The Morality of the Beiyang Great Era (135): Those who have not been rooted in the name, indulge in a thousand multiplications, and always fall into the dust; those who are polite and unmelted, although they are all over the world, will eventually be leftovers.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the people, in the tide of the turbulent times, the princely generals with green shirts and silver armor, such as the carp that crossed the river, were mostly short-lived characters, but the real celebrities understood that fame and fortune were impossible, and the level of eunuchs' strategies depended on the order of the two. Weng Tonggong, the bearer of the Qingliu lineage, clicked guangxu when practicing words "meant to be the first of the pen", and the meaning of the drunken weng was to declare war on Cixi, after all, Guangxu was in charge of the Qing Dynasty, and his teacher naturally ascended to heaven with the chicken dog. And Li Hongzhang, the head of the "Beiyang Group" that Cixi once relied on as a pillar, also saw the official in the late Qing Dynasty as an official, and those were two things. One is the difference between relatives and estrangement, and the other is the face of Empress Dowager Cixi. However, between Weng and Li, they were entangled because of a bandit Yuan Xiangcheng.
After all, Yuan betrayed Li Hongzhang and took the free ride between Weng Tonggong, Li Hongzhang, and Rong Lu, so that he could have a "Beiyang Group" that could not be lost in the future. As for why Rong Lu and Duan Qirui were put together, they were compared to the way of officials, because they were both born in Beiyang, although the time was a bit staggered, but one was Yuan's old boss, the other was Yuan's old subordinate, both of them were well versed in the way of being an official in the Qing Dynasty, and both of them were related to fame and fortune between entry and exit. Rong Lu, as another "middle hall" between Yuan and Li, maneuvered between Empress Dowager Cixi, Li Hongzhang, Weng Tonggong, and foreigners, and knew how to use strength to fight, and even more knew how to cultivate obscurity. Seeing the tricks, seeing the wind making the rudder, the sword and light sword shadow above the temple, I didn't see Rong Lu suffer losses. And as long as Rong Lu is there, Yuan and his "Beiyang Group" will converge a lot.
However, as soon as Rong Lu left, Prince Yili of Qing obviously could not cover the scene. Between fame and fortune, Rong Lu's request was only for fame and profit, and no one had ever impeached him for empress dowager Cixi, or even daqing. Therefore, there is only one person who can make Empress Dowager Cixi condescend and personally move to visit the sick. However, Rong Lu still died in front of Cixi, and he also received a nickname of "Wen Zhong". Compared with Rong Lu's duan position, Duan Qirui is obviously better than blue out of blue. Watching the old man Zhang Xun jump into the fire pit, this layout of using the Beiyang robe as a chess piece is only to add bricks and tiles to his own reconstruction. Duan Qirui also relied on his unreasonableness, preserved his reputation in the hands of the Japanese army, and finally went south to live in the pension, which can be described as a good beginning and a good end, in the Beiyang warlord period, there are few tyrants who can mix with the wind and water, and can get a good end.
In the end, it should be said that as early as the time of the gradual fall of the Qing Dynasty, Guangxu and Weng Tonggong once had a heart-to-heart discussion: "Fame and fortune, fame and fortune, the world only famous profits, but not well-known in front of the profits." However, Weng Tonggong is also a role that does not have a long memory, and he who pursues fame too much is ostensibly running for Guangxu, but in fact he is also paving the way for himself, so calculated, even if Guangxu can't understand it, Empress Dowager Cixi can't spare him. Therefore, after the Sino-Japanese War, Li Hongzhang was dismissed from his post, Weng Tonggong retired and returned to his hometown, and the two camps that had been in the temple halls of the late Qing Dynasty were all gone. This is the end of hoping for fame and fortune, and on the contrary, Rong Lu and Duan Qirui, who are famous before Li, are idle strolling, which is naturally another situation.