Chen Eunuch, a native of Anlu, Hubei Province, was born as a bitter child, and although his reputation was not as good as that of beiyang Sanjie, Chen Eunuch could be said to be the most important person in the second half of Yuan Shikai's life. Why? Because with his help, Yuan Shikai solved Huang Xing and Li Yuanhong.
Eunuch Chen
Just like in today's society, if the poor want to get ahead, there is only one way to go, and the same is true during the Republic of China period. Chen's father died early, and he and his mother depended on each other for their lives. Chen Eunuch's mother knows the great righteousness, no matter how poor she is, she cannot be poor in education, and no matter how bitter she is, she cannot be bitter to her children. She saved money and sent Chen Eunuch to the best school.
Chen Eunuch was also very sensible, and he studied hard and was finally admitted to Wuchang Jingxin Academy, the highest school in Huguang. Here, he met the first noble man in his life: Xiangshuai Zhang Zhidong.
Zhang Zhidong admired Chen Eunuch very much, sent him to the Wubei Academy, and later went to Beijing Normal University for further study. However, in the chaotic world, when he graduated, he was unemployed, and Chen Eunuch, who was both literate and martial, was unwilling to drift north, but went south to make a living but ran into walls everywhere. The soulless Eunuch Chen returned to his hometown, and his relatives and friends stayed away from him, afraid that he would borrow money. Fortunately, Chen Yan was a reader, and he knew when he should make a change. So Chen Eunuch changed his profession to abandoning his pen and congrong.
Soon after the Eight-Nation Alliance captured Beijing, Chen Eunuch fought a bloody battle with the allied forces at Chaoyangmen with a scholar and led 85 horsemen to break through. Along the way, all the way, all the way to pick up, picked up the discarded soldiers' salary of 137,000 taels, thousands of miles escorted to the hands of the military minister Rong Lu.
Rong Lu was stunned, because he couldn't believe that in the chaotic world, there were still people who were not ignorant of gold and risked their lives to return all the state funds to Zhao. What kind of a person is this? All in all, Rong Lu looked at Chen Yan differently.
Since then, Chen Eunuch's reputation has risen. This person who collects gold without ignorance of moral character has been looked at by his fellow villager Li Yuanhong. So Li Yuanhong recommended him to Beijing. There is only one person in Beijing who is the head of the red sun, Yuan Shikai. Chen Eunuch wanted to climb this tall branch.
Yuan Shikai, the person, does not need to be introduced again. He was both nepotistic and meritocratic. At first, he contacted Chen Eunuch, but he just wanted to use him to win over Li Yuanhong and the Hubei powerful faction. Slowly, I realized that Chen Eunuch was not a simple person, so I looked at her differently.
Yuan Shikai
To be appreciated by Yuan Shikai, Chen Eunuch was excited, the soldier died for the confidant, you reuse me, I repay you with my life. With years of reading experience, Chen Eunuch launched a brainstorming and staged a "Republic of China version of Longzhong Pair" for Yuan Shikai.
At present, the general trend is three points in the world, three major figures, and three political centers. Beijing: the political center of the country, where Yuan Shikai and his Beiyang disciples are the masters; Nanjing: the political and military center of the revolutionary party, where Sun Yat-sen is an idol worshipped by radical young people; Wuhan: Li Yuanhong, as the founder of the first righteousness, his influence cannot be underestimated.
Yuan Shikai's light can illuminate the whole of Beijing, but it may not be able to illuminate Wuhan and Nanjing. So the most urgent problem to be solved now is how to extend Yuan Shikai's influence to Wuhan and Nanjing. The first thing to be solved is the biggest opponent, the center of the Southern League Governor, Huang Xing.
To balance a person, there are only three places: life style, work ability, and money.
Huang xing
Huang Xing's character does not need to be said much, and it is useless to say it; his ability is also recognized by everyone, and he can only use money to solve him. But a gentleman like Huang Xing will not be moved by money. Huang Xing seemed to be impeccable, but Chen Eunuch had another high trick - to make Huang Xing lack money, and to make the army in Huang Xing's hands lack money.
At that time, Huang Xing had an army of more than 100,000 people in his hands, and the composition was extremely complex. The revolution was successful, and everyone looked forward to a good life and received a large amount of money to demobilize and change jobs.
Huang Xing sent a telegram every day urging Yuan Shikai. Yuan Shikai's words back were only one sentence: You are anxious and I am anxious, and I can only wait slowly. Huang Xing had a good temperament and could wait, but the soldiers under him could not wait. The soldiers began to stir, and the city of Nanjing was in flames, and when Huang Xing returned the next day, the city was already a scorched earth.
The mutiny caused huge property losses, and Huang Xing was deeply ashamed, took the initiative to assume all responsibilities, and reported to Yuan Shikai on his resignation. Yuan Shikai must have been happy and broken, but the resignation report was returned. Not only did he retire his resignation report, but he also sent a condolence payment.
I have to say that Yuan Shikai's trick is a bit cruel, after this move came down, many people were not convinced: Huang Xing only knew that he supported the army and respected himself, coveted power, and the people suffered, but he took the consolation money himself, the so-called great man, but so.
