Yuan Keding

Yuan Keding

Yuan Keding (1878-1955 (from Dahe net) / 1958 (from Fenghuang net)), with the name of Yuntai, another name of Huineng Jushi, was born in Xiangcheng, Henan Province. He was a political figure of the Republic of China, the leader of Beiyang government and the eldest son of Yuan Shikai.

Yuan Keding served as a counsellor and Youcheng of the Ministry of agriculture, industry and Commerce in the late Qing Dynasty. After the outbreak of the revolution of 1911, Wang Jingwei was invited by his father. According to the records of the revolution of 1911, yuan and Wang became brothers of different surnames in front of Yuan Shikai. Later, he advocated monarchy and helped his father Yuan Shikai become emperor. After Yuan Shikai died, yuan Keding moved to Tianjin and lived in seclusion. He was once the supervisor of Kailuan General Administration of mining.

Life of the characters

In January 1912, according to the "joint draft contract of Kailuan General Administration of Mines", Kailuan General Administration of Mines submitted a petition to the Chinese government to send a member of the mine supervision office. To supervise the protection and operation of the enterprise at any time and report to the Chinese government, whose salary shall be paid by the Kailuan General Administration of mines. On April 5 of the same year, Zhang xiluan, governor of Zhili, informed luanzhou Mining Co., Ltd. that yuan Keding would be the supervisor of the General Administration of Kailuan mining.

On May 21, 1912, at the beginning of the combination of Kaiping and luanzhou companies, yuan Keding, the supervisor of the General Administration of mining of Kailuan, issued a list of notes to Kaiping company for signature on the issue and conditions of determining the sovereignty of Kaiping company.

In 1913, yuan Keding broke his leg while riding a horse and was disabled for life.

After Yuan Shikai became the president of the Republic of China and suppressed the second revolution, his rule gradually became stable. At this time, yuan Keding began to advocate monarchy, hoping to become crown prince. He sent people to forge Shun Tian daily to Yuan Shikai, which only included articles in favor of the monarchy, and initiated the organization of the fund raising and security committee, so that he mistook it for the popular support. Therefore, when Yuan Shikai lost the national defense war and had to cancel the imperial system, he once denounced yuan Keding for "deceiving his father and the country".

After Yuan Shikai's death, yuan Keding moved to Tianjin and lived in seclusion.

On November 28, 1928, yuan Keding resigned from the supervision of Kailuan General Administration of mines at the meeting of the discussion department of Kailuan General Administration of mines.

In 1935, he moved back to Baochao Hutong in Beijing. After 1937, he moved to qinghuaxuan villa in the summer palace.

During the Anti Japanese War, he refused to cooperate with the Japanese occupation forces and lived in poverty.

In 1948, yuan Keding was poor and went to his cousin Zhang Boju and moved to Qinghua garden.

After 1949, yuan Keding became a librarian of the Central Library of culture and history under the arrangement of Zhang Shizhao.

In 1955, yuan Keding died of illness.

Character experience

Yuan Shikai had many wives and concubines in his life (one wife and nine concubines). His original wife, Yu Shi, was married in his hometown when he returned to Henan Province for the provincial examination. Two years later, yuan Keding, the eldest son of Yuan Shikai, was born, which was the only birth of the Yu family.

After Yuan Shikai arrived in Korea, he had many concubines and gave birth to many children (17 sons and 15 daughters in total). However, these younger brothers and sisters are quite different from yuan Keding's age. For example, Yuan Kewen, his second son, is 12 years younger than yuan Keding. Therefore, yuan Shikai should treat yuan Keding with a different eye and cultivate him well. Yuan Keding has followed Yuan Shikai since he was a child. No matter whether Yuan Shikai was stationed in Korea or training in a small station, or touring Shandong or Zhili, yuan Keding never left.

When it comes to yuan Keding, he has a good appearance. He has changed his father's image of being short and valiant. When Yuan Shikai was an official in the Qing Dynasty, yuan Keding also worked in the Ministry of agriculture, industry and commerce. However, something unexpected happened. At the beginning of 1912, yuan Keding accidentally fell down when he was riding in his hometown in Henan Province. Because of untimely treatment, he fell ill and walked a little lame. As a father, Yuan Shikai was very sad, so he could be sent to Germany for further treatment the next year.

When the German Emperor William II saw the eldest son of President yuan coming to see a doctor, he naturally attached great importance to it and treated it with great hospitality. William II was an ambitious man. At that time, he was trying to expand his influence in the Far East, so he took advantage of the banquet to give a briefing in Yuan Keding's ear: "the republican system China is now engaged in is not suitable for China's national conditions. If China wants to develop, it must learn from Germany. It cannot develop without monarchy. When he returns to China, he will tell the president that if China wants to restore monarchy, Germany will do its best to help him. "

Not only that, when yuan Keding returned to China, William II wrote a letter specially asking him to pass it on to Yuan Shikai. The general meaning of the letter was that China and Germany were kind and helpful and advised Yuan Shikai to become emperor yunyun.

During his stay in Germany, yuan Keding marveled at Germany's achievements and believed deeply in the efficacy of German monarchy. In 1914, Mr. Yuan, 36 years old, went back to Germany with an emperor's dream. As a result, yuan Keding had a "German whirlwind" at home. He made a set of majestic school uniforms for himself and his younger brothers, and he pretended to be a "Prince".

