Zhao Bingjun, Yuan Shikai's former right and left arm, on the chaotic world, he can also be regarded as a tyrant under the Beiyang Era, but he has left his imprint in history, some vicious, some tragic -
Zhao Bingjun was born in Henan as an orphan, his life was very bitter, he had no parents, no name, and he didn't even know the day he came to the world.
Although his life was bitter, Zhao Bingjun's ambition was very great, and after understanding things, he said that he was the first person in the world who came to this world on the first day of the first year of the year of Jia Zi, and his surname was Zhao, which was the first surname in the world; the name "Bingguo Jun" in the word Bingjun was the first person at the feet of the Son of Heaven.
Because he was born without roots and his life was like duckweed, Zhao Bingjun's early deeds were very vague, and the relevant literature only said that he was born wise, strong and courageous, worked as a book boy for the eunuch family in his hometown, worked as a buddy in the shop, and later because he repaired a clock for a passing official, he was able to follow this official out of his hometown and began to run through life in a chaotic world.
When he was about seventeen or eighteen years old, Zhao Bingjun did not succeed in the examination, and in order to find a way out, he joined Zuo Zongtang's Western Expeditionary Army.
Although Zuo Dashuai's western expedition swallowed mountains and rivers, he also experienced the severe wind and sand of the northwest desert and all kinds of tribulations. Unfortunately, Zhao Bingjun, who accompanied the army, encountered a disaster in the northwest desert, he was trapped in the snow storm in the Gobi Desert of the Star Gorge, and even the people and horses were buried for three days and three nights, and finally they relied on the horse's belly to press for warmth, and then they were forced to survive. However, Zhao Bingjun, who escaped death, was frostbitten and could not approach the female color in his life, so that later there were always rumors that he was born as a eunuch, and he himself could only rely on opium to relieve the double trauma of body and mind.
After Zuo Dashuai recaptured Ili, Zhao Bingjun was appointed as a small official surveying the border between China and Russia by virtue of his military achievements in pursuing Bai Yanhu and suppressing the rebellion against Agubai. After working for many years and saving some money, in 1889, Zhao Bingjun donated a small official of "canonical history" and went to Zhili to wait for the opportunity to fill the vacancy.
The "canonical history" is a petty official who is not in the flow under the nine pins, in charge of arrest and imprisonment, and Zhao Bingjun donated this petty officer, I don't know if he was destined to be related to the "police circle", or whether he thought that he could show his origin in such an errand.
After several years of dormancy, this time Zhao Bingjun's luck was not bad, and in 1891, he successfully became the "canonical history" of Xinle County, and officially began his "police circle" career. Because he did a very smooth job on this errand and made some achievements, Zhao Bingjun later served as the "Beicang Ambassador and Xigu Inspector" in Tianjin, and finally became the "General Office of the Baojia Bureau Directly Under the Baojia Bureau".
Zhao Bingjun was recognized by Yuan Shikai's wisdom, and it was at this time.
In November 1901, Yuan Shikai succeeded Li Hongzhang as acting governor and minister of Beiyang, and was granted the title the following year. After Yuan Shikai became the first official of the Qing court, he recruited and reused Zhao Bingjun for several reasons: First, Yuan Shikai's vision of knowledge was very poisonous; second, Yuan Shikai was good at using his fellow villagers; third, at this time, Yuan Shikai urgently needed "police circles" talents such as Zhao Bingjun.
After the Boxer Rebellion was washed away, Yuan Shikai's views on how to control the chaos were not only to the point, but also groundbreaking; he held that the humiliation of the imperial family depended on the preparation of troops, and the bandits in the Qing Dynasty relied on the police, and at this time when the police were not quiet, the non-patrol police were not enough to prohibit violence and adultery, and the police system, the government, the poor townships, and the establishment of patrol police were actually the key plans of internal affairs, and the gains and losses of governance could be examined, and the official government's capital was the eyes and ears, so as to examine public opinion, and only the patrol police relied on it.
Because Yuan Shikai had such an understanding and proposition, When Zhao Bingjun first arrived under his command, he was appointed as the general office of the patrol police bureau directly under the provincial capital Baoding, and Zhao Bingjun's official fortunes were far more than Yuan Shikai's appreciation, and the current situation also provided him with an opportunity to soar.
When Yuan Shikai took back Tianjin from the Eight-Nation Alliance, according to the "Treaty of Xinugu", the Qing court was not allowed to garrison troops within twenty miles of Tianjin. Yuan Shikai was a tyrant in a chaotic world, and how could he restrain his strong control over the localities, so he ordered the three thousand elite beiyang new army under his command to take off their military uniforms and wear police uniforms instead.
