shu and wanted to get involved in the post of Heilongjiang overseer, for this reason, he and his subordinate Li Jinglin instigated a group of subordinates to coerce Zhu Qinglan and let him leave his post to make way for Xian, Zhu Qinglan was under pressure and could only choose to compromise and resigned from the post of Heilongjiang overseer.
After Zhu Qinglan resigned from the post of Heilongjiang overseer, Xu Lanzhou thought that the Beijing government would appoint him as the new Heilongjiang overseer, but what he never expected was that the Beijing government actually sent Bi Guifang, who was born as a diplomat, to serve as the overseer and governor of Heilongjiang, which made everything Xu Lanzhou had arranged before in vain, Xu Lanzhou was very dissatisfied with this, so he began to plot to drive Bi Guifang, who was born as a diplomat, out of Heilongjiang.
In 1917, the Beijing government had a "dispute between the government and the court", and the forces of the Anhui family, the Feng family, and the direct family competed for power, and Xu Lanzhou, who was the deputy office of Heilongjiang Province at that time, felt that this was a good opportunity to drive Bi Guifang away, so he ordered his subordinates to threaten Bi Guifang with force to resign from his post.
Bi Guifang's side had no soldiers and could not fight against Xu Lanzhou, so he could only submit to Xu Lanzhou and choose to resign from his position as the overseer and governor of Heilongjiang. Then he left Qiqihar lonely.
As soon as Bi Guifang's front foot left, Xu Lanzhou's back foot began to regard himself as the Heilongjiang overseer, but when Xu Lanzhou was excited and happy, Yingshun, the commander of the cavalry brigade stationed in Hulan, and Ba Ying, the commander of the first brigade of the first division stationed in Hailun, united together to oppose Xu Lanzhou after learning that Xu Lanzhou forced Bi Guifang away and took his own place, which made Xu Lanzhou's position as the Heilongjiang overseer not firm.
In July 1917, in the name of mediating the "dispute between the palace and the court", the pigtail marshal Zhang Xun led his troops into Beijing and supported the restoration of the last emperor Puyi, who had abdicated before, and Xu Lanzhou, who had been Zhang Xun's subordinate, in order to become a feudal official, actually publicly supported the restoration of the pigtail marshal Zhang Xun, and the pigtail marshal Zhang Xun saw that Xu Lanzhou openly supported him, so he was awarded the governor of Heilongjiang, so that Xu Lanzhou became a feudal official as he wished.
However, the braid handsome Zhang Xun's restoration scandal did not last long, and it didn't take long for Duan Qirui, the leader of the Anhui warlords, to lead the "rebel army" to defeat Zhang Xun's pigtailed army, and Zhang Xun was defeated and fled to the Dutch legation in China, which made the restoration scandal finally shattered.
After Zhang Xun's restoration scandal was shattered, Xu Lanzhou, who had previously supported him, suddenly became the target of public criticism, and Yingshun, Ba Ying'e and others, who had previously opposed him, took the opportunity to launch a movement against Xu Lanzhou, and Zhang Zuolin, who had become bigger and stronger at that time, took the opportunity to meddle in the affairs of Heilongjiang, not only coerced Xu Lanzhou by force, but also pushed his in-law Bao Guiqing to the two positions of Heilongjiang overseer and governor through operation.
Xu Lanzhou had no choice but to hate that he was weaker than others, obeyed Zhang Zuolin's arrangement, left Heilongjiang, served in Zhang Zuolin's Feng warlords, and became a general in the Feng army.
In the two subsequent Zhifeng wars, although Xu Lanzhou led the troops to participate, but did not have much record and merit, after the two Zhifeng wars, Zhang Zuolin only arranged for Xu Lanzhou to have no real power to serve as the chief military attaché.
Xu Lanzhou was very dissatisfied with this arrangement, so he began to gradually break away from the military and political circles, and began to engage in business activities, he first invested in salt business, and then started a coal mine business.
In 1928, after Zhang Zuolin was attacked and killed in Huanggutun, Xu Lanzhou made a major decision, that is, to move to Tianjin, completely military and political circles, Xu Lanzhou came to Tianjin, founded the Hebei Guoshu Museum, invited Li Shuwen, a famous boxer of the Republic of China, to serve as a coach, and actively promote martial arts.
In 1937, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Xu Lanzhou briefly served as the chairman of the North China People's Autonomous Association under the coercion of the Japanese, but he did not help the abuse, stood up for the Japanese, and did things.
After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, Xu Lanzhou's family moved to Beijing, where he spent his later years, and in 1951, the Beiyang warlord general died of illness in Beijing at the age of 80.