Chapter 15: Frustration

No matter when, between colleagues, between good friends, between the upper and lower poles, and even between relatives. Mutual criticism and reminders are very necessary and beneficial.

This helps people grow their talents and overcome their shortcomings.

As many people say, mistakes and setbacks teach us a lesson, make us smarter, and do our things better.

Generally speaking, for critics, it is necessary to pay attention to the ways and means of criticism, pay attention to the words or language of criticism, and be able to be tactful, so that the criticized party is more acceptable.

And what about the criticized side? As much as possible, do not care about the ways and means of the critics, the words or phrases of criticism, and open your mind with an attitude of encouragement if there is a change.

In this way, the criticism will definitely achieve good results.

And if the two sides who criticize and are criticized are not like this, but the opposite. In other words, the critic asks the critic that you should not care about my methods and methods, but should change if you have something, and encourage you if you don't. And what if the critic blindly demands the way and method of the critic? What about the words and phrases? Such an outcome is difficult to predict.

Now let's take a look at the two brothers, Zhang Jian and Zhu Mingpan, in this criticism letter, the harsh words, the sarcastic tone, and the condemnation of the criticism. Apparently it has gone far beyond criticism.

To be precise, it is a denunciation, a list of crimes.

I am afraid that it is difficult for anyone in this world to accept this kind of criticism. Yes! Criticism is to help people and not to deny them, and it should be well-intentioned. Can it be regarded as kind criticism to talk about people as useless and scold them with blood?

Can a talented person like Zhang Jian not understand this?

Perhaps, he didn't think about whether Yuan Shikai could accept it at all, he just wanted to vent, because he was too angry with Yuan Shikai. I think that at the beginning, when he strongly recommended Yuan Shikai in front of Wu Changqing to act as the commander of the first battalion, Yuan Shikai was so grateful that he almost knelt down and called his ancestor. Isn't that how good? Isn't it just a broken acquaintance? What do cows look like? Except for Li Hongzhang, is there anyone else in his eyes?

So, we can even think that this is a letter of renunciation.

Looking at Yuan Shikai, who was criticized, he was furious when he barely finished reading the letter. He tore the letter to shreds and threw it on the ground, and he was still angry, and jumped on it again and stepped on it for a while.

Since then, he has severed his friendship with his former mentor and the elder who has given him a lot of support and help.

Didn't you just be a teacher for a few days? What's that help? I have where I am today, it is by my own strength and my own efforts.

Can't see the good of others? Have pink eye? Isn't it just jealousy? I haven't been out for a month, what are you still reading? Phew! To hell with it!

Now Yuan Shikai gritted his teeth with hatred for Zhang Jian and Zhu Mingpan.

In fact, if Yuan Shikai could think about it calmly, maybe he wouldn't be so violent.

Zhang Jian's words were particularly harsh, but didn't he ever be his own teacher? The so-called one day as a teacher, lifelong as a father, the father reprimanded his son a little more seriously, does he hate iron but not steel?

Also, Zhang Jian wrote it to Yuan Shikai himself, not a big-character poster posted on the wall, nor a report and denunciation letter written on it.

Since it is written to Yuan Shikai personally, Yuan Shikai will be finished after reading it. How much malice can there be when you say something ugly?

Besides, good medicine is good for disease, and good advice is good for deeds.

Although Zhang Jian and Zhu Mingpan said a lot of excessives in their letters, they cannot but admit that the very right questions raised are reasonable. Needless to say, there are changes and no encouragements; There are some problems that Yuan Shikai really should pay attention to.

For example, if you have ambition, you will be rampant, if you have ambition, you will get carried away, and if you have ambition, you will be dizzy.

In fact, Yuan Shikai's biggest loss in his life is precisely at this point.

In the end, he became a sinner in history.

Of course, if Yuan Shikai can really do what Zhang Jian and Zhu Mingpan demanded, he would follow the teachings of the sages. Reflect on my body three times a day, reflect on myself every day, and often find reasons from myself, then Yuan Shikai will have a completely different life.

But then again, what kind of noble character and what kind of personal qualities do you need to be able to do the above? Asking people like Yuan Shikai like this isn't talking about the piano to the cow?

The biggest weakness of the world is that the bystanders are clear, and the people at that time are confused. Looking at other people's affairs and other people's faults, it is clear and clear. However, when it came to looking at himself, he was confused, and he ran into the clouds. If you are flattered by sycophants for a few words, you don't know anything about the southeast and northwest, and you don't know how many catties and taels you have.

I also feel that I have become a god and a genius. Perhaps, this is the weakness of human nature, perhaps, this is the historical limitation of the individual. Perhaps, this is also a reason to oppose the tyranny of the individual.

