The two had wanted to discuss some topics with Li Han, so they were naturally happy to stay in his presidential palace and talked with him all night... com《》() So some of the followers of Wang Zhaoming and Sun Huang were sent to the State Guesthouse to rest. Before the banquet ended, Li Han and several confidants winked. After Duan Qirui and others returned, they all returned to the presidential palace.

Since they had dealt with each other, the meeting was straightforward at the beginning. Since Sun and Huang had a very good reputation in history, Li Han was also determined to maintain the current peace situation in the Republic of China through exchanges. Therefore, he believed that whether they could convince the two, they should try to have an open and detailed interview with them, so that both sides knew each other's political propositions and it would be best to reach some consensus temporarily. It was precisely because of this plan that at the beginning of the talks, Li Han first introduced the domestic political situation: "The domestic situation was decayed before, and the trust of all the kings in the country, and Han was ordered to assume the responsibility of the interim president in the transitional period, fulfilling the duties of the temporary head of state during the transition period, and carrying out a preliminary reorganization of the cabinet..."

"The president's employment of people is completely based on state affairs and abilities, and there is no personal likes and dislikes. Keqiang and I admire it."

"The most concerned thing in China is the issue of Congress. The temporary cabinet has already made a resolution on this point. We have resolved some opinions from the north and south. We have initially determined that the Congressional election will start in January after the National Day, and will last forty days. The reason why half a year is left is that your party was the largest party in the Congress at the time. Because of the changes, its power and influence have been somewhat damaged. Therefore, in order to make this Congressional election more fair, I explained my personal opinions to everyone in the cabinet.

Everyone finally agreed to leave half a year for buffering time. First, everyone has enough time to prepare for the general election based on their abilities, and second, my temporary cabinet also has enough time to deal with the current domestic chaos. The Han mastered the national artifact for the first time, and felt that the responsibility was great, so he naturally did not want to leave many troubles for the new government decided by the Congress in the future. In fact, this half year has left me with time to deal with negotiations with foreigners and Japan. Please understand this selfishness by both gentlemen..."

Sun Wen and Huang Xing smiled at each other, "How can you blame the President? The current domestic situation is chaotic, and the president must not act. Especially the Northeast issue, although some friends in Japan have supported me in the past and present, the Japanese government's desire to covet our country's Manchu and Mongolia is also obvious. Since the President started a revolution in 1911, he has gone through three years and has experienced many battles. I have only heard many times in Japan that the most taboo thing that the Japanese people in China is the president's 100,000 tigers under the president. I heard that the new Prime Minister of Japan resigned, and the new Prime Minister Shigeon Okuma has formed a cabinet for the second time, but because of his shallow foundation, the chaos in Japan's domestic political are still not over. I am afraid that Japan is hesitating whether to withdraw its troops outside the Northeast. At this time, the president needs more time and effort to deal with Japan with all his strength!"

On April 24, the Noble House announced a retrial of the Navy's funding plan proposed by the former Navy Minister, which gave Yamamoto a fatal blow, causing many naval generals who supported him to become indifferent. Then on the 26th, the Emperor Taisho of Japan issued an edict ordering Yamamoto to abdicate as soon as possible to give way to the emperor. Yamamoto's Cabinet fell, and at first he wanted to make the Nishimoto's Cabinet and Tokugawa Itada formed a cabinet, but they were rejected by the two, so the Noble House discussed it.

As a result, during the process of forming the cabinet, the Navy took the condition to increase the shipbuilding budget when determining the candidate for the maritime prime minister. The nobles could not convince the army that had made great profits in the "Siemens Incident" to plead their hands and agreed to the navy's new "84 Fleet" plan. Qingpu was helpless and had to give up the formation of the cabinet. Finally, on May 10, former Prime Minister Shigeon Okuma came back and led the political association that supported him to gain the power to reorganize the cabinet.

