Chapter 49 Section 9 The Inverse Law of Character

So far, the description of Duan Qirui in the historian circle is still changing.If Duan Qirui is mentioned separately, it is probably a positive role.Duan Qirui lives a frugal life. He wears cloth socks made at home all the year round. He likes to read and play chess. He respects intellectuals the most and likes to learn how to write poems from them.When he went to Wuchang to welcome Li Yuanhong to Beijing, he wrote a couplet in front of the Yellow Crane Tower, saying: A glass of wine talks about the past, and the sound of thousands of miles of waves surges in the sky. Ascending to Huai's homeland, Bagong Mountain is so beautiful.

This pair of couplets, even the most picky literati bachelor, can't help but shake his head again and again, cursing in his heart: Damn, you, a rough man who touches the barrel of a gun, can write such a good couplet, what a fool I am! . But when he mentioned Jiang Fangzhen, Duan Qirui changed his face in an instant, from an upright and bold martial artist to a despicable villain.There are indeed inevitable factors in this historical trend, which makes people sigh in vain and feel helpless. Duan Qirui was accused: he withheld funds from Baoding Military Academy many times, and deliberately troubled Jiang Fangzhen, causing Jiang Fangzhen to be in trouble, making Jiang Fangzhen unable to train officers as he wished, and in anger, he drew a gun and committed suicide.

After Jiang Fangzhen's injury improved, Yuan Shikai valued his talent and specially appointed him as a counselor of the Military Department of the Presidential Palace. This appointment shows that Yuan Shikai is indeed dedicated to the country and values ​​talents. Of course, this appointment still needs Duan Qirui's signature and a letter of appointment. But guess what Duan Qirui did? You would never have guessed that he has been slow to issue a letter of appointment to Jiang Fangzhen.What does he want to do?Do you still want to force Jiang Fangzhen to commit suicide again? It's really outrageous.

Yuan Shikai found out that Duan Qirui was still dragging his legs, so he was extremely angry, so he came to write the letter of appointment in person. On the word "first class", two huge circles were drawn, which meant that Duan Qirui could see clearly for himself. Although Duan Qirui had his own reasons for this conflict, the dial pointer of justice pointed to Yuan Shikai and Jiang Fangzhen, and Duan Qirui was obviously not a thing. It's no wonder that he and Miss Xu, who loves him, have never been able to get together for the rest of their lives. What are they doing together?Let Miss Xu watch him do such embarrassing and jealous things every day?I'm afraid Miss Xu will be mad at him sooner or later.

Even if you don't die of anger, you will inevitably die of jealousy.For Duan Qirui, there are only three beautiful concubines. Although capable men in those days always liked to marry more gentle girls, it can be regarded as helping girls solve their livelihood problems.But it can be seen from this that Duan Qirui is not so devoted to Miss Xu. Let's not mention this matter. But life is like a play, and the roles alternate.There is an objective law on the issue of playing a good guy and a bad guy. This law is: the character of the people around you is inversely proportional to your own character.

To put it simply: if you think it's good to play the bad guy, you will find yourself unfortunately falling into the crowd of good guys, accused by everyone, and scolded to death.If you find that bad people are not easy to do, then change careers and become a good person, but when you play the role of a good person full-time, you will find that there are all bad people around, thinking about bullying you, a good person with a solid heart. This law is vividly reflected here by Duan Qirui.To be clear, when he was a bad guy and secretly added to the chaos of the military strategist Jiang Fangzhen, everyone was a good guy and reprimanded him with righteous indignation.But when Duan Qirui slammed the steering wheel and drove on the bright road of the good man, he was surprised to find that everyone had already squeezed into the green passage of the bad man, and they were still working together to fix him persistently.

What I'm talking about here is the story of Xu Shuzheng, a talented Beiyang scholar.