The Republic is so violent

Chapter 166 Thirteen Monsters of the Imperial River and Lake (4)
Chen Huan wailed loudly: "Father... Amid the gut-wrenching cries, Chen Huan and Yuan Shikai reluctantly parted.

This is exactly: outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, there are green grass and green sky.Looking at the tearful eyes while holding hands, he was even more speechless.Read to go thousands of miles of smoke and waves, the dusk is heavy and the sky is wide.For many years, it should be a good day and beautiful scenery in vain, and even if there are thousands of styles, who do you want to call daddy.It is said that Yuan Shikai's son, Chen Huan, came out of Beijing. He saw a huge crowd of people in front of the railway station, military police along the way, and countless social groups waving small flags, sending off Chen Huan in tears.

When the Yuan family was in power, there were only three grand occasions in Beijing. The first time was when Sun Wen entered Beijing, and the second time was when fat boy Li Yuanhong entered Beijing.This is the third time that Chen Huan left Beijing for Sichuan.

After that, Chen Huan passed through Wuhan and went to Yichang. Wherever he passed, there were crowds of people, salutes were roaring, the people had tears in their eyes, and the officials looked solemn, welcoming Chen Huan.

The coming Hongxian Empire placed great hopes on Chen Huan.

Even if Chen Huan is a man of iron, stone and wood, it is impossible not to be moved by this affection.When the boat sailed into Sichuan, the sound of gongs and drums could be heard, and the cheers of the elders in Sichuan could be seen. Excited, Chen Huan burst into tears and wrote two poems, one of which was:
In March, the Qingming guests are returning, and the scenery of the past should be vague.

Unbearable to look back at the boarding place, the old wine flag at the head of the Yellow Crane Tower.

The second said:
The trees of Hanyang City have returned to the crows early, and the day of the lake's battle for sail has already slanted.

The melancholy sound of the fishing flute, and the falling plum blossoms are still sung across the river.

When the poem was completed, everyone clapped and applauded.Li Bingzhi, an attendant of Chen Huan's side, was quite knowledgeable. When he read these two poems carefully, he took a deep breath.

Li Bingzhi said: In the land of abundance in Sichuan, Chen Huan should be delighted to accept this important task as a senior official.But his two poems revealed a gloomy chill.

This is a ghost poem.

Xiangcheng is in danger!

12 The person who fooled Yuan Shikai to death
Among the two generals who supported Yuan Shikai's proclaiming emperor, Hun was General Chen Huan, who was sent to supervise military affairs in Sichuan.But Chen Huan recited ghost poems on the way, which showed that he was anxious and anxious. Even though Yuan Shikai promoted Chen Huan to three ranks in half a year, he still couldn't resolve Chen Huan's worries.

The one who can really influence Chen Huan is an aide beside him named Hu Egong.This old Hu was introduced by Cai E. He was a member of the secret Kuomintang at the time, and later a member of the secret Communist Party.

Looking at Lao Hu's identity, he knew that Yuan Shikai would soon be in trouble.

Among the two generals Hunha, General Ha is Tang Xiangming, the younger brother of Tang Hualong from Hubei.

Speaking of Tang Xiangming, it's been a long time. Although this guy is not famous, he has a lot of connections with all the famous people in modern history.He stole Sun Wen's purse in Paris, stole the covenant and list of the League, and made great contributions to the counter-revolution.He carried out a mass movement on the "Hai Rong" warship, drove away the captain Sa Zhenbing, protected Dawuchang, the holy land of the revolution, and made great contributions to the revolution.

Then, with the sponsorship of the Mitsui Foundation of Japan, a second revolution was set off with Cen Chunxuan as the Generalissimo. Tang Xiangming went to Hukou and drove the revolutionary Li Liejun into the Japanese embassy.Later, he was responsible for cleaning up the revolutionary party in Hunan, and he killed 17000 people with surnames.

