Chapter 273 Yuan Shikai niàokuzi (asking for a monthly ticket)

Zhongnanhai Huairen Hall

The wind was cold, and the charcoal stove in the presidential palace was hot. Yuan Shikai was half-lying on the chair in a cotton robe, his round face was more round, but his face was blue and black, and he wore a pair of old cotton socks on his feet but no shoes.

Xu Shichang sat opposite him and asked with concern: "Comfort Ting, your qi is not very good." ”

Yuan Shikai waved his hand weakly: "Let Brother Juren bother, I'm not sick." ”

Seeing that he didn't admit that he was sick, Xu Shichang had no choice but to give up, but his heart faintly sympathized with this thirty-year-old friend.

Yuan Shikai didn't say anything, he was indeed sick, and he was very sick, and now his feet were so swollen that it was difficult to put on his shoes.

Men are afraid of wearing boots and hats, Yuan Shikai remembered this old saying, and suddenly his heart sank, and his sweat was about to stand up. As long as the men of the Yuan family are out of the mén to be officials, they have not lived past the age of sixty

Now Yuan Shikai is fifty-five years old, and in his family, the earliest one to make a career was from his grandfather Yuan Jiasan who died at the age of fifty-seven, and later Yuan Baoheng, Yuan Baoling, Yuan Baoqing, and even Yuan Shikai's own father Yuan Baozhong also died in the prime of life.

Death, what a terrible word

Yuan Shikai refused to admit defeat and did not believe in evil, fought with the sky and the earth, and had endless fun fighting with people, until he sat on the throne of the president of the Republic of China. But no matter how big a hero is, he can't fight God, people always have to die

What really scared Yuan Shikai was that he could count his life, he was now fifty-five years old, and according to the spell that had entangled three generations of the Yuan family, he could only live for another four years at most

Now the form of the Republic of China is absolutely not optimistic, Chai Dongliang is aggressive in Anqing, and the Jianghuai army is recruiting troops in Méng Gu and Mukden, and now it already has four divisions and 50,000 troops outside the Saiwai. South of the Yangtze River is the world of the Jianghuai Army, not to mention the two provinces of Anhui and Jiangxi, Shanghai has long been in Chai Dongliang's bag, and now the whole of Jiangsu has also been taken, and Cheng Dequan, the governor of Jiangsu, has been reinstated, but under the control of the Jianghuai Army of the two divisions, he is just a puppet. Duan Zhigui was trapped in the isolated city of Wuhan, and the rest of Hubei fell into the hands of the Jianghuai Army, and Lu Kai's 12,000 men of the Second Division of the Jianghuai Army, with the cooperation of the Yangtze River Fleet, blocked the water surrounding the three towns of Wuhan. Duan Zhigui looked like he had 56,000 troops on the surface, but only 6,000 were the Beiyang Army, and the other 50,000 were the Hubei Army left by Li Yuanhong, so he couldn't control it at all. Under the cover of the Hubei army, the members of the Hubei Zi Council Bureau left Huanggang from Wuhan and elected Tang Hualong, a Republican, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, as the governor of Hubei. Duan Zhigui's head was as big as a bucket in the Governor's Palace, and several telegrams a day begging Yuan Shikai to let him return to Beijing.

It's okay to do this, Chai Dongliang is an outlier, and he can't fight with Yuan Shikai, what really hit Yuan Shikai hard is the people in Beiyang. The main forces ordered to exterminate the "second **" were Zhang Xun, Feng Guozhang, and Lei Zhenchun. Zhang Xun's bones were left after being blown up by the Jianghuai army, and Feng Guozhang and Lei Zhenchun were good, not only did they not fight with the Jianghuai army, but instead took refuge in Chai Dongliang, and were elected as the governor of Hunan and Guangdong by the Kuomintang-controlled Hunan and Guangdong provinces.

You must know that the two of them were single-handedly promoted by Yuan Shikai from the military, and Lao Yuan can be said to be kind to them, especially Feng Guozhang, his xiǎo concubine is still Yuan Shikai's goddaughter, it is said that he and Duan Qirui are Yuan Shikai's nv sons-in-law.

A traitor who eats a bowl of noodles against the bottom of the bowl

No matter how hateful Yuan Shikai is, but in reality, he has to admit that the current China has become a situation in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Beiyang Army and the Jianghuai Army divide the river and rule, and what is even more terrifying is that Méng Gu and Fengtian still have four divisions of 50,000 troops in their backs, Kuang Haishan and Gu Nanshan are fierce, and at the same time two industrial parks have been built in Baotou and Fengtian City to produce weapons and equipment and smelt steel on a large scale, and Yuan Shikai is unable to mobilize troops to exterminate.

