The Morality of the Beiyang Era (Fifty-Nine): The roots are not afraid of the wind shaking, and the body is not afraid of the shadow oblique.
In the history of Beiyang, Yuan Shikai's "east" meal should be many, and it is reasonable to say that this horn in the dinner bureau "as long as you don't want to drink, whoever holds up the wine glass is not good" should be the highlight object of the dinner table. However, the people who can appear at Yuan Shikai's dinner table are naturally not "things in the pool", but the "big parent" of this Beiyang warlord has befriended the three religions and nine streams, so that there are many large and small people who can sit with him. However, there were also two meals that Yuan Shikai paid for, and although the nominal helmsman of the Beiyang Dynasty lowered his stature and took the initiative to set up a banquet, the attitude of the guests to the banquet was very different. In these two meals of Yuan Shikai Zhang Luo, one of the scale levels can be called "state banquets", the Beiyang eunuchs and dignitaries gathered, and there were Sun Wen, the "big people" who were once xuanhe, on the dinner table, and it was also the first official meeting of the giants of the north and the south.
The specifications of another dinner were indeed very small, and the guest Wang Minyun could only be regarded as a "small person" in the situation of celebrities at that time, if it were not for Yang Du, an apprentice who was "famous in the world and slandered all over the world", Wang Minyun's popularity would have been discounted. However, after the Qing Dynasty "took the box lunch", it could be squeezed to the point that Yuan Shikai was embarrassed to speak, and Wang Min's calculation was one of the few hard stubble. On the afternoon of August 24, 1999, the drums at Beijing's Qianmen East Railway Station sounded in unison, and the crowds were crowded, and Zhao Bingjun, a confidant of Yuan Shikai, welcomed Sun Yat-sen to Beijing. At the first meeting between Yuan and Sun, Liang Shiyi described that "the discussion is the most smooth", and the two sides talked for a total of more than ten times, and the conversation time was mostly from the afternoon to the night, a sense of hero pity for each other, seeing each other and hating the evening. Naturally, there are banquets in the middle, of which the dinner on August 28 is the most solemn.
At Yuan Shikai's presidential residence, more than 500 celebrities and nobles from the north and south welcomed Sun Wen and his party at a grand banquet. The chiefs of the various ministries in Beiyang, the parliamentarians, and the Sunqing royal family all attended the meeting, and the huge main table arranged in the shape of a "mouth" was arranged, and the north and south sat facing each other and talked happily. Sun Wen even stated that "to maintain the status quo, I am not as good as Yuan, planning the future, Yuan is not as good as me." For China's current calculations, in this decade, it is still advisable to make Yuan Shi the president, I will do my best in social undertakings, and after ten years, the people want me to come out and serve, and it is not too late. For Yuan Shikai's lifting, this dinner game can also be regarded as earning enough face for him, but Yuan Shikai specially invited Wang Minyun's dinner, and the result was a gray face and was squeezed out. Before Yuan Shikai wanted to repair the history of the Qing Dynasty, Wang Minyun replied in a mocking tone, "Wagangzhai and Liangshan Po also want to repair Shihu?" However, in the five years of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai's road against the current could not be turned back, and he had to invite Wang Minyun to "support the façade" of the Old Qing Dynasty, so he would personally set up a banquet to entertain.
In the end, I did not expect that Wang Minyun was neither polite nor grateful during the banquet, but said to the servant Zhou Mama: "This is my nephew, like the president?" As a member of the Yuan family Yuan Baoqing in the same year, and also worshiped Wang Minyun in the same year, he naturally had the confidence to call Yuan Shikai's nephew, and Zhou Mama replied: "The head is very large, that is, the head is a little shorter." The old man carefully said to Mama Zhou, "You need to eat more, this is the imperial banquet of the emperor that year." Such a run, Yuan Shikai sitting on the side is indeed "big head". However, the wordless one was still behind, and when he accompanied Wang Minyun through xinhuamen, Wang Minyun suddenly stopped moving, pointed at Xinhuamen and said coldly: "My old eyes are dizzy, isn't this the new mangmen?" It was clear that he was scolding Yuan Shikai for learning Wang Mang, and Yuan Shikai was naturally dumbfounded. Therefore, Yuan Shikai, a horn who has cultivated to the top level in the rice bureau culture, if his body is not right, the shadow is oblique. In the meal game of "eating is small, out of the game is big", after all, "between the lips and teeth, eating is a cover, and the layout is true".