Duan Qirui proposed to Yuan Shikai that the War Department would not have Wang Yongan and would not have Wang Yongan, and submitted his resignation and asked the president for instructions. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThe officers of the Beiyang Department have expressed their willingness to support Duan Qirui as the chief of the army, and are unwilling to listen to Wang Yongan's command.

Yuan Shikai was furious and scolded the generals: "The Japanese Chen soldiers on the Korean Peninsula, seeing that the Japanese will fight next spring, you are still fighting among themselves?" He called Wang Yongan to the presidential palace again and reprimanded: "Wang Jingyun, Wang Jingyun, don't you make me angry, the Japanese army is about to go to war with China, but you have used your strength to raise the bar with Duan Qirui?" ”

Wang Yongan hurriedly apologized, and claimed that he would no longer argue with Duan Qirui, and would fully cooperate with Chief Duan's work. When Wang Yongan left, Yuan Shikai's anger did not subside, and at this time, the secretary He Xie stepped forward and said in a low voice: "President, there is one thing that is not worth talking about, it is about this Wang Jingyun." ”

"What's the news about Wang Jingyun?" Yuan Shikai asked.

He Xie smiled and said: "The Heavenly Soul Guan Tianxu Dao Chief will meet, and I gave him a photo of Wang Jingyun that day, what do you guess the Tianxu Dao Chief said?" ”

"How?" Yuan Shikai asked with a frown.

"This son must not be willing to live under people, that is, the commonly known Ke Master." He Xie sneered and said, "So I also specially found someone to ask about this Wang Yongan's past, this Wang Yongan is really not a person under the people, you think that Jiangbei was originally his brother Wang Yongtai, but now Wang Yongtai is seriously ill and can't be a director, so he has to entrust Jiangbei to him, don't you think it's strange?" ”

Yuan Shikai said: "What do you mean...... Wang Yongan attacked his brother? ”

He Xie sneered: "My subordinates are not sure, but it is very likely that in the end, Wang Yongtai was forced to go overseas, and Jiangbei became Wang Yongan's territory." And now what Wang Yongan is trying to do, the president should know better than me. The chief said that the second son should not stay with him, but should stay away. ”

"I would like to take a look at this Tianxu Daoist and see how he persuaded you, a top student of Waseda University in Japan." Yuan Shikai commanded.

He Xie immediately went to the Heavenly Spirit Temple to secretly invite the Tianxu Dao Chief, but he didn't expect that the Tianxu Dao Chief looked at Yuan Shikai's face, turned around and left, Yuan Shikai hurriedly asked why the Dao Chief took my face away, and that day the Void Dao Chang said: "The poor Dao is to show you the face, what can you do?" The life of a good man is only sixty years, and now he is good at himself. ”

Yuan Shikai was shocked and shouted, "Dao Chief, please stay, Dao Chief, please stay." He ran over quickly, grabbed the hand of the Heavenly Void Dao Leader and said, "How about this?" ”

Tianxu Dao said: "Judging from the face of the president, with the appearance of an emperor, he must have been able to break through the curse, but now that Ziweixing has broken his halberd, I am afraid that this curse will never be broken again." ”

Yuan Shikai said in horror: "You mean, my life is not more than sixty? Tianxu Daoist nodded, and Yuan Shikai asked again: "What should I do?" The Heavenly Void Daoist made a movement to lift his hair, and then laughed and turned to leave.

Yuan Shikai was full of doubts and said, "What does Dao Chief mean by this?" ”

He Xie hurriedly said, "I'll ask." After a while, He Xie came back and said: "The Taoist chief said that if you leak the heavenly machine, you will definitely die, if the president can guess it himself, it is not a leak of the heavenly machine." ”

Yuan Shikai thought about it, what a smart person he was, and immediately guessed that this action was not lifting the crown of the emperor's Pingtian crown? On this day, the Void Dao Chief was actually hinting that he would be the emperor in order to break the curse that the Yuan clan's life was only sixty! Although Yuan Shikai thought about being an emperor in the past, with the change of the form of the country, with the birth of Wang Yongan and the Jiangbei forces, Yuan Shikai gradually suppressed the idea of being the emperor in his heart, and really wanted to be a big president, but the words of the Heavenly Void Daoist today made him itch, after all, Yuan Shikai is fifty-six years old this year, if his life is not more than sixty, doesn't it mean that he only has four years to live?

