Qing History: The beginning of Yuan Shikai's fortune - small station training
preface
What can a person's success bring? The aura of the Guangzong Yaozu?! Parental delight? Or the rumors of the neighbors?! Not only that, if a person is strong enough, his name can even ring out on the land of China.
cause
Yuan Shikai's small station training provided conditions for the formation of the Beiyang Clique.
▲Small station training
outcome
As a military force in the late Qing Dynasty, Xiaozhan was actually the power of Yuan Shikai, and also provided the foundation for the rise of Yuan Shikai later.
▲Yuan Shikai
disposal
1. The difficulty of training troops
The army has been a top priority since ancient times, and the army is the king's gun, which can advance and conquer, and can defend the safety. However, the army is a double-edged sword, some people are soaring because of the army, and some people are creating evil things because the army has evil thoughts.
In his eyes, training troops can be said to be simple, but generals are difficult to find, although in the Qing Dynasty there was once a famous Xiang Army, but the Training Method of the Xiang Army was not the same as Yuan Shikai's training, because most of Zeng Guofan's Xiang Army were their own people.
It can be said that almost all the protégés of Zeng Guofan in the Xiang Army are deceased, but Yuan Shikai was admitted to the imperial examination, and he did not have good relations such as classmates, so the road to copyIng Zeng Guofan was unreliable.
However, Yuan Shikai has been in the official field for many years, not useless, he still has some colleagues, but they are almost all in North Korea, thinking of his former subordinates, Yuan Shikai thought of Liu Yongqing, he is his former right-hand man, if he joins, he can reduce some problems for himself.
▲Xiang Army
2. The training begins
Yuan Shikai immediately wrote a letter to Liu Yongqing, and after Liu Yongqing learned the news that Yuan Shikai was going to train troops, he immediately agreed, and Liu Yongqing did not come alone, but also brought some people.
Yuan Shikai's initial problem was thus solved, but there was another difficult problem that followed, that is, people who did not have advice and advice, once fought wars, there would be military divisions around them, and now there are only generals training troops around them, although Liu Yongqing and others train troops very well, but they cannot give advice.
In the military, if you want to fight, you can't just have a warrior, but also a brain. So at this time, Yuan Shikai thought of his brother Xu Shichang.
It's just that now he is guarding his mother's funeral at home, so when Yuan Shikai wrote a letter, Xu Shichang's performance was also very difficult.
However, Xu Shichang was embarrassed not only by the funeral, but also by the official position, because Xu Shichang was a member of the Hanlin Academy at the imperial court, responsible for drafting edicts for the emperor.
▲Xu Shichang
Now if he is allowed to come to the small station to train soldiers, it is a self-deprecating status. Yuan Shikai quickly thought of this layer, he knew that Xu Shichang promised to be for his brotherhood, but the official position could not be abandoned, thinking of this layer of Yuan Shikai decided to keep Xu Shichang's official position.
So Yuan Shikai wrote to the imperial court that Xiaozhan was now short of manpower, so he hoped that Xu Shichang could help, but also hoped that the imperial court would retain his official position in the Hanlin Academy.
Soon the imperial court agreed, and Xu Shichang's joining made Yuan Shikai's troubles less than half, and now almost all the administrative affairs in the army are handled by Xu Shichang.
However, with the growth of the small station team, there are now many people as deserters, and the management of the small station is not very strict, which has become one of Yuan Shikai's troubles.
▲Huai Army
3. The formation of small station team
However, Yuan Shikai, who was born in the Huai Army, thought of his own experience, the Huai Army was founded by Li Hongzhang, although it was defeated in the later Sino-Japanese War, many people were idle at home, but they were all experienced in hundreds of battles.
Coupled with the fact that the wars they had participated in were very deterrent, Yuan Shikai thought of Zhang Xun and others in the Huai Army, and sure enough, their joining rectified a lot of deserters in xiaozhan, which made many people dare not flee.
I thought that the problem was all over, but I did not expect that there were problems one after another, because most of the principles of Yuan Shikai were old people, but the old people's thinking was almost stubborn, but new development also needed new ideas, so it became a difficult problem for Yuan Shikai.
At that time, there was already the emergence of the Wubei Academy, so Yuan Shikai ran to the Wubei Academy in Tianjin non-stop, and after people's recommendation, Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen and others all appeared in Yuan Shikai's eyes, and Yuan Shikai did not hesitate and chose to admit them all.
▲Duan Qirui
The new people's thinking has brought different changes to the small station, Duan Qirui's military theory is stronger, and Wang Shizhen is proficient in the Western military system, so under the combination of the newcomers, the overall appearance of Yuan Shikai's small station has changed.
And Yuan Shikai also knows that if he becomes a king, he naturally cannot be high above and needs to be close to people, so in the small station, although Yuan Shikai's status is relatively high, he has a good relationship with the people in the small station.
There is a person who wants to marry a Qinglou woman as a concubine, because the image is not good, he was severely criticized by Yuan Shikai, but he secretly held a wedding for the two, so Yuan Shikai attracted a lot of talents at the small station.
▲ Leader of the Beiyang warlords
brief summary
The formation of the small station team increased the power of Yuan Shikai, and successfully made the later Qingdi abdicate, stealing the fruits of the revolution.
【References】
1. "Yuan's Dangguo"
2. "Yuan Shikai and the Beiyang Warlords"
3. The Biography of Yuan Shikai