Chapter 18 aghast

⊙When Yuan Shikai restored the imperial system, Beijing's largest silk and satin shop "Ruifuxiang" undertook Yuan Shikai's dragon robe, his wife Yu's concubine dress, concubines' concubine dress, and all kinds of clothes for princes and daughters.Among them, Yuan's dragon robe is worth 800,000 gold (silver coins). ⊙Yuan Shikai's estate was divided twice between the Yuan family's children, wives and concubines.For the first time, each of the six concubines received 60,000 yuan in silver dollars and 30 taels of gold, each of the 17 sons received 80,000 yuan in silver dollars, 40 taels of gold, and 70,000 yuan in various stocks. Get 10,000 silver dollars.A total of 1.85 million silver dollars, 8.60 taels of gold, and 1.19 million stocks.The second time the property was divided, the real estate in Beijing and Tianjin was divided. The sons of the "Ke" generation each received 2.49 million yuan, a total of 39.84 million yuan.In addition, Yuan Keding exclusively obtained Yuan Shikai's 2 million francs in the Bank of France, as well as a large number of fields, real estate, antiques, cultural relics, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, etc.

⊙During the Guangzhou Uprising, soldiers and workers' Red Guards wore red belts.After Zhang Fakui's army entered the city, anyone who had a red belt around his neck, or who was found to have a red belt at home, was shot immediately on the spot.When searching the Soviet Consulate in Dongshan, they learned from the seized documents that they also participated in the command and planning of the uprising, so they stabbed several Soviets to death with bayonets. ⊙In the early days of the Republic of China, there were some modern girls in swimsuits in public swimming pools in Shanghai, Tianjin, Beijing and other places. In 1930, Hong Yun, the daughter of Zhu Guixin, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of China, swam in Beidaihe wearing a western-style swimsuit, which caused an uproar in the public opinion.Movie stars Hu Die, Bai Yang and others also put on swimsuits, walked into the swimming pool, and showed off their figures in the sun, attracting the attention of countless people. In 1935, Yang Xiuqiong appeared on the cover of "China" magazine in a swimsuit image, becoming the first cover girl in my country to publicly wear a swimsuit.

⊙Before Zhang Xun's restoration, Su Xilin once advised Zhang Xun to stop, saying that everyone's signature in favor of the restoration was false.Zhang Xun said: "The matter has come to the present, and I can't do it. Besides, I am willing to do it, even if they lied to me, I am willing to die because of this matter." ⊙The walls of Hu Xueyan's mansion in Hangzhou are made of broken fine porcelain bowls and then pounded into fine porcelain sand to smear, which can be immortal for thousands of years.The gardens are ingenious, the pavilions are exquisite, the clouds are painted with brocade, the green is dark and the fragrance of Yao is unparalleled.When a foreign official came to Hangzhou, he would rather live in the Hu Mansion than go to the official guest house.

⊙In 1914, Zhu Zhixin wrote to Gu Yingfen: "Recently Da Pao (Sun Yat-sen) and Huang Lai Shou (Huang Xing) had a big conflict, and Pao used books and lame to say that China affairs should be arranged by him within two years; Lame's subordinates If you don’t follow orders, you’re all lame (actually, it’s the words of the instigator). Please stay away from state affairs for two years. There is no need for Shi (envoy) brothers to know about it.] The world is not afraid of ugliness and there are people like this, it is a miracle! My brother strongly advises Brother Zhan to look beautiful, not to stand in this kind of right and wrong, open his mouth to agree, but he will not decide. "

⊙The "hair cutting order" issued by the government of the Republic of China, like the "hair cutting order" (braiding) issued by Emperor Shunzhi in the early Qing Dynasty, was resisted by some conservatives.At that time, someone in old Beijing sang: "Yuan Shikai is fooling around, there is no temple for monks on the street." The "monk" mentioned here refers to a person who has cut off his hair or shaved his head.However, Shanghai "has been restored for more than two months, and the braids have not been removed."Some radical students and soldiers took to the streets and forcibly cut off the braids of pedestrians. There were many bloody incidents of fighting.

⊙Shen Zui said: "Everyone is afraid of the devil, but the devil is afraid of Wang Yaqiao." ⊙Du Yuesheng once warned his subordinates: Don't mess with Wang Yaqiao. ⊙Yang Sen was stationed in Guang'an for four years, and the land tax was collected in advance every year for six, seven, or even eleven or twelve years.As of 1935, land taxes had been pre-collected for more than 30 years, together with the previous pre-collection of Luo Zezhou, it had been collected until 1990. ⊙Xu Zhenglun once described in his memoirs the living conditions of the Yuan family after Yuan Shikai’s death: “The fire in the kitchen is always on day and night, and whoever wakes up after three o’clock in the afternoon will have dinner at that time. Afterwards, some smoked opium and some played mahjong. At about nine o’clock in the evening, they went to brothels, theaters, dance halls, etc. to have fun, and did not go home until two or three o’clock. Socks and hats are put on, taken off and taken off by male and female servants. They just lift their arms and legs and never do it themselves. The cosmetics of the young master and young lady each have a chest of drawers filled with All kinds of perfumes, mostly from France."

