Years of the Republic of China 1913

"Dunchu, what do you think of this matter?" Yuan Shikai looked at Song Jiaoren and asked.

"President, I'm afraid it's inconvenient for Jiaoren to answer this matter." Song Jiaoren smiled faintly.

"Hehe, of course you, Song Dunchu, are inconvenient to answer. Aren't those party members who made troubles exactly under your Song Dunchu's subordinates?" Liang Shiyi sneered.

"Yi Fu, please be careful with your words!" Yuan Shikai said displeased.

"President, Shi Yi, as the Secretary-General of the Presidential Palace, it is his duty to not let the President be deceived by others! The intention of the party members to disrupt the country is clearly revealed, and the President blindly tolerates it again and again. How long will he endure it now? With that said, Liang Shiyi turned around and asked Song Jiaoren, "Brother Dunchu is the chairman of KMT, and now everyone in your party is mobilizing in the south, flouting the law and persecuting the government, and treating the president as nothing. Swordsman, with the intention of splitting the country. Dare I ask Brother Dunchu, how do you view this matter?"

"Yes, yes! Brother Dunchu, just talk about it." Everyone asked, but in fact, everyone thought the same as Liang Shiyi in their hearts.The situation is complicated now, Song Jiaoren holds a pivotal position in KMT, apart from Huang Xing who has passed away, he is the only one who can compete with Sun Wenxiang.Now, his attitude is extremely critical. It can even be said that if Song Jiaoren does not express his position, both Yuan Shikai and Sun Wen will have concerns in doing things.

"A few days before Huang Keqiang's death, Jiaoren was invited to a banquet in Shanghai by Chen Qimei, Ying Guixin and others. During the banquet, the two asked about Jiaoren. Do you know what happened?" Song Jiaoren thought for a while, slowly When he said these words slowly, everyone suddenly felt strange.

Seeing that everyone at the scene shook their heads and didn't know, Song Jiaoren said with a faint smile: "They asked Jiaoren at the beginning, if he went to the capital to become the Prime Minister of the State, what is the specific way to organize our party's cabinet. Jiaoren answered on the spot One word from them—I, Song Jiaoren, have only one way of being a public and free from the party!"

Song Jiaoren's words were resounding, and most of the people present were stunned. They only heard about this matter today. Although they didn't dare to confirm whether it was true or not, judging from Song Jiaoren's unusually serious tone, they couldn't be wrong.Thinking back to Song Jiaoren’s consistent political views, especially his political views on the national system, he has always disagreed with Sun Wen. He debated with Sun Wen many times because of the concept of constitutional government, and they quarreled with each other many times. This situation It is also well known, so it is not surprising that Song Jiaoren has such an attitude.

Standing up, Song Jiaoren proudly said to Yuan Shikai and the crowd: "Although the Republic of China was first established, the peace talks between the North and the South have been completed, the provisional agreement has been finalized, the National Assembly has been formally convened, and the election of the speakers of the Senate and the House of Representatives has been successful. Therefore, Whether it is legislation or supervision, although it is not perfect, it has an outline. Besides, President Yuan Da and brother Zhian are the heads of the country and the government, and the chief ministers and deputy ministers of each department also represent the responsibilities of various government agencies. Although Jiaoren is a director of kmt Long, but teach benevolence to be selfless in the affairs of the country, just like the saying "the public has no party"! As long as everyone acts in accordance with the constitution and Congress passes it, it doesn't matter! But if someone wants to go his own way, no matter who You can’t do whatever you want, this is Jiaoren’s attitude today!”

Song Jiaoren's words were like thunder from the ground, making everyone's ears buzzing.He stood up proudly and bowed deeply to Yuan Shikai. Song Jiaoren said again: "Which is right and which is wrong, and where to go, I think the president has already made up his mind. Jiaoren implores the president to uphold the idea of ​​serving the country wholeheartedly, Start with the overall situation and deal with it properly. Now that the congressional election is coming up, and the day when the President will be officially elected is not far away, Jiaoren is busy with government affairs, so I will leave first!"

After speaking, Song Jiaoren turned and left. Yuan Shikai just wanted to call out to stop him, but finally hesitantly put down his raised hand, and gradually fell into deep thought.

After leaving the presidential palace, Song Jiaoren hurried back.In fact, they all opposed and dissuaded Yuan Shikai, Liao Zhongkai, and Yu Youren from coming to see Yuan Shikai today, but after much consideration, Song Jiaoren still came over.The current situation is complicated. As the chairman of KMT, he must attend this appointment, because he knows very well that peace between the north and the south is hard-won, and it is the result of continuous efforts between the north and the capital to reach this point.If he did not express his position today and deliberately evaded it, there is no guarantee that Yuan Shikai would make some troubles under the instigation of villains. Not only is he considering the overall situation of the constitutional government, he also has two other considerations.

The first is to use this as a warning to Yuan Shikai and the people of the Beiyang faction not to think that they can do whatever they want with the military in their hands, and regard the Constitution and the Congress as nothing. No matter how powerful Yuan Shikai is, he would have to worry again and again.

Second, Song Jiaoren also expressed his attitude, no matter who or what party the other party is, he will never cover up.As long as Yuan Shikai can proceed from the overall situation, rely on him and the congressmen to start from the constitution, and refrain from such stupid tricks as banning the Congress and driving away congressmen from all parties, of course he, Song Jiaoren, will support the government.

