Yuan Shikai wanted to be proclaimed emperor, and the Sichuan overseer Chen Eunuch, the Shaanxi overseer Chen Shufan, and the Hunan overseer Tang Qianming were very positive and strongly advised Yuan Shikai to be emperor.
Yuan Shikai
Before going to Sichuan, Chen Eunuch resigned with Yuan Shikai, performed three kneeling and nine prostrations, and then knelt down to Yuan Shikai's feet, kissed Yuan Shikai's toes, and said: If the great president ascends the throne at an unknown age and is in China, Chen Eunuch will go here and will not return after death.
Cao Rulin, who was present at the time, told others that no Chinese scholar could do such an act of Chen Eunuch, and the Great Confucian Zhang Taiyan of guoxue predicted that Chen Eunuch would never follow Yuan Shikai with a dead heart, because the people who were slanderous would bite back when they encountered major events. The one that happened later was indeed said by Zhang Taiyan.
Yuan Shikai (Image from Baidu image)
When Chen Eunuch first arrived in Beijing, Zhang Taiyan met him and said that Chen was a first-class figure, but unfortunately capricious. This was later known to Chen Eunuch, and when Zhang Taiyan scolded Yuan Shikai for being called emperor, he tried his best to persuade Zhang Taiyan to kill him, but later, seeing that the killing could not be done, persuaded Yuan Shikai to put Zhang Taiyan under house arrest.
Yuan Shikai was proclaimed emperor
Chen Shufan and Tang Qianming, too, were both late Qing Dynasty official figures, jumping around for their own interests. After the Wuchang Uprising, he defected to the Revolutionary Party, and after defecting to Yuan Shikai, he wantonly slaughtered the Revolutionary Party. Before Yuan Shikai became emperor, he tried his best to show loyalty, persuaded him to be emperor, bribed newspapers and periodicals, and used public opinion to create momentum for Yuan Shikai, which won Yuan Yuan's heart.
Chen Eun (Image from Baidu image)
Tang Qianming (Image from Baidu Image)
To Xu Shichang, Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, and others who were closest to Yuan Shikai, who were closest to Yuan Shikai, constantly persuaded Yuan Shikai not to go against the tide of history and resist Yuan Shikai's claim to the throne in various ways. Unfortunately, Yuan Shikai was obsessed and could not listen to advice.
Xu Shichang (Image from Baidu Image)
Yuan Shikai said that once the news of the emperor was announced, various localities continued to send telegrams against Yuan, and the "Patriotic Movement" broke out. At the sight of Yuan Shikai's rebellion, Chen Eunuch was the first to intervene, cooperated with Cai Yi, and sent a telegram to the whole country to support the "National Defense Movement", listing Yuan Shikai's crimes, the tone was extremely harsh, and even exposed that Yuan Shikai had deposited 30 million yuan in the Bank of England, which had been used to claim that the emperor had failed and fled. Tang Qianming also sent a telegram against Yuan, also listing several of Yuan Shikai's crimes and declaring the independence of Hunan. At that time, Yuan Shikai had fallen ill, and when he heard these news, he was indignant and indignant: People's hearts have changed greatly, and even Yes. I do not feel sorry for the throne, I do not pity the hearts of the people of the world. He died within a few days.
Chen Shufan (Image from Baidu image)
The anti-Yuan actions of Chen Eunuch, Chen Shufan, and Tang Qianming were very irritating to Yuan Shikai and accelerated Yuan Shikai's death, which was called "Death Second Chen Tang" at the time.
Yuan Shikai lamented that people's hearts had changed greatly, and when people's hearts were not ancient, he probably did not think that he had not betrayed the restorationists in the year of Wu shu, used all means to obtain power in the late Qing Dynasty, and played with power to steal the fruits of the Xinhai Revolution. Which one is not the heart of the people, when it is their turn, they cannot accept it, where there is such a reason.