Yuan Shikai cried without tears, the strength of the Beiyang Army was nominally as many as 160,000, and the 30,000 people brought to Jiangnan by Feng Guozhang, Lei Zhenchun, and Duan Zhigui were removed, and there were 130,000 well-trained troops, while only 18,000 of the 50,000 people in Kuang Haishan and Gu Nanshan were veterans who had been trained for more than a year, and the other more than 30,000 were just recruits who had just thrown away their hoes and the mud on their feet had not been washed.

130,000 fought 18,000, and the strength of the army almost reached seven to one, even if the labor division expedition could win the battle, but what made Yuan Shikai sad was that the Beiyang Army was divided into factions, and he was unable to command any division to go out of the northern expedition to suppress, so he could only watch Kuang Haishan and Gu Nanshan gradually sit firmly in the position of the méng ancient tun reclamation envoy and the governor of Fengtian, and gain a firm foothold outside the fortress, and the méng ancients and Manchus were also naturalized in large numbers, changed the Han surname, and the Ming and Qing dynasties did not succeed in hundreds of years. It went very smoothly.

The most painful thing in the world is that he knows what to do, but he can't do anything, and Yuan Shikai is now full of powerlessness.

From the analysis of the intelligence summarized from all sides, Chai Dongliang was like an arm and an arm to the Jianghuai army, and there was no danger of being restrained at all; even if Kuang Haishan and Gu Nanshan were far away, Chai Dongliang could still command remotely with a piece of paper. Yuan Shikai was also puzzled at the beginning, and after carefully collecting information, Lao Yuan couldn't help but regret that his intestines were blue, and he even patted his brain and regretted his mistake at the beginning.

In order to prevent the chronic disease of drinking soldiers' blood and eating empty quotas in the Qing army, Yuan Shikai personally paid each soldier a military salary, and the soldiers also felt zero tears for him, and vowed to die for Lord Yuan.

But 7,000 people are easy to do, when Yuan Shikai became the minister of Beiyang, the practice of commanding the six towns of Beiyang will not work, and more than 100,000 people can't live in one big camp, right? If Yuan Shikai pays the military salary by himself, then he will not do anything, and he will be tired to death just by paying the salary. Fortunately, at that time, Yuan Shikai often went to the army, personally asked the soldiers about their suffering, and asked the soldiers about their training, but he didn't think there was anything wrong.

After he was sent to Huanshui to fish in Huanshui by the Qing court, the situation changed abruptly, Duan Qirui, Cao Kun, Feng Guozhang and others were already full-fledged and self-contained, and Yuan Shikai wanted to call them, so he had to rely on silver and NV people to win them over.

Chai Dongliang is completely different from Yuan Shikai, he rarely goes to the army in person, most of the time he pounces on the Anqing Army Academy, personally serves as the principal of the military academy, and establishes a teacher-student friendship with the students.

The difference between the two approaches has been different, Chai Dongliang can let Kuang Haishan and Gu Nanshan be thousands of miles away without worrying about them leaving Germany, just asking half of the officers to be transferred back to Anqing every six months, and then the same number of officers will be transferred to rotate, Yuan Shikai is now unable to even command Cao Kun and Duan Qirui, who are close to Gyeonggi, although on the surface they are still the president.

Yuan Shikai thought that these repentant intestines were blue, and he regretted that he should not have put his mind on winning over the senior generals in Beiyang, but should have built a decent military academy like Chai Dongliang, and firmly held all the middle and lower-level officers in his hands.

It was not too late to make amends, Yuan Shikai planned to train the Baoding Army Academy and the Model Regiment, but the Beiyang generals did not cooperate, not only refused to select and send good generals according to the requirements, but made it difficult for the training of the Army Academy and the Model Regiment in every way, and the chief instructor Jiang Baili shot himself in front of everyone, but fortunately he was injured and did not die. Deputy Chief Instructor Cai Ye was also disheartened, and this model regiment had become the ears of the deaf.

If it weren't for the Beiyang generals who didn't obey anyone, I'm afraid these guys would be covetous, and they might not be able to think of these and then think of the entangled spell of the Yuan family, Yuan Shikai couldn't help but turn his ambition into a stagnant water.

Ba Xinba's liver raised a group of white-eyed wolves

Xu Shichang, who was sitting opposite him, was already dumbfounded, he actually found that a waterline fell down the hem of Yuan Shikai's cotton gown, and the ground was wet.

