Duan Qirui is one of the elders of the Beiyang Group, and together with Wang Shizhen and Feng Guozhang, he is called the "Three Masters of Beiyang". After Yuan Shikai's death, Duan Qirui became the leader of the Beiyang warlords for a time. Although the evaluation of Duan Qirui by later generations is mixed, it is undeniable that Duan Qirui is also an important figure in modern Chinese history.
Duan Qirui had three sons, of which the eldest son Duan Hongye was the most famous during the Republic of China period, and some people ranked him side by side with Sun Yat-sen's son Ke, Zhang Zuolin's son Zhang Xueliang, and Lu Yongxiang's son Lu Xiaojia, known as the four princes of the Republic of China. Unfortunately, although the old saying goes, "Lao Tzu is a hero and a good man", Duan Hongye does not have the demeanor of his father at all, and he really has some mud that cannot support the wall, and his fame is not a good reputation.
For example, Duan Qirui once found an errand for Duan Hongye in the War Department, and wanted him to learn some skills and do a career with him. Duan Hongye did not have the slightest enterprising spirit, never went to the War Department to do things, usually wandered outside, could not do serious things, and was proficient in eating, drinking, gambling, and gambling. The aunt and wife also found one after another, most of them are dusty women, Duan Hongye did not dare to take home, they secretly rented a house to raise outside, play tired of changing, a proper playboy.
Duan Qirui was very angry about this, and every time he saw Duan Hongye, he did not give a good look, and often scolded him when he was fine. Therefore, when Duan Hongye saw Duan Qirui, he was also scared to death.
Of course, Duan Hongye did not achieve nothing, he liked to play Go, and also made a lot of effort in this regard, and was very famous in the Go world at that time, it is said that some national players, such as Wu Xianglin and others are not his opponents.
It is quite coincidental that Duan Qirui also likes to play Go, and usually has more than a dozen chess players in the house, and he plays chess with them in his spare time. Duan Qirui's chess players also had many famous players at that time, such as Zhang Guoying, Liu Youbi Wang Yunfeng, Yi Jingxi and other national players, as well as Wu Qingyuan, who later became famous, all of whom had stayed in Duan Mansion, and Duan Qirui did not lack opponents to play chess. However, sometimes Duan Qirui was interested, knowing that Duan Hongye's Go level was good, he would call him over to accompany him to play a game of chess.
To say that in this aspect of Go, Duan Qirui is usually busy with official duties after all, not as much as Duan Hongye's efforts, so the chess strength is average, and he is really not his son's opponent, and he is often killed by Duan Hongye.
Duan Qirui this person is a very good face, usually when those chess players accompany him to play chess, no one dares to really play, often release water, no matter how high the level, in the end will lose to him, so Duan Qirui usually rarely loses chess. This made Duan Qirui, who was defeated at the hands of his son, a little unhappy, not to mention that he had originally looked at Duan Hongye unfavorably, which was not pleasant, of course, it would not be polite, it was directly a big scolding, saying that Duan Hongye was idle all day long, and he would not do anything except play Go.
Duan Hongye accompanied his father to play chess and was scolded, naturally he was also very depressed. He thought that since his father had lost the chess game and was in a bad mood to scold, it was better to release the water and let him win a few games without scolding. Therefore, later, when Duan Hongye accompanied Duan Qirui to play chess, he often released water and deliberately lost a glance and a half, wanting to please the old man and save himself from being scolded again.
However, this time Duan Qirui was even more unhappy, he was not happy to find that Duan Hongye was releasing water, but he felt that he had a strong point, and now he was not as good as himself, which made him angry. So Duan Qirui scolded Duan Hongye again, saying that you can't even play chess well now, what else can you do, a real waste.
Duan Hongye understood that duan Qirui was looking at himself unfavorably, and whether he won or lost this chess game, he could not escape the result of being scolded. However, Duan Hongye knew the reason and refused to change his bad habits, change Duan Qirui's perception of himself, but there was nothing to try to go home as little as possible, anyway, there were many aunts and wives raised outside, and he usually simply lived outside, reducing the chances of the two meeting.
Although this method is somewhat negative, the effect is good, and the number of times Duan Hongye is scolded is finally less.