Section 44 The New King
When I arrived in Jinan, I settled the black cow's daughter-in-law in the courtyard given by Yuan Shikai, and it was convenient to take care of it together with the other palace maids, I believe that no one in Jinan can bully the black cow. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Yang Chao planned to let everyone stay in Jinan, especially Hei Niu, hoping that he would take care of his daughter-in-law until he gave birth, but Hei Niu insisted on going to Beijing with Yang Chao.
Leaving these people in Jinan, Yuan Keding was a little worried, but after thinking about it carefully, he didn't refuse, although he was a soldier, but dozens of soldiers who didn't even have guns, what was there to worry about, not to mention that his head Yang Chao was still with him.
invited an old gentleman to teach these people to read and write, and Yang Chao set off with a few people.
These people are naturally worth cultivating, Black Bull is one, Zhang Guozhu is one, Wang Changping is one, and there is also a horse Tengfei.
Ma Tengfei can leave the Germans to follow Yang Chao, this is what Yang Chao did not expect, he has always thought that Ma Tengfei is a person with a strong defensive psychology, such a person is not easy to gain the trust of others, if there is time Yang Chao will be able to subdue him, but in the case of other options, Yang Chao will not spend time to win him over, this is a cost problem.
In fact, Yang Chao still underestimated the trust of these soldiers in him, as if he had never thought that more than half of the people were willing to go with him. Because the psychological stance of these soldiers is somewhat different from Yang Chao. The soldiers all thought that they had shared the hardships with Yang Chao, and they had killed people together, but the key was to kill Cixi and Guangxu, which was something they didn't dare to say at the moment, and even sometimes didn't dare to think about it. But Yang Chao is different, he also thinks that he has shared the hardships with these soldiers, but that's all, killing Cixi and Guangxu, for Yang Chao, to the greatest extent, is just killing people, and he has a sense of guilt at the beginning, but it is even lighter than the guilt of ordinary people.
Therefore, one thinks that he has killed people together, and one party thinks that he has killed Cixi and Guangxu together, and the psychological feelings of the two sides are different, Yang Chao cannot understand the mentality of people towards the emperor under the imperial power system for thousands of years, so he did not accurately grasp the psychology of the soldiers, for most of the people to come to him, he only felt a kind of happiness for the time being, so there is a kind of commitment to these soldiers in his heart, and this commitment happens to be the embodiment of the difference between the different psychology of the two sides.
This time to Beijing, everyone can ride a horse, although the black bull and Wang Changping rode tremblingly, but the speed is still much faster than walking, it only took five days on the road, to Beijing City.
The Eight-Nation Coalition had not withdrawn its troops at this time, but had begun to evacuate the city of Beijing, the British chose the Fengtai camp, the German army of 9,500 people chose Tongzhou, the French of more than 9,000 people chose Langfang, the Japanese chose Tianjin, the Russian army went to Shanhaiguan, the American army chose to join the British in the Fengtai camp, and Austria-Hungary and Italy all chose to stay with the Germans.
But the battle is over, and at the moment everyone is waiting, waiting for the emergence of a new ruler of China.
Yang Chao was also waiting, but he already knew that it would not be Li Hongzhang.
This made him feel at a loss, and at the same time felt regretful, if Li Hongzhang was not in power, the best candidate would be Zhang Zhidong, but Zhang Zhidong did not come to Beijing, he had been in Wuhan for remote control, and he was obviously unwilling to go north easily.
When he arrived in Beijing, Yuan Shikai had already arranged his residence, the past Keqin County Palace, the Eight-Nation Alliance Army entered Beijing, and when Cixi fled westward, a large number of princes and nobles committed suicide in despair, Keqin County Wang's family committed suicide by taking poison, and Prince Yi's family set fire to themselves.
Therefore, there are a large number of vacant princely mansions in Beijing, and now Yuan Shikai is stationed in Beijing with 10,000 new troops, and he is the most powerful person in northern China, and it is nothing to get a few mansions. In this Eight-Nation Alliance Rebellion, from a historical point of view, Yuan Shikai is the person who has gained the most. First of all, in the process of suppressing the Boxers, he expanded the new army, which originally had only more than 7,000 people, to 17,000 people, and then followed in the footsteps of Li Hongzhang to preserve his strength.
This is the reason why Yuan Shikai's status for more than ten years in the future has been established, not something to sell Guangxu, Li Hongzhang took care of it, the real reason is that he has strength in his hands.
On the second day after Yang Chao lived in the Keqin Palace, he went to Xishiku to visit the orphans in the church.
At this time, the churches in Beijing adopted tens of thousands of orphans, and their parents were killed by the Boxer Rebellion, some were killed by the Eight-Nation Alliance, some were executed as Boxers, and some were abandoned in the chaos.
The church can't afford to support them anymore.
"San'er, Nannan, Uncle has brought you something delicious."
Yang Chao didn't expect Ma Tengfei to be so popular with the children, and he was surrounded by the children as soon as he came.
