Lu Rongting

Lu Rongting

Lu Rongting (August 13, 1859 - November 6, 1928) was the leader of the old GUI warlord in the Republic of China. Zhuang nationality, formerly known as Yasong, with the name of Ganqing and the nickname of AFA, is a native of xiongmeng village, Ningwu Town, Wuming County, Nanning, Guangxi. At that time, he was called "Lu Wuming" and came from Youyong. Guangxu 20 years (1894) by the Qing Dynasty to appease, compiled as jianziqianying. Because of the hard work of suppressing the party, he has successively been in charge of leading, supervising, unifying and commanding.

Guangxu 33 years (1907) reported the expulsion of the revolutionary army, Kefu town Nanguan (now Friendship Pass), promoted Zuojiang Town chief. Xuantong three years (1911) awarded Guangxi governor. During the revolution of 1911, Shen Bingkun and Wang Zhixiang were promoted to be the vice governor of Guangxi. It also disintegrated the Chinese League, suppressed the revolutionaries, used the old bureaucrats, and established the rule of the old Guangxi Clique over Guangxi. During the second revolution, he supported Yuan Shikai and was awarded the rank of general Ningwu and general Yaowu. Before the war of national defense, because of the intensification of the contradiction with Yuan Shikai, he plotted against Yuan Shikai. He participated in the organization of the Military Academy of protecting the nation of Guangdong and Guangxi, and served as the Fujun. When he was appointed governor of Guangdong and patrol envoy of Guangdong and Guangxi, the influence of Guangxi extended to Guangdong. At the beginning of the movement, Sun Yat Sen was welcomed to Guangzhou. Lu served as marshal of the Guangdong Hunan Guangxi allied forces of the Guangzhou military government, and sent troops to capture Hunan to fight against the southern invasion of the northern army. In the ninth year of the Republic of China (1920), the army stationed in Fujian and Guangdong and the Guangdong People's army expelled the GUI clan from Guangdong. The following year, Sun Yat Sen ordered the armies of Guangdong, Yunnan and Jiangxi to fight for land in Guangxi. Tan Haoming, the army's direct line, retreated to the west of Guangxi to continue to resist.

In 1923, when Chen Jiongming betrayed Sun Yat Sen, the Guangdong army retreated and returned to Guangxi. Later, he fled from Guangxi and settled in Shanghai, then moved to Suzhou. In November 1928, he died in Shanghai at the age of 70. In 1929, the coffin was transported back to Guangxi and buried in Shizishan in the west of Wuming district.

Life of the characters

Hard early years

In the ninth year of Xianfeng (1859) of the Qing Dynasty, on the 15th of the seventh lunar month (the 13th of the eighth lunar month), Lu Rongting was born in leixiong village, Wuming County, Guangxi Province (now xiongmeng village, Ningwu Township, Wuming District, Nanning City). It was named Tesong (Asian song). Lu family has been farming for generations, so poor that he was born without a rag. His father had a good career and lived by farming and short-term work.

In 1860, his father Lu Yexiu was falsely accused by the villagers of colluding with the "Changmao" Taiping army, allowing the Taiping army to enter the village, and was beaten to death. In the first year of tongzhi (1862), Lu Rongting's biological mother, Ou Shi, remarried to the Wei family in the county town. Lu Rongting lived with his adoptive mother, a special education mother.

In 1868, Lu Rongting went to the county to find his mother and was sent to a private school. In 1869, her mother died and Lu Rongting was out of school. After that, he became an orphan and a beggar in a miserable situation.

Longzhou based

In the first year of Guangxu (1875), Lu Rongting was exiled to Nanning because he could not live in Wuming county. Later, he came to Longzhou with Zhu luola, a boatman, and served as a servant in sanyouzhai. In 1877, Lu Rongting met Liang Yazhu, a member of the Longzhou office, and became a member of the Longzhou office. Send official documents to local yamen, gradually familiar with yamen etiquette, rules, increase knowledge.

In 1879, Lu Rongting was forced to flee to the chieftain's cemetery because he killed a French missionary's dog. Soon, on the premise of "not robbing the Chinese", he joined the gang to rob across the border and was chased and exiled to Shuikou village, Longzhou. I got to know Mrs. Tan and Mr. Tan Haoming from the tan Taiyuan family, who are supporting the ferry in Shuikou village. Soon after, because he could not bear the bullying and beating of a Frenchman, Lu Rongting killed him. From then on, he was forced to go up the mountain to be a bandit and fight against the French soldiers.

In 1882, Lu Rongting was recruited as a soldier by Cheng Wuying, a military officer stationed in Shuikou pass, and married Mrs. tan. He secretly joined the three-point meeting and became the leader of the three-point meeting in Shuikou village.

Fight against France and clear up bandits

In 1884, Lu Rongting enlisted into the Tang Jingsong camp of the Qing army and was selected into the front camp (death squads) to participate in the Sino French war. Lu Rongting went deep into Vietnam with Tang Jingsong's troops. In the cooperative combat with Liu Yongfu's black flag army, Liu Yongfu was promoted to the post commander because of his bravery. In 1886, because the Jingzi army was abolished by the Qing government, Lu Rongting led the people to take part of their uniforms and guns, and gathered at the Sino Vietnamese border, where he made an outstanding mountain jungle guerrilla tactics against the French invading army.

In the battle of Nalan in 1892, Lu Rongting led the people to annihilate 23 members of the French army's David's unit, and his deputy Bi Ya was killed in the first battle. The war was commemorated by a legal person. After the war, the army's nomads became very influential and developed to more than 5000 people, becoming an important guerrilla force against France. The French colonial army hated Lu Rongting's troops to the bone, protested to the Qing frontier army many times, and cooperated with the Qing army to suppress them, but there was no result. In the winter, Lu Rongting dispatched troops to the Zuojiang River Valley to suppress bandits. With 500 people, he annihilated jiangjinshan, a huge bandit with thousands of minions, which occupied 24 villages. He completely destroyed the bandit nest, and jiangjinshan, the bandit leader, escaped.

