Beiyang Government
Zhang was succeeded, both as warlord of Manchuria and head of the now-exiled Beiyang Government, by his eldest son: Zhang Xueliang, the so-called "Young Marshal". The government-in-exile would not last very long: by July, Beiyang reached an armistice with the KMT; and by the end of the year, the Northeast Flag Replacement occurred, nominally reunifying China under the Kuomintang banner.