Chapter 54 Chapter 14

After the relationship between Yuan Shikai and Duan Qirui broke down, Feng Guozhang was next. Speaking of the relationship between Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui, it is an extremely subtle relationship between upper and lower bunk beds.If Duan Qirui is in good shape, Feng Guozhang must be the first one who can't see it. Sneering is necessary, and irony is inevitable. It is also reasonable to do some small tricks to add trouble to Duan Qirui. .But if someone else does this to Duan Qirui, it is absolutely not allowed. The relationship between old comrades in arms is just so ambiguous, not a lover is better than a lover.You can hit his father yourself, you can scold his mother yourself, but others can't say a word.

So Duan Qirui was devastated and was repaired by Yuan Shikai. The first one who couldn't see it was Feng Guozhang.After all, Feng Guozhang's resentment towards Yuan Shikai was deeper than that of Duan Qirui. As early as Li Yuanhong's righteous deeds in Wuchang, when the world responded, Feng Guozhang led his army to a decisive battle in Wuhan and took Hanyang lightly. Assigned to Chahar as the governor, this is tantamount to Feng Guozhang being exiled.At that time, Feng Guozhang was furious. After returning to Beijing, he didn't go to see Yuan Shikai or Chahar, so he closed the door at home and lived alone.

While he was getting angry, Yuan Keding suddenly came, holding in his hand Feng Guozhang's protégé note from Yuan Shikai's previous visit to Yuan Shikai.Yuan Shikai returned this post, meaning that he would no longer recognize Feng Guozhang as a student, but as a brother.Yuan Shikai's action caught Feng Guozhang unexpectedly, and immediately eased the relationship between the two, coaxing Feng Guozhang to go out willingly, and settled Yuan Shikai's most troublesome trouble with the Habayashi Army. Since then, the relationship between Feng Guozhang and Yuan Shikai has always been very delicate. When Duan Qirui was exiled, a mysterious eccentric Hu Siyuan suddenly appeared out of the sky, causing the relationship between the two to cool down rapidly, close to freezing point.

Speaking of this Hu Siyuan, this man was an official in the Qing Dynasty. He was very unhappy after the Qing emperor abdicated. He always felt that the Chinese should not be so foolish. How could they bully the emperor?Is it easy for the emperor?You say that you can fire the squid if you fire the emperor. Is this still plausible?So Hu Siyuan became a restorationist with a strong will, and made a great determination to help the Qing Dynasty ascend the throne. As for Feng Guozhang, he also felt that he was sorry for the Qing Dynasty, because after he captured Hanyang, he was made a baron by the Qing Dynasty.So from a moral point of view, he should not bully the Qing Dynasty, but should help the Qing Emperor restore the throne.Feng Guozhang had this idea, so he respected the emperor Puyi very much. He heard that the young Puyi liked painting very much, so he queued up to ask for a painting. , Urgent order to burn the painting quickly.

What did Pu Yi paint for Feng Guozhang? It is said that a horse was drawn with two horns growing from its head.It is a metaphor that the two horns of the horse are for Feng, and there is an inscription on the painting, saying: This is my family's thousand-mile horse. Puyi's action made Feng Guozhang's loyalty to the Qing Dynasty suddenly cold.Say to people: Pu Yi is a child who abuses his intelligence and behaves frivolously.From then on, I never thought about supporting the Qing emperor's ascension to the throne. But when the Hu Siyuan incident broke out, Pu Yi hadn't painted that strange painting, and the mainstream public opinion at that time was also calling for the restoration of the Qing emperor, so Feng Guozhang and Hu Siyuan hit it off and became confidants.Soon after, Hu Siyuan brought Feng Guozhang into contact with Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, forming a strange political camp ever since.

This new political camp aroused Yuan Shikai's strong anxiety.So Yuan Shikai repeatedly issued orders to remove Hu Siyuan from Feng Guozhang's side.But he didn't want Feng Guozhang to ignore Yuan Shikai's order and ignore it. Yuan Shikai was in a hurry, and sent his secretary Ruan Zhongshu to find Feng Guozhang and asked Lao Feng to carry out the order.Old Feng categorically refused, how he refused is not clear, because there is a lack of relevant records, but this refusal means that Beiyang is no longer Yuan Shikai’s private vegetable garden, its unique and strong will, more and more clearly revealed.

Against this background, two murder cases were discovered in succession in Beijing, making Yuan Shikai and the Beiyang created by him present an extremely delicate confrontation of forces.