After Song Yuren was deported, his teacher, Wang Minyun, the director of the National History Museum, was greatly frightened.

Wang Minyun (1833-1916) was a scholar and writer in the late Qing Dynasty. The word Renqiu, also known as the father, lives in Xiangqilou, so people also call him Wang Xiangqi, and the world is called Mr. Xiangqi. In the second year of Xianfeng (1852), he was raised and served as a tutor in Sushun, and later entered the shogunate of the Zeng State Domain. In 1880, he entered Sichuan and presided over the Chengdu Zunjing Academy. Later, he lectured at Changsha Sixian Lecture Hall, Hengzhou Chuanshan Academy, and Nanchang Higher School. Awarded the review of the Hanlin Academy, and added the title of waiter. He is the author of "Xiangqilou Poetry Collection, Anthology, Diary" and so on.

He and Zhao Erxun were invited by Yuan Shikai at the same time, and Yuan Shikai asked him to be the director of the National History Museum. On April 5, the third year of the Republic of China, he was summoned by Yuan and set off from Changsha to the north.

When passing through Hubei, Duan Zhigui once held a banquet to entertain.

This is a very funny person, when he arrived in Beijing, someone asked him why he had to travel all the way to Beijing to be an official at a young age?

He laughed and said: "Being an official is an easy thing, and when you are old, you can only find the easiest thing to do." ”

He also treated Yuan Shikai with a giggling attitude, and he made a horizontal plaque for the presidential palace. On the horizontal plaque, the words "bystander Qing", the couplet on both sides is "The people are still also, the country is still also, what is the division between north and south." "All in all, in general, not a thing."

Yuan Shikai had no choice but to take this world-famous old pedant, and only laughed it off when he heard about it.

Wang Minyun still gave enough respect to Xu Shichang, and the horizontal plaque he proposed for the political hall was "Qingfeng Xu Lai".

Such a person is actually not very bold, and after Song Yuren's case, he couldn't stop worrying. In the end, he left a letter to the "old nephew of Weiting", and then returned to Hunan.

Yuan Shikai then sent Yang Du, Wang Minyun's protégé, to act as the curator of national history.

Wang Minyun's abandonment of India and his absconding return, in addition to his high-footed Song Yuren incident, there is also such an episode:

When Wang Minyun took office as the director of the National History Museum, he sent Tan Qirui, a native of Hunan, to serve as the director of the National History Museum. I don't know how Wang Minyun offended Tan Qirui, and even wrote a letter to accuse Wang Minyun of "sheltering chaos", citing the Song Yuren case and the Baohuang Hanxiang incident as evidence.

Huang Hanxiang was arrested in connection with another restoration case.

Tan Qirui's complaint, Yuan Zheng. The government did not pursue it, but Wang Minyun heard the news and was furious. Immediately sent a letter to the president, claiming that the "categories in the National History Museum are too complicated" and demanded rectification.

Yuan Shikai sent someone to find Wang Minyun and asked how to rectify it?

Wang Minyun lost his temper, slapped the table and said: "Because I can't rectify it, I went to the book to ask the president, and now you come to ask me again, it's really a bureaucrat!" ”

As mentioned earlier, when he left his hometown to go to Beijing to take over the National History Museum, someone asked him, why do you still want to be an official at this age? He jokingly said: Because being an official is the easiest thing in the world, I am old, so I have to choose easy things to do.

But after he took over the National History Museum, he realized that it was very difficult to be an official.

The first difficulty lies in the economy, and the National History Museum has a fixed monthly fund of 8,000 yuan, but it often does not issue funds for two months.

Once, Director Wang sent a message to the Ministry of Education: "This fund is similar to the same, and it is very harmful. The director of the museum also does not want to be burdened with desecration, and the difficulty is so difficult that it is better to cancel it. Accordingly, please consult your ministry to check the photo, and if it cannot be issued month-by-month, please immediately forward it to the president and cancel the National History Museum. ”

The Ministry of Education thinks that this old man is witty, and there is no need to chew words with him, but to know that the Bank of China will first issue the funds of the National History Museum for one month, and the rest will be handled a little later.

