Chapter 28 gossip

⊙Yuan Keding, in order to strengthen his father Yuan Shikai’s determination to proclaim himself emperor, specially organized a group of people to publish a fake version of "Suntian Times". Yuan Shikai and his family read it.Later, when Yuan Shikai knew the truth, he found Yuan Keding, beat him up with a whip, and scolded him for "deceiving his father and wronging the country" while beating him. ⊙Before Yuan Shikai became emperor, some people called his eldest son Yuan Keding Cao Pi, and his second son Yuan Kewen was called Cao Zhi because of his poetry and wine.Once the two brothers quarreled, Yuan Kewen yelled to the elder brother: "You want to be Cao Pi, but you are not allowed to be Cao Zhi?" Yuan Shikai heard this, and scolded the two of them: "You compare yourself to Brother Cao Pi, no wonder someone outside called me a Cao Cao, how unreasonable is that!"

⊙After Yuan Shikai moved into Sanhai (according to: Beihai, Zhonghai, Nanhai), he began to conspire to proclaim himself emperor.Every time I ask the back kitchen to cook fish, I ask my concubine to collect some large scales and tell them to use them for medicine.Later, Yuan Shikai built a large bathing pool next to Jurentang. Every time Yuan took a bath, workers could find many scales when they cleaned the pool, so there were rumors that Yuan Shikai was born as a real dragon. ⊙When Empress Dowager Cixi was encoffined, she had a huge luminous pearl in her mouth.When it is divided into two halves, it is transparent and dull, and when it is closed into a round bead, it emits a cold green light, which allows people to see Cixi's hair clearly within a hundred steps at night.

⊙When Chiang Kai-shek was not making his fortune, he met Du Yuesheng under the recommendation of his friends, and handed Du Yuesheng a "red post" (note: write the names of the students, parents and his birth date on the red paper, and write in block letters and fine brushwork : "Disciple so-and-so worships so-and-so as his teacher"), worshiping under Du Yuesheng's sect.When the Anti-Japanese War was in full swing, Du Yuesheng locked Chiang Kai-shek's "red post" in a safe and handed it over to a special person for safekeeping.After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Du returned to his home in Shanghai, opened the safe and counted his belongings. The money and treasures were all good, except that the "red post" disappeared.

⊙Yuan Shikai's sixth concubine was originally the best friend of the second son Yuan Kewen. Yuan Kewen met in Diaoyu Lane, Nanjing. When the father paid his respects, the photo fell out and was seen by Yuan Shikai.Yuan Kewen didn't dare to tell the truth, so he lied that she was the concubine he was looking for for his father. ⊙On October 21, 1927, major newspapers in Shanghai broke the news that Soong Ching Ling went abroad to the Soviet Union a few days ago and "eloped" with Chen Youren, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Wuhan Government.Soong Ching Ling was so angry that hives broke out and she was ill for a long time.

⊙Hong Xiuquan's concubine Ming has a charming face since she was a child.When the heavenly soldiers wanted to kill her parents when they were looting, she said, "Take me away as you please, but don't hurt my parents." Is it?" She replied, "Beautiful." She also said, "You might as well dedicate me to the king of heaven, so that you can get rewards." So the soldiers offered her to Hong Xiuquan, who loved her very much. She sent someone to find her parents, and asked Hong Xiuquan to give her parents a lot of money and a special pass to protect them from the Taiping Army.

⊙Prince Dun often mocked the Empress Dowager Cixi. Once, Cixi wanted to abolish the Queen Arut of Tongzhi whom she did not like, but was firmly opposed by Prince Dun who was in charge of the clan mansion.He said to Cixi: "If you want to abolish the empress, you must enter through the Qingmen, and you can't abolish those who enter through the Qingmen. The slaves dare not obey orders." The Great Qing Gate" was carried in, and Cixi was only a show girl when she entered the palace, so she did not have the qualifications) ⊙In 1896, when Li Hongzhang visited Germany, he complained to the former German Prime Minister Bismarck: "Working with women (Cixi) and children (Guangxu) is a last resort."

