People of a certain age should be able to remember that there were times like that. Someone wrote a letter and immediately became famous. When someone took the exam, he didn't know anything, and he tried to write a few irrelevant words on his exam paper, handed in a blank paper, and became a hero of the white paper.

Does Lao Naixuan want to do this? Do you want to seize the opportunity, meet the will, look up to the color, and hunt for fame and wealth? We don't know. Anyway, there are a lot of such people, and when there is a suitable climate and stage, they will jump out to perform.

Lao Naixuan's "masterpiece" and the letters to the three widows of Zhao, Zhou, and Xu were, of course, all in the hands of Yuan Shikai as he wished.

Lao Naixuan's hard work was really not in vain, although Yuan Shikai did not express any attitude after reading it, he said to Xu Shichang: "Invite him to Beijing to participate in politics!" ”

The news got out. As the president of the republic, Yuan Shikai not only did not take a clear stand against Lao Naixuan's nonsense, but asked him to participate in politics. It's easy to send a message to everyone. It shows that Lao Naixuan expressed Yuan Shikai's heart, and shows that Yuan Shikai supports restoration.

Soon, advocating restoration became a technique of ascending the dragon, and it became a shortcut to opportunism in Beijing officialdom at that time, and many people echoed this idea.

When Lao Naixuan received a telegram from Xu Shichang, inviting him to go to Beijing to participate in politics, he immediately traveled from Qingdao to Jinan with great interest, preparing to change his route to Beijing and show his skills for the restoration he advocated.

However, in Jinan, I heard that a case of "reporting and restoration" was going on in Beijing, and one of the people who was prosecuted was Song Yuren, a famous person, who echoed Lao Naixuan's proposal and asked for "returning the government to the Qing Dynasty."

Hearing this news, Lao Naixuan was really confused, and he really couldn't figure out what medicine was sold in Yuan Shikai's gourd. After thinking about it all day, "the car is not in danger", I felt that the risk of this trip was too great, and decided to return to Qingdao to wait and see for a while.

Since advocating restoration has become a shortcut to promotion, the theory of restoration has become more and more rampant.

In addition to Song Yuren's "Returning the Government to the Qing Room" and Liu Tingchen's "Book of the Restoration of the Rite System", Song Yuren also united some conservative factions in the National History Museum and openly submitted a submission.

There is another one who is also very fierce, it is Xun Qing Hanlin, who was awarded by the Senate of the Ministry of Posts and Communications.

Song Yuren (1857-1931), an early Chinese bourgeois reformist thinker, is known as the first person in the history of Sichuan to "open his eyes to the world" and an advocate of the Chongqing Reform Movement. The word Yunzi, in his later years, was called Daofu, a native of Fushun, Sichuan, a Jinshi in the twelfth year of Guangxu (1886), awarded the Hanlin Academy, and was reappointed as a reviewer.

Liu Tingchen (1868-1932), the name Youyun, the old man of the late Qianlou, was born in Dehua County, Jiangxi.

In the nineteenth year of Guangxu (1893), he was raised in the township, and in the twentieth year of Guangxu (1894), he was a Jinshi.

He once served as the editor of the Hanlin Academy, the envoy of Shaanxi Province, and later served as the right senator of the school, the general superintendent of Beijing Normal University (the president of Peking University), and the vice minister of the department.

He made the greatest contribution to the term of president of Peking University and was the first person to pioneer the teaching of different subjects in modern China.

Liu Tingchen was influenced by his father Liu Yunqiao and was good at cursive. Calligraphy works are treasured by many collectors. Qingdao's "Lixian Middle School", "Qian Xiangyi" and Jiujiang County Tao Yuanming Memorial Hall "Wanggu Yaoji", "Emperor Xi" fang, "Mr. Jingjie's Ancestral Hall" inscriptions, are all written by Liu. Liu Tingchen is also good at poetry and composition, and has published works such as "Manuscripts of the Hidden Building".

The fallacy of advocating restoration became more and more rampant, and finally some people could not stand it.

Xia Shoukang, the history of the government, submitted a submission to Yuan Shikai, righteous and strict, and tried to dispel heresy.

Subsequently, Sun Yuyun, a member of the Senate and the Senate, also put forward the "investigation and handling of the case of the fallacy of restoration."

