Chapter 194 193. Abolishing Supervisors and Disarming Soldiers Is Empty Words

On June 12, 2011, Li Yuanhong issued two orders: The first order is to publish the list of the new cabinet as follows— Acting Prime Minister Yan Huiqing. Minister of Foreign Affairs Yan Huiqing and. Minister of Internal Affairs Tan Yankai. (Department) Army Chief Wu Peifu. (Department) Chief of the Navy Li Dingxin. Zhang Guogan, director of agriculture and commerce. (Department) Attorney General Wang Chonghui. (Department) Education Minister Huang Yanpei. (Department) Finance Minister Dong Kang. Ko Enhong, Minister of Transport. (Department) The second order was to revoke the "order to dissolve the Congress" in the sixth year of the Republic of China.

In terms of cabinet personnel, Li acted arbitrarily and did not seek Cao Wu's opinion. This is something that the Beijing government has not done in recent years.The Chief of Internal Affairs was originally decided to be Sun Hongyi, but later it was reported that this former politician who was pro-Lebanon and anti-Duan Qirui was now standing in Guangdong to oppose Li Yuanhong's reinstatement, so Tan Yankai was reassigned.Tan can be regarded as Li's old friend, and he is a person related to the Southwest. He is not in Hunan at this time, so he can borrow it.As for Zhang Guogan, the head of agriculture and commerce, he is Li's old aide and a fellow villager.Wang Chonghui was a well-known person at that time, and was also related to the Southwest.Dong Kang and Gao Enhong are admired by Wu Peifu.Inviting Wu Peifu to be the chief of the army is to use his prestige and influence to complete the disarmament, and at the same time hand over the military power of the whole country to him, so that he will no longer be attached to the position of a patrol envoy. If he is the first to give up the patrol envoy, Using his prestige as a call can achieve the goal of abolishing the governor.

There is also the issue of the chief of staff. Qi Xieyuan was originally decided to transfer him to Beijing to advocate the abolition of the Jiangsu governor, but Wu Peifu tried his best to recommend Li Liejun. Wu's speech was too powerful, and Li had to agree. He gave it to Li Liejun. In any case, this cabinet personnel finally realized Li's wish, and Li's wish coincided with the Zhili's wish, which was to use political means to disintegrate the South in order to achieve the effect of national unification.Therefore, Li and the new cabinet members sent telegrams to welcome Wu Tingfang to the north to form a cabinet. At the same time, Li also sent telegrams to invite Sun Yat-sen, Zhang Jian, Wang Shizhen, Jin Yunpeng, Xiong Xiling, etc. to Beijing to discuss the issue of unification.

In addition to calling Sun Yat-sen to leave the field, Wu Peifu also invited Wu Tingfang and Li Liejun to go north to preside over the grand plan.The soldiers of the Zhili line issued a voice urging Sun to go to the field and welcoming people from the Southwest to go north. Therefore, it seems that national reunification is imminent, and what the northern soldiers could not get on the battlefield in the past, now wants to achieve it through the method of restoring the legal system and welcoming Li back to his post. On June 13, Wu Peifu went to Beijing to celebrate the president's reinstatement, but he did not assume the post of army chief. After congratulating Li Yuanhong, he went back to Baoding.

On June 15th, Lu Yongxiang, the governor of Zhejiang Province, advocated the abolition of the governor himself, and renamed it the military affairs aftermath supervisor.Although he did not recognize Li as the legitimate president, he also recognized that he was the de facto president, and he sent a telegram calling it "the power of the interim president."In his inauguration telegram, Li did not regard himself as a legitimate president. In the early days of Li's reinstatement, he was well received by both Chinese and foreign countries. The diplomatic corps strongly agreed with Li's call for the abolition of the governor and the reduction of troops, and appreciated that the Zhili line did not regard the president as its own, but welcomed Li's reinstatement by maintaining the legal system.

The southwestern provinces have long abandoned the banner of protecting the law and advocated the formation of a federal self-government. They are not interested in the issue of "legal rule", but they do not object to Le's reinstatement as president. As early as when Wu Peifu proposed to welcome Li Yuanhong back to his post, he offered advice to Hunan Governor Zhao Hengti. Wu and Zhao had a good personal relationship, so they didn't stick to their whereabouts.Wu Zeng sent a telegram to Zhao on May 31, giving Zhao three ideas: (1) agree with Chen Jiongming in Guangdong and Liu Xiang in Sichuan, and agree to restore the legal system; (2) still maintain autonomy and adopt a neutral attitude towards the North and the South; (3) Neither for nor against.Zhao Hengti was the leading figure in promoting self-government in the southwestern provinces. Wu hoped that Zhao would abolish "self-government" first, and at the same time use his influence to dredge up the coalition factions in the Southwest to take concerted action. Zhao did not answer this question to Wu.

However, before and after Li's reinstatement, Yuan Zuming in Guizhou (June 3), Liu Xiang in Sichuan (June 8), Tang Jiyao in Yunnan (June 28), and generals of the Sichuan Army Liu Chengxun (Third Army), but Maoxin ( First Army), Yang Sen (Second Army) and officers above the brigade commander (June 9) all sent telegrams in favor of the restoration of legal order and expressed their support for Li. Although Chen Jiongming from Guangdong did not express it directly, he said bluntly in his telegram to Wu Tingfang on June 19: "The National Congress was restored, the puppet government was abolished, and the goal of protecting the law was achieved. Huangpi was reinstated, and legal disputes should be interpreted. It is very unusual that the Congress arbitrarily appointed the president. Once a bad example is opened, the chaos will last forever. Jiongming strives to be invalid, and he is convicted. Now Wei is relying on the power of the Duke, and earnestly persuades Sun Gong to show his dignity and show the world to be selfless."

