Yuan Shikai's family was well-known in the local area, his grandfather and father were influential landowners, and his uncle and grandfather were also Huai army officers who had made great achievements.
Yuan Shikai has a large family member, including nine siblings, forming a traditional extended family. However, his mother was only a concubine, so there was not enough milk, and Yuan Shikai was given to his aunt to raise, and later passed on to his uncle.
Yuan Shikai was born into a large traditional family, and his life was full of rich family life. He married ten wives, raised seventeen sons and fifteen daughters, and his family had many children and grandchildren, forming a vast family network.
Yuan Shikai's second son, Yuan Kewen's family, runs the best. Their children and grandchildren are outstanding in all walks of life. However, on the other hand, Yuan Shikai's sixth aunt Tai Yezhen's two grandsons, their lives were very difficult, and they could only rely on herding sheep and logging to make a living.
In their childhood, they experienced the pain of the death of their loved ones, lost their hearts, and tasted the bitterness of life. All these misfortunes are closely related to Yuan Kewen's cowardice, and it is precisely because of his shortcomings that Ye Hao was mistakenly married to Yuan Shikai.
Yuan Shikai is the father of Yuan Jialiu and his wife, and he is also Yuan Kewen's father. Yuan Kewen is the second son of Yuan Shikai, and when he was born, Yuan Shikai was at the peak of his life, surrounded by many beautiful wives and concubines.
However, Yuan Shikai attaches great importance to family education, and his family education has always been very strict, so that his children are more in awe of him than close to him. Although Yuan Kewen was fostered under the name of his most favored eldest wife, Shen, and was once seen as a candidate for heirship, he remained in awe of his father.
In the thirty-first year of Guangxu, Yuan Kewen was ordered to go to Nanjing to carry out a mission, and it was in Jinling City that this romantic aristocratic son met a beautiful rich lady Ye Zhen.
Ye Hao, a typical Jiangnan girl, has a goose egg face, willow eyebrows, cherry mouths, a pair of natural affectionate eyes, eye waves, and a bright look. Yuan Kewen was deeply attracted to this beautiful sister who was only 16 years old and fell in love with her at first sight.
In the misty rain on the banks of the Qinhuai River, Ye Hao and Yuan Kewen walked hand in hand, sharing the charm of poetry and songs, and depicting a beautiful picture of the future. Cooking wine and drinking tea on the painting boat, listening to music and playing strings, their days are so leisurely and comfortable.
However, for couples who fall in love, time always flies, and good times are always short-lived. In the blink of an eye, Yuan Kewen's return date has arrived, the little couple is holding hands, with tears in their eyes, Ye Hao gave Yuan Kewen a ** of his own, and whispered: "Don't forget me, come back and marry me as soon as possible!" ”
This is the life they have privately agreed on.
Yuan Kewen loved Ye Hao deeply and was reluctant to separate from her, although he never dared to tell his father about their relationship, and his heart was tormented. When dealing with business in front of his father, he accidentally dropped Ye Hao's **, which aroused his father's anger.
In order to resolve the crisis, Yuan Kewen panicked and said that Ye Hao was the talented beauty he was looking for for his father in Nanjing, and if his father liked it, he would arrange to marry her back. However, this lie was misunderstood by his father, and Yuan Shikai immediately arranged for someone to go to Nanjing to marry Ye Hao.
Although Ye Hao has been hit, the matter has come to this, and she can only accept the reality.
In 1916, Emperor Yuan Shikai, who ruled for only 85 days, died of illness in Zhongnanhai. After his death, the children each sought their own future after receiving their own inheritance.
As for the other children and grandchildren, whether they are high or lonely, we don't care for the time being. I just want to mention the branch of the sixth aunt Tai Ye Zhen. At that time, it was uncertain whether Ye Hao was pregnant with a man or a woman, so the child in her womb did not receive any inheritance.
Ye Hao originally came from a wealthy background, but due to the doting of her parents, she did not have the skills to manage finances. She spends money generously, has many children after marriage, is pampered, and has developed the habit of spending extravagantly.
Due to the middle of the family, no money to live, and the tense relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, Yuan Kejie's daughter-in-law couldn't bear it and divorced her husband, leaving Ye Zhen and Yuan Kejie and Yuan Jiazhen, Yuan Jiawei and father and son to depend on each other.
Yuan Kejie's family migrated from bustling Beijing to Ningxia and began to live an ordinary life. The people here are friendly, and they will not treat Yuan Kejie differently because of his special status, but show cordial concern for his family.
Yuan Kejie is hardworking and simple, very capable, does not talk much, the two children Yuan Jiawei and Yuan Jiazhen are lively and lovely, can help their father take care of the farmland, and can also take care of their grandmother at home, and are deeply loved by the villagers.
In this way, they lived peacefully and contently in Ningxia for three years. However, the quiet days changed after a lunch break. When the people on the farm were resting in the haystacks, Yuan Kejie, who was napping alone, did not return to the construction site.
At the end of the evening, everyone did not wait for Yuan Kejie and rushed to ask him to go home together, only to find that he had passed away, without signs, without last words, and after his death, because of poverty, he was simply buried with a grass sweep.