⊙ When Hong Xiuquan chooses a concubine, she must first be beautiful, and secondly, have big feet.But at that time, women's feet were all bound, and the girls from rich families all valued their small feet, so they were greatly neglected.However, girls from small families have big feet but poor looks, so the work of choosing concubines is very difficult. ⊙Zhang Zongchang became addicted to gambling and played with dominoes all day long.People in his hometown called playing Pai Gow "eating dog meat", so Zhang Zongchang was nicknamed "General Dog Meat".Zhang Duan, Zhang Zongchang's daughter, said: "Father actually doesn't eat dog meat, he thinks it smells bad."

⊙Han Fuju gave a speech at Qilu University: "You are cultural people, all middle school students, college students, and foreign students. You rabble are scientific and chemical, and you know English from seven or eight countries. Brother, I am a big boss, even Chinese I don’t understand English. You all crawled out of pens, and I got out of cannon barrels. I’m really radiant and grateful to speak here today. In fact, I’m not qualified to speak to you. Well, it's like playing the piano to a cow, it can also be said to stand out from the crowd." ⊙Warlord Han Fuju gave a speech at Qilu University: "Everyone, everyone, in his place: What is the weather today? Today is the weather for speeches. The guests are very crowded, and I really have a cold. There are quite a few people here today. It seems that there are about five people here. Eight out of ten, don’t say anything if you come, and raise your hands if you haven’t! Very good, they’re all here!”

⊙Lin Zexu went to Guangzhou as an imperial envoy to ban smoking. Consuls from many western countries specially prepared western food for Lin Zexu.When eating ice cream, Mr. Lin thought it was hot because it was steaming, so he opened his mouth and blew before putting it in his mouth, which was ridiculed by the Westerners.Afterwards, Lin Shengyan returned the invitation.After a few cold dishes, taro paste (a kind of sweet food in Fujian cuisine) is served. The color of the taro paste is dark and not steaming. It looks like a cold dish at first glance, but it is actually hot to the tongue.Sure enough, when the consuls saw the delicacies, they scooped up and ate them one after another, until they were so hot that they yelled loudly.Lin smiled and said nothing.

⊙Wang Chonghui once participated in a banquet in Europe, and a lady asked him: "I heard that you Chinese people get married through a matchmaker, and you don't know each other first. How do you do this as a husband and wife? They should be married through love like us. , will be happy.” Wang Chonghui replied with a smile: “Our marriage is like a pot of cold water put on the stove, from cold to hot, until it boils. The relationship between husband and wife is cold at first, but as time goes by, the relationship becomes stronger. , so divorce is rare. You are just the opposite. When you get married, it is like a pot of boiling water. After marriage, it slowly cools down. The reason why you have so many divorce cases is probably the problem here.”

