"Keding, is this plan working?" Yuan Shikai couldn't help but wonder after hearing this.

Yuan Keding smiled: "Father, don't you have confidence in Mr. Xingcheng yet?" ”

Yuan Shikai's eyes rolled for a long time, and he suddenly jumped up from the chair, patted the table and said, "Okay, that's it!" Keding, you go with Duan Qirui, you tell him that if this thing is done, he wants to be the army chief or the governor of any province, and I will fulfill his wish! ”

Yuan Keding said unhappily: "He? Father, I'll go alone! ”

Yuan Shikai glared at him: "No matter what you say, Zhiquan can be regarded as your godbrother-in-law!" Then he touched Yuan Keding's back and said earnestly: "Your prestige is not enough, I am afraid that you will not be able to control the scene if you go by yourself, and when this matter is done, I will hand over the 'model group' to you." ”

Yuan Keding was overjoyed: "My son will definitely live up to your trust." ”

Everyone in Beiyang knows that as long as he takes over the "Model Group", he will become Yuan Shikai's successor.

After Yuan Shikai became president, he was very suspicious of his family and relatives, and several of his adult sons did some things in the government during the former Qing Dynasty, but after arriving in the Republic of China, at the insistence of Yuan Shikai, no one was an official outside, which made Yuan Keding very tight.

Fortunately, the opportunity came quickly. After the establishment of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai found that his Beiyang Army was already dull, and there were many factions, and he was no longer comfortable with his control. From the last "Yanjing Mutiny", Yuan Shikai has already felt that most of the generals under him now have their own mountains, and it is not easy to command.

As a result, after Yuan Shikai took power, he began to rebuild his own army, such as the 5-way patrol battalion in Gyeonggi (from which Feng Yuxiang's 16th Mixed Brigade later came from), and at this time, Jiang Fangzhen, the principal of the Baoding Army School, proposed to train a "model regiment" to reorganize the army, and Yuan Shikai adopted this opinion. The so-called "model regiment" means that officers at all levels are selected from each division to serve as officers and soldiers, organized into regiments, and sent to each division to serve as officers after half a year of training, so as to transform and optimize the officer structure in the army.

At first, Yuan Shikai planned to let Cai Yi, who came to Beijing from Yunnan, be the head of the "model regiment", but this proposal was abandoned due to the opposition of the Beiyang generals. After Yuan Keding heard about this, he also wanted to learn from Yuan Shikai's experience in training at the small station, so he proposed to the old man that he should be the head of the "model regiment". Yuan Shikai felt that it was inappropriate after hearing this, and Yuan Keding said that when he was in Germany for treatment, he found that the German imperial family could only hold military positions in the country and was not allowed to interfere in internal affairs, which was a good method worth emulating.

Under Yuan Keding's soft grinding, Yuan Shikai had no choice but to agree to discuss with the army chief Duan Qirui. Unexpectedly, Duan Qirui didn't give any face, and after he heard that Yuan Keding was going to be the head of the "Model Regiment", he immediately shook his head: "What? Let the eldest prince be the head of the regiment? How does this work?! He doesn't understand military affairs at all, so wouldn't sending him to train troops be a big deal? Besides, he has bad legs and feet, which really hinders the appearance of the army..."

Yuan Shikai didn't wait for Duan Qirui to finish speaking, and left in a huff. Due to the difficulty of the candidate for the head of the "Model Regiment", Yuan Shikai finally had to take on the role himself.

As long as this errand is completed, then the position of his successor will be certain. The more Yuan Keding thought about it, the more proud he became, when he was treating his injuries in Germany, the German Emperor Wilhelm II saw that the eldest son of the President of the Republic of China came to seek medical treatment, so he naturally attached great importance to it and entertained him very hospily. Wilhelm II was an ambitious man, and he was trying to expand his influence in the Far East, so he took advantage of the banquet to blow in Yuan Keding's ear: "The open-boiled republic system that China is now engaged in is not suitable for China's national conditions. If China wants to be developed, it must learn from Germany, and it cannot be developed without an imperial system. After returning to China, the eldest prince must tell the president that if China wants to restore the imperial system, Germany will do its best to help. ”

Not only that, Wilhelm II also wrote a letter to Yuan Shikai when Yuan Keding returned to China, and the general meaning of the letter was also that China and Germany were friendly and advised Yuan Shikai to be called Emperor Yunyun.

During his time in Germany, Yuan Keding was amazed by Germany's achievements and became convinced of the efficacy of the German monarchy. Yuan Gongzi did not recover from his foot injury in Germany, but returned to China with a dream of an emperor. As a result, Yuan Keding blew a "German whirlwind" at home, and he ordered a set of majestic German princely school uniforms for himself and his younger brothers, and faintly regarded himself as a "prince".

Among Yuan Keding's people, there are Yang Du, Liang Shiyi and others, Duan Zhigui and Chen Guangyuan of Wu, Yuan Keding's "tide file" is full of talents, from the central to the local, there are Yuan Keding's people everywhere. Even Yang Shiqi, Yuan Shikai's most important confidant, has a blue eye for Yuan Keding.

In the previous Yanjing mutiny, Yang Shiqi recommended Yuan Keding to command. At that time, the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe sent Cai Yuanpei and others to Yanjing to meet Yuan Shikai, Yuan Keding knew that his father was unwilling to leave Yanjing, so he conspired with Yang Shiqi to plan this mutiny. However, Yuan Keding's plan was to make the third town of the Beiyang Army attack the palace, drive the little emperor Puyi away, and follow the example of Song Taizu's "Chen Qiao Mutiny" and give Yuan Shikai a "yellow robe".

