On November 14, 1908, the 38-year-old Guangxu Emperor returned to heaven, and the next day, Empress Dowager Cixi "ascended". For a time, the mountain rain was about to fill the building.
The exiled royalists, led by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, took the lead in attacking Yuan Shikai, believing that he should be responsible for the death of the Guangxu Emperor, and Yuan Shikai became the target of public criticism.
On January 2, 1909, the Qing court did not hold Yuan Shikai any responsible, and ordered him to return to his hometown to recuperate.
On January 3, after Yuan Shikai entered the imperial court, the emperor rushed to Tianjin, hoping to take a steamship to Japan overnight to avoid disasters, and was persuaded by Yang Shijun, the governor of Zhili, to return to Beijing. On the 6th, with deep regret, Yuan Shikai set off to return to his hometown of Henan, with only a few people to send off.
<h1>Huan Shang Village</h1>
Yuan Shikai did not return to his original hometown of Xiangcheng, because the ancestral house had been given to his relatives, and he was at odds with his brother Yuan Shidun, so he took his family to live in Ji County, and soon moved to Weihui. However, Wei Hui's house was small, And Yuan Shikai's family had a large population, and in May 1909, Yuan Shikai moved to Huanshang Village.
Huanshang Village is named after Huanshui, also known as Anyang River. Yuan Shikai bought a villa of Tianjin salt merchant He Bingying, with the inscription "Yangshou Garden", covering an area of more than 200 acres, Yuan spent a lot of energy to run this garden, posing as a posture of not asking about the world for the rest of his life.
Poetry lyrics wind flowers snow moon, listen to warblers fishing chess drinking ... This is Yuan Shikai's leisurely days in Huanshang Village, and he must do so so that Beijing can be completely assured of him.
After the initial panic, Yuan Shikai began to invest in industry.
At the beginning of 1909, Yuan Shikai learned that Wang Xitong, a Weihui man, had the talent to start a management industry, and entrusted someone to go to the door to ask for it. When Wang Xitong learned about it, he was very moved. Wang Xitong's mother also supported him in assisting Yuan Shikai, saying: "Yuan Gong is a hero in the world, and those whom Ru Pingri admires, now that he has seen the call, why not go?" Wang Xitong's mother was extremely filial, and he immediately went to Huanshang Village to meet Yuan Shikai and talked with him for several days.
Since then, Wang Xitong has helped Yuan Shikai to establish and manage the industry in Beijing, Tianjin, Tangyu and other places, and has become Yuan Shikai's accounting office and manager.
<h1>The heart is in the temple</h1>
On October 11, 1909, Yuan Shikai resigned for ten months.
Public opinion has shifted in the direction of Yuan Shikai's favor, the country urgently needs him, and the inexperienced regent is not enough to support the overall situation.
Yuan Shikai's staff gathered around him again. On August 20, 1910, Yuan Shikai's birthday, the old Japanese subordinates brazenly came to attach.
Yuan Shikai's old subordinates Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, and Xu Shichang became more and more influential, each holding one side of the power and maintaining close relations with Yuan through various relationships.
In order to entertain these people who came thousands of miles to visit their old and new knowledge, Yuan Shikai specially set up a hotel of good grade, which is said to still be open today.
During the three years of seclusion in Huanshang Village, Yuan Shikai's popularity was rising, the popularity of the Qing court was passing, and even those who did not have much contact with Yuan Shikai gradually recognized that Yuan Shikai would be an extremely important figure in china in the future, and Zhang Qian was one of them.
History did not fail to live up to Yuan Shikai's waiting, and on October 10, 1911, under the operation of his loyal old subordinate Duan Qirui, Yuan Shikai finally ended the seclusion of Huanshang Village.
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