Despite such consolation, Liang Shiyi was really worried about the president's current condition. Maybe it was just like that when a man was about to die, he could speak kindly.

"Meet old friends..."

Shaking his head, Yuan Shikai seemed to have a kind of despair in his tone.

"I'm afraid there's no chance!"

"President, it has not been easy for you to do things these years!"

At this time, Liang Shiyi did not directly persuade the president, but directly changed the subject.

"Your words are truly from the bottom of my heart."

Sighing, Yuan Shikai looked at Liang Shiyi and said.

"On my sick bed, I once made a detailed review of what I had done in the thirty-two years since I came to Korea. I found that except for a little leisure time during my stay in Zhangde, I had been in Korea, at Xiaozhan, and in Shandong.

In the more than 30 years of being in the government and the public, there has been no moment of peace. Not only was I busy, but I was also tired. The physical fatigue was second only, and the mental fatigue was even more painful. It felt like I was walking among the thorny heavens and thorny earth almost every day.

"….

At this time, when Yuan Shikai said these words, his tone contained a sigh of a hero's doom.

"yes!"

Liang Shiyi smiled slightly and sighed.

"The President is a hero and has devoted his whole life to serving the country. Who can understand this?"

At this point, Liang Shiyi looked sympathetically at the king of the curtain who was lying on the bed. Xiang Cheng worked hard all his life for state affairs, but no one could understand him. In the former Qing Dynasty, he was regarded as a traitor to his friends and a thief of the country, but the dynasty was

He is regarded as a profit-seeker and a dictator. No one cares about the affairs of the country in his heart, and no one can understand his intention to seek the country.

"Over the years, I have been walking in thorns for more than ten years. Outsiders may harm me, destroy me, or praise me. But it is not just your desire to serve the country. Who can understand my loneliness? There are many fathers.

His good intentions are not understood by others, and he spends all his efforts in hard work. Many of the things he does are things that others can't do, don't want to do, or dare not do. China can be what it is today, and others have contributed a lot to their morality, but...

"

These few words made Yuan Shikai's blood heat up. Over the years, he had never heard such caring words from his confidant. At this moment, he wanted to stretch out his hands and hug this shogunate colleague tightly, but he no longer

This was enough, but when he mentioned Li Zhiyuan, Yuan Shikai interrupted him.

"Zhiyuan is a talented person!"

"Yes, Zhiyuan is a talented person, but Zhiyuan is able to do what he does because of what the president started. What the president did back then was not what was expected from traditional Chinese statecraft. Everything in modern China is due to

The Great President comes from the Great President, and the achievements of the Great President are beyond anything Zhiyuan can imagine."

This is not Liang Shiyi’s intention to comfort Yuan Shikai. What he said is all true. At that time, the New York Times regarded Yuan as the best successor to the “reformer” Li Hongzhang. “Yuan was certainly not the father of the Qing reform movement, but he

It can make the reform continue." Yuan Shikai's local "New Deal" is undoubtedly the most typical example of the entire New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty.

As early as the Hundred Days Reform, Emperor Guangxu summoned Yuan Shikai and ordered him to submit a reform plan. Yuan then submitted a 13,000-word reform proposal, which was divided into 9 items for talent storage, 9 items for financial management, 12 items for military training, and 4 items for negotiation.

Learn from foreign countries, change old laws, and propose specific reform strategies, such as 9 financial management strategies, including coining money, setting up banks, making banknotes, promoting commerce, building railways, developing mineral deposits, running postal services, building machines, organizing taxes, etc. "Savings"

The establishment of institutes and institutes in "Cai" is similar to the Capital University established by the Reform Movement.

Although Yuan Shikai proposed a package of reform plans, he did not have enough power to implement it. All this did not happen until fifteen years ago, when he became the governor-general of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang. He began to be active in politics, economy, military, culture and education, etc. The implementation of the local New Deal made the Zhili area become "the political center of the new regime, and each province sent personnel to inspect and use it as a basis for law enforcement." He promoted the establishment of government-run, government-supervised business-run economic institutions and new economic associations. With his support After that, Tianjin became the financial center and trade distribution center of North China, which greatly promoted the formation of a modern production system in North China. It also promoted a local constitutional movement in Zhili, based on the combination of Japanese official rule and autonomy, which can be said to be his Japan and China pioneered the implementation of constitutional government.

Later, after joining the Council, Yuan Shikai wanted to upgrade the local constitutional movement to central constitutionalism, which was more difficult and full of risks. This was one of the incentives that led him to take a vacancy and return to his hometown on the grounds of serious illness. Without Yuan Shikai's ten After years of promoting the New Deal, even with Li Zhiyuan's ability, how could he achieve what he has achieved today?

"Over the years, I have been unable to get things done, but most of them were thankless and many people scolded me."

After saying this, Yuan Shikai's very rare expression became depressed again. Seeing the old curtain leader first depressed, and then expressionless, as stupid as a piece of rotten wood, Liang Shiyi regretted his blunt words just now. stand up.….

"The President..."

"nothing!"

After cheering up, Yuan Shikai let out a long sigh and said.

"People at that time talked about me, humiliated me, insulted me, scolded me, destroyed me, bullied me, laughed at me, and judged me. This only shows the short-sightedness of people at that time. I, Yuan Xiangcheng, will live up to my country and my people!"

After muttering to himself, Yuan Shikai's sickly face showed some energy, as if he had returned to the Yuan Xiangcheng who was unmoved by the outside world.

"Thousands of meritorious deeds will be commented upon by future generations."

Liang Shiyi reluctantly comforted him.

His words encouraged Yuan Shikai, and his originally depressed mood became much more cheerful. He looked at Liang Shiyi and said.

"People didn't understand my Xiang Cheng's intentions at that time, but people in the world will understand Xiang Cheng's intentions in the future."

Speaking of this, Yuan Shikai said with his fingers.

"Among the contemporary people, there is only one Li Zhiyuan who understands me..."

When he mentioned that he had discussed state affairs with Li Zhiyuan many times, a rare smile appeared on Yuan Shikai's face. No matter how the undercurrents in the government were surging, he, Li Zhiyuan, always understood his painstaking efforts. Although, he had never been as Liang Shiyi said. It was so honest, but Yuan Shikai knew that Li Zhiyuan could see that what he was doing today was just like when he took over the Zhongtang and continued Westernization with the New Deal.
Chapter completed!