This attitude was also decided after careful consideration before he came.Of course, there are also other intentions in it. How can there be only black and white in politics?He, Song Jiaoren, had far-sighted plans, and wanted to balance and fight between Yuan Shikai and Sun Wen, and play a big, big game of chess at the height of impartiality. This is something that nerds like Yu Youren can understand. ?

After this period of time, Song Jiaoren's KMT has basically controlled the Congress, and his current status is actually not much lower than that of the official Prime Minister.It's just that he hasn't officially taken office yet.Letting Zhao Bingjun stay in the front for a few more days, Song Jiaoren will be able to relax a lot in the future. What is important for him right now is to handle internal party affairs and firmly hold KMT in his own hands.

This matter has already started. Although the effect is not great for the time being, the progress is still gratifying. The more fun Sun Wen and others are dancing now, the more beneficial it will be for Song Jiaoren to do this.A few days ago, Song Jiaoren personally signed the document submitted by Fang Zida that KMT members should no longer serve as members of other parties, and formally sent it to the party. become more cohesive.Originally, this job was not easy to do, but it was precisely because Sun Wen's Chinese Revolutionary Party jumped up and down in recent days that it surprised Song Jiaoren. Sun Wen was so arrogant that he actually wanted to force them to change his family by offering allegiance to himself. Unexpectedly, these people resented him and formally voted for Song Jiaoren's side.There were not a few of these people, and most of them were party elites. It was a huge victory for Song Jiaoren to gather these people under the banner.

There is another problem that Song Jiaoren also saw very clearly. In order to overthrow the Manchu Qing, KMT accepted Sun Wen's instructions and recruited a large number of party members. They are some scumbags who are despised by the society. In fact, they have no revolutionary beliefs.Those revolutionaries who were born in the Communist Party, once in power, will carry out orders and mess around, making a new life, but the chaotic Republic of China is not as good as the decadent and stable Manchu Qing. At present, most of the troubles are in the south. It's these guys, take this opportunity and use Yuan Shikai's hand to clean up these black sheep, and KMT's road to party consolidation will be completed in sevens and eighties.

In fact, Yuan Shikai made arrangements as early as Sun Wen's first telegram, summoning Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, Duan Zhigui, Li Chun, Wang Zhanyuan, Lei Zhenchun, Zhang Xun and others, and the various departments of the Beiyang Army secretly mobilized, along the Beijing-Hankou line and The Jinpu line is divided into two routes. One route is based in Hubei and targets Jiangxi and Hunan; the other route uses Xuzhou as the frontier and is supported by the navy of Vice Minister Tang Xiangming and Zheng Rucheng along the coast, targeting Anhui and Jiangsu.

It can be seen from this that Yuan Shikai was already prepared to use force against force, and calling Song Jiaoren to negotiate was nothing more than forcing him to show his attitude.Who would have thought that Song Jiaoren could see through his dark hand at a glance, and directly expressed a tough attitude, which made Yuan Shikai a little bit wary.However, Yuan Shikai was not an unusual person, and he could hear something different from Song Jiaoren's words. After Song Jiaoren left, he considered repeatedly vetoing Liang Shiyi's and others' proposal to expel KMT councilors immediately and the army to strike first. It was another choice.

In the afternoon of the same day, Yuan Shikai formally ordered Li Liejun to be removed from the position of Governor of Jiangxi, and Li Yuanhong was appointed concurrently as Governor of Jiangxi. Afterwards, he formally submitted a presidential proposal on maintaining national unity to the Congress, in order to gain the support of Congress and members of the Congress.

Sun Wen's clamoring for the second revolution was a farce. Not only did Yuan Shikai's Beiyang faction become furious, but even Song Jiaoren and other KMT people objected to it.From 1911 to the beginning of 1913, the whole country was full of flames. The Qing court, the Beiyang, the Revolutionary Party, the New Army, the Congregation Party... gangs and factions set up cannons and bombarded each other. Now it’s hard to calm down and have a few days to live a peaceful life. For Sun Wen and others, they use the Huang Xing case and the big loan as an excuse to brazenly want to fight with the central government again, so that the people who have been looking forward to peace and stability Especially disgusted.

After Li Liejun was removed from the position of Governor of Jiangxi in accordance with the law, there was a rare applause in the Congress. Even Xu Xueer, a famous reporter who had always opposed Yuan Shikai, wrote an article in the newspaper: "Today is the Republic of China. Gou plots chaos against the Republic of China. It is an unforgivable crime to exterminate the country. That is to say, the government is evil, and the law and the Congress should have the ability to solve it. There is no time to plan chaos to disturb the common people. Therefore, it is also sensible for business people to look down on the conspiracy of chaos. It is rejected.” What made Sun Wen and others who were preparing to use force even more depressing was that Cai E, the governor of Yunnan, also made an unequivocal public statement at that time, shouting, “Whoever is the culprit is the enemy. If someone Make trouble, and treat it as a public enemy of the whole country." Slogan.

There are not a few KMT bosses who hold the same opinion as Xu Xueer and Cai E. At this time, Song Jiaoren also fulfilled his promise to Yuan Shikai, not only instructing the Congress to pass the presidential proposal, expressing his attitude clearly among the people, but also intensively The official election of Yuan Shikai as the president of the Republic of China also means that the KMT headed by Song Jiaoren and the Chinese Revolutionary Party headed by Sun Wen will draw a line and part ways.