What helped Mao Zedong rise to power in china?

1.)teenage years
2.)colledge years(if any)
3.)first job or begining of maturity
4.)communist army

Teaching in all kindergarten classes his authoritarian, father figure status. Having posters and pictures of himself on the walls in classrooms and reading from the book of mao in kinder - class. Teach children early to fear him and they are less likely to know once they get older what he was.

bullets
Repressive ruling-class. The Chinese traded one for another.
what actually helped him was the incapacity of the non-Communist anti-Japanese forces to unite, events like the "Shanghai Treachery" where Guomindang forces , hearing that a Communist uprising was taking place in the city, waited for the Japanese to finish off not only the Communists but also hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians (a tactics later repeated by some Communists, i.e. the Soviets, in the Warsaw uprising of 1944: they waited for the Nazis to finish off the Polish Home Army, plus the whole population of Warsaw-expected to be hostile to them-and then marched in to do away with the weakened Nazis). Back to Mao, he was also helped by his propaganda gestures which won over the population.
4. A whole lot of Chinamen with guns.

Mao said, "Power comes from the barrel of a gun."
Eating lot of rice..
COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA ( CPC )