The Republic is so violent

Chapter 98 The Wonderful Puppet Show (7)
Yuan Shikai's bluffing and clearing the house to give up his position was originally a difficult job of taking a chestnut out of the fire. In the history of mankind, how many people have willingly given up power and stepped down from a high position?If Yuan Shikai hadn't controlled the most powerful war machine in the empire, and the Qing Shi Tai Ah had turned his back on him and was under the control of Yuan Shikai, otherwise, Yuan Shikai's few heads would not be enough to chop off.As soon as the Socialist Party came out, the royal family finally had a weapon capable of contending with Yuan Shikai, and immediately accused Yuan Shikai of ulterior motives, causing Yuan Shikai to fall into crisis again.

Lao Yuan was very depressed, so he called Wang Jingwei and said, "Xiao Wang, don't you have many assassins in your revolutionary party? When you bombed me some time ago, the bombing was so exciting. Why did these assassins not attack you at the critical moment?" Did you say anything?
Wang Jingwei said: "Don't worry, just wait for me to look for it for you."

Soon Wang Jingwei found Peng Jiazhen.

Peng Jiazhen, a native of Sichuan, a member of the Beijing-Tianjin League, has a passion for republicanism.Hearing that the road to republic was blocked by Liangbi, the leader of Zongsha Party, he was furious.Then he said: Leave this matter to me!

So Peng Jiazhen painstakingly planned the assassination plan, first got the bomb, and then got a beautiful military uniform. On January 1912, 1, Peng Jiazhen put on a neat military uniform, hung a bright saber, dressed up as a mighty officer, pretended to be Liangbi's friend, and went to Liangbi's house in a carriage.

Unfortunately, Liangbi was not at home at the time.Peng Jiazhen returned in dismay, but unexpectedly, not far away, she saw Liangbi's carriage coming from outside, and the two carriages missed each other.Peng Jiazhen called Liang Bi's number, indicating that everyone was acquainted: Lai Chen, long time no see, how is your mother recently?
But Liangbi didn't hear Peng Jiazhen's words, the carriage drove to the front of the mansion, Liangbi got off the carriage, and walked in the door.Peng Jiazhen chased after her, and when she jumped out of the car, she found that Liangbi was already in and out of the door, and was about to go in.Panicked, Peng Jiazhen used the bomb in her hand as a grenade, and threw it with a whoosh.

Shocking noise!

Peng Jiazhen was killed on the spot, but Liangbi was half-dead because he had already entered the door.

Two days later, Liang Bi, the leader of the Clan Socialist Party, died in the hospital.

Peng Jiazhen risked her life, scaring everyone in the royal family to death.Regardless of the consideration of abdication, the revolutionaries will continue to come in an endless stream. Two bombs will be bombed today, and three bombs will be bombed tomorrow.
It can only be negotiated.

(23) Puppet peace talks
Tang Shaoyi, representative of the North, and Wu Tingfang, representative of the South, shook hands for the second time in Shanghai.

Representatives from various provinces also returned to Shanghai from Nanjing one after another, preparing to discuss state affairs together.But they found that there is no country that requires them to discuss together. Their entire task is to eat from one restaurant to the next, taste and comment on which restaurant has the most characteristics.

Zhang Zhonghe, Deputy Envoy of the Court of Justice and Representative of Zhejiang Province, recalled the war-torn era, and said affectionately:

...After more than a month of negotiation, we are getting tired of eating western food in Licha (restaurant) every day, so every time we hear the dining bell, we invite our partners to Nanjing Road to eat Chinese food, which is a habit...

That's right, the representatives of the various provinces actually went to the Shanghai dinner, so how to fiddle with the North-South negotiations?

Zhang Zhonghe recalled:

…After we stayed at the Licha (restaurant), we seldom met with members of the northern group. We only knew that Tang Shaoyi, the chief representative of the North, Wu Tingfang, the chief representative of the South, and the two parties did not officially designate a venue for the official meeting.The connection between the two parties was contacted by Zhao Fengchang through Ying Ren, and Tang and Wu began to meet at Ying Ren's home.Afterwards, the opinions of the north and the south were discussed directly by Tang and Wu in secret, and they were never made public.What we know is that the opinions of the two parties are far apart. I am afraid that this peace negotiation may not be successful.Although we were peace representatives at that time, in fact we seemed to be outsiders. Such a major issue was conveyed by foreigners, while ordinary representatives in name did not know the content, and no one expressed dissatisfaction. Thinking about it today, it is not surprising. up...

