When it comes to the most controversial figure in modern times, Yuan Shikai is definitely one.
Some people think that he "stole the country", others think that he is treacherous, some people compare him to Cao Cao as "Tyrant", and some people think that he made immortal contributions to the development of China's recent modernization. Today we will not talk about these serious topics, let's take it lightly, that is, such a character with mixed praise, how is his family living?
To be fair, Yuan Shikai was quite careful, there were a total of 1 wife and 9 concubines, no, at that time, it was no longer called a concubine, called an aunt. Among the 9 aunts, three are Korean aunts, of which the eldest aunt Tai Shen and the fifth aunt Tai Yang are the most favored. To what extent is Shen favored? The children had to call her "mother."
These 10 wives and concubines gave birth to a total of 17 sons and 15 daughters to Yuan Shikai. Yuan Shikai's sons are more famous, such as Yuan Keding, one of the four sons of the Republic of China, who was passed on to the Shen clan (the original mother was the third aunt of the Korean Jin clan); the eldest son, Yuan Keding, was the child of Lady Yu of the Zhengmu family. Yuan Shikai's daughter, on the other hand, is rarely mentioned.
Counting Yuan Shikai's 15 daughters, in addition to the 4 daughters, 8 daughters, and 15 daughters who died prematurely, in addition to the 9 daughters born to the relatively low-ranking and unrecorded six aunts, 11 daughters and 12 daughters, Yuan Shikai has a total of 9 daughters in historical records. Neither the lady nor the eldest aunt gave birth to a daughter, and the 7th aunt Zhang Shi was because she was not favored and had nothing to do, so she started with the second aunt Wu Shi.
Wu Shisheng has more sons, a full 5, and only 6 daughters Yuan Zhenzhen, married to the son of Sun Baoqi, the prime minister of the Republic of China, which is a very obvious political marriage. The third aunt, TaiJin, is the birth mother of Yuan Kewen mentioned above, and gave birth to 3 daughters Yuan Shuzhen and 10 daughters Yuan Sizhen. The fate of these two daughters is relatively tragic, although they are both politically married, but their husbands have all later become traitors.
Yuan Shuzhen was originally married to Yang Yuxun, the nephew of Yang Shijun, the governor of the Qing Dynasty, which was obviously to gather the old Manchu Qing forces; who knew that later Yang Yuxun joined the Wang puppet government, and was eventually executed, Yuan Shuzhen changed his name to Yuan Jingxue, never married, and also wrote a book called "My Father Yuan Shikai". Yuan Sizhen's husband, Zou Wenkai, the commander of the Beijing gendarmerie, was eventually executed.
The fourth aunt Tai Min was also Korean, but she was more intelligent, and the 2 daughters born to her, Yuan Zhongzhen, married one of the promoters of the foreign affairs movement, Xue Guanlan, the son of Xue Fucheng, the qing dynasty envoy to Britain, France and Italy, and held a "wedding of the century" in Wuxi; the other 7 daughters Yuan Fuzhen were married to the son of Shangshu Yinchang of the Qing Dynasty War Department, and became Yuan Shikai's "protective umbrella" in front of the Manchu nobles. It can be said that the two daughters born to the fourth aunt are quite good.
The 5 daughters yuan jizhen born to the most favored fifth aunt Yang Shitai and the 13 daughters Yuan Yizhen born to the ninth aunt Liu Shi all married into the Lu family of Suzhou Yuan, and became the son-in-law of the Qing Dynasty official Shangshu Lu Baozhong. It's just that although these two daughters are married to Lu Dingsheng, 5 daughters are the original match, and the final result is depressed; 13 daughters are continuing strings, but they have a happy life with their husbands, which is also another kind of yin and yang mistake.
If you want to say that the person who marries has the highest status, it is also the 14 daughters born to the eighth aunt Guo Shiyuan. Yuan Yizhen married Cao Shiyue, the son of Cao Kun, the president of the Republic of China, but unfortunately this marriage was not a good fate, but a bad fate, and the two quarreled endlessly after marriage and even fought hard, and even once Yuan Yizhen twisted Cao Shiyue's wrist and fractured it.
Such a marriage naturally could not continue, Yuan Yizhen took a large amount of money given by the Cao family, simply divorced and left overseas, and later married a diplomat and found a truly happy and satisfying life.
Reference: "My Father Yuan Shikai"