?A major event happened in Beijing recently, one that shocked the entire Far East and caused the Chinese government to be in a state of anger and passiveness.-<  >- .A major event that may cause turmoil in the Far East if it is not handled well.

On May 25, 1916, the little emperor who had been in the Forbidden City in Beijing since abdicating four years ago had an accident. In the early morning of the 30th, a group of well-equipped and well-prepared unknown people forcibly attacked the Forbidden City guards. The garrison troops had not had any problems for a long time and their security was a little relaxed. As a result, several criminals rushed into the palace.

After learning the news, the Beijing Garrison Command was furious and immediately blocked nine gates and mobilized heavy troops to the Forbidden City. In the end, although most of the criminals were killed and the little emperor was guaranteed to be kidnapped. However, some people escaped in the chaos.

Originally, the little emperor was not robbed. Although he was furious about this incident, it would not have caused the government to be passive. But the subsequent changes were not like this. The group of bandits who claimed to be Manchukuo from all over the country, after interrogating the captured and injured by the Ministry of Public Safety, they unexpectedly found that they might be from Outer Mongolia. The intelligence obtained by the Bureau of Investigation was even more bizarre. The intelligence personnel of the Bureau of Investigation were actually directed in four directions, namely the Sectarian Party, Japan, Russia and Britain, which had been suppressed by the government.

It is obvious that the enemy is very cunning and has made a lot of preparations, which has made the investigation of Chinese intelligence agencies much more difficult.

If there is no powerful black hand behind this scene, no one will believe it. In China, except for a few people, all over the country basically regard Russia as the target of suspicion.

Why do you think? Last year, the Russian government submitted a letter of national concern about the Outer Mongolia issue to China, inviting China to go to Chakto, which was occupied by Russia, to negotiate the issue of ownership of Outer Mongolia. This unreasonable claim was flatly rejected by China. In order to put pressure on China, the Russians even ordered to refuse to purchase supplies from China as weapons. As a result, China immediately ordered to prohibit any Chinese factories and merchants from selling supplies to Russia. This calculation of losing both sides naturally made the Japanese happy and immediately contacted Russia to sell a large number of orders. However, because Japan was also trading with Britain and France, its country could not produce enough supplies to Russia in a short period of time.

Finally, after the Eastern Front encountered a head-on attack by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which had recovered some of its strength, the Russian government was forced to make a compromise. It resumed its procurement of materials from China and temporarily gave up its covetousness of Outer Mongolia. However, after a war, China originally monopolized 90% of Russia's procurement of materials from the Far East, but fell to less than 50%. Then it took another half a year to fight several price wars with Japan, and finally regained nearly 60% of the orders.

Since the 16 years since Italy joined the war, Russia's environment on the Eastern Front has gradually improved, and Russia has also reserved a lot of strategic materials in the past year. Therefore, in April this year, the Russian government re-arranged the old matters and used Outer Mongolia to attack China again, and once again invited China to attend the "Three Kingdoms" consultations on the Outer Mongolia issue in Russia's Chaktu!

Outer Mongolia is related to China's sovereignty issue. Although Li Han has been stranded and has not solved the problem of Outer Mongolia, he is just waiting for the best opportunity. The Russians repeatedly made trouble with the Outer Mongolia issue, and his attitude became tough. No matter how Russia threatened and tempted it, the government was unmoved, as if Outer Mongolia had taken it back.

On May 25, shortly after the criminals forced into the Forbidden City to rob the young emperor of the robbery escaped, four days later, on May 29, the eighth-generation living Buddha Zhebuzundanba, who once claimed to be the "Sunlight Emperor" and the "Mongolian Buddha Kingdom Great Emperor" in Outer Mongolia, sent a telegram to the whole world, and openly presented the edict of Emperor Xuantong who had abdicated in the early morning. He claimed that they were the only tribute to the Qing Dynasty, acknowledging the supremacy of the "Great Mongolia Kingdom" government. After the 11-year farce, a second wave of farce occurred before it was calmed down.

What made China even more furious was that the Russian Far East Governor Ye Aurazovitz immediately sent representatives to invite the Outer Mongolia representatives to Chaktu for consultation. On May 31, Russia recognized Outer Mongolia.** and warned China that it had to interfere in Outer Mongolia.**.

The matter was so coincidental that China had to wonder whether there were foreign forces behind this to make trouble.