Zhang Zhonghe's record makes us suddenly realize.It turns out that the North-South peace talks are still being secretly manipulated by imperialism.According to the investigation, this spokesperson of imperialism, named Li Deli, is extremely cunning and cunning to an unbelievable, peak level.

This is also Wu Tingfang's condition for accepting the representative from the South. If the imperialists are not allowed to manipulate secretly, this Wu Tingfang would rather not talk about it-look at what brains this person has.

The situation at that time was like this. Li Deli, the dialect representative of the imperialists, called Zhao Fengchang every day: Hello, Mister Zhao, what we imperialists are most willing to do is to brutally interfere in your internal affairs.But then again, if we don't interfere in this internal affairs, who will interfere?You are creating a new country without the slightest experience.On the whole planet, only we British have a little bit of knowledge about this matter.Didn't we in Britain once create such a monster as the United States?So we have decided to interfere in your internal affairs.

So Li Deli called Zhao Fengchang: Mister Zhao, today's sentence, such a way of talking, Tang Shaoyi in the north will make these demands, and Wu Tingfang in the south will make such an answer, do you understand?
I understand.So Zhao Fengchang first called Tang Shaoyi: Hey, Xiao Tang, how was the talk yesterday?Okay?Today, you have to make the following request, listen to me read it, talk to Wu Tingfang according to the original manuscript I read, and don’t make arbitrary claims, do you understand?
Putting down the phone, Zhao Fengchang called Wu Tingfang again: Xiao Wu, let me tell you quietly, I have already found out, Tang Shaoyi from the north today will make the following requests, and you, don’t be afraid, just follow me To put it bluntly, when soldiers come to block, water comes and soil floods...

On the negotiating table of the North-South peace talks, it turned out to be a puppet show.

The two sides just played it out like this, and performed for a long time. Later, Yuan Shikai discovered this situation and said: What are you doing? What a waste of human resources. Wu Tingfang can do it alone.

So the North-South peace talks left Wu Tingfang alone, and he talked to himself every day.

Regarding this situation, Yu Zhijiang, who was Wu Tingfang's secretary at the time, also described:
...A few days after the meeting, Yuan Shikai dismissed Tang Shaoyi's position and replaced Yuan and Wu Tingfang with direct e-commerce...

But Yu Zhijiang would never have thought that there was Zhao Fengchang hiding behind Wu Tingfang.And behind Zhao Fengchang, Li Deli, the spokesperson of British imperialism, was hiding.

(24) Sun Huang Yongbing the Senate
In fact, there is really nothing to talk about in the North-South peace talks. There are many conditions, such as preferential treatment for the abdication of the Qing Dynasty, which everyone can understand.Take Qing Shi as a retired veteran cadre, and give them more money, in order to be safe, so that at least the people of the country will save a lot of blood.What is money compared with human life?
Besides, the provisional contract is nothing more than a complete copy of the separation of powers of Western capitalism. Legislative, judicial and administrative powers are separated, restrained and restricted by each other, so as to avoid the trouble of dominating power. The biggest trouble is that power has not been split.The dominance of power will inevitably lead to the bottomless plunder of the people by the privileged class, resulting in the shrinking spirit of the people.

Therefore, the establishment of a provisional agreement is also the consensus of both the North and the South.This is a consensus, and of course there will be no disputes or conflicts.

What is really to be discussed in the peace talks is the establishment of the capital.

Establishing the capital means establishing the capital of the Republic of China.However, the Republic of China was established amidst conflicts and entanglements, and the location of the capital also had distinct interests.For example, Sun Yat-sen was able to become the interim president because the election conference was held in Nanjing. If the election conference was held in Wuchang, then the interim president would definitely be fat Li Yuanhong.Because Wuchang is Li Yuanhong's territory.

Even if the election conference was held in Nanjing, Li Yuanhong still won more votes than Sun Yat-sen.At that time, Li Yuanhong was elected as the vice president, and he got [-] votes, and Sun Yat-sen, the president, got [-] votes—everyone voted for Li Yuanhong, but Tan Renfeng, the representative of Hunan, who knew Sun Yat-sen too well, Knowing that the so-called US dollar warships are purely non-existent, they refused to vote for Sun Yat-sen.This is the case in Nanjing, and if you change the place, the result can be imagined.

