In the early days of the Republic of China, Duan Qirui had four "fierce generals", namely Xu Shuzheng, Wu Guangxin, Fu Liangzuo, and Jin Yunpeng, known as Duan Qirui's "Four Great King Kongs", among them Jin Yunpeng had the highest official position, he served as the premier twice, held great military and political power, and on the basis of seniority, Jin Yunpeng was second only to Wang Shizhen, Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, and others in the Beiyang faction, and played a certain role in historical events such as the Xinhai Revolution, Yuan Shikai's theft of the country, and the War of Resistance Against Japan, and was the last Anhui general to die.
Jin Yunpeng was a native of Zou County, Shandong Province, who, at the age of 18, had to defect to Yuan Shikai's "New Army" with his younger brother Jin Yunpeng and was subordinate to Duan Qirui's subordinates, and later Jin Yunpeng was appreciated by Duan Qirui and entered the military academy. After graduation, he stayed on as a teacher, and was listed with Xu Shuzheng, Wu Guangxin and Fu Liangzuo and was known as the Four Great Kongs of the Anhui Dynasty. After the founding of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai stole the fruits of the victory of the Xinhai Revolution and sat on the seat of provisional president, but Yuan Shikai's ambitions did not stop there, he had a strong feudal imperialist ideology, bent on "restoring" and claiming the title of emperor, while Duan Qirui, as Yuan Shikai's "number one general", opposed his claim to the title of emperor and was forced to resign from his post, but Jin Yunpeng chose to follow Yuan Shikai, and later forced to oppose Yuan Shikai's situation, decided to secretly send a telegram to the provinces, and prepared to jointly send a telegram to persuade Yuan Shikai to cancel the imperial system, and was later hated by Yuan Shikai because someone reported the secret. Lost his official position.
After Yuan Shikai's death, Duan Qirui elected Li Yuanhong as the president, quelling the opposition of the Southern Revolutionary Army, while he himself took control of the Beiyang government as prime minister and appointed Jin Yunpeng as the general of Guowei. At the end of World War I, Zhang Xun led his "braided army" to stage a "restoration farce" in Beiping, and Duan Qirui sent a telegram against Zhang Xun in the name of the commander-in-chief of the rebel army, and then led his troops to drive Zhang Xun away and restore the republic.
After Xu Shichang came to power, Jin Yunpeng was appointed as the chief of the army and later appointed as the premier of the state; after coming to power, Jin Yunpeng could not stand Duan Qirui's criticism and rebuke of him, tried to get rid of Duan Qirui's control, and wanted to promote peace between the north and the south. After the outbreak of the Zhiwan War, Jin Yunpeng was caught between the two sides, and the pressure doubled, so he had to ask to resign from the cabinet premier post and take up an idle post; later, Zhang Zuolin, the leader of the warlords, entered Beijing in the name of "mediating the current situation" and joined forces with Anhui, but was resented by Xu Shuzheng, one of Duan Qirui's "Four Great Kongs", and wanted to set up a banquet to hunt zhang Zuolin to death, and later because Jin Yunpeng informed Zhang Zuolin of this secret report, he was spared.
After the end of the Zhiwan War, both sides lost most of their power, and Zhang Zuolin, who sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight, also took the opportunity to control the military and political power, and in order to repay Jin Yunpeng's life-saving grace, Zhang Zuolin recommended that he once again form a cabinet to serve as the premier of the state and the chief of the army. However, Jin Yunpeng was not his faction of Zhang Zuolin after all, and he was very fickle, and he had successively defected to Yuan Shikai, Duan Qirui, Xu Shichang, and others, and Zhang Zuolin was also well aware of this, and later under the deterioration of factional disputes and contradictions with Xu Shichang in terms of finance, taxation, and personnel, Zhang Zuolin seized the opportunity to believe that Jin Yunpeng was excessively partial to his direct family, and forced him to resign as prime minister of the cabinet again.
After "retirement", Jin Yunpeng moved to the British Concession in Tianjin to live a life of Yugong, and immersed himself in The Study of Buddhism with Sun Chuanfang. After the outbreak of the "July 7 Incident," the Japanese invading army had asked Jin Yunpeng, who was the governor of Tianjin, to come out of the mountains to organize the puppet regime in North China to maintain the situation in North China; in order to stabilize the Japanese, he and Xu Shichang, after consultation, jointly put forward a demand, in exchange for the Japanese army withdrawing from North China and restoring the situation before the "July 7 Incident." Later, the Japanese side felt that this demand was too harsh, and thought that he had stepped down earlier and had no strength in his hands, so he gave up, and Jin Yunpeng also had to maintain his national integrity. On January 3, 1951, Jin Yunpeng died in Tianjin at the age of 75.