In the 22nd year of Guangxu (1896), Wang Fangtian, the governor, asked Su Yuanchun to let Lu Rongting lead his troops to Jingxi to suppress bandits. Lu Rongting suppressed and pacified Jingxi. Wang Fangtian recommended to Su Yuanchun, and Lu Rongting was promoted to the post of former camp governor.

In 1897, Lu Rongting led the army to pacify the bandits in the Hongshui River Valley and appease Lin Junting. Later, Lin Junting became an army general. In 1898, Lu Rongting led his ministry to take part in the three point meeting in Yulin, which was regarded as the opposite.

Military post of Guangxi Province

In the 26th year of Guangxu (1900), Lu Rongting was promoted to jianziying division, and his headquarters were transferred to Huadong, Jingxi, which is a strategic area of Zuojiang river. In 1902, Wang Fangtian, who had been the official of Sicheng, presented his recommendation to the Qing court, and Lu Rongting was promoted to be the commander of Qianying.

In 1904, CEN Chunxuan, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, promoted Lu Rongting to the commander of the 10th battalion of the RongZi army. In the winter of the same year, CEN Chunxuan transferred Lu Rongting's department to Hechi to attack Liu qingyouyong. Lu Rongting deliberately delayed his March and responded at any time to cooperate with the revolutionary party. When he arrived at the battlefield, the battle was basically over.

In July 1906, Lu Rongting was sent to Japan to investigate military affairs, and returned to China in December of the same year. While in Tokyo, Lu Rongting met with Sun Yat Sen and secretly joined the Chinese Alliance.

In December 1907, Lu Rongting failed to win the full trust of the revolutionary party in the zhennanguan uprising, so he could not lead the Ministry to cooperate with him. Because of the great strength of the Qing army, Lu Rongting led his troops to force the revolutionary army to retreat and make a false attack, which resulted in heavy casualties in the army. The revolutionary army retreated into Vietnam with only slight casualties. After the war, Lu Rongting praised his achievements in the war and won the title of "Jieyong balutu" by the Qing government. He was promoted to the rank of commander in chief and was promoted to the rank of Guangxi border defense military inspector.

On January 18, 1908, the 34th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, Lu Rongting gave the commander of Youjiang town the title of commander in chief. On April 15, 1909, the first year of Xuantong, Lu Rongting was transferred to the chief of Zuojiang town. On May 2, 1911, Lu Rongting served as commander in chief of Zuojiang town and concurrently served as governor of Guangxi Province, and on June 29, he was awarded the title.

Governor Guangxi

On February 8, 1912, Lu Rongting was sworn in as governor of Guangxi in Guilin. In July, Lu Rongting was officially appointed governor of Guangxi by the government of the Republic of China. On October 9, Lu Rongting was appointed general of the army by the government of the Republic of China. On October 17, the Guangxi provincial assembly formally voted on the move to the province, and Nanning became the capital of Guangxi Province. In that year, Lu Rongting, as a governor, changed his hometown county name to Wuming.

In April 1913, Lu Rongting was appointed governor and civil affairs chief of Guangxi. On May 17, Lu Rongting, together with the governors of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other provinces, issued a telegram, claiming that the "Song Jiaoren case" should be solved by law, opposing the civil war between the north and the south, and firmly defending the hard won Republic of China. In July, Lu Rongting refused to ask pan Naide, the secret envoy of Sun Yat Sen, to respond to the demands of the "second revolution" and send telegrams to the whole country to firmly support the central government (Beiyang Government) and maintain national stability. In August, Lu Rongting, together with Cai E and Li Yuanhong, was listed as a meritorious official in "suppressing the Hukou uprising" for his firm support for the central government, and was awarded two honours by the provisional president Yuan Shikai. On September 4, under the strict orders of Yuan Shikai and Li Yuanhong, Chen Bingkun shot Jiang Yiwu, who was arrested by Qin Buqu and reported to the higher authorities. Before and after the shooting, Chen treated the founder of the Republic of China as a general. Lu Rongting later killed Jiang Yiwu and was dissatisfied with Qin Buqu. In the middle of the decade, Lu Rongting organized troops to pacify Liu Guxiang and Liu Zhenhuan in Liuzhou after the failure of the second national revolution. In mid October, on the order of Yuan Shikai, Lu Rongting presided over the shooting of Liu Guxiang, a member of the Liuzhou revolutionary party. On the 24th, Lu Rongting was awarded the first class Wenhu medal.

In February 1914, Zhang Mingqi was appointed as the Guangxi patrol envoy to run the military affairs of Guangxi. In June, Lu Rongting was appointed general Ningwu to supervise the military affairs of Guangxi. On March 23, 1915, Lu Rongting was appointed general of the army and general Yaowu. In July, Wang Zutong took over the post of Guangxi patrol envoy to run Guangxi military affairs. Without persuading the generals of the fourteen provinces and sending anti yuan signals at home and abroad, Lu Rongting took the initiative to unite Wang Zutong to send a telegram on November 24 urging Yuan Shikai to ascend the throne as soon as possible. In the middle of December, Lu Rongting secretly summoned important officials to swear to defend the country against yuan. At the end of December, after Yunnan announced to discuss yuan Huguo, Lu Rongting joined forces with long Jiguang, Zhang Xun, Feng Guozhang, Duan Zhigui, Zhao Ti, Ni sichong, Chen Liao, Tang Xiangming and Li Chun to invite Yuan Shikai to send troops to Yunnan

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