The Japanese Governor of North Korea, who bypassed the domestic base and privately went to Liaodong to increase troops, has angered the Japanese government in a diplomatic situation. The most important thing is that Masato Tanuchi, who holds one-third of the Japanese army, bypassed Yama Prefecture, the leader of the Changshu clan several times, has made the army veteran feel that he should be hit. So he took the hand of Shigeshinobu Okuma to temporarily recall him to report his duties. This is already a good signal, which shows that Li Han's diplomatic strategy of using the six countries of England, France, Germany, the United States, Russia and Austria to jointly put pressure on the Japanese government was correct. The Japanese government has made a compromise and believes that soon, the Japanese troops in Fuzhou and Andong Prefecture will withdraw from the Kanto Prefecture to station again.

Li Han was quite satisfied with his strategy, but he obviously knew that Japan's current strength was far from what he could challenge and win. He was not ready to start a war, so now, he should be cautious first.

"Han is very pleased to be able to gain your understanding. Both gentlemen are my predecessors and are also wise men who worry about the country and the people. Now, I will briefly introduce the situation of the cabinet departments, some difficulties the country is facing now, and some of our policy programs in the next six months! Because the cabinet was temporarily elected during the peace talks, most of them were recommended by both sides at that time. Although it is difficult to represent the people of the whole country, most of the abilities have been proven. There is no major problem in maintaining the temporary cabinet. Zihu, please introduce us to the financial situation!"

Hu Ruilin nodded and said, "The problems faced by the Ministry of Finance are quite difficult now. First of all, there are many problems in the Qing Dynasty and Beiyang period, especially the government's entire fiscal revenue and expenditure, budget and final accounts, and the chaos in the monetary system is also a flaw. In addition, there were too many loans between the former president and foreigners, resulting in the fiscal repayment of only two items of compensation from the previous dynasty this year, which was as high as more than 40 million yuan. When we took over the central government's finances, because of the random misappropriation of government revenue during the Yuan Shikai period, the purchase of arms was excessive, and a large amount of gray expenditures were

, the compensation from the royal family and princes of the previous dynasty, etc., the finances have been gone. Of course, it is not ruled out that some people have moved away all the remaining funds of the treasury before we took over Beijing. At present, there are many places in China that need money, such as military expenditure, training of new recruits, armed forces, disaster relief and bandit suppression in Henan, such as infrastructure construction. Because the treasury has no money available, we had to temporarily transfer and borrow 30 million yuan from the Western Reserve Bank and the Western Autonomous Government, and agreed to repay it when the finances turn better next year."

"Our current countermeasures are very simple. On the one hand, we must sort out the fiscal revenue and expenditure since this year as soon as possible, and make it a report to inform the Prime Minister and the President of the Cabinet that all officials and cabinet officials who have corrupt and corrupt behavior will be investigated to the end; on the other hand, we must clear the financial holes as soon as possible and sort out the amount of major expenditures required for the year; Third, we must reorganize and formulate new government officials' treatment and raise funds. Due to the abnormal income and expenditure period of the Beiyang government, many officials, especially middle and lower-level officials, have been owed wages, forcing them to make decisions on other aspects.

The salary is not paid in full on time. The so-called refreshing the administration of officials is purely empty talk. Of course, necessary supervision is inevitable. The fourth and most important issue. During the Beiyang government, Yuan Shikai issued public bonds and bank bonds in the name of the central government to debit up to 14 million yuan, and foreign debts were as high as 317 million yuan. At present, there are so many public debts and foreign debts that are as large as staggering. If the fiscal mistake is made, the government will fall into a bankruptcy crisis. I think that the central bank should be established and determined as soon as possible, and various currencies issued by local provinces are abolished, and the finances are unified, and taxes are unified..."

Sun Wen, Huang Xing listened attentively. They knew that Yuan Shikai had borrowed a large amount of debt with other countries in the past two years, but when the accurate data came out from Hu Ruilin, the head of the Ministry of Finance, the two of them took a breath of air conditioning. The 317 million yuan naturally refers to the total amount in the west. This amount is enough to build a four or five thousand miles of railway in China to develop industry, which can completely complete industry for several poor provinces.

Infrastructure. Unfortunately, during his reign, Yuan Shikai was only committed to monopolizing power, and was only committed to exterminating the Kuomintang and the western region head-on, and he had no intention of paying attention to these things. In comparison, Li Han's achievements over the past few years have made everyone feel that they are in a new mood. Sun and Huang have both been to the west, especially Hubei, which is now built, which is the first industry in China and has a strong economic province. The two compared Yuan Shikai with Li Hanyi, deeply lamenting that their old opponents were not wronged.