This change encountered by the Forbidden City shocked the whole country, especially the government, President Li was even more furious. He immediately attracted the Russian Minister to China, warning Russia not to try to provoke China's patience, and ordered Russia to cancel the recognition of Outer Mongolia within five days. Otherwise, it would be regarded as Russia's declaration of war on China.

This matter quickly boiled and brewed in China, causing general shock to the people. As for the matter, many problems were exposed in this matter. First, because in the past year and a half, China sold a large amount of materials to Russia. Although Russia strengthened the deviation between the European Allies and the allies and the allies was further flattened by the deviation caused by his butterfly effect, the large amount of materials was exported to Russia, which led to the damage of Russia's strength as soon as possible, but the ambition was not defeated; Second, the existence of the Qing royal family has become a time bomb in China's development. If more tough measures are not taken to solve this problem, it will be said that organizations such as the Clan Party will continue to emerge in the future. Although the young emperor Xuantong was not guilty, there were too many ambitious people who wanted to do things with him.

The royal family problem has come to a time to solve.

On the carriage, Li Han glanced at Tang Shaoyi, his eyes getting colder and colder. He had communicated with Tang Shaoyi over the past year, and he had never had a few times. However, Tang Shaoyi, who unexpectedly, gradually turned to Congress and other political parties. It has to be said that he still underestimated politicians and politics too much.

This was the last chance he was given. Li Han thought to himself, don't forget that the Prime Minister of the Cabinet was recommended by the President. Although it was troublesome to abolish a Prime Minister, it did not mean that he had no means at all. If Tang Shaoyi was not tactful and made trouble with him, he would not have to do this politician in the future.

President Li has made up his mind!

The car soon stopped at the Beijing Governor General Command, which was rebuilt from the former provisional presidential palace in Beijing. The Beijing Governor General Commander-in-Chief and his confidant Chen Mukun had been waiting here for a long time.

"The Ministry of Justice has met the President, Prime Minister, and General Lu!"

After getting off the carriage, Li Han waved his hand, "I'll give up these common etiquettes, go in and talk!"

"yes!"

President Li is familiar with this place that he once used as a temporary presidential palace for half a year. However, although he was ahead, his speed was not fast. After entering the palace, he finally spoke and asked: "Master, have you counted the data?"

Chen Mukun replied: "President, as you ordered, we have completed the statistics. During his heyday, there were about 40,000 to 50,000 eunuchs, palace maids and servants in the Forbidden City. Since the abdication of the Qing emperor, most of the slaves in the Forbidden City have been dismissed, and the rest are elderly or eunuchs left behind, with a total of around 37,800 and 20,000 yuan spent every day. In addition, the Manchus are in Dongling and Xiling, and there are more than 1,600 bannermen and warriors. The ministry has ordered people to confiscate their weapons and wait for your order!"

Tang Shaoyi's face changed slightly, and she was about to speak, but Li Han ignored it directly. He continued to ask: "Have all the restless Manchu nobles near the Gyeonggi area counted it?"

Chen Mukun said: "It has been counted that there are more than 2,000 Manchu nobles near the Gyeonggi, but most of them are still stable. However, there are also many people who have trained private soldiers and bullied the market, and are very resentful to the people's government of our country. According to the intensified statistics over the past few days, there are about 700 people who meet the regulations. It's just..."

"Just something, say..."

"Yes, but many of them are married to some Han officials in the previous dynasty, and many of them are also Han Baoyi's slaves. The Ministry of Justice is worried that if the news leaks, it may be bad for the impact!"

Li Han snorted, "Previously, the government invested 4 million yuan a year to raise the descendants of the robbers in the Forbidden City. This money was enough to raise a few more divisions of the Tiger Ben Powers. After the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, the tax policy of spreading the Han people into the fields was calculated on a tax basis, but the annual salary they gave to the children of the Eight Banners was calculated on a per capita basis. According to the various slavery policies of the previous dynasty, on average, each Manchu would have to provide 100 Han people. Considering the concealment of the Eight Banners, I am afraid that every Manchu would consume the tax paid by the two hundred people of our Han family. These wastes would not be produced, and there would be no few who would go bankrupt immediately after the Republic of China. What's the use of asking them? Are you staying to wait for them to rebel? Can you fight one batch, one batch!"

