The protagonist today is a political figure in the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, Li Jingxi. People familiar with Mr. Zhu should have heard of the name Li Jingxi. Because Mr. Zhu has mentioned this name in public more than once.
When Mr. Zhu was young, he wanted to go to Yunnan to teach martial arts, so he walked from Sichuan to Yunnan, but missed the registration date. Just as the boss was arguing with the school staff, the noise attracted the attention of Li Jingxi, who was passing by. Li Jingxi saw that the boss had an extraordinary temperament, so he let people make an exception and left the boss behind. Mr. Zhu later often said that Li Jingxi had the grace of knowing him. It was such a person, but he was loyal to the Qing Dynasty. However, he cultivated a number of revolutionary parties that opposed Qing rule, including the boss.
Li Jingxi was born in 1860, a native of Hefei, Anhui, with the character Zhongshan, zhongxian, and the number of the penitent, and also known as Zhongxuan, Zhongxuan, Misheng, etc. He was the nephew of Li Hongzhang, a major minister of the late Qing Dynasty, and the third son of Li Hezhang. The origin is remarkable. In the fifth year of Guangxu (1879), Li Jingxi donated a Taoist member, which is considered to be a career. In June 1887, Li Jingxi was appointed as a Taoist in Yongning, Sichuan, and was later promoted to the posts of Envoy of Fujian and Envoy of Yunnan. In the 27th year of Guangxu (1901), he was promoted to Inspector of Guangxi, and then transferred to The Inspector of Yunnan. In December 1902, he was transferred to guizhou. In May 1904, he was again transferred to Guangxi. In the winter of 1905, he became the premier of anhui railway mining. In February 1909, he was promoted to Governor of Yungui.
Li Jingxi has been serving in Yunnan-Guizhou and Guangxi regions for a long time, and he is very familiar with the situation in these areas.
During Li Jingxi's tenure as governor of Yungui, he did something that had a great impact on the course of China's modern history, that is, he founded the Yunnan Army Lecture Hall.
The purpose of Li Jingxi's establishment of the Army Lecture Hall was to cultivate military talents and enhance the combat effectiveness of the Qing army. He devoted great efforts to the establishment of this military academy, and he once said: "I, the governor of Yungui, can be improper, but I must not fail to teach martial arts!" ”
After the Lecture Hall gradually became larger, in February 1911, Li Jingxi invited Cai Yi, who was in Guangxi, to Kunming, Yunnan Province, to serve as the commander of the Thirty-seventh Association of the Nineteenth Town of the New Army, and concurrently served as an instructor of the Yunnan Army. This led to the Later Chongjiu Uprising and the Patriotic Movement led by Cai Yi and others.
Interestingly, Li Jingxi's original intention in founding the Yunnan Army Lecture Hall was to maintain the rule of the Qing Dynasty, but the school trained a group of generals who overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty. During the Xinhai Revolution, many revolutionary generals who bravely stood at the head of the tide, such as Li Gen, Gu Pinzhen, Tang Jiyao, Li Junlie, He Yingqin, boss and other figures, graduated from the Yunnan Army Lecture Hall.
Judging from the existing historical data, Li Jingxi was conscientious and conscientious in maintaining the rule of the Qing Dynasty. Li Jingxi left a lot of telegrams and orders in his successive official posts, basically instructing his subordinates to govern the army, suppress bandits, suppress rebellion, and other affairs.
In fact, Li Jingxi is not a confused person, and he is also very clear about the reality of the Qing Dynasty's "short life". Unfortunately, the idea of loyalty and patriotism that he had received since childhood was deeply rooted, coupled with the influence of his family, so he opposed the revolutionary party on the one hand, and understood and sympathized with the revolutionary party on the other hand. Revolutionaries Cai Yi, Li Gengen, and others carried out revolutionary activities under his nose, and he turned a blind eye and did not see them at all. Someone reminded him: "Talking about the wutang multi-revolutionary party, the tiger hurts people greatly." Li Jingxi ignored it and ignored it. When Cai Ye was in difficulty, Li Jingxi also funded him 500 silver dollars, and received his protégé's posts, and also showed him a secret letter exposing Cai Yi's rebellion against the imperial court, advising him to be careful and cautious.
It is precisely because Li Jingxi did not go against the tide of history, so after the Chongjiu Uprising in Yunnan, Cai Yi said that Li Jingxi still had merit for the revolution, and the Senate made a decision to send Li Jingxi's family out of Yunnan without harm.
Later, Li Jingxi took a train through Vietnam and Hong Kong and arrived in Shanghai. Later, he went to Qingdao, where he gathered with a group of qing dynasty widows and ministers. After Yuan Shikai ascended to the throne, Li Jingxi was again conscripted and went to Beijing to accept a post. In 1917, Li Jingxi accepted the invitation of President Li Yuanhong to become the prime minister and chief financial officer. At that time, it was Zhang Xun who initiated the climax of the restoration of the Qing Chamber. The farce of Zhang Xun's restoration was defeated in the blink of an eye, and Li Jingxi stepped down after less than a week as premier and withdrew from politics. He lived in Suzhou and enjoyed his old age and died of illness in 1925.