Yang Shiqi

Yang Shiqi

Yang Shiqi (1862-1918), whose name is Xingcheng, was born in Sizhou, Anhui Province (now Xuyi, Jiangsu Province). He came from a big bureaucratic family and was an important subordinate of Li Hongzhang and Yuan Shikai.

Life experience

Yang Shiqi (1862-1918), whose name is Xingcheng, was born in Shanyang County of Huai'an Prefecture in 1862. Guangxu eight years (1882) in the election, reported the donation of Taoist. In the past 11 years, it was donated to Zhili for trial use. For more than 10 years, it has been in charge of railway affairs inside and outside the customs.

In the 25th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, Yang served as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Li Hongzhang, and went to Guangzhou to serve with his brother Shi. Later, Li moved to Beiyang as minister, while his brothers went back to Beijing to participate in the secret service. Both of them were in Beijing. During this time, he was very close to Prince Yizhe and Yuan Shikai. The following year, he wrote to Yuan Shikai asking for the suppression of the Boxer Movement, and served as the liaison of Li Hongzhang in the negotiation with the eight countries. In the 27th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, after Li died, Yang turned to Yuan Shikai and served as the chief copywriter of the Westernization Movement. He became a pawn of Yuan's "Pro rich movement and control of the political power". He continued to be favored for more than ten years. He was regarded as a confidant by Yuan and was known as a "think tank".

According to the Treaty of Xin Chou, Yang, entrusted by Yuan Shikai, bribed Prince Qing with 100000 taels of silver. With his clever tongue and resourceful mind, he brought Yi and yuan together and promoted them to minister of post.

In September of the 32nd year of Guangxu, Yuan Shikai's cabinet system failed. Yang took the initiative to play the leading role in Yuan's plot to eliminate dissidents Qu Hongxuan and Cen Chunxuan. He cooperated with Yi and secretly transferred the files before the 1898 coup. He spent another 20000 taels of silver to frame Qu and Cen. His scheming was so profound that it was rare in the world.

The revolution of 1911 was completed. Yang urged Yuan Shikai to force the Qing emperor to abdicate and negotiate peace with the south. In 1915, aware of Yuan's opposition to the Republic and his willingness to be emperor, Yang agreed immediately. In January of the following year, he strongly supported yuan to ascend to the throne of "emperor Hongxian". Because he was a lucky Minister of Yuan Shikai, he was promoted to the left Minister of the political affairs hall. Power is superior to Secretary of state Xu Shichang.

In the seventh year of the Republic of China, Yang Shiqi ended his life with Yuan Shikai's disillusionment of his two-year "emperor dream".

Anecdotes of characters

Yang Shiqi (1862-1918), a native of Sizhou (now Xuyi, Jiangsu Province), was born into a big bureaucratic family and was an important subordinate of Li Hongzhang and Yuan Shikai. Yuan Shikai gave advice in many important political activities. Later, he served as the communications chief of Xiong Xiling's cabinet in the Republic of China. In January 1903, Yuan Shikai sent Yang Shiqi to Shanghai as Assistant Minister of electricity and Prime Minister of China Merchants shipping company. At the beginning of his term of office, Yang Shiqi drew up ten articles of the constitution, which boasted that "the government supervises the commercial affairs and has achieved good results". The constitution emphasized that the Minister of Beiyang (i.e. Yuan Shikai) had great power in the Bureau, and the feudalism was very prominent. Yang Shiqi also followed Yuan Shikai's orders to issue Zhili bonds in China Merchants Group, depriving the group in disguised form economically, which had a serious impact on the operation and management of China Merchants Group. In June 1913, China Merchants re elected the board of directors. With the support of Yuan Shikai, Yang Shiqi, Sheng Xuanhuai and other nine people were elected as directors, and was elected chairman of the board of directors at the regular meeting of shareholders. Yang Shiqi was the chairman of the board of directors of China Merchants for four years, until the end of the first World War in 1918 and Sheng Xuanhuai's family regained power in China Merchants.

In the thirtieth year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, the Ministry of Commerce of the Qing government took over Nanyang public school and changed its name to higher industrial school. Yang Shiqi was the supervisor. After taking office, Yang Shiqi reformed the educational administration and system of the school. He abolished the prime minister and promoted his post, set up the three heads of educational affairs, vegetarian affairs and common affairs to be responsible for the administration of the school, re formulated the constitution of the higher Industrial School of the Ministry of Commerce, and clearly put forward that "the school stresses industry, with the purpose of being practical, so as to cultivate talents for revitalizing China's commerce". In August of the 33rd year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of Qing Dynasty, Yang Shiqi resigned and left school. Nanyang public school is the predecessor of the former Jiaotong University (now Xi'an Jiaotong University and Shanghai Jiaotong University).

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