⊙After Zhang Zongchang made his fortune, he took his father to Jinan Mansion and served him with good wine and good food every day.One day Zhang Zongchang asked his father, "How is living in Jinan? Are you used to it?" His father said, "Everything here is good, but the breakfast every morning is not good and hard to swallow." Zhang hurried to find Someone came to inquire, only to find out that his father ate the soap he used to wash his face every morning for breakfast. ⊙Han Fuju's speech: "Chairman Jiang's new life movement, brother, I agree with both hands. Just one thing, pedestrians walk on the right, it is really inappropriate. Think about it, everyone, pedestrians walk on the right, so who is left for the left?" ⊙Qing Kuan, a doctor in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was well appreciated by Cixi.When Cixi celebrated her birthday, Guangxu wanted to give a congratulatory gift, so he said to Qingkuan, "I want to give a birthday gift to the Empress Dowager, you can prepare it for me." Qingkuan then made four styles of gold bracelets and asked Lafayette to choose whichever style he likes. which style.Cixi said: "I want all four." Qingkuan then played back to Guangxu according to the facts.Guangxu asked: "How much does it cost to make four bracelets?" Qingkuan said: "Forty thousand." Guangxu exclaimed: "Isn't this going to steal my house!" It is stored in the money shop, so it is said) ⊙Among the treasures buried with Empress Dowager Cixi, there is a rare jadeite watermelon. The watermelon is green jade skin and purple jade flesh, cut in the middle, and the melon seeds are black. Everything is the natural color of jadeite.It is said that this watermelon was a tribute to the foreign countries, and Cixi loved it like a treasure, so she placed it in a jewelry room in the Summer Palace, and three trusted eunuchs took turns guarding it day and night.Whenever she was happy, Cixi would ask the eunuch to take out the watermelon and play with it to her heart's content. ⊙When Duan Fang was the governor of Liangjiang, a certain Zhongshu initiated a "gambling refusal order" and asked the governor to support it.Duanfang asked: "Recently I heard that mahjong tiles are popular, and many people are addicted to them. Do you like them too?" Zhongshu replied: "I am a layman to any kind of gambling." I remember that mahjong usually has four cards for each pattern, and only the whiteboard has five.” Zhongshu hurriedly corrected after hearing the words: “Wrong, there are only four whiteboards.” Duanfang looked at the other party meaningfully, smiled and said: “Your Excellency , can correct my mistake, so there must be five whiteboards." After finishing speaking, serve tea to see off the guests. ⊙Hong Xiuquan got a beautiful concubine Xu. Yang Xiuqing salivated when she heard about it, so she used the pretext of proclaiming the gospel of the heavenly father, and often brought Concubine Xu to the East Palace.Hong was very displeased by this, so Concubine Xu offered a plan and said: "The East King favors Fu Shanxiang the most, so why not call her into the palace under the pretext of the King of Heaven." ⊙Zhang Zongchang often rewarded his concubine to his subordinates who had done meritorious service, saying: "Grandma, you are a bear, my concubine has rewarded you as my wife, take her back!" He instantly turned his concubine into the wife of his subordinates. ⊙Cen Chunxuan was hated by Yuan Shikai and Prince Qing, so they took Cen Chunxuan's photo, put it together with Liang Qichao's photo, and then showed it to Cixi.Cixi has always hated Kang (Youwei) and Liang (Qichao), but the more she looks at Cen Chunxuan, the more she looks like Liang Qichao. ⊙Concubine Ming wanted to get Hong Xiuquan drunk and kill him.Unexpectedly, Hong was very cunning, and when he saw that he was trying to persuade him to drink, he became suspicious, so he pretended to be drunk, supported Ming Concubine's shoulders, and fell asleep.Concubine Ming was overjoyed when she saw this, she drank back, closed the door, and took the knife from the wall.At this moment, Hong Xiuquan came up behind her, and said with a grim smile, "What do you want?" As soon as Concubine Ming turned her head, Hong raised the knife and dropped it, pitiful beauty, dying. ⊙Zhang Zongchang was in Xuzhou, and his mother accompanied him to the banquet.There were fresh lychees on the table, but Zhang's mother didn't know how to eat them, so she swallowed the lychees together with the shells, which became a joke.The next day, Zhang Zongchang held a grand banquet, and invited all the guests and guests from the previous banquet. He specially asked the chef to serve up lychee-shaped candies, which were almost fake.When eating, Zhang's mother was calm and calm, and still swallowed whole.Because the guests didn't know where to go, they wanted to peel the shells and eat them, and Zhang Suixue was ashamed. ⊙When Zhang Fakui was a bandit, he went to Nanhua Temple to pray to the monk.Zhang was strolling around the temple after eating and drinking, and suddenly wanted to see the golden body of the sixth patriarch Huineng hidden in the secret room.The monks watching the temple couldn't refuse, so they had to open the house for him to see.After Zhang saw it, he felt that it was nothing special, and before he left, he