Sun Yuan said in his heart: If Yuan Shikai goes crazy and becomes the emperor, this goods will be a serious crown prince. Asking the crown prince to kowtow to me, isn't it to break my life? Even if you don't lose your life, a person of a similar age and an older appearance than himself kneels in front of him in public, and calls himself a "little nephew" in a disgusting manner, which makes people's hearts blocked, isn't it?

Sun Yuanqi hurriedly helped Yuan Keding up: "The cloud platform is too polite, please get up quickly!" ”

Yuan Keding has always been arrogant and arrogant, and the reason why he hid it just now was because he was afraid that his father would ask him to kowtow to "Uncle Sun Shi". Seeing that he couldn't hide, he reluctantly came out and knelt down for Sun Yuanqi. At this time, seeing Sun Yuanqi helping him, he stood up, glanced at Sun Yuanqi resentfully, and hid back behind the crowd.

Sun Yuanqi touched his nose: It was your father who asked you to kowtow to me, why are you staring at me?

Yuan Shikai said: "Baixi has been bumpy and tired on the past few days, and his food is sparse and sparse, and he is extremely sleepy when he thinks about it. The old man has prepared an apartment in Tianjin, and he can go to wash and rest first. In the evening, the old man will set up a banquet to entertain Baixi, and he will look forward to seeing the light when the time comes! ”

"Thank you Lord Yuan for your love, and you will be there on time in the next year!"

Now that you're on someone else's territory, it's natural that everything is as you go. So according to Yuan Shikai's arrangement, he stayed in the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili. The Yamen, the governor of Zhili, where Sun Yuanqi is now staying, was originally a coastal defense office built in the era of Li Hongzhang, and was rebuilt into a palace for the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu to come to Tianjin to review the new army during the Wuxu Reform period. Although the Queen Mother and the Emperor did not live here for a day, they were still built with carved beams and paintings. It covers a wide area.

Before the Gengzi State Change, the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili had been in Baoding, Hebei. In the twenty-eighth year of Guangxu (1902), after Yuan Shikai became the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang, he moved the Yamen of the governor of Zhili from Baoding to this place. There are their own guards here, and there are Beiyang elite guards outside, which can be said to be as stable as a rock, and Sun Yuanqi is really bumpy on the boat these days, and after taking a hot bath, he went to bed and slept with a quilt, and slept until the sun sank in the west.

Before I got up and washed, I heard Feng Jishan report: "My lord, Lord Yuan sent someone to invite you to the banquet!" ”

"Invite someone to come in and sit down for a moment. I'll be right away! Sun Yuanqi hurriedly quickened his hand movements.

When he freshened up and came to the front hall, he saw Yuan Keding sitting on the Eight Immortals chair with an unswerving face, and hurriedly said: "Yuntai, it turns out that Lord Yuan sent you over in person, but Sun Mou was negligent!" ”

Although Yuan Keding was unhappy in his heart, he didn't dare to splash in front of Sun Yuanqi, so he quickly got up and bowed deeply: "Yuan has seen Master Sun!" My father has already set up a banquet in the main hall, and he has specially ordered him to come over and invite Master Sun to move there! In the process of speaking, this morning's "little nephew" and kowtow were deliberately omitted by him.

Sun Yuanqi didn't care about him: "Then let's hurry over." Don't keep you waiting! ”

When I arrived at the main hall, I saw that three or four seats had been set up in the hall. Each one is filled with a variety of cold dishes. Yuan Shikai, Liang Dunyan, Zhao Bingjun, Xu Shichang, Duan Qirui and others were sitting on the side smoking and chatting, and when they saw Sun Yuan coming in, they all hurriedly stood up to greet each other. Sun Yuanqi hurriedly bowed down and clenched his fists, and made a circle: "Sun is late, please forgive me!" ”

Yuan Shikai said with a smile: "It's not that you're late, Baixi, but that we're early!" Hurry up, take your seats. ”

After a moment of noisy pushing, Sun Yuanqi and Yuan Shikai sat down at the head table. As soon as he sat down, someone poured a full drink. Bear's paws, bird's nest, shark's fin, deer tendons and other delicacies from the mountains and seas were also brought up at a low price. At this time, Yuan Shikai raised his glass: "Today, Yuan is holding a banquet here to pick up the wind and wash the dust for Brother Baixi. At the banquet, only Fengyue was discussed, not political affairs, and violators were fined three glasses of wine. Come, Yuan will do it first as a respect! ”

"!" The crowd responded in unison.

