Text/Tang Figurines
The material is derived from "National News"
Hu Sijing, the author of "National News and Preparation", has been engaged in politics in Beijing for more than ten years, is familiar with the late Qing Dynasty, and has written a lot of works. This book consists of four volumes, focusing on the late Qing Dynasty and anecdotes, which is informative and well-documented, and is one of the important reference materials for the study of the politics of the late Qing Dynasty.
01
He Jing, a native of Zhongshan, Guangdong, Ding Weike Jinshi in the 27th year of Daoguang, Shu Jishi of the Xuanhanlin Academy, and 30 years of Daoguang teaching and editing.
In the tenth year of Guangxu (1884), the Battle of Majiang (also known as the "Battle of Mawei") broke out between Mawei in Fujian and China and France, and the Qing army was defeated.
After the fiasco, the commander-in-chief Zhang Peilun became the target of everyone and suffered various criticisms, but few people mentioned He Jing.
When the French invaded Fujian, He Jing was the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, zhang Peilun came on orders, He Jing pushed all the things about the war to Zhang Peilun, and he himself was the treasurer, neither coming up with an idea nor a force.
It wasn't that he didn't care about the war, but he cared in a way that was a little special—asking the ghosts and gods every day.
Ji Ji did not ask, but the enemy's battle book came, and only said one thing: Let's fight a decisive battle on a certain day in a certain month, and then we will attack your forts, and you must be prepared to be shelled.
He Jing didn't understand foreign languages, didn't know that it was a war book, so he casually threw it aside, and it was two days after he lost it.
Two days later, a dispatch officer of the Foreign Affairs Bureau heard that the French had written a war book, but did not see the slightest movement of the inspector, so he took the opportunity to report the matter to Yamen and asked Yamen to take out the letter written by the French and look at it.
At a glance, there is such a thing.
But the time for the other party to make an appointment is about to arrive, even if it is ready immediately, it is too late!
Everyone looked at each other and were overwhelmed.
Suddenly a man said, hurry up and report Lord Chincha, what are you waiting for!
Chincha's journey was sixty miles away from the provincial capital, and after receiving the report, Chincha was frightened and black-faced, and quickly discussed countermeasures with his staff, and sent an interpreter to the French to ask for an extension.
All the French want is that you are not prepared, how can you agree to the extension, do you think he is as stupid as you!
The French immediately fired their cannons, drum wheels advanced, and caught the Qing army by surprise...
After the defeat of Ma Jiang, Zhang Peilun was returned to by all evils, and few people discussed He Jing. When the mage disturbed Fujian, Jing served as the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Pei Lun was ordered to the end, and the military affairs were known to him, and he could not sit down and could not do a strategy, but the ghost god asked ji ji. The enemy negotiates with the localities, only knows who the governors and caresses, and is careless about who the envoys are. After the matter was broken, the Fati Governor Yishu Oversaw the Office, and the Japanese decisive battle attacked the fort. Jing did not know the Western text, and pressed the person who did not enlighten for two days. The Foreign Affairs Bureau raised a certain smell of Yishu, but did not see the governor moving, because Ya counselor asked for white affairs, and asked for his book to look at it, then mourned the Mei Dun Shuye. The deadline was imminent, and they looked at each other and told the envoys. Sixty miles away from the provincial capital, the Envoy of Chin was alarmed and feared, and from the curtain, he sent an interpreter into the French army to ask for a reprieve. The French army did not accept it, and had already raised its cannons and drums and wheels to advance, but our division was caught off guard and collapsed.
02
Cixi was two favored subjects.
In the twenty-fourth year of Guangxu, the coup d'état of Wu Shu, Yuan Shikai "launched the first rebellion" and made a great contribution;
Gengzi's country was in trouble, Cixi fled west, and Cen Chunxuan escorted the pass along the way, which was also a great achievement.
Yuan Shikai
These two people originally had lofty revolutionary ideals and wanted to do something useful, but now that they have the support of the big boss behind them, they want to let go of their hands and feet.
Yuan Shikai first aimed at Zhang Yi.
Zhang Yi, a native of Tongzhou, was originally a servant of the Prince of Alcohol, and within a few years he was mixed up in the high position of a waiter in the Ministry of Works, and used his power to secretly sell Kaiping minerals and enrich his own pockets.
