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Chapter 542: The Transitional Cabinet (Part 2)

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After a brief exchange with Duan Qirui and others, after seeing off a few people, Li Han returned to Dongguan Pavilion and told his confidants who had previously communicated with Duan Qirui and others to Beijing earlier.

"It's fine for Xu Shichang. Although he was once a confidant of the Yuan family, this man had a good reputation in the previous dynasty, so it would be fine to let him temporarily serve as the Prime Minister of the Cabinet. However, although Sheng Xuanhuai had some relationship with us, that man was an official and businessman since the Qing Dynasty. How much money he earned was in vain? This makes people think about it. Not to mention anything else, it's the steamship Merchants Agency, which has a lot of tricks there. There are also state-owned railways, and the people still have some personal grudges towards him. Beiyang recommends him to be the vice president. Is this okay?"

The first to express his doubts was Tang Hualong. He had left the political arena for so long, and he should have expressed his opinions later. However, firstly, he is eager to show something to make up for the bad impression of having an affair with outsiders that had been created in Li Han's mind. Secondly, the Tang brothers will be the head of the Navy Department, the other will be the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and among the twelve heads of the transitional cabinet, the two brothers alone will join forces to occupy one-sixth. With this confidence, he will naturally quickly choose to forget the fact that he had been under house arrest by Li Han for more than half a year and seriously make suggestions for Li Han.

A series of discussion suddenly sounded in the Dongguan Pavilion, most of which were echoing Tang Hualong's opinions. But Li Han just smiled faintly. He knew very well what Sheng Xuanhuai was. If he was still the Li Han two years ago, he would definitely grit his teeth and hate this big borer who was at least greedy for more than 10 million yuan in the country. But now, since he is already the president of this country, he naturally has to consider the issue from a political perspective. Sheng Xuanhuai and Xu Shichang were recommended by the Beiyang Group, and it goes without saying that they must have reached some compromises. However, firstly, this is the Beiyang opinion that is difficult to refuse, and secondly, he has some uses for this borer, so there is no need to attack him immediately.

He smiled and said, "Jiwu said very much. Sheng's family rose to the previous dynasty and was an official and had been doing business for many years. This move could not be clean. In the previous dynasty, many censors impeached him, especially after borrowing state-owned railways, embezzling state assets by tens of millions. But at present, Sheng Xuanhuai was unable to move, which would give people a clear statement and also cause unnecessary turmoil. Now, we must first stabilize the overall situation and then talk about something else."

He paused slightly, "Beiyang Group is still some strength. Since they gave up Beijing and Tianjin as agreed, we must also keep our promises. There is no hurry, just a vice president, just give it to him!"

In the future, even the Prime Minister of the Cabinet could not even take away much power from him, let alone the vice president. Li Han is still quite confident about this.

"What the President taught is that Jiwu was abrupt!" Everyone said that one's mistakes made people wise. After Tang Hualong was imprisoned for half a year, his political wisdom increased a lot. Li Han spoke. No matter what he thought, he nodded wisely and shut his mouth. The topic turned back to the cabinet meeting, and this talk took more than an hour.

Li Han did not dare to take this meeting lightly. The old saying is that three cobblers are the ones who are the best at Zhuge Liang? Naturally, he does not have the talent of Zhuge Liang, so naturally some of his previous plans and measures will inevitably be negligent. Naturally, he should exchange opinions with his own group of subordinates and staff.

As we chatted, we inevitably talked about the Northeast, the Outer Mongolia and the local vassals.

"The Northeast should not be able to fight, the latest information sent back. The 10th Division has captured the fourth county occupied by the people of the rioters, and is currently less than a hundred miles away from Fuzhou and other places. The Japanese have only shown hostility but have not taken the initiative to attack the 10th Division. I think if the first division is transferred into the Northeast, it will be possible to force Japan to withdraw troops from Fuzhou and Andong County. On the other side of Fengtian, Zhang Zuolin has called Beijing to express his obedience to the central command, and I have ordered him to take over Fengtian. Considering that Japan and Russia in the Northeast region, Japan and Russia will be forced to withdraw troops.

The power is not small. I intend to abolish the governors of the three northeastern provinces and keep the governors, build a new defense Northeast Military Region, and increase the Northeast garrison to five divisions to 80,000 national defense forces by the end of the year to prevent repeated rebellion between Japan and Russia. In the next five years, the regular garrison in Northeast China will surely increase the Northeast to 200,000 to 300,000. The situation in Outer Mongolia is not clear. I intend to garrison one brigade in Keshketeng Banner, Korqin Banner and Azuoguda Banner before the end of the year. Once the Russians make trouble in Outer Mongolia, they can mobilize two divisions to attack Outer Mongolia at any time!"

