Chapter 185 184. The third Jin Ge collapsed

In the autumn and winter of the 10th year of the Republic of China, the Beijing government seemed to be facing doomsday in a big storm. The main reason was that it was financially distressed, poverty everywhere, warlords in various provinces demanded salaries, employees in various ministries demanded salaries, debt collection by foreign powers, and China Communications and Banks restricted cashing. Chief Li Shiwei could not take office. In the winter of 2010, poverty became a major trend. On November 14, members of the Ministry of Education held a "Alliance Strike", and members of other ministries also "slowed down" due to wage arrears, and daily government affairs came to a standstill.The staff automatically requested to be disbanded.Chief of the Army Cai Chengxun, Chief of the Navy Li Dingxin, Chief of Justice Dong Kang, and Deputy Minister of Education Ma Linyi all asked to resign because of their demands for salary.The warlords of the various provinces withheld taxes and recruited troops, and at the same time demanded payment from Beijing with telegrams of 100,000 or 1,000,000 urgently.The Japanese spread rumors that the five countries would jointly manage China's finances.So starting from November 16, there was a wave of runs on China Communications Bank and Bank of China in Beijing, Tianjin, Hankou and other places. On the 18th, the diplomatic corps decided to allocate 6 million yuan of the customs duty balance as a reserve for the cashing of the two banks. However, Anger, a British man from the General Taxation Department, refused to allocate the customs duty balance as collateral for public bonds.

The foreign debts could not be borrowed, and the foreign creditors relentlessly demanded to collect the due debts, which made the Ministry of Finance in Beijing desperate.Japan first came up with the method of "borrowing new debts to repay old debts", so other countries followed suit.The Beijing government relies on this to quench thirst with poison. A few days before the opening of the Washington Conference, the U.S. tobacco and alcohol loan had expired. On November 1, 2010, Abbott, the representative of the U.S. bank group that handled the loan, also proposed to the Beijing government the method of "repaying the old by borrowing new" and suggested that Set up a new loan of 16 million US dollars to repay the tobacco and alcohol loan of 11 million US dollars and its interest of 660,000 US dollars, and must deduct the redemption of the Huguang Railway Bond held by Americans of 1.3 million US dollars and its interest of 1.08 million US dollars, the new loan Designate the tobacco and alcohol tax as collateral, and set up a tobacco and alcohol tax audit office with the United States as the auditor to preside over the matter.

At this time, the presidential palace and the State Department actually clashed over the issue of tobacco and alcohol.At that time, Pan Fu, director of the Salt Affairs Bureau, was a member of the Prime Minister Jin Yunpeng, and Zhang Shouling, the supervisor of the Tobacco and Alcohol Administration, was the private party of President Xu Shichang.After Abto proposed the method of "repaying the old with the new", if the new loan of 16 million U.S. dollars is established, although the Beijing government will get very little, the Tobacco and Alcohol Office, the handling agency, will get a kickback of more than 1 million yuan. Since it is controlled by Xu Shichang, Jin Yunpeng will not get a penny.So Pan Fu came up with a method of "transferring flowers and trees". He provided advice to Abto, pointing out that tobacco and alcohol taxes are often withheld by warlords in various provinces, and they are not reliable collateral. Guarantee the security of loans.This opinion was of course agreed by Abbott.Pan Fu's wishful thinking thought that if this happened, the Salt Administration would get a commission of 800,000 US dollars and share half of the commission of 1.6 million US dollars.

Because of the competition for the commission, the relationship between the government and the court worsened, and because of the discord between the government and the court, coupled with the opposition of the whole country, the tobacco and alcohol loan could not be realized. Stephen, the American representative of the four-nation banking group, continued to negotiate. Just as the relationship between Xu and Jin was deteriorating, Gu Weijun, the representative of our country participating in the Washington Conference, sent a report about being insulted by the British representative. The British representative Balfour asked: "What kind of country is China?"

When Xu Shichang saw this report, he told Zhang Zhitan, Minister of Transportation, and Guo Zeyun, Secretary-General of the State Council: Now it is a responsible cabinet system, and the cabinet is of course responsible for everything.When Jin Yunpeng heard this sentence, he also said angrily: "Where is there a responsible cabinet, it is just in name only. As the prime minister, I will not be interfered by the president in terms of employment and administration."Then he also spoke sarcastically about the crux of the current situation, thinking that foreigners scold us for what kind of country they mean, referring to the legal dispute between North Korea and the legal status of the president.The implication is that Xu Shichang is an illegal president, so the reunification of the North and the South cannot be carried out, which affects issues such as foreign borrowing, disarmament and financial management.

Guo Zeyun, Secretary-General of the State Council, relayed Jin's words to Xu.Xu Shichang was originally an old fox who couldn't express his emotions and anger. After hearing these words, he couldn't hold back his anger. His anger reached the extreme, and he thought that all the outside plans to overthrow the president and change the political situation were Jin's secret tricks. Coincidentally, at this time, Zhang Zuolin sent a telegram to Xu from outside the customs, accusing the Tobacco and Alcohol Office of supervising Zhang Shouling's incompetence, resulting in a sharp drop in tobacco and alcohol tax revenue, and should be dismissed. Xu also suspected that it was instigated by Jin .

There was a reason for Xu's suspicion. Prior to this, Pan Fu, director of the General Administration of Salt Affairs, had stepped down because of Wu Peifu's attack. Jin Yunpeng believed that Wu's attack on Pan was instigated by Xu Shichang.Therefore, he called Zhang Zuolin and strongly stated that before Zhang Shouling was appointed as the supervisor of tobacco and alcohol, all tax accounts were neither submitted to the State Council for record, nor were they sent to the Audit Court for review, and the cabinet had no right to intervene.This is the reason why Zhang Zuolin called Zhang Shouling to dismiss him.

Xu Shichang thought it was too much for Jin to threaten him with Zhang Zuolin, so he personally wrote a resignation telegram, expressing that he would never be greedy for power and position, and completely blamed all the responsibilities for political corruption and serious current situation on the cabinet.Judging from this telegram, it is completely announcing Jin's guilt. On December 1, 2010, Jin went to the Presidential Palace and asked Xu if he was going to send a resignation telegram. Xu simply replied, yes.So Jin tried his best to prevent the sending of this telegram, saying that since the cabinet should be responsible for all the responsibilities, the president has no reason to resign and he is willing to step down.But Xu insisted on sending it, and said angrily: "As the president, don't I have the freedom to send a telegram?" to the State Council.

Due to Zhang Zuolin's attack, Zhang Shouling had to step down.Xu Shichang wanted to promote Yuan Naikuan as the supervisor of tobacco and alcohol, but Jin wanted Pan Fu to succeed him. Xu gritted his teeth and said, "I would rather sacrifice the president than let Pan Fu take office." , and appointed Zhong Shiming, who was close to the Feng family, as the Director of Salt Affairs. On December 3, Xu Shichang published his resignation telegram. In this telegram, he first regretted that "peaceful reunification" had not been realized, and the issue of the National Assembly "in October 1999, it was clearly announced that the old law would be used for new elections, but the election has not yet been completed. There is no time for the National Assembly to be established." Xu Ze launched a big attack on the federal self-government.He said: "The chaos in recent years should have been in the name of self-government. The soldiers of the dead were in trouble, the bandits took the opportunity to riot, and the whole province was corrupted. If we talk about self-government in this way, it is nothing more than self-rule." Xu Tongdian talked about it in the last paragraph Go to my own place and ask the question: "In terms of term of office, there are still more than a year, and the sun and the moon are not living, and there is a time to avoid the virtuous."

In Xu Shichang's resignation telegram, he did not express his willingness to resign and step down. He only complained to the warlords in various provinces, and hinted that his term of office had not expired and his position was unshakable.Jin Yunpeng was not harmed in the telegram, because Zhang Zhitan and Guo Zeyun tried hard to persuade them, so all the words attacking Jin in the original manuscript were deleted. The Jin Yunpeng cabinet existed under the balance of power between the Zhifeng and Fengzhi departments, but Jin is the son and daughter of Zhang Zuolin, and in terms of finances and the distribution of power and status between the two departments, he tends to be pro-bong and sparse, so the Zhili department does not support this cabinet very much. .Jin Yunpeng's behind-the-scenes military adviser is Zhang Zhitan, chief of communications. Before Jin's third cabinet formation, Zhang Zhitan had an idea to persuade Jin to take the initiative to invite Zhang Zuolin and Cao Kun to Tianjin for a meeting. He left the cabinet and formed the third Jin Pavilion.

