Chapter 164 163, 7 CEO internal strife

The military government in Guangdong includes: the Kuomintang, the political science department, the Guangxi faction, the Yunnan faction, the Cantonese faction, and famous schools such as Tang Shaoyi.Of course everyone disagrees.I have already described the struggle between the Guangdong Guangxi faction and the local Cantonese faction soldiers, and the internal strife among the Guangdong and Yunnan troops stationed in Guangdong.Li Yaohan, the leader of the Cantonese army and the former governor of Guangdong Province, was forced to step down by the Guangxi faction and went to Hong Kong to recuperate. For example, Li Fulin, the guardian of Guanghui, and Wei Bangping, the commander of the guards, all had close ties with Li Yaohan, so the Guangxi faction was still wary of the Cantonese faction.On June 12, 8th year of the Republic of China, Mo Rongxin, the governor of Guangdong, further ordered Li Yaohan to be wanted and his property was confiscated, and Lin Hu, a general from the Guangxi family, was appointed as Zhaoyang Luo's guard envoy. Ri Linhu went to Zhaoqing to arrange everything. This was a concrete action by the Guangxi faction in Guangdong to use force to eradicate Li Yaohan's forces.Due to the pressure from the Guangxi clique, Zhai Wangli, the acting governor of Guangdong, resigned from his acting position and sent Zhang Jinfang to take care of the governor temporarily.

The suppression of Guangdong soldiers by the Guangxi clique in Guangdong aroused great resentment from the people of Guangdong and all aspects. Therefore, the people of Guangdong held general strikes, strikes, and strikes to protest.The Guangzhou-Kowloon and Guangzhou-San Railway trains were suspended, and the electric lights in Guangzhou were unclear. The situation was extremely tense.At this time, the people in Guangdong only hoped that the Guangxi clique would be expelled as soon as possible. They had planned to elect Wu Tingfang as the governor to resist the Guangxi clique sending another governor.At the same time, in terms of military affairs, the local faction of the Cantonese faction also wanted to contact the Cantonese soldiers in the Kuomintang. At that time, the powerful member of the Cantonese soldiers in the Kuomintang was Chen Jiongming. He wanted to go back to Guangdong because of the crowding out of the Guangxi faction. The local soldiers Wei Bangping and Li Fulin in Guangdong sent people to secretly communicate with Chen Jiongming, asking Chen to lead his army back to Guangdong in secret. .

However, the Guangxi clique has the greatest power in Guangdong after all, so the plan of Wei Bangping and Li Fulin is not easy to realize, because the Guangxi clique has always had troops monitoring Chen Jiongming in the Guangdong-Fujian border area. Difficult to achieve. The news that Chen Jiongming led the army back to Guangdong spread, but the actual action was difficult to realize, so Chen Jiongming had to publicly call to deny the rumor that he was going to lead the army back to Guangdong.Denial Despite the denial, in fact Chen Jiongming secretly signed the Guangdong-Fujian border delimitation armistice agreement with Fujian Governor Li Houji on June 25, which means that Chen Jiongming may lead his army to withdraw from southern Fujian at any time and will not be pursued by Fujian.

Of course, Chen Jiongming hoped to return to Guangdong day and night, so why did he forget the throne of the Governor of Guangdong. After the military government in the south was reorganized from a single generalissimo system to a collegial presidential system, the actual military government was not controlled by the seven presidents, but controlled by the Guangxi faction.At the same time, although he was known as the seventh president, at this time, Mr. Sun Yat-sen had gone to Shanghai and announced his resignation.Tang Shaoyi has been serving as the general representative of the southern peace talks in Shanghai.Tang Jiyao was in Yunnan.Lu Rongting stayed in Guangxi.So in Guangzhou there are only Cen Chunxuan, Wu Tingfang, and Lin Baoyi.Although those CEOs who are not in Guangzhou have sent representatives to attend the government affairs meeting, the Gui family only recognizes Lu Rongting's representative as qualified.Sun, Tang, and Tang's representative Gui family all refused to recognize it.Cen Chunxuan, the chairman and president, takes orders from the Gui family.

On August 7, 1988, Sun Yat-sen sent a telegram to resign from the post of president in Shanghai, and declared that since the date of resignation, he would not be responsible for any documents and telegrams issued by the military government in the future if he still signed his name. On the 11th, the Guangzhou Congress held a meeting and decided to retain Sun Yat-sen.During this period, the conflict between members of the Department of Internal Affairs of the old Guangzhou National Congress and members of the Zhaoxialou faction intensified (Zhaoxialou faction is the name for members of the Kuomintang department, because most of the Kuomintang members stayed in Zhaoxialou at that time).Due to extreme dissatisfaction with the military government, the Zhaoxialou faction instigated the second reorganization of the military government. First, it proposed to investigate Yang Yongtai, the director of the Guangdong Department of Finance.Later, Zhaoxialou proposed to withdraw the general representative of the Southern Peace Council and reorganize the military government into a formal government.An explicit crusade against the Beijing government.And because Cen Chunxuan privately sent representatives to Beijing to negotiate peace negotiations in secret, which violated the spirit of the "Contract" and the collegiate system of the military government, Zhaoxialou sent members to raise the case of distrusting the chairman and president, so Cen Chunxuan resigned angrily.During this period, the Department of Political Science was very lonely, and all parties in the old Congress united with the Kuomintang, so the case of reorganizing the military government was passed.In September and October, the military government and the old National Assembly, which had the advantage of the Kuomintang, were already in a confrontational position, making the military government's position precarious.

At this time, the Dian and Guangxi cliques were still in a period of reconciliation, so Tang Jiyao, Mo Rongxin, Tan Yankai, and Liu Xianshi jointly sent a telegram to oppose the reorganization of the military government.Lu Rongting, Lin Baoyi, Tan Yankai, and Tan Haoming called to persuade Cen Chunxuan to stay. At the beginning of 9, the Yunnan and Guangxi factions turned against each other because they competed for the command of the Yunnan Army stationed in Guangdong. Tang Jiyao also planned to resign as the president to dismantle the military government. As a result, the political situation in the south changed. The Yunnan faction and the Kuomintang united, and the Guangxi faction will be isolated.The Kuomintang plans to use Yunnan as a new base, move the extraordinary parliament in Guangzhou to Kunming, and organize a new southwest government in Yunnan.When the Beijiang Yunnan Army issue arose, Wu Jinglian and Lin Sen, the speakers of the Guangzhou Senate and the House of Representatives, sneaked from Guangzhou to Hong Kong in secret, and the former members of the National Assembly also went to Hong Kong to gather in batches.

Tang Jiyao's plan and Chen Jiongming, the commander-in-chief of the Guangdong Army, marched towards Guangdong to attack the Guangxi faction. Rumors spread that the Cantonese army returned from Fujian to Guangdong. There was a conflict on the border between Guangdong and Fujian. On March 29, 9, Wu Tingfang, chief executive officer of the military government, and Lin Sen and Wu Jinglian, the speakers of the Senate and the House of Representatives, quietly left Guangdong for Shanghai in opposition to Cen Chunxuan. Wu Tingfang's leaving without saying goodbye made the military government a little at a loss. It's not that Wu Tingfang is more important than President Sun, Tang, and Tang San, but that Wu Tingfang has his value, because Wu is also the military government's foreign minister and finance minister. In June 1988, the diplomatic corps obtained the consent of the Beijing government and allocated 13% of the remaining tariff to the southern military government as a government fee. No one can pretend to sign Wu's signature. In other words, there is great trouble in receiving the money. This is why Wu Tingfang is more important than other presidents.

At the same time, Wu Tingfang collected the balance of tariffs five times, totaling more than 3.9 million yuan. In addition to payment, she also deposited more than 1.8 million yuan.The money was not handed over when Wu left, and he took all of it with him. Wu's move was even worse than taking the army away, because in the military government at that time, finance was the most important part.After Cen Chunxuan rushed back to Guangzhou, he immediately wrote a personal letter and sent someone to Hong Kong to invite Wu to return to Sui. Cen said many good things in the letter, and only asked Wu to come back.However, Wu Ze resolutely refused, no matter how much the visitor begged, he just refused to go back.

The military government had no choice but to issue a communiqué: On April 8, the military government's political affairs meeting dismissed the army's foreign ministers and finance ministers from their part-time posts, leaving the president in charge.At the same time, Wu Tingfang was condemned for going without warning, neither accepting the advice to return to the province to serve, nor handling the handover.What's more, Wu took away the balance of 1.8 million yuan in customs duties, leaving the treasury empty and unable to pay for military and administrative expenses.Another communiqué announced: The government affairs meeting resolved to remove Wu Tingfang from the concurrent positions of foreign minister and finance minister, and specially appointed Wen Zongyao as foreign minister and Chen Jintao as finance minister.Before Chen Jintao took office, Deputy Minister Wen Qun acted as the acting minister.

This is the second time for Wu Tingfang to leave with an official seal. The first time was when Zhang Xun was restored in July 6 of the Republic of China. Similarly, on April 10, he sent a telegram in Hong Kong, announcing that he would continue to perform the duties of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Finance.In addition to denying its authority by telegram, the military government also telegraphed the Beijing government to inform the diplomatic corps that the balance of tariffs should be handed over directly to the military government for collection. In mid-April, the military government hired a lawyer in Hong Kong to sue Wu Tingfang for absconding with money, and Wu also hired a lawyer to fight.Hong Kong Chinese and foreign newspaper Da Deng Te Deng.As a result, everyone knows that the military government in the south is not only torn apart, but is dying.

This is really a pity, for the military government in the south, because at this time the two factions in the north, Zhi and Anhui, are on the verge of breaking up, and the war is about to break out. If the south really protects the law and is united, the changes in the north will benefit the fishermen in the south.Unexpectedly, the same is true in the south. On the one hand, the Yunnan and Guangdong armies clashed, and on the other hand, the military government was torn apart.On the contrary, the north is too busy to take care of itself and cannot seize this opportunity to unify the south. If the two lines of the north, the direct and the Anhui are not at the time of the final merger, it is not difficult to use troops from the south to determine the overall situation. The worst thing for the southern military government was that members of Congress also left without saying goodbye in batches, and even took away the files. On April 1st, Chu Fucheng, Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Extraordinary Congress, went to Hong Kong. Before his trip, he summoned members of the Kuomintang to gather in Hong Kong. Hong Kong, this is really a complete move.The extraordinary congress in Guangzhou has become a vacuum. On April 3, Cen Chunxuan heard that the Congress had been evacuated, so he ordered the military police to search the two chambers. Sure enough, he found that all the important documents of the Congress had been taken away. On April 6, members of Congress who had not left Sui held a joint meeting. Non-KMT members publicly elected Sun Guangting as the chairman of the Senate, and Chen Hongjun as the chairman of the House of Representatives, acting as the speaker.At the same time, a telegram announced that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Wu Jinglian, Vice Speaker Chu Fucheng, and Senate Speaker Lin Sen, etc. "absconded with their seals, and if they later published documents and telegrams in the name of the Speaker, they will all be considered invalid." Members of the Kuomintang held a symposium in Hong Kong. The topic of discussion during the meeting was where to move the Congress?Some advocate moving to Yunnan, while others advocate moving to Shanghai.Those who advocate moving to Shanghai believe that Shanghai is the sphere of influence of the Anhui faction, and the Anhui faction is increasingly showing favor with the KMT, so they will not interfere with the Congress meeting in Shanghai.Shanghai is the center of gravity of the country, and its every move is easy to be valued by others. Its eyes and ears are flexible, and the effect of publicity is also great.However, the opposition believes that the reason why the Congress was relocated was because of the persecution by the Anhui warlords. It was the Anfu warlords who forced the Beijing government to order its dissolution. Within the sphere of influence, it is too spineless.Therefore, this faction advocates that the Congress be moved to Kunming.But those who opposed the move to Kunming were also right. They believed that Yunnan was a remote place with inconvenient transportation, and the move of the Congress to Yunnan could not be called upon, and it would not have a wide political influence.At the same time, his attitude towards Tang Jiyao is also worthy of consideration. He believes that Tang Jiyao has always closed his door as emperor in Yunnan. Whether he is willing to welcome so many members of Congress to Kunming is also worth studying. In the end, the majority advocated moving to Shanghai, so Wu Tingfang gave each congressman 200 yuan for travel expenses to Shanghai with the public funds he brought, and remitted another 1 million yuan to Shanghai HSBC Bank for constitution-making funds after the Congress moved to Shanghai.In Shanghai, Sun Yat-sen and Tang Shaoyi also undertook to raise another 1 million yuan to support the Congress. On April 8, Wu Jinglian first left for Shanghai to prepare for the resumption of the National Congress in Shanghai, and he took away more than 500,000 yuan in congressional deposits. In early April, about 200 congressmen arrived in Shanghai one after another, and it is planned to hold a joint meeting of the two chambers first. As a result, the two factions of parliamentarians in Shanghai and Guangzhou scolded each other from a distance, accusing each other of "collaborating with the enemy and breaking the law."At that time, there were still more than 300 members of Congress in Guangzhou. Members of the Department of Political Science suggested that due to the lack of numbers, an extraordinary meeting could be held and Cen Chunxuan elected as Grand Marshal to replace the declining military government. From Beijing's point of view, the separation of the old parliament in Guangzhou is good news. President Xu Shichang and Prime Minister Jin Yunpeng believe that this is a great opportunity for direct negotiations between the North and the South. Therefore, they advocated putting aside the peace conference in Shanghai and directly negotiating peace with the Guangzhou military government.According to Li Chun's five-paragraph plan, add: "If the aftermath loan is established, it should be handled in accordance with the old practice of distributing 13% of the remaining tariffs to the Southwest." One article is used as the basis for negotiation. But Duan Qirui opposed Xu and Jin's proposition. Duan had been extremely opposed to the Shanghai Peace Conference before, but now he suddenly changed his mind and strongly advocated that peace talks should still be held in Shanghai, and that all problems should be resolved by the Shanghai Peace Conference.Lu Yongxiang, a master of the Anhui clique and the "local leader" of Shanghai, also became good friends with the members of the old Congress. Lu Yongxiang publicly suggested that the solution to the current situation is to merge the old and new Congress and jointly formulate the constitution in Shanghai. The development of the current situation saved one of the most unlucky people. This is the leader of the Anfu Department, Wang Yitang, the general representative of the Northern Peace Council.He went to Shanghai with a lot of fanfare, but the southern representative didn't recognize his status at all. He allowed him to talk flattery and try his best, but the southern representative just ignored him a hundred times.Now that the congressman from Guangzhou has arrived in Shanghai, he is at a desperate time, but he still comes forward to make contact with everyone. He has money in hand, and the money can be a magic trick, so his situation has also become active. As mentioned earlier, after Wang Yitang arrived in Shanghai, he stayed in the garden of Hartung, a Shanghai rich man and a Jew. It is said that Wang Qie took his daughter Bai Hatong as his adoptive father.This Hartung has many adopted sons and daughters.When Wang Yitang lived in Hartong Park, he encountered a bomb case. He suspected that someone was trying to assassinate him, and even suspected that the assassination case was related to Li Chun, the governor of Jiangsu.Li Chun was furious when he heard the news, and he wrote to Wang Yun: "Your servant uses the belly of a villain to save a gentleman's heart, and the servant hates you. How can you follow the rogue's assassination behavior? I don't have any regrets." Yu Gong?" Li Han didn't make Wang feel relieved, and Wang Yitang always thought that Li Chun had bad intentions for him. After Wu Tingfang and Lin Sen arrived in Shanghai on April 16, the Kuomintang held an emergency meeting to study further denial of the legal effect of the military government.Since the composition of the military government is based on the seven presidents, the highest administrative body’s political affairs meeting must be attended by more than half of the presidents to be effective. Now only Cen Chunxuan and Lin Baoyi are left in Guangzhou, and Lin Baoyi has also announced his resignation. Therefore, the Kuomintang believes that Guangzhou’s Council meetings are useless. Guangzhou's explanation is not the same. The Guangzhou government affairs conference said: Sun Yat-sen, one of the seven presidents, has resigned, and Tang Shaoyi has not taken office at all, so there are only five presidents of the military government.At present, Cen Chunxuan, Lu Rongting, and Lin Baoyi are still on the side of the Guangzhou military government, so they are still in the majority, so the government affairs meeting is legal.This is of course an exaggeration.In order to make up the numbers, some people advocated simply reorganizing the military government into an all-Guangxi faction, and by-electing Mo Rongxin, the governor of Guangdong, and Tan Haoming, the governor of Guangxi, as presidents.This is of course a way to go to extremes.Cen Chunxuan is the chief executive of Lu Rongting, and Lu Rongting is the chief executive of Mo Rongxin and Tan Haoming. These four are all presidents, so they become three generations under the same roof.Therefore, both Mo and Tan overturned this suggestion on the grounds that they "did not dare to keep pace with the chief". On May 4, the Guangzhou Congress elected Xiong Kewu, Wen Zongyao, and Liu Xianshi as presidents by-election to make up for the lack of Sun Yat-sen, Tang Shaoyi, and Wu Tingfang.Xiong represents Sichuan, Liu represents Guizhou, and Wen represents the north.Sichuan and Guizhou are consistent with Yunnan, and Guangzhou deliberately selected Xiong and Liu to divide the Yunnan lineage. The plan to convene the Congress in Shanghai was hit. Because Guangzhou commissioned a lawyer to sue Wu Tingfang for embezzling public funds in Hong Kong, the deposit Wu Tingfang remitted to Shanghai HSBC was sentenced to false detention.You can't do things without money, which is the most nerve-wracking thing. On May 5th, members of Parliament in Shanghai held a talk meeting, decided to move the Congress to Yunnan, and issued a declaration denying the military government and Congress in Guangzhou. On June 2, Sun Yat-sen summoned Tang Shaoyi, Wu Tingfang, Li Liejun, and Tang Jiyao's representatives to hold a meeting in his private residence. The former National Assembly Speakers Wu Jinglian, Lin Sen, Wang Zhengting, and Chu Fucheng were invited to attend. The meeting decided that the four presidents, Sun, Tang, Tang, and Wu A joint declaration was issued, the full text of which is as follows: "Since the Chief Executive is not a quorum, there is no government in Guangzhou. Since the Senate and the House of Representatives have moved at the same time, there is no Congress in Guangzhou. Although the remnants abuse their names and call out couples, how can they cover the eyes and ears of the world? Even if they are extremely The tricks and violence never came from Guangdong and Guangxi. And the psychology of the people of Guangdong and Guangxi was not overwhelmed by this at the beginning. Besides, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, followed the command of the commander-in-chief of the Yasukuni Allied