On June 6, 1916 in Beiping, the weather was not hot, there were white clouds floating in the sky, which modern people could never see, within the nine gates of the imperial city, the peddlers were pawns; the eight flags walked dogs and birds, and the whole Beiping City presented a peaceful.
Just now, the most powerful person in the whole Republic of China, Yuan Shikai, the emperor of the Republic of China, passed away, and Yuan Shikai's wife and many children understood that they could not have today, inseparable from Yuan Shikai, and now that he is gone, where will they go in the future, and what their fate will be, no one knows.
At about 1:00 p.m. on June 6, 1916, Yuan Shikai closed his eyes forever, at the age of 57. We don't know, like Washington, what was going on in his heart when he was dying, and whether he regretted being emperor? We don't know.
The only thing that is known is that Yuan Shikai's great cause seems to be about to succeed, but at this most critical time, he fell, never stood up again, he could have left his name in history, he overthrew the feudal dynasty that lasted for thousands of years, enough to make future generations sing praises and praises for a hundred years or even a thousand years, but he did a wrong thing - restoring the imperial system, and the result was discredited.
Yuan Shikai left, according to the will before his death to be buried in Zhangde, Henan, it is reported that the entire process of spiritual transfer ceremony is extremely luxurious and tragic, Beiyang Sanjie, Beiping government has a head and face of the big figures all present, ambassadors, reporters from various countries have come to watch the ceremony.
When Yuan Shikai's coffin set off for Henan, all the temple bells inside and outside Beiping City sounded in unison, and the afterglow shook the Four-Nine Cities, although the momentum was huge but orderly, and the ordinary people watching along the way recited their grace, and some old people who came from the late Qing Dynasty fainted from crying. Some people say that ordinary people have a scale in their hearts, and this scene is enough to explain everything.
Yuan Shikai is gone, but his wife and children are still there, without Yuan Shikai's protection, what happened to these people later? Yuan Shikai had a life of affection, and married a total of 10 beautiful wives (one original with nine concubines)
Yuan Shikai's original match, Yu Shi, was the daughter of a rich man in Henan, but because this woman was rich and talentless and immoral, she was not liked by Yuan Shikai, and three years after Yuan Shikai left, Yu Shi also went with him.
The second wife is a prostitute, somehow Yuan Shikai loves prostitutes alone, and generally carries this wife with him when he attends cocktail parties, in addition, Yuan Shikai also likes to occupy these aunts' wives, such as the sixth aunt, the eighth aunt, and the ninth aunt are all close to the marriage and occupied by Yuan Shikai.
All in all, among these ten wives, except for the original wife and the third aunt (a Korean princess), the other aunts and wives are all from the background of a maid or a prostitute, but Yuan Shikai is also a sentient and righteous person, and all of them are treated equally.
After Yuan Shikai's death, in addition to the fifth wife, the other 9 wives were very responsible and never married in their lives, while the fifth young wife, because she could not bear loneliness and committed adultery, was sentenced to death by the Yuan family.
Of course, the reason why these big and small wives are so responsible, in addition to Yuan Shikai's body leaving them a lot of gold and silver treasures, Yuan Shikai's gang of Beiyang bigwigs also played a certain deterrent role, so after Yuan Shikai's death, these aunts and wives were harmonious in dividing up family property and other issues.