Zhang Yi's corruption and perverting the law was known to Yuan Shikai, and Yuan Shikai participated in him, and Zhang Yi was dismissed from his post and never got up.
Yuan Shikai's second target was the official Shilang and the left-wing general Pushan.
Compared with Zhang Yi, Pushan's backstage is much harder. He was the eldest son of the first-class auxiliary general Zai Chong, a relative of the near branch, and a family of Manchu Qing imperial families, and his brothers and nephews were everywhere in the court, and he himself successively served as the official of the Feast, the left attendant of the official department, the deputy governor of Manchuria with the blue flag in charge of the affairs of juvenile officials, the chief of the Zhenglan Banner, the minister of the Temple of Beichatan, the minister of Chacheng, the general school of Qingwen of the National History Museum, and the minister of inspection of Qicang.
It is precisely because of this that he dared to be reckless and even stole and sold the royal cemetery.
Yuan Shikai did not make a mistake, and he was equally successful.
Compared with Yuan Shikai, Cen Chunxuan exerted more force.
Cen Chunxuan's first target was a Cantonese named Zhou Rongyao.
Zhou Rongyao was originally a small employee of the customs, and during his tenure, he embezzled millions of huge sums of money.
How can a small customs clerk have so much money?
Cen Chunxuan sent an official letter to Zhou, asking him to go to the office for tea and explain the source of the huge amount of property.
Ignoring Cen Chunxuan, the surnamed Zhou secretly pulled a cart of silver into Beijing and bribed The Prince of Qing, Yi Li (known as the first corrupt of the Manchu Qing), who managed to make him a SipinJing official and send him on a mission to Belgium.
Lao Tzu went far away and flew high, to see if you could help me, and have the ability to go to Belgium to catch me!
"The boy is so cunning!" Cen Chunxuan was furious and immediately joined him in embezzling tariffs and requested that he be stripped of his post and investigated.
At that time, Zhou Rongyao had not yet had time to go to Belgium, fled to Hong Kong, all the family property was not official, and the big backstage Yi Li could only watch and save his fart.
In the coup d'état, Yuan Shikai first launched a rebellion; Gengzi avoided the army and toured the west, and Cen Chunxuan supported the guards along the way to enter the pass, and all of them were favored by the empress. Yu Guan's actions also have their own talents, not to be pampered. Zhang Yi gave the mansion as a small official, and within a few years, the official was a waiter. Shi Kai participated in his private dismissal from the Kaiping Mine, involved in the lawsuit for two years, returned to the court, and could not afford it, Pu Shan was also a servant of the bureaucracy and the general soldier of the left wing, a relative of the near branch, a brother and nephew of the Bu Dynasty, a traitor who stole and sold the cemetery, and used the left wing seal to detain the deed, and Shi Kai was impeached and dismissed, and his sharp edge could also be feared. Chun Xuan's strength is even more outstanding, and the Cantonese gentry has Zhou Rongyao, who started from the Guan officials and accumulated millions of dollars. Chun Xuan looked at his wealth, folded and recruited to the bureau to repay the effect, Rong Yao should not, privately entered the capital, asked for the door of Yi Li, so Jian Si Pin Jingqing, sent an envoy to Belgium. Chun Xuan was furious: "The slave is cunning." "On the same day, participate in its private erosion tariffs, please cut the job supervisor to chase, Rong Yao ran to Hong Kong, as much as his property into the official, Yi Li was familiar with it, and did not dare to make a word to save it."
03
How do you play a bad card?
The answer is, don't play your cards according to common sense.
Cen Chunxuan
Or Cen Chunxuan.
Cen Chunxuan was a rough and reckless person, and during the coup d'état, Hefu (who had completed his mourning period) came to the capital, befriended Kang Youwei and others, joined the Baohui, and also learned from Kang Youwei's generous letters, hoping to "take advantage of the chaos" to find a good future for himself.
It was really a good bet, so this alternate Jingtang, who did not know when to wait, was soon released as a guangdong envoy.
Unexpectedly, within a few months of taking office, his relationship with Tan Zhonglin, the governor of Liangguang, deteriorated, which made Cixi feel disgusted, and Ronglu quickly said good things for him, and Cixi did not bother with him, but only transferred him to Gansu.
