Ever since Yuan Shikai brazenly proclaimed himself emperor in the face of the world's great disobedience, he had completely put on the big hat of "stealing the country and stealing the country". Although some scholars today try to restore the so-called historical truth and look for Yuan Shikai's shining points through articles, no one can wash away the face of the traitor who rebelled against the Qing court and the Republic of China.
Although I don't admire Yuan Shikai's personality, I still can't admire the unique skill of this "unlearned" traitor, otherwise he would not have been able to gather the difficult tyrants like the Beiyang warlords around him.
Although Yuan Shikai was born in a family of official eunuchs, he was smart and stubborn since childhood and did not like to read, so he failed to pass the imperial examination twice in succession, so he could only take a different path from others.
Because of his fierce tactics during his twelve years of garrison in Korea, he somewhat curbed the japanese and Tsarist Russia's encroachment on Korea, which gave him the name of "zhibing" in the government and the public.
The Qing Dynasty suffered a crushing defeat at the battle of Jiawu in the newly rising Japan, and the land was cut off and the reparations seriously stimulated the Guangxu Emperor, and Yuan Shikai, under the recommendation of Prince Gong Yixuan and Rong Lu, was ordered to train a new army at the Tianjin Station.
Yuan Shikai, who made the union at the age of 13: "The Great Wild Dragon Fang Sting, the Central Plains Deer Is Fat" was a man with great ambitions, and the imperial court ordered him to train the new army just so that he found a big stage to realize his ambitions.
Since Yuan Shikai was commissioned to train the new army, he regarded this team as his own forbidden army, which he did better than Cao Cao.
The cult of personality is the ruler's great means, and Yuan Shikai is also well versed in his way, so his new army has a portrait of Yuan Zhi above the shed (today's class), and every day officers and soldiers are ordered to pay homage day and night, and at the same time, all officials must verbally call Yuan Daren's grace, which means that Yuan Shikai is their food and clothing parents. alas! Poor Prince Gong of the Loyal Kingdom raised a white-eyed wolf as soon as he struck.
Yuan Shikai had a confidant named Ruan Zhongshu, who was still a handsome man. At that time, there was a prostitute Xiaoyu in Tianjin, and Ruan stayed with him for a few days and did not want to forget it, but his pocket was shy, so although he repeatedly swore a mountain alliance with Xiaoyuhai, he could not achieve his wishes, but was humiliated by the old bustard. Knowing this, Yuan immediately called out to Ruan Zhongshu for a scolding.
A few days later, Yuan Shikai summoned Ruan Zhongshu and invited him to a secluded courtyard, and when Ruan Zhongshu was overwhelmed, he saw a young lady shouting under the red candle: "The new aunt has arrived!" Then a group of servants came out surrounded by a beautiful woman with a phoenix crown. Ruan Zhongshu unveiled the hijab and saw that it was his favorite person, and since then he has been grateful to Yuan Shikai for a lifetime.
After the death of Duan Qirui's wife of the "Beiyang Three Masters", Duan Qirui was only 35 years old this year, in order to entrap him, Yuan Shikai personally acted as a matchmaker, so that his aunt's granddaughter was also his adopted daughter to marry Duan Qirui, and from then on, Duan Qirui was recruited under his own door. Later, Yuan Shikai died after the attempt to claim the title of emperor, but Duan, who was in power after Yuan's death, still vigorously defied the public opinion and gave Yuan Shikai a state funeral.
Another Jie Feng Guozhang of Beiyang occupied Nanjing during the "Second Revolution" and has since served as the governor of Jiangsu in a wealthy land. In order to grasp Feng Guozhang, Yuan Shikai deliberately married his child's family teacher Zhou Li to Feng Guozhang. At that time, Yuan Shikai's dowry alone accompanied more than 120 cartons, and before the jewelry was calculated, it cost tens of thousands of taels of silver to just run the banquet. Afterwards, Feng Guozhang was also awarded the title of "General of Xuanwu" by Yuan Shikai. Therefore, whenever Yuan Shikai has any measures, Feng Guozhang never regards right and wrong as a rate of approval and implementation.
However, Yuan Shikai was too treacherous, and he said that in addition to a few people such as the think tank Yang Du, who knew about the emperor, the senior officials such as Feng Guozhang and others were all in the dark. Once, when Feng Guozhang entered the capital to meet him, after everyone had retreated, Feng and Yuan were chatting privately, but when Feng asked about the rumors that Yuan was called emperor outside, Yuan Shikai actually swore that he had no intention of being called emperor, and at the same time said that the descendants of successive emperors did not have a good death.
However, Yuan Shikai's voice was still there, and Feng Guozhang, who was in Nanjing, received the news that Yuan Shikai was proclaimed emperor in Beijing, which made Feng Guozhang so sad that he never dared to believe anything from Yuan Shikai again.
Throughout the ages, whether you are a prince or a commoner, if you think you can play with anyone, your life is doomed to fail. Yuan Shikai is like this.