Chapter 35 Three or four, Zhang Xun entered Beijing to mediate, please ask the wrong Bodhisattva to worship the wrong god

Just as President Li and Premier Duan were fighting each other, Beijing's "Beijing News" suddenly disclosed an explosive news that Duan's cabinet was secretly negotiating with Japan. The main content was that Japan would lend China 100 million yen to help China participate in the war , the condition is to hire Japanese military officers to train the Chinese army, hire Japanese managers to preside over China's military industry, and so on. After the news was disclosed, it immediately aroused strong repercussions across the country. Various doubts and infamy poured in, making Duan Qirui extremely passive.

When Duan Qirui was passive, the people in the presidential palace became excited. They unanimously suggested that Li Yuanhong take the opportunity to oust the old Duan from the stage, and Li Yuanhong also felt that this victory in public opinion was elated and gratifying. There is no need to look at the old Duan's face anymore. At this moment, Lao Duan also felt the pressure from the presidential palace and the Congress. He had no choice but to take a step back and stop entangled in the case of joining the war. Instead, he re-drawn a list of cabinet reshuffles and prepared to replace those cabinet members who resigned.In order to show his favor to Li Yuanhong and the Congress, Duan Qirui also deliberately selected some people close to the presidential palace to join the cabinet so that it could pass smoothly.

However, Li Yuanhong had already made up his mind to overthrow Duan Qirui's cabinet at this time. He was picky about the new cabinet list, and would say that this was not good and that he didn't trust that. The old Duan couldn't bear it, so he argued with Li Yuanhong He got up: "The cabinet should be organized by the prime minister. Whether it is passed or not is a matter for the Congress, not the presidency of the president!" Li Yuanhong snorted and said, "The National Congress no longer trusts you. The Civic Corps made such a mess before, and now the Overseer Corps is still interfering in constitution-making, saying that the National Congress is to be dissolved. Isn't this the responsibility of your Prime Minister? "

Hearing this, Duan Qirui was so angry that his nose turned to the side. He stood up and slapped the table, shouting: "I'm quitting!" With Duan Qirui's words, President Li signed an order in the afternoon to dismiss Duan Qirui, Prime Minister of the Cabinet. It is unfavorable to the state affairs, the prime minister should be re-elected and another cabinet should be formed.At the same time, Li Yuanhong approved the resignations previously sent by the other chief ministers of Duan's cabinet, leaving only a copy of Wu Tingfang, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and ordered Wu Tingfang to temporarily act as the prime minister of the cabinet.

Bodhisattva Li finally lost his temper. This was the first big thing he did after arriving in Beijing. As soon as this order came out, Lao Duan's nose was crooked two fingers away again. He never imagined that Li Yuanhong would actually dare to dismiss him!You know, the last time he just left Tianjin, Li Yuanhong was frightened and begged for mercy repeatedly. Unexpectedly, within a few days, his wings stiffened! Okay, okay, I don't stay here, I have my own place, if you don't let me do it, I will go! That night, Duan Qirui packed his luggage and took some guards from the guard battalion to Tianjin by train.This time, the "controversy between the court and the court" came to an end with Duan Qirui's resignation.

Before leaving, Duan Qirui sent a telegram to the provincial governors, saying: "According to the responsible cabinet system of the republics, orders cannot take effect unless they are countersigned by the prime minister. Qirui will not be responsible for any impacts on the local or national level in the future." What Duan Qirui meant was that Li Yuanhong's dismissal order could not take effect without his countersignature.What's going on here?It turned out that the "Provisional Constitution" stipulated that the president nominated the prime minister to form a cabinet, and the responsible cabinet was responsible for all administrative affairs. The orders issued by the president also had to be countersigned by the prime minister. This contradictory regulation had caused Yuan Shikai and Tang Shaoyi to have conflicts before. This caused Tang Shaoyi to leave in anger, and this time it was Li and Duan's turn to conflict again.

