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The new arrival was a beautiful man

author:Wang Zeqiang

Wang Ruimin was born in Xuyi to a family of eunuchs. Great-grandfather Wang Yunren (王云任), a jinshi ( jinshi ) , served as the prefect of Suzhou , the envoy of Shaanxi , and the envoy of the government. His grandfather, Wang Genshu(王根協), served as a guozi supervisor, a weaver in Jiangning, and a supervisor of Hushuguan. His father, Wang Zushou (汪祖shou), was a Jinshi (進士) and a Shujishi of Hanlin Yuan, who successively served as a county magistrate in Wu County, Wuxi and other places. The eldest brother, Wang Ruizeng, was a man who served in Qingpu Zhi County. The second brother, Wang Ruigao, was successively appointed as the Changlu Salt Transport Envoy And concurrently ran the Beiyang Branch Bureau, and was awarded the erpin top wear, which was the largest salt official in modern northern China who was recruited by Yuan Shikai out of the box, and provided Yuan Shikai with a large amount of funds for political activities. The third brother, Wang Ruikun, a prisoner, was keen and wise, and in 1891, he accompanied Shao Youlian, the governor of Taiwan, to Taiwan with the title of Zhi County, to help govern the army for many years, and after returning to the mainland, he was assigned to Zhejiang with the title of three-pin alternate prefect. His nephew Wang Shiyuan (王士元), a jinshi (進士), successively served as an envoy to Changlu Salt Transport, deputy minister of finance and acting chief of the Beiyang government, and was a famous collector, calligrapher and painter, and politician in modern times, and authored the "Luyunlou Calligraphy and Painting Sketch". Born in such a feudal bureaucratic family with a wide social background, Wang Ruimin received a good education since childhood and had a wide range of social contacts.

In 1897, at the age of 24, Wang Ruimin took the Shuntianxiang examination and became a lifter, and then went to Jiangsu as a prefect to serve as the general office of shipping and an alternate Taoist. He learned martial arts from an early age, was quite skilled in martial arts, and was well versed in sun Wu's skills, which could be described as an all-rounder of literature and martial arts. In 1902, Ke Feng was then the inspector of Jiangxi, and Wang Ruimin was transferred to Jiangxi to act as a customs officer of Jiujiang, and soon after he was put on behalf of Jiangxi as an envoy. Volume V of Chen Ganyi's "New Language Lin and Republic of China" records an anecdote:

Wang Jiexun was beautiful and beautiful, according to the right side of the River, not yet thirty years old, the horse passed through the alley, and the women competed to peek at his appearance. At that time, Ouyang Yansheng Fang's home, laughing: "Yuzhang people want to see Wei Jie again."

When the young and dashing Wang Ruimin went to Nanchang to serve as an envoy, the whole city of Nanchang was sensational. The women of Nanchang City heard that the new envoy was a beautiful man, and they all flocked to the streets to watch his beautiful demeanor, just as in the Western Jin Dynasty, when people watched the beautiful man Wei Jiu, Wei Jiu later died, and there is a saying in the history books that "see and kill Wei Jiu".

In this year, the Jiangxi Wubei Academy was established, with Wang Ruimin as the first director (principal), and trained a number of outstanding generals, such as Li Liejun, a Kuomintang army general who served as the commander-in-chief of yuan during the second revolution, Ouyang Wu, a kuomintang army general who served as the commander-in-chief of the Jiangxi army, Lin Hu, commander-in-chief of the sixth army of the two Guangdong new organizations and the commander-in-chief of the Guangdong Protectorate Second Army, Hu Qian, the first education chief of the Huangpu Military Academy and a general of the Kuomintang army, and Wu Yurui, the commander-in-chief of the reinforcement army of the Founding Army during the Northern Expedition. Peng Chengwan, a hero of the Xinhai Uprising in Jiangxi, and others were all students of the first phase of the Jiangxi Wubei Academy.

Later, Ke Fengshi was transferred to the post of Inspector of Guangxi, and concurrently held the rank of Military Attendant. At that time, the party rebelled, bandits were everywhere, Guangxi was in turmoil, the people were not happy, many state and county officials did not dare to go to their posts, taxes could not be collected, and the financial income could not be made up. After Ke took office, he transferred Wang Ruimin to Guangxi, appointed him as the commander of the patrol army, prepared a large number of ordnance and grain, recruited more than 30 battalions of soldiers, and cooperated with the Qing army to suppress the rebellion, and the situation in Guangxi was stabilized and praised by the Qing court.