Chapter 97 "buying and selling"

Led by the direct line, the war-weariness of the frontline officers and soldiers was high, and the generals of the Northern Army also began to show slack.As soon as Cao Kun left, Zhang Huaizhi, the governor of Shandong, followed him. The reason given to Duan Qirui was that "the two provinces of Hunan and Jiangxi do not need to inspect", and he had to "return to Lu to suppress the bandits". Seeing that all the units of the Northern Army were sneaking away, Zhang Jingyao, who had just become the Governor of Hunan, couldn't help being flustered, and even sent a telegram, requesting a temporary truce and negotiating peace with the Southern Army.Lao Duan replied and reprimanded him severely, and strictly ordered that there is no order from the Central Committee to stop the war and negotiate peace.

Zhang Jingyao is a member of the department, and Duan Qirui can reprimand and restrain him and not allow him to cease fighting and negotiate a peace, but Zhang's strength is limited and it is embarrassing for him to take on the task.Apart from his Anhui Clan, the only thing Duan Qirui can rely on is the Feng Clan.Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng planned to set up the Fengjun Front Enemy Headquarters in Hankou, and put all the Fengjun troops in the pass into the Hunan battlefield, and continue to fight against the southern army. The problem is that Feng Jun is neither his old Duan nor Xiao Xu's. In the final analysis, it belongs to Zhang Zuolin.With the rest of the northern army retreating or watching from the sidelines, how could Zhang Zuolin bet his own capital on the Anhui faction?

Cao Kun and Zhang Huaizhi refused to listen to the restraints, and Fengjun did not use them. Seeing that the dream of unifying the north and the south might come to naught, Duan Qirui called Xu Shuzheng and sighed: "This setback is really unexpected." While the Civil War was going on, another war without gunpowder in the capital was also reaching its climax, which was the election of the new Congress. Since Feng Guozhang took office in Beijing, his identity has always been the acting president, not the official president.During this period, Duan Qirui established the Provisional Senate. The establishment of this institution not only provided a convenient way for the main fighters to "legally drive Feng away", but also gave Feng Guozhang an opportunity to help Zheng become the official president.After Duan Qirui resigned and stepped down, Feng Guozhang secretly asked his subordinates to help him plan and prepare in advance.

The staff of Feng Mu lacked research on the constitution and congressional elections. Finally, they were recommended by someone to call Chief Financial Officer Wang Kemin to the Presidential Palace and ask him to handle this "sale". Wang Kemin was very happy to hear that he was asked to do this at first, but after thinking about it carefully after returning home, he thought it should be done carefully.The reason is that Feng Guozhang is famous for being stingy with money. If he plays tricks at that time and asks Wang Kemin to borrow money from the Ministry of Finance or the bank to advance the event expenses, he will lose a lot.

Wang Kemin made up his mind that Feng Guozhang would only agree to help if he was willing to pay for it himself.So he invited the Secretary-General of the Presidential Palace, Zhang Yiling, to meet with Feng Guozhang the next day, and immediately proposed that the matter required two million yuan. Feng Guozhang was taken aback when he heard this, and after a while he reluctantly said: "There is an interest of 400,000 yuan remitted from Nanjing, let's use it first." Feng Guozhang handed over a check of 400,000 yuan to Wang Kemin, and solemnly said to him: "This matter must be done with confidence."

The funds have been reduced to 20% off, and Wang Kemin is really speechless, and at the same time he is thankful that he has the foresight.He quickly handed over the check to the Constitutional Research Institute, and asked the Institute to take care of it, and then declared to Feng Mu's staff: "Just this one time, don't worry about it next time!" The person in charge of the research association is a businessman from Shanxi, and he has to plan carefully in everything. Knowing that the funds are taken out of his own pocket by the president, he dare not neglect.He distributed 400,000 yuan to the old members of parliament in Beijing from various provinces, and asked these people to return to their hometowns to "handle" elections-each person was given 2,000 yuan for travel expenses and travel expenses, up to the limit of being elected. return.

At this time, the old Congress had been disbanded for nearly a year, and the members were poor in the capital, financially struggling.After hearing about this method, many people were reluctant to go back to their hometowns to "handle", fearing that if Feng Guozhang was not elected, he would not be able to repay the debt. Although Feng Guozhang spent a lot of money and made preparations, he obviously lacked confidence in the election of the new Congress, so he regarded the introduction of the "Congress Organization Law" and other regulations as a threat.In fact, Feng Guozhang's level and skills in operating politics cannot be compared with Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng, and the Constitution Research Association is definitely not an opponent of the Anfu Department.

The title of Anfu Department began during the session of the Provisional Senate.At that time, Xu Shuzheng asked Wang Yitang, who was also from the Duan School, to rent a relatively large courtyard house in Anfu Hutong, Xicheng, Beijing. The councilors meeting in Liang's house had neither organization nor leadership, but they just sat there casually at night when there was nothing to do.There were not many people at that time, or three or five people, or more than ten people, chatting with each other.Although the content of chats sometimes involves political issues, there is no form of meeting, just exchanging political opinions and connecting feelings between colleagues.

Later, knowing that the number of people in Liang's house was increasing day by day, entertainment facilities were added, such as chess, mahjong and so on.In this way, Liang's house also has the nature of a club.