⊙The cost of a rifle produced by Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau is 17.4 taels of silver, while the cost of foreign products is only about 10 taels.Moreover, the quality of the gun was so poor that even Li Hongzhang's Huai army refused to use it. ⊙In 1890, Japan's military expenditure accounted for about 10% of the total government budget.By 1892, the total budget of the Japanese government was 84 million yen, while military expenditure exceeded 34.55 million yen, accounting for more than 40% of the total budget. ⊙Yuan Shikai officially married 1 wife and 9 concubines in his life, and had 32 children in total, including 17 sons and 15 daughters; Duan Qirui had 7 wives and concubines successively; Zhang Zuolin had 6 wives and concubines; Cao Kun had 4 wives and concubines; Zong Chang is known as the "three generals who don't know", one of which is that he doesn't know how many concubines there are. Later, someone made a statistics, about 40.Among the southern warlords, Yang Sen disclosed 12 wives and concubines, known as the "Twelve Beauties of Yushe"; Lu Rongting had 8 wives and concubines.

⊙Hong Xiuquan must have twenty-four animals for every meal, namely six poultry, six beasts, six scales, and six Jie.Birds are pigeons, sparrows, pheasants, hawks and the like; beasts are cattle, sheep, deer, rabbits and the like;Change daily without repeating.The cost of each meal is no less than several thousand taels of silver. ⊙On June 9, 1931, Du Yuesheng held the inauguration ceremony of the Du family ancestral hall and the ceremony of "enshrining the Lord into the ancestral hall", which caused a sensation in the whole Shanghai Bund.The Du Temple held banquets for three days, with thousands of tables every day, which is an unprecedented luxury ceremony in Shanghai in the past century.

⊙Hu Xueyan dominates in business. He is famous both at home and abroad, and has a great reputation. Even Hu's coachman is rich.The coachman has a family and employs servants and servants. When the coachman returns home at night, a servant will send a message: "The master is back, quickly boil soup and wash your feet!" ⊙The rent in Guangzhou is very high. On December 2, 1932, "Central Daily" published a comment saying: "The rent price has skyrocketed, and the livelihood of the common people has been hit hard. It is strange that the rent accounted for two-tenths of the total living expenses. Chang'an is not easy to live in. So, it can be a gift for Guangzhou today."

⊙Kong Lingjun is the second daughter of Kong Xiangxi, the executive president, and the goddaughter of Soong Meiling. She has been wild and unruly since she was a child.In Nanjing, Ms. Kong Er was once driving for a ride, and was taught a few words by the police for violating traffic rules.In a rage, she pulled out her pistol and killed the traffic policeman on the spot.Later, there was a popular saying in Nanjing: "Don't be arrogant, be careful to go out and let you run into Miss Kong Er." ⊙In his diary, Xun Huisheng recorded the grand occasion when he attended the inauguration ceremony of the Du Family Ancestral Hall held by Du Yuesheng. Rickshaws were not allowed, so I had to walk. I also heard that the road was narrow and winding, a car turned over, one person fell into the water, and a small boat in the river was hit, with 2,000 people on board shouting for help. Yang Xiaolou walked to Du Temple, but Mei Lanfang couldn't find a car. , to sit on a wheelbarrow pushed by an old man, commonly known as an old man's cart."

