Chapter 52 Chapter 12 Taking the blame for the boss

Beiyang commented on Duan Qirui's behavior, saying that he was headstrong.The "he" here refers to Xu Shuzheng.This is because Xu Shuzheng took too many risks for Duan Qirui and wiped too many buttocks. To put it bluntly, Xu Shuzheng played the role of covering Duan Qirui from the wind and offending others for Duan Qirui. The most well-known incident is that in the Beiyang Army, an officer surnamed Li was dismissed and had no place to eat, so he came to Duan Qirui. Duan Qirui agreed and transferred Xu Shuzheng to handle it.But Xu Shuzheng criticized a sentence: It is useless to check the person, criticize and check.Called back Duan Qirui's order.

So the officer surnamed Li didn't find a job in the end, so he had to leave in despair.Don't blame Duan Qirui when it's over, just blame Xu Shuzheng for not being a thing. So this Xu Shuzheng was an eyesore in the army chief's mansion, and was hated by countless people.At that time, there was a saying that what Duan Qirui said didn't count, but what Xu Shuzheng said counted. In short, Xu Shuzheng was Duan Qirui's home and Duan Qirui's boss. In addition, Xu Shuzheng also did a shocking deed, which could scare Duan Qirui and Yuan Shikai to death. When the First World War broke out and the Japanese landed in Qingdao to snatch the German concession, Xu Shuzheng secretly recruited Jin Yunpeng, the governor of Shandong, to send a train of munitions to the Germans via Shandong.Hearing the news, Jin Yunpeng was so frightened that he was almost stupid, and asked: Old Xu, is this wrong?We all know that you are a famous pro-Japanese faction, how can you send arms to the Germans?

Xu Shuzheng replied: Japan is China's strongest neighbor. It is arrogant by nature and extremely domineering.Anything in China, if Japan doesn't agree, you can't do it, so I was forced to be pro-Japanese.But Japan is China's great enemy, and it will never watch China become stronger and not interfere. In the future, only the United States and Germany can truly become friends of the Chinese. If you say that I don't help the Germans, can I help the Japanese? Jin Yunpeng asked: Even so, now that Germany and Japan are at war, China is in a neutral state. If you help the Germans so much, what if the Japanese find out?

Xu Shuzheng replied: So this matter was neither ordered by the President nor arranged by Chief Lu, it was all my own idea.Whether things are successful or not, they cannot be publicized after all.It's just that once the incident happens and the Japanese pursue it, at most I will be responsible alone, and it will definitely not affect the country's major affairs. The matter went smoothly, and the ammunition was smuggled into the German Concession. The Japanese never dreamed that the Chinese would dare to trick them, but Germany was too weak, and they were beaten honestly by the Japanese within a few days.But the Germans were very grateful for China's help, and even Duan Qirui thought it was a good job when he learned about it later.

Logically speaking, Xu Shuzheng worked so hard, Yuan Shikai should know his difficulties, but it was strange, but Yuan Shikai hated Xu Shuzheng very much, so he named him Little Fan.It means that Xu Shuzheng is Duan Qirui's dog-headed military advisor. Every once in a while, Yuan Shikai would come to trouble Xu Shuzheng and issue official documents to transfer Xu Shuzheng away.Duan Qirui stopped him every time.This kind of thing happened too many times, Yuan Shikai became a little impatient, so he called Duan Qirui over, and said: "Who is that, by the way, it is Xu Shuzheng, please move him quickly, as soon as I see this People are annoying.

Duan Qirui replied: Please the president remove me first, and then you can do whatever you want. Duan Qirui's actions made Yuan Shikai very angry.Immediately afterwards, the Spring Festival door-knocking incident broke out, which made the conflict between Duan Qirui and Yuan Shikai completely public. It is said that in 1915, the restoration of the government and the opposition became more and more powerful. The Beiyang soldiers did not know who took the lead, and took the lead in restoring the kneeling ceremony.Only Duan Qirui insisted on raising the bar to the end, refusing to kneel down desperately. You must know that he raised his head and made the Chinese soldiers stand up after the Gengzi Kingdom Revolution, but these soldiers all knelt down again. Duan Qirui was so angry that he was half dead, of course he was not willing to kneel down.

At this time, old partner Feng Guozhang came to round up the field and said to Duan Qirui: Xiao Duan, I know you have a stiff neck. We have been together for so many years, and I still don’t know you?But you made a mistake. We kowtow to the President this time, not to restore the ceremony of kneeling. Isn’t this the Chinese New Year?In any case, the president has cultivated us, even if the younger generation kowtows to the elders, you don't have to raise an argument, do you? To put it bluntly, Feng Guozhang forced Duan Qirui to meet Yuan Shikai, and then the two knelt down and kowtowed to each other.Yuan Shikai was surprised and delighted at the time. You must know that these two people have already developed influence in Beiyang, and they will not lose their tails.Yuan Shikai's biggest headache was the two of them. Now that these two were willing to kowtow to him, why didn't Yuan Shikai like it?Immediately ordered his sons to come and kowtow to the two in return.

Several sons of the Yuan family came over and knelt down to kowtow to Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang.Only the eldest son Yuan Keding remained unmoved, and stood aside arrogantly. Duan Qirui was furious, and Feng Guozhang was so angry that his hands trembled. When the two went out, Duan Qirui said: "The old man is still humble, but the young master is full of airs. How can we be treated as human beings!"We have been dogs in the previous life, and we will be dogs in the next life! Feng Guozhang said: Zhiquan, don't say that you are angry, I can't bear it either, I will follow you from now on, we can no longer be dogs for the rest of our lives.

Seeing the two go out angrily, Yuan Shikai scolded Yuan Keding for causing trouble.But Yuan Keding also had something to say. He said: These two people were raised by you, if you don't break their arrogance, how will you manage them in the future? Uncontrollable, this is Yuan Shikai's emotion when facing Beiyang's old-fashioned chariot.