In the chaotic era of the Republic of China, countless shrewd and strong people worked hard to drill the camp but it was difficult to get ahead, but at first Cao Kun, who was powerless and powerless, was called "Cao San Fool" and was often bullied, but finally became

In the chaotic era of the Republic of China, countless shrewd and strong people worked hard to drill the camp but it was difficult to get ahead, but at first Cao Kun, who was powerless and powerless, was called "Cao San Fool" and was often bullied, but finally became the president of the Republic of China.

Cao Kun's family was poor, and his father was a shipbuilder who ate with strength. However, despite the difficulties of life, Cao's father still let the Cao Kun brothers attend private school for several years. When Cao Kun was sixteen years old, his father could no longer afford to continue his education, so he sold cloth on the street for a living.

Cao Kun has a bold personality, is not attentive to doing business, but is keen on making friends, is informal, and often has a continuous wine store. There were many times when he was drunk, so he just found a place to lie down and sleep, and some naughty children secretly took all the money in Cao Kun's pocket. After Cao Kun woke up drunk, others told him about it and named which child stole the money. But Cao Kun listened, but he laughed and said that everyone wanted to have fun and didn't want to think about it. Many people saw him like this, and because he was the third oldest in the family, they called him "Cao San Fool".

Another time, Cao Kun went to Baoding to buy cloth, but was stopped by two soldiers guarding the city gate. When they saw Cao Kun honestly and honestly, they took the opportunity to ridicule and humiliate him. Cao Kun chose to endure the same humiliation as Han Xin, but from then on he had a new idea, believing that being a soldier could change his suffering fate. In this way, the 20-year-old Cao Kun enlisted in the army and began his military career.

When Cao Kun first joined the army, he was often bullied. But he worked hard and complained, resulting in countless people knowing that there was such a "Cao San Fool". But it was this "stupid energy" that others looked down upon, but it brought good luck to Cao Kun. Originally, Yuan Shikai established a new army at Tianjin Xiaozhan, which was the most advanced army in all of China at that time. One of the principles of Yuan Shikai's recruitment is to recruit only thick and honest soldiers. In this way, Cao Kun successfully entered Yuan Shikai's new army.

If you rely on honesty alone, you can only die in battle or be bullied to death in the ranks of the old warlords of the Republic of China, but Cao Kun, although he is thick, is very scheming, and belongs to the type of people who are wooden on the outside and alive on the inside. He heard that a man named Cao Kezhong in the army was the brother of Yuan Jiasan of Yuan Shikai's own family, so he prepared a generous gift to interview, and the two of them checked the family tree, and they could even renew their relatives, so Cao Kezhong recognized Cao Kun, a distant relative. Since then, Cao Kun has often walked around with Cao Kezhong, and Cao Kezhong has constantly recommended Cao Kun to Yuan Shikai, plus Cao Kun is serious about doing things, so he soon became the backbone of the new army and hitched a ride on Yuan Shikai.

Fate seems to take care of Cao Kun, and when Cao Kun keeps up with Yuan Shikai, it is the time when Yuan Shikai is smooth sailing, so Cao Kun also follows all the way up. After Yuan Shikai's death, the Beiyang warlords were divided into direct and Anhui clans, and Cao Kun used the method of left and right Fengyuan to successfully strengthen his own power, and finally became the leader of the direct warlords and dominated the central government. I have to say that cao Kun's process of developing with Yuan Shikai shows that he is a lucky general, and he did not follow the wrong person or plant a head.

Although Cao Kun is stupid in appearance, his face is extremely thick. For example, when he was young, he ate in a restaurant, as long as he met someone he knew, no matter what the friendship was, no matter whether the occasion was right or wrong, he sat down and ate, and after a while he warmed up with the other party and became friends. This kind of personality of Cao Kun has become his advantage in the military camp, because there is not so much red tape in the army, the soldiers like to go straight and be bold, Cao Kun's "no face" approach, on the contrary, makes the other party think that he is straightforward and thick, so the superior likes him, and his subordinates also like him because he is close, so Cao Kun gradually has his own power in the army.

Cao Kun's thick skin is more manifested in his experience of becoming president by cheating. After Li Yuanhong stepped down, Cao Kun, in order to succeed in his campaign, actually bribed 480 parliamentarians to vote for him at a price of 5,000 yuan per vote, and finally became a famous "bribery of the president" in history. What is even more infuriating is that in order to raise funds for bribery, he actually stolen 13 million yuan from the counties directly under his direct subordinate in the name of borrowing military salaries.

However, what Cao Kun did not expect was that he had been smooth sailing all his life, and within a few days of becoming president, he was ousted by Feng Yuxiang. After the Northern Expedition began, Cao Kun fled to Tianjin and went to a low point in his life. However, it is worth affirming that after the July 7 Incident in 1937, Cao Kun was never moved by money and power, and vowed to drink thin porridge and resolutely not to be a traitor, maintaining national integrity.

Therefore, Cao Kun is a very strange figure of the Republic of China, born in a chaotic world, born at the bottom, with his own efforts to the peak of life, but suddenly fell to the bottom. In him, you can see the shadow of many people in history at the same time. So, how do you look at Cao Kun, is there a person with such a personality as Cao Kun now, if there is, what about his life, welcome to communicate.