Chapter 24 first quarter

The Republic of China was a time of transition from old to new and complex. Although the history of the Republic of China was only 38 years long, it can be divided into several stages. Firstly, from 1912 to 1928 when the Northeast changed banners, these sixteen years were the "warlord melee period"; then from 1928 to 1937, when Chiang Kai-shek's Nanjing Nationalist Government basically unified the country in form; then came 1937 The eight-year Anti-Japanese War period from 1945 to 1945, and finally the Liberation War from 1946 to 1949, when the Kuomintang lost to Taiwan and the Republic of China came to an end.

Among these stages, the most dizzying one was the period of warlord melee in the early years of the Republic of China. The so-called "revolving warlord regime" was dazzling.These sixteen years can be divided into four four-year periods, and each warlord has four years of lanterns: In the first four years, Yuan Shikai; in the second four years, Duan Qirui; in the third four years, Cao Kun and Wu Peifu; in the fourth four years, Zhang Zuolin. Yuan Shikai was the protagonist on the political stage in the first four years after the founding of the Republic of China.