How to make children become future kings and heads of state?

During the Republic of China, warlords fought in melee, but it was really an era of talented people.

First, Cao Jia's stupid son

65438+February 65438+February 02 is the day when many military and political strongmen at home and abroad were born. However, the most bitter story is the one in Dagu, Tianjin in the first year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, that is, 1862+ February 12. Cao Bensheng, the platoon leader of the shipyard, had his third child this day. In this small boatman's family, pulling a child and eating and drinking Lazar is always a concern, but in the next few years, Mr. and Mrs. Cao Bensheng are most worried about another thing: the child is too stupid.

The good son of the old Cao family has been learning everything half a beat slower than others since he was born. Even if his father Cao Bensheng tightens his belt and sends him to study for a few days, he can't read anything. When I grow up, I am also strong, but I still don't have to worry. I can't even learn the skills of repairing ships. Later, I simply sold the cloth all over the street, but more often I didn't even understand the account. Seeing that people took advantage, I sold cloth for several years and did a basket of stupid things. Even many local traditional cross talks in Tianjin are based on his stupidity. A nickname also spread from now on: Cao San fool.

However, many years later, many villagers at that time recalled this scene, but they felt that life was impermanent. Unexpectedly, Cao San, a fool who was laughed at every day when he was young, turned out to be an earth-shattering figure: Cao Kun, the leader of Beiyang direct warlord and former president of the Republic of China.

However, although I didn't expect my son to make such a big move in the future, Cao Bensheng and his wife still felt relieved at that time: Cao Kun was a stupid child, but he was kind-hearted, and his seven brothers and sisters were the most sensible and would rather suffer first. When I was seventeen, I married my daughter-in-law, and the couple became models in the street. Before and after people respect each other and don't even mix their mouths. The business of selling cloth heads is booming. Although I lost a lot, repeat customers also "ate" a batch and were willing to deal with this honest man. But just as Cao Kun crossed the aisle to plan for the future and planned to save money to set up a stall, an accident changed his life.

▲ Cao Kun Commemorative Coin (IssueNo. 1923)

Second, an anger of joining the army.

On that day, Cao Kun went to Baoding to sell cloth, and finally came out of Baoding, panting, but he was bullied by two gatekeepers, and his business just couldn't beat Shui Piao. Cao Kun, an honest man, was angry: You can bully people like this by wearing military uniforms? Then I'll wear a military uniform, too Cao Kun, who just started at the age of 20, abandoned the business of selling cloth heads. He stamped his foot and broke into Tianjin Ordnance School. He passed the selection in a daze and became a military cadet. When an honest man gets angry, he says so.

But it is such an honest man, who was cheated on weekdays and entered the Qing army camp where the law of the jungle prevailed. Isn't he suffering indignities every day? However, Cao Kun, who has always been stupid, went against the sky: he couldn't learn to repair ships and settle accounts, but he could do it at a glance, and everything was among the best. He became the "soldier king" admired by all his comrades. Of course, his "stupid" temper has never changed. When things happen, they are often pushed to the back, and the first mate is beaten and scolded a lot, but he is also a familiar face in front of the first mate. He was brutally eliminated several times, and finally graduated with excellent results and served as the sentry of the rebel army.

Since then, the honest Cao Kun's luck has become better and better. Less than four years after graduation, he was sent to North Korea to participate in the Sino-Japanese War. On the battlefield of bullets, he fought to the death with a bayonet against the Japanese army, and only after several Japanese soldiers died did he come back all the way. Later, Yuan Shikai, a senior official of Beiyang, was elected to the new station army. After arriving at the new army, before catching his breath, he and Yuan Shikai's uncle Cao Kezhong. This time, they and Yuan Shikai became real relatives. At the age of forty-five, they became the third town of Beiyang Army, just like the heavyweights in the military field in the late Qing Dynasty.

▲ Cao Kun

With such a rapid rise in history, it is often said that "Cao San fool" has a good life, and he accidentally bumped into it and was punished by the chief executive. But if you look closely, you will know that this is really not a great fortune: the chaos in the late Qing Dynasty, the elite soldiers are the capital. A soldier with integrity and excellent military quality like Cao Kun should be regarded as a treasure by any visionary officer, not to mention a lean man with excellent vision like Yuan Shikai. Even if you can't touch anything, treat it as a relative.

In this sense, as long as all walks of life find the right direction and work hard honestly, even if they are as poor and stupid as Cao Kun, a major breakthrough in life is just around the corner.

Third, the northern warlords

Of course, according to Cao Kun's ability, he is a cook from the front, but as the commander-in-chief of tens of thousands of elite control, he is required to make overall arrangements to win thousands of miles? This joke is actually a bit big. But in such a stressful position, Cao Kun did a very good job: don't you think I can lead the troops? Then I'll just find someone sensible to help me lead the troops.