Thousands of people shed blood, and one husband becomes famous.Tang Xiangming's bloodthirsty madness and insatiable bloodthirsty aroused the infinite panic of the world. In Hunan at that time, even a three-year-old baby did not dare to cry when he heard Tang Xiangming's name.Tang Xiangming's bloodthirsty made him a denunciation of thousands of people, and people in the rivers and lakes gave him the nickname Tang Butcher.At the time, almost no one spoke for him.

Tang Shixiang Ming was the most powerful person who proclaimed Yuan Shikai the emperor. The number of persuasion forms written by this guy ranked first, and his evaluation of Yuan Shikai was astonishingly high: the mighty heaven and the mighty, pull China from Lu Shen; Yu Weihuan, the most powerful essay... and so on. In short, Tang Xiangming piled all the good words he could find on Yuan Shikai's head. He dared to say anything, and he didn't need money anyway.In exchange, Yuan Shikai favored him more.

After the Yuan family proclaimed themselves emperor, Tang Xiangming was made a first-class marquis and added General Jingwu.As for Beiyang's direct lineage, Cao Kun, an old soldier, became a first-class uncle, and Zhang Zuolin, the king of the Northeast, was even worse, only being named a second-class son.From this we can see the favor Tang Xiangming received.

To use an analogy, restoring the monarchy is tantamount to entering an old house that is about to catch fire. Yuan Shikai was very careful and refused to enter this dilapidated house.But the two generals, Chen Huan and Tang Xiangming, persuaded Yuan Shikai: "Come in, come in, go in, it's okay, we will guard the door for you, don't you trust us?"
Yuan Shikai believed them both.

As soon as Yuan Shikai entered, the two called out "one, two, three" and closed the door flickeringly.

Who is to blame?Can you blame others?I can only blame myself for being too stupid.

13 Veteran leaders play their residual heat

In the early years of the Republic of China, there was a funny cartoon in the newspaper called "The Picture of a Goat and a Horse Carrying an Ape".

The apes in the comics, of course, allude to Yuan Shikai.And that old goat is Yang Du, the initiator of the Security Council.So, who is that horse talking about?

Speaking of that horse, all Chinese people should stand up and pay respects to this horse.It is said that in the early years Yuan Shikai joined the army and followed Wu Changqing to North Korea as a small assistant.Later, when a war broke out between China and France at Zhennanguan, Wu Changqing hurriedly led the main force back to China, and left a young man, Yuan Shikai, in North Korea to handle the Japanese government affairs in North Korea.

But at that time Yuan Shikai was too young, had no hair on his mouth, and could not do things firmly, so the court thought, what should we do?Send an old leader to the young Yuan Shikai, so Ma Xiangbo became Yuan Shikai's direct boss in North Korea.

As we know, Yuan Shikai doesn't take leadership seriously. Ma Xiangbo led Yuan Shikai, but not only did the leader fail to show any clues, he was always beheaded by Yuan Shikai first.The most terrible thing is that at that time, Japanese soldiers entered the Han Palace at night and took control of the North Korean King Li Xi. Ma Xiangbo was in a hurry to ask the superiors, but Yuan Shikai did not greet the leaders, and even led the Qing soldiers into the palace to fight against Japan. soldier.This matter made the old leader Ma Xiangbo very angry at the time, and he was no longer willing to be Yuan Shikai's leader in the future.

As soon as Mr. Ma got angry, he founded Fudan University and devoted himself to the cause of education.But now that so many years have passed, Yuan Shikai, the young man who disrespected the leadership, has become the president. Ma Xiangbo can't sleep at night, and the more he thinks about what happened back then, the more he feels that Yuan Shikai did the right thing.This pair was incredible, Ma Xiangbo also felt that Yuan Shikai's other things were very reasonable.

Therefore, the 70-year-old Ma Xiangbo, regardless of his old age and frailty, appeared on the horizon tremblingly on crutches, and solemnly submitted a form of persuasion to Yuan Shikai, imploring Yuan Shikai to become emperor.

