Brief introduction of Yuan Shikai

Yuan Shikai (1859—19 16) was a famous politician, strategist and leader of Beiyang warlord in the modern history of China. The word comfort pavilion (also known as comfort pavilion), the owner of Rong 'an and Xixin Pavilion, the Han nationality, is from Xiangcheng, Henan Province, so it is called "Yuan Xiangcheng".

Yuan Shikai was the first president of the Republic of China, an official of the Qing Dynasty, the leader of the Beiyang New Army and the emperor of the Chinese Empire. During his reign, he had a certain influence on the development of China police and China judiciary, as well as the modernization of politics, economy, military affairs and education in modern China.

Yuan Shikai was born in an official family and joined the Huai army in the late Qing Dynasty. Later, he went to Korea with the army to help quell Renwu's military rebellion. He also commanded the army to defeat the Japanese army in the coup in Shen Jia, North Korea. He was entrusted with an important task by the Qing court, returned to China to form a new army, and praised the Westernization Movement and the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty. He rose from Taoist priest, governor and governor to military department, and even became the prime minister of the cabinet, becoming the number one power minister in the late Qing Dynasty.

19 1 1 After the outbreak of the Revolution of 1911, Sun Wen became the interim president of the Republic of China. 19 12 years, Yuan Shikai forced the Qing emperor to abdicate, and Yuan Shikai formed an interim government.

After becoming the first president of the Republic of China, his administration caused controversy. The assassination of Kuomintang leader Song led to the second revolution, and the signing of the fourth treaty between the Chinese and Japanese people against Japan caused dissatisfaction among the domestic people.

19 15 12 Yuan Shikai announced that the following year would be changed to the first year of Hongxian and the Chinese Empire would be established. However, due to the opposition of many domestic forces, Yuan Shikai announced the abolition of the constitutional monarchy on March 22, 2006, only 82 days before the change of dynasty (65438+.

On May 6th of the same year, Yuan Shikai agreed to resign as president, but failed to achieve it. He died of illness on June 6th and was buried in Anyang, Henan.

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Yuan Shikai has made great contributions to safeguarding China's sovereignty and reunifying China. Perhaps the most criticized thing in his life is that his thoughts are too decadent.

Because when China has already ushered in the dawn of democracy, Yuan Shikai is still dreaming of being an emperor, stealing the revolutionary achievements of the Republic of China and re-establishing the title of emperor in Beijing, which is probably the biggest failure in his life.

When Yuan Shikai established his leading position in China, China was not so peaceful at that time. The north is threatened by Russia, the west by Britain, and the east by Japan across the sea. At that time, Russia and Britain always wanted to separate China's Mongolian region from Tibet.

Under the constant instigation of tsarist Russia, Outer Mongolia became a country ahead of schedule and broke away from the embrace of the motherland. Later, Russia did not give up its plan to continue to undermine China's reunification, and constantly instigated the independence of Inner Mongolia and Hulunbeier.

At that time, Yuan Shikai's government was very dissatisfied with this, so it launched a series of consultation talks with Russia, and Yuan Shikai also tried to defend Inner Mongolia and Hulunbeier by force. Finally, in the face of such a tough Yuan Shikai, Russia finally gave up the idea of independence between Inner Mongolia and Hulunbeier.

The British always wanted to separate China's Tibet from China, so during Yuan Shikai's administration, the British constantly incited the local people in Tibet and tried to realize Tibet's independence.

But how can Yuan Shikai tolerate Tibetan independence? At that time, the strength gap between China and Britain was so great that Yuan Shikai had to negotiate with Britain to appease the Tibetan government. Finally, with Yuan Shikai's efforts, Britain's idea of forcing Tibet to become independent failed.

Many people may be very dissatisfied with the twenty-one articles signed by Yuan Shikai, because in the treaty, China made great concessions to Japan, and each article can keep Yuan Shikai in infamy forever.

However, what many people don't know is that China really benefits from Article 2 1. Although it is said to be Article 2 1, the actual treaty is only 12. Moreover, after the negotiation and mediation between Yuan Shikai's government and Japan, the right to interpret many treaty contents belongs to China. In other words, Yuan Shikai is active in handling relations with Japan.

More importantly, Yuan Shikai also bribed the Japanese cabinet through his own diplomatic means, which caused an uproar in Japanese political circles and caused great trouble to the Japanese government at that time. It can be said that without Yuan Shikai, modern China would have fallen apart.

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