297 Wash Dust on

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In the thin morning fog, a four-wheeled carriage shattered the tranquility of the morning. In the seat by the window of the car, there was a middle-aged man in his early thirties. He was wearing a stiff black tweed uniform, a line of dense brass buttons, from the bottom one to the top one, and even the two rows of Fengji buckles were tightly buckled, holding a beautiful face with a tall and hard collar, and the black cap on his head was upright. He sat upright, with his palms flat on his thighs. The four-wheeled carriage was moving at high speed, shaking from time to time, but he did not move, and his back and the cushion always kept a distance of three or four inches wide. Although this person has beautiful eyebrows and a thin body, it can be seen that he is a strictly trained general with a standard military temperament.

He is Cai E.

Since getting on the car, Cai E has been closing his mouth expressionlessly and not talking, not even saying hello to his peers beside him. He turned his head slightly and stared at the eaves door flying out of the window. He looked very calm and even cold. In fact, his mind was undulating and surging.

When Cai E came to Beijing, Yuan Shikai still used the trick against Zhu Rui to deal with him.

Zhu Rui went to Beijing first because of his recent journey. He changed his military uniform and waited for the call at the Chengqi Office of the presidential palace. Yuan sent a Chengqi official to come out and said, "The president ordered that Zhu Dudu is his own person. Don't be restrained. Please change your clothes and come to see him."

Zhu Rui planned to go back and change his casual clothes, but was stopped by Cheng Qiguan. He guided him into a room and took out a fox fur robe and a horse coat for him. Zhu looked at the mirror, increasing it as it was longer, and decreasing it as short, as if he were measuring his figure.

Zhu Rui went to Jurentang under the guidance of Cheng Qiguan. When he saw Yuan Shikai full of spring breeze, he was so nervous that he couldn't speak. Yuan Shikai, like an acquaintance, asked him to sit down and talk to him.

Yuan Shikai asked unexpectedly, "Ji Ren, if you are against me, you should declare independence. If you are against the chaotic party, you should understand what do you mean by declaring neutrality?"

Zhu Rui once served as the commander of the new military standard and the Jiangsu and Zhejiang allied forces. He couldn't answer a word tremblingly. Yuan saw that he was very embarrassed and immediately turned away with other words, and his face was always so kind and kind, as if he didn't care about this question. At the end of the story, he stood up and said, "You should go back early. Local security is important."

After a few days, Zhu Rui still wore the fox skin robe and horse coat to the presidential palace and resigned to Yuan Shikai. The presidential palace is three steps and one sentry, five steps and one post, which is very closely guarded. He walked into the Jurentang and saw Yuan Shikai sitting high on it in a dazzling gold-edged marshal uniform. Before Zhu Rui could speak, Yuan Shikai said a series of words with a fierce face, "Soldiers must be undisciplined" and "Soldiers are bound to obey orders." His tone was so harsh that he was so scared that Zhu Rui didn't even dare to raise his head and sweated all over.

This is Yuan Shikai's usual trick of "being virtuous and coming to power". He didn't invent this trick. He just brought the skill of power and fraud of "talents" from ancient times to perform.

But this trick will not work if it is used on Cai E, who is calm and strong-willed. Yuan Shikai found that this thin man was not easy to deal with, so he didn't let him go back and immediately sent a spy to monitor his actions.

Yuan Shikai has already arranged a false intelligence to slander Cai E's treasonous attempt to break away from China and build another country in Yunnan and call himself the "King of the Han Dynasty". Yuan personally criticized the word "should be investigated" on this false information, and the internal history was included in the file. This move has a deep meaning: it turns out that he has taken a fancy to Cai E, who is good at governing the army and is serious and meticulous. He really wants to accept him as a slave. He can pull out this file at any time to add him a charge of "treason" and put him to death.

Yuan Shikai regarded Cai E as a military talent who is good at training. After Cai E was cheated to Beijing by Yuan Shikai for surveillance, he often communicated with Yang Du, his hometown in Hunan. Through Yang Du, he also had contacts with Xia Shoutian in the presidential palace.

Yang Du had already seen that Yuan Shikai was dissatisfied with the old generals of Beiyang and had the determination to transform the Beiyang faction, so he recommended Cai E with Xia Shoutian to preside over the construction of the new army. This suggestion is in line with Yuan's intention. Yuan believes that if Cai E supports the army outside, he can't rest assured of him. It is not terrible to ban Cai Quan in Beijing and ask him to preside over the construction of the army. However, Yuan Shikai is a very suspicious person. He always regards Liang Qichao as a political imaginary enemy, and Cai E is also a student of Liang Qichao. He can't ignore the close relationship between Liang and Cai.