Because of personal limitations, because it is easy to make profits and lose their minds, it is very dangerous for individuals to do whatever they want. Strict restrictions on the behaviour of individuals are imposed through certain necessary and necessary mechanisms and forms. Everyone can only move within a certain range, that is, within the scope of your authority, you are supreme. But you can only roam within your purview, and you can't move an inch beyond your purview, and this may be the advantage of democratic politics. Of course, that's an afterthought.

Of course, if Yuan Shikai behaves in a proper manner as Zhang Jian and Zhu Mingpan demanded? Will he have a future development? Can he still be as windy and rainy as he was later?

In a bad society, good people often run into walls everywhere, and not good people can show their talents, isn't this kind of thing common? Perhaps, Yuan Shikai's tragedy is not just a personal tragedy.

The exhortations of Zhang Jian and Zhu Mingpan did not make Yuan Shikai restrain his smooth sailing and presumptuousness, especially the success of the coup d'état in Jiashen, which made him even more carried away.

He saw the incompetence of Gojong Yi Hee and the Joseon royal family, and in order to control Korea, he wrote a letter to Yi Hongzhang, strongly advocating the imposition of state supervision on Korea.

As for who will be in charge of the country, when the emperor of North Korea, he did not say. But because he thought it was lice on the monk's head, it was obvious that he was the only one.

He wrote a lot of reasons, and he thought that those reasons would definitely convince Li Hongzhang.

In the days of waiting, Yuan Shikai looked forward to it every day, dreaming of becoming the emperor of North Korea every day.

However, the result of waiting for him was greatly disappointed, and Li Hongzhang did not agree at all.

Li Hongzhang did not fail to see the situation in North Korea, nor did he not know that Yuan Shikai was right to firmly control North Korea and let Japan have no chance.

But he is in a high position, so his horizons are naturally much broader. On the one hand, at the beginning of the treaty, it was clearly stated that the DPRK was an independent country and that no one else was allowed to interfere in its internal affairs.

Suddenly taking custody of the DPRK will not only arouse criticism from the DPRK, hurt the national feelings of the DPRK people, and cause them to worry about being invaded and annexed.

On the other hand, it will also cause dissatisfaction and hostility in Japan.

As the war between China and France was underway, Li Hongzhang did not want to repeat the incident.

If Li Hongzhang doesn't approve it, forget it! But Yuan Shikai was unwilling. He may have tasted the benefits of the general's foreign military orders, so he took matters into his own hands and moved into the palace. Under the pretext of protecting Emperor Gaozong, he lived next door to Gaozong Li Xi.

This is not the end, he is still in charge of everything, and everything has to go through him. It seems that the emperor of Joseon is not Li Xi, but Yuan Shikai.

As a result, not only the North Korean side is dissatisfied, but the Chinese army is also constantly criticized.

Why did you Yuan Shikai live in the palace? Who sent you. If the head of the Chinese army wants to live in the palace, then there is also the governor Wu Zhaoyou, not you Yuan Shikai?

Happiness and sorrow beg, things must be reversed, and the next series of blows fell on Yuan Shikai's head.

First of all, in order to buy people's hearts in North Korea, Yuan Shikai decided to embezzle military funds without authorization to pay for the families of the North Korean ministers who were killed in the Jiashen coup; He also reported to Li Hongzhang for reimbursement in military expenses.

Yuan Shikai didn't know how empty the treasury of the Qing ** was at that time, and how difficult the finances were? How can you afford to do such a thing? Even if you have money, you can't spend it in this place?

As a result, Li Hongzhang was furious and reprimanded Yuan Shikai severely. He also instructed Wu Zhaoyou, the head of the garrison, to order Yuan Shikai to personally bear these expenses. The meaning is obvious, don't you want to be a good person? , then spend your own money.

Wu Zhaoyou and Zhang Guangqian saw that Yuan Shikai was becoming more and more unpopular, with great power desire and ambition, and he was bent on monopolizing military power in Korea, and consciously or unconsciously always put himself at the head of the three, Wu Zhaoyou was naturally unwilling.

In the past, the relationship between Yuan Shikai and Li Hongzhang was not ordinary, but he was taken into account. Now, at first glance, their relationship is nothing more than that. Write a letter of denunciation. Yuan Shikai was exposed for embezzling military salaries, raising official prostitutes, making his own opinions, and interfering in the affairs of the Korean government.

Blessings are incomparable, disasters are not singular, at this time, Japan sent a letter to Qing**. In the Jiashen coup, it was Yuan Shikai who provoked the Sino-Japanese conflict and demanded that the perpetrator Yuan Shikai be severely punished.

The relevant ministers of the Qing court do not know what the truth is? I thought that as the Japanese side said, they could not afford to provoke Japan. thinks that Yuan Shikai is making trouble out of nothing, and he has nothing to do.

Therefore, the imperial court ordered Li Hongzhang and Wu Dawei, who would handle Beiyang affairs, to be responsible for investigation and punishment. He also made it clear that it was forbidden to provoke Japan.