So Sun Yat-sen's idea was pure and simple: establish the capital in Nanjing, and let Yuan Shikai come to Nanjing to clock in and go to work with his luggage on his back.

Yuan Shikai's old nest is in Beijing, will he agree to come to Nanjing?

If you don’t agree, you have to agree. Representatives from the [-] provinces have become members of the Senate at this time, and they are all at the dinner party in Shanghai. Just find a car to take these foodies to Nanjing, let them raise their hands, and pass the resolution of establishing the capital in Nanjing. That's it.

The resolution to establish the capital passed by the Senate is legally binding. Not to mention that Yuan Shikai has not yet become the president, even if he does, he can only obey the resolution of the Senate.

Because the resolutions of the Senate represent public opinion.

On February 1912, 2, the Senate of the Nanjing Provisional Government held a meeting, preparing to adopt the resolution to establish Nanjing as the capital according to Mr. Sun Yat-sen's opinion.

The meeting started. After exchanging maps of restaurants in Shanghai, the councilors finally got down to business and discussed the decision to establish the national capital.Li Zhaofu, a member of the Revolutionary Party and an old member of the Tongmenghui, took the stage first and spoke first.

Li Zhaofu said: Ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered here today to discuss the important issue of the establishment of the capital, and I am very excited.why?Because the brother himself is an expert in the study of the capital.Brother, I have no other hobbies in this life, but I like to think about building a national capital. According to my research, the most suitable national capital of China is Beijing.Someone said it was wrong, Lao Li, you are the League, you are the Revolutionary Party, didn’t Mr. Sun have already instructed you to build the capital of the country in Nanjing, how can you talk nonsense?This is because Mr. Sun does not know that Nanjing is a place where tigers dominate dragons and gold powder from the Six Dynasties. It is suitable for everything, but it is not suitable for establishing a national capital.Since Nanjing is not suitable for establishing a national capital, what is it suitable for?I can't say what it is suitable for. Don't ask me about it, but I know that the most suitable city for the capital is Beijing.why?The reason is as follows...

The Tongmenghui turned against each other, and the old revolutionary Li Zhaofu took the lead in opposing Sun Yat-sen's idea of ​​establishing the capital in Nanjing, and proposed to move the capital to Beijing.What's more, his rhetoric was so charming that the senators applauded again and again. After Li Zhaofu finished speaking, the Senate held a vote and passed the motion of moving the capital to Beijing with an absolute majority.

The reason why Li Zhaofu's proposal was passed so easily was also related to his special ability.This individual has the gift of allowing institutions to expand without limit.When the provisional government was established, there were too many people and few positions, and a large number of veteran cadres could not be placed. It was he who created a lot of departments that only lived and did not work, so that many revolutionaries could have food.So in this sense, this man is the father of institutional expansion and has a decisive influence in the Senate.

Then the bill was placed on Sun Yat-sen's table for the interim president to sign.

When Sun Yat-sen saw this bill, he was furious, scolded Li Zhaofu as a street boy, and refused to sign the resolution of the Senate.

The interim president refused to sign the Senate bill, which embarrassed everyone.So everyone went to find Huang Xing.

So what is Huang Xing's attitude?
The old revolutionary Wu Yuzhang recorded the situation at that time and said:
... After Mr. Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing knew about this incident, they were very angry. They called Li Zhaofu to scold Li Zhaofu that night, and ordered him to reconsider and make corrections before 12 noon the next day. On the morning of the 15th, after the secretariat had prepared the President's message for reconsideration, it needed the President's seal. At this time, the President had already left for the Ming Dynasty's Xiaoling Mausoleum.I was in a hurry to find Huang Xing. He was also putting on his military uniform and was about to get up and go to Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum.I asked him to delay the time, and he said: If the resolution has not been corrected after 12 o'clock, I will send troops!After finishing speaking, I left...

Huang Xing wants to send troops!

See you in battle!

There are divisions of religion, the League will turn against each other, and the Revolutionary Party will fight with each other.Because the Senate's bill could not meet Sun Yat-sen's request, Sun Huang wanted to attack the Senate.But then again, according to the provisional agreement, the bill of the Senate has a restrictive effect on the president.If Sun Yat-sen, the interim president, regarded the bill of the Senate as nothing, then how could this bill have any effect on Yuan Shikai?
The Republic of China, which has not yet begun, has already shown a gloomy and cold light of war and politics.And all of this means that, even more exciting, the big era is coming.

(End of this chapter)