Who knew that when he arrived in Gansu, Cen Chunxuan was even more arrogant, because the Gansu Treasury bank had been in deficit for many years, the relevant officials had been making false accounts for a long time, and the governor Tao Mo was afraid that he would break through this layer of window paper, and as soon as the prison was revived, the Gansu officialdom would be over.
In order to please Bo Cen Chunxuan, Tao Mould was unsolicited.
Tao Mo hoped that he would quickly get out of Gansu so as not to cause trouble for Gansu.
Cen Chunxuan, however, would be mistaken, thinking that he had recommended him to a better place to become an official.
But somehow, the recommendation of the pottery model did not respond, perhaps people were light-hearted, and the imperial court did not take the recommendation of the pottery model seriously.
Then continue to stay in the bitter cold of Gansu, this stay until the "Gengzi national difficulties", Cen Chunxuan believes that the opportunity must not be lost, volunteered to lead the troops into the guard.
Without waiting for Tao Mo's consent, Cen Chunxuan took six battalions of soldiers out of the customs, detoured through the desert, and walked more than a thousand miles to the capital.
Bringing troops into Beijing without authorization was a serious crime suspected of treason, but he didn't care about it.
Playing cards according to common sense does not fit his personality.
But his improvised ragtag bunch was obviously useless, so when he met Empress Dowager Cixi, his first words were that the army of the subjects was temporarily recruited and could only be used for defense, not for the enemy.
Since they have all come, let's settle down, the people are good intentions, Cen Chunxuan and his rabble-rousers, they were arranged to Zhangjiakou to "defend Russia.".
Unexpectedly, before it was too late to move, the capital fell, and Cen Chunxuan took his soldiers and hurried to Changping.
A few days later, when the empress dowagers of the two palaces who had fled to Shaanxi passed through Nankou (twenty miles west of Changping County), their attendants dispersed, and Cen Chunxuan, without asking for instructions or consent, led his troops to chase after them until they reached Juyongguan.
The two palaces are very happy, and they are worried that there is no one to guard it, and you have come just in time!
Therefore, Cen Chunxuan escorted the two palaces all the way into Shanxi and into Shaanxi, and he was promoted to inspector of Shaanxi, and his grace was abnormal.
After that, the path of life is naturally uphill.
Cen Chunxuan was extremely brash, and he entered Beijing, befriended the Kang Party, joined the National Assembly of The People's Republic of China, wrote generously, and was anxious to try, so he was sent by the alternate Jing Qing Wai Jian Guangdong envoy. Within a few months of his appointment, he was in conflict with governor Tan Zhonglin Tengzhang. The empress dowager is evil, and Rong Lu is a gentle cheek, but to adjust Gansu. Gansu treasury money is a lot of deficits, successive governors to empty text interrogation, the fate of the story, read for forty or fifty years. The governor Tao Mo feared that Chun Xuan would be exposed, and he pursued the former official Yu Yin and xing da prison, and immediately had a loose sponsorship, hoping to end his happiness and spring xuan. Gengzi, a boxer and bandit in Gyeonggi, asked himself to join the guards, and without waiting for the order of the model, he led six battalions out of the customs and traveled more than a thousand miles around the desert to Beijing. Seeing the empress dowager, she said: "The subject army was temporarily recruited, but it was defensive and did not dare to face the enemy." "There is an edict stationed in Zhangjiakou to defend Russia. The capital fell without going, and the pawns went to Changping. On the other day, the royal driver passed the south entrance, the attendants were scattered, Chun Xuan chased and Juyongguan, there were two thousand horse teams, and the two palaces were happy, relying on the escort. So he entered the Jin Dynasty and qin, and was promoted to the inspector of Shaanxi, and even favored.
04
At the beginning of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, whether it was under Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, or Sichuan, as well as to deal with the rebellion in the southeast, it was the kings and Belle.
At that time, there were many remnants of the former dynasty who disobeyed the rule, and with the suspicion of the lord and the country, the Manchu Qing had to guard against the point, and the best way was not to give the Han people military power.
Since the pacification of san francisco, this unwritten rule has been well enforced, and when there is a problem, a noble minister (a close relative of the emperor) is appointed as a general, or "Jingluo", with a deputy named "counselor".
