The Tao Te Chronology of the Beiyang Dynasty (379): Virtue is to accumulate blessings, yixin is to make up for labor, and cultivation is to relieve evil.
In the history of Beiyang, in the early practice of the tide of "Xingwu", "Shangwu" was concretely embodied in the implementation of Cai Xi, Jiang Baili and others, but the advocacy and practice of the "Shangwu" style directly led to the out-of-control expansion of the wufu's strength, creating an atmosphere of competition and belligerence for various warlords, and giving opportunities to those with ulterior motives in their hands. Although Beiyang was newly established, the atmosphere in which the center was weak after the old man's death and the masses rose up together inevitably became the catalyst and accelerant of the struggle for the authority of the warriors, the dispute over grain and wages, and the dispute over the territory, so through the idea of rejuvenating the army to seek strength, it could only stay at the stage of discussing things on the spot. After the abolition of the imperial examination, the tendency to seek employment also changed, and the strong blowing of the "Shangwu" wind made it a fashionable shortcut for young people with lofty aspirations to apply for jobs and become soldiers.
Taking the warlike Sichuan warlords as an example, the first to benefit from this are those who are born in Japan or graduates of the Sichuan Wubei Academy. As we all know, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Dingxin organized and trained the "New Army", that is, to establish a modernized people who imitated the West and learned from the East. For example, Sichuan has successively established a series of schools for cultivating multi-faceted military talents, such as the Sichuan Army Primary School Surveying and Mapping School, the Armament Department Research Institute, the Sichuan Army Middle School, the Army Completion School, the Army Lecture Hall, and the Higher Patrol Police Academy, and has trained a large number of modern new-style military officers. Sadly, however, the purpose of these schools is still to preach with loyalty and filial piety, "no matter what kind of schools, they are all based on loyalty and filial piety, based on the study of Chinese scripture and history, and the barnyard students' hearts are pure."
Therefore, even though it claims that "the spirit of zhen shangwu and the bad habit of shouting and clamoring" are the foundation of running the school, the source of students is also the "good family children" in the province who are "strong and strong", but what is cultivated is the reserve of "warlords". All schools have made every effort to instill the rules of etiquette and teaching, warning students not to "argue in vain", otherwise their merits and reputations will be lost, and in order to satisfy the psychology of seeking scholars to seek fame and fame, the school has announced in accordance with the regulations of the faculty that those who graduated from the new-style schools should "measure their origins" and "lure the world with the bait of Lilu", so that "the students' pursuit of scholars is in the middle of the world, and their motives are not pure", but they have sown the seeds for the Sichuan warlords to fight for profits in the chaotic world. For intellectuals, switching to a military academy as a non-commissioned officer is in line with the psychological formula of taking meritorious names, and investing in the military after graduation is a road of hope for "very good treatment".
Eventually, sichuan, like the provinces, has many people joining the ranks to seek development, and there are also a large number of students who have no way to enter the military or have various purposes to enter the military academy, and the more common this situation is, the more they are more and more inclined to recognize enlistment in the military as one of the right ways. "Good men are not soldiers", the strength of the warriors is also constantly strengthening and growing, and the militant wind is getting stronger and stronger, and finally breaking through the track envisioned by the initiators of "xingwu", at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, due to the wide recognition of the people in the world, and the attractive treatment beyond expectations, the army that is both strong and strong and equipped with advanced military technology and modern weapons to make a living, coupled with the chaotic law of the jungle, all of them are tied to the waist of a group of eager and ambitious wufu, can they stop without a fight? The pure iron-blooded wind naturally deviated from it.
References: "Cai Gen Tan", "Drinking Ice Room Collection", "On the Influence of the "Shangwu" Wind in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Early Ming Dynasty on the Sichuan Valve Scuffle"