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Why is it that when some people are down, they are seen that they are by no means ordinary people?
Yuan was born on September 16, 1859 in Xiangcheng, Henan Province, but his family did not develop for too long, only from his grandparents. Yuan Shusan, the grandfather of Yuan someone, had a total of 4 brothers, Yuan Shusan was the eldest and was appointed as Chen Liu's instructor and regent with the qualification of Liao Gongsheng; the third Yuan Fengsan donated a "Yuzhou Teaching" that was really lacking; the fourth Yuan Chongsan had no fame, but he was good at business and was a well-known iron abacus, so he stayed in his hometown to preside over the family business.
The most outstanding of the four brothers was the second eldest Yuan Jiasan, the middle jinshi Dian Hanlin, who had an excellent relationship with the squire Zeng Guofan when he served in the Ministry of Rites. Later, Lu Xianji, the minister of the Ministry of Works, asked the court to help with military affairs, and since then he has repeatedly made military exploits, and the official has been the governor of Caoyun, which is a member of the first grade. When it comes to Yuan's father's generation, there are still a few very outstanding characters, Yuan's father, Yuan Baozhong, presides over housework in his hometown as the eldest son of the eldest son of the long house, he is strict in his family, and has a good reputation in his hometown Xiangcheng.
Yuan Baoqing, Yuan's uncle, followed Yuan Jiasan to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield and was promoted to the second rank of Jiangning Salt Fadao; Yuan Baoheng's uncle, Yuan Baoheng, was appreciated by Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang and was promoted to the head of the criminal department; Yuan Baoheng's younger brother Yuan Baoling was appreciated by Li Hongzhang and was transferred to Tianjin to run the Beiyang coastal defense camp. Yuan's family already had 2 jinshi, 2 juren, 4 gongsheng, and 8 officials above the county magistrate when Yuan was not born.
Yuan Baozhong's father Yuan Baozhong's first wife gave birth to two sons, the eldest son died young, and died after giving birth to the second son Yuan Shidun; Yuan Baozhong continued to give birth to four sons one after another, and Yuan was the fourth among these six sons. After Yuan was born, because his mother's milk was insufficient, and his uncle Yuan Baoqing's son had just died, and his aunt Niu's milk was sufficient, he asked Yuan to raise him.
Yuan left Xiangcheng with his father Yuan Baoqing's family at the age of 5, and lived in Jinan, Yangzhou, and Nanjing for about 9 years. Yuan Baoqing paid a lot of money to hire Mr. Yuan to teach Yuan someone to read, but Yuan was not very attentive to reading, and his mother doted on him, so his studies were always mediocre. But Yuan is a keen martial artist, secretly apprenticed in Nanjing, and also practiced a good kung fu. But in 1873, when Yuan Baoqing was 48 years old, he suddenly contracted cholera and died, and Yuan, who was less than 15 years old, went north and returned to his hometown Xiangcheng Yuanzhai.
Without the discipline of his father, Yuan Baoqing, Yuan and a group of rogue teenagers mixed together all day long, abandoning his studies. It just so happened that the clan uncle Yuan Baoheng went home to visit relatives, and it was a pity to see that the talented Yuan was so depraved, so he took Yuan to Beijing, spent money to hire a teacher to teach Yuan someone to study, and let his younger brother Yuan Baoling supervise him. Yuan changed his old face and worked very hard every day, even if his father Yuan Baozhong died, the two uncles did not let Yuan go back to his hometown to mourn.
But as a result, Yuan failed to take the township test for the first time, and he was a little cold about studying and gaining fame, Yuan Baoheng did not embarrass Yuan when he saw this, and began to think about finding another way out for him. Let Yuan someone go to the Criminal Department to help with chores while studying. Yuan has followed his father Yuan Baoqing in and out of officialdom since he was a child, and he is familiar with officialdom routines, and he seems to be able to handle things with ease.
After the drought in Zhongzhou, Henan, Yuan Baoheng was ordered to go to Kaifeng for disaster relief, and also took Yuan with him. At that time, it was the middle of winter, icy and snowy, Yuan was busy in the wind and snow, without suffering, and everything he did was in order. Yuan Baoheng couldn't help but sigh when he saw this, the fourth (Yuan is ranked fourth), you have the talent to be an official, if you have a two-list background, it will be like a tiger with wings! Yuan replied, I am really not interested in those eight-strand articles that are on paper and useless!