Until the JiaqingZheng "Three Provinces Evil Bandits" (referring to the White Lotus Rebellion in Hubei, Sichuan, and Shaanxi Provinces), the imperial court appointed Erle Dengbao as the jingluo and Dele tai as counselor, and the Han people were still not trusted.
When Yongzheng conquered Qinghai, he had no choice but to use two Han Chinese, one was Nian Qianyao, the general of Fuyuan, and the other was Yue Zhongqi, a descendant of Yue Fei.
Portrait of Yue Zhongqi
Yue Zhongqi was soon rumored and almost died, and Nian Qianyao's fate was known to everyone on earth.
When it came to the so-called "Cantonese Bandit Rebellion" (Taiping Heavenly Kingdom), this unspoken rule could not be played, because those Manchu masters, more and more fucked eggs, a Dumu who could fight had it, first with Sai Shang'a, no egg, and then with Hechun (Manchurian Yellow Banner People), or no egg, and had to reuse the Han Zeng Guofan.
However, not long after, the chief military chancellor, Qi Zao, who was known as the "Three Generations of Imperial Divisions (Daoguang, Xianfeng, and Tongzhi)", suspected that Zeng Guofan's military power was too heavy, and asked Xianfeng to reduce and suppress his power, and Xianfeng did not allow it.
What needs to be known is that Qi Zao, the authentic Han people, the Manchus do not trust the Han people, it is forgivable, this Han people do not trust the Han people, it is a bit confusing.
The reason why Xianfeng did not allow Zeng Guofan to suppress the power was because no one was available, which did not mean that he trusted the Han people.
For this, Zeng Guofan knew this very well, so no matter how much merit he had made, he did not dare to take credit, and he also wrote to his younger brother Zeng Guoquan, telling him not to take credit.
After reusing Zeng Guofan, Xian Feng found that the original Han people were so easy to use, both capable and honest, in addition to working for the imperial court, after work wife and children hot kangtou, other ideas are wood.
Otherwise, like Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang, Peng Yulin, Liu Kunyi... How can these Han people have a day to emerge!
In the rebellion of the Cantonese bandits, Sai Shang A bu ji was used at the beginning, followed by Xiang Rong and He Chun, who also had no merit, but was heavily responsible for Zeng Guofan and ruled the four provinces. Qi Zao was on the military plane, suspecting that his military power was too heavy, and asked Emperor Wenzong to restrain it and not allow it. Jiang Ning was broken, and the guoquan shu was very dangerous and afraid, and did not dare to take credit, so that the official wen led the play. Hu Linyi also composed the official text. After Xian and Tong, the situation changed slightly. Li Hongzhang was used to flat twist, Zuo Zongtang was used to ping hui, Peng Yulin was used to supervise the battle of Fayue, Liu Kun was used to restrain the generals outside Guanwai in the Battle of Liaodong, and Han was used as generals and governors of the capital.
05
Celebrities are misguided.
Before the outbreak of the Battle of Jiawu, Weng Tonggong, the "two generations of imperial masters" (Tongzhi and Guangxu), advocated fighting.
Weng Tonggong
Weng Tonggong's Tongzhou Zhang Jiao, Ruian Huang Shaoji, Pingxiang Wenting style and other celebrities, naturally wear a pair of pants with the teacher.
At that time, Li Hongzhang was the minister of Beiyang, the power of the sea and the army were in his hands, and he knew the situation of the army the most, so he believed that the navy seemed to be strong, in fact, the foreign strong were in the middle, and what to fight with others, you still do your learning, or go home and hold your children, no matter what you do, don't force it, you don't understand the war, you don't have to worry about it.
Cixi believed in Li Hongzhang, and besides, she also knew how many pounds the Qing army had, so she was inclined to "listen" to Li Hongzhang.
Zhang Xiao and the others saw that the teacher's strength alone was not enough, so they turned their eyes and hit the idea into the palace, buying Zhenfei's cousin Zhirui and letting Zhenfei blow the pillow wind for Guangxu.
When he started blowing, Guangxu was still very firm.
But I can't stand Zhenfei keep blowing, blowing with perseverance, blowing during the day and blowing at night, and blowing fifteen times in the first five...
Guangxu was determined to fight with Little Japan.
As Li Hongzhang expected, the Beiyang Fleet came after repeated defeats.
