Chapter 4: Life in the World

Yuan Shikai was born in a large family in Xiangcheng, Henan, and his uncle Yuan Jiasanguan was the governor of Caoyun, participated in the suppression of the Taiping Army and the Twist Army, and was the pillar of this family; His biological father was Yuan Baozhong, who donated a position of governor to the landlord of Xiangcheng County. Yuan Shikai is the fourth son of Yuan Baozhong, and his biological mother is Yuan Baozhong's concubine Liu, who was born on September 16, 1859 (August 20, the ninth year of Xianfeng of Wenzong of the Qing Dynasty) ****** Yuan Zhangying in the north of Xiangcheng County, Chenzhou Prefecture, Henan Province. On the day Yuan Shikai was born, Yuan Jiasan happened to send a book home, saying that he had won the battle with the Twist Army. Yuan Shikai's father, Yuan Baozhong, was overjoyed, so he named the newborn baby "Kai", and named the baby "Shikai" according to the ranking of the family's "Baoshike family, Qiwen Shaowu". Yuan Shikai was raised by his aunt Niu Shi (Yuan Baoqing's wife), and he himself passed on to the childless Yuan Baoqing as his heir in 1864. When Yuan Shikai was six years old, his adoptive father Yuan Baoqing found an enlightenment teacher for him to teach the Four Books and Five Classics, and later traveled with Yuan Baoqing to Jinan, Yangzhou, and Nanjing. In Nanjing, Yuan Shikai learned martial arts from Qu Marsh, and "likes to visit landscapes, is good at riding and shooting, and rides horses to visit Qingliang Mountain, Mochou Lake, and Taiping Lake in his spare time". Try to say that "the three armies cannot win the commandery, if I can master 100,000 elite soldiers, I can run rampant in the world." He often spared no expense to collect and buy various versions of military books and strategies, and was ridiculed as "Yuan Shunerd". When he was 13 years old, Yuan Shikai once made a joint "Daye Dragon Fang Sting, Central Plains Deer is Fat". This small number fully reflects Yuan Shikai's ambition.

As a pragmatist, Yuan Shikai rejects the nihilistic ghosts and gods, and has always been one word for the gods and goddesses in the countryside, "Kill!" ”。 This is probably influenced by the ancestors of his Yuan family, or it may be Yu Ze who shaved his head ** by Zeng Wenzhenggong. Anyway, his idea is to kill those guys who don't work and eat, and the world will naturally be peaceful. But now that such a truly invulnerable guy appeared in front of him, he naturally accepted this fact. And he also found a good reason, "The things of gods and ghosts have existed since ancient times." ”

As Yuan Shikai's number one cronie, Wang Shizhen is also with him. If they have any faith, it is that they believe in whichever fist is bigger. For example, the Beiyang Army was pressed to the ground and beaten violently by the Japanese, and the Japanese were Germans who learned, so they directly learned the army from the Germans. Now that there are examples of invulnerability, they will naturally not let it go. Then, this man with a black face called Feng Xiaobing fell into bad luck. Yuan Shikai assigned a shed of troops to follow him to learn the method of invulnerability, and everyone drank talisman water together, and danced there with the rank of Erlang Manifestation True Monarch. It's just that there doesn't seem to be much use for birds other than him. Sometimes he would be dragged to test how many bullets he could resist. At one point, the number of anti-guns was not calculated, and a shot hit the arm and the bullet was embedded in it

And in the whole land of China, there are also a lot of demonic characters. Needless to say, invulnerability is a must-have skill for those monster-possessed guys. There are also those who spit thunderbolts, those who can walk on water, those who envoy animals, and many who claim to know good fortune and bad fortune, which is obviously the fortune tellers who are rejuvenating their second spring.

The freshly baked black dragon **** Lord Mengchu also has a number of characters with good divine powers. After some competition, the girl gave them the nicknames of the Four Heavenly Kings and the Thirteen Taibao. Among them, Chen Cheng is the first of the four heavenly kings, known as the "Duowen Heavenly King".

After knowing that he had such a nickname, the young man couldn't help but slander the girl's name for being uninspiring, and he became more and more like a god.

"You're a god now!" , Lin Mengchu unceremoniously said to the young man who was used by her as a cow and horse supporter.

After a round of turf-grabbing activities, the Black Dragon Club has expanded the scope of its business more than tenfold. In addition to the original sale of iron tools and illegal salt, it also monopolized the business of rice grain, cattle and horses. These businesses were naturally run by people, and the background was not small. However, under the violence of the Black Dragon Society, these people were either annexed or killed on the spot, without exception.

As the saying goes, cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, and various rebellions have erupted from time to time on the territory of the Black Dragon Society, which has done such angry things. The Thirteen Taibao and the Four Heavenly Kings suppressed riots everywhere every day, and occasionally they were caught by girls in their spare time to listen to the next work priorities.

"There's one thing that's strange about me." So said the girl sitting at the top.

Chen Cheng touched his freshly shaved hair, and asked very respectfully, "What questions does the king have?" ”

"We have annexed the Great Sword Society, the White Lotus Sect, the Boxer Fist, the Red Lantern Society, the Divine Fist Gate, and all the local Dao Sect branches. So, why hasn't anyone come to crusade against our Black Dragon Society until now? Even the local government doesn't care about us? ”

"Chen Cheng was speechless, are you bored because no one is coming to fight?"

After lowering his head and thinking about it, he raised his head and said, "I heard that the Empress Dowager Dong is now gathering boxers from all over the country to enter Beijing, so the big guys don't have time to pay attention to these rural things." ”

"Is that so?" , The girl asked suspiciously: "Then why did the big boss of the Big Knife Club not react?" ”

"Uh, is there anything special about the broadsword?"

"Wang Wuwei, the general alliance leader of the Great Sword Society, is known as the first sword in the world, and is also called the Heavenly Sword by the northerners, presumably with excellent martial arts and worthy of a battle."

Chen Cheng's toothache got up, Heavenly Sword King Five? What the hell is this setting? Ran to the wrong set, hey.

"Well, let's talk about the affairs of the government," in order not to let the situation worsen, Chen Cheng hurriedly said: "Actually, the government is not ignorant. Ten days ago, the local patrol battalion received an order to exterminate our Black Dragon Society."

"An order from ten days ago?"

"Yes."

"How far is Handan City from here?"

"More than twenty miles, less than thirty miles."

The girl exclaimed angrily, "Are you insulting my intelligence? Twenty is thirty miles, but they have to walk ten days for thirty miles? ”

"This", Chen Cheng spread his hands, his eyes widened, and said, "Actually, they were still five miles away from us nine days ago. ”

"And then?"

"Then, there is no then."

"What do you mean?"

"The Handan patrol battalion is below the self-battalion officer, and the three outposts of the infantry team and the first outpost of the horse team were ambushed by our Black Dragon Society after seventeen miles away from the city, and the whole army was wiped out, and none of them escaped."

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