His dissatisfaction with Manchus has been for a long time, and Li Han is not the kind of bloodthirsty person. But in Sichuan, Hubei slammed the Manchu nobles and contributed a lot of gold, silver and materials to his rise. Now the country's foundation has stabilized and has emerged from the impact of the new establishment of the Republic of China in the 1911 year. Now, some turmoil will no longer affect the progress of the Republic of China.

"Every year, the government only allocates 4 million yuan to the remnants of Manchu, but the daily expenses of a Forbidden City are far higher than that. Prime Minister Tang, do you know the reason?"

His tone was very cold, and the tone of conversation with Tang Shaoyi was no longer as familiar as before, only indifference and a hint of anger.

"this..."

Tang Shaoyi really can't say it.

"Prime Minister Tang probably doesn't know that there are eunuchs from the Forbidden City in Beijing every day. The slaves steal the royal treasures collected from the Qing Dynasty from the country and sell them cheaply. A pair of Wang Xizhi's ink treasures actually cost 17,000 yuan. The jade flute and jade pillow of Zhu Di, the Ming Chengzu, sold them only 70,000 yuan at a time. Do you think I should praise these ignorant slaves? If it weren't for them, many treasures from our country would be given to the little emperor of the Qing Dynasty, like the witch of Cixi, and they would take them all into the graves!"

His voice was very cold, and although he did not speak explicitly, he had other meanings. He had drafted proposals to forcibly confiscate the rare treasures of the Qing royal family five times, and four of them were blocked by Tang Shaoyi with various excuses.

The dispute between the government and the court? Will the dispute between the government and the court in history also break out during his tenure?

Sighing, his steps were faster.

This is somewhat related to China's Constitution. The US Constitution is actually a standard presidential system. However, although China recognizes the presidential system in law, it has created an inappropriate prime minister who comes to fight for power with the president, which will inevitably lead to disputes. In name, the Prime Minister of State only needs the approval of the two houses of Congress after he is appointed by the president, and is only responsible for the president in his post. However, under the quarrels of various political parties, China's Constitution has many overlaps and vague divisions of powers between the president and the prime minister. This has also laid the root of disaster for the dispute between the president and the prime minister.

Although China has always said that it would learn from the United States, the United States does not have the position of prime minister and has only appointed the Secretary of State. Although the Secretary of State has a high status, it does not clearly govern the power of other ministries in the US Constitution, and is more used as the president's special envoy or the second foreign secretary. Moreover, all U.S. ministries are directly responsible to the US president and do not need to be responsible to the State Department and the Secretary of State.

According to the Constitution of the Republic of China, the State Council is the central government and all central ministries are subordinate agencies of the State Council. As the supreme leader of the State Council, I have greater power. The drafts of each ministries are invalid without the deputy signing of the Prime Minister. From this perspective, although the president and the Prime Minister have the mutual restraint effect that those Chinese parties hope to be, as the Prime Minister's power continues to infringe on the president's supreme power, there will eventually be a day when the conflict between the two will break out.

Unless the Prime Minister is willing to give a title similar to a secretary of state affiliate, or the president is willing to delegate more power.

Li Han actually didn't mind delegating power. In many departments such as civil affairs and justice, he didn't think he could do better than Tang Shaoyi. However, this premise was that Tang Shaoyi had to be on the same mind as him. After gaining more power, he would fully cooperate with his strategy rather than cause trouble for him.

In the first year of the establishment of the new cabinet, Tang Shaoyi and Li Han had a relatively tacit understanding of cooperation. One was responsible for the international and military, the other was responsible for the civil affairs and the domestic economy, and achieved fruitful results. However, as the domestic situation continued to stabilize, Tang Shaoyi keenly noticed that the conflict between his cabinet prime minister and the president's influence on the State Council, and the policy differences between the two were becoming increasingly sharp in terms of issues such as reducing military expenditures and reducing the country's direct appropriations to industry, as well as the presidential office bypassing the numerous and large secret vaults outside the Ministry of Finance, and the State Council's control over the Reserve Bank of China, the differences between the two sides have become increasingly acute.

Although the two could barely maintain the seeming harmony, in fact, although China clearly stipulates that the Constitution implements the presidential system, Tang Shaoyi felt that the president's power was still too great. Therefore, the cabinet prime minister system abandoned by the Constitution and the Congress has a new soil for survival.
Chapter completed!