When the enemy approached Yuguan (in the middle of funing district of Qinhuangdao, Hebei), Empress Dowager Cixi was taken aback and summoned Weng Tonggong to take serious responsibility, causing him to rush to Tianjin to see Li Hongzhang on the same day and ask him if he could do it.
Weng Tonggong understood that it was he and his protégés who strongly advocated fighting, which led to this result, and the last thing he wanted to see at this time, or the last thing he dared to see, was Li Hongzhang.
But Cixi ordered him to go, and he had to go again.
When they arrived in Tianjin and saw Li Hongzhang, Weng Tonggong asked about the war when he opened his mouth, and Li Hongzhang looked at him angrily and did not speak.
I don't know how long it took for Li Li to turn his head and say word by word, how is the war, don't you have points in your old man's heart?
Usually ask you for some money (Weng Tonggong Prime Minister Du Zhi), you do not give it for various reasons, now to ask about the war, do you still need to ask!
Weng Tonggong said that it is my duty to save money, and if the war is really urgent, why don't you ask for it again?
Li Hongzhang said: The government is suspicious of me, and the officials are greedy, if I don't shut up again, will I still have Li Hongzhang today?
Weng Tonggong was speechless, and did not dare to speak again after he returned.
It was Shi Hongzhang who was the minister of Beiyang, and the power of the navy and land was in his hands, thinking that the navy was weak and the instrument was single, and did not dare to open a border, and Xiao Qin relied on it with the old honor. The qi and so on are only the strength of the same gong, and cannot be opposed to it. Therefore, the court style and other knots were secretly connected to the palace, so that ZhenFei entered the speech and offered the plot to seize the concubine. The concubine instigated day and night, and the superior was moved, and the military disaster was opened. Even though he was unable to win the battle repeatedly, the enemy forced Yuguan, and Xiao Qin was terrified, so he summoned his comrades to take full responsibility, and ordered him to go to Tianjin on the same day to ask for advice. See Hongzhang at the same time, that is, consult the Beiyang warship. Hongzhang looked at each other angrily, half speechless, and Xu turned around and said, "Master Prime Minister Du Zhi, usually ask for money to refute, ask the warship when you are in trouble, can the warship be ashamed?" Weng Tonggong said: "The jichen takes the thrift as his duty, and is sincere and anxious, so why not repeat the request?" Hongzhang said: "The government suspects me of being stubborn, the Taiwan counselor is greedy, I am still grumpy, is there still Li Hongzhanghu today?" "The same people are stuffed, but they don't dare to fight."
06
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a wind of large-scale women's schools arose.
Interestingly, this wind was originally blown from "Outside" – for self-preservation, monks began to set up monastic schools.
As soon as the monk school was set up, Tan Xinpei, Wang Guifen and others thought to themselves, we must also catch up with this fashion, so we set up a Lingxuetang to imitate the monk's school.
Tan Xinpei
As soon as the Lingxue School was established, the hearts of the foxes were also moved, so the Brothel Academy came into being.
Some people say that the rise of women's schools has led to the destruction of China's incorruptibility, which probably refers to this.
Not long after, this wind blew to the government gate, and Hubu Shangshu Zhao Ersun set up a school hall and asked the clerks to study.
Hubu is like a bellwether, as soon as it takes the lead, it follows a string: the Punishment Department has set up a law hall, the Military Department has set up a military academy, the Ministry of Works has set up an art academy, the officials have set up a bureaucratic school, and the Hanlin Academy has learned...
Why are so many people following suit?
Someone in the bureaucracy said to his colleagues that there are many new departments now, and if we do not keep up, we will not be able to survive on our own, and we will be merged by other departments in minutes.
To put it bluntly, it is just to keep the job.
The women's school is booming and China's incorruptibility has been swept away, and the intellectuals are always worried. It is particularly strange that the outsiders prevented the invasion, gathered their disciples, designed the jungle, and established the monk's school; the famous masters Officiated Master Tan Xinpei and Wang Guifen all accumulated thousands of good songs, and set up the Lingling Academy; the foxes mu fengya, generously poured their money, and enjoyed their private interests, and set up the prostitute school. What he had learned was a different Chinese words, and it was not different from the government schools. Zhao Erxun signed the Hubu Shangshu, designed the Academy, ordered the clerks to go to school, and the Punishment Department set up a law hall, the Military Department set up a Military Academy, the Ministry of Works set up an art academy, the officials set up a bureaucracy, and the Hanlin Academy opened a society, and what he learned was no different from Chinese words, and the monks and prostitutes were no greater. Yu Wenbu's colleague Yun: "Now that there are many new departments, if I do not open the school, I will not be able to survive on my own, and gradually be merged with other departments." "At that time, the scholar's intention to preserve the position of Lu was similar to that of his despicable rate.