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Yuan Baoheng immediately taught him a lesson, fourth, you can't be capricious, you must be at least from a list of backgrounds to be an official, otherwise it will be difficult to make great achievements! Yuan promised to work hard after returning to Beijing. But unexpectedly, before returning to Beijing, 51-year-old Yuan Baoheng died of illness in the disaster relief place, and Yuan helped him back to his hometown. After the autumn, Yuan took the exam again, but he still lost his name to Sun Shan. In a fit of rage, he burned all the exam preparation books and vowed never to participate in the imperial examination again, determined to put pen to paper.
At this time, the Yuan family has begun to fall, Yuan has been addicted to gambling and opium smoking in his generation, Yuan Baoheng discussed with Yuan Baoling before his death to split the Yuan family's family property into 12 shares, one share of each of the 10 brothers of the Baozi generation, the other share as the old mother's pension, and one share as the ancestral hall to sweep the public. The two brothers also gave their share to the old mother for the elderly. Yuan Baoqing's family property was given to Yuan someone, including a large mansion that Yuan Jiasan purchased in the city of Chenzhou in his early years.
Yuan has lived outside with his father since he was a child, and naturally he was reluctant to return to his hometown Xiangcheng, so he moved his family to Chenzhou City, which was quite prosperous and prosperous with businessmen. Yuan had extraordinary means, and when he came to Chenzhou Mansion as a foreigner, he first prepared a number of valuable gifts to visit the heavyweights in the city one by one. Then, Yuan funded two literary societies, often convening a group of literati and artists to drink and enjoy flowers and chant poems in their own gardens, and they sang and coped with poetry and wine freely.
It didn't take long for Yuan to be regarded as a leader by the literati of Chenzhou Mansion and became famous, and even the prefect of Chenzhou often went to Yuan's house to attend gatherings, and the gentlemen and merchants in Chenzhou were stunned. But in this way, the family property inherited by Yuan was also squandered by him. Yuan's wife often nagged when he saw this, and the heir cow clan and his uncle Yuan Baoling still urged him to work hard to prepare for the exam.
Unexpectedly, this friend who was in charge of the Taoist stage had been transferred to Guangdong, Yuan was in a hurry, and when he was depressed, he went to the most exclusive brothel in Shanghai, and he also fell in love with Shen Yulan, a high-end prostitute who did not sell her body. Yuan is generous and generous, and Shen Yulan is also obsessed with him, thinking that he is by no means a busy person, so he broke the rule of not selling himself easily, and he is addicted to Yuan every day. Soon, the money brought by Yuan was spent, and he was teased and humiliated by the female boss of the Shuyu family in front of him.
Shen Yulan actually took out her private money 50 taels of silver tickets in public to Yuan to earn face, which attracted a ridicule from the female boss of the bookstore to Yuan someone. Yuan was so angry that he was about to leave on the spot, and was comforted by Shen Yulan. Yuan finally returned to the inn where he lived in a huff, but he had not paid the store money for 2 days, and as soon as he entered the door, he bumped into the store owner, and was ridiculed by the store owner, saying that if Yuan Gongzi couldn't even pay the store money, he would roll up the shop and leave, and the small store would not wait.
The down-and-out Yuan had no choice but to be shy and ask the shopkeeper for a few more days, he would definitely find a way to get the money tomorrow. The shopkeeper said unceremoniously, if Yuan Gongzi can't get the money tomorrow, don't blame the shop for not being kind! Yuan entered the room, depressed and troubled. At this time, I heard the guest on the opposite side shouting in the corridor, man, what is delicious, get me some as soon as possible! Yuan listened to the name of the dish reported by the guy, and felt even more hungry, and he also went to the corridor to ask the guy to bring him something to eat.
Unexpectedly, the guy refused him on the spot, the boss ordered, Yuan Gongzi asked for food, no! Yuan said, then bring me a bowl of noodles. The guy said that Shanghainese people don't eat noodles, only white rice! Yuan said that a bowl of white rice is fine. The guy said, there is no white rice! Yuan was angry, and scolded, what a snob! The guy was not angry, and said, Yuan Gongzi, please do it! The guest on the other side couldn't listen to it, and asked the guy to give two portions of the dish he had just ordered and give one to Yuan someone.
