Yuan Shikai and the North-south Reunification in the Early Republic of China

On January 1, 1912, Nanjing temporary government was formed, which has important political significance.However, the domestic trouble and foreign invasion are intensified, such as sharp opposition between Manchu and Han, border crisis, foreign powers, and so on.At the critical moment of national and national peril, the foreign powers for their own interests in China sent out the information, “Nothing but Yuan Shikai”.The Qing government had to reuse Yuan Shikai, who had been suspended, and the Southern Confederate also hoped Yuan Shikai to set things right.Holding the state power, Yuan Shikai adopted a conciliatory policy to settle the dispute between the Southern and Northern, with the abdication of the Qing emperor, maintaining the New Republic of China and avoiding the national conflict, ethnic tearing and foreign interference.In 1912 September, the “Four Characters” lunched the “Eight Common Views” in Beijing, declaring the unity of North and South and the establishment of the Republic of China.