Wang Minyun asked the Ministry of Education why it only allocated one month's expenses when it owed more than two months of funds.

Someone told him that this was because of his big face, the special care of the general director, and the life of the Ministry of Education was even more difficult.

Wang Minyun is a scholar, the so-called inappropriate family does not know the price of firewood and rice, no matter what it is difficult to manage things, no matter how much money does not know the taste of no money.

In addition, as soon as the restoration was reversed, everyone like him was in danger, not to mention that he was still dragging his braids behind his head.

When Song Yuren left Beijing, it was inconvenient for him to see him off in person, but he couldn't help but see him off. Therefore, I had to send a representative of "Mrs. Ru", and as a result, the city was full of storms. This is a famous man who is rich in five cars and only eight buckets high, so far he knows that this official is really not easy to do.

It's better to leave this place of right and wrong as soon as possible.

So he handed over the letter, but no one dared to accept it, because the letter could not be received casually except when it was handed over.

After the letter was handed over to several places and no one received it, he finally had to hand it over to his fourth daughter-in-law.

His fourth daughter-in-law is not an ordinary person, and she is very famous. It is Yang Du's sister Yang Zhuang, the word Shaoji, a generation of talented women, married to Wang's fourth son Wenyu.

Yang Du is particularly doting on his sister, once the two quarreled, Yang Du wrote to Yang Zhuang and said: "The way of husband and wife is the same as that of the monarch and the minister, if you are together, you will stay, and if you are not together, you will go." ”

Yang Zhuang listened to his brother's words and begged to go.

Wang Minyun was so anxious that he scratched his head and said: "You don't look at his (referring to his son's) face, you have to look at my old face, you really don't want to be my daughter-in-law, how about being my daughter?" ”

Yang Zhuang handed over the seal of his father-in-law's National History Museum to his brother Yang Du, and King Yang forwarded it to Yuan Shikai for instructions. Yuan Shikai took the opportunity to send Yang Du as the deputy director of the National History Museum and act as the librarian.

After Wang Minyun abandoned India and returned to Beijing, leaving a letter to bid farewell to the "old nephew of the Comfort Pavilion President" and leaving Beijing, the Su Zheng Department proposed an impeachment case and accused him of leaving his post without permission.

Yuan Shikai recruited Wang Minyun and others to his command, not to expect some people to be in charge of him, nor did he expect some people to do anything, but just to let them decorate the façade and show that they are fully utilized. Such a person will leave when he leaves, especially this Wang Minyun, Yuan Shikai is looking at him unpleasantly, and he can't wait to get out of here.

The impeachment was dismissed, and the president decided that Wang Minyun was "old and virtuous, and he would not be investigated deeply."

When the wind of restoration blew, of course, the small court of the Qing Dynasty in the Forbidden City also heard the wind, and many people were undoubtedly full of expectations. The people in the small court, and the old and young outside, also have movements.

Breaking into the repeated repetition, Yuan Shikai's repeated repudiation attitude was so resolute that the small court of Xunqing in the Forbidden City panicked.

Because of the fear of burning himself, the Xuantong era name was abolished in the palace, and it was renamed the Republic of China for three years. and telegraphed to persuade Zhang Xun, the commander of the braided army, to cut off his braids, but Zhang Xun did not listen.

Concubine Jin, the person in charge of the Qing Palace, sent Zhiqi, the steward of the Inner Palace, to explain to Yuan Shikai that the Qing Dynasty had nothing to do with the restoration movement that was rumored for a while, and handed over a secret letter from Lao Naixuan to clarify his intentions. At the same time, Yuan Shikai was asked to send personnel to the Qing Palace to check the door photos to avoid misunderstandings.

Yuan himself did not receive Zhiqi, but sent Ruan Zhongshu, the internal history supervisor of the Presidential Palace, to meet him on his behalf, and gave him kind words and comforted him.

