▶ Subscribe to the YouTube channel: one month of the paid tools on sylogs.com, free Log in at sylogs.com and comment "Subscribed on YouTube" on the video page to claim it. On 6 December 1895 the court sent Hu Yufen to supervise the Tianjin–Lugouqiao railway; on 8 December it handed Yuan Shikai a new army at Xiaozhan. Two dates, two days apart — both on record. Sixteen years later, that army closed the court's accounts, for someone else.