In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, there were internal and external troubles. Soon after the Opium War was defeated by the Great Powers, civil strife broke out again. First, an uprising broke out, which was customarily called the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, led by Hong Xiuquan, a scholar who had failed to achieve fame in the examination many times and refused to live under others. Hong Xiuquan's team started from Jintian Village in Guiping, Guangxi, advanced to Hunan and Hubei, and went east along the Yangtze River from Wuhan, and later established its capital in Nanjing.

At the same time, Zhang Luoxing and others led the twisted army to respond. Emperor Xianfeng hurriedly dispatched troops to suppress it, and Anhui and Jiangsu became the main battlefields of the Qing Dynasty and the Taiping Army and the Twist Army.

Xiangcheng County, the capital of Chenzhou in Henan Province, near Anhui, has also become a place of war.

Xiangcheng County has a long history, with a width of 70 miles from east to west and a length of 110 miles from north to south. The terrain is low-lying, and Yingshui, Shahe, and Fenhe rivers flow through the territory and enter the Huai River. It is rich in water and is known as Zeguo.

Due to years of war and chaos, the ditches of the rivers have fallen into disrepair and are blocked, and floods occur when it rains heavily. There is no rain and there are often droughts and locust plagues, and the so-called droughts and floods are not guaranteed.

The land here is already barren, there are many people and little land, there is no product, and the yield of crops is also very low. The economy is backward, and there is almost no industrial production except for a few handicraft workshops such as winemaking and oil extraction. There are not many varieties of crops, such as wheat, grain, millet, sorghum, etc., which are very simple. The only cash crops are sesame and cotton. Even peanuts in the Central Plains cannot grow.

Most of the people here are farmers, living a life of self-sufficiency, few people are engaged in business, and it is a well-known poor county.

However, no matter how poor the place is, there are rich people, and there is a large family surnamed Yuan in this city and county. This family is said to be the descendants of Yuan An, and there are four generations and three dukes to Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shu is out.

In the ancestral hall of the Yuan family in Xiangcheng, there was a horizontal plate with an iron hammer, which recorded the names of the ancestors and generations of descendants of the family. Later, for some reason, it was lost, so it started with Yuan Jiuzhi and rewrote the family tree.

The so-called thin mule is bigger than the horse, although this family has fallen to Yuan Jiuzhi's generation, it can still be regarded as a gentry family with a better life, but to the next generation of his son Yuan Yaodong, this family has become prominent again.

The family has fifty percent of land, runs several pawn shops, and lends usury, becoming the richest man in Xiangcheng, known as the "Runan Giant".

Yuan Yaodong has four sons, in order of tree three, Jia three, wind three, and heavy three.

Shusan is a tribute student, who has served as a low-level academic official, and has been a teacher and regent in Chenliu County.

The most promising of the four brothers is the second and third of the old, who became an official in Beijing after being admitted to the Jinshi, and was later invited by Lu Xianji to go to Anhui to help run the landlord's armed regiment training.

Due to the repeated defeats of the Taiping Army and the Twist Army in Jiangsu, Anhui and Henan, he made outstanding achievements in the war, and was promoted to the general of the Huai Army, supervised the suppression of bandits in the three provinces, and worshiped the governor of Caoyun.

Shu Sansheng has two sons, for Baozhong, Baoqing. Baozhong was born in the deputy tribute, donated a fellow knowledge, is a local tyrant gentry in the county, and participated in the group training.

In 1858, Baoqing was promoted in the examination, followed his second uncle Yuan Jiasan, fought to exterminate the Taiping Army and the Twist Army, and won the Guanglu Temple Summer Ceremony with his achievements.

Later, he reported to the donation and distributed the Criminal Department, and then transferred to Henan to run a group training. Because of his strong ability and hard work, he was deeply appreciated by the Henan regiment and governor, and he was awarded the title of salt transportation envoy.

Yuan Bao has two wives, both surnamed Liu. The Yuan family originally lived in Zhangying, north of Xiangcheng, but in order to escape the war, they moved to a village twenty miles east of Zhangying.

In order to protect himself, a high wall was built around the village, so the village was renamed Yuan Zhai.

On the 20th day of the eighth month of the ninth lunar calendar of the Qing Dynasty (September 16, 1859), the sky was still clear, and suddenly there was thunder again, and soon it rained again. And with the sound of thunderstorms, a new life descended on Yuan Zhai in Xiangcheng, Henan.

On that day, and for a long time afterward, no one connected the birth of this little child with this sudden change of heaven.

It's just that when this new child grew up and became a generation of heroes, he was remembered by someone.

How can it not change the sky? said to the man who hated him like a bone. How can God be indifferent when such a great traitor and thief come to the world? Where is the rain that falls on the ground? Is it clearly the saliva of tens of thousands of Chinese people?

Of course, there are also people who like him, but these people will say that if an abnormal person is born, there will naturally be abnormal celestial phenomena. What an amazing person, huh? What fell on the ground that day was indeed not ordinary rain, but tears of regret shed for this heroic hero who was not guaranteed in the evening.

People are not saints and sages, but some mistakes can be made, some mistakes cannot be made, and if they are made, one mistake will become a thousand hatreds.