Unfortunately, when Yuan Shikai became president, he was very averse to his family and relatives. Several of his adult sons had done something in the government in the former Qing Dynasty. However, after the Republic of China, with Yuan Shikai's insistence, no one worked outside, which made yuan Keding very depressed.

Fortunately, the opportunity will come soon. After the founding of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai found that his northern army was already in the doldrums, with numerous factions, and he was no longer able to control it easily. From the last "Beijing mutiny", Yuan Shikai had already felt that most of his generals had their own mountains and it was not easy to command.

Thus, Yuan Shikai began to rebuild his army after he took power. At this time, Jiang Fangzhen, the principal of Baoding Army school, proposed to compile and train "model regiments" to rebuild the military power. Yuan Shikai adopted this idea. The so-called "model regiment" means that officers at all levels are transferred from each division to serve as officers and soldiers respectively, and formed into regiments. After six months of training, they are sent to each division to serve as officers, so as to transform and optimize the structure of officers in the army.

At the beginning, Yuan Shikai intended to let Cai E (a talented student of the Japanese Sergeant school, who was the governor of Yunnan during the 1911 Revolution) from Yunnan come to Beijing as the head of the "model group", but this proposal was rejected by the generals of the Northern Warlords. After hearing about this, yuan Keding also wanted to learn from Yuan Shikai's experience in small station training, so he proposed to the old man that he should be the head of the "model regiment". Yuan Shikai began to feel that it was not right. Yuan Keding said that when he was in Germany, he found that the German royal family could only serve as a military officer in the country and could not interfere in its internal affairs. This is a good way to follow.

Relative members

Family background

Father: Yuan Shikai. Mother: Yu, the daughter of Yu Ao, a rich man in Henan Province, is illiterate.

spouse

One wife and two concubines: wife: Wu benxian, daughter of Wu Dacheng, governor of Hunan Province and great calligrapher. Concubine: one concubine Ma Caifeng, two concubines Zhang zhensui (also known as Zhang Chunyi, formerly a Peking Opera actor).

Offspring

One son and two daughters:

The eldest son: Yuan Jiarong (concubine Ma Caifeng) (1904-1996), studied in the United States and obtained a doctorate in geology from Columbia University. His wife is the daughter of Hubei governor Wang Zhanyuan. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he taught in Hebei Institute of Geology and Guiyang Institute of technology, and died in 1996. There are five women and two men.

Eldest daughter-in-law: Queen Hui of Hubei governor Wang Zhanyuan.

Chang Sun: Yuan Jiyan (1941 -), later renamed Yuan Shi, painter, living in Canada.

Eldest granddaughter in law: Luo Yunhua.

Great grandson: yuan Fangwu (1968 -), living in the United States.

Granddaughter: Yuan Jizhen.

eldest daughter

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Yuan Jiajin

Ma Caifeng married Lei cunzheng, the eldest son of Lei Zhenchun.

Eldest son in law: Lei Zhenchun's eldest son, Lei cunzheng.

Second daughter: Yuan Jiadi (wife Wu benxiansheng), also known as Huiquan, versatile, good at painting and calligraphy, married Fei Gong, the son of Fei Shuwei in Jiangnan.

Second son-in-law: Fei Gong (also known as Fei Fuxiong), the son of Fei Shuwei (Liu Yazi's cousin), one of the three great scholars in Suzhou, once served as the head of Zhejiang University. In 1945, he was secretly kidnapped by the military and then killed in a nitric acid pool.

Anecdotes and allusions

Birthmark

He was born with a birthmark on his face, and "Ji'er" became his nickname. When he entered school, his teacher made a note of "Ji" and named him "Ji Guang", so Yuan Shikai's uncle also called him "Ji Er".

lame person

People all know that yuan Keding is lame. Yuan Shikai once used his lameness to prevaricate other people's topic about "monarchy". Yuan Kewen wrote a book "Xin Bing Mi Yuan", in which there is a paragraph "yuan Keding falls from a horse", which tells the reason why yuan Keding is lame.

Down and out

In the early 1930s, yuan Keding was very poor. He relied on an old servant who was loyal to him to pick up cabbages on the street and steam his food. Every time when the old servant served the meal, he still did not change the old rules. He wore a napkin, cut the Wotou into pieces with a Western knife and fork, and served with pickled vegetables.

Fear of wife

In his early years, yuan Keding married Wu benxian, the daughter of Wu Dacheng, governor of Hunan Province. Less than a month later, he married an aunt named Ma Caiyun. Wu's deaf, yuan Keding and she can only talk in writing; Ma Long is not good-looking, not like yuan Keding's meaning. When Yuan Shikai became president, he took another opera singer Zhang zhensui (also known as Zhang Chunyi) as his second aunt. This second aunt is a female Wenwu Xusheng. Because she is good at performing Dingjun mountain, many people call her "old Huang Zhong". This man has a frivolous manner and is very hard on yuan Keding. Yuan Keding is afraid of her and dotes on her. The second aunt was arrogant because she was in favor of her, and she went out of line with a Western doctor in Jinmen's home. Yuan Keding heard about her affair, so she was furious, gave up her love and expelled her from Tianjin.

Fake Shun Tian Shi Bao for Yuan Shikai to read for a long time

In order to strengthen Yuan Shikai's confidence in becoming emperor, his eldest son yuan Ke

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