In 1901, the 21-year-old Xu Shuzheng waded through the mountains and rivers from his hometown in Xiao County to Jinan to join Yuan Shikai's Beiyang New Army. Unexpectedly, Zhu Zhongqi, who came to test the color on behalf of Yuan Shikai, was a mediocre person with eyes and no pearls, and when he did not speculate, the mediocre people were very impatient, and after a few words, xu Shuzheng ate the closed door soup.
For some time after that, Xu Shuzheng, who had a high self-esteem, stayed in a small hotel in Jinan, borrowing wine every day to dispel his sorrows, not knowing where the future was?
But who would have thought that this sad stay would leave a world of ends.
One day, Duan Qirui, the Tiger of the Beiyang, went to the hotel to visit, and as soon as he entered the door, he noticed Xu Shuzheng, who was writing a link in the hall. It is said that at the first glance Duan Qirui admired Xu Shuzheng's innate temperament, and then looked at the written words, the Beiyang Tiger almost made up his mind on the spot, this young man, Qianli Ma also.
After this conclusion, Duan Qirui asked Xu Shuzheng if he was willing to do things under him.
Xu Shuzheng did not agree with a full mouth, but replied without humility, and if it is worth it, it can be done.
A good one Bole and Maxima looked up.
After knowing this thousand-mile horse, Duan Qirui spared no effort in cultivating Xu Shuzheng. In 1905, with the support of Duan Qirui, Xu Shuzheng traveled east to Japan to study military affairs, three years of Zhenwu School, two years of Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, and returned to China in 1910, just in time for the wind and clouds to show their skills.
The times create heroes, and the heroes do not live up to the times!
In 1911, the Wuchang Uprising broke out, and because Feng Guozhang failed to understand Yuan Shikai's two-headed treacherous technique of profit, Duan Qirui was ordered to be replaced by the commander of the First Army and the governor of Huguang. At this time, Xu Shuzheng is no longer a small role, if you look at it from the three big dramas that will be staged soon, it is not an exaggeration to say that Xu Shuzheng at this time is the wisdom and claws of the Beiyang Tiger.
Let's talk about the three big plays that Xu Shuzheng helped Duan Qirui staged, which is the so-called Three Creations Republic.
The overall situation is agitated, and Zhuge ge is the real winner in advance.
Since Yuan Shikai had formed a situation in which he had shocked the revolutionary party on the one hand and was holding the Qing court on the other, If Duan Qirui, who was in front of the front and had heavy troops in his hands, wanted to win the first place in the near future, he not only needed to discern the overall situation of the direction of Qiankun, but also had a domineering talent who led the way.
Of course, the Beiyang Tiger did not lack these two things, but Xu Shuzheng's role in it should not be underestimated, he not only gave Duan Qirui a pioneering strategy, but also directly wrote out the hegemonic telegram that resounded throughout Kyushu - "Ming descended the edict, declared China and foreign countries, and established a republican form of government." If the Qing court does not break quickly, the rivers and seas will be lost, and they will be killed. ”
It is precisely because of this Xu Cao knife, Duan leading, and the generals to jointly dissuade the telegram, the Qing court no longer has the courage to maneuver. On February 12, 1912, Empress Longyu issued an edict of abdication, and the Qing court, which had been more than two hundred years old, collapsed.
Tasting carefully, this is really an aggressive and fatal knife, Duan Qirui created a republic, Xu Shuzheng is almost its blade.
Then there is the second creation of the republic.
If it is said that Xu Shuzheng assisted Duan Qirui in singing along the trend, then the two republics sang strong and not doing. Within a few feet, they despised and confronted Yuan Shikai, who intended to become emperor, and ordinary people had no courage to do this, but Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng did it in the form of master-slave cooperation.
Under Yuan Shikai's eyelids, Duan Qirui's hardness supported Xu Shuzheng's madness, and Xu Shuzheng's madness invisibly also showed Duan Qirui's hardness.
One hard and one crazy, Yuan Shikai was devastated, and the reputation of these two republics was really very strong.
Let's talk about the three republics.
Xu Shuzheng in the Three Creation Republics is even more not simple, the sharp edge has become a black belly, that plan to go up the ladder, one stone and three birds, the yin damage is permeated with Zhang Madness, The Zhang Madness hides the organ calculation, the serial pit dug, put into the entire Beiyang era is counted as the number one power drama.
