Chapter 53 Chapter 13 Beiyang breaks

After that, it was Yuan Keding who organized the princelings to seize military power.Yuan Shikai came forward and asked to be the head of the model group. He didn't want Duan Qirui to put on a stepmother face and disagree with anything, so Yuan Shikai was so angry that he said: "You see, I will be the head of the group, okay?" This was originally an angry remark, but no one expected that it would turn out to be true in the end, and Yuan Shikai actually became the leader of the first phase of the model group. At this point, the relationship between Yuan Shikai and Duan Qirui has completely froze.

At this juncture, Yang Du came and offered a plan to get rid of Duan Qirui. Yang Du's approach is to first set up a national army and navy general command office, and use this department to take over Duan Qirui's army department.This new department will be headed by Cai E, China's best military genius, and Duan Qirui's department has become just for business. This is a good move, sorry for Duan Qirui's inability to resist. If he is unable to fight, he will not fight. Duan Qirui simply did not come to work, and passively slowed down his work as a protest.While protesting, Yuan Shikai suddenly called him to the Presidential Palace and asked him something.Duan Qirui replied: I don't know about this, wait for me to go back to the Ministry of Army and ask Xu Shizheng.

It turned out that Duan Qirui didn't come to work anymore, and Xu Shuzheng dominated the Army Department, and when he caught official documents, he was so angry that he didn't say hello to Duan Qirui at all. Seeing this, Yuan Shikai became confused again, sighed and said: In our group, ah, it is becoming more and more outrageous, ah, Zhiquan is the chief executive at home, ah, always not coming to work, ah, not going to work ... At this point, there should be a sensible person to mediate. They are all old people from Beiyang, so why make them so nervous? But no one is qualified to mediate the discord between Yuan Shikai and Duan Qirui. On the contrary, the relationship between the two has become a hot spot of media attention, making Duan Qirui and Yuan Shikai drift away. To each other's back.

Next, the Japanese came up with the "Twenty-One", and Yuan Shikai was immediately in high spirits, thinking of ways to deal with it extremely excitedly.Duan Qirui was so busy that he suddenly handed over an official document. Yuan Shikai thought it was a statement from the military and hurriedly opened it, but he didn't expect it to be a report from the Ministry of the Army asking for a salary increase. At that time Yuan Shikai was so angry that he cried and approved eight big characters: If you have a little heart, you can't do it. It means, Duan Qirui, Duan Qirui, as long as you have a little bit of humanity, just a little bit, you only need a little bit, and you won't pick this crucial point to add to the chaos.

Duan Qirui also realized that something was wrong with him, "Twenty-One" has come, if you insist on raising your salary at this time, no wonder Yuan Shikai scolded you.So in order to make up for the gap, Duan Qirui closed the door again, made a declaration of war against Japan, telegraphed the governors of all provinces, and asked everyone to sign and express their views. Duan Qirui's way of doing this is probably to express his support for Yuan Shikai in the form of the military's telegram signature.I don't want the conflict between him and Yuan Shikai to become superficial, and everyone can't hide in time. Who would go into this muddy water?No one paid attention to it.At the time of depression, the "21" crisis was easily resolved by Yuan Shikai, and he survived the crisis.Then Yuan Shikai was even more annoyed when he saw Duan Qirui's statement calling for a declaration of war against Japan, and said with a smile: "Zhiquan always sings the opposite tune, you can leave as you want, why bother to speak so badly?"

Yuan Shikai interpreted this power call as Duan Qirui's opposition to him. Although this misunderstanding was obvious, Yuan Shikai didn't want to explain it, and neither did Duan Qirui, so the situation deteriorated further. A few days later, Yuan Shikai summoned Duan Qirui, and when they met, he said, "Zhiquan, your complexion is not good. I think you should rest for a while before we talk." Duan Qirui was speechless and handed in his resignation. The time was May 1, 1915, and the Beiyang was broken.