"As for the south, Tang Jiyao is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and he still needs to deploy five divisions in Sichuan, Hunan and Hubei. On the one hand, it can intimidate the Yunnan-Guizhou army, and on the other hand, it can put pressure on Lu Rongting's troops. I fear that some of my three brothers are friends in Guizhou, and many generals in the Guizhou army are a little dissatisfied with Tang Jiyao. Lu Rongting has dealt with us in Hunan. We know the best how much we have. I think we should first use the central government's power to deter the situation, so that they will not dare to move in a short time. It is necessary to achieve our goal. Fujian and Guangdong, the top leaders of the Kuomintang approached the Japanese, and the Japanese supported our country's revolution with evil intentions.

Defense. The Kuomintang in Fujian must remove its military power, but it must consider its influence. It cannot take the initiative to send troops unless it is absolutely necessary. In Zhejiang and Jiangxi, I think it is necessary to maintain the strength of at least four divisions! Long Jiguang from Guangdong has already shown a downward trend. He has called the Central Committee several times, hoping that I will intervene in the mediation. The Bureau of Investigation is still tracking whether there is Japanese military support behind Fujian. It has not been discovered yet, but the funds and arms provided by Japanese government and businessmen have been confirmed. In addition, the Guangdong-Hankou Railway is part of the national railway network that the central government is planning, and Guangdong must not fall into the hands of the Kuomintang!”

"There is also the division of military and civilians, which must be implemented forcibly. The power of the military governor is too great. As a military man, a country can strengthen the army, but it will also promote the trend of division. If this continues, local powerful factions gather together to challenge the authority of our central government. Therefore, the military governor will not be eliminated for a day, and the central government's power will not be concentrated for a day. Mr. Sun Wen, the leader of the revolutionary party, once proposed the trilogy of "Military and Political, Training and Constitutionalism", which I think is very appropriate. The Republic of China is now in the military and political stage. Local governments are strong in their military and military suppression. Although they have the contribution of maintaining stability in the local area, they are not as safe as one rule. I intend to abolish the military governor in the provinces we control. Referring to our measures in the west, the abolishment of the military governor only retains the civil affairs chief, and the military and garrisons are left to the central government to deploy! Try to completely end the situation of domestic military governors in the domestic military suppression within half a year to a year!"

Seeing that the president intends to end the military and political situation as soon as possible, many of Li Han's confidants were a little happy. After all, under this "military and political" state, the status of politicians is far inferior to that of martial artists. Therefore, like many politicians in China, they probably hoped to end the situation where the local military is greater than the political situation as soon as possible.

But no one can answer how long will the tutoring after military and political affairs last, and even Li Han himself can't answer.

As Xu Shichang and others arrived in Beijing, that night, the cabinet meeting that had been waiting for a long time in China was held in a larger conference room in the State Council next to the former Presidential Palace.

The atmosphere of the cabinet meeting that night was a bit strange. After all, this was the first time that Li Han presided over such a meeting of such a level and such a member, everyone was not very clear about Li Han's thoughts, the interim president. Although some officials from the old cabinet smiled and gathered together to exchange the information they knew before the meeting began, the more they knew, the more doubts they had in their hearts. After all, everyone knew it. It was a foregone conclusion that the winner had entered the cabinet. Li Han took the opportunity to insert his confidant in the transitional cabinet. With his strong military strength that quickly defeated the Northern Army, the literati officials who had never seen a real war had a deep fear in their hearts.

The meeting began soon, and Li Han stood up first.

"Everyone, today is the first time that the Han Dynasty has been inaugurated by the interim president of such a high-level meeting. Less gossip and get back to the point. In the past, because many cabinets have resigned, the few generals are worried that their abilities are insufficient and they will be difficult to win more benefits for the Republic of China in the more difficult situation in the future, so they take the initiative to resign. Your departure has led to the cabinet falling into chaos in a short period of time. Han was ordered to be appointed to temporarily select some former subordinates who are familiar with their abilities and know their abilities to exercise their cabinet powers temporarily. However, their abilities are still lacking compared to their predecessors, and it is difficult to maintain them until the convening of the Congress. Therefore, we should select new transitional cabinet members at today's meeting to restore the chaos in the country as soon as possible!"

Everyone was excited and knew that the show was finally here.

"In addition, today's meeting will also discuss the issues after the establishment of the transitional government. In my opinion, there are only four main issues facing the new government: first, in terms of politics, the operation and personnel arrangements of governments at all levels from the central to local levels; second, in terms of finance, especially the current fiscal holes are filled; third, in terms of military, the current situation is settled and the establishment of the National Defense Forces." Li Han glanced at everyone majesticly and said, "The fourth is also the most concerned issue of the current national election. We need to set a time and charter to complete the election as soon as possible and decide on a new national cabinet."

Many of the two politicians here who did not want to help secretly looked at the Beiyang Group led by Duan Qirui and Xu Shichang, but to their surprise and uneasy, the group of people sat there with expressionless expressions, although they did not agree, they did not mean to object.

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