patted Huineng's shoulder. With a "squeak", a group of mice sprang out from under the golden body's buttocks, which really surprised Zhang Fakui. ⊙When Hu Xueyan was prosperous, a monk came to deposit money in the Diansi opened by him, but because he was a monk, it was not easy to write his name, so he was rejected.The monk knocked on the wooden fish outside the door for three days and three nights. Later, by chance, Hu Xueyan passed by and agreed to him.When Hu Xueyan was in decline, the monk came to withdraw money, but the money could not be paid, and the monk repeated his old tricks, knocking on wooden fish again and again.The man laughed and said, "In the past you knocked wooden fish to deposit, but now you can't knock it out." In the end, the woman's clothes were discounted to offset the money.The monk cried: "I take these things out, and I don't know where I will die." ⊙Zhang Zongchang's mother, Zhu Shi, was born strong and strong, and she was nicknamed "Big Foot".Later, when he returned to his hometown, he became a witch, known as the witch Zhu.Zhang Zongchang's father was a trumpeter, and because his family was too poor to marry a daughter-in-law, one day he saw Witch Zhu, who was dying of hunger, pass by the door, so he gave her a bowl of porridge, and the two became husband and wife.Later, there was no food at home, and the witch was so hungry that she took advantage of the dark night to guard the roadside with a stick in her hand, and successfully knocked out a group of people along the way, and grabbed some dry food.Not long after, Zhang Zongchang's father returned home with his head in his arms, saying that he was unlucky. It turned out that he was the passerby who was knocked out. ⊙When the students from the lecture hall graduated, Zhang Zuolin went to give a speech.The staff officers had already drawn up a speech for him to memorize by heart.On the day of the ceremony, Zhang Zuolin stepped up to the podium. He saw the audience was pitch black and the audience was completely silent. He became nervous and recited the opening line: "Zuolin spent half his life as a soldier, full of hardships." Then he forgot.After a long stalemate, Zhang Zuolin suddenly yelled: "Damn it! I used to memorize it very well, but when I saw you, I was so happy that I forgot it!" ⊙Han Fuju went to Gaowan to inspect the prison, and saw that the prison was empty, so he praised the county magistrate: "You are doing the right thing. The case will be sentenced as it comes. You may be killed or pardoned. Don't keep it locked up." When you arrive at Boxing Prison, It was also empty and there were no prisoners. Han couldn't help being furious: "Damn it, there is not even a single criminal in such a big county. Did you sell all the prisoners!" ⊙Han Fuju made a speech: "Student basketball games must have been embezzled by the chief of affairs. Why is the school so poor? What does it look like for a dozen people in shorts to grab a ball? How ugly. Come to my mansion tomorrow to get a sum of money and buy more For a few balls, each person serves one, so that you don’t have to fight for me.” ⊙Duan Qirui asked a Fengshui master to tell a fortune, and in order to seek real results, he concealed his identity. Unexpectedly, the master said: "Your appearance is the appearance of the leader of all dragons!" Duan asked: "Why do you know it?" The master said: "The secret must not be revealed. If you want to know, send someone to send 1,000 taels of gold somewhere. I will write the reason for you on a piece of paper, and you will understand it after reading it!" Duan Qirui did as he did, and got the note to open it. , his nose almost twisted in anger: "You find someone to post your president's portrait everywhere, even a fool knows who you are!" ⊙Zhang Zuolin asked the chief of staff: "Is there a god with the surname Zhang?" The chief of staff replied: "The Eight Immortal Zhang Guolao, the one who rides the donkey backwards!" Zhang then got a donkey and rode it backwards to find the feeling.It just so happened that Zhang Xueliang and Miss Zhao Si passed by on horseback. Zhang Zuolin was a little embarrassed. When he was shy, he suddenly heard Zhang Xueliang say to Miss Zhao Si: "Just now I seem to see that Zhang Guo is getting old." When Zhang and Zhao passed by, Zhang Zuolin cursed: "What's the benefit of being a fairy! My own son is so fucking stupid that he doesn't know him anymore." ⊙In the twenty-eighth year of Guangxu, Yuan Shikai was stationed in Tianjin. It happened that the Lantern Festival was approaching, and the sound of selling Lantern Festival came from the streets and alleys from time to time.Because "Yuan" and "Yuan" have the same pronunciation, and "Xiao" and "Xiao" have the same pronunciation, Yuan heard it harshly, so he called Zhao Bingjun, the governor of the police, and asked him to try to change the word "Yuanxiao".Zhao Sui sent the police around to inform the shops and hawkers: "In order to unify the names of famous foods across the country, they are not allowed to be called Yuanxiao in the future, and they will all be called Tangyuan. This is an order!" Going back to the previous dynasty, it floated on the water when it was steamed and boiled. Hong Xian issued a ban back then, and it was not allowed to shout Lantern Festival along the street."