The Survival Wisdom of the Beiyang Era (320): There is no silver in this place.
In the summer of the sixth year of Beiyang, the tense atmosphere in the northern land was not only the smoke of the struggle between Li and Duan, but also the impetus of the wall-riding faction, and a horned child who set off an uproar was also about to appear. In June of that year, Zhang Xun personally led an "braid army" of more than 5,000 people, and at the gracious invitation of Li Yuanhong, drove from Xuzhou to Beijing to mediate. This titular Beiyang warlord Overseer Legion leader was more likely to be pushed to the foreground by the various princes who were like the sea to fish in muddy waters. At this time, Qirui had already been dismissed by Li Yuanhong, leaving the overseers of the provinces to go north to drive Li, frightening Li Yuanhong to ask for mediation everywhere. However, even Wang Shizhen, the "Dragon of Beiyang" among the Three Masters of Beiyang, did not dare to succeed him, and the head of the cabinet became a hot potato.
Later, Zhang Xun, who sat firmly in the Diaoyutai in Xuzhou, as the leader of the Overseer Corps, seemed to have become the last straw for Li Yuanhong. Knowing that Zhang Xun had taken a large group of people to Beijing, Li Yuanhong also began to suspect Zhang Xun's ill intentions. After Zhang Xun arrived in Gyeonggi, he did not first go to visit Li Yuanhong, who had already lit up his lights to greet him, but went to the Forbidden City to pay respects to Puyi, who had abdicated, and it was clear that he was going to stage a farce that did not play cards according to the routine. But Zhang Xun's courage and mysterious self-confidence came from his self-analysis of the two elders of the Beiyang Group, namely Feng Guozhang, the head of the Three Governors of the Yangtze River, and Xu Shichang, the "Xiangguo" whose prestige was not inferior to Duan Qirui. Both have one thing in common, that is, they have a sympathetic attitude towards Sun Qing, and at the same time, the traditional scholars and doctors have a strong idea, especially Xu Shichang, who is quite prestigious among the Qing Dynasty's widows.
However, at the beginning, Xu Shichang refused to mediate the contradiction between Li Duan and Li Duan, for the simple reason that it was contrary to his wishes. After Zhang Xun entered Beijing, the ambition and ambition of "Xu Xiangguo" seemed to see the dawn again, and when Zhang Xun came to visit, the two talked for a long time, and Xu Shichang proposed three conditions for Zhang Xun to invite him out of the mountain. One was to give him full authority over the temple in the name of the regent of the Qing Dynasty, the second was to give his daughter Xu to Puyi as empress, and the third was to reform the temple structure of the Sunqing Dynasty. After Zhang Xun returned, he told some of the people about the meeting between the two of them, and Liu Yanchen laughed after listening to it: "This person is really worthy of being a living Cao Cao." ”
In the end, Liu Yanchen felt that this hat for Xu Shichang was very appropriate, because the living Cao Cao was a mantra that Yuan Keding scolded Xu Shichang, and almost everyone in the Beiyang Clique knew that Cao Cao himself had given his daughter Xu to Emperor Xian of Han, and Xu Shichang just wanted to be the abbot of Puyi. However, Zhang Xun has made a great change, he has always respected Xu Shichang before, after learning the conditions this time, he also recognized its bottom line, and found that the reason why this "crystal fox" of the late Qing Dynasty Eunuch Sea has been reluctant to go out of the mountain, that is, the chip out of the mountain is not enough weight, enough to show that his temple appetite is large enough, so it turns from the psychology of respect to contempt. At this time, Zhang Xun also began to flutter, after all, Li Yuanhong, who was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, opened the Zhonghua Gate to welcome him into the city, which was the courtesy of Song Jiaoren and others in those years, and Zhang Xun, who had entered the city, wore a melon skin hat, a jewel embedded in the middle of the hat, a big braid hanging behind his head, wearing a gauze robe, covered with a dark colored coat, and a pair of satin shoes on his feet, which was simply a big monster that was not different.