In the era when Beiyang can roar at a high decibel, ordinary people often lose the ability to distinguish sounds normally, just as some people used to be famous all over the world, but now they are still little known. There were many such strongmen in the Beiyang period. Their true faces seemed to have melted, their reviled faces dried up, and their shadows were long and stumbled through time. The Beiyang warlord section after Yuan Shikai is one of them. Seventeen years after the old man's death, Duan, who had no soldiers under his command, bid farewell to the northern land where he criticized for half his life, and rode south with the harsh whistle. With the dispersion of the aerosol, once the waves of honor and disgrace turned into nothingness, unless it was success or failure. There was no upper position when he was in power temporarily until he died, and the ambition of reunifying the north and the south by force left a belligerent name. By this time, I have stopped thinking about these things behind Duan. Although the road ahead is unpredictable, it is still unknown how the former students will treat him, but from the moment Duan decided to go south, he was destined to be the most headstrong strongman in Beiyang, and bid farewell to his rivers and lakes and country.

Later, when the 68-year-old Duan passed by Shandong, it was General Feng and an old enemy. Han Fuju in Shandong personally boarded the bus to meet him. It seems that only by disarming and returning to the field can we really shake hands. The uneasy section along the way is more worried about the final destination of Nanjing. What he didn't expect was that at the Pukou platform in Nanjing, a group of people stood in the cold wind to meet him, and the generals with shiny epaulettes accounted for the vast majority. It turned out that his students had an order: "All soldiers above major general in Nanjing must cross the river to meet Mr. Duan, the Beiyang elder!" So there was a scene that made Duan have mixed feelings. The generals of the former rivals, the Confederate armies, all lined up to cross the river, just to meet one person, an old man who had stepped down for many years without a single soldier.

However, the Southern Group, which has been in charge of the center, held a grand welcoming ceremony for Duan. The old man really deserved it in his later years, but what he didn't expect was that the first person to board the ship to meet him was Jiang Zhiqing in uniform. Students who haven't seen each other for more than 20 years quickly come forward to salute the old headmaster, introduce the guests to him personally, and then bow or salute the old man. Duan, who was killed in war and bullets all his life, finally found a peaceful place to live in Nanjing in his later years and was treated with courtesy in his later years. Not only did he receive a salary of 10,000 yuan per month as an expense, but in order to take care of his feelings, he also specially allocated the house of Beiyang's former headquarters to this old man who had never bought a real estate in his life. Although far away from the ever-changing north, he came to visit as several elders of Beiyang Department.

In the end, Duan spent the last three years of his life after going south to Jinling. After his death, 80 people carried coffins and became the last "Royal Bar" tour among the northern warlords. Prior to this, all the bar rooms were dispatched to carry Guangxu, Cixi and Yuan Shikai, and Duan became the helmsman who finally enjoyed the funeral. In the farewell of more than 3000 people, the 2 1 salute shook the ancient city. A few years later, Duan was buried in Wan 'an Cemetery, a cemetery facing south and facing the corner. With his back to the tomb, he didn't want to show it to others, and he was determined not to let people know who the deceased was. The small stone tablet is engraved with the "Tomb of the Duke of Hefei", which has become the final destination of a generation of Beiyang giants. There is a pot of white wine, two small handless cups and a bunch of withered flowers in front of the tomb.