After Yuan Shikai's death, Li Yuanhong succeeded him as president, and Duan Qirui held real power as prime minister, one was not willing to be a rubber stamp, the other was not willing to be a person, and the dispute between the government and the court was inevitable.
In 1917, the blindly optimistic Li Yuanhong took the lead in attacking and deposed Duan Qirui. On the surface, Li Yuanhong seems to have the upper hand, but in fact, he was lured into the pit. Li Yuanhong dared to do this, largely because Zhang Xun declared that he would go to Beijing to mediate and stand up for Li To resist Duan. But what Li Yuanhong did not expect was that Zhang Xun's so-called mediation in Beijing was just a pretext, and what he really wanted to do was to take advantage of the opportunity to restore. The reason why Zhang Xun dared to restore was largely instigated by Xu Shuzheng, who said that as long as the goal of expelling Li Yuanhong could be achieved, all means zhilao (Duan Qirui) would be counted.
Look at Xu Shuzheng's calculations, first let Zhang Xun bury Li Yuanhong in the pit, and then stand on the commanding heights of the times to bury Zhang Xun in the pit, so that Li Yuanhong will be abolished, Zhang Xun will stink, and his own lord Duan Qirui will be fame and fortune.
There is no better game than this.
What this guy sees in passivity is not being beaten, but a big chance to win by seeing a needle in a needle and killing three birds with one stone. Through this calculation, the original passivity invisibly became a decoy to throw out, first luring the thugs to abuse the opponent, and then using justice to destroy the thugs.
When he helped Duan Qirui win the great feat of creating the Three Republics, Xu Shuzheng was only thirty-six or seventeen years old. Looking at these three major events alone, Xu Shuzheng really has the taste of chaotic talents, and in the face of the general trend, he can discern, carry, and reverse. However, compared with Yuan Shikai and Zhang Zuolin, who were the peak figures of the Beiyang, Xu Shuzheng was obviously still a lot inferior.
Where is the inferiority?
Not in its talents, but in its ways.
Throughout history, the key to determining a person's height and even the end is never your male talent geometry, but which path your male talent has landed on. Falling on the right path, the peak must be expected; falling on the wrong path, the abyss will fall, and the more talented it is, the more fierce it is.
So what is the right path? What is the wrong way?
Simply put, knowing reverence and doing something and not doing something is the right way; conversely, doing nothing without reverence is the wrong way.
Unfortunately, since assisting Duan Qirui to ascend to the premier's throne again and the Anhui clan's power reached its peak, Xu Shuzheng slowly went astray of killing and doing everything.
In short, when helping Duan Qirui to realize the Spring and Autumn dream of unifying the world by force, he sacrificed either a fierce hand or a killing move.
Let's talk about three big things.
The first one. After Li Yuanhong was expelled and Zhang Xun was thrown into the garbage can of history, Duan Qirui's main opponent was the former Pao Ze, the head of the old direct line, and the acting president Feng Guozhang.
Duan Qirui, who was extremely powerful, wanted to unify the whole country by force, and then completely control the authority of the temple. Of course, Feng Guozhang would not cooperate with him in singing this Spring and Autumn drama, so he launched the so-called "peaceful mixed one", which is to say that while dismantling Duan Qirui's stage, while building his own authority.
When Li Yuanhong was engaged, Xu Shuzheng used the damage trick of going up the house and drawing the ladder, and now it was the turn to deal with Feng Guozhang, and Xu Shuzheng directly sacrificed the cruel move of "cutting meat and feeding the tiger".
Who is this tiger referring to?
Zhang Zuolin, king of the northeast.
In February 1917, Xu Shuzheng secretly went out to meet Zhang Zuolin. Seeing Zhang Zuolin, Xu Shuzheng directly threw the bottom card, the government has a batch of Japanese ordnance will soon arrive in Qinhuangdao, as long as you enter the customs to help Anhui fight straight, these twenty-seven thousand pieces of ordnance you can intercept with the strips in my hand.
At this time, Zhang Zuolin was suffering from the expansion of the army without ordnance, and when he heard that there was such a good thing, he immediately took out his full courage and full of courage.
On February 22, the Feng army went straight to Qinhuangdao and forcibly intercepted the ordnance.
After learning this news, not only Feng Guozhang was shocked, but even Duan Qirui was also shocked.
He accused Xu Shuzheng, you are teaching Yu Shengmu.
