If you want to understand China's modern history, then Yuan Shikai and the Beiyang warlords he created are a top point of knowledge, although the Beiyang warlords are the founder of Yuan Shikai, but many people do not know that the real Ran Beiyang warlords have become powerful and indestructible People are a person named Wang Shizhen.
He was one of the elite generals under Yuan Shikai, ranked first among the three masters of Beiyang, and was also an outstanding military general. What means did this man named Wang Shizhen use to make the Beiyang warlords an extremely influential team in modern times? Let's take a look.
Wang Shizhen was born in Hebei, and he had a longing for the military since he was a child, so when he was young, he participated in the uprising war to suppress the Dongxue Party, but unfortunately did not get good results, but he did not become decadent because of this, and has been loyally providing Strategies for Ye Zhichao.
Unfortunately, this Ye Zhichao did not discover Wang Shizhen's talent, and always felt that his proposal was too fanciful, even so, Wang Shizhen still did not betray Ye Zhichao, and he was also a very strict self-disciplined person in private. It is said that he ate the wheat flour of a family because he did not bring dry food with him during the battle, and the owner was not there at the time, and no one saw it, so it was reasonable to say that he could have left at all, but he still put some silver there to offset the money for the wheat flour.
After wang Shizhen entered yuan shikai's eyes under the arrangement of fate, Yuan Shikai was fascinated by his talent and appreciated him more and more, and he also found that Wang Shizhen had some precious qualities, such as being just and not ah, and would not turn against him, which was too difficult to see in the chaotic world. Wang Shizhen later used his ingenuity to repeatedly build up his miraculous feats, and his position gradually rose to become the left-behind commander of the small station, in the military aspect, if Yuan Shikai is absent and no one is in charge, Wang Shizhen can be said to be the person with the most right to speak.
Wang Shizhen's military talent has been recognized by many people, first of all, Rong Lu, the Minister of Beiyang of the Qing Government, who once inspected the scene of training troops at a small station and was amazed by Wang Shizhen's military training methods.
Yuan Shikai had a German governor, and he was also a trusted person of Yuan Shikai, and even he was satisfied with Wang Shizhen's military talents. By the way, the Beiyang Sanjie was conceived by this German governor, and Wang Shizhen's beiyang Sanjie was approved by him.
It is reasonable to say that such an outstanding military talent as Wang Shizhen should be easily suspected by his superiors, but Wang Shizhen is too humble to act without Yuan Shikai's instructions, so Yuan Shikai is very relieved about him and also calls him the first military talent in Beiyang.