Speaking of Yuan Shikai, I think everyone must know that he was a famous politician and military figure in the late Qing Dynasty, and at the same time the leader of the Beiyang warlords. However, speaking of Yuan Shikai's life, I may not want to know a lot of people, right?
Yuan Shikai's mother was just a little maid in Yuan Mansion, and her cooking was particularly delicious, so she was favored by Yuan Shikai's father and accepted as a concubine, and then there was Yuan Shikai. Because Yuan Shikai's mother was born in the Yuan family, so the status of their mother and son in the Yuan mansion is not very high, even if he later became the president, his family did not change this concept, after his mother's death, Yuan Shikai wanted to bury her in the ancestral tomb of the Yuan family, but Yuan Shikai's brother, resolutely disagreed, he said that a subordinate person is not worthy of being buried in the ancestral tomb of my Yuan family.
Although Yuan Shikai was already the president at this time, it was not convenient for him to use his rights to suppress it in his own home, so he did not say anything, but invited a master to let him choose another piece of feng shui treasure land for his mother, and since then, Yuan Shikai has never returned to his father's home. Then again, Yuan Shikai was a full filial piety, and when he buried his mother, he buried a large amount of treasure, and the gold and silver were countless.
However, after doing all this, he was worried again, as we all know, tomb robbery in the Republic of China period was also very widespread, so he was particularly worried about the theft of his mother's tomb. At first, Yuan Shikai sent heavy troops to guard his mother's tomb, but he felt that this was not a long-term solution, so he thought of another way, that is, to spread rumors that his mother's grave had been stolen, because there would certainly be no more tomb robbers from the stolen graves. In order to make others believe, he also played a play with his own men, that is, he ran to his mother's grave and cried, and then angrily reprimanded the soldiers who were guarding the grave at that time, and almost ordered him to be killed.
In this way, after burying his mother, Yuan Shikai returned to the capital, and after returning to the capital, he specially visited the master who chose the cemetery for his mother, and during the conversation, Yuan Shikai said: "Master, how long can you see me as an emperor?" The master didn't say much after listening to it, only answered him two words, or 8 and 2 to be precise. Yuan Shikai was very confused after listening to it, and after returning home, he kept thinking about the meaning of these two numbers. As a result, until his death, he did not understand the meaning of these two numbers.