07
After the Gengzi rebellion, the Eight-Nation Alliance captured Beijing, and Cixi and Guangxu fled to Xi'an.
Running is hard.
The provinces that received the news sent people to bring local souvenirs to comfort them.
Later, the bosses returned to Beijing, and the provinces once again sent people to bring local specialties to filial piety.
One day, Cixi seemed to be tired of this kind of filial piety, and said to the ministers around her, once upon a time, when our mother and son were out (fleeing), the provincial officials took the risk to come to comfort them, seeing that they were so hard, they really couldn't bear to refuse, and now that we have returned to guard the society, current affairs are even more difficult, how can we violate the old system of the ancestors and open the door of Fengzhi?
Tell the provinces not to enter the service, I don't know what your opinion is?
At that time, there was a minister named Rongqing, who immediately prostrated his head and praised himself.
It's great that the boss can have such an awareness!
However, the minister of military aircraft, Qu Hongyu (jī), listening to Cixi's words, said that the local specialties offered by the provinces were worth a few dollars, so why should they pay attention to it, and besides, in the past, there was also a practice of hiring once every three years and every other year, and they also wanted to take this opportunity to express their yearning, so why let them down.
Cixi listened and said nothing more.
Later, Rongqing asked Qu Hongyu, just now the empress dowager said so well, you should strongly approve of it, for Mao to oppose?
Qu Hongyu smiled.
I've seen a fool, I've never seen a fool like that!
Then tell him that the empress dowager likes to throw a bait to test the minister's back, and if you really are, you will be finished!
I don't know if Rongqing listened to it, did he break out in a cold sweat.
The change of the boxers and bandits, the car driving fortunately in Xi'an, the provinces sent envoys to the water and soil to comfort the living, xin ugly returned to Beijing, so along the contribution did not change. The empress dowager said to the cardinal on the first day: "The mother and son spread beyond the border, and the provincial ministers took the risk of blocking the coin to ask, and they could not bear to refuse." Now that we are fortunate to still guard the society, and the current affairs are becoming more and more difficult, how can we violate the old system of our ancestors and open the door to the worship, and we want to know about it? Rongqing prostrated his head and praised goodness. Qu Hongyu said: "What is the cost of each thing to give its soil to the product of its own land?" The ancients were hired every three years and once a year, and they would carry the coin as a gift, and please still reward it, so as to honor the righteousness of their relatives and not to humble the yearning of distant people. The empress dowager was silent. Rong Qing retreated to You Hongyu: "What Empress Dowager Qing said means very beautifully, and if she does not strongly approve of it, why should she curb it?" Hongyu smiled: "Gongchu took charge of the cardinal affairs, and the inside affairs of the court are unknown." Xiang Chatter turned his back to Him, and when he misworded it, he was furious. ”
08
When serving as the inspector of Zhejiang, Zuo Zongtang wrote to his sons, saying that his father's life was very simple, if it was not for the banquet guests, seafood and other high-end ingredients, his father would not touch, even if it was late winter, he only wore cotton clothes with messy linen.
Tso
His contemporary Yan Jingming (who had been minister of military aircraft and minister of state affairs) at the beginning of his government tenure, he only wore cloth clothes and ate brown rice, and if someone gave him something delicious, he would never eat it himself and keep it for guests.
Often when guests come, those things have been left overnight, and the taste has changed.
The guests were embarrassed to say that they could not eat, so they had to put down the chopsticks and pretend to be full or have no appetite, while he himself seemed to be unconscious, and he ate vigorously.
Tao Mo (the governor of Liangguang) lived for more than ten years, and after being promoted to the post of envoy of Gansu, he had only two or three staff members with him for a long time.
Madame came to see him, and within a month he sent him home, in order to save money.