In Yuan Shikai's eyes, the ideal person to receive this great appointment is none other than Zhao Bingjun, and Zhao Bingjun also lived up to Yuan Shikai's expectations, in his hands, in only three or two years, Tianjin built a very effective police system.
Relying on this police system, the original chaotic territory of direct subordination quickly restored the Peaceful Order, and the newspapers at the time praised that "for six months there were no thieves, and the Westerners were also impressed"; ray Mussen, an Englishman living in Tianjin, also praised the patrol police in Tianjin in his "Outline of the History of Tianjin Illustrations", saying, "This group, perhaps the best patrol in China..."
Zhao Bingjun is so able to show Yuan's grand plan, Yuan Shikai is of course more and more trusting and relying on him. During his tenure as viceroy directly under the direct subordination, Yuan Shikai first celebrated Zhao Bingjun's meritorious service and asked him to "record the military aircraft department"; after being transferred to the capital as the minister of military aircraft, Yuan Shikai immediately ordered Zhao Bingjun to create a patrol department in the capital and promoted him to the high position of right attendant.
ShiRen once lamented that Zhao Bingjun had only spent three years from an unknown person to a great Qing Right Attendant, and this kind of official miracle could only be seen by Zhao Shizhi with yuan's boldness.
In the Beiyang era, which was founded by Yuan Shikai, because of Yuan's later perverse behavior and the division and chaos of various warlords, most people in later generations looked up and saw only darkness, and only dirty dust when they looked down, in fact, this was a kind of stereotype of "becoming a king and losing a coward", because of this stereotype, many of the glory of the Beiyang era were buried.
Let's talk about the order of the capital led by Yuan Shikai and Zhao Bingjun, the reporter of the British "Times" Morrie can record such a scene: On the street of Beijing, a fellow who pushed a dung truck overturned during his march, and the police in Beijing saw it, not scolding and fine, but several people went up together to help the villager lift the overturned dung truck. To this end, Morrie exclaimed, in the past, can you imagine such a thing?
In addition to benevolence, there is public ethics, and the Beijing police, actually led by Zhao Bingjun, have first-class case-handling ability.
In 1905, the five ministers of the Qing court went abroad to investigate and were assassinated by Wu Fan, Zhao Bingjun undertook the case, the autopsy report was quite professional, and finally through the bombed and rotten body of Wu Fan, the truth of the matter was quickly found out.
However, as Zhao Bingjun became more and more popular in the official arena, there were more and more gossip about him, one was to talk about the disaster he had suffered in the past similar to the "castration of heaven", the second was to talk about his opium smoking, and the third was to talk about the messengers he had done.
What was Zhao Bingjun's reaction?
Loose cannon.
One of the things can quite explain Zhao Bingjun's style. During the Guangxu period, China and Britain signed a treaty to eliminate opium for a period of ten years, because the implementation was quite resolute, not to avoid high-ranking officials in the DPRK, many addicts with this vicious habit died after cutting off their cigarettes, but the attendant Zhao Bingjun played the role of Empress Dowager Cixi, preferring to lose his official position rather than quit smoking.
Seeing such a recital, Empress Dowager Cixi personally summoned Zhao Bingjun and asked why. Zhao Bingjun knelt down and lamented the disaster he had encountered in xingxingxia in those years, and frankly said that if there was no opium, it would be better to live than to die for several years, and it would have been several years to lose his life for this reason.
Empress Dowager Cixi was so moved to hear of his tragic past that she finally made an exception and decreed that she did not have to quit smoking.
It can be seen from this style of conduct that although Zhao Bingjun has great talent, he is not a person of The Sun in his bones, because of his past encounters, he is willing to be a capable outlier, and the more political enemies and people who are good at life and right say that he is no different from the eunuchs of the East Factory and the West Factory of the Ming Dynasty, the more a cold atmosphere is emitted from his face.
Half of his unfortunate fate is because of his past encounters, the other half is because of the personality that accompanies his life, Zhao Bingjun's subsequent fate fully interprets this, although his official position is more and more prominent, but the road is getting darker and darker.
During the Xinhai years, Yuan Shikai, who was fishing in his hometown in Henan, re-emerged from the mountains to clean up the mess for the Qing court. After many years of ups and downs in the chaotic world and the ambition of his chest, Yuan Shikai at this time has become a completely chaotic adulterous male.
After dominating the south with the north and suppressing the north with the south, and completely playing the general trend of the world in applause, forcing the Qing court to abdicate became the last blow to Yuan Shikai's ambitions.
At this time, who is the best person to force the abdication of orphans and widows in the Qing court?