In any case, the restoration of the monarchy is unforgivable and regrettable. How can a country with such a long feudal history, a country that lacks democratic edification, is accustomed to autocracy from top to bottom, and a society that has not undergone enlightenment and baptism has just made a little bit of progress in democratic politics. Whether it is for one's own selfishness or for the sake of the so-called country and nation, they will all be sent to the gallows of history.

Like it or hate it, from 1859 to 1916, this man walked through this world once and left a deep mark.

Some people even mentioned that Tie Guan Li, one of the Eight Immortals, had left a "Xiang Song" when he passed by Xiangcheng, and believed that looking at the leylines of this county, there should be a fake emperor and general here.

It's just that in the Xianfeng period, this prophecy was not fulfilled, thinking that the gods also had water when they spoke.

After witnessing this person's legendary life, many people suddenly realized that this immortal is an immortal, shouldn't Tie Guan Li's prophecy be on this person?

This person is the first president of the Republic of China - Yuan Shikai. Because he is a native of Xiangcheng, Henan, he is often called Yuan Xiangcheng.

Yuan Shikai's biological mother Liu is his father's stepfamily, so he is also the son of this big gentry. It is said that the name Yuan Shikai also has a origin, saying that as soon as he was born, his father happened to receive the good news of his third grandfather Yuan Jia fighting against the Taiping Army, so he called Shikai.

As soon as Yuan Shikai was born, his mother's milk was insufficient. In those days, it was a tragic thing.

However, Yuan Shikai was blessed by misfortune. It happened that his uncle's wife, Niu, gave birth to a child who died young, and Niu's milk was very sufficient, and it was rising uncomfortably, so he breastfed Yuan Shikai. Yuan Shikai's luck is not only that he has enough milk to eat when he doesn't have enough milk, but how much does he get because of this?

Of course, maternal love is inseparable from blood relationship, but it is more related to nursing, and feelings are getting along. It may not matter once or twice, but my own ** is always sucked by a child, can mother's love be born spontaneously?

In addition, Yuan Shikai, who was a young child, was already very popular, and Niu soon regarded it as his own.

A person has to make a difference in his life. First of all, you need to have the ability and ability to do so.

And people often say that there are many capable and talented people in this world, but most of them can only do nothing, because it is not enough to have their own ability, and another condition is needed, and it is the most important condition, that is, opportunity.

As it is often said, there are so many people in China that those who can be emperors can be driven with a whip. However, the emperor can only be one. So, don't you think you are great if you really have a chance to be an emperor? There may be geniuses in this world, but they are definitely not Your Excellency.

And a person's ability to get opportunities is very important to the amount of resources he has at his disposal.

Yuan Shikai's father Yuan Bao had six sons, and Yuan Shikai was his fourth son. It's a concubine again, and it's clear that the resources he can get from his father are very limited.

And it is precisely because of the lack of milk of Yuan Shikai's mother Liu that Yuan Shikai has the first rare opportunity in his life.

Because, several important opportunities for his development are related to this.

The Niu family, who was breastfeeding Yuan Shikai, had two sons who unfortunately died, and his uncle Yuan Baoqing did not give birth to a son for him although he accepted two more concubines one after another.

The so-called nephew stands in front of the door, not a desperate man, Yuan's father Baozhong saw that his brother Baoqing was over forty years old and had no children under his knees, and saw that his wife liked Yuan Shikai so much, so he passed Yuan Shikai to Yuan Baozhong as his heir. In this way, Yuan Shikai became the only son of his heir Yuan Baoqing.

No matter in terms of status and prestige, Yuan Shikai's father Yuan Baozhong cannot be compared with his heir Yuan Baoqing, let alone one against five?

If Yuan Baoqing has no children, Yuan Baozhong's six sons will always give him one. If there is no love for Niu's breastfeeding, can it be the turn of the fourth Yuan Shikai?

Passing on one's own flesh and blood, the biological parents will have a special feeling. And the heir's father and mother are also very caring, which makes Yuan Shikai's childhood spent in an environment that combines thousands of favors, and he is also spoiled very unpresentably.

When Yuan Shikai was seven years old, his heir Yuan Baoqing was sent to Shandong by the prefect to make up for it, and he took his family to Jinan to take office.

Seeing that Yuan Shikai had reached the age of studying, his father Yuan Baoqing hired a local Xiucai named Wang Zhiqing for him to serve as Yuan Shikai's private school teacher.

Yuan Shikai grew up in pampering, and the biggest characteristic of such a person is that he is not restricted, unconstrained, and does whatever he wants.

Reading is to behave in people's rules, how can Yuan Shikai stand it?

He couldn't sit still at all, and he didn't want to concentrate on listening to the teacher. The teacher didn't look at him, and he slipped away.

Do all the children in the world consciously like to read? Probably very few. The main reason why children can study hard is because of some form of coercion from teachers and parents. The so-called last resort. Of course, it is not excluded that some children are trying to please teachers and parents, or they can show off in front of others when they get good grades.

The so-called, strict teachers produce high apprentices. It is difficult to let go of such a private school teacher for such an official eunuch family and such a wayward child. If you manage it strictly, not only will the children not do it, but it may also make the adults unhappy. If the child is loose, he will not learn anything, and this measure is difficult to master.

Wang Zhiqing is not an irresponsible person, but in the face of an elf and eccentric naughty boy like Yuan Shikai, there is not much to think of, so he can only do his best.