Ordinarily, China is a big country, and the presidential system should have been implemented. However, when the "Interim Constitution" was formulated at that time, the members of the revolutionary party changed the presidential system of the Nanjing Provisional Government to prevent Yuan Shikai from monopolizing power and continuing the autocracy after he became the president. Changed to responsible cabinet system.However, this kind of system that is neither a donkey nor a horse is completely unacceptable in China, and the result of its implementation is to cause all kinds of disturbances, which makes the country's affairs not smooth.After such a reflection, a group of young and promising constitutional lawmakers gathered in a majestic constitutional document, but because of their personal selfishness, they disregarded the country's major affairs. Wouldn't this be a great misfortune to the country? (A truly mature responsible cabinet should be organized by the party that won the congressional election. The president should not have nominated the cabinet. However, considering the completely immature and irrational political parties in the early years of the Republic of China, the presidential nomination is inevitable)

After Li Yuanhong's dismissal order for Duan Qirui was sent to the provinces, it also caused a great shock. At that time, some warlords were having a meeting in Xuzhou, and they immediately jumped up when they heard the news.It turned out that after the warlords asked the presidential palace to dissolve the Congress, Li Yuanhong did not give in at all. After two days of stalemate, these military leaders had to leave Beijing collectively on May 21 and went to Xuzhou to go to Xuzhou. Went to the meeting invited by Braid Shuai Zhang Xun. Speaking of Zhang Xun, here are a few words to add.Zhang Xun, whose name is Shaoxuan, is from Fengxin, Jiangxi. He is 5 years older than Yuan Shikai. After a big defeat, he joined Yuan Shikai's sect and became a veteran general in the Beiyang Department.After the Gengzi Rebellion, the Empress Dowager Cixi returned to Luan from Xi'an, and Zhang Xun's department undertook the task of guarding, and was later transferred to Beijing to serve as a retinue. From this, the emperor's grace was great, and it was natural to be promoted.

In the last year of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Xun was released to the south of the Yangtze River as an admiral, and he defended Nanjing City to the death during the Revolution of 1911. He fought a bloody battle with the revolutionary army, and was finally defeated and retreated to Xuzhou.During Yuan Shikai's administration, Zhang Xun's troops were renamed "Dingwu Army" and stationed in Yanzhou.Because Zhang Xun claimed to be loyal to the Qing court, he strictly forbade his soldiers to cut their braids, so his army was also called "braid army", and the name "braid commander" came from this.

After the "Second Revolution" broke out, under Yuan Shikai's order, Zhang Xun led thousands of braided troops like wolves and tigers to attack, and took the lead in entering Nanjing, avenging his revenge.Later, because of the corruption of the braided army's military discipline, Zhang Xun withdrew from Nanjing and was awarded the Yangtze River patrol envoy by Yuan Shikai, and his troops were stationed in Xuzhou. Xuzhou is the hub of the north and south, and it has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times. With Zhang Xun's strength at that time, no one dared to underestimate him.When Yuan Shikai was working on the Hongxian Monarchy, he repeatedly urged Zhang Xun to go to the National Defense Army, but was rejected.Before Yuan Shikai's death, Feng Guozhang, the governor of Jiangsu Province, invited the governors of all provinces to a meeting in Nanjing, trying to form a third faction between Yuan Shikai and the National Defense Army. As a result, Zhang Xun and Ni Si, the governor of Anhui, rushed over and messed around, making Feng Guozhang's good show abrupt Stir yellow.