Doing this kind of thing is both confidential and vicious, and Yuan Shikai finally handed the knife of the conspiracy to Zhao Bingjun's hand.
Because there was no sun in his bones, Zhao Bingjun gladly accepted the knife of this conspiracy and threw it on the temple of the Qing court that was about to collapse.
After the Republic of China replaced the Qing court and Yuan Shikai became the president, on merit, Zhao Bingjun at this time had the qualifications to take over the cabinet as prime minister. Yuan Shikai and the current situation did not disappoint Zhao Bingjun, seeing that the first cabinet premier Tang Shaoyi had different ambitions, the situation still needed a figure like Zhao Bingjun to cut out the trouble, after Tang Shaoyi was forced to resign, Yuan Shikai only let the diplomat Lu Zhengxiang transition for a while, and then put the former police leader on the position of cabinet premier.
However, Zhao Bingjun, who became the premier of the cabinet, still could not get rid of his former role, on the face he was the premier of the cabinet, but in essence he was still the head of the secret police, to prove that Yuan Shikai let him join the Song Jiaoren camp, it revealed such a meaning.
In the first national election of the Republic of China, Song Jiaoren, who was good at political party elections, had unlimited scenery and won half of the seats. However, just when Song Jiaoren was full of ambition and preparing to enter Beijing as the prime minister, a gunshot at the Shanghai North Railway Station completely shattered his temple dream.
The news of Song Jiaoren's assassination spread, the whole country was shocked, the Jiangsu Police Department strictly investigated the murderer, the efficiency was amazing, it only took a few days to capture the murderer Wu Shiying and the commander behind Ying Guixin, and in Ying Guixin's home, he found many correspondence and telegrams that should be exchanged with Hong Shuzu, secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and what is more fatal is that Hong Shuzu belongs to Zhao Bingjun's person, and his letter and telegram to Ying Guixin contain the words "destroying the Song".
With this evidence, Zhao Bingjun became a suspect who could not be explained in any way, and those who believed that he was the mastermind behind the scenes believed that Zhao Bingjun assassinated Song Jiaoren either to sit firmly as the prime minister of the cabinet or to help Yuan Shikai cut out potential threats, the former in line with his practical interests, and the latter in line with his role in Yuan Shikai's side.
However, there are also other people who believe that with Zhao Bingjun's shrewdness and strength, and he is also an expert in solving murder cases, such a big matter, if he really planned and directed it, the process would not be so rough, which just shows that someone is borrowing Ying Guixin, who has something to do with Zhao Bingjun, to kill people, and it is convenient to marry after the fact.
It is a pity that the evil of human nature is an abyss, and no one can salvage the truth from such an abyss.
Because of this, no matter whether Zhao Bingjun is innocent or not, and no matter what role he actually played in this case, in the face of cruel politics, he must come up with an explanation.
Zhao Bingjun ended with tragedy, thanks to this statement.
Forced to resign after the Song case, Zhao Bingjun had to submit his resignation, Yuan Shikai agreed, and immediately changed him to the governor of Zhili, but who could have predicted that Zhao Bingjun only stayed in the post of governor of Zhili for more than ten days, and on the morning of February 27, 1914, Zhao Bingjun's private residence heard a burst of heart-rending cries: "The governor is dead!" "
At this time, Zhao Bingjun was only 55 years old.
Zhao Bingjun's family insisted that Zhao Bingjun had only died of illness; while Chinese and foreign public opinion and those who could glimpse some of the inside story firmly believed that Zhao Bingjun was poisoned by Yuan Shikai.
Zhang Shizhao, a famous scholar of the Republic of China, said in his article "Book Zhao Zhi'an" (赵秉钧字智庵) that Zhao Bingjun liked to eat grapes on weekdays, and Yuan Shikai sent someone to beat the poisonous juice into the grapes, and the color and taste of the grapes were still intact, and then gave the grapes to Zhao Bingjun. Because Yuan Shikai had the habit of sending food to his subordinates, Zhao Bingjun was not vigilant against these grapes, and not long after he ate the grapes, he suddenly felt abdominal pain, got up and went to the toilet, and diarrhea did not stop. The family saw that he had not come out of the toilet for a long time, went to check it out, and found that he had died in the toilet.
Zhang Shizhao said that this insider information originated from Xu Jingren's own words. Xu Jingren, like Zhao Bingjun, was also the police leader at the time and Yuan Shikai's eagle dog. Zhang Shizhao even suspected that such a sinister trick as poisoning in the grapes might be the idea that Xu Jingren gave Yuan Shikai.
How terrible the conspiracy is!
How terrible is the evil of human nature!
How terrible is the fate of darkness!
How terrible is brutal politics!
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