Yuan Shikai, the dignified president of the Republic of China, he turned out to be a niàoku

Xu Shichang had heard a long time ago that Yuan Shikai had kidney stones, and there was no sign of this disease when it didn't attack, as long as it did, the pain would be unbearable even if it was made of steel. Renal colic is known as the first pain in the world, except for chou smoke or shèmorphine, there is no other thing that can control this pain that penetrates deep into the bone marrow, but Yuan Shikai endured it with extraordinary perseverance, even if the pain was rolling on the ground, he gritted his teeth and endured it.

Although the pain of kidney stones is abnormal, it is not an incurable disease, and the Western doctor once suggested that Yuan Shikai should undergo surgery, but Yuan Shikai avoided medical treatment, and felt that the position of the surgery was a little embarrassing, so he insisted on refusing to give it, just eating some Zhongyào conditioning, but it was always ineffective.

Xu Shichang heard that Yuan Shikai's kidney stones had recurred repeatedly and had developed into severe nephritis, but he didn't expect that it had reached the point of incontinence

Could it be that Yuan Shikai will not live to be sixty years old? Xu Shichang thought of his relationship with him for more than 30 years, remembered that he had not been entangled in the entrance examination in Beijing, Yuan Shikai poured his money into teaching, and remembered that Yuan Shikai was training the new army at Xiǎo Station, and he resolutely gave up his position as the editor of the Hanlin Academy to help him train soldiers in Tianjin for more than 30 years.

Yuan Shikai sat on the chair panting, looking like a toad, he found that Xu Shichang looked different after a while, and hurriedly asked in official dialect with a thick Henan accent: "Brother Juren, what's wrong with you?" ”

Xu Shichang endured the sigh in his heart, and pretended to smile: "The charcoal gray is mikward, it's okay that the fire in this house is too hot."

Yuan Shikai also nodded and said: "It's too hot, Wu Niang is always afraid that I will freeze, so I ordered my subordinates to burn the fire more people, cut a plate of Sydney pears and serve it, and give Ju Lao a defeat to anger." ”

The housekeeper personally brought a plate of peeled pears, and Yuan Shikai and Xu Shichang took one by themselves, each with mixed feelings and chewing wax.

The two sat speechless, and saw Yang Du walking in angrily.

Yuan Shikai hurriedly beckoned: "Huizi, come and eat pears." ”

Yang Du snorted coldly and said, "What pears to eat?" I'm full of gas."

Yuan Shikai laughed and said, "Who is so bold and daring?" ”

Yang Du sat on the chair, grabbed a pear, and bit it viciously: "Who else, those Kuomintang members in the Congress?"

After speaking, he stared at Yuan Shikai and said: "Weiting, I said a long time ago, our China is not suitable for any republic, you just don't listen to me, now you taste the taste of being constrained by others, and your ambition is difficult to reward, right?" ”

Yuan Shikai said silently: "Huizi, you have something to say." ”

Yang Du snorted angrily and said: "Didn't you send a message to the Congress a few days ago, I went to the Congress with eight state councilors today, but people ignored us at all, and you, the president, are nothing in the eyes of others."

Xu Shichang hurriedly asked: "Then let's deliver Jiāo's message, what is the attitude of the Congress?" ”

Yang Du said stiffly: "What attitude? When the rejection came, they said, 'We are in the process of reading the draft constitution, and we can only be attended by members of Congress, and you should not have come in the first place; As for the statement of the President on behalf of the President, it is even more inconsistent with the constitution of the Covenant, and I ask you to respect yourself." They didn't even bother to say a word to me, so they just ordered the eviction."

Xu Shichang took the case: "These Kuomintang parliamentarians don't know the depths too much, this is Beijing, not Nanjing, not Anqing, and now they remember the charter of the law?" When they announced the "Great Presidential Election Law", why didn't they expect to violate the "Temporary Covenant Law", the feeling of this royal law is a fig leaf for their family, they pick it up and use it when they think of it, and put it in their crotch if they can't think of it."

Yuan Shikai saw that he was angry, and couldn't help but say: "Brother Juren, you are from Hanlin, why did you talk foul language?" ”

Xu Shichang was speechless angrily, just kept eating pears.

Yuan Shikai saw that they were both sulking, and laughed: "This kind of thing is also worth being angry about? I have my own way to manipulate them, I can't watch Chai Dongliang bury the nail under my nose"

Yang Du's anger decreased slightly, he chouchou his nose, and said suspiciously: "What does it smell like in this house?" ”

Yuan Shikai also sniffed hard, nodded and said: "It seems to be a little smelly, why do I think this smell is like the old niào smell on the eunuch when I met Li Lianying back then?" ”

After Yuan Shikai finished speaking, he was amused by his words, and he couldn't laugh after just two laughs, and he found that under his chair, there was a stain of yellow sè water