Thinking about how to solve this financial loophole of hundreds of millions of dollars that falls on me, I am afraid I have been panicked and broken down the east wall to repair the west wall and booked a new loan with foreigners. Now seeing Li Han just frowning slightly, I admire his confidence.

Huang Xing said: "Brothers are from the army. If you want to say that you can sell some strength when raising troops to fight and defeat the strong, but you are an amateur in finance. But after hearing General Hu's introduction just now, I feel the serious problem. Finance is the basis for the normal operation of a government. Financial chaos will inevitably lead to administrative chaos. At present, everything is in trouble. It is time for vigorous rectification. However, people are determined and some money still needs to be collected, such as the final public debts and the amount of government bonds is reissued to local gentry in full, so that everyone will doubt the central credit. In addition, there are relief from Henan, military expenditures in the northeast, military reorganization of the army, military pay for the north and south, and the renewal of military ordnances, etc...."

Li Han nodded in agreement and said, "Han actually has some ideas about financial issues, but it is still being discussed because it involves a lot of people. For example, I think it is possible to acquire some banks holding large amounts of government bonds in the name of the Ministry of Finance and the state, and then the state will pay the due government bonds."

Of course, he was not kind enough to wipe Yuan Shikai's butt, but because more than half of the shares of the two banks with currency issuance rights, the "Bank of China" converted from the Qing Dynasty and the Bank of Communications, which had the right to issue currency, were scattered outside and held by some local constitutionalists. Unless he wanted to forcefully take over, neither Zhou Ziqi nor Liang Shiyi, the two behind-the-scenes controllers, were so readily taken over and voluntarily. Now through the Ministry of Finance, he has mastered all the official shares of these two banks, and now about 50% of the commercial stocks are left outside. At present, all signs show that the Beiyang Group and the Transportation Department will not easily spit out the two banks, so his first step is to cut off the currency issuance rights of the two banks, and then recognize the debts issued during the Yuan Shikai period in the name of the government, forcing the Beiyang Group and the Transportation Department to cut off the liquors to make up for the public debt or send control to him to make a choice.

Of course, he could not tell Sun and Huang the truth about these things. Naturally, he would just stop and say something nice to deepen their favorability for him.

As expected, the two of them praised his sense of responsibility and the atmosphere became more and more harmonious.

"But if the administration is not clarified, it may be difficult to improve financially in a short time!" The person who answered was Tang Shaoyi, the Minister of Justice. He went south to Hubei during the War of Protecting the Country to personally visit Li Han, hoping to stop the two strong forces from fighting each other in the country, but he did not expect that Li Han was not only tough but the situation changed too quickly. After Yuan Shikai was killed, he did not really make a statement about the reasons. He finally accepted Li Han's favor and expressed his willingness to be the chief minister of the future cabinet. Li Han considered that he was more opinionated and not over-controlled, so he finally gave him the General Secretary of the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Justice had great power and real power, but in ancient times, China had always paid attention to the law and did not blame the king. In the future, Tang Shaoyi's political ambitions increased, unless the bill he formulated would be passed. Otherwise, it would be very important.

It is difficult to threaten Li Han. "General Tang said very much, if local officials and local finances do not rectify, the central finances will not be discussed! I propose that a system should be established to severely punish local officials' corruption. There are rumors in the market that ordinary government employees are poor, but county governors and governors are plundering. This phenomenon is not governed and the administration of officials is not refreshed. What is the way to explain to the people? The West has experience in supervising officials. The President had previously established the "Independent Commission Against Corruption Office" in the west. In a few years, the administration of officials in the west was clarified. It still cannot ensure that greed cannot be eliminated, but it has fundamentally limited the emergence of greed. I suggest that this "Independent Commission Against Corruption Office" should boldly go out of the west, bear greater responsibilities and obligations in the country, and supervise local officials in various provinces across the country to refresh the administration as soon as possible!"