After Yuan Shikai's death, Zhang Xun turned his back on guests. He invited the military leaders and their representatives from various provinces participating in the Nanjing Conference to Xuzhou (including representatives from Fengtian, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Zhili, Henan, Shanxi, and Anhui provinces) for a meeting.At the meeting, Zhang Xun relied on his old qualifications to utter nonsense, claiming that the monarchy and the republic are nothing more than expressing their own opinions, and the public opinion is free from the hearts of the people, and heroes cannot be judged by success or failure.Zhang Xun's statement actually contained something in his words. He not only opposed the punishment of the chief culprit in the Hongxian monarchy, but also implicitly revealed his desire for restoration. Duan Qirui has always regarded himself as the orthodox Beiyang system. He originally looked down on Zhang Xun, a miscellaneous army who was taken into Beiyang, but Zhang Xun won over the governors of several provinces. He did not dare to neglect, and then sent representatives to attend the Xuzhou meeting.Under the leadership of Zhang Xun, the Xuzhou meeting finally agreed on ten resolutions, the first of which was "respect for the preferential treatment of the house", and the second was "preservation of the life and property of President Yuan Da's family and all honors behind him." Zhang Xun deliberately preserved the interests of Yuan Shikai, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty and Hongxian Emperor, in response to a sentence he said after the Revolution of 1911: "The former master of the Qing emperor, and the mentor of President Yuan, Yuan is now the president, and Xuantong is still the emperor. I serve the people, righteousness and private kindness, nothing hinders." Because the Xuzhou meeting was very successful, after the meeting, Zhang Xun complacently considered himself the "big alliance leader" of all the princes of the Beiyang family, and implicitly served as the governor The ear of the cow. When Li Yuanhong and Duan Qirui were in the "conflict between the government and the court" in Beijing, Zhang Xun was watching coldly in Xuzhou, waiting for an opportunity.Zhang Xun was full of complaints and dissatisfaction with the "democratic republic" established after the Republic of China.In his eyes, "republican democracy" is simply nonsense. The president, the prime minister, and the Congress mess around and make a mess. In the end, it is a mess and nothing can be done.If it continues like this, it is better to go back to the old road... Return the government to the Qing Dynasty, forget about the restoration. Of course, Zhang Xun's views can be published, but they were minority and non-mainstream at the time. On September 21, 1916, less than two months after the Congress was reconvened, Zhang Xun once again convened the provincial governors and representatives for the second Xuzhou Conference.The scale of this meeting was much larger than the previous one. Attendees included Zhang Huaizhi, Governor of Shandong, Zhang Shuyuan, Commander of the Fifth Division, Zhang Zuolin, Governor of Fengtian, Meng Enyuan, Governor of Jilin, Bi Guifang, Governor of Heilongjiang, Feng Guozhang, Governor of Jiangsu, Zhao Ti, Governor of Henan, Wang Zhanyuan, Governor of Hubei, Li Chun, Governor of Jiangxi, Li Houji, Governor of Fujian, Cao Kun, Governor of Zhili, Zhu Jiabao, Governor of Zhili, Yang Shande, Governor of Zhejiang, Lu Yongxiang, Commander of the Songhu Guard, Zhang Jingyao, Commander of the Seventh Division, Shi Congbin, Governor of Gunzhou, Long Long, Superintendent of Mining Affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi Ji Guang may appoint representatives, etc., and even Wu Bingxiang, the police chief of the capital, and Jiang Chaozong, the commander of the Beijing infantry, also sent their own representatives to attend the meeting. At this meeting, Zhang Xun repeatedly made explicit or covert remarks about restoration, but it was a pity that he did not get a positive response from other representatives, so Lao Zhang had no choice but to give up.However, the second Xuzhou meeting also had a harvest, that is, he was elected as the leader of the thirteen provinces and regions, and he became a third-party force besides the forces of the Beijing government and the Southwest Revolutionary Party. After President Li Yuanhong's request for the dissolution of the National Assembly was rejected by the Warlord Army, Zhang Xun felt that the time was right, so he invited these military leaders to Xuzhou again to discuss how to deal with President Li and the National Assembly.During the discussion, the news that Li Yuanhong dismissed Duan Qirui came, and it exploded. For Li Yuanhong who was not in the faction, the military leaders originally had a lot of contempt. They never thought that this empty president with no soldiers and no power would actually dare to remove Lao Duan from his post.Think about it, who is the old Duan?My own people! After being shocked, these warriors couldn't help being furious, and scolded Li Yuanhong with all kinds of the worst words.At this time, Ni Sichong, the governor of Anhui Province, thought of the embarrassing incident of being reprimanded in the presidential palace a few days ago. He couldn't help but jumped up and cursed: "Li