Sun Yuanqi didn't know what kind of medicine Yuan Shikai was selling in this gourd, but it was naturally best not to say that political affairs were the best. The cabinet people talked about some official anecdotes and literary stories, but they were also happy. It's just that the group of Qiu Ba is a little depressed. When it comes to Fengyue, they only know which girl in the Eight Hutongs is more energetic and which is more charming, but how can these "anecdotes" be talked about on this formal occasion now? I didn't dare to guess the boxing order. I just feel that this meal is so tasteless!

When the dinner was coming to an end, Yuan Shikai pretended to be unintentional and asked, "Baixi, the old man heard that you have a son named Nianzu, who is ten years old and very smart. The old man happens to have a daughter, who is the same age as him, so it is better for you and me to get married, what do you think? ”

Yuan Shikai had 1 wife and 9 concubines, and these ten women gave birth to a total of 32 children in his life, including 17 sons and 15 daughters. In addition to the death of 1 son and 3 daughters, a total of 28 people grew up, most of whom were married to the children of famous political figures in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, including many bachelors, scholars, governors, governors in the late Qing Dynasty, presidents, vice presidents, and military overseers during the Republic of China. Frequent political marriages also laid a solid foundation for Yuan Shikai to control China's political parties, and this time he proposed to be in-laws with Sun Yuanqi, which was also a repeat of his old tricks.

When everyone in the hall heard Yuan Shikai's proposal, they all subconsciously closed their mouths and put down the chopsticks in their hands, wanting to hear how Sun Yuanqi replied to Yuan Shikai. Only then did Sun Yuanqi understand why Yuan Shikai just said "only talk about Fengyue, not about political affairs", it turned out to be this intention. There is no doubt that he is extremely opposed to this kind of political marriage, and he does not want to tie himself to Yuan Shikai's chariot, and now the key is how to reject Yuan Shikai. His head was racing at the moment:

In the name of marital autonomy? At present, China is still shrouded in feudal etiquette, and the women of the gentry are still hiding in deep or shallow boudoirs, and they are not allowed to show their heads privately. The concepts of social openness, freedom of love, and marital autonomy, which were popular in later generations, were all gradually rooted in the hearts of the people with the women's liberation movement after the May Fourth Movement. ——Only at this time did Sun Yuanqi deeply realize how necessary it was to carry out an ideological enlightenment movement similar to the "May Fourth" in China in the early years of the Republic of China! - If Yuan Shikai is rejected now in the name of marital autonomy, not only will he be laughed at and generous. It will also make Yuan Shikai feel like he is playing with him.

Falsely claiming that Nian Zu has already decided to have a family affair? This is even worse! Whether or not engaged can't hide this kind of thing from others, maybe Yuan Shikai has sent someone to investigate whether Nianzu has been married before. If he fabricates it out of thin air, it will only make him hold a grudge.

Borrowing from the "Hu Anding Family Motto" in "Marrying a woman must win my family, then the woman's affairs must be abstained, and marrying a woman must not be as good as my family, then the uncle and aunt must be cautious" to excuse it? Wouldn't it be a little too watery?

said that Nianzu is of mixed Chinese and American descent, I am afraid that the daughter of the Yuan family will be difficult to accept, why don't you wait for Zhao Jinghui to give birth to a child? This is a good idea, I'm afraid that Yuan Shikai will be hungry and choose to eat!

……

Suddenly, Sun Yuanqi remembered that Yang Du had explained to him before the reason why his uncle and grandfather Sun Jianai did not get along with Weng Tongyi and Yuan Shikai.

The root of the matter can be traced back to the vendetta incident of Shouzhou Shenlian in the eleventh year of Xianfeng in the former Qing Dynasty (1861). At that time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was in full swing. Thieves and bandits made chaos in northern Anhui, and the gentry in various places organized militia groups to protect themselves, including Sun Jiatai in Shouzhou and Miao Peilin in Fengtai. The Sun family was originally a prominent family in Shouzhou, and Sun Jianai was just the champion in the ninth year of Xianfeng, and the limelight was even more unique for a while. Sun Jiatai is Sun Jianai's brother, and he is also a member of the criminal department of the imperial court, and he is also appreciated by Zhou Tianjue, the governor of Anhui.