Yang Du advised Yuan Shikai, "The relationship between teachers and students is not unbreakable. Liang Qichao is Kang Youwei's proud disciple, and now Kang Liang has a separate family. If the president is grateful, Cai E will be happy to be used by the president.

Yuan Shikai has always won people with fame, fame and wealth, and Yang Du's words are in line with his opinions.

Yuan Shikai said to Xia Shoutian, "The old man in the small station is in a twilight now. I have no idea about southerners. If southerners don't oppose me, I can't reuse them. If Cai E is reliable, you can be his deputy!"

Xia Shoutian is Yang Du's hometown in Hunan and a classmate. He is recommended by Yang Du as the confidential secretary of the presidential palace. Yuan Shikai has always put family first. Xia comes from a rich family and has the advantages of attentiveness and quick thinking. Therefore, he is a first-class celebrity in the history of the presidential palace. Although Xia is not a soldier, Yuan is used to adopting a surveillance system. Using Xia as Cai's deputy is a way to use him to monitor Cai.

Yuan Shikai planned to first send Cai as the chief of staff to replace Li Yuanhong, who was not in the department, and then transferred Cai as the chief of the army to replace Duan Qirui, who did not listen to the dispatch. Cai E agreed to the plan.

Yuan Shikai successively appointed Cai E as a member of the Political Conference, a member of the York Law Conference, a member of the Senate, the supervision of the Economic Bureau, General Zhaowei, and the clerk of the Grand Marshal's Office. These are all Yuan Shikai's practices.

However, most of the people around Yuan Shikai are northerners, and they are all opposed to using southerners to preside over the construction of the army. He said to Yuan Jin: "It is impossible to completely remove the military power of the old Beiyang generals. It can only be enough to gradually weaken their military power so that they do not become the future troubles of the central government. It is also not feasible to use southerners to preside over the establishment of the army, because the Beiyang faction is a group with local color. If it wants to reform militarily, it can only use northerners instead of southerners. For such a big problem related to the safety of the country, it can only be done gradually and not too hasty. Otherwise, the disaster may not be Come on, and today."

This opinion hit the key point of Yuan Shikai's suspicion, so the plan to use Cai E to transform the Beiyang faction was stranded.

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In the year of Gengzi, Cai E was also called Cai Genyin at that time. At the invitation of Tang Caichang, a fellow villager in Hunan, he returned to China to participate in the self-supporting army uprising. The uprising soon failed. Tang Cai often was killed tragically, and Cai Jianyin fled to Japan again. The failure of the uprising made him deeply realize the importance of the military and decided to abandon literature and martial arts. Liang Qichao was very supportive and recommended it to his friend, the dean of the non-commissioned officer school, Zuo Teng Yifu. Zotten accepted Cai Genyin and put him into the third cavalry department. Before entering the school, Liang Qichao said to him, "You are now a soldier, and you should have a commensurate name." The ancient poem says, 'The lotus wears the sword, and the autumn moon hides the knife ring'. The shovel, the treasure knife, just take the name of 'the sword'!" Since then, Cai Jianyin has changed his name to Cai E.

With the lofty ambition of "bleeding to save the people and saving our generation", Cai E diligently studied various military skills in the non-commissioned officer school, and his subjects were excellent. Together with Jiang Baili and Zhang Xiaozhun, he was known as the three outstanding non-commissioned officers. Jiang Baili graduated with the first place. He graduated with the second place, and the school awarded him a ** medal.

At that time, all provinces in China were preparing to build a new army, and Cai E's outstanding performance in the non-commissioned officer school was valued by China. People from Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Yunnan and other provinces came to contact him and hire him as a military instructor. After living in Japan for many years, Cai E always misses his disaster-stricken motherland and his fellow villagers who are struggling in poverty. In those years, there was only one ultimate purpose of learning and seeking knowledge, that is, to save the country and the people. The heart tide of the young people who were full of enthusiasm at the beginning has been wasted to this day. Can it continue to surge?

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"General, Mr. Liang's mansion has arrived." The adjutant beside him said beside Cai E.

Cai E woke up from the heavy memories and shook his spirits. The door was pulled open and he had arrived at the door of Liangzhai in the Cotton Hutong.

His mentor, Liang Qichao, just arrived in Beijing at a private banquet.

Last autumn, Xiong Xiling formed a cabinet, and Liang Qichao entered the cabinet as the chief justice. At the beginning of entering the cabinet, Liang Qichao still had an ambition to try to formulate a judicial system and introduce Chinese justice, which has never had strict legal significance. But soon he was disappointed. Xiong Xiling is not a successful politician, and Yuan Shikai is not interested in various constructions. For the president, the top priority is how to consolidate the regime and suppress the opposition with strength. After Xiong Xiling resigned, he also resigned, and Yuan Shikai became the president of the Currency Bureau. This is a nominal position, but it only costs 500 yuan a month.