Yuanhong once told me that it is illegal to declare war on Germany without the approval of the Congress... Damn the law! The prime minister is the leader of the responsible cabinet, and what the prime minister says is the law! Is it legal for a person surnamed Li to be removed from the post of prime minister without the countersignature of the cabinet? He was scared to death when he heard the gunshots during the 1911 Wuchang change. At the bottom of the bed, the president who was lucky to become the president! Now, he is in a high position, he is indecisive, and he is so arrogant that he regards himself as the founding father, who the hell will support him!" The warlords were overjoyed, patting the table and stomping their feet in applause.Excited, Ni Sichong said triumphantly: "I'll go back now and declare independence immediately, and everyone will do the same! Let's see how he ends up!" After Zhang Xun heard this, he was in the middle of his heart, so he said while the iron was hot: "Old Ni is well said, if Li Yuanhong doesn't give Li Yuanhong a little color, he will take our Beiyang department too seriously! We not only want to declare independence, but also Send troops to the Northern Expedition and drive Li Yuanhong out of power!" After a pause, Zhang Xun said again: "There is no hope for the Republic of China to do this, and I see that it is not as good as the previous dynasty!" After finishing speaking, Zhang Xun glanced at the warlords and representatives at the meeting.According to the previous situation, Zhang Xun's restoration tone has never had much market, but this time, perhaps Li Yuanhong's dismissal order made these warriors temporarily lose their minds. The emotion of the motherland of the past". After the meeting, Zhang Xun secretly asked Xu Shuzheng, the representative sent by Duan Qirui, what he thought of the restoration.After hearing this, Xiao Xu said eight words without hesitation: "Just ask for help, don't care about the means!" Xu Shuzheng is Duan Qirui's "little fan military aircraft", and has always been trusted by Lao Duan. Since he said that there is no problem, Lao Zhang is now reassured... It seems that everyone still has a lot of affection for the former court Well! While the warlords were meeting in Xuzhou, Li Yuanhong was not idle in Beijing. The first thing he had to consider was who would be the new prime minister.Under the circumstances at that time, who is qualified to replace Duan Qirui and control the overall situation? After much deliberation, Li Yuanhong felt that it was still up to the veterans of Beiyang to clean up the situation. The first candidate was Xu Shichang, and the second candidate was Wang Shizhen.Xu Shichang was an assistant minister of the cabinet in the former Qing Dynasty. He was always mature and steady, and he had followed Yuan Shikai for the longest time, so it was best for him to be the prime minister of the cabinet. However, how shrewd Xu Shichang is, how could he easily go into this muddy water? In the case that Mr. Xu Ge was unwilling to leave the mountain, Li Yuanhong had no choice but to take the next best thing and asked Wang Shizhen to come out and form a cabinet.Wang Shizhen, courtesy name Pinqing, was born in Niujiazhuang, Zhengding County, Hebei Province. He was born in a family of farming and education. When he was young, he joined Ye Zhichao, the commander of the Huai Army, and was later recommended to study in the Artillery Department of Tianjin Armed Forces Academy. He was a close friend of Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang. classmate. After three years of study, Duan Qirui was sent to study in Germany, while Wang Shizhen and Feng Guozhang went to Japan to study.A year later, Wang Shizhen returned to Ye Zhichao's army, and then led the artillery team to participate in the Sino-Japanese War.In the Battle of Pyongyang, Wang Shizhen led the students to fight the enemy bravely, and the ring finger of his left hand was blown off in this battle.After the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War, the main general Ye Zhichao was sentenced to death, and Wang Shizhen joined Nie Shicheng's subordinates. When Yuan Shikai was training the new army, due to the extreme lack of military teaching talents, he asked Yin Chang, the general manager of the Beiyang Armed Forces Academy, to recommend several candidates.Yinchang was very impressed with Wang Shizhen, Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, and Liang Huadian who had graduated before, so he recommended these four. Yuan Shikai was eager to seek talents, so of course he accepted them all.Among these four people, except for Liang Huadian's fate (he accidentally fell into the water and died during a night training), the other three are famous in the history of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Wang, Duan, and Feng made great contributions when Yuan Shikai compiled and trained the new army. During a parade, Wang Shizhen, Duan Qirui, and Feng Guozhang were called the "Three Heroes of Beiyang" by the German governor in Qingdao. They are "Dragon, Tiger, and Leopard", and Wang Shizhen is the head of the "Three Heroes", the "Dragon" of Beiyang.To put it bluntly, Wang Shizhen is indeed quite capable. This person is good at planning and has a strong ability to handle affairs. He won the trust of Yuan Shikai at that time. of. When Yuan