No one is not afraid of death, and no one is not afraid of death in the face of death, Yuan Shikai is a generation of masters, but he is also a person, as long as people have an inexplicable fear of death, this fear makes him feel like falling into an ice cave. An ambivalence made him entangled, but soon he calmed down, what the Void Dao Chief said this day may not be true, and he may not believe him.

In the afternoon, the more Yuan Shikai thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and when he was walking in the house, he suddenly heard the female gentleman being ridiculed by his wives and concubines. It turned out that after Yuan Shikai entered Beijing as the governor of Zhili, he saw that the wives of many officials had a very high level of education, and the conversations of the foreign wives who participated in the foreign drinking party were also very personable, so he deeply felt that his wives and concubines were only beautiful but uneducated, so he found a female gentleman Zhou Daoru to teach his wives and concubines cultural knowledge.

Zhou Daoru is a native of Yixing, Jiangsu, her father died unfortunately, after jumping to the top of the imperial examination, the family is in the middle of the road, she graduated from the Beiyang Girls' Public School where she was the chief teacher in Lu Bicheng, and stayed in the affiliated primary school to teach, with a meager salary to help the family. Lu Bicheng has a special appreciation for Zhou Daoru, a student, and thinks that she has a pure character, profound knowledge, and good manners. Zhou Daoru teaches in the attached primary school and works hard. Lu Bicheng felt that Zhou Daoru was overkill and treated Zhou Daoru badly, and it happened that Yuan Shikai, who was promoted to the governor of Zhili at that time, wanted to hire a tutor, so Lu Bicheng recommended Zhou Daoru to Yuan Shikai.

The children, daughters, daughters-in-law, and even Yuan Shikai's young concubines all became Zhou Daoru's students. More than ten years have passed, and they get along well with each other and are like family. Yuan Shikai was ostracized by the Qing court and lived in seclusion on the grounds that he was "now suffering from foot disease and walking is difficult". Zhou Daoru couldn't bear to leave the daughters and daughters-in-law of the Yuan family, so he went to Huanshang with them. Yuan Shikai, who fell into Pingyang, was grateful to Zhou Daoru, who was a respected figure from top to bottom of the Yuan family.

Yuan Shikai was in a bad mood, so he scolded his wives and concubines for not learning culture well, and as he spoke, he suddenly felt a burst of dizziness and fell down, which frightened all the people in Yuan's house, and hurriedly invited the German doctor Baledi to come. After the examination, Baldei asked: "Does the president often wake up at night?" ”

Yuan Shikai had already woken up, and told his family not to spread the word, only then did he answer that the doctor said yes, and then asked him what his illness was, and Baladei hesitated for a long time before saying: "It may be kidney failure, or it may be the early stage of uremia." ”

Yuan Shikai was even more scared, and hurriedly asked how to treat the disease, and Baladei answered them one by one. After the doctor left, Yuan Shikai asked his wives and concubines to leave him, he wanted to be alone and quiet, he never expected that he had just become the president, and he actually got this disease, how did Yuan Shikai accept it, is the curse that the man of the Yuan family lives only sixty really has to be fulfilled? He suddenly thought that his illness must not be leaked out, otherwise I don't know how many cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods will jump out - then Wang Yongan will definitely not be quiet.

Thinking of Wang Yongan, who was only twenty-five years old, Yuan Shikai felt jealous in his heart, thinking how good it was to lead the army in Korea to be the emperor of the soil when he was twenty-five years old.

"No, I'm going to change my fate and break the curse!" Yuan Shikai thought, a hint of ambition flashing in his eyes.