张作霖起自草莽,常常骂人,但是他对重用并有所依赖的王永江、杨宇霆从来不说一句粗话。有人告诉胡适这样一个故事,有一次,张作霖和杨宇霆为一件事争论起来,张生气了,说了“妈的”两个字,杨站起来说:“你骂谁?”张马上作揖赔罪,说:“这是咱的口头话,一个不留心溜出来了,敢是骂谁!”胡适说“这个故事很美”。还有一个故事,张作霖最初任命王永江为警务处长,王要求有完全的用人权,不受军人干 Zhang Zuolin from the wilderness, often curse, but he reused and has relied on Wang Yongjiang, Yang Yuting never say a foul language. Someone told Hu Shi such a story. Zhang Zuolin and Yang Yuting once argued for one thing. Zhang was angry and said “Mom’s”. Yang stood up and said: “Who do you curse?” Immediately make a funeral, said: “This is our verbal, one careless slipped out, dare to scold who!” “Hu Shi said ” This story is beautiful ". There is also a story that Chang Tso-lin originally appointed Wang Yong-jiang as the Commissioner of Police. Wang claimed full human rights and was free from military personnel