Shikai was kicked back to his hometown by the regent Wang Zaifeng, Wang Shizhen, who was serving as admiral in Jiangbei, asked for a vacancy.After the Qing emperor abdicated, Wang Shizhen resigned by handing in his own book, saying that he was sick. Yuan Shikai was very surprised, so he asked him why he refused to help him.Wang Shizhen said dissatisfiedly: "The country raises soldiers for thousands of days and uses them for a while. The people rebel and instead of sending troops to conquer, they want to negotiate peace. It is an unprecedented anecdote!" After saying that, Wang Shizhen returned to his hometown, Niujiazhuang, Zhengding County.During her seclusion, Wang Shizhen still claimed to be a citizen of the Qing Dynasty. Not only did he keep the pigtails behind his head, but he even wore clothes in accordance with the rules of the former Qing Dynasty.Every time during the Chinese New Year, Wang Shizhen would wear the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty to show that she would not forget the emperor's kindness. When Yuan Shikai and Duan Qirui had conflicts, Wang Shizhen was invited to help and served as the commander of the army and navy in the presidential palace.Although he was an official of the Republic of China, Wang Shizhen still dragged his little braid. Some people advised him to cut it off, but he was refused, saying: "The three-year system has not yet expired!" Wang Shizhen didn't cut off his beloved little braid until 1915. It can be regarded as three years of keeping the system for the Qing Dynasty. When Li Yuanhong approached Wang Shizhen and asked him to be the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, Wang Shizhen disagreed with his life and death, saying that he could not "sell friends" for glory. .Li Yuanhong said what he said, but Wang Shizhen couldn't be bothered, so he agreed to be the chief of the army. After Xu Shichang and Wang Shizhen refused to take the post of prime minister one after another, Li Yuanhong thought hard and finally came up with another candidate, that is Li Jingxi, a former important minister of the Qing Dynasty.Li Jingxi is the nephew of Li Hongzhang. He was the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou in the former Qing Dynasty, but was kicked out during the Revolution of 1911.After Yuan Shikai dissolved the Congress, he reopened the stove and set up a political meeting of 80 people. At that time, Li Jingxi was appointed as the speaker (Zhang Guogan was the deputy speaker). Although Li Jingxi is a veteran, but at that time he was too old to be reused. However, Li Yuanhong was ill and went to the doctor in a hurry, and he couldn't find a better candidate.Later, when Li Yuanhong submitted Li Jingxi's nomination to the National Assembly for deliberation, the National Assembly passed it smoothly, but Li Jingxi himself lacked confidence and kept hiding in the Tianjin Concession, refusing to come out to take office. An important reason why Li Jingxi did not dare to go out of the mountain was that after the Xuzhou meeting, the provincial governors in Beiyang declared independence in accordance with the spirit of the meeting, and the situation was very dangerous.Ni Sichong, the governor of Anhui, kept his promise. He was the first to declare independence. Subsequently, Shaanxi, Henan, Zhejiang, Shandong, Fujian, Zhili and other provinces also declared independence; , They not only cursed Li Yuanhong as a "traitor", but also threatened to organize the army to carry out the "Northern Expedition". In the chaos, Zhang Xun, who was hiding behind the scenes, was overjoyed and extremely happy.He saw that the good show of coercing the palace from Li Yuanhong was going on as planned, and the time had come, so he was unwilling to be lonely and wanted to make his debut. On May 28, Zhang Xun, who had been silent all the time, suddenly called a telegram, claiming to be the "lord of the Overseer Army" and expressing his willingness to go to Beijing for mediation.Li Yuanhong, who was at a loss for what to do, was overjoyed when he heard it. He seemed to have caught a life-saving straw, and then he called back to invite Zhang Xun to Beijing, and sent a special car to Xuzhou to meet him.The Prime Minister-designate Li Jingxi also expressed that Zhang Xun was welcome to mediate in Beijing, and hoped to "come to Beijing together" with Zhang Xun. After receiving the telegram from President Li inviting him to Beijing for mediation, Zhang Xun laughed out loud. He slapped the table and said loudly, "Okay! Now it's up to the old man!" On June 7, under the banner of "defending the capital and mediating state affairs", Zhang Xun personally led a total of ten battalions of braided troops (about 5,000 people) of infantry, horses, and artillery from Xuzhou to the north along Jinpu Road. Arrived in Tianjin. After arriving in Tianjin, Zhang Xun did not leave.When Li Yuanhong heard that Zhang Xun led a large team to Tianjin, he couldn't help being suspicious, so he sent someone to find out what happened.After the visitor met Zhang Xun, he tactfully suggested that Zhang Xun should follow Jian and enter Beijing as soon as possible.Zhang Xun snorted after hearing this, and said, "Go back and tell President Li Da that I have a condition to mediate in Beijing, that is: the Congress must be dissolved within three days, otherwise, don't blame me for being