⊙After Yuan Shikai died, his funeral was extremely luxurious.The cemetery in Zhangde, Henan, his hometown, covers an area of ​​at least 200 mu, and the coffin is transported by special train with a huge entourage.According to statistics, the funeral expenses alone amounted to more than 500,000 silver dollars at that time. ⊙Hong Xiuquan was very strict with concubines, and stipulated: "If you are not pious in serving, you should be beaten first; if you are stiff-necked and disobedient, you should be beaten second; if you look at your husband, you should be beaten third; if you ask the king if you are not pious, you should be beaten fourth; If you are pure and quiet, you should hit five times; if you speak loudly, you should hit six times; if you respond to calls, you should hit seven times; if you are unhappy, you should hit eight times; .” ⊙In 1920, the Shanghai government issued a notice prohibiting "all clothes that are either deliberately short and bare or imitating nondescript and nondescript", saying that "it is not surprising to be ostentatious in the market, and it is not appropriate to be fashionable and boast".It also stipulates: Anyone who "deliberately dresses up in strange clothes so that his arms and legs are bare, is allowed to be arrested immediately and punished according to regulations." ⊙When the telegraph was first established, the price was very expensive.The telegram sent from Tianjin to Tongzhou costs 1 jiao per word, and you can buy 16 catties of rice or 30 eggs. ⊙ Zhang Tailei said in a work report: "If Zhang (Zhang Fakui) does not contact Wang (Wang Jingwei) to divide the communist party, then it will be resolved after the troops are brought to Dongjiang, otherwise it will be resolved in Xun (Jiujiang)." ⊙At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, "self-combing women" were popular in Nanhai, Shunde, Sanshui and other areas.Self-combing girls are old maids who have never been married in their entire lives. They got their name because they put their braids on their heads and combed them into a bun, also known as "combing up".At that time, women who did not "self-comb" could not go out to work.The self-combing girl's evening scene was very miserable. When she died, her parents were not allowed to collect the body for burial, and other self-combing girls used straw mats and door panels to dig a pit for burial.If there is no self-combing girl in the village to help bury them, they will be thrown into the river and let them flow with the water. ⊙Zheng Yimei said that Lu Bicheng was a famous figure in Shanghai at that time in "Character and Artifacts Records": "Lv Bicheng's birthday party is more romantic than that of other Chinese historians. He also wears western styles, often wears evening dresses, bares his back, and takes pictures to show Yi friends. Good at dancing, in the midst of wild music, lightly performing social dances, pioneering Shanghai's modern style." ⊙The Taiping Army used the weather to predict good and bad luck: sunny days mean that God is happy; rainy days mean that God is angry; cloudy days mean that God is worried and angry;The good and bad omens of the first half of the month are determined by the weather on the first day of the lunar new year, and the good and bad omens of the second half of the month are determined by the good or bad weather on the fifteenth day.On the last day of each month, the Taiping Army will also burn incense and offer offerings to thank God, which means that thanks to God’s blessing, this month can be passed safely. ⊙The government of the Republic of China cut their braids, and set up tents at temple fairs and markets to prepare vegetables, rice, porridge and tea. When they saw uncut hair, they would enter the sheds and forcibly cut off their braids.At that time, the head of the local officials complimented: "You have cut your braids, good luck! Please eat in the shed!" Some of those who were cut left angrily, some cried while eating, and some asked to have their braids removed. He picked it up and said that after death, he would leave a "whole body" in the coffin. ⊙ On February 2, 1912, the "New York Times" reported: "Yesterday Yuan Shikai's army distributed leaflets, threatening that if Yuan Shikai lost a hair, the soldiers would kill everyone who should be responsible." ⊙Hong Xiuquan beauty pageants require women to have straight waists, slashed shoulders, flat chests, and tall stature. The most important thing is height. When choosing a woman, you must first measure her height. After reaching the specified height, Look at its face again.If the height is not enough, no matter how good it looks. ⊙The Boxers called the missionaries "Maozi", the Christians called "Er Maozi", and those who mastered foreign studies, understood foreign languages, and used foreign goods were called "San Maozi", "Si Maozi" and "Ten Maozi" in turn. Among the severe blows. ⊙Dai Qiwen, a great poet in the late Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem chanting the telegraph, describing the amazement of the Chinese people when they first saw the function of the telegraph: "The five mountains are poor and the sea of ​​clouds is clear and smooth, the latitude and longitude of the earth are long and the sky is long, and the kite wind is thousands of miles across the ocean, and the secret organ is invisible. .” ⊙According to Lu Xun's student Sun Fuyi, Lu Chang suspected that someone would assassinate him.After returning from Japan, Lu Zeng ordered a small knife, hid it under his pillow, and slept on it every night.According to Lu’s wife, Xu Guangping, Lu often had nightmares. He often dreamed that when he went out, two people were ambushing him in the dark. Is it not too hard to be a human being to live in the thorny sky and the thorny ground?" ⊙During the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek sent Jiang Weiguo