Chapter 411 General Election
In fact, it proved that Li Han's choice was correct.
The Republic of China has only been newly established for less than a year. Neither Yuan Shikai nor Sun Yat-sen, Song Jiaoren's ***, etc. do not want this country to be in chaos. This is why Sun Yat-sen was willing to give up the position of president, and Yuan Shikai could tolerate the existence of those vassal states in the south that did not obey discipline.
After Li Han occupied Shaanxi, he had already separatized the five western provinces. Although Gansu and Shaanxi were all poor places, there is an old saying that there was a bad person in remote areas. This is a derogatory fact. How many people died in Gansu's Hunan Army's Western Expedition to quell the rebellion? Who doesn't know that Shaanxi's powerful soldiers were sent? Who has forgotten the *** riots who were fighting with the Western Expedition a few months ago? There is no fuel-efficient province in these three provinces, and it would be fine if Li Han, a star-killing person, was occupied. If a literati with a softer bone was taken over, it might be possible.
It is going to be in chaos again in a few years. Moreover, with Li Han's unremitting efforts to expand, the Hanyang Arsenal has become the veritable first arsenal in the Republic of China. After the upgrade is completed in the middle of next year, its production capacity will exceed the sum of the four major arsenals in China. Moreover, the Sichuan Arsenal, which is now renamed in Chengdu, also has 60% of the annual productivity of the Hanyang Arsenal before the 1911. It has such a strong family background. Some domestic forces that were jealous of Li Han and followed the ignition to ignite the flames. They suddenly felt like they were poured with a bowl of cold water. They woke up!
Especially from his attitude of going to war with Yuan Shikai and the Southern Party, if they continue to threaten, it is possible that this local strongest vassal would be forced to declare a rebellion. At that time, this newly built country would really have a war that took several years. Even if the central government wins, the country will be out of salvation!
Therefore, after discovering this danger, the voices of various attacks on Li Han and the Western Union Military Government that were originally hustle and bustle in China disappeared. A group of reporters who have cursed this month have been very relieved. The editors looked at the sudden warnings. They didn't know what happened? The sporadic exchange of fire between the troops under Li Han and the armies of various provinces suddenly shocked many people in cold sweat. Facing the huge force that had already expanded the number of troops by more than 100,000 and seemed to have the intention to continue expanding the army. No matter how stupid the people woke up, they were facing a warlord, a real warlord, and a warlord who didn't care about the so-called literati cursed by them, because he had a gun in his hand, and he obviously trusted the gun in his hand more.
In such a day when the whole country suddenly became quiet, everyone discovered that the trial that the cabinet had tinkered with was gone. The Senate and the House of Representatives seemed to have no energy to do because the Congressional election was about to begin, so they cried and criticized for many days and were gone. Instead, they were the voices of representatives of the provinces expressing their opinions and the agreement program.
However, what no one knows is that on the last day of November, a telegram from Yuan Shikai was photographed in Wuhan. No one knows what the content of the letter is except Li Han and Yuan Shikai. What everyone knows is that a group of bannermen who have been in trouble on the streets of Beijing for so many days have disappeared. Some of the big men who went to the police station were taken away by the garrison, some were driven out of the capital, and some even escaped from the capital in a panic. For these things, they cannot provide him with some resources now and are still everywhere.
When Yuan Shikai couldn't use it, who would think he was a human? Almost at the same time, the governor of Jiangsu was replaced by Xu Shaozhen, the former commander of the Ninth Town of the Army. The former governor Zhuang Yunkuan was transferred to Beijing as the director of the Audit Office. Zhang Jian opened a new Dasheng yarn mill in Sichuan. According to his own wishes, he wanted to open it larger than the factory in Shanghai. The Republican Party split into several factions within the party and attacked each other for more than half a month, more than a dozen small parties that were originally merged into the Republican Party were kicked out of the Republican Party.
The second largest party in the Republic of China, which originally had 270,000 members, has dropped to only 90,000 people, of which 80,000 were concentrated in the four provinces of Hubei, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang in total, with only more than 6,000 people left!
The people were very curious. Why did the case of Li Han plundering the property of the bannermen that had been noisy for more than half a month suddenly disappear? Why are the news of this country's election re-published in the newspaper? Why did such a wonderful dog biting dog suddenly disappear, as if it had never been discovered before?
They will never know that politicians are the most shameless and dirty existence in the world, and that the only things written in newspapers that are completely believed in are fools.
