北洋军阀吴佩孚(1874-1939年),在历史教科书中已被定性为反面人物,然而其人生历程却十分复杂,有时还带着一些传奇色彩。他是山东蓬莱人,本是一介书生,22岁考上秀才,但次年即因得罪家乡的官吏、豪绅而被革除功名还被通缉,通过科举考试飞黄腾达的梦想破灭了。他逃到北京生活无着,靠占卦算命来糊口,1898年在天津投军,从此披上戎装。 Wu Peifu, the Northern Warlord (1874-1939), has been characterized as a negative person in history textbooks, yet his life is complicated and sometimes legendary. He was a Penglai in Shandong Province. He was a scholar and a 22-year-old scholar. However, he was wanted to be expelled from office due to dismissing his hometown officials and gentry in the following year. His dream of passing the imperial examinations was so shattered. He fled to Beijing without a living, by fortune-teller to life, in 1898 voted in the military in Tianjin, put on military uniform.