Zhang Shiheng looked at the school review table and said with a low smile: "Ming Hong, Lord Zhongtang has always been unsmiling on formal occasions, but in private, especially when he is with these soldiers of Huaijun, he is much closer. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info You may not believe it, Yuan Shikai, who was stationed in North Korea that year, was impeached and removed from office, and later reinstated to his original post by the Zhongtang Minister. ”

"When Yuan Shikai resigned to Lord Zhongtang to take up his post in North Korea, Lord Zhongtang actually smiled in front of many of us Yuan Shikai and said: Now acting, the stage is set up, the guest has been invited, and you are waiting for you to appear."

At that time, Yuan Shikai humbly resigned to go to North Korea, saying that it was not easy for him to go to North Korea, and imploring to send more officers to North Korea. Lord Zhongtang also laughed and said: When the Koreans heard that General Yuan was coming, they thundered with joy, who dared to resist, the original members were useless, and the soldiers did not need to be sent, only you were allowed to take dozens of sailors to land on the shore as guides. ”

Li Hongzhang, a dignified governor of Zhili and minister of trade in Beiyang, and a high-ranking official regarded by the Qing Dynasty as a humerus stock, could laugh and make trouble with his subordinates so much in private, which really made Qin Chuan never expect. What surprised Qin Chuan even more was that he only knew that Yuan Shikai was in North Korea at the first noon, but he really didn't know that this Yuan Shikai was still Li Hongzhang's favorite general and cronie, otherwise, when Li Hongzhang met Yuan Shikai, how could he deal with Yuan Shikai like this as a dignified minister, and even joked!

But in later generations, no one seems to have anything to do with this Yuan Shikai and Li Hongzhang?

Qin Chuan, who was surprised in his heart, couldn't help but ask Zhang Shiheng with questions: "Brother Chu Bao, could it be that this Yuan Shikai and Lord Zhongtang have an old relationship?" ”

Zhang Shiheng pursed his lips and said with some disdain: "Ming Hong, this Yuan Shikai and Lord Zhongtang originally couldn't fight, but this Yuan Shikai also has some means, you listen to me to give you the foundation of this Yuan Shikai." ”

According to Zhang Shiheng, Yuan Shikai is a consolation pavilion. His uncle Yuan Jiasan started with a regimental practice and twisting, and the official went to the governor of Henan, the governor of the military gate of the eight provinces, and his biological father Yuan Baozhong was a strong and powerful Xiangcheng, and he passed Yuan Shikai to his uncle Yuan Baoqing who had no heirs since he was a child, and by virtue of his father's friendship, Yuan Shikai was familiar with Liu Mingchuan and Wu Changqing when he was a young man. After Yuan Baoqing's death, Yuan Shikai followed his uncle Yuan Baoling, Yuan Baoling and Li Hongzhang had a deep friendship, and he was the proud protégé of Li Hongzao, the leader of the Qingliu, so that Yuan Shikai had many connections when he first entered the officialdom.

Under the supervision of Yuan Baoling, Yuan Shikai once returned to his hometown twice to take the exam, but Sun Shan was defeated. In 1881, because of "the accumulation of grievances in the clan, the desire for suffering", Yuan Shikai was forced to leave his hometown and defect to his father Yuan Baoqing's close friend Wu Changqing, the general of the Huai Army, and was immediately promoted by Wu Changqing to the Qingjun Camp Affairs Office.

At the beginning, Yuan Shikai's performance was mediocre, until the Renwu Mutiny occurred in Korea, Wu Changqing was ordered to go to the DPRK to quell the rebellion, in order to find a suitable landing site, Yuan Shikai and Ding Ruchang, the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division, walked barefoot on the sand and walked on the shore, both feet were broken, Ding Ruchang couldn't help but admire, "A young man can also be!" After the Qing army landed, "there was no war for a long time, and the military discipline was a little galloping", Yuan Shikai was ordered by Wu Changqing to rectify military discipline, and even beheaded more than a dozen Qing officers and soldiers, and even Wu Changqing pleaded, but he did not compromise, and for a time the military discipline was solemn, and Yuan Shikai was even more appreciated by Wu Changqing, and was made an exception to be promoted as the former enemy camp manager. After the Renwu mutiny subsided, the Qing army stayed in North Korea, and Yuan Shikai helped North Korea to train a new army.

In 1884, when the Sino-French War was followed, Li Hongzhang took the opportunity to transfer Wu Changqing's three battalions of Qingjun back to Jinzhou to garrison, leaving only three battalions in North Korea, and recommended Yuan Shikai to run the Korean defense, so as to decompose Wu Changqing's military power. Yuan Shikai understood his intentions, and immediately cut off from Wu Changqing, threw himself at Li Hongzhang, and became the leader of the Qing army in Korea at the age of 26. In that year, the Korean pro-Japanese faction of the Kaihua Party led by Kim Yujun staged a coup d'état and held the king hostage, Yuan Shikai made a quick decision and led the Qing army to attack the palace and repel the Kaihua Party and the Japanese in the palace, and became famous for a while.

Afterwards, Yuan Shikai wrote to Li Hongzhang that "Korea is not comparable to Ryukyu and Annam, and Fu Qi sent more than a dozen troop wheels and thousands of army troops, and entered the Korean Tunzha first." He also said, "The Japanese soldiers arrived first, and China was backward, so it was especially difficult to take a standoff." ”

For this reason, some people in the court participated in the impeachment of Yuan Shikai for "provoking the border". and participated in the impeachment of Yuan Shikai for storing prostitutes in the DPRK, selling opium and military salaries, Yuan Shikai was forced to return to his hometown and live in seclusion。。。。。。

Listening to Zhang Shiheng's talk about Yuan Shikai's development process, Qin Chuan couldn't help but sigh with emotion, in just ten years, Yuan Shikai from the fence, not only turned into a member of the imperial court who can be compared with the great officials of the feudal territory, and even stood out among the hundreds of thousands of Huai army soldiers who followed Li Hongzhang to fight in the field for decades, and entered the eyes of Li Hongzhang, who was known as the three major ministers of the late Qing Dynasty.

In particular, Qin Chuan suggested that Yuan Shikai send a large army to the DPRK during the Jiashen Incident, and deeply admired Yuan Shikai's thoughts。。。。。。

When Qin Chuan was sighing for Yuan Shikai, Zhang Shiheng suddenly changed the topic.

"Minghong, I saw in the "Oriental Times" that you published a notice looking for news of children studying in the United States, I wonder what you are going to do with them?"

Qin Chuan put away his thoughts and said with a wry smile: "Brother Chu Bao, what else can you do to find those young children who studied in the United States back then?" I have so many new factories one by one, that all need to have machinery and equipment, there must be someone who knows how to repair the machinery and equipment, and even need someone to be able to design and build new machines, these can't all rely on foreigners, right? ”

"If you don't rely on foreigners, then we have to have our own people. But now in our Daqing Dynasty, such talents are really rare, and I really have no choice, so I suddenly thought of these people who studied abroad more than ten years ago. In the Qing Dynasty, there are not many Western-style machinery and equipment now, and most of these young children studying in the United States may not be used. ”

Zhang Shiheng chuckled and waved his hand nonchalantly: "Minghong, what was the matter with me at that time, if this is the case, it would be very easy to do, we have such people in Beiyang, such as 。。。。。。 ”