December came suddenly, and Beijing had already entered winter. For the people living in Beijing, this means that the best season of the year has passed. Below is the storage of things for winter, preparing to reduce activities, and winter is coming. However, this season when the cold winter is approaching, for the central government of Yuan Shikai in Beijing, the test that has been waiting for for a long time has finally arrived.
The Congressional election is about to begin!
As the end of the year is approaching, the merchants who have been running outside for a year have returned to their hometowns and have worked hard for a year for their livelihood. It is time to enjoy the New Year, and it is time to enjoy it for a few days!
Beijing is in the royal city. Although the emperor has been deposed for almost a year, many people still have to gather together and say a few words. Look, a few down-and-out bannermen in this teahouse and tasting, and then a group of Han people who stood up and became old men also followed the sarcastic words. They talked about the changes in the country in the past six months, and talked about the plunder of the banners by Li Han. The people are now circulating in Hubei and Sichuan are so rich. After that, they become the Western King Li Han, who is a descendant of the royal family of the previous dynasty. Now the people who have no land and money can ask for land to farm with the government, which is much better than the current president and the previous dynasty emperor!
Suddenly there was a bustle in the teahouse, and a middle-aged man wearing a pair of calfskin boots made from Hubei followed by a few bulging waists. It was cold that day, he was still holding a fan in his hand, but he didn't know whether he wanted to show off the four words "special approval pass" on his fan, or whether he wanted to show off a huge jade ring and four gold rings on his right hand shaking the fan.
"Where is a nouveau riche?"
I don’t know who this person is, and a companion next to me hurriedly pulled him when he heard it.
"Brother, you can't afford to offend this person!"
"What's wrong, he can still beat me!"
"You kid don't have to be up to the point. They are not ordinary people, their eyes are brighter!"
The companion pulled him and sat a little further. The middle-aged man seemed quite proud, and everyone in the room got up to say hello to him.
"Yeah, isn't this Liu Master? You've been back to the capital? But I haven't seen you grow old for a long time. Come on, sit on our seats... and serve tea for Liu Master!"
The Sixth Master nodded and sat down in the crowd. His voice was loud and clear, and he was very energetic: "Sixth Master, I'm going to Hubei this time. We have everything now. If anyone wants something, you might as well come to Liuth Master, and you can get everything for you!"
Some people thought he was too loud and hummed and ignored him. The friend next to him hurriedly held him back and whispered: "Don't cause trouble. This Sixth Master is not an ordinary person. His ancestors were horse thieves in Zhili. It is said that he was unwilling to do it in his generation. He actually took a group of brothers to Hubei and got an official designated horse team with the subordinates of the King of Xi. He also bought a batch of poles (guns), which was said to be as many as 500. In addition, with the King of Xi, he was protected by him, transporting salt everywhere and transporting the things produced by the factory in Hubei, and no one dared to provoke them. Even if you enter the city guard, you dare not collect money. If you offend him, you will be dragged out and collapse!"
My companion was shocked. Who would dare to be unable to get along with those with guns these days? That would be a matter of having holes in your mind. I won’t speak now!
"Sixth Master, let's talk about the Western King's side?"
Sixth Master was interested. God knew that he had only traveled to Wuchang, Hubei, but he didn't even see Li Han's face. However, the four words stuck on his fan were the same as the ones mentioned on him, and he blew it so hard that he was spitting all over the sky.
Just as a group of people were talking, the topic was unconsciously coming to the Congressional election that was about to begin. There was no way, so why did the whole country beg for this matter recently!
Here we are talking about the general election, and there is another place in the capital.
In the living room of the Presidential Palace, there were drinking and chatting. At the banquet, Yuan Shikai was talking intimately with a graceful and beautiful middle-aged man next to him.
"Mr. Ren, after you returned to China, you only stayed in my Beijing city for a day, and then ran everywhere from all over the world. Thanks to you, the Democratic Party has now become the second largest party in the country. Come on, I toast you this glass of wine, we are old friends. In a flash, so many years have passed, and everyone can sit together and drink wine, talk about the future, and give guidance to the country. This is something you and I dare not think about before!"
Only Yuan Shikai and the middle-aged man whom he called "Ren Gong" were there at this table. The two of them were filled with emotion when they spoke. In a flash, nearly twenty years have passed!
This middle-aged man, Liang Qichao, the leader of the Democratic Party, was less than 40 years old, but he was one of the most famous figures among the Chinese people. He finished learning the Five Classics at the age of six, was able to write a thousand-word article at the age of nine, became a scholar at the age of 12, passed the scholar at the age of 17, and became the chief writer of the Shanghai "Shiwu Daily" which was famous throughout the country during the Reform Movement of 1898.
