Beiyang Great Era Fan Wai Chapter (1): Those who think more will be tired, and those who have a heavy heart will be bitter.
In the third year of the Republic of China, Yuan Xiangcheng, the old man of the Beiyang warlord who was full of opportunities, actually came to idle and relaxed, not to be the president as a matchmaker, he put aside state affairs, and specially for his confidant Feng Guozhang, Zhang Luo a good family affair. Of course, Feng Guozhang, who sat in the southeast, was like the "King of the Southeast" at this time, after all, as the head of the three governors of the Yangtze River, this "outer Dun thick and inner desire" Beiyang dog wanted to have a territory and a man and a horse, which was much more beautiful than the former Qing Governor of Liangjiang. Moreover, Feng Guozhang was able to sit on the throne of the Jiangsu Overseer and command the southeast, which was also exchanged for the special honor in the Battle of Ganning. Therefore, although Feng Guozhang is considered to be a second marriage to Yuan Xiangcheng Zhang Luo's family affair, the woman is not a bystander, it is The tutor Zhou Zhen that Yuan Shikai invited for his children.
This Zhou Zhen was also a well-known talented woman at that time, and it should be known that Mr. Private School, who could enter the eyes of Yuan Xiangcheng, was at least a famous corner like Yan Fu who opened his eyes to the world, and Zhou Cainu was also a tutor in the Yuan Mansion and delayed her youth, otherwise she would have already found a good person. Moreover, Feng Guozhang, whose original wife has died, is extremely satisfied in the face of this long-time talented woman, and will never abandon others as "leftover women". He himself was born in the countryside of Hebei Province, and he led soldiers for half his life, so it was a happy thing to be able to get such an intellectual as a wife at such an old age. So, this marriage soon became.
In fact, this is a "peace and kinship" marriage arranged by Yuan Xiangcheng, on the one hand, it can be said that the old man's clever plan to win over his subordinates, on the other hand, it can also be said that the old man's most effective way to monitor Feng Guozhang. He used this resource again and again, not only for his own people, but also for the enemies of the temple, and his number one target was Vice President Li Yuanhong. Li Yuanhong relied on Shouyi to seize a considerable amount of eunuch capital. In order to hold this dissident, Yuan Xiangcheng made a request to Li Yuanhong to "change relatives". The so-called change of relatives is to let his son Yuan Kejiu marry Li Yuanhong's daughter as his wife, and then marry his daughter to Li Yuanhong's son Li Shaoji.
It's a complete set of "peace kisses." According to Li Shaofen, The daughter of Li Yuanhong, in the spring of the third year of the Republic of China, the Yuan family invited our family to visit his home. Yuan Shikai called out his sons and daughters to see my father. Yuan said: "Our two families want to exchange, you give me a daughter as a daughter, I will also give you one." My Father said, "I'll give you one first!" And asked him which one he wanted. Yuan said that he did not care, as long as it was the daughter of the Li family, my father decided to give Yuan's ninth son Yuan Zhuhou with the eldest sister Li Shaofang. Shao Fang was only eight years old at the time, and my mother was very dissatisfied with the marriage. My father said, "No way! It wasn't a simple marriage, or he wouldn't have worked with me. ”
My mother was resolutely unwilling, and their harmonious husband and wife for many years were so out of harmony that they ignored each other within a month. Soon the Yuan family came to ask for a bazi marriage, and my father asked my mother, she did not talk about it, and later it was still heard by my aunt's mouth. When I was engaged, my mother did not come out to entertain relatives and friends, and after repeated persuasion by everyone, she reluctantly came out to cope. This "buy one get one free" marriage really failed, Li Yuanhong was promised to the daughter of the Yuan family, and within a year of marriage, he became insane, and he ended up in a lunatic asylum for the rest of his life. However, this marriage also played a certain role in buffering between the north and the south when Yuan was alive, and Li Yuanhong, the sleeping tiger, was pulled into the water and thrown into the melting pot of the Beiyang warlords.
References: "History of the Reign of the Beiyang Warlords", "The Origin and Collapse of the Beiyang Faction"
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