This is exactly what Cao Kun was most proud of in his life: employing people. Don't look at your own strategic command level, but you have never had a superior eye. Any subordinate who has worked in * * * will never be mistaken as long as he has military talent. For example, Wu, another clique warlord, worked as a battalion commander under Cao Kun in his early years, and was dismissed after making a mistake. But after Cao Kun saw it, he talked about it. Immediately as excited as picking up a treasure, decisively promoted and reused. At this time, Wu Cai killed the quartet.

▲ Wu Fupei

Even if Wu was indifferent and offended him, he never blamed him. On one occasion, Cao Kun's younger brother came to accuse Wu of being naughty, adding fuel to the fire, which made honest Cao Kun angry again. He grabbed his brother's ear on the spot and scolded: if you dare to make a rumor about Wu again, I will disown you as a brother and the newspaper will disown you.

Such a strategy of employing people, even if you are as arrogant as Wu, of course, you are grateful and dead set. With the help of such an unswerving team, the "Cao San Fool" who held the elite soldiers finally stood out in the historical changes in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China: after the demise of the Qing Dynasty, he first became the third division commander under the great president Yuan Shikai, and after the deaths of Yuan Shikai and Feng, the two northern warlords, he made great contributions. As the leader of the direct warlord, he used his love to win Wu's foreign war and the first direct war one after another.

But at this critical moment in his life, he was lost.

Fourth, being president is ridiculous.

Since joining the army at the age of 20, Cao Kun's struggle experience is also very simple: let go of employing people and do things honestly. But on the question of how to become a big president, he made a big mistake and used a clumsy shortcut: didn't members of Congress choose a big president and I gave them money to choose me?

▲ Congress site in the early years of the Republic of China

This slap in the face is an absurd farce in the history of Beiyang warlords: a large number of Cao Kun pro-soldiers surrounded the parliament, bayonets threatened foreign countries, and all disobedient members were placed under house arrest, and many people were dumbfounded. After a meal of threats and inducements, he was finally "elected" as president, which earned him another nickname after "Cao San fool": President Pig.

However, compared with "Cao San fool", the influence of "President Pig" is even worse. The whole process of bribing the president was embellished by major newspapers all over the country, and it was widely publicized and became famous. In addition, Cao Kun is a good soldier, but he is seriously lacking in experience as president. In the past year, he has been filled with smoke, and his own warlords under the iron plate have also rebelled. 1924, the second direct war, no doubt defeated, was driven off the presidency and lived in seclusion. The president's addiction lasted only one year, and the era of Beiyang Xiongxiong was completely over.

▲ Cao Kun Commemorative Coin (IssueNo. 1923)

Cao Kun, embarrassed by the notoriety of "President Pig" after class, became an ordinary person. At first, it never rains but it pours. Even the property he struggled for most of his life was cheated away by some cronies under various excuses, and he was once seriously ill. It was not until 1927 that he and his little wife, Mrs. Liu, lived alone in an apartment in the British Concession that they gradually recovered. At first, in summer, I often asked my family to cook some bean soup and rice porridge and give it to the coolies pulling rickshaws in the street next door. Later, I simply opened the courtyard door and invited the poor neighbors to the house to eat melons and chat. In this kind of laughter, Cao Kun still shook his cattail leaf fan and sat on a long bench to spit on the villagers: When I was president, ...

There will be no war after many years, which will be the warm old age of Beiyang political strongman.

Vow not to be a traitor.

But the brutal fourteen-year war of resistance finally came. The three northeastern provinces fell, Peiping and Tianjin fell, and the Japanese army stepped on Cao Kun's doorstep. The traitors took turns to come to the door and bowed and asked Cao Kun to go out to work for the Japanese, but Cao Kun even beat and scolded every time. A clanking oath has long been thrown to the Japanese invaders: even if you drink porridge every day, you will never be a traitor. It's up to you

But Cao Kun, who was addicted to scolding, was worried about the fate of the country after all, and finally fell ill in bed. 1April, 938, Cao Kun, who was terminally ill, finally read the news of Taierzhuang in China. He excitedly stood up from the bed and blurted out a brave sentence: "I can't believe it, we can't beat the Japanese!" " A month later, the modern lean died. He died at home with the belief that China would win the war.

▲ Cao Kun calligraphy

His death also became 1938, which was a very difficult year in the Anti-Japanese War. The people of the whole country are heartbroken. Wu's old department sent a message of condolence. The national government, which fought bloody battles, also solemnly commended his integrity witnessed by his life and ratified him as a first-class general of the army. The once-disgraced "President Pig" and the legendary "Three Fools of Cao" finally became a fierce banner in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression era with their unyielding character in their later years, inspiring countless people to fight.