Lu Rongting (1858 ~ 1928) was the leader of warlords in old Guangxi. Formerly known as Song Ya, the word Gan Qing. Ningwu Township, Wuming County, Guangxi Province. Zhuang nationality. 1882 (eighth year of Guangxu in Qing dynasty) joined the army in Shuikouguan (now Longzhou, Guangxi). 1886 became the leader of greenwood after being laid off. /kloc-0 was recruited by the Qing government in the winter of 894, and served as the leader of the top qianying camp and the Rongrong camp successively. 1907 participated in the suppression of Fangcheng Uprising in Qinlian and Nanguan Uprising in Zhennan initiated by the League, and was promoted to commander-in-chief of Zuojiang Town. 19 1 1 year (Xuantong three years) served as governor of Guangdong and Guangxi in June. Wuchang Uprising broke out, and the revolutionaries in Wuzhou and Pingnan revolted one after another. 165438+1On October 7, Governor Shen Bingkun declared Guangxi independent, and Lu was forced by the general trend. On June 9th, Nanning 165438+ declared its independence and became the deputy governor of Guangxi. 19 12 served as the viceroy, constantly recruiting old bureaucrats and soldiers, gradually expanding their own strength, forming the Guangxi warlord group and becoming the leader of the group. 191During the 3 yuan War, he supported Yuan Shikai, sent troops to suppress Liuzhou Rebel Army and killed Jiang Yiwu and other revolutionaries. 19 14 was awarded the title of "Upper General" by Yuan and was in charge of military affairs in Guangxi. 19 15 65438+ February, please call Yuan Shikai emperor. Later, at the instigation of Cai E and Liang Qichao, Guangxi declared its independence on March 5, 2006 19 15. Since then, he has sent troops to assist Yunnan's national defense forces in fighting against Yuan's command to attack Yunnan's Guangdong Army. In July, he served as the governor of Guangdong. Around this time, in the name of protecting the family and seeking yuan, a large number of troops were dispatched to occupy Guangdong. 19 17 April, served as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, holding the military and political power of Guangdong and Guangxi, dominating the southwest side. He was also called "Northern Road" and "Fengnan Road in the North" with the then warlord leader Zhang and acting president Feng, and became a man of the hour in the history of China.

When the war to protect the country broke out, he sent troops to Hunan to fight against the Beiyang Army. With the cooperation of the Hunan and Guangdong national defense forces, his troops successively occupied Zhuzhou, Changsha and Yueyang. After the Guangxi troops took control of Hunan, Lu refused to carry out Sun Yat-sen's instructions to continue the Northern Expedition, retreated, and compromised with Beiyang Group, which led to the failure of the allied forces to protect the law. He also instructed Mo Rongxin, the warlord of Guangxi and the governor of Guangdong, to obstruct and destroy the movement of protecting the law, instigate the reorganization of the military government of protecting the law, and crowd out Sun Yat-sen, and finally make the protection of the law die out. Warlords in the post-Guangxi system are divided into the old and new Guangxi systems. The leaders of the Xingui clique were Li (Zong Ren), Bai (Chong Xi) and Huang (Xu Chu). They had a long-term competition with Chiang Kai-shek's Huangpu clique, and their power was so great that on the eve of the collapse of the mainland, Li Zongren was appointed acting president and Bai Chongxi was appointed Minister of National Defense. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/920, the war between Guangdong and Guangxi broke out, which made Gui Jun of Guangdong attack and support Sun Yat-sen's Guangdong army. The following year, after his troops were defeated by Chen Jiongming and other Guangdong troops, he fled from Nanning to Longzhou. 1924, the rest was defeated by Li Zongren, Huang and Bai Chongxi's Guangxi Dinggui Anti-Thief Allied Forces. Electrified in August, from Guangxi to Shanghai, and then moved to Tianjin and Suzhou. Died in Shanghai. Buried in his hometown of Ningwu Township, the present tomb is still there. He is an outstanding historical figure.