History You May Not Know - the Republic of China

What kind of person is Yuan Shikai? There have always been different opinions. Yuan Shikai was actually full of contradictions: he was born with the face of a farmer but had the guts of a "worthy man of the country"; he was less than five feet tall but was China's first "professional soldier" in modern times; he advocated reform, but he had one wife and nine concubines, and believed in Feng Shui and fate; he had done countless national affairs in his life, and he was once a "savior" supported by thousands of people, but in the end he became a "stealer" who has been infamous for thousands of years.