The Guangdong Provincial Council and various groups also sent a telegram in favor of unification on June 20. In the telegram, Li was actually called the president and Sun Yat-sen was called Mr. Sun Yat-sen.These all show that Chen Jiongming's mutiny is brewing. After Li Yuanhong came to power, he first revoked the arrest warrant for Sun Yat-sen to ease the situation between the north and the south, and on June 15 he ordered a truce across the country.At this time, there were wars all over the country. Sun's Northern Expeditionary Army had diverted to the Jiangxi Northward Expedition, and the Zhifeng War broke out again in Yuguan.Li believed that the truce between the North and the South was the first step towards unification, so he sent Ouyang Bin to Jiangxi to persuade the two sides to stop fighting, and appointed Xie Yuanhan, whom Sun agreed, as Governor of Jiangxi.In fact, Sun had already appointed Xie as the governor of Jiangxi.Li's action made his aunt feel disappointed. Cai Chengxun, the commander-in-chief of the Jiangxi aid army sent by the direct line, immediately rejected Li's personnel order.

Li was very busy at the presidential palace, sending telegrams every day. He repeatedly invited Sun Yat-sen, Chen Jiongming, Tang Shaoyi, Li Liejun, Cen Chunxuan, Tan Yankai, etc. to come to Beijing to discuss major plans, and also sent several representatives to meet them separately. The cabinet issue and the unification issue are connected, so Li believes that it is a good way for him to reinstate Wu Tingfang as prime minister, and at the same time, it is beneficial for unification to invite some well-known people who have connections with the South to join the Beijing government.In fact, his method first made the Zhili who supported him unhappy, just like Xu Shichang. Xu was supported by the Anfu Congress. The Anfu department was dissatisfied, and now, Li could not follow Xu's old path.

Li's dream gradually came to nothing. On June 15, Tan Yankai said that he would not be the chief of the interior, and on the 16th Huang Yanpei said that he would not be the chief of education. Their telegrams were all sent to Yan Huiqing, as if they did not recognize Li Yuanhong's presidential status at all.Tan's telegram said: "After Yan Kai became a righteous teacher in the Southwest, he cannot go against the proposition of the law-protecting government. As one of the people of Hunan, he should obey the principle of inter-provincial autonomy." He sent out a telegram, thinking that Li's reinstatement was unfounded, and did not agree with it. At the end, he said: "I will leave my homeland soon, and study spirituality again." Li Liejun participated in a joint telegram. Congress is a direct line puppet.

This series of objections and ignoring attitudes really knocked Li Yuanhong into a daze. It was as if seventeen or eight buckets of cold water were poured on his head, which made him happy and some good practices that he thought were good were completely wasted.Li's plan to win southern figures into the cabinet in order to promote unification has now completely failed. What is even more troublesome is that Yan Huiqing refused to act as the Prime Minister for a long time, and Wu Peifu also expressed that he would not be the Chief of the Army.Li advised Wu that if he couldn't stay in Beijing for a long time, he could take him from afar, and he didn't have to insist on resigning, but Wu put on a face and said that he couldn't eat a vegetarian meal. As a result, the cabinet not only failed to promote national unity, but was also dilapidated and pieced together, which was not valued by all parties.Except for many small politicians who are keen on fame and fortune to run around, like gongs and drums on the stage and playing tricks, there is no improvement in the political situation. Before Li Yuanhong came to power, he sang about the abolition of the governor and the reduction of the army, and on this condition, how will the abolition of the governor and the reduction of the army be implemented after he came to power? Let's talk about the abolition of governors first, and Jiangxi was the first to implement the abolition of governors.Jiangxi Governor Chen Guangyuan voluntarily announced his dismissal of the military governor on June 10. Why is Chen Guangyuan so beautiful?It turned out that at this time, the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army in Guangdong drove straight into Jiangxi, making it impossible for Chen Guangyuan to gain a foothold, so he had to step down by abolishing the governor.After Chen voluntarily dismissed his post as the military governor, Cao Kun immediately recommended Cai Chengxun, the "commander in chief of aiding Jiangxi," to succeed him as the military governor of Jiangxi.Li Yuanhong sent a telegram to Wu Peifu, hoping that the abolition of governors would begin in Jiangxi, and that all Jiangxi troops could be under the command of Cai Chengxun, and Wu Peifu had no objection to this. On June 15th, the first state affairs meeting of the Le government was held. Li claimed to be present as an observer. During the meeting, he proposed to approve Chen Guangyuan's resignation and send Cai Chengxun to control the troops in Jiangxi.Li's proposal was approved, and the order for Chen Guangyuan to resign and Cai Chengxun to control the Jiangxi army was issued on the same day. On the 17th, an order was issued to abolish the Jiangxi military governor.In fact, the commander-in-chief who controlled the armies was simply a deformed warlord. The second one to implement the abolