Chapter 130 129. Tianjin Warlords Meeting
Wang Daxie only admitted to acting as Prime Minister for a week, and he urged Feng to announce his successor every day.Feng bit the bullet and went to Wang Shizhen again, asking him to come out of the mountain, but he still refused, because this would still inevitably make him feel ashamed as a "selling friend", but he agreed to help Feng find a candidate.
The people Wang Shizhen helped Feng find were still some well-known and well-known figures that everyone was familiar with. These people had been invited by Feng Dun before but did not agree, so naturally they would not agree to Wang.Feng was in a hurry, and said to Wang: "Let's put aside the Prime Minister's question first, please see my old face, let's go to the Chief of the Army first!" Wang still evaded.
At this time, Duan Qirui, the resigned Prime Minister, suddenly came to visit Wang, and asked Wang to give priority to the Beiyang group and the chief of the army first.Only then did Wang pretend to be very reluctant, and agreed to go to the Ministry of War to see the gate for a few days.After Wang agreed to be the chief of the army, the Beijing military and police elected representatives to petition at Wang's house. They all said in unison: "Please hire Lao to come out of the mountains to form a cabinet to consolidate the Beiyang group." Needless to say, these military and police representatives were all ordered by Feng.
On November 30, Feng went to the Wang residence to persuade him to drive, and then returned to the government to announce that Wang Shizhen was appointed as the acting prime minister of the cabinet and also the chief of the army.At the same time, it was announced that Lu Zhengxiang was the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Qian Nengxun was the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wang Kemin was the Chief of Finance, Jiang Yong was the Chief of Justice, Tian Wenlie was the Chief of Agriculture and Commerce, Cao Rulin was the Chief of Communications, Fu Zengxiang was the Chief of Education, and Liu Guanxiong was the Chief of the Navy.With Yin Chang as chief of staff.Zhang Zhitan, secretary-general of the State Council, resigned and was succeeded by Yun Baohui.
After Wang Shizhen took office as Premier, he declared in the State Council: "This Premier will never change a single person. One person will come today and one will go in the future."
Why did Duan go to persuade Wang to be the chief of the army?This seems to be unreasonable, in fact, Duan already understood Feng's determination at this time, Feng decided to remove Duan from his position, if he insisted on not going, he would definitely embark on the road of breakup, once a breakup, Feng is not unarmed like Li, Feng has guards in Beijing Army, and Beijing's diplomatic corps will not just sit back and watch, and the two factions of Anhui and Anhui meet each other in Beijing.So he decided to avoid the important and focus on the less important. He knew that Wang Shizhen was a figure of the Huang-Lao school who did nothing.At this time, his think tank, Xu Shuzheng, had already persuaded Cao Kun in Tianjin, and went to Fengtian to contact Zhang Zuolin, and Bengbu to contact Ni Sichong. If these forces were organized, it would be beneficial for Duan to retreat temporarily and Wang Shizhen come out to maintain it.Because Duan can be deployed secretly to wait for the opportunity to make a comeback.
When Wang Shizhen accepted the cabinet formation on November 30, Cao Kun, Governor of Zhili, and Zhang Huaizhi, Governor of Shandong, were both in Beijing.But they disappeared at the same time the next day. It turned out that they went to Tianjin quietly.At this time, representatives of the warlords from the seven provinces of Shanxi, Fengtian, Heilongjiang, Fujian, Anhui, Zhejiang, and Shaanxi, and the three special regions of Chahar, Rehe, and Suiyuan, as well as Lu Yongxiang from Shanghai and Zhang Jingyao from Xuzhou all came to Tianjin.
On December 2, led by Cao Kun and Zhang Huaizhi, the Warlords and representatives of the Warlords gathered in Tianjin Sunjia Garden for a meeting.The scale and momentum of this meeting is no less than the Xuzhou meeting. Except that there are no representatives from the southwestern provinces and the three governors of the Yangtze River, this is tantamount to another meeting of the governors.
The Xuzhou meeting was instigated by Duan's think tank Xu Shuzheng behind the scenes to deal with Li Yuanhong.This Tianjin meeting was also planned by Xu Shuzheng to deal with Feng Guozhang.However, the location and the leading person have changed. The location moved from Xuzhou to Tianjin, which is only close to Beijing, and the leading person is changed from Zhang Xun to Cao Kun.
The theme of the Tianjin Conference was to fight against the Southwest and deal with the Peaceful faction of the Beiyang faction.During this meeting, the official newspaper of the Anhui Department revealed an astonishing secret. It is said that the Southwest had made the following proposals at the Wuzhou meeting: (1) Welcome Li Yuanhong back as president. (2) To urge Feng Guozhang to step down. (These two points are the tactics to attack Feng Guozhang). (3) Punish Duan Qirui and Liang Qichao, the chief culprits of the war. (4) Restoration of the old Congress. (5) Tan Yankai was reappointed as the governor of Hunan.The Wuzhou meeting was held as early as November 10, and there were no such decisions at all. However, the think tanks of the Anhui clique used the Tianjin warlords meeting to announce these unwarranted clauses, intending to arouse the warlords' common hatred.
Sure enough, when the participants of the Tianjin meeting saw these clauses, they were very angry. They thought that the Southwest was deceiving people too much, and that Feng Guozhang wanted to make peace with the Southwest.Cao Kun said impassionedly: "I am willing to lead my troops to Pingnan, and I will ignore the last person in the battle." The meeting decided three things: (1) Each province sent troops separately and raised its own military expenses. (2) Introduce the governors of Shandong and Shandong provinces as the commander-in-chief. (3) Rejecting the three governors of the Yangtze River, and deciding to attack Hunan in two ways, the first route is Cao Kun as the commander, leading the army to go south from the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway to attack northern Hunan through Hubei; the second route is Zhang Huaizhi as the commander, leading the army southward from Jinpu Road , Attacked Xiangdong through Jiangxi.Regarding the distribution of troops sent by the provinces, Zhili, Shandong, and Anhui each sent 10,000 troops, Fengtian sent 20,000 troops, and Shanxi and Shaanxi sent 5,000 troops each.
The Fengtian representative who participated in the Tianjin meeting was Zhang Zuolin's think tank, Yang Yuting, Chief of Staff of the Fengtian Army.Representing Lu Yongxiang in Shanghai is Lu Xiaojia, Lu's son, the famous Shanghai son.Representing Ni Sichong is Ni Daolang.At the Tianjin meeting, Duan Zhigui was recommended to go to Beijing to have a showdown with Feng Guozhang. They expressed a tactful opinion. If the southern army withdraws from Hunan and dissolves the extraordinary parliament, they can negotiate peace. This is the minimum condition for peace talks. The means to deal with the former president of Lebanon is to deal with the current president-the provinces have declared independence from the central government.
The dispute between Feng and Duan is a clear evidence of the specific struggle between the Zhi and Anhui lines, and the Tianjin Conference and the warlord's rebellion against Feng are a new dispute between the government and the court.The situation is obviously tense, and rumors are flying everywhere. There are rumors that Xuantong will sit in the Dragon Court for the third time.
After the Tianjin meeting, the Governor's Legion was even stronger than the previous one led by Zhang Xun. The first honest man, Cao Kun, was publicly elected as the eldest brother, and the second honest man, Zhang Huaizhi, was elected as the second brother.But the real behind-the-scenes leader is Duan Qirui. Duan uses the unity of the Beiyang faction as his call, calling the Lord and the faction a traitor.
The main combat faction targeted Su Du Li Chun because it was inconvenient for them to attack Feng Guozhang clearly.In the Tianjin meeting, it was decided to question Li Chun in the name of all present why he wanted to prevent Feng Yuxiang from traveling to "aid Fujian"?The so-called "aid" means to enter the army.It turned out that Feng Yuxiang, the brigade commander of the 16th Mixed Brigade, was ordered to aid Fujian. When he arrived in Pukou, Li Chun instructed him not to advance. Qiu Bin, the chief of staff of the brigade, called Feng and scolded Feng. The post was succeeded by Zhang Shusheng.At the same time, the main combat faction also asked whether Li Chun could take concerted action with the provinces?
Li Chun's reputation is not high, but he has suffered a lot because of being scolded.On the contrary, ordinary people have an impression of him, thinking that he has opinions, is different from popular customs, and is a leader of the Beiyang School who loves the country and the people.
This "leader" is actually strong on the outside but on the inside. Under the strong pressure of the main combat faction, he published Jiangdian (December 3) to express his heart, denying that he would stop Feng from aiding Fujian, and promised to urge Feng to drive from Pukou to Shanghai on the same day. Drive from Haidao to Fujian.Li Chun expressed his obedience to the general will of the Beiyang faction.In order to prove that he is not a traitor of the Beiyang faction, Li Jing called Lu Rongting to ask why the Wuzhou meeting made several resolutions.Lu Rongting replied on Weibo on December 5: This is completely nonsense.Li transferred Lu Fu's telegram to the northern provinces.
The main battle party, Wang Shizhen, the veteran of Beiyang, did not let go.The Anhui newspapers ridiculed the Wang cabinet, and Duan made the New Communications Department fall from the cabinet.But Cao Kun didn't wait for Feng Guozhang's decision on the issue of going south, that is, he sent a telegram and swore to go south, and ordered his younger brother Cao Rui to act as the governor of Zhili.
On December 6, ten people including Cao Kun, Zhang Huaizhi, Zhang Zuolin, Ni Sichong, Yan Xiyou, Chen Shufan, Zhao Ti, Yang Shande, Lu Yongxiang, and Zhang Jingyao jointly sent a telegram requesting the Beijing government to issue an order to crusade against the Southwest.
This time, the main fighters are not waving their flags and shouting, just thinking about it, but taking real actions.After deciding to march south, the northern warlords withheld taxes, expanded their forces, and seized territory.At this time, newspapers across the country were filled with electrification of the main battle, and the sound of killing and cutting was endless.The Beiyang faction is quite vigorous and vigorous, and there are some people who advocate that Lao Duan should be appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Southern Expedition.