April 1, Medium. Mr. Yama resigned as interim president. On April 2, the Senate made a decision to move north, and the provisional government. The government moved to Beijing.

Yuan Shikai's use of Tang Shaoyi to form a cabinet was the result of comprehensive consideration. Speaking from personal relationships. Tang Shaoyi can be said to be his old friend for many years, not only that, Tang Shaoyi is simply his little brother, the little brother who listens to him the most. He has been following him since North Korea, and he has always been handy to use. He was the president, and Tang Shaoyi was the cabinet chief. Rationally, can there be a problem with cooperation? It must be where he is pointing, where Tang Shaoyi hits, he takes his left leg, Tang Shaoyi will never step on his right leg. In Yuan Shikai's view, Tang Shaoyi came to him to be the general manager of a "sound worm" who did specific affairs. Rationale is the most suitable.

What's more, Tang Shaoyi has another identity - a member of the alliance. He is also an "American expert", and it is also more appropriate to deal with the great powers.

It seems that Yuan Shikai doesn't really know Tang Shaoyi, because, contrary to his wishes, the two of them couldn't get together at all from the beginning. This result not only exceeded Yuan Shikai's expectations, but even exceeded everyone's expectations.

Tang Shaoyi is also a person. How can you be willing to be someone else's "echo worm".

On January 2, the first year of Tongzhi (1862), Tang Shaoyi was born in Tangjia Village, Tangjiawan Town, Zhuhai, Guangdong. In the thirteenth year of Tongzhi (1874), he became the third batch of children to study in the United States, and later entered Columbia University to study.

In the seventh year of Guangxu (1881), Tang Shaoyi was recalled to China and entered the Western-style school attached to the Tianjin Navy Division to study. The following year, Tang Shaoyi went to Korea as an attaché to the former German consul in Tianjin, Mullinde, to assist in customs affairs.

On December 4, 1884, the night of the inauguration of the Seoul Post Office, the pro-Japanese Kaihua Party held a banquet to prepare to wipe out the pro-Qing Dynasty party, and Mu Linde was also present. When Tang Shaoyi heard the news, he was not afraid of danger, and immediately rushed to the post office with weapons and a horse-drawn carriage to escort Mu Linde and the stabbed conservative minister Min Yongyi back to Mu Linde's home, and then invited American missionaries to treat Min Yongyi's wounds.

This left a deep impression on Yuan Shikai, who was also in North Korea, and made the two become inseparable friends.

On December 6 of that year, Yuan Shikai suppressed the coup d'état and was named Minister in Korea. And Tang Shaoyi served as the Western translator of Yuan Shikai's office as a candidate from Jiupin, and was the most important assistant by Yuan Shikai's side.

In the eleventh year of Guangxu (1885), Tang Shaoyi went to Tianjin to serve in the tax yamen. Later, he was sent to North Korea to handle taxes and became a Qing government. The secretary and right-hand man of the Minister of the Government in Korea, Yuan Shikai.

At the end of the 15th year of Guangxu (1889), Tang Shaoyi was appointed as the Commercial Commissioner in Longshan, that is, the consul in Seoul, Korea, and showed capable diplomatic skills in his office.

In September of the 17th year of Guangxu (1891), Yuan Shikai took leave to return to his hometown due to his mother's serious illness, and did not return to office until the following year. During this period, upon the recommendation of Yuan Shikai, Tang Shaoyi acted as Yuan Shikai's position for more than seven months, which shows Yuan Shikai's trust in Tang.

Under the protection of Yuan Shikai, Tang Shaoyi made steady progress, and by the eighteenth year of Guangxu (1892), he had already held the third rank of official residence, second only to Yuan Shikai, who was the "second rank of supplemental dao", and became the second person sent to Korea by the Qing Dynasty before the First Sino-Japanese War.

As mentioned earlier, Yuan Shikai went through a lot of hardships before the imperial court agreed to his departure from Korea. It is said that when the Japanese learned the news, they immediately plotted to assassinate Yuan Shikai. When Tang Shaoyi heard the news, he immediately ran to the British embassy to ask for help from Zhu Erdian, the British minister to North Korea, and jointly planned a plan to save Yuan Shikai.

That night, Yuan Shikai changed his clothes and ran away from the back door of the embassy. Armed with two guns and two knives, Tang Shaoyi rode to escort Yuan Shikai to the Han River and boarded the British warship prepared by Zhu Erdian. On the side of the Han River, the two of them shed tears and said goodbye, and made a heavy vow that they would share the joys and hardships of this life, and that life and death would depend on each other.

In the twenty-first year of Guangxu (1895), Tang Shaoyi was sent by the Qing court as the consul general in Korea.

In September of the 24th year of Guangxu (1898), Tang Shaoyi returned to China due to the funeral of his father, ending his diplomatic career in Korea for nearly ten years.

In the twenty-seventh year of Guangxu (1901), Yuan Shikai was promoted to the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang, and he reused Tang Shaoyi as the customs road of Tianjin. During his tenure of office, Tang Shaoyi handled such affairs as taking over the Tianjin urban area occupied by the Eight-Nation Allied Forces and recovering the management rights of Qinhuangdao Port. Yuan Shikai also played in the imperial court many times, praising Tang Shaoyi's outstanding performance and ability.