Public opinion was overwhelming, Huang Xing was particularly aggrieved, wrote a resignation letter, but did not approve, returned the condolence money, you do not know. There was no other way but to write a resignation report until Yuan Shikai approved it. Yuan Shikai of course finally approved. But we can't let the founding fathers idle, just Huang Xing has an old friend named Sun Yat-sen to build a road, it is better to be a companion between the two and save loneliness.
In this way, Chen Eunuch helped to level Huang Xing, and the next thing to deal with was Li Yuanhong.
The means of dealing with Li Yuanhong can be described as exhausting. Although Li Yuanhong is harmless, his influence cannot be underestimated. But times have changed, things are not people, and today's Wuhan is no longer that Wuhan. At present, there are always a group of people around Li Yuanhong, playing with facts and making false claims, but these people cannot be offended, because they are the founders of the revolution and the heroes of the Republic of China.
Li Yuanhong
There are three martial arts in Wuhan: Jiang Yiwu, Sun Wu, and Zhang Zhenwu.
Among them, Zhang Zhenwu was the most blind, because they knew that although Li Yuanhong was the vice president and governor of Hubei, he had no soldiers and no pawns in his hands, but he was actually a puppet. Therefore, Zhang Zhenwu did not agree with Li Yuanhong and slapped the table in front of him, and even drew his gun at each other. Although it is to scare people, but the influence is not good, the good villain Li Yuanhong is recognized by everyone as a leader, a great man who founded the country, can not let people trample on it like this.
All this was seen by Yuan Shikai and Chen Eunuch. It was time to "help" Li Yuanhong, who shuttled back and forth between Beijing and Wuhan. He sent a message to Li Yuanhong: "Sanwu" made such a fuss, which was nothing more than wanting to add officials to the knighthood. Now Yuan Shikai fulfilled their wishes and prepared to transfer them to Beijing, where he was honored as a revolutionary father and canonized as a general.
Li Yuanhong thought that Yuan Shikai was kind enough to help him solve the problem, prepared the lines, coaxed the suspicious Zhang Zhenwu to be excited, organized a large-scale sightseeing group of dozens of people, and set off for Beijing. However, when he arrived in Beijing, Yuan Shikai warmly received only drinking, playing cards, and having fun. Zhang Zhenwu waited for a month, felt that there was no hope, and returned to Wuhan.
This time it doesn't matter, Li Yuanhong's newly restored smile is full of sorrow, employment, finance, etc. are all subject to restrictions everywhere, Li Yuanhong sighs all day long and short, frowning, and the contradiction with Zhang Zhenwu is even more intense.
Yuan Shikai's telegram came again, still warmly inviting Zhang Zhenwu and more than a dozen other meritorious ministers of the Wuchang uprising to enter Beijing, this time to be awarded the rank of general. This time, Yuan Shikai was more enthusiastic and called out veterans such as Feng Guozhang, Duan Qirui, and Jiang Guiti to come out to take turns to accompany him.
This time Yuan Shikai moved in earnest. Because at this time, Chen Eunuch had quietly come to Wuhan, Li Yuanhong's side, telling Li Yuanhong: Zhang Zhenwu asked too much, sooner or later he will come back. Upon hearing this, Li Yuanhong's head was bigger, could there be any way for him to never come back?
Zhang Zhenwu
Eunuch Chen made a head-killing gesture. Li Yuanhong hesitated, but how could the honest man Li Yuanhong prevent Yuan Shikai and Chen Eunuch from carefully planning. Either continue to endure, endure or take this road. Just send a telegram to the president, and he'll be responsible for everything.
Upon hearing that the responsibility was not on him, Li Yuanhong made a telegram, and Zhang Zhenwu lost his life because of a telegram. Li Yuanhong is very at ease, anyway, everything is blocked by Yuan Shikai, it is not a big deal to set a sacrifice in the line of duty, and it is not possible to understand if you give more pensions. But things were not as simple as he thought.
Zhang Zhenwu's entourage and Hubei parliamentarians in Beijing vowed to seek justice for him, "Why kill the revolutionary fathers? Yuan Shikai's tone was affirmative, I had evidence, and he took out Li Yuanhong's telegram. Everyone was dumbfounded, and The old man Li Yuanhong actually instigated Yuan Shikai to kill people.
Li Yuanhong couldn't have imagined that the person was killed by Yuan Shikai, and now he had become the black hand behind the scenes, and the firepower point was transferred to Li Yuanhong, and Li Yuanhong could not resist and continued to look for Chen Eunuch.
Eunuch Chen had already made preparations, and a telegram convincing to people with reason had been simulated thousands of times in his mind. He listed Zhang Zhenwu's "fifteen major crimes", indicating that Zhang Zhenwu had to be killed. A telegram brought to life a li yuanhong who endured humiliation and was concerned about the overall situation. Of course, Yuan Shikai knew the political weight of Li Yuanhong, and at this time, pulling him aside, could he not only be yuan shikai' leader?
Yuan Shikai proceeded from the overall situation and asked them to weigh which Zhang Zhenwu and Li Yuanhong were light and heavy. If you don't want the overall situation, go directly to him Yuan Shikai. Everyone was shocked by Yuan Shikai's sharp gaze and did not say a word to the presidential palace. Li Yuanhong's "crisis" was stopped by Yuan Shikai.
Yuan Shikai took such care of him, and Li Yuanhong was grateful to Shu Zero and followed him from then on.