The white-haired man sent the black-haired man, Ye Hao lost his only support, suffered a huge blow to his body and mind, and soon fell ill. Despite the careful care of the two grandsons, Ye Hao finally died depressed, and was simply buried next to Yuan Kejie after his death.
At this point, Yuan Jiawei and Yuan Jiazhen lost all their loved ones and had to leave Ningxia and began a life of exile for the two of them.
Yuan Jiazhen and Yuan Jiawei's upbringing environment was not simple, they experienced a life of displacement, and this precocious experience allowed them to get rid of it"The grandson of the dragon emperor"They no longer pursue a luxurious life, but want to be able to live a real life, and some even choose to be incognito and disappear from people's sight.
In the year of the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution, the Yuan family held a family gathering in Anyang, Henan Province, and searched for Yuan Shikai's descendants across the country. This gathering made them realize that except for a few descendants of Yuan Shikai, who lived a prosperous life, most of the descendants lived a very difficult life.
In this year, Yuan Jiazhen told his difficult life for the first time as Yuan Shikai's grandson.
Yuan Jiazhen said: I was born in an unhappy family, when I was a child, the family was in the middle of the road, we used the inheritance to do some business, but due to improper management, in the end they all ended in failure.
As a result, my mother divorced my father and left on her own, leaving me and my young brother to live with my grandmother. During that time, our family made a living selling sugar gourds in Beijing's Haidian District.
Later, as life became more and more difficult, our family of four decided to move to live on Xinsheng Farm in Helan County, Ningxia. However, tragedy after tragedy struck, my relatives passed away one after another, and I had to wander as a teenager to work as a farmer in the Hongwei Commune in Dengkou, specializing in herding sheep.
Due to my bad background, I was forced to change my name to Yuan Xiaowu, and I am still unmarried, because "with my identity, no girl wants to marry me." ”
In Yuan Jiazhen's hometown, he is known for his diligence and ability, and his meticulous management of the sheep is meticulous and meticulous, making the sheep fat and strong, and the fur is shiny.
As time passed, people began to accept that he was not the "imperial grandson" and were willing to associate with him. Although no girl still wanted to marry him, everyone regarded him as a member of the commune.
Today, Yuan Jiazhen is recuperating in a nursing home in Dengkou County and living a happy old age. So, what about his sibling Yuan Jiawei?
Yuen's life is full of wonder and pain, and these experiences are not suitable for outsiders to confide in. Although we can't experience Yuan Xiaowu's life story firsthand, through his description, we can feel his inner world.
Although the Yuan clan was unable to meet Yuan Jiawei at the joint meeting, they learned about his experience from Yuan Jiazhen. After the death of their loved ones, Yuan Jiawei and his brother left the farm and went to Hailar to work as lumberjacks on a forest farm.
The logging team they are part of has more than 20 people with a clear division of labor, including lumberjacks, timber workers, transporters, measuring scalers and kitchen ladies in logistics services. These workers work together to earn high praise for the local tree farm.
Winter is the best time to cut timber in the woods. After receiving the task, the logging team led by Yuan Jiazhen began to go deep into the forest farm to find suitable timber. They had to sleep in the cold wind for two nights and build a manhole in the ground to have a temporary shelter. "
Come on, guys! We've got a hot kang tonight! "Yuan Jiazhen is always the most active and hardworking member of the team. Every day they get up at four o'clock, have a hot breakfast, and have enough to feed the horses, and then set out to find suitable trees.
Yuan Jiazhen can accurately calculate the direction and force of falling trees to avoid being hit by falling trees. Next, the scalers and timber workers measure the exact dimensions needed to ensure that the high-quality wood is not wasted.
They were accompanied by starlight in the middle of the night before they could return to rest in the manhole. In the snowy forest, the horse becomes the best "transport officer". Back in the manhole, there is a hot meal prepared by the cook, although there is no delicacies from the mountains and seas, but after a long day of work, the dinner time sitting around the fireplace is the most comfortable for Yuan Jiazhen.
At this time, he was no longer a "phoenix son and dragon grandson", but a member of this big family, and the workers of the forest farm were very kind to him, no one mentioned his sensitive identity, but accepted him more.
Yuan Jiazhen lived a rich and peaceful life in his later years, and often got together with his brother Yuan Jiawei, and the brotherly relationship was deep. They are all satisfied with their current lives, and they are grateful to their friends for tolerating them and integrating them into the big socialist family.
Yuan Shikai's life is full of bewildering contradictions, he was once a heroic fighter in the late Qing Dynasty to protect the country, but later became a sinner who stole state power. Leaving aside these political evaluations, the rise and fall of the Yuan family reflects the changes of many large families from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the ** period.
The leaders of these families were often prominent military or cultural figures who once held great power and wealth. However, the tide of history overthrew the decaying feudal dynasties, and these great families lost their identity, status, and economic foundation.
During the ** period, the society was in turmoil, and many families gradually declined. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, due to their political identity and erroneous political positions, the descendants of many great families were even inferior to ordinary ordinary people.
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