Character Story: During the Wuchang Uprising, Feng Guozhang asked Yuan Shikai, and Yuan Shikai replied with six words

After the Outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising, Feng Guozhang asked Yuan Shikai about his calculations, and Yuan Shikai only replied with six words: "Walk slowly, wait and see."

In October of the third year of Xuan reunification (1911), the Wuchang Uprising broke out, and the tide of revolution developed rapidly, and there was a great momentum that could ignite the plains.

When the Qing court heard about this, it behaved relatively calmly, because similar rebellions had become accustomed to them.

At first, the Qing court did not pay enough attention.

Three days later, the Minister of War, Meng Chang, was sent to lead the Beiyang warlords to suppress it, and the admiral of the navy, Sa Zhenbing, supported and cooperated from the waterway, and Meng Chang asked Feng Guozhang to be the vanguard of the troops to open the way in front.

Both the regent Zaifeng and Meng Chang ignored a very important issue, and Feng Guozhang had a good personal friendship with Yuan Shikai, who was Yuan Shikai's old subordinate, and it was Yuan Shikai who single-handedly promoted and cultivated him.

Although the Qing court had long lost trust in Yuan Shikai and let Yuan Shikai stay at home, Feng Guozhang must ask Yuan Shikai for instructions in case of trouble.

Yuan Shikai, who was unemployed at home, and the imperial court looked at each other unfavorably, as the main backbone of the Beiyang system, even if he was not in his post, he was still secretly plotting things. Always thinking that one day, Yuan Shikai will come back to continue to preside over the Beiyang system.

Feng Guozhang felt that the opportunity had come.

On the way south, Feng Guozhang deliberately took a detour to Zhangde and pretended to pass by Yuan Shikai's residence Huanshang Village, with only one purpose: to ask the boss for instructions on the next step.

Yuan Shikai himself did not say much, and very calmly said six words: "Walk slowly, wait and see."

Feng Guozhang understood Yuan Shikai's meaning, and marched slowly and leisurely along the way, a vigorous grinding foreign worker.

At this time, it can be said that except for Yuan Shikai, there was no one in the Qing court who could fight.

Yi Xi and Xu Shichang remembered Li Hongzhang's previous suggestion that "to clean up the chaos, Yuan Shikai must not go out of the mountains", and quickly proposed to the imperial court to re-use Yuan Shikai.

Finally, Yuan Shikai regained control of the Beiyang Department and opened a scene of "glory" in his life.