His pen was considered magical by many people. Whether he had been to school or oppose it, it can be said that many young people who have not been baptized by his sharp writings when they read his articles, they were fascinated and crazy, and even embarked on the revolutionary path that he did not agree with. The revolutionary elders Tan Renfeng, Hu Hanmin and others had no good feelings for Liang Qi, but they also admitted that Liang "Qidi's people have made great contributions."
After the Hundred Days of Wuxu, Liang Qichao had to die. He had been away for more than ten years and had to come back now. However, since the constitution was prepared for the constitution in the late Qing Dynasty, he still had a considerable influence on the report of the five ministers sent abroad to investigate constitutionalism. He was the "Constitutional Friends Association" of the constitutionalists in the late Qing Dynasty whom he wrote on his behalf, and he also regarded him as the spiritual leader.
In addition, Wu, Lan, Zhang and others, who were the "three non-commissioned officers" in the northern military, also had a deep friendship with him, and Jiang Baili, Cai E and others even held disciple etiquette to him. After the Wuchang Uprising broke out, before Yuan Shikai came out, he had a plan to seize the military power of Wu, Lan, Zhang and others to show his ambitions, but with Yuan Shikai's emergence and Wu Luzhen's assassination, his idea could only be disappointed.
After that, he had to follow the domestic situation and adjust his plan. In the view of Liang Qichao, who had been hesitating between revolution and reform, the revolutionary party could destroy but not build. Moreover, the Kang-liang faction and the Tongmenghui had too deep old grudges, and too many old friends led by the constitutional faction were all under the assassination of Sun Huang. It was impossible for him to cooperate with Sun and Huang. After thinking repeatedly, he had to choose to "cooperate" with Yuan Shikai, who also had some historical festivals. In the year of Wuxu, although Yuan Shikai's behavior was not like Kang-liang who had been promoting in the back and betrayed Guangxu for his own wealth, the Kang-liang faction had always hated Yuan Shikai verbally, and Kang Youwei still could not "forgive" Yuan Shikai's "betrayal"
Liang Qi ignored Nai's opposition. When Yuan Shikai revealed his intention to win him over, the two hit it off. At the beginning of this year, Yuan Shikai called to praise him for "welcoming the world's talents and letting the world's expectations" and urging him to return to his country, he wrote to his teachers and friends: "I am sure that the republic system cannot be feasible to China, and I always hold the purpose of constitutional monarchy: if I want to achieve this purpose, I will rely on Xiangcheng, but if I don't help Xiangcheng, who will help?... I am confident that if Xiangcheng can shake hands with me, there will be great things in the world. Although, when the whole country is in a stroke, the most jealous people are the two of us... To make a statement, Xiangcheng is in charge and manages finances and soldiers. This is also his strengths and uses his words to divert the national psychology, so that most people will become neutral from urgency to neutrality, and from neutral to gentleness. This strengths also go through the path and use interactions."
It’s a pity that Yuan Shikai had long been very clear about how the literati’s methods could be used to be so scheming politicians. The two of them just used each other!
Liang Qichao has been traveling abroad for many years, and his ability to cultivate one's own self-cultivation has reached his home. He heard the secret mention of that year, he just smiled and said without saying anything. After he drank a glass of wine, he put down and said, "What Mr. Yuan said is that Mr. Ren has been away for many years, and he doesn't want to live for more than ten years and return to China again. It's a matter of things and people who have changed. For a moment, it's better not to mention it or not, today Mr. Yuan invited him to the Republic of China to make a clear decision, right?"
Yuan Shikai smiled and said, "That's right, not right. I have the help of the public in the election. Party members only know how to destroy construction. Apart from fooling the people, there is no way to govern the country. Today, you and my old friends have not seen each other for many years, so I'll be close to you! Come on, I'll give you another cup!"
"please!"
Liang Qichao drank another drink and said, "Mr. Yuan should not be careless, so the party members should not be underestimated. When I was developing in the local area, many of my early friends have now entered the ***. The party members have a sound political party, but most of the elements have too radical ideas and too fierce methods, so it is difficult to become an orderly party!"
Yuan Shikai smiled and said, "Don't worry, I have a trump card in my hand, unless their power can really overwhelm everything, otherwise..."
"Oh, will you come out?"
Chapter completed!