Forces. Regions also abide by righteousness and do not change. With reason and power, we all understand this, and we know that Dharma protection groups will never be scattered due to the chaos of one or two people. Therefore, it is controlled by one or two people; when talking about soldiers, you only know how to support the soldiers and strengthen yourself; In the name of protecting the Dharma, they are actually doing harm to the people. Smoke seedlings are everywhere, gambling halls are full of streets, sucking the blood of the people, in the hope of protecting the arrogant soldiers and generals, wherever the army marches, they rape, plunder, burn and kill, and the village is ruins. It is intolerable by the laws of the country, and is despised by human beings. Wen and others are humiliated by the same ranks, endured twists and turns, and hoped to get it, and finally couldn't bear it. claims that..." At the same time, Tang Shaoyi prepared an official letter and sent it to Wang Yitang, the general representative of the North, requesting the resumption of peace talks. On June 6, the Guangzhou military government’s political affairs meeting resolved to replace Tang Shaoyi, the general representative of Nanfang Yihe, and Wen Zongyao was reassigned to succeed him; the Beijing government was notified that Sun Yat-sen, Tang Shaoyi, and Wu Tingfang, the presidents of Nanfang’s political affairs, had been disqualified as presidents.And send out urgent electricity cloud: "Wang Yitang is the general representative of the peace talks in the north, and he has never been recognized here. Tang Shaoyi revoked the general representative, and all the peace terms negotiated by Tang and Wang privately cannot take effect.... The so-called military government in the Shanghai Concession, except for Tang Jiyao. In addition to resigning, Tang Shaoyi never took office, Sun Wenye resigned in August, and Wu Tingfang resigned in March this year. After being dismissed by the extraordinary meeting of the National Assembly on May 4, he was re-elected. Sun, Tang, and Wu All declarations and all actions are void." Xu Shichang in Beijing agreed with every move in Guangzhou, but Duan Qirui and the Anfu Department were indifferent.Duan was very interested in the development of Shanghai. After Tang Shaoyi gave Wang Yi Tang the notice to resume the peace talks, Tang and Wang visited each other and talked very speculatively. Yesterday they were passers-by, but today they became old friends.This kind of friendly contact shows optimism in the future. Both sides seem to be in the spirit of mutual tolerance and put forward conditions acceptable to the other, hoping to achieve concrete results in the peace talks.Duan Qirui also directly responded to a telegram from Presidents Sun, Tang, Tang, and Wu, agreeing to resume the Shanghai peace talks. Xu Shichang expressed indifference to the development of Shanghai. On June 7, he asked the State Council to call Wang Yitang, and raised four questions: (1) Tang Shaoyi's qualifications as the general representative of the peace talks. Tang was originally appointed by the Guangzhou military government. Now Tang denies the Guangzhou military government Where does Tang's own status come from? (2) Presidents Sun, Tang, and Wu Zhu have either resigned for a long time, or have left their posts now, and they are now gathering in private residences in Shanghai for meetings, and Shanghai does not belong to the Southwest.So whether the items discussed by the princes can take effect, and do all parties in the Southwest unanimously agree with this meeting? (3) Since Sun, Tang, and Wu Sangong denied the current institutions of Guangdong and Guangdong, once the peace talks in Shanghai come to fruition, can the two Guangdongs unanimously implement them without resistance? (4) The eight articles proposed by General Representative Tang Shaoyi last year, the central government fought repeatedly, and the peace talks were caused by stalks....Today's Shaochuan (Tang Shaoyi) declaration is still based on the eight articles, and it was discussed in a hurry. Is there any suspicion of inconsistency?The above four points are all reviewed and reviewed, and then dealt with accordingly.From this telegram, it can be seen that Xu Shichang is unwilling to target the three presidents of Shanghai and Tang Shaoyi's peace representative. On the afternoon of June 7, the Anfu Department invited more than 20 members of the Anfu Department to meet Xu, and asked Xu to express his attitude towards the Shanghai Peace Conference. He bowed and bowed and said: "The head of state is sick, please come tomorrow." On June 8, important members of the Anfu Department held a meeting in Taiping Lake to discuss the Shanghai Peace Conference and how to deal with Xu Shichang. It will be a breach of peace, and advocates that Congress propose to impeach the president who violates the peace.After discussion, they elected members of the two houses to meet with Xu to question the reasons for not paying attention to the Shanghai Peace Conference.So Li Shengduo, Tian Yinghuang, and Liu Enge went to visit Xu, and Xu stammered to them: (1) The government had no intention of distrusting Wang Yitang. (2) When civil strife broke out in the southern military government, the Beijing government can of course stay out of the situation. (3) The southern military government reappointed Wen Zongyao as the general representative of the southern region, but the Beijing government has not yet recognized it.