In the thirtieth year of Guangxu (1904), Tang Shaoyi was appointed as the Minister of Plenipotentiary in the Qing Dynasty and went to India to negotiate with the British representatives on Tibet-related issues. After getting to the point, Tang Shaoyi took a tough attitude and strongly advocated the abolition of the "Anglo-Tibetan Treaty" signed by Britain and Tibet. Because this treaty sets aside the central government of sovereignty. The British side and the local government of China. Treaties signed by the government are not legitimate. Although the meeting failed to accomplish the predetermined goal of abrogating the treaty, it persuaded the British representative Friecia to promise to bring Tang Shaoyi's views and propositions to the British decision-making level, and the negotiations achieved preliminary results. Because of his insistence on safeguarding national interests and using flexible diplomatic means, he strongly advocated the overthrow of the British and Tibetan local governments. The so-called "Treaty of Lhasa" signed by the government thwarted the British plot to separate Tibet from Chinese territory.

In April of the 32nd year of Guangxu (1906), after several fierce negotiations, Tang Shaoyi and Sa Daoyi finally represented the government of China and Britain. The government signed the "Sino-British New Tibet-India Treaty", abrogating the so-called "Anglo-Tibetan Treaty" signed by Britain and Tibet two years ago. The government recognizes Tibet as a local government of China. Fu belongs to the territory of China.

In the decay of the late Qing Dynasty. Against the backdrop of the government's forced signing of a series of humiliating and unequal treaties with the Western powers, this cannot but be said to be a rare diplomatic victory. Although Britain was granted the privilege of erecting a wire from India to Tibet as a commercial port, it had to recognize China's territorial sovereignty over Tibet.

Tang Shaoyi's achievements in the negotiations on the Tibet issue led to his promotion to the rank of right-hand attendant of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Since then, Tang Shaoyi has participated in presiding over the negotiations between China and Japan and China and Russia on the Northeast issue. Under very unfavorable objective conditions, he strived to avoid losing too much of his rights and interests, restrained Japan's ambition of expansion and aggression in Northeast China, and completely rejected Russia's request to retain its interests in Northeast China.

Since the 32nd year of Guangxu (1906), Tang Shaoyi has been appointed as the supervisor of the National Railway Corporation, the minister of the Taxation Department, and the left waiter of the Ministry of Posts and Communications. After he presided over the road administration, he focused on expanding China's administrative power in foreign-funded railways and recovering losses in railway loans.

As a result of his efforts, the renewal of loans for the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway was changed from the original 9% discount to 9.55% discount, and the general management office was changed from the original two Chinese staff members and three foreigners to only one Chinese general office, and the foreigners were assigned the functions of the department under the supervision of the general office. During the negotiation of the Canton-Kowloon Railway Contract, Tang Shaoyi took back the right to use the money from the British, and the Governor of Guangzhou-Canton was in charge of it.

After presiding over the work of the General Administration of Taxation of the People's Republic of China, he declared at the beginning of his tenure that the order to handle customs and taxation "is really one of the key to the recovery of tax rights," and that the customs is China's customs, and the employment of foreigners should be controlled by China.

In Tang Shaoyi's words: "Although the current affairs are difficult and there is nothing to do, we should also try our best to let it be difficult." When Tang Shaoyi set up the tax arrangement, he immediately summoned the General Taxation Department of the Customs and the tax departments of various customs departments to the capital to listen to the training. The foreigners, who had monopolized the position of the Customs and Excise Department for decades, now had to rein in their prestige and work under the authority of the Minister of Taxation.

In the 33rd year of Guangxu (1907), Tang Shaoyi was appointed as the governor of Fengtian and was responsible for foreign relations in the northeast. He planned to bring in British and American capital to build a railroad running through the entire territory of Northeast China to restrain Japan.

But British businessmen backed down under Japanese protests. After that, Tang Shaoyi planned to join forces with the United States to control Japan, planning to rely on American capital to develop the Northeast to contain Japan.

The following year, the United States returned part of the Gengzi indemnity to China**, and Tang Shaoyi was sent as a special envoy to the United States. During his stay in the United States, he encouraged an American consortium to invest in Northeast China, and visited eight countries, including Europe and Japan, in the name of financial inspection. However, Japan enlisted the United States to preemptively sign the Japan-US agreement, which frustrated Tang Shaoyi's plan.

In October of the 34th year of Guangxu (1908), Tang Shaoyi traveled from Shanghai to the United States via Japan, and then from the United States to Europe. In July of the following year, he returned to Beijing, where he secretly visited the United States as a special envoy of the Qing Dynasty to promote the Sino-German-American alliance and the reduction of tax increases.

In the second year of Xuantong (1910), Tang Shaoyi was appointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, but resigned soon after.

Tang Shaoyi had overseas experience as a teenager, and he had been stationed abroad for a long time and dealt with foreigners, which was different from ordinary feudal bureaucrats. Firmly consider himself to be the first cabinet chief of the Republic of China. reason, not the "Minister of Military Aircraft" in front of the "Queen Mother" when he was invited. It is unacceptable to let him be a "minion" who is obedient. When he acts, he only recognizes the law and rules, and thinks that what is right is done, rather than looking at someone's face to act; This made Yuan Shikai feel very unhappy.

Someone described Tang Shaoyi and his relationship with Yuan Shikai at that time: "Tang Shaoyi, who has always been gentle and elegant, became the first cabinet chief in the early Republic of China. After joining the Alliance, it was like being fooled by Dafa, standing in the position of the Alliance and opposing Yuan Shikai everywhere, completely ignoring the old friendship of more than 20 years, and refuting Yuan Shikai's edict was even more commonplace, full of grievances Yuan Shikai once suspected that the Alliance would be an organization with special functions, otherwise how could it be so popular.

"Every time Tang Shaoyi went to the presidential palace, Yuan Shikai's guards would always muttered privately together: 'Mr. Tang. Lee is bullying our president again today. 'The old subordinates who were once loyal are now like a different person.