Yuan Shikai had two well-known sons, one was the eldest son Yuan Keding, and the other was the second son Yuan Kewen. The two sons are very distinctive, the eldest son is ambitious, and the second son is very literary. After the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, China's feudal system, which lasted for more than two thousand years, withdrew from the stage of history, and Yuan Shikai served as the first president of the Republic of China.
However, Yuan Shikai felt that being president was not comfortable as an emperor, and he wanted to restore the imperial system in his heart, but he hesitated and worried about being opposed, so in order to understand the minds of the public, Yuan Shikai would read the newspaper every day, especially paying attention to the "Shuntian Times", and his eldest son Yuan Keding was also worried after he knew it, because if Yuan Shikai became emperor, then he was likely to be the crown prince.
Out of this mentality, Yuan Keding began to play a little clever, in order to let his father speed up the speed of becoming emperor, Yuan Keding decided to find someone to forge Yuan Shikai's favorite "Shuntian Times", he found someone to write some articles hoping that Yuan Shikai would be called emperor, and then sent them to Yuan Shikai in front of him, so that he could see the "direction of the heart" of the people.
Later, Yuan Shikai successfully became emperor, but not long after, he was dismissed from his post and ousted from power, and Yuan Shikai, who learned the truth about the Shuntian Times, beat Yuan Keding angrily. Compared with Yuan Keding's ambition, Yuan Keding is much more bland. Born in 1890, Yuan Kewen was very intelligent from an early age, literate at the age of three, read history at the age of seven, and could write a praiseworthy article on his own at the age of ten.
Not only that, he also has a wide range of hobbies, whether it is calligraphy, painting he is not proficient, he likes to collect cultural relics and stamps, but also wrote a lot of books for the cultural relics he collected, but such a talented man is not loved by Yuan Shikai, on the contrary, the relationship between the two is still relatively distant.
Because unlike the eldest brother, Yuan Kewen did not approve of his father's claim to the title of emperor, and therefore openly published an article in the "Shuntian Times" entitled "Feelings", expressing opposition to Yuan Shikai's behavior of claiming the title of emperor. After this article was seen by Yuan Keding, Yuan Keding took it to his father and sued Yuan Kewen.
Therefore, Yuan Shikai imprisoned this son who did not have a heart for him in Shanghai. But who expected yuan Kewen to be in Shanghai, and even in the Shanghai Green Gang still has a not low status. Yuan Kewen's scholarly temperament is incompatible with the gangsters, but in fact, he joined the gangsters organically.
When Yuan Kewen first arrived in Shanghai, the boss of the Green Gang was Zhang Shanting. At that time, Yuan Shikai's claim to the emperor was in full swing, and many people gathered to march against this matter, and in order to suppress the turmoil, Yuan Shikai sent people to arrest many people who opposed him, some of whom were Qinggang brothers.
Zhang Shanting, as the boss, naturally could not watch the brothers of his gang being arrested, so he went to Yuan Kewen to try his luck and wanted to find him to help, coincidentally, Yuan Kewen originally opposed his father's claim to the emperor, so he agreed very happily. The Jianghu people pay attention to the love of grace and vengeance, Yuan Kewen helped a lot, Zhang Shanting could not repay, so he accepted Yuan Kewen as an apprentice, ranking in the big characters.
The ranking of the Qinggang was exquisite, and at that time, it was ranked as "Great Understanding". Jin Rong ranked in the Tongzi generation, and Du Yuesheng was ranked in the Wuzi generation, so according to this ranking, Du Yuesheng should indeed be called Yuan Kewen a master. It's just that although Yuan Kewen is in the gang, he is not interested in the gangster thing.
He likes to listen to plays, often goes in and out of some flower houses, often mixes with prostitutes, but he is very respectful and loving to the prostitutes in the flower house, although some people say that he is pretending, he still won the admiration of many prostitutes because of his elegant demeanor. In 1931, Yuan Kewen died of illness in Tianjin at the age of 42. Because he treated prostitutes as equals during his lifetime, and often sold his treasures to help the poor, after his death, many ordinary people and prostitutes spontaneously organized to send him off.