In 1913, Feng Guozhang's wife died, Yuan Shikai in order to win over Feng Guozhang, he considered giving him Zhang Luo to continue the string, but there has been no suitable candidate, and later under the advice of Yuan Keding, Yuan Shikai noticed that the teacher Zhou Daoru invited to the children, he found that although Zhou Daoru was more than thirty years old, but both in appearance and knowledge were very good, so Yuan Shikai began to match Zhou Daoru and Feng Guozhang, and Yuan Shikai also specially prepared a rich dowry for Zhou Daoru.
Portrait of Yuan Shikai
After Feng Guozhang married Zhou Daoru, it was like a changed person, it turned out that he often handled affairs in the gongfu, and rest was often in the gongfu, after marrying Zhou Daoru, the number of times he went home became significantly more, he never talked about official business with his family, but now he set up a desk at home, often talked about official affairs with Zhou Daoru, and asked her to help sort out the information, and sometimes asked her suggestions.
Originally, as Feng Guozhang's strength in Beiyang became stronger and stronger, Yuan Shikai began to deliberately alienate Feng Guozhang, Feng Guozhang was also aware of it, and his heart was deeply uneasy, so when Yuan Shikai planned to continue feng Guozhang's string, Feng Guozhang also planned to regain Yuan Shikai's trust, and was very active when marrying Zhou Daoru, several times to go north to meet his relatives, this week Daoru was actually the eyeliner that Yuan Shikai installed next to Feng Guozhang, and when Yuan Shikai was married, he vaguely instructed her to monitor Feng Guozhang.
Feng Guozhang is also an old fritter, he has long been aware of Yuan Shikai's intentions, so he moved home to work, or deliberately let Zhou Daoru participate, and when talking about official business, he often said: "How does Lord Yuan instruct." These performances of Feng Guozhang reached Yuan Shikai's ears through the private conversation between women, and Yuan Shikai also relaxed his guard against Feng Guozhang.
Feng Guozhang
Later, Yuan Shikai was ready to claim the title of emperor, Feng Guozhang was very disgusted, he knew very well that Yuan Shikai's restoration would inevitably be reviled by the world, at that time, some of Yuan Shikai's followers, in order to show loyalty to Yuan Shikai, saw that Yuan Shikai no longer bowed and instead practiced kneeling and praying, although Feng Guozhang opposed the restoration, he did not dare to directly oppose Yuan Shikai, and could only privately unite all forces to resist the restoration, and he often advised his subordinates not to bow to Yuan Shikai.
These news reached Yuan Shikai's ears, Yuan Shikai was very dissatisfied with Feng Guozhang, and once again alienated Feng Guozhang, Feng Guozhang was uneasy, and also began to bow down to Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai of course was not so good at fooling, still ignored Feng Guozhang, Feng Guozhang understood that to make Yuan Shikai trust himself, he could only think of another way.
Once, Feng Guozhang returned to Beijing to do business, after he finished handling the affairs at hand, he went to the Yuan mansion to meet Yuan Keding, at this time Yuan Keding thought that his father Yuan Shikai was called empress, he was the crown prince, Feng Guozhang came to Yuan Keding, directly bowed down, Yuan Keding was very happy, calmly accepted.
After Yuan Shikai learned of this incident, he once again changed his attitude towards Feng Guozhang, who originally did not look up to Yuan Keding at all, but now he was willing to bow down to him, which was not equivalent to indirectly acknowledging Yuan Shikai's status? Yuan Shikai thought that now that even Feng Guozhang had been recovered by himself, wouldn't it be natural to call the emperor, and naturally he would no longer alienate Feng Guozhang.
However, Yuan Shikai did not expect that after he became emperor, Feng Guozhang would become the core figure in the Beiyang government who took the lead in opposing the imperial system and opposing restoration, and Yuan Shikai's dream of being an emperor was shattered in less than a hundred days.