The Survival Wisdom of the Beiyang Era (223): Two actors and one play.
In the winter of three years in Beiyang, Yuan Shikai's protégé Wang Yitang brought him a piece of good news, and Xu Shichang, the old Yuan's close friend, finally decided to go out of the mountain. Wang Yitang personally went to Qingdao to visit Xu Shichang, which was the third time that Xu Shichang was persuaded to go out of the mountain at the behest of Yuan Shikai, after Sun Baoqi and Duan Qirui. This former Qing widowed elder from Hanlin, as the first governor of the three eastern provinces in the late Qing Dynasty, guarded the last retreat of the Qing Dynasty, and then as an assistant minister of the cabinet, he had enough right to speak above the court, and helped Yuan Shikai's ambition to die in the Qing Dynasty a lot, seeing that the old Yuan replaced the Qing court, naturally could not erase the face problem of "shame eating Zhou Su", so before Sun Baoqi and Duan Qirui both broke their lips, Xu Shichang was not moved, in fact, the authorities were confused, this "crystal fox" of the eunuch sea had long seen that Yuan Shikai was facing a game of death Nature is reluctant to wade into muddy waters.
Subsequently, in the face of yuan shikai's retro countercurrent, many measures to restore the Qing Dynasty began to coincide with Xu Shichang's intentions. This Beiyang elder began to borrow a donkey from the slope to go out of the mountain in the name of helping his old friends, and came out to transition, hoping to find a substitute early, and did not forget to add that he was absolutely unaffected by Beiyang' Feng Lu. But Old Yuan was very happy in his heart, he knew too much about this old brother's temper, and he also gave enough face. First of all, he vacated his own building as a collective office space, and moved to the Spring Lotus Zhai in the same courtyard to facilitate discussions with Xu Shichang at any time. Not only that, at the behest of Old Yuan, his subordinates must call Xu Shichang "Old Xiangguo", and the question about Feng Lu is directly drawn from his own name, so that Xu Shichang spends his old friend's money, and naturally accepts it with a well-deserved smile.
However, Yuan Shikai's idea is not simple. Inviting old friends out of the mountains is not to share the glory and wealth, but to see the use value of Xu Shichang in this period. Old Yuan and Xu Shichang are actually actors who have been in the eunuch sea for a long time, and the two people set up a stage to sing, because Old Yuan did not want to fall behind the insult of Cao Mengde, Xu Shichang is a good shield, setting off a retro countercurrent, paving the way for the Hongxian Imperial System, and at this time using Xu Shichang's mountain, it can cover up the true face very well, and in a group of Sunqing old people, they can also win the reputation of "not forgetting their feelings" for the old dynasty. Xu Shichang was also playing his own wishful thinking, recreating Xuan huang's exploits for the Qing court, full of temptation.
With Xu Shichang taking office, the temple wishes of the two people were disappointed. One is Li Jingxi, the speaker of the Parliament, and the other is Yang Du, who has always regarded himself as the "new prime minister of the new dynasty". Xu Shichang's "worship of the face", the retro countercurrent also accelerated the speed of reversing, first the Beiyang civil officials presented their resumes, must issue the old official title of the Qing Dynasty, the old Yuan himself on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, put on the red top flower plume, as the Qing court "Taifu", participated in the qing court feast. The bad habits of the Qing Dynasty eunuchs also began to appear again, pomp and title were restored, local officials came and went in and out of the green tweed caravan, the gong opened the road front and back, the atmosphere of hanging braids continued to remain in fact, and the "private rumors" also existed.
In the end, Xu Shichang, who was persuaded to drive three times to please move, was indeed old and spicy, and the hand was extraordinary, and in the process of partnering with Yuan Shikai, he soon paved the retro road, everything was ready, and only the East Wind was owed. As everyone knows, old Yuan covets himself to sit on the throne, and Xu Shichang is thinking of his old feelings and wants to help the Qing court back to the throne again. Although the external objective environmental needs are the same, but the purpose of the opposite is destined to disperse the two people, Yuan Shikai as a first-class eunuch hunter, even a "crystal fox" like Xu Shichang, is still unable to escape the fate of making a wedding dress for him, but old Yuan is also looking at the flowers in the fog, about to step into the abyss of desire, with a leap, there is no yuan Xiangcheng in the world.