rude!" In desperation, Li Yuanhong had no choice but to agree to Zhang Xun's request to dissolve the Congress.However, the dissolution of the National Assembly requires the countersignature of the Prime Minister. Now the Prime Minister-designate Li Jingxi who was approved by the National Assembly is hiding in Tianjin and dare not take office. Where can I find someone!At this time, Li Yuanhong had an idea, isn't there still acting Prime Minister Wu Tingfang?Why not ask him to countersign? After learning that Li Yuanhong obeyed Zhang Xun's threat to dissolve the Congress, Wu Tingfang turned pale with shock and said, "Dissolution of the Congress is such a big deal! It is not said that the president has the power to dissolve the Congress in the contract. I am a person who studies the law. How can I?" To countersign such an illegal order? If the President insists on forcing me to countersign, I would rather die than obey!" At this time, Zhang Xun sent someone to ask when the National Assembly was dissolved. Li Yuanhong was so forced that he had no choice but to send someone to bring the order to Tianjin and ask the incoming Prime Minister Li Jingxi to sign it. Not counting as the prime minister, you can’t sign it.” After the person reported back, Li Yuanhong scratched his head anxiously, and asked the army chief Wang Shizhen to come and take the place of prime minister for a while, and help him sign the order to dissolve the Congress.Seeing that everyone refused to sign, Wang Shizhen also knew the stakes in it, so she also shirked and said: "I have already helped the president as the chief minister. If the president insists that I temporarily sign this letter for the prime minister, I have no choice but to resign and leave Beijing." , I don't care about everything!" On the evening of the 12th, which was the deadline Zhang Xun said, Li Yuanhong convened a meeting at the presidential palace to discuss the dissolution of the Congress.At the meeting, Li Yuanhong said solemnly: "Zhang Xun sent someone to say that if he doesn't order the dissolution of the National Assembly today, he will let the warlords move freely! Now that the state affairs are in such a mess, you have to find a way to deal with it." yes!" After a period of silence, finally someone who was not afraid of death stepped forward, that is the infantry commander Jiang Chaozong, he expressed his willingness to sign this order for the Prime Minister.After hearing this, Li Yuanhong seemed to have seen a savior, and quickly ordered his secretary to draw up two orders immediately, one was to remove Wu Tingfang from the post of acting prime minister, and the other was to entrust Jiang Chaozong as acting prime minister. After all, this martial artist is bold, and Jiang Chaozong has passed the addiction of acting as the prime minister once, and it is no problem for him to sign the order of "dissolving the Congress". On the 13th, Li Yuanhong issued a telegram. While announcing the dissolution of the Congress, he also expressed his difficulties in the telegram: "Since the release of the exemption order, there have been constant troubles in various places, people's hearts are fluctuating, and rumors are everywhere. This time, the governor Zhang Xun came to mediate state affairs , on the premise of disbanding the National Assembly, if it does not meet its requirements, it will not be responsible for mediation, and the armies of the provinces will move freely, and the disaster of national subjugation is imminent. Yuan Hong thought again and again, in order to preserve the republican government and maintain the North-South unification plan , I have no choice but to make this order." The funniest thing is that Jiang Chaozong also sent a telegram as before, saying that he had acted as the prime minister temporarily in desperation, and then countersigned the order to dissolve the Congress... Knowing that it was illegal, this move for what? Of course, when it comes to the Congress at that time, there are also some disappointments.Leaving aside the factional disputes in the Senate and House of Representatives, they met for three months to formulate a constitution, and nothing was achieved except to determine their own salaries.During the meetings, those who arrive late are late, those who leave early leave early, or simply absent, so that the meeting often cannot be held;Therefore, it is not surprising that these people finally degenerated into "Piggy Members" (Cao Kun bribed the election, a later story) No wonder the foreign journalists watching at the time laughed and said that the Chinese are not suitable for democracy.Such an approach is only laughed at by outsiders, and it is no wonder that Yuan Shikai wanted to dissolve the National Assembly before... Western-style democracy was transplanted hastily without serious research and demonstration of how to localize, and the result is not acclimatized, which is also normal. On June 14, after Li Yuanhong had dissolved the Congress, Zhang Xun was satisfied, and then happily took the braided army and the prime minister-designate Li Jingxi to Beijing by train.After getting in the car, Zhang Xun carried a large box with him, which looked extremely precious. Li Jingxi felt curious and asked what was in it.Zhang Xun pretended to be mysterious, and smiled without answering. Ladies and gentlemen, can you guess what is in this box?