The Progressive Party was established, and Liang Qichao was elected as a director. After a period of time, he also saw that most of these so-called legislators were politicians who wanted their own fame and fortune. They said what they said, what they thought about in their hearts, and they knew nothing about party politics. Yuan Shikai disbanded the Kuomintang and confiscated the credentials of Kuomintang members. Most members of the Progressive Party clapped their hands to eliminate political enemies and fell into the bottom. Liang Qichao was very sad to see this situation. The National Assembly is composed of two parties. It can't sing a one-man show. Without the Kuomintang, what is the need for the Progressive Party? Sure enough, after the Kuomintang members were cancelled, the Congress did not meet and was soon disbanded. If the Progressive Party loses the parliament, which is a place of legal struggle, it will survive in name only.

Liang Qichao finally completely saw that Yuan Shikai was not a democratic and republican figure, and he regretted his two years of following. At the same time, he also saw that the fundamental strength of Yuan Shikai's ability to do whatever he wanted was that Yuan held the Beiyang Army in his hands. If Liang Qichao wants to do things, the Progressive Party wants to do things, and he must have his own army. Therefore, he pinned his hopes on his tall man Cai E. Yang Du didn't know at all that Cai E had been in close contact with Liang Qichao for ten years after returning to China. Cai E respects the famous teacher all over the world from the bottom of his heart, and Liang Qichao also attaches great importance to this young and successful student. The friendship between Cai E and Liang Qichao far exceeds that of Yang Du. Now that he learned that Yuan Shikai was going to transfer Cai E to Beijing and give him military power, Liang Qichao was so unhappy that he hurriedly sent a letter to Kunming, hoping that the students would come to Beijing as soon as possible after properly handling the Yunnan affairs.

Cai E received a transfer order from the presidential palace two days after receiving Yang Du's letter. He is calm and steady by nature and far-reaching. He doesn't think it's a good thing to go to the capital: he has nothing to do with the Beiyang Military Department. The area of Beijing has always been under the strict control of the Beiyang Military Department. What can he do if he goes to Beijing alone? If you don't do it well, you will be in a cage. It will be difficult to get out in the future. The officials in the governor's government all advocated that he should go. It is said that Yunnan is a frontier after all, with limited influence. It should have the ambition to take the name of Beijing and the whole country. He also said that Yunnan will always listen to the governor. If there is anything to do in Yunnan in the future, with just one word, the Yunnan army will go through fire and water.

While hesitating, Cai E received a letter from his teacher. He no longer hesitated, so he set off.

Yuan Shikai originally wanted Cai E to be the chief of staff to replace Li Yuanhong, who had never been in the department. Because Li is the vice president and also holds this position at the same time. Although he holds the important positions of two leaders of the country, he has always been detained in Wuchang by Li Madman. After Cai E was the chief of staff for a period of time, he was transferred to the chief of the army and then replaced Duan Qirui. Unexpectedly, a few words from Zuo Cheng and Yang Shiqi made Yuan Shikai cancel this arrangement.

On the eve of Cai E's entry into Beijing, Yuan Shikai talked to Yang Shiqi about this. Yang Shiqi said, "The Beiyang Military Department has been formed for a long time. It is impossible to change suddenly, and it is only appropriate to do it gradually. The Beiyang army is all northerners. If a southerner is used as their commander-in-chief, it will cause their discord. What's more, Cai E is young and young, and it's not easy to wear clothes. It's better to slowly find a more suitable person in the future.

Yuan Shikai already takes the military people very seriously. He believes that Yang Shiqi's words are reasonable, especially it is a little inappropriate to use southerners to command northerners.

On the day Cai E entered Beijing, Yuan Shikai sent someone to greet him with a grand ceremony and decorated a luxurious house in the cotton alley for Cai E to live in. A few days later, Cai E was appointed as a member of the Political Council, a member of the Treaty Council, and a member of the Senate. In a few days, he was appointed as General Zhaowei. There are many titles, but there is no specific position.

Liang Qichao found that after Cai E came to Beijing, the situation did not change much from before Cai E came to Beijing. This time, I heard that Li Xiang suddenly came to Beijing. They all bet on Li Xiang, hoping that this young military genius could be a powerful tool to realize their political ideals.

Liang Qichao held a banquet and invited Li Xiang, Li Yuanhong and Tang Hualong, who had just entered Beijing, to the banquet. At the same time, he also invited Xiong Xiling and Liu Kuiyi, who will be idle at home, Li Fengzi, who "read" at Longquan Temple, and his proud students.

Although Cai E, Lin Changmin, Xiong Xiling and Liu Kuiyi are in the capital, they rarely get together on weekdays. They get together today, and everyone cherishes them very much. What's more, many people have not seen the legendary commander-in-chief in the south, and they also meet him very much.