Then, leaning on crutches, Ma Xiangbo went to find Yang Du and said, "Xiao Yang, although I am very old, I still need to use up a little bit of residual energy. Look at your preparation meeting, can you arrange a massage chair for me?" Woolen cloth?
Ma Xiangbo, the old man, joined the security committee.

So, how did the old man Ma Xiangbo think about it, why did he also want Yuan Shikai to be emperor?

This... In short, wishing Yuan Shikai to be emperor is the result of Ma Lao's independent thinking.But how did Mr. Ma think and come up with such a conclusion? Since no one has studied this matter, we can't say much about it.

14 Cai E supports the imperial system
The old man Ma Xiangbo represents the academic circle, the education circle.The other two represent the military forces.

Of these two people, one is Sun Wu, the father of the first Uprising in Wuchang.

Speaking of Sun Wu, one must mention the "Three Wu" of Wuchang Shouyi: Sun Wu, Zhang Zhenwu and Jiang Lingwu.Zhang Zhenwu conspired against Fatty Li Yuanhong because he organized an iron-blood group, but was lured to Beijing by Li Yuanhong. Later, Li Fatty sent a secret telegram to Yuan Shikai, asking Yuan Shikai to kill Zhang Zhenwu, but Yuan Shikai flatly refused.

So Fatty Li sent Sun Wu and his secretary Rao Hanxiang to travel from Wuhan to Beijing. After that, Sun Wu and Yuan Shikai talked secretly for more than an hour. No one knew what they said, but afterward, Yuan Shikai signed the order to kill Zhang Zhenwu.

The historian Wang Zhonghe commented: Zhang Zhenwu is a domineering and fierce character, while Sun Wu is a sinister and cunning character.

So the domineering and fierce Zhang Zhenwu died at the hands of the insidious and cunning Sun Wu.

Among the "Three Wus", Jiang Lingwu was killed on the way to Guangxi after the failure of the second revolution. Since then, the history of the "Three Wus" has disappeared, and only Sun Wu is left in history.

As the so-called Taoism is different, do not conspire with each other. The "three martial arts" have different natures, different life pursuits, different ideals, and different values, but they are mixed up on the chariot of revolution by accident, and it is inevitable to part ways and go their own way.

At that time, tens of thousands of people in Beijing signed the form, imploring Yuan Shikai to become the emperor. On this form, the first person to sign was Cai E, the general of Yunnan, and the second was him, Sun Wu.

And we know the final result. General Cai E, who signed the signature first, ran to Yunnan to raise troops after Yuan Shikai really became emperor, forcing Yuan Shikai to abolish the imperial system again.But it was too late to say anything at this time. Cai E, who ranked first in signatures, wanted to hold Sun Wu, who ranked second in signatures, accountable.

Rao Sun Wu was absolutely unwilling, and he didn't dare to reason with Cai E: You signed it first, I saw that you signed it, and I signed it, so why do you hold me accountable?But Sun Wu didn't dare to ask such a question unless he was dying.

Sun Wu's explanation is: The reason why I want Yuan Shikai to become emperor is to let him collapse quickly.

But no one would believe Sun Tzu's explanation.

why?

Because Sun Wu has no soldiers in his hand!
You are empty-handed, and you are not qualified to defend yourself. No matter whether Sun Wu's signature is sincere or not, his strength determines that he can only be criticized by thousands of people.

And what happened to General Cai E, who was the first to sign on the persuasion form?

This is because Yuan Shikai has lost confidence in Beiyang, and he hopes to rebuild an army headed by the military genius Cai E.This matter is evidenced by Yuan Shikai's conversation with Xia Shoutian.Yuan Shikai said at the time:
Now the cadres who have come out of the small stand have become waste, the Japanese are watching all day long, and China may perish one day.I want to strengthen the country's combat readiness, but I lack generals. In the future, I want to find some military strategists in the south to entrust them with important tasks and train the new army, so that we can get rid of decay and give birth to new ones.

Xia Shoutian asked Yang Du about this matter, and Yang Du strongly recommended General Cai E.So Yuan Shikai considered reusing Cai E to rebuild the new army.

To this end, Yuan Shikai even established the National Command Office of the Generalissimo of the Army and Navy.Duan Qirui, chief of the army, was just a clerk in this office, and General Cai E was also a clerk, but Yuan Shikai internally appointed General Cai E as chief of the general staff, and planned to promote Cai E as chief of the army to replace Duan Qirui.

Yuan Shikai's reuse and trust in Cai E can be said to be unconditional. General Cai E is not a man of iron and stone. Is there a reason not to be moved?
It was based on Yuan Shikai's trust in him that General Cai E was the first to sign his name on the persuasion form without hesitation.

That being the case, why did General Cai E suddenly turn his face again, escape from Beijing and be the first to raise the flag against Yuan?

Speaking of this matter, it would be troublesome. The first factor that caused Cai E to rebel against Yuan was Hong Xian's seven evil spirits and the sixth evil Lei Zhenchun.

15 Strict Fan Sun Li resisted the imperial system

It is said that General Cai E was reused by Yuan Shikai. When he was working hard in the office of the Generalissimo of the National Land, Sea and Air Force, he suddenly saw an official document and was shocked.

What kind of official document is this?

This official document stated that when Cai E became the governor of Yunnan, someone urged General Cai to separate Yunnan from China and create a cloud independence.Yuan Shikai, on the other hand, approved the word "should be investigated" on this official document.

Who took out this official document?What is the purpose of taking out this official document?
It turned out that Beiyang Lei Zhenchun was responsible for this matter.

It is said that Lei Zhenchun saw that Cai E was being reused and hated General Cai. It is also possible that Lei Zhenchun was the Beiyang gown and vented his anger on Duan Qirui, so he deliberately found out this official document and let Cai E see it. E block.

It was in this situation that the Kuomintang secretly sneaked into Beijing to find Cai E.The reason why they came was because the party members were instigating the army to revolt in Yunnan, but they didn't expect this agitation, but they were surprised to find that the Yunnan army only obeyed the orders of General Cai, and the rest did not care who they were.The party members had no choice but to lobby Cai E.After lobbying for a while, Cai E did not comment, so the party members deliberately left the code book, deliberately making things difficult for Cai E, and then left.

On the day Cai E received the code book, a dozen soldiers suddenly rushed into General Cai E's house in Mianhua Hutong, Beijing, and searched it extensively.At present, most of the history books do not check, and they close their eyes and say that this is Yuan Shikai or the prince Yuan Keding sent people to search.There are also explanations that Yuan Shikai's subordinates did it without authorization.

But all these explanations are all nonsense.

The actual situation is that the house where General Cai E lived was originally a relative of a salt merchant named He in Tianjin.Later, when the salt merchant went bankrupt, his concubine entrusted a large pile of jewels to a servant surnamed Liu, and kept them in the family who lived in this house at the time.Many years have passed, the salt merchant is dead, and his concubine was abducted and sold by some philanderer. Only the servant surnamed Liu knew about the treasure.

And this servant surnamed Liu later became a soldier and was promoted to platoon leader.After becoming a platoon leader, he thought, I have someone with a gun now, so who should I be afraid of?Let's go, take someone to that house to retrieve the jewelry.

So the platoon leader Liu brought his men and aggressively searched Cai E's house.

But those jewels were all taken away by the former owner of the house before they sold the house to Cai E. Platoon Leader Liu searched for a long time, but found nothing, and he was also puzzled.

Some people also suspect that this matter was originally brought up by the Kuomintang, with the purpose of alienating General Cai E and Yuan Shikai.But there is no basis for this statement, and there is no way to falsify it, so it can only be regarded as non-existent.

All in all, an incident that had nothing to do with Yuan Shikai made General Cai E murmur in his heart.But the biggest impact of these two incidents was nothing more than that, and it was far from being the condition for General Cai E to raise troops against Yuan.

(End of this chapter)