This time, Tang Hualong, who stood up, Li Han nodded secretly. He had already moved the ICAC to the central government to supervise officials across the country. He even China, the bad nature of the government and politicians, the rich culture and history of this nation make it easier for politicians to fall into "greed". To put it bluntly, in the early Republic of China, the country can be described as "negative" without officials. Except for a very small number of people who strictly discipline themselves, the politician class has been completely corrupt. If a regime cannot be confirmed at the beginning and gives the "integrity" organization to value power and establish prestige, it will eventually become another "discipline inspection department."

"Even tigers and wild boars must be beaten, and even foxes and monkeys must be educated."

Li Han intends to launch an anti-corruption storm in the new regime, but the parliamentary election is imminent, especially since the soldiers in his hands are too dispersed, it is not appropriate to become public anger and offend the entire bureaucratic group. Therefore, the ICAC can now move to the central government and even work under his presidential palace, but it is not appropriate to copy all his anti-corruption measures in the west directly. However, even so, he still formulated strict regulations and took the opportunity to disclose some to Sun and Huang, so as not to wait for him to make public announcements, and the two thought it was used to deal with them.

He pondered for a moment, looked at Sun Huang and the others, and Sun Wen said: "The chaotic situation in the past few years has given many local officials the opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity in the village, and it is also necessary to refresh the administration of officials. However, the current national regime is not stable, and raising the butcher knife may cause general panic in the local area. Be cautious. I think this matter will be postponed a little, so why not discuss it after the general election of the Congress!"

Li Han nodded, "It affects the whole body, and for the sake of national stability, we have to be cautious. However, during the transitional government period, if Li does more things for future generations, he will reduce his efforts in the future. Recently, I drafted a draft of the moral standards of officials. Taking advantage of the opportunity of having a long talk with the two gentlemen all night, you might as well take a look and give some advice!"

He winked and explained to the adjutant for a few words, then turned around and left. After about three or five minutes, he came back, carrying a cowhide bag in his hand, with dozens or hundreds of documents bulging inside, which were obviously prepared early in the morning.

"Please see everyone!"

The adjutant sent the documents to everyone. There were not many words written on them, only a few short ones, but they were like sharp swords, which made many people's faces slightly discolored.

There were three moral standards for officials in the New Republic of China: First, the Republic of China government should be appointed by officials of the new ideas. Anyone who still has braids to miss the previous dynasty shall be cut within three days, otherwise it will be dismissed if it has been reported and confirmed that the braids have not been cut. Second, opium is the source of all poisons. All government employees are not allowed to smoke opium. The original smoking habit is banned for three months. If it has not been implemented after the deadline, it will never be hired. Third, government employees should be a model of social atmosphere. Any places with low style should not be entered or left. From now on, brothels, casinos and other similar places that are depressed should not be allowed to enter or leave, and they should be subject to social supervision. Once a violation of this article is found, they will be dismissed on the spot and will not be hired within ten years!"

Three moral standards are like three sharp knives that penetrated into the ugly part of the old habits of the officialdom. Li Han explained: "You may have doubts, why should you be so demanding from government officials? Officials are human beings, and they also have their own interests and hobbies... But Han thinks that officials are human beings on the one hand, and on the other hand, they represent the image of the country and the image of the government. In the eyes of foreigners, we Chinese have always been poor and weak East Asia sick men. Since ancient times, the upper beams are not straight and the lower beams are crooked. If even the prominent officials representing society are shrouded in smoke all day long,

How can I expect them to help the people when I enter the wine shop and fireworks? I, Li Han, are not afraid of offending people, make enemies, or make heads. With me in one day, there will be no unhealthy habits. I can use your mouth to tell all departments to rectify the habits of officials, and start from the central government. If anyone can't stand it, he can resign from the official position. As the saying goes, three-legged toads are rare, but two-legged people are everywhere on the streets. I don't believe that there is no one without anyone else. All of us Chinese people cannot eat and cannot live!"

The resounding and unretreatable statement deeply shocked the old foxes who had been scattered in the officialdom. Even Tang Shouqian, who thought he was not surprised by his favor and disgrace, had to look at him with admiration. At this moment, they realized that this was a president who was completely different from the one they knew. If this country had always been under his rule, would it indicate that a bright future would come?
Chapter completed!