北洋军阀史的研究一直未能象历史研究领域中其它课题那样掀起过热潮,受到更多人的青睐。这当然归根于它的先天缺陷:一则它的研究对象主要是些反面人物,只不过有程度不同而已。他们所制造的历史现象也多是黑暗反动,祸国殃民。为什么放着英雄人物和光明宏伟的业绩不去研究,而沉浸于历史进展的反面,这至少反映了研究者避免接触阴暗的心态;二则它也确是头绪纷繁,错综复杂,不怎么易于评说指画;三则既乏旧著,又少新作,史源犹待开发,无米少米巧妇难于为炊。于是自然而然使这一课题曾成 The study of the history of the Northern Warlords has not been able to set off an upsurge such as other issues in the field of historical research and has been favored by more people. This, of course, is due to its inherent flaws: one is that its object of study is mainly the negative, only to a different extent. Most of the historical phenomena they make are also reactionary to the dark, disastrous and disastrous. Why the study of heroic figures and magnificent achievements is not going to be studied, but immersed in the opposite of historical progress, at least reflecting the researcher’s avoidance of shady mentality; and secondly, it is indeed a complex, intricate, ; Three are both old and less new work, the history of the source still to be developed, no rice Mi Qiao mistress difficult to cook. So naturally this subject has become