The Survival Wisdom of the Beiyang Era (195): The mountain rain is about to fill the building.
In Yuan Shikai's later years, the self-styled Beiyang Clique described the weight of the two in Yuan Shikai's mind as "Wen has Yang Shiqi and Wu has Chen Mi". Yang Shiqi is one of the few people who still went to the station to send off Yuan Shikai when he experienced the eunuch sea folding, and was loyal to Yuan Shikai, while Chen Mi was a real eunuch hunter, and behind a bitter cold appearance was a scheming sea. Yuan Shikai did not know where the loopholes in his seemingly iron barrel-like jiangshan were, and in his eyes, the southwest half of the wall where the "outsider" was at the helm had always been his heart disease, and he pulled the flag and fired the cannon at every turn. For a strong man like Yuan Shikai, it is natural to take precautions, he first transferred the governor of Sichuan, Yin Changheng, and the governor of Yunnan, Cai Yi, to the Beijing Division, and the high-ranking official Houlu provided, and then replaced Yunnan with Tang Jiyao, who was Cai Yi's younger brother, after all, he could not directly tear his face, for Sichuan, Yuan Shikai was also grinding until the eve of the restoration, before sending Chen Mi to Shudi to sit in town.
However, Yuan Shikai definitely had high hopes for Chen Mi, after all, the southwest warlords were eager to move, and restlessness was no longer a matter of one day or two days. First of all, Guizhou, as a small province that was so poor that only big chimneys remained, has not been valued, and when he was knighted, Liu Xianshi, the overseer of Guizhou, was only mixed with a viscount, which is not that Yuan Shikai did not take Guizhou to heart, but was concerned about sending an old subordinate of the "Department of Transportation" to serve as an inspector of Guizhou, which was obviously to supervise the Qianjun. Liu Xianshi, who was accustomed to being the king of Qian, was naturally not willing to look up to people's sniffles, but he could only bear it and secretly wait for the opportunity. As for Lu Rongting, who was sitting in Guangxi, he was even more unwilling to see Yuan Shikai, the old man of Beiyang. One of Yuan Shikai's sworn enemies at that time, Lu Rongting and Long Jiguang under the command of the official Tu Cen Chunxuan served as the viceroys of Guangxi and Guangdong respectively, and after Beiyang Long Jiguang defected to Yuan Shikai, Lu Rongting still went his own way, and the two people between Bo Zhong, Long Jiguang was made duke at the time of knighthood, and Lu Rongting was relegated to the rank of marquis.
Subsequently, Yuan Shikai, who was not at ease with Lu Rongting, called Lu Rongting's son to take up a post in the Beijing Division, and played the "proton game" unique to the temple, seeing that Yuan Shikai's suspicions were getting heavier and heavier, Lu Rongting could not sit still, he resolutely recalled his son, and did not even give Yuan Shikai a greeting. Who knew that Xiao Lu Gongzi was poisoned and died in Hankou, the land of right and wrong, although he was confused, but at this time in the Hubei camp, Li Yuanhong had been "escorted" into Beijing, although Hankou was mixed with fish and dragons, but nominally it was the territory of Beiyang, so this account must also be recorded on Yuan Shikai's head, and the motive can be understood as doing it for all the children detained in the Beijing Division, not letting you go, don't run around when you're fine. Lu Rongting was a mangfu, and hitting the stone with an egg was naturally the next strategy, and he needed to wait for the opportunity more than Liu Xianshi of the Qian Army.
In the end, these Yuan Shikai naturally looked at the fire, even if the southwest warlords were eager to move, but the most powerful Dian general Cai Yi had been left behind by himself in the Beijing Division, and the reason why he was even more confident enough to turn a blind eye was that Chen Mi had already led three brigades into Sichuan, not only with two million yuan of military pay, but also with Yuan Ke to define Jinlan, this strategist who had repeatedly made great contributions to the strategy, had many old departments in Sichuan, and was naturally the best candidate to balance the relations between all parties in Sichuan. The day of sending Chen Mi south was a battle in Beiyang history that had only happened except for receiving Sun Wen and Li Yuanhong, with hundreds of officials sending off, military and police lined up, and the convoy stretching out, solemn and solemn. In Yuan Shikai's calculations, the undercurrent of the southwest jiangshan surged forward, at this time with Chen Mi sitting in town, naturally you can sit back and relax, choose to turn a blind eye, do not know that in the crowd of send-offs, a man who has just passed the age of standing shows an imperceptible sneer, this person is Cai Yi.