Chapter 53 in full swing

After Sun Hongyi took office, he once wanted to install his own person as the police chief of the capital.Although the Jingshi police system is under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the appointment and removal of high-level officials like the director must be approved by the prime minister. How could it be possible for Duan Qirui to let Sun Hongyi arrange his power as he wished? His proposal was naturally rejected. Sun Hongyi couldn't install the director, so he brought his idea to the department.Long before he entered the cabinet, there were more than 150 of his "pocket figures", that is, cronies and backup people.These people had to be resettled, and Sun Hongyi dismissed a group of senior officials on the grounds of rectifying the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The members suddenly lost their jobs, and they wished they could find someone to do their best.Seeing an opportunity, Xu Shuzheng urged them to appeal to the Pingzhengyuan. The Pingzhengyuan, later known as the Administrative Court, was mainly responsible for supervising the illegal and improper behavior of administrative officials, and the former Suzhengting Office was its subordinate institution.After receiving a complaint about the illegal layoff of the Chief of Internal Affairs, the Pingzhengyuan ruled in favor of the plaintiff and asked Sun Hongyi to revoke the dismissal order within a time limit and allow the dismissed minister to return to work.

The Pingzhengyuan was established according to the "Three Laws of the People" in Yuan Shikai's era.Sun Hongyi firmly grasped this point, thinking that the existence of the Pingzhengyuan itself was still in doubt, so he refused to implement the ruling of the court. Seeing this, Xu Shuzheng hurriedly discussed with Duan Qirui, and drafted an order to implement the ruling of the Pingzhengyuan, and prepared to send it to the government for stamping.However, according to the new regulations, the order must be countersigned by Sun Hongyi, but Sun Hongyi refused to countersign. When Pingzhengyuan heard that his ruling could not be implemented, he suddenly felt ashamed.They asked Duan Qirui to uphold justice, saying: "If the Pingzhengyuan is really illegal, please order the dissolution immediately by the Prime Minister. If it is legal, why can't the judgment take effect?"

Pingzhengyuan also claimed that if Sun Hongyi continued to refuse to implement the ruling, they would resign collectively. Duan Qirui called Sun Hongyi and asked him to execute the ruling unconditionally.Sun Hongyi refused to die, and openly contradicted Duan Qirui.Duan Qirui was furious: "You are forming a party for personal gain and abusing personal interests! I think the judgment of the Pingzheng Yuan is very reasonable. Are you still lawless?" Even if Duan Qirui got angry, he couldn't restrain Sun Hongyi, and Sun Hongyi didn't take him as the prime minister seriously at all.This made Duan Qirui make up his mind, and then he petitioned the presidential palace to remove Sun Hongyi from office.

The fact that Sun Hongyi is so tough in front of Duan Qirui has something to do with Li Yuanhong's support.Although he is a member of Duan's cabinet, he is highly trusted by Li Yuanhong, can participate in all secret discussions of Li Mu, and is implicitly the leader of the presidential palace.Xu Shuzheng went to the presidential palace with the order "Sun Hongyi will be dismissed immediately" and went to the presidential palace four times, but every time he ran into a wall.For the last time, he couldn't help saying to Li Yuanhong: "If the president doesn't affix his seal, he will have to forbid Bolan (Sun Hongyi's word) to attend the state affairs meeting!"

Seeing that Xu Shuzheng started to be disrespectful to him again, Li Yuanhong suddenly became angry, and he shouted: "What are you saying?" Xu Shuzheng replied coldly: "That's what the Prime Minister said." The battle between the government and the court was so intense that the members of Congress who had been standing aside to watch the fun couldn't hold back and joined the battle group one after another. At this time, there were two factions among the congressmen, one was the deliberative department dominated by former Kuomintang members, and the other was the research department mainly composed of former Progressive Party members; the basic political tendency was that the deliberative department was close to Li Yuanhong, and the research department was close to Duan Qirui.

As soon as Duan Qirui's dismissal of Sun Ling came out, members of the Discussion Department immediately questioned Duan's cabinet, believing that only congressional impeachment can remove state servants, and the prime minister has no right to directly petition for removal.What's more, more than 60 congressmen jointly signed a motion calling for the impeachment of the Secretary-General of the House of Representatives Xu Shuzheng. The discussion department was working hard, and the members of the research department also beat the drums loudly.First, its organ newspaper violently criticized Sun Hongyi for "breaking the law", and then Tang Hualong, the head of the research department and the speaker of the House of Representatives, personally visited Li Yuanhong, persuaded him to respect public opinion, and took the initiative to replace Sun Hongyi to settle the dispute.

Fueled by the Congress, Duan Qirui went against his usual attitude of restraint or not expressing his views directly, and went to the Presidential Palace to urge Li Yuanhong to avoid Sun Ling's seal. But Li Yuanhong continued to evade, and Duan Qirui couldn't help blurting out: "The president refuses to remove Sun Bolan, so please remove me!" Although Li Yuanhong had conflicts with Duan Qirui, he also knew that without Duan Qirui to support the situation, he would not be able to serve as president for long, so he had no choice but to say: "Berlan can be allowed to resign automatically, and the dismissal order is still better."