Xu Shuzheng asked rhetorically, who is the person who taught the Three Governors of the Yangtze River to ascend the wood?
The implication is that you are too soft to see how I can help you move back.
From this one thing, it can be seen that this guy is not afraid of raising tigers at all in order to achieve his goal.
The second piece. After luring Zhang Zuolin into the customs with such a heavy courtesy, to some extent, Xu Shuzheng did achieve his goal, and the Anhui clan completely suppressed Feng Guozhang's direct lineage. However, at this time, a beiyang old qualification who secretly cooperated with Feng Guozhang in dismantling the Anhui clan caused Xu Shuzheng's hatred, and this person was Lu Jianzhang, the head of the military justice department during Yuan Shikai's time, a butcher who specialized in helping Yuan Shikai do dirty work.
Before Xu Shuzheng, there was almost no direct killing of the old predecessors by the Beiyang descendants, and there was even less between the old predecessors. On the robe, leave room, do not give up the dead hand, this is the Beiyang era everyone tacit rules, but when xu Shuzheng came here, where are the rules to talk about under the arrogance.
In this way, after Lu Jianzhang was lured to Tianjin, he was shot by Xu Shuzheng and collapsed.
In an era of rules, such bad rules are actually digging a hole for yourself. Looking at it later, it became clear that throughout the Beiyang and Republic of China periods, almost all the bad rules could not end well, and the more famous the ending, the bloodier the ending.
The third piece.
This third thing is worth focusing on, because it is particularly meaningful.
When a person goes astray, the most terrible thing is not how many enemies you have in reality, but how you make enemies no matter how you do it, do bad things to make enemies, and do good things to make enemies.
To put it bluntly, the more severe the wrong path, the narrower the road.
Shooting Lu Jianzhang with bad rules was actually just an outrageous thing that Xu Shuzheng did when he gained power, in addition, he had done a lot of such unspopular things, such as the Anfu Club he had built--in short, flying and unscrupulous made him and Duan Qirui more and more enemies.
Although it has not yet reached the level of attacking in groups, it is not far from this situation.
However, in this tense situation of external prosperity and internal tension, Xu Shuzheng once again showed his "heroic strategy".
On October 24, 1918, the new president Xu Shichang, elected by the Anfu Department but unwilling to be controlled by him, made a move against Xu Shuzheng, and at the critical moment of the struggle between the several parties, he sent Xu Shuzheng to Japan to watch the exercise.
By the time Xu Shuzheng returned, the peace conference aimed at opposing Anhui had already begun.
What Xu Shichang did not expect was that Xu Shuzheng did not engage in a direct confrontation this time, he turned around and went to the northwest to raise the edge. This is the handiwork of the tyrant, do not argue for a time, do a good job is to first be the king of the northwest, and then look for an opportunity to make a comeback.
In fact, Xu Shuzheng's pattern at that time was higher than this, and he focused on the problem of Outer Mongolia. What did he want to do? He not only wanted to train troops in the northwest, but also wanted to take advantage of the current favorable situation to recover Outer Mongolia in one fell swoop, so that he and the Anhui clan behind him could regain the commanding heights of the situation.
It is precisely because of such a grand strategy that he will have the feat of recovering Outer Mongolia overnight.
Objectively speaking, the feat of recovering Outer Mongolia does show Xu Shuzheng's domineering talent. Although there were not many soldiers brought with them, if they dared to say such hard words, there were probably few people in the entire Beiyang era.
"A grace period of one day must be given, and the night must be resolved, otherwise there will be more than one Buddha, and the deacons, though old, should accompany them."
It is reasonable to say that Xu Shuzheng deserves the courtesy of a "national hero" to recover Outer Mongolia by means of such a fierce means, but in fact, this is not the case, and the Beiyang bigwigs are convinced in their hearts, but the conclusion formed is like this - this person must not be allowed to really gain power, otherwise we will not have a way to live.
So in the end, what we see is that Xu Shuzheng has made great contributions to the country, but what awaits him is a siege.
This is the biggest price of going astray, once you break the rules and lose your morality, the more heroic you are, the more others want to kill you.
Or Yuan Shikai's original vision of the accurate: and Zheng Qiren, there are also small talents, such as following the right track, but the expectation is far away -
In the final analysis, in the chaotic world, the male talents do not enter the right path, the fate of the good will not have a chance in the end, and most of the bad fate will die tragically.