The Tao Te Chronology of the Beiyang Dynasty (50): For the sake of good, it is not to see its benefits, such as winter melons in the grass, it can grow darkly; for evil, it is not to see its damage, such as the spring snow before the court, it is bound to disappear.
On August 4, 1999, cao kun, the "king of Baoding", and Zhang Zuolin, the "king of the northeast", two "heroes of the fallen Anhui", met in Beijing, and Xu Shichang, the great president of Beiyang, greeted him with such a royal gift as "Loess Stacked Road". When The warrior is in the country, such chaos occurs frequently, and it is not too much to call it a group of demons dancing, but there are also some horns that adhere to the "nature of goodness" at the beginning of man, and the most basic concept of good and evil is even more cold and frosty. Cao Kun's subordinate, Wu Peifu, is the horn who has such an obsession. "Elder Duan Zhilao," who also had a stubborn personality, once sent a telegram reprimanding "Wu Peifu, as a general of Cao Kun's department, still dared to wantonly slander and slander, calling the president the 'Elder of the Five Dynasties,' and after taking office, he still called himself 'Mr. Donghai,' and did not try to pay homage to the superior." It is reasonable to say that Wu Peifu, as a rare "Confucian general" among the Beiyang warlords, should pay more attention to the etiquette of the Way of Confucius and Mencius.
However, the reason why Wu Peifu looked down on Xu Shichang, who was the elder of Beiyang, was because this "crystal fox" still could not escape the cliché of "good name of the literati". In Wu Peifu's eyes, Xu Shichang is a pedantic old man, good at speculation, unprincipled, likes to sell fame and reputation, expects everything, and can sit on the top seat of Beiyang, all of which are handled by Xu Shuzheng's Anfu department. In the farce directed and performed by Zhang Xun himself, he once invited this "Xu Xiangguo" to come out of the mountain, and the price that Xu Shichang offered could not be accepted by even an old stubborn like Zhang Xun, and it turned out that Xu Shichang planned to ration his daughter to Puyi, and the "Guozhang" and the "Regent" grasped it with both hands. Seeing that Zhang Xun had become the target of public criticism, Xu Shichang hurriedly cleared up the relationship: "Zhang Shaoxuan acted recklessly to destroy the split, and the Yin of the fang was useless, and the current important meaning was to protect the holy bow." ”
Subsequently, Xu Shichang, who had promised not to serve the new dynasty, not only became the president of Beiyang, but also staged a bridge section asking Puyi to "get his grace and approval". This kind of hypocritical show seems to be well-founded, and Wu Peifu, who is straight, is naturally disgusted, so he never calls himself a position, but replaces him with "Mr. Donghai" to show that he does not want to see this smooth way of dealing with the world. For his subordinates, Wu Peifu also has his own likes and dislikes. In the twelfth year of the Republic of China, Wu Peifu, who had a fiftyth birthday, first announced that he would "refuse to wish for a happy birthday", and Zhang Fulai, the overseer of Henan stationed in the place of the festival, was embarrassed. Wu Peifu was his old boss all along, and the training troops stationed in Luoyang were close at hand, and there was no excuse for the other overseers to go high and far, so they had to go to celebrate the birthday with an attitude of luck. After arriving at Wu Peifu's mansion, he naturally flattered "Marshal Wu", but Wu Peifu looked sullen and asked him why he came, and Zhang Fulai replied onlyly: "Congratulations to Marshal Wu!" ”
In the end, I didn't expect Wu Peifu to turn around and scolded in a loud voice: You have time to celebrate your birthday, why don't you take the time to discipline your brother, your brother is different from Zhao Jie? At that time, there were many civil and military officials in Henan, and Wu Peifu scolded this henan overseer who sat like a needle and was embarrassed. After the gray-headed Zhang Fulai retreated, he found Li Jichen, Wu Peifu's staff officer, and cried and said, "The grand marshal does not save me a little face, I have no face to continue." Wu Peifu, who does not understand political strategy, has an attitude toward the concept of good and evil, which is that he can't rub a little sand in his eyes, which is also a kind of upright and upright ethics, and when talking with Yuan Kewen and Yuan Shikai, the sentence that explained his father's confusion is intolerable: "There is no right or wrong in the eunuch sea, there is no so-called good person and bad person, only people who have done good things and people who have done bad things." ”