to the south of Hu Zong as a company commander, and Hu sent a group of elites to protect it. ⊙For air defense, Wen Yiduo and his family moved outside of Kunming City, and lived in the same room with Hua Luogeng's family.Wen and Hua have a total of 14 people, living in an area of ​​only 16 square meters, and the per capita occupation of space is less than 1.2 square meters.Wen's family lived on the east side of the house, and Hua's family lived on the west side of the house. A piece of floral cloth was hung between them to separate them. They wanted not to disturb each other, but in the middle of the night Hua Luogeng's youngest son wetted the bed until Wen Yi's house was halfway.When the rainy day came, the two children put together washbasins, gargle jars, rice bowls, and urine pots to prevent the rain from leaking.It was here that Hua Luogeng wrote "The Theory of Heaped Prime Numbers". ⊙During the period of the Republic of China, Shanghai's fashion magazine "Liangyou" published a special topic on bras, introducing the styles and usage methods of European women's bras.Like a blockbuster, it exploded among fashionable women.Department stores in Shanghai have introduced these "exotic products" one after another and placed them in the most eye-catching positions in the window.The new women rushed to buy them, so that they were out of stock. ⊙In 1928, the government of the Republic of China in Nanjing issued the "Regulations on the Prohibition of Women's Foot Binding" again, requiring women to let their feet go, and made different requirements for women under 15 years old, 15 to 30 years old and over 30 years old.It can be seen that the resistance to this work was great at that time. ⊙Republic of China: "Modern Chinese girls, ladies, who have become good customers of foreign goods stores, from the tip of the hair to the last inch of the sole of the high-heeled shoes, almost except for their inherent Chinese Except for the skin and flesh of the bloodlines, all are decorated with imported daily necessities. Even the daily food, for the ultimate reason of cleanliness and hygiene, is actively westernized in order to reborn, gradually changing from yellow skin and black eyes to eugenic and elegant. Lean or a new breed of Slavs. The wife and grandma who control the family's finances are ridiculed as foreign goods salesmen." ⊙In 1947, in order to alleviate the housing shortage, the Guangzhou Municipal Government made great efforts to rectify the vacant houses.Regulations: vacant houses must be rented out, and houses exceeding the reasonable usable area must also be rented out. During the lease period, the rent cannot be raised, or increased, or in a disguised form, and the tenant cannot be driven away under the pretext of renovation.If they think they are rich and refuse to rent out the vacant houses, the government can bulldoze their houses and auction off their land. ⊙In 1912, Sun Yat-sen issued a general order to cut braids and called the whole country: "When the order arrives, all of them will be cut off within 20 days." At that time, the media reported that the villagers were terrified when they encountered soldiers cutting their braids: "Someone ran back home with their braids , the army pursued from behind, and even the villagers were forced to jump into the river to rescue others, and they were not drowned..." In 1917, Zhang Xun led the "braid army" into Beijing, and fake braids danced in the city for a while.So there is a ballad saying: "If you don't cut your braids, you can't get along. If you cut your braids, you are afraid of Zhang Xun." ⊙Liang Qichao said: "People in the world are vying to say that Li Hongzhang is the richest man in the world. This fact is not credible. It is about millions of gold, which is what he wants." ⊙In December 1914, the Beijing government promulgated the "Supplementary Regulations on the Provisional New Criminal Law", which clearly recognized the existence of concubines in Article 12.When explaining the status of a concubine, the Dali Yuan said: "Anyone who has a conjugal-similar relationship with their parents in the sense of continuing cohabitation as a member of the family can be established. The law does not limit any method." ⊙Gu Hongming gave a lecture on "The Great Justice of the Spring and Autumn Period" in English at the Liuguo Hotel in the embassy area of ​​Dongjiaomin Lane. It was the first time to sell tickets for a lecture, and the ticket price was even higher than that of Mei Lanfang, one of the "Four Famous Danes". Listening to Mei Lanfang's Peking Opera cost only one yuan Two horns, but it costs two yuan to listen to Gu's speech. ⊙In 1942, the Japanese army cut off supplies from Hong Kong and Burma.China's foreign aid was cut off, resulting in a shortage of tire supplies. For a while, there was a saying that "one drop of rubber, one drop of blood, one tire, one life". ⊙Zhang Jingsheng published a call for papers in the "Beijing News Supplement", openly soliciting "sexual history" from the public, and received a total of more than 300 papers.Zhang selected seven articles as "Sexual History", which was published in April 1926 under the name of "Sexual Education Society". ⊙Yuan Shikai has nine concubines, so he often eats deer antler tonic.In Zhang Boju's "Continued Hong Xian Chronicle Poems", there is a poem about this matter: "Every night, the goat car is lucky to the Eighth Palace, and it is hard to win the favor. Even if the trouble is that there is not much food, the nourishment must rely on deer antler." ⊙Kang Youwei studied hard since he was a child. When he got up early, he would put five or six books on the table, hold a sharp awl in his right hand and tap them vigorously. If the awl pierces two books, he will read two books on the same day. If the awl pierces three books, he will read three books on the same day. , must read a cone every day.