In the third year of the Republic of China, the winter in Beijing was surprisingly cold, and people of the elderly said that they had lived all their lives and had never experienced such a cold day. How cold is it? The police who kept vigil actually froze to death several people.

The political situation in Beijing seems to be as gloomy as the weather. The restoration case made the old and young people in the capital frightened, and the people were panicked. While Yuan Shikai repeatedly reopened it, another thing he paid close attention to also made these people who were used to eating, drinking and having fun very unhappy. It is to strictly prohibit gambling and prostitution, and the wind of banning gambling is particularly tight.

knows that when Yuan Shikai was young, he suffered a big loss because of gambling, and he hated gambling.

Yuan Shikai has forbidden the army to gamble since he was a child, and there are two punishments in his "Twenty Articles of Concise Military Law", one of which is about gambling, and the offender will be punished with arrows.

During the period of the governor of Zhili, Yuan Shikai cooperated with the patrol police system to crack down on gambling in the society, and stopped the Shunzhi Yi Lottery. In the "School Regulations" of the Zhili Normal School and the Primary School, it is stipulated that gambling is strictly prohibited for all people in the school, and violators will be punished by the general office.

After serving as the president of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai banned gambling by decree, and the "Provisional New Criminal Law" issued in June 1912 stipulated different penalties for gamblers and those who opened casinos.

However, the vice of gambling is deeply ingrained in Beijing. When the "Interim New Criminal Law" was first released, it still achieved certain results. But as soon as the limelight passed, people forgot about the ban on gambling. In particular, some officials of Yuan Shikai ** also often go in and out of casinos, which further encourages the trend of gambling.

Cao Rulin introduced in his memoir "Memories of Cao Rulin's Life" that in the early years of the Republic of China, gambling in Beijing's political arena was flourishing, and some ** officials gambled all night, and the next day they had no energy to deal with government affairs, and some were even late for the State Council. Yuan Shikai was very dissatisfied with this, and secretly ordered Police Superintendent Wu Bingxiang to thoroughly investigate and report.

Of course, Wu Bingxiang knew that these characters were all immortals, how dare they offend.

At that time, there were Liang Shiyi, Sun Baoqi, Duan Zhigui, Wang Kemin, Pan Fu, etc., who would gather almost every night and often gamble until dawn. One night, Sun Baoqi played mahjong at Liang Shiyi's house, and returned in the early morning, tired of his eyes, and hit his head on the rockery in the courtyard, and the blood flowed.

Cao Rulin wrote in the book: "When I entered the house the next morning, Xiang Cheng (Yuan Shikai) had already discovered the matter and deliberately asked, why is Jun suddenly injured?" Mu Han (Sun Baoqi) replied with a small boil and a little blood. Xiang Cheng smiled, Oh! Not necessarily, it's always better to go out less at night. ”

This time, Yuan Shikai stepped up the ban on gambling and grabbed it from officials. Especially high-ranking officials, gambling people, Yuan Shikai all let people say hello.

The so-called grasping or not grasping is different, grasping big and small, spending different efforts, and the effect will definitely be very different.

There is a record: "Zhang Yu in Xiaojiangfang Hutong, is the back door of Liang Shiyi's residence, was originally the former residence of Zhang Wenda Gong Boxi, gamblers rented it as a club, every Saturday or Sunday to gamble during the period, dignitaries, rich businessmen and magnates, are all guests, the banquet is over, often mixed with poker and bird wars.

"Suddenly, due to the investigation and restoration and the strict prohibition of prostitution and gambling, this high-ranking club also has scruples.

"There was Liang Shiyi at a dinner party one night, and the host asked Liang if he wanted to have a pastime after dinner? Liang said: I haven't done it for two months, and I can't make trouble for a while.

"It turned out that a month ago, Yuan had ordered Sun Baoqi, the chief of internal affairs, to send a message to civil and military officials to strictly prohibit gambling, and the first person to be notified was Liang Shiyi. Sun Chuanyuan's dictation told everyone to be cautious, if something happened, it was impossible to think about it. ”