Feng Guozhang was the leader of the warlords of his immediate lineage and a confidant of Yuan Shikai. As the core figure of the Beiyang warlords, together with Wang Shizhen and Duan Qirui, he was known as the "Three Masters of Beiyang". In the sixth year of the Republic of China, Zhang Xun supported puyi's restoration in Beijing and failed, grand president Li Yuanhong stepped down, and Feng Guozhang went to Beijing to take office as acting president. He mainly relies on his loyalty to Yuan Shikai to ascend to the throne, personally he has no careful thoughts, a big grin, but there are also advantages, that is, although he may not do a good job, he will certainly not be sneaky. Speaking of Feng Guozhang, I have to talk about his great-grandson, the famous contemporary artist Feng Gong.
The relationship between Feng Gong and The President of the Republic of China, Feng Guozhang, is that Feng Gong's grandfather, Feng Jiayu, is Feng Guozhang's third son, who studied in Germany. After Feng Guozhang became famous, he was also revered as 'Feng Hejian'' because his ancestral home was Hejian Province. Hejian is now a county-level city in Hebei Province. Hejian is really famous not because of its location and long history, but because there are many celebrities here. From Bao Shuya, who befriended Guan Zhong in the Spring and Autumn Period, to Mao Cang, a famous "Mao shi" descendant of the Han Dynasty, from Liu Changqing, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, to Liu Wansu, a famous doctor of jin yuan, they are all the best among the celebrities in Hejian. When Feng Guozhang became famous, people honored him as "Feng Hejian" according to the custom. The people of Kawama are also very proud because they have produced a hero of the world!
Feng Guozhang himself and those friends and colleagues who are really close to him, but prefer to call ''Feng Shijing'', as we all know, although Feng Guozhang is a Hejian person, but his more specific origin is in the Xishijing Village in Hejian, and before Feng Guozhang's death, some people said that the reason why Feng Guozhang was able to become a subject and even become the acting president was all because of the protection of this feng shui treasure land. It is precisely for these reasons that when Feng Guozhang was alive, he was filled with a strong attachment to Shijing Village.
Under the strict tutoring of this great-grandfather, Feng Guozhang's great-grandfather Feng Jingxiu was a gongxiu, and his grandfather Feng Pizhen was also a student. It can be said that Feng Guozhang's branch can be regarded as a typical bookish mendi. Even a president who has no way to accumulate wealth should not do such a thing as draining the water of the Zhongnanhai pond and fishing for fish and selling money, and he Feng Guozhang really did this seemingly stupid thing.
During the warlord melee, it was very difficult for the president of the Republic of China to do it. Because the local warlords guarded their own territory at that time, taxes were rarely paid to the central government, and not only that, but they always asked the central government for money under the pretext of various expenditures, so the Republic of China government basically had to rely on borrowing money every year to survive, and sometimes for emergencies, the president often advanced money himself. After the direct warlord Feng Guozhang became the acting president, he also could not get rid of this dilemma, and borrowed from east to west all day, which made him very annoyed. At that time, Duan Qirui, the prime minister of the Republic of China government, was very strong, and he had the final say everywhere. Since Feng Guozhang became president, the only thing he made his own decision was to order the water in Zhongnanhai to be drained and the fish inside were caught and sold at a high price.
It is rumored that after Feng Guozhang became the acting president, he lived in Zhongnanhai. Once, on an after-dinner walk, he saw that there were many beautiful big fish in the three seas, so he asked the people around him, "What kind of fish are these?" "Back to the president, there are all kinds of fish, all rare species." The attendant quickly replied, "Oh, this red fish is three feet long!" Feng Guozhang suddenly pointed to a fish in front of him and asked. Yes, President, there is also a valuable crucian carp, which is said to have lived for six or seven hundred years and weighs about 40 pounds. If you look, this crucian carp has two gold rings tied around its neck and two gold medals hanging on it, which should not be difficult to find. "When the attendants saw that the president was interested in these fish, they talked endlessly that Zhongnanhai was founded in the Liaojin period, and from the Jiajing period onwards, this place has become a place where the nobles have specially raised fish, and all generations of masters must throw some fry in the pond and hang gold medals on the fish to prove that this is their own fish.
And when Yuan Shikai was president, he also released a lot of fish, and there were silver medals with engraved words on the belts. What is placed in it are all valuable fish species, and after so many years of careful care, the fish in the pond even weigh hundreds of pounds and hundreds of years old, which can be said to be very rare. "Well, yes, you can definitely get a lot of money by selling these fish, right?" At that time, the attendants thought that the president was just laughing, but they did not expect that the next day Feng Guozhang would send someone to catch all these fish and sell them at a high price. For a time, restaurants in Beijing competed to sell "presidential fish". The fish fished out by the president became the steamed buns snapped up by major restaurants for a while, and it wasn't long before the fish fish in Zhongnanhai were swept away.
Legend has it that Feng Guozhang did this because the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties released carp every year, and there were gold medals hanging on the fins, and Feng Guozhang coveted these golds. However, the proportion of gold is very large, whether the fins can be hung, whether it can survive, and from a scientific point of view, it is unlikely that there will be hundreds of years of immortal fish, even if there is gold after the fish dies, it will be buried in the silt. Therefore, it seems unreliable to say that Feng Guozhang pumped water to catch fish because of his greed for money. Feng Guozhang drained the fish pond, it is estimated that it may be just a normal dredging project, Feng Guozhang can not do big things, small things can always be done, do not want to do a trouble.
This time pumping water to catch fish, not only is there a lot of public opinion and nonsense, but there are also good people in the market who have made a dish, called the president's fish, which is said to be served with Dongpo meat. For a time, at the Beijing Hotel, diners munched on the president's fish while talking nonsense to the president. In fact, these are all ghosts behind Duan Qirui's back, and he does not allow Feng Guozhang to have political achievements. Feng Guozhang had a hard time doing things, and he was also ridiculed by the old Duan. After fishing for fish, Beijing did not know how to dry up, and Duan Qirui's men shouted again, "This is the president pumping water to catch fish, offending the Dragon King." Shouting around, Feng Guozhang couldn't sit still, after all, it was a drought, and the people wanted to scold the mother.
Next, Duan Qirui had another good play to watch. Feng's think tank gave him advice, saying that once before the drought, the emperor had sent people to the Black Dragon Pond on the outskirts of Beijing to ask for rain, and now it should be the same. Feng Guozhang did as he was told, so he sent someone to ask for rain. A group of government officials, plus the BaiyunGuan Old Road, burned paper again, prostrated their heads again, and after tossing and turning, after the third day, the rain really came, I don't know if this rain was Feng Guozhang's request, or it should have rained. In any case, Feng Guozhang finally drew a satisfactory end to fishing and selling fish.
Some good people later remembered the fact that Feng Guozhang was selling fish, and wrote a mocking pair" "Prime Minister Tanglin logging, Fuehrer South China Sea sells fish!" Although Feng Guozhang loved to accumulate wealth for government expenses, he did not have a trace of corruption and perverted the law, and after his death in 1919, he left an inheritance of about 3 million yuan, which was caused by his years of savings and investment.