Miao Peilin is just a private school gentleman who was born in a show, and he also followed the trend to form a group training in Fengtai. But he's a bold man. He is also very yin, with the support of Sheng Bao, the Minister of Military Affairs of Anhui. Soon became a big man with a big name, and gradually had the ambition to be called Wang Huai. In this process, Sun Jiatai relied on his famous family, and did not even take Miao Peilin, who was not even a lifter, in his eyes, and ridiculed him from time to time and blocked everything. Naturally, the two became enemies of life and death.

In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), Shengbao was dismissed by the Qing court as the Minister of Military Affairs because of his ineffectiveness in northern Anhui. Yuan Jiasan took over, and Weng Tongshu, Weng Tongxiao's brother, served as the deputy military minister. Since ancient times, there has been a constant feud between the principal and the vice, and Yuan and Weng are no exception. In terms of the ambitious Miao Peilin, the initial attitude of the two was also quite different: Yuan Jiasan, as the supervisor, naturally did not want his forces to surpass him, so he mainly suppressed the growing Miao family. Wooing is supplemented; As an assistant, Weng Tongshu felt that he had no power in his hands, and if he wanted to fight against the superintendent with natural advantages, he had to win over powerful forces to strengthen his momentum. Therefore, he is mainly to woo the Miao family, and to suppress it as a supplement.

By the end of the tenth year of Xianfeng, Miao Peilin saw that the government's internal and external difficulties were in jeopardy, and felt that the opportunity to make contributions had come, so he wanted to dominate the Lianghuai region. In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to eradicate two forces: Sun Jiatai in Shouzhou and Yuan Jiasan in the Qing court. As for the nerd Weng Tongshu, it was not in his consideration at all. At this time, Sun Jiatai caught 7 Miao Peilin's spies in Shouzhou City and executed them. So Miao Peilin took the opportunity to wave his army to besiege Shouzhou, and then took the opportunity to capture Yuan Jiasan's gunboat in Huai.

Seeing that Miao Peilin's rebellion had become a trend, the attitudes of Yuan and Weng suddenly took a 180-degree turn: because Weng Tongshu tried his best to win over Miao Peilin before, he was deeply afraid that he would be involved in himself and the Weng family after his rebellion, so he strongly advocated suppression at this time; And Yuan Jiasan saw that Miao Peilin's rebellion had been revealed, and he was worried that if he was suppressed now, he would be prompted to recognize the rebellion and take refuge in the thieves and bandits, and once Miao Peilin openly rebelled, the court would definitely ask him, so at this time, he strongly advocated wooing and appeasement, and tried his best to attack the various faults of the Shouzhou Sun family.

In the process of Yuan and Weng arguing, Miao Peilin broke through Shouzhou City, and Sun Jiatai's family of 15 people, from the old father and grandson to the ancestor in his 70s, to the 3-year-old child and more than 100 people from the Shouzhou Sun clan, were all killed!

For Sun Jianai, Miao Peilin is the main culprit in destroying his entire clan, and Yuan Jiasan and Weng Tongshu can be regarded as accomplices. Weng Tongyi is Weng Tongshu's younger brother, and Yuan Shikai is Yuan Jiasan's nephew, both of whom belong to the clansmen who exterminate the enemy, so naturally they do not get along with them.

Sun Yuanqi replied immediately: "Ling Yuan Zhilan Yushu raised a Confucian boudoir at a young age, if the dog can marry her, it is naturally excellent!" It's just that his uncle and grandfather Yuan Duanmin Gong (Yuan Jiasan) have a deep feud with his uncle and grandfather Sun Wenzheng Gong (Sun Jianai), although he is in the side line of the Shouzhou Sun family, but he has always been taught by Wen Zhenggong's kindness. Now that Wen Zhenggong's bones are still cold, he really doesn't dare to marry Xiangcheng Yuan's family. I hope Lord Yuan will forgive me! ”

ps: I stayed up late for a long time, and it was the second shift!