Chapter 68 Chapter 1 Make the first achievement in North Korea

The first to appear is Yuan Shikai, who was historically known as Yuan Datou.If purely political symbols were filtered out, the real research on Yuan Shikai might never have begun.Regarding his influence on our nation and the definition of our current values, it is still a far-reaching topic. In the history textbooks, Yuan Shikai was firmly bound by four words-thief of the country.But for a person, it is not so easy for him to become a thief. He must have his own advantages.What is Yuan Shikai's excellence?Perhaps the Japanese and Koreans have a deeper understanding of this point than we Chinese.

Yuan Shikai was the enemy of Japan all his life. The Japanese were one step ahead of us in the study of Yuan Shikai in his early years. They once dispatched a huge spy agency to collect information about Yuan Shikai.These materials show that Yuan Shikai was not very interested in books, but he was very talented.He has an ambition, hoping to follow the example of the ancient Ban Zhao and make contributions outside the border. In order to realize this ideal, he calls friends and travels around the downtown every day, and his reputation in the local area is very bad.So the family gave him a sum of money and sent him out.Yuan Shikai left his hometown and was soon targeted by a gang of scammers, who quickly ran out of money.During this process, he suddenly heard that a red prostitute came to a brothel in Shanghai. At this time, he had no money, so he was not qualified to do this job anymore, but Yuan Shikai didn't think about it at all, and immediately went to line up. Ask to see the red whore.

When the prostitute saw Yuan Shikai, she was taken aback, and said to Yuan Shikai, you are not an ordinary person, why do you treat yourself like a trafficker and pawn to do such a thing?You should now be on the battlefield of making a difference.Yuan Shikai was very ashamed: I'm sorry, I don't have any money on me now.The prostitute told him: It doesn't matter if you don't have money, I will give it to you.I will redeem me first, and I will give you the rest of the money. I will wait for your return. The prostitute gave all the money to Yuan Shikai. At this time, Yuan Shikai began to consider re-planning his life, because someone had already placed expectations on him.So Yuan Shikai took his group of cronies to defect to Wu Changqing, his father's friend and commander of the Qing army. At that time, Wu Changqing's Qing army was stationed in Qingdao. Not long after Yuan Shikai arrived, troubles broke out in North Korea.Japan is strong, and the first goal of a strong Japan is to capture North Korea.At that time, Japan regarded itself as China, and the purpose of the Japanese to seize Korea was to expel the Tartars and restore China.When the Japanese were about to attack North Korea, the Qing Empire panicked and hurriedly dispatched Wu Changqing's Qing army. A total of 3,000 people entered North Korea, and Yuan Shikai followed Wu Changqing to North Korea.

According to relevant domestic records and Japanese research, Yuan Shikai's first prominence was when a sea ship landed.When they arrived in North Korea, no one dared to go ashore, because no one knew what the situation on the shore was.At this time, Yuan Shikai stepped forward, led a total of 500 of his cronies, landed first, then drove directly to Pyongyang, entered the South Korean palace, and announced the arrival of the Chinese soldiers.This is his first feat for the empire. At this time, troubles broke out in Vietnam again, and the French came to seize Vietnam, a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty.The Vietnam War led to chaos throughout China.At that time, the imperial court ordered Wu Changqing to bring 10,000 people back to the country to prevent troubles in Vietnam, and Yuan Shikai guarded North Korea.Why Yuan Shikai?Because he was bold and dared to kill people, he led 1,500 people to be stationed in North Korea.From then on, Yuan Shikai's fate began to be entangled with the Japanese throughout his life.Because the Japanese have always conspired against North Korea, a direct conflict has formed between the two.

The Japanese commented that Yuan Shikai blocked the Japanese from the Korean peninsula for eleven years with his own efforts.In these eleven years, as long as Yuan Shikai slack off one day, the Japanese will drive straight in, and the Sino-Japanese War will break out ahead of schedule.But precisely because Yuan Shikai dominated North Korea, the Japanese were still unable to cross the threshold.But are the Japanese willing?They are not reconciled. In the eleventh year, there was another disturbance in North Korea.The Qing court reached an agreement with Japan that neither side should send troops to avoid the expansion of the chaos.After the agreement was signed, 10,000 Japanese soldiers also landed on the Korean peninsula. The first thing they did was to surround Yuan Shikai's government office, with nine cannons pointing directly at Yuan Shikai's head.

Under such circumstances, under the threat of the Nine Cannons, Yuan Shikai hurriedly wrote to the court, saying that I could not stand it any longer, and all my cooks and servants ran away, and I was the only one left. Looking at me, I asked for a vacation. The imperial court saw the letter and said: Yuan Shikai, you coward, the nine cannons have frightened you, so what vacation do you take?No, don't go! Then the court received several telegrams from others, saying that Yuan Shikai was ill because he had nothing to eat or drink and was trapped to death by the Japanese.At this time, Beiyang Li Hongzhang made a decision to let Yuan Shikai come back.In fact, it was to give Yuan Shikai a decent chance to escape.After Yuan Shikai escaped, the British ambassador to China Zhu Erdian sent him directly back to China by warship.