Speaking in the Senate, he said: "The fallacy of restoration was instigated by a few elders, and last year Liu Tingchen wrote to President Liu Tingchen mentioning this issue. The bereaved elders did not understand the nature of the state and mistakenly believed that it would not be a state without an emperor, and I believe that this fallacy should be thoroughly investigated in order to preserve law and order and to preserve the Qing Dynasty. ”

Is Yuan Shikai old-fashioned? Or is it innovation? People seeking officials want to accept the will, but they can't help but express their wrong feelings and scratch their boots. They were all figuring out Yuan Shikai's psychology, thinking that he was in favor of the imperial system. In fact, they didn't know that Yuan wanted the emperor to be himself, not the emperor to be a person.

The restoration of Yuan Shikai was welcomed, but the "return of the government to the Qing Dynasty" was unacceptable to him in any case.

Yuan Shikai did not want to seriously investigate the fallacy of restoration, because he still wanted to be emperor, so he blamed the Kuomintang for the crime of restoration, believing that this was also a troublemaking behavior of the Kuomintang.

Due to the overwhelming opposition to the restoration throughout the country, Yuan Shikai had no choice but to issue an order on November 23, 1914, to strictly prohibit heresies that disturbed the state system.

At this time, Song Yuren was edited by the National History Museum and was on the list of "Investigation and Handling by the Ministry of Internal Affairs".

The investigation was originally an official article, and it went through the motions, but Song Yuren's luck was too bad. He offended a fellow villager in Sichuan, who was eager to make meritorious service and even reported and exposed him to Jiang Chaozong, the commander of the infantry army. In this way, Jiang Chaozong could not be unofficial and sent a carriage to pick up Song.

The coachman said to Song Yuren: "The commander invites Song Hanlin to take a trip to the Yanei. ”

Song Yuren went to see Jiang Chaozong in horror.

Jiang Chaozong smiled and said to the editor: "It's not a big deal, please ask Mr. Yunzi (Song's alias) to write a reply so that I can explain." ”

Song Yuren wrote in response to the order: "Lao Naixuan is a continuation of the republic, which can be adopted but not appropriate, and wants to make an argument to refute its failure to meet and seek its so." …… If you want to help the king of the Spring and Autumn Period to call the righteousness of the public, and name the general ** to call the public, then his subordinates, doctors, and scholars have a system. Aiding the Spring and Autumn Period to reward the righteousness of the royal family, it is easy to 'treat the gift of foreign monarchs", which is the gift of "the co-lord of the country", and the court will meet sometimes. This reply shows Song Yuren's ability to adapt, and with a slight turn of his pen, he changed from restoration to persuasion.

Before this, the Qing Dynasty relics and the restorationists were the most popular figures at that time. Due to the strict prohibition of restoration rumors and the rumors of Song Yuren, the situation changed. These "old thieves with gray hair, the first horsemen" are all in danger, and they are afraid that they will be affected in the name of the restorationists.

This is really a sharp contrast with the fact that after the defeat of the Second Revolution, young people in suits and leather shoes were afraid of being suspected of "disrupting the party".

At this time, Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Department could not figure out the true thoughts in Yuan's heart, and they also hurriedly telegraphed to oppose the restoration. Among them, the most opposed was Zhang Xun, who had braids, and he said in a telegram to Yuan: "State affairs are not equal to chess, and the political system is not child's play!" ”

The Ministry of Internal Affairs was also unclear about Yuan's intentions, so since the order was called to investigate strictly, they had to investigate it.

The result of the investigation and handling of Song Yuren's case was: "The discussion is absurd and the spirit is confused, so he should be sent back to his hometown and sent to the local magistrate for probation." ”

However, when this judgment came into the hands of Yuan Shikai, it was changed to "persuade him to return to his hometown to recuperate", and sent someone to send Cheng Yi 3,000 yuan, and at the same time ordered the local magistrate in Sichuan to send 300 yuan per month as Song's recuperation expenses.

On November 30, Xi Yizhuang, the sect secretary of the Jiang Dynasty, the commander of the infantry army, escorted Song Yuren on the train, and Song Yuren's close friends came to the railway station to see him off, and many people asked Song Yuren to write a screen as a souvenir. This kind of pomp and circumstance is not like "deportation", it is simply "returning with glory".

