The Survival Wisdom of the Beiyang Era (103): Unicycles and Special Trains.
Three years after the reunification, Yuan Shikai, as the plenipotentiary minister of the Qing court, took a special train allocated by the Qing court to Hubei and commanded the Beiyang Army to go south to quell the chaos. The special train carried Yuan Shikai to the peak of his desire, looking at the Beiyang soldiers hunting in the military flag, Yuan Shikai suddenly remembered his past on the battlefield of the Peninsula, which was his earliest journey, both unforgettable and dreamlike. In that era, it was difficult for a man to go abroad, but he was an exception, not only in an important position, but also for thirteen years.
For Yuan Shikai, it was a trip out thirty years ago, and there was a characteristic of the place he was going to, that is, he had always been relatively poor. At that time, the yipin officer in that place, although he also had a car when he went out, was a particularly light and fuel-efficient car, that is, a wheelbarrow. This kind of treatment is almost comparable to the daughter-in-law of the northeast Huimen of the Qing Dynasty. Because the land of Longxing, which is adjacent to the Qing Dynasty, in the words of Yuan Shikai, where "he is supporting the overall situation of the East with one hand", although this is bragging, it is also more reasonable to blow.
Because of Yuan Shikai's toughness and cunning, the situation of the king on the peninsula can only be described as trembling, Yuan Shikai can enter and exit the palace at will, and major matters must be reported to him, but even if he has become a Special Official of the Qing Court, after all, he is far away from the temple center in his hometown, surrounded by the Japanese army, facing provocation to assassinate, and the bottom line that must be adhered to, the Japanese army is very troubled by this Qing court official who cannot enter the oil and salt, Yuan Shikai has always been in a state of tension. What disturbed him even more was whether the old boss in the temple had long forgotten him, otherwise why he had repeatedly requested to be transferred back but had not heard from him.
But if Yuan Shikai's old boss had a good enough memory, he should remember the year yuan shikai went abroad, that was thirteen years ago, when Yuan Shikai was still a hot-blooded young man, and the sword was like a sword in the box. He thought that the Huaijun Chi Aid that followed Wu Changqing was just a painful and happy fight, and he could also go out for sightseeing, and finally the scenery was beautiful and the class master returned to the Dynasty, but he did not expect to go but it became a one-way ticket for more than ten years. For Yuan Shikai, he had been working for the Qing Dynasty for thirteen years in the backcountry of the countryside, and as a thirty-five-year-old middle-aged fat man, he knew that he had reached the bottleneck of his career here, after all, if he was in the Qing Dynasty temple, Yuan Shikai at this time did not even have the qualifications to go to the court, and Yuan Shikai's interest was not in trade, he wanted to lead the army, to bring real soldiers.
Therefore, at this time, even if Yuan Shikai is very beautiful on the surface, he has his own wheelbarrow, and the spring breeze is proud, and the ginseng pipe is full of food, but no one knows, Yuan Shikai at this time is very unhappy. He felt very desperate, he knew that "only when he needed it most could he show his fangs, and if he often showed them, it was just a front tooth", so thirty years later, Yuan Shikai, as the soul of the Beiyang Army, came to the front line in person, and tens of thousands of tiger and wolf divisions fought in the position with the simple vision of the old marshal's long face, And Yuan Shikai knew that the suffering he suffered in his early years was precisely to grind out the fangs, and now it will definitely reflect the light.