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Yuan was so depressed that he couldn't even eat a meal, and he was humiliated by the shopkeeper, but he met the help of the opposite resident, and he should thank humanity in person anyway, and immediately knocked on the door of the opposite resident, clasped his hands into fists and said, I don't know each other, I am really sorry to break the bank. The opposite resident is also a young man, and immediately clasped his fists and saluted and said, just a meal, I dare not thank you, listen to your accent seems to be from Henan, may I ask your surname?
The two young men informed each other of their names, and it turned out that the young man opposite was Ruan Zhongshu, a native of Hefei, Anhui Province. The two chatted like this, and Ruan Zhongshu told Yuan that his father and brother served in the Huai Army and were taken care of by Li Hongzhang. The more the two chatted, the more speculative they became, and they felt that they hated seeing each other late, Ruan Zhongshu simply asked the guy to send two meals to his room, and he and Yuan chatted while eating. Chatting and chatting, Ruan Zhongshu suddenly stared at Yuan for a while.
Ruan Zhongshu asked: In my opinion, Brother Yuan is by no means a busy person, how did he get to this point? Yuan then turned to do business when his name in the township test fell to Sun Shan, and when his career was hopeless, he turned to Shanghai to join friends, but he came to Shanghai to make friends, but he ran out of money, so he told Ruan Zhongshu about the overstretched front and back, but he just hid Shen Yulan's matter and did not say anything. Ruan Zhongshu listened and said, Brother Yuan's current predicament is nothing, you have a great future, it's a pity to get into the eyes of money!
Yuan was desperate for the imperial examination to gain fame and fame, and he just wanted to put pen to paper, but now he had no chance to seek a career in military merit. Ruan Zhongshu listened but denied Yuan's idea, he believed that there was no need to worry about civil strife, but foreign invasion was a big trouble, sooner or later there would be chaos, and the Qing Dynasty would inevitably start a war with foreigners in the future, so there was still a chance to win a career in military merit.
Yuan listened to Ruan Zhongshu's eloquent talk, and his views were indeed extraordinary, and he admired them very much. Ruan Zhongshu said that since he was interested in throwing pen to paper, why did Brother Yuan go to the shopping mall to mingle? Yuan poured bitter water, saying that his family did not agree and was still forcing him to take the exam, and he came to Shanghai out of anger. Ruan Zhongshu suggested that Yuan someone get a top first, and the most direct way is to donate one, especially for someone with great ambitions like Yuan, who must have such a stepping stone.
Yuan suddenly opened his mouth when he heard this, and praised him repeatedly, and after listening to Brother Ruan's teaching, I want to think about it. Ruan Zhongshu said with a smile, Brother Yuan called me Brother Ruan, but I really didn't dare to take it! As a result, after the two reported their birthdays, Yuan knew that Ruan Zhongshu was a few years younger than himself, and Yuan called Ruan Zhongshu the second brother, and Ruan Zhongshu called Yuan the fourth brother. Ruan Zhongshu suggested that Yuan immediately set off to go home to raise money to find a way into Beijing, and if it went well, he should be able to get an official certificate before the year.
Ruan Zhongshu learned that Yuan even owed money to the store, so he gave Yuan 2 silver tickets, Yuan wanted to write an IOU, but Ruan Zhongshu refused, he said, I don't want the fourth brother to pay back, as long as the fourth brother remembers this friendship in the future, don't forget the brother. That night, Ruan Zhongshu asked the shop guy to arrange a sumptuous wine and food, and he had a drunk with Yuan in the evening. The next day, when Yuan woke up and went to look for Ruan Zhongshu, Ruan Zhongshu was already gone, but Yuan's lover Shen Yulan had found it.
Shen Yulan found this place in order to specially send 500 taels of silver tickets and a golden hairpin to someone Yuan, hoping that someone Yuan would come to pick him up when he developed in the future. Yuan didn't accept her silver ticket, only accepted the golden hairpin and put it close to her. Back in Xiangcheng's hometown, the biological mother Liu felt sorry for her son and blamed her son for spending money indiscriminately. Yuan asked his mother not to blame himself, he told his mother that money is something outside the body after all, and it was meant to be used by people, as long as it is used properly, it is worth the money. Although my son has spent a lot of money, who in Chenzhou now dares to underestimate your son? You don't have to worry about the money your son spent, your son came back from Shanghai this time, and he has a lot of experience, so you have to think carefully and do something serious!