Hubei general Duan Zhigui received a secret telegram from Xu Xiangguo, asking him to give special treatment to Song Yuren.

When Song Yuren arrived in Hankou by train on December 3, Duan Zhigui sent police to meet him at the station with a four-person sedan chair, and a special ship to take him to Wuchang City; At the same time, he was entertained in a special room in the Qingxiang Office.

Later, Duan Zhigui pretended to inspect the results of Qingxiang and went to the Qingxiang General Office to meet with Song Yuren.

Song Yuren waited for his dependents in Wuchang for a total of eight days. He worked as an alternate in Hubei in the Qing Dynasty, so he had a lot of old acquaintances in Hubei. Later, when he returned to Sichuan, Yuan Shikai revoked his punishment of "sending him to the magistrate for probation".

As mentioned earlier, Lao Naixuan once wrote a letter to Zhao Erxun. Zhao Erxun is also a great widow. In the third year of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai hired him as the director of the Qing History Museum, but he was originally unwilling to come out to be a "veteran of the two dynasties".

Yuan Shikai lied to him: "This is a matter of singing praises for the Qing Dynasty, not for the Republic of China." ”

Zhao then put forward a condition to defend his brother.

It turned out that his brother was Zhao Erfeng, who was the governor of Sichuan in the late Qing Dynasty, and was nicknamed Zhao Butcher because of his killing of the Sichuan people's road protection movement. During the Xinhai Revolution, he was killed by the revolutionary party, and Zhao Erxun asked President Yuan Da to replace Zhaoxue, the butcher of Zhao.

Yuan Shikai issued an order on March 24 of the Republic of China, saying: "According to Zhu Qinglan, the envoy of the Heilongjiang Protector: Zhao Erfeng, the governor of Qianchuan, when he was the first rebel in Wuchang, returned the power to the gentry and self-government, and agreed on the conditions, resigned on the sixth day of October in the year of Xinhai, hoisted the national flag on the seventh day of the first month, and gave in favor of the Republic of China. The investigation of the old governor has insight into the overall situation, is in favor of the republic, meritorious to the Republic of China, and there is indeed empirical evidence, and the State Council has preferential consideration, and the Ministry of the Interior has ascertained the facts, and announced the history museum, so as to show the merits. ”

Zhao Erxun was not completely satisfied with this Zhaoxue Order, but he reluctantly got out of the mountain.

After he became the director of the Qing Dynasty History Museum, he laughed at himself and said: "I am an official of the Qing Dynasty, I compile the history of the Qing Dynasty, I do Qing Dynasty affairs, and I eat Qing Dynasty food." ”

This is simply a nondescript attitude, but he is happy with himself, thinking that it is righteous and thin, loyal to the sun and the moon, and it is very important to have the anger of Yun Chang "descending to Han but not Cao".

Although Zhao Erxun thought that he was very loyal to the Qing court, another widow, Liang Dingfen, wrote to scold him: "The Qing family is not dead, why do you want to repair the history of the Qing Dynasty?" ”

When it comes to Liang Dingfen, this is a stubborn old man. On March 2, the second year of the Republic of China, the abdicated Qinglong Yuhou Zigong Feng'an ceremony, the hearse arrived in Xiling, Liang Dingfen and Lao Naixuan wept bitterly, like a mourner.

At this time, Sun Baoqi, the son and daughter of Prince Qing Yixuan, wore a suit and bowed three times in front of the spirit, and Liang Dingfen saw Sun Baoqi, and his eyes were almost on fire.

Pretending not to know, he stepped forward and asked, "Which country is Sir?" ”

Sun Baoqi said: "Jie'an, what are you kidding? ”

Liang Dingfen smacked him with a straight face, and then scolded: "Who is joking with you? What are you, if you were a revolutionary, you should not have come here; If you remember being an official of the Qing Dynasty, why don't you wear filial piety clothes? Bring a letter to your old ghost, tell him not to live in the world, lest he be ashamed! ”

Lao Naixuan, who was prostrating on the ground, jumped up and shouted, "Scold happily!" It turned out that Yixuan was working as a public servant in the Tianjin Concession at this time, and the Qing Dynasty called him to take care of the funeral, but he ignored it, and the general widow was not ashamed of him.