Yuan Keding's plan was so secret that he didn't even notify the Praetorian Guards, but the Praetorian Guards didn't know what to do, desperately resisted, and Yuan Keding's army couldn't attack it. Yuan Shikai was a little overwhelmed by this result, but this was also a great favor to Yuan Shikai, and he was worried that he couldn't find an excuse to shirk and go to Nanjing to take up a job.

It's just that Yuan Keding didn't know that Yang Shiqi had no hope for him from that day on. Yang Shiqi retreated this time, more than half of the reason was that he felt that Yuan Keding was not worthy of assistance, and there was no successor in Beiyang.

But Yang Shiqi saw that the two had been friends for many years, and Yuan Keding was also respectful to him, so he still left a clever plan before leaving, telling him that as long as he acted according to the plan, he could make great achievements, which made Yuan Shikai look at him with admiration.

"Yang Xingcheng, don't mistake me! Buddha, Jesus, Taishang Laojun, all the gods and Buddhas will bless me! Yuan Keding prayed silently in his heart.

Yuan Shikai smiled beside him: "If this thing is done, Li Yuanhong really arrives in Yanjing, and I have prepared a good place for him in Zhongnanhai." ”

"Where?"

"Yingtai!" Yuan Shikai sneered.

Xu Shichang was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "It's really a good place to go!" ”

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In the Anqing Military Consultation Mansion, Chai Dongliang and Xu Shuzheng had a very happy conversation. Xu Shuzheng personally went to the Xiaogushan Wharf to greet Xu Shuzheng, fired a salute of 17 guns, and the 3,000 Jianghuai troops lined up to welcome him, and also organized some students to hold up banners and hold small flags, and when Xu Shuzheng got off the boat, there were female students who stepped forward to put garlands on him. This made Xu Shuzheng feel very satisfied, and his perception of Chai Dongliang suddenly improved a lot.

Xu Shuzheng has big ears and looks very magnificent, which is not at all in line with the legendary surname of his small-bellied chicken intestines. Sitting next to him was a foreigner in a suit and leather shoes, with a well-defined face and a cold expression, and his appearance was quite good.

Chai Dongliang finally remembered who this Goodnow was, an American man in his fifties who was a professor at Columbia University and was currently employed as a senior adviser to the National Political Axe.

Growing up poor in Brooklyn, New York, he studied hard to change his destiny from an early age, earning a bachelor's and master's degree from Amherst College, a bachelor's degree in law from Columbia University, and a study in Paris, France, and Berlin, Germany. After graduating, he began teaching law at Columbia University, where he taught administrative law, history, and political science, and was the main founder of the American Political Science Association, of which he became its first president in 1903. In 1900, he participated in the drafting of the New York City Charter. He was a member of President Taft's Conservation and Efficiency Committee the year before and last year. At the beginning of 1913, he went to Yenching to serve as the legal adviser of the Chinese political axe.

Chai Dongliang remembers that in another time and space, he was almost nominated by the Republican Party as the presidential candidate of the United States, but because of his "inappropriate remarks" in China, he was seized by competitors, and some people suspected him of taking bribes and wrote the pen, which was actually Yuan Shikai's royal literati, which made Goodnow difficult to argue. He Chai Dongliang had read his article, and in all fairness, Goodnow saw China's problems quite clearly, and the prescription he prescribed was also practical. However, Yang Du and others could not stand it from taking it out of context, extracting the content of interest from his article, and fabricating the remark that "the republic is not as good as the imperial system", and it was conclusively said that it was Goodnow's meaning.

This kind of method of pulling the tiger's skin to make a banner is endlessly written in Chinese history, but where does Goodnow, an old foreigner who has just arrived in China, understand this kind of ghost trick? It's a pity that his promising future was wiped out by a rotten egg hit by Yuan Shikai's party, which is really a flying disaster, a disaster that makes the old man hate for life.

This is called the standard template for getting shot while lying down!

Chai Dongliang couldn't help but move the idea of recruitment, his own talent is scarce, especially administrative talents with a high theoretical foundation is even more scarce, Goodno is a world-renowned politician and educator!

When Chai Dong was brightening his heart, Xu Shuzheng asked with a smile: "Chai Dudu, what do you think of Sun Wen and others advocating the second revolution?" ”

Chai Dongliang turned his face and said with a smile: "I think that no matter who raises troops against the Central Committee at this time, it is a rebellious act, and it has nothing to do with the word revolution." ”

Xu Shuzheng patted his thigh and said, "Okay, Chai Dudu understands righteousness!" The Kuomintang has a reasonable vice chairman like you, which is really a blessing for the country and the Kuomintang! ”

Chai Dongliang was a little surprised, he didn't take this vice chairman of the Kuomintang seriously, but Xu Shuzheng just took this as a matter, what was his intention?

"Governor Chai Du, now that the Kuomintang has won the election, a cabinet should be formed according to the law, and Song Jiaoren was assassinated, Sun Wen and Huang Xing advocated rebellion, the president intends to ask you to be the prime minister of the cabinet, can the governor intend to go to Beijing to form a cabinet?" Xu Shuzheng asked with a smile.

A glass of wine released the military power, Chai Dongliang realized that they were singing this one!

'''There is something at home today, and I owe a watch, and I will make up for it tomorrow!'' Ask for a guaranteed monthly pass for August!

(To be continued)