There are positive models, there are negative models, such as Yuan Shikai.
Legend has it that Yuan Shikai gave a lot of gold and silver jewelry to every maid to serve. He threw away the cigarettes on the ground, and the servants picked them up, slightly modified them, and sold them, making countless profits.
Duanfang's extravagance is no less than Yuan Shikai's, when he moved to office, he accumulated antiques, calligraphy and paintings, inscriptions, etc., and pulled dozens of cars and did not finish!
Tang Jiong, the former minister of mining in Yunnan, and Tang Shaoyi, a waiter in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, must kill two chickens and two ducks at each meal, a number of fresh meat, and a leg of Jinhua ham.
Do you think these things are eaten, not and not, they are just used to cook other foods, and the meat is all thrown into the garbage.
It is rumored that Yuan Shikai's attendants were very numerous, and every fortunate Ji Ji rewarded him with many golden beads, ate the remaining cigarettes and discarded them on the ground, and the servants picked them up and turned them into foreign companies for transformation, making no less than thousands of profits. When Duan Fang moved to his post, dozens of cars of good play, calligraphy and painting, and inscriptions were stored, and the transportation was inexhaustible. Tang Jiong, the former minister of mining affairs in Yunnan, and Tang Shaoyi, the current attendant of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, were full of food, and every meal they had to kill double chickens and double birds, with fresh meat and ribs, and a body of Jinhua legs, taking their juice for cooking, and discarding all the flesh and bones, and also killing them violently.
09
The fact that the first rank of the official crushes people to death is by no means an exaggeration.
When Zhang Zhidong was the governor of Liangguang, there was a shortage in the Chaozhou capital, and he wanted to arrange a "person of his own" and ask the envoy You Baichuan to do it.
Zhang Zhidong
You Baichuan said that he knew, but he just wouldn't do it, "press it and don't use it", because he had already promised the inspector before.
Zhang Zhidong was furious, and immediately sent You Baichuan to him, scolding him in a loud voice, "You despise me and flatter me, what do you mean?" Is your backstage harder than mine?
You Baichuan was not afraid of his roar, and did not hurry to say that where the subordinate officers have any backstage, the military affairs are under the control of the governor, and the officials are under the supervision of the inspectors, this is the old system, the subordinate officials are sandwiched in the middle, the two ends are difficult, and they can only act according to the system.
Zhang Zhidong's anger is even greater, the inspector is something, Lao Tzu is the governor, no matter how big the inspector is, he must also be controlled by the governor, which in the world does not know?
If there is any basis for your words, please tell me immediately, and I will sue you according to your words, lest others say that I do not care about the affairs of the officials!
You Baichuan was a little afraid, because his words were just casual words, the purpose was to block the other party's mouth, even if he knew that his turtle son must find out the basis.
Then look for it.
After he went back, he hurriedly took out the "Huidian" to find it, and in a hurry, he could find it, and he vomited blood in a hurry.
Regardless of whether he vomited blood or not, Zhang Zhidong still insisted that he come up with a basis, and he was more and more anxious, and You Baichuan was helpless, so he had to come to a place where he could not afford to hide, and resigned on the grounds of illness.
From then on, the Guangdong regime was returned to the governor, and Zhang Zhidong's military power was monopolized.
When Zhang Zhidong was overseeing Liangguang, the Chaozhou capital was vacant, and he privately planned to grant the domain to You Baichuan, and Baichuan had already allowed the patrol, so he pressed it and did not use it. ZhiDong was furious, and on the same day, he saw Bai Chuan and scolded him sharply: "Ermiao looks at me and flatters the courtyard, and he is also arrogant? Bai ChuanYu said, "Why is there a function?" In the old system, military affairs were returned to the governor and officials to the inspectors, and it was difficult for the two sisters to be wives between the officials and the two sisters, so they had to handle it according to the system. The cave was angry: "The governor is under the control of the governor, and the whole world does not know it." Ru'an received this, and he quickly showed me that I should be informed according to Ru's words, so that I could get rid of the officials and not ask questions. "Bai Chuan was afraid, returned to the "Huidian", the pawn had nothing to gain, worried to the point of vomiting blood, the hole was anxious, so he returned from illness, and since the Guangdong regime was returned to the Governor's Office and the inspector became a fictitious one.