In the past, the old transportation department was used to overthrow the government because of financial problems. Now Jin Ge still cannot solve this problem, so the shadow of the old transportation department's collapse is still there. The question is whether it can persuade Jin's backers not to support Jin.Since Zhang Zhitan is the soul of the third Jin Ge, and Zhang Zhitan is a figure close to the direct lineage, the Feng lineage is quite dissatisfied with this.In particular, the appointment of Wu Peifu as the patrol envoy between the two lakes made Feng Zhang even more angry.When there was a conflict between Xu and Jin, Xu Shichang had always had a relationship with the old Department of Communications, so members of the old Department of Communications took advantage of this opportunity to launch another movement to overthrow the cabinet.The old Department of Communications originally controlled the country's banking and transportation businesses. Jin's cabinet was trapped in finances from the beginning, and the domestic banking group sat idly by.At the same time, Ye Gongchuo, an important figure in the old transportation department, secretly went to Shenyang to win over Zhang Zuolin.Ye suggested to Zhang that if he wanted to control the central government's finances, he could buy the shares of Bank of Communications as the first step.Zhang Zuolin was encouraged to go to Tianjin on December 12, and Jin Yunpeng also rushed to Tianjin on the same day.The two of them jointly invited Cao Kun to come to Tianjin to hold another "big meeting" to solve the current political crisis. Jin Yunpeng already knows the serious situation. Both Xu Shichang and the old transportation department are trying their best to crush his cabinet. He also wants to use the combined strength of Cao and Zhang to keep himself from collapsing. Wu Peifu urged Cao Kun to pay more attention to his own strength and not to ask about the affairs of the Beijing government. Cao Kun listened to Wu's suggestion, so when Jin and Zhang jointly invited him, he refused to come to Tianjin on the pretext of being ill. On December 14, 2010, Zhang Zuolin arrived in Beijing. After Zhang arrived in Beijing, he solemnly declared that he would not interfere in politics, nor would he ask questions about the cabinet. However, when he went to see Xu Shichang, he scolded Gao Lingyu, the chief financial officer, thinking that he was not worthy of being the finance minister. , Not worthy of being the traffic chief.Feng Zhang told Xu bluntly that the cabinet must be reshuffled to make a difference.Feng Zhang's remarks coincided with Xu Shichang's opinion on reorganizing the cabinet.So Xu Geng increased his determination to reshuffle the cabinet. Only then did Jin realize that he was in an extremely difficult situation and was besieged by Xu Shichang, the Feng Department, and the old Communication Department on three sides.He knew that he could no longer be in love, so on December 17, Jin Yunpeng's third cabinet announced his resignation, and Jin left Beijing for Tianjin that day. On December 18, Xu approved the resignation of Jin's cabinet and sent Yan Huiqing, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to act as the prime minister of the cabinet. Yan Huiqing acted as the Minister of Foreign Affairs to act as the Prime Minister. Of course, it was a transitional interim cabinet. Yan said that at the time of the Washington Conference, in order to avoid anarchy, he had to come forward to maintain it. However, he also proposed a condition that his acting period expires As late as the closing date of the Washington Conference. At the sincere invitation of Xu Shichang and Zhang Zuolin, Cao Kun arrived in Beijing on December 19.Zhang tried his best to maintain goodwill with Cao, and earnestly suggested to Zhang that the two of them should work together to raise funds to maintain the central government's finances.In fact, Zhang had already made an agreement with the old communication department to control the Bank of Communications by means of investment. He borrowed 4 million yuan from the public funds of the three northeastern provinces to lend it to the Bank of Communications, with a daily interest of 1.2% and repaying it every six months.He also intends to merge the two banks of China and Communications to establish a central bank and place it under his own control.