Yang Chao naturally didn't know that when he was busy dealing with people from all walks of life, Ma Tengfei and the soldiers of Hua Yonglian stayed with these children in Beijing for nearly a year before returning to Qingdao, and what he didn't know was that Ma Tengfei bought candy for these children with almost all his military salaries.
However, this did not prevent Yang Chao from suddenly feeling a little less defensive when he saw Ma Tengfei's sincere and innocent eyes when he looked at the child. People are so strange, when they see that a person is a filial son or a loyal minister, they often don't have any defense against him. But filial sons and loyal ministers may not do bad things, but people just have a good impression of them, because he sees the goodness in their hearts, and he naturally thinks that they are a good person. In fact, the good people in this world often do more bad things than the bad people.
The nuns and grandmothers in the church were also very enthusiastic about Ma Tengfei and chatted with him like friends.
Ma Tengfei finished handing out the candy and walked to Yang Chao's side: "They are so pitiful, they have no parents at such a young age, and they are helpless." ”
"Looks like you're a good guy!"
Yang Chao said to Ma Tengfei with a smile.
Ma Tengfei suddenly blushed: "My lord, you are also a good person." ”
Yang Chao was a little surprised, he didn't expect Ma Tengfei to say this.
What he didn't know was that Ma Tengfei had been an orphan since he was a child, he was a refugee who had fled, and his parents had starved to death on the way.
The memory of that time is so deep, he still remembers that feeling, going to a strange place, seeing strange people, it is like seeing hope, extremely eager for others to lend a helping hand, give a steamed bun, or give a bowl of water to drink. He had met many such people, so he was able to get out of his hometown and run all the way to Shandong. But there weren't enough of them, so his parents and sisters starved to death, leaving him with all hope of life.
Ma Tengfei was finally taken in by a landlord's family, who was not good to him and asked him to herd sheep. He worked as a shepherd for the landlord's family for eight years, and the landlord's family also had two horses, and from time to time he was allowed to take him out to slip, but he was not allowed to ride, and he would be whipped if he rode a horse secretly.
At that time, I was still a teenager, and I couldn't help but climb on the back of a bare horse, fell countless times, and received countless whips. Then the horse soared and learned to ride a horse. Later, there was a great drought in the area, and the landlord's family was also defeated. Ma Tengfei went to work as a coachman for two years, and then went to work as a cavalryman for the Germans.
In his newly launched life, he has endured a lot of hardships and seen a lot of hardships, but he has also met many good people.
At the end of the country, there were many people like him, but some people only remembered the evil they encountered, and if these people survived, they became wicked; Some people still remember the goodness in the world, and these people may become good people.
What impressed Ma Tengfei the most so far is that when he fell at the door of the landlord's house and couldn't get up again, the old lady of the landlord's family said, 'Poor, stay, living is always a person who accumulates virtue'.
There must be Yu Qing in the house of goodness, Ma Tengfei doesn't understand this sentence, but he believes that good people will have good rewards, although the landlord's house is also dilapidated, and later it is said that he moved to Liaodong, it seems that there is no proof that good people have good rewards, but Ma Tengfei still believes that good people will have good rewards.
In the same way, some people have become bad people, and some people have become good people, which is exactly a thought of heaven and a thought of hell, sometimes can it be all blamed on society, and more, maybe it is a personal choice.
"Am I a good person? Hehe. ”
Yang Chao couldn't help laughing, is he a good person, he doesn't think so himself, but he doesn't think he is a bad person either, he is just a person in the middle of his heart, a very worldly person, in order to achieve certain goals, he doesn't care much about the means, even if some of the means are a little less bright.
But Yang Chao's purpose is good most of the time, and if you talk about the heart, he can be regarded as a good person.
However, Yang Chao will not agree with the simple method of distinguishing complex people from good people and bad people.
Is Li Hongzhang a good person?
There were many people standing in front of his hospital bed, and I am afraid they all knew each other.
Huang Shaoji, the representative of Zhang Zhidong and Liu Kunyi, may not have a good impression of Li Hongzhang.
"Zaifeng will ascend the throne as soon as possible, don't make trouble, take care of the overall situation."
Li Hongzhang said angrily, his old face was not as thin as the old people at this time, even at this time, there was a shiny oil, but it was covered with old age spots that symbolized death, proving that he was no different from ordinary people.
"The prime minister system must be restored."
Li Hongzhang said again, this prime minister is naturally not him.
Huang Shaoji reluctantly accepted that Li Hongzhang was also a good person, because the Qing Dynasty established the position of prime minister, and who else could be competent besides Zhang Zhidong.
"Weiting stayed in Beijing, and the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang were indispensable."
Yuan Shikai also thinks that Li Hongzhang is a good person.
"It must be constitutional!"
Li Hongzhang finished the last sentence.
His sons also felt that their father was a good man, and only by establishing a constitution to restrain the imperial power would their Li family not be settled by the Autumn Queen.
In this way, Li Hongzhang's voice was over, and before he died, he made all the people around him feel that he was a good person.