Chapter 13: Ambition

In the entire counterinsurgency, Yuan Shikai was particularly prominent.

Wu Changqing wrote in a recital for him; "The army is governed seriously, the dispatch is well-organized, and the first to attack and suppress is especially courageous."

At this time, Li Hongzhang had returned to his post, saw the report, and was deeply impressed by Yuan Shikai's deeds.

Since then, Yuan Shikai has had a more prominent and powerful backer.

Li Hongzhang asked the imperial court to promote Yuan Shikai to be the same knowledge and to be rewarded with flowers.

Soon, with the approval of the imperial court, Yuan Shikai was promoted to Tongzhi, and from then on, Yuan Shikai officially entered the official career.

Yuan Shikai's outstanding performance in the counterinsurgency mutiny also received the attention of the Joseon Dynasty.

In order to thank the Chinese army, Gaozong Li Xi held a grand banquet to entertain Wu Changqing, Ma Jianzhong, and Zhang Jian, and specially invited Yuan Shikai to participate, showing his importance to Yuan Shikai.

In view of the special role played by Kim Yoon-sik in the counterinsurgency mutiny, it was further reused after the suppression of the rebellion. At this time, the relationship between Yuan Shikai and Kim Yun-sik has become closer. Yuan Shikai was valued by the Joseon Dynasty, mainly thanks to Kim Yoon-sik's mediation. Most of Yuan Shikai's proud deeds, Gaozong Li Xi also learned about them from Kim Yoon-sik.

The mutiny subsided, and the situation in North Korea was still unstable. In order to help Korea restore social order, and at the same time to prevent Japan from finding an excuse to send troops to Korea, the Qing ** decided that Wu Changqing's troops would continue to be stationed in Korea; Yuan Shikai naturally stayed with the army.

It is impossible for the Chinese army to be stationed here, and Yuan Shikai suggested through Kim Yoon-sik that Gojong Li Xi must build his own army.

Yuan Shikai's proposal was valued by Li Xi. Previously, Japanese instructors had been hired to train a separate army for them, which was vulnerable to this mutiny. Seeing that the Chinese army was brave and good at fighting, he asked Li Hongzhang, the governor of Zhili, to train the army for him by China.

Li Hongzhang agreed and handed over the task to Wu Changqing's department.

In view of Yuan Shikai's outstanding performance in administering the army, Wu Changqing entrusted Yuan Shikai with the task of training troops for the DPRK.

When he was the assistant of the battalion office, Yuan Shikai had made special efforts for military training, and after experiencing the practice of leading troops in North Korea, Yuan Shikai had a lot of new experiences.

He was well aware of the shortcomings of the old army, and he often thought about how to train a good army.

Now there's a chance to do what you want.

He took matters into his own hands to create plans and tutorials, especially with strict discipline. He worked hard to find problems and did everything possible to solve them.

Almost all armies have the problem of deducting military salaries, and Yuan Shikai paid attention to plugging all aspects of the exposed holes to ensure that every penny of military salaries went to the hands of soldiers.

As for violations of military discipline, he always punished him heavily in public and killed chickens to show monkeys.

For those who perform well in training, they will be rewarded in different ways.

With strict discipline and clear rewards and punishments, Yuan Shikai soon trained several refreshing armies for North Korea.

Gaozong Li Xi has inspected the army in training many times, and he is full of praise every time. In high school, Yuan Shikai's outstanding performance in training the army was often passed on to Li Hongzhang and the Qing court through various channels.

This training allowed Yuan Shikai to accumulate more experience in this area, and also enabled Yuan Shikai to gain a good reputation as being particularly good at military training.

We can know what significance this has for Yuan Shikai's subsequent rapid promotion?

Similarly, it also made Yuan Shikai up and down in North Korea and gained higher prestige.

In order to strengthen the defense of the Qing Dynasty in the northeast, Li Hongzhang ordered Wu Changqing to withdraw to the country with three of the six battalions of the Korean garrison and transfer the defense of Mukden Jinzhou.

The remaining three battalions remained in Seoul.

It was commanded by the named Admiral Wu Zhaoyou, and was also in charge of a battalion.

As one of the main responsible persons, Yuan Shikai was in charge of the battalion offices of the three battalions on the one hand, and also in charge of one battalion.

The other battalion was commanded by General Soldier Zhang Guangqian.

In this way, Yuan Shikai became one of the three major members of the Chinese garrison in Korea. And because he has a special relationship with Kim Yun-sik, an important minister in North Korea, and at the same time, he is also particularly valued in front of Gojong Li Xi, coupled with his own prestige in North Korea, although his position is below Wu Zhaoyou, he often gives people the feeling that he is the head of the three.

Many people on the North Korean side only know that there is Yuan Shikai, but they do not know that there are Wu Zhaoyou and Zhang Guangqian.

But in any case, Yuan Shikai at this time was already famous.

When he was complacent, he never forgot his pink confidante Shen in Nanjing, let alone the agreement between the two. He felt that now that the conditions were in place, it was time to fulfill his promise to the Shen family.

So, he sent his confidant Yuan San to Nanjing and instructed him to take Shen back as long as he was still there.

I haven't been in touch for so long, how is this favorite of mine? Yuan Shikai couldn't help but be a little worried, and even regretted that he should have sent someone to meet him earlier.

And the same is true for the Shen family, several years have passed, and Pingshui has met, do you still remember Yuan Gongzi of the Sea Oath Mountain Alliance?

Struggling to survive on her modest savings, she gradually lost hope.

Just when she was completely cold, Yuan San sent by Yuan Shikai found her.

After a long absence, like a newlywed, the two people are entangled, and in a foreign country, they have passed a loving husband and wife life.

This time, for the Shen family. It was the best time of her life, she loved her man with all her heart, and carefully took care of everything for this man.

Sending the man out of the door in the morning, kissing goodbye every time before going out, and waiting for her at the door early in the evening, as soon as she enters the door, she is greeted with warm kisses and hugs.

Yuan Shikai is an energetic person, sometimes in broad daylight, he has to do that thing first if he doesn't control himself. Shen was also asking for it, so both of them were like fish in water.

The two of them sometimes reminisce about the good times in Nanjing, and talk about their thoughts after parting, which makes them even more affectionate.

Yuan Shikai has a quirk, especially likes women with small feet. At that time, women were bound feet, and Shen's feet happened to be very small, the so-called three-inch golden lotus. Playing with Shen's pair of little feet has become a great pleasure for Yuan Shikai.

It's a pity that for the infatuated Shen, the good times didn't last long.

On the one hand, people will become, especially men of Yuan Shikai's status.

However, this is not the most important thing, because not long after, Yuan Shikai's family has added a new member.

The king of Joseon and Concubine Min saw that Yuan Shikai was brilliant and had an unlimited future.

In order to have a good relationship with Yuan Shikai, he imitated the ancient way of harmony and gave the princess of a prestigious family, Jin, to Yuan Shikai.

This Kim also brought two maids.

Yuan Shikai did everything he could, and accepted all three women as his aunts.

In this way, Yuan Shikai does not belong to the Shen family alone.

At that time, the officials were all three wives and four concubines, and as a woman in such a family, she could only be obedient.

A woman like Shen is, of course, more likely to choose to accept it.

There must be loss and unhappiness, but the Shen family can only vent this dissatisfaction to the difficulties and torture of those three people. Because this family should also respect the elders.

Mrs. Sifang, she is the wife of the eldest aunt, four people, she has the final say. What's more, she has a special relationship with Yuan Shikai, and she also relies on and backers.

The one who feels the most embarrassed is the Kim family. She is the younger sister of Princess Li of the Joseon Dynasty, and she is a rich lady.

I thought I was marrying to be a main room.

As a result, not only did the main room not do it, but became a concubine. The two subordinates she brought with her also became aunts and wives like her. And not on an equal footing. Yuan Shikai was sorted by age, and one of his subordinates was older than the Jin family, and he became the second aunt.

The eldest and youngest are orderly, and the Jin family is ranked second and becomes the third aunt.

That's not all, there is also an aunt Tai Shen above. Yuan Shikai's wife Yu is in his hometown in Henan, and the Shen family has become a housekeeper.

The Shen family didn't dare to be dissatisfied with Yuan Shikai's concubine, so he poured his anger on the three aunts.

The second aunt and the fourth aunt are from a subordinate background, and they will come to things and have an eye. And this rich young lady Jin, who grew up in pampering, is guilty.

In the pacification of the Renwu Mutiny, although the Japanese did not get a chance, they did not give up. With the declining Qing Dynasty and the rapid rise of Japan, Japan accelerated the pace of aggression against Korea.

They bribed some important ministers of the Korean court and became a very powerful force in the Korean court. He was trying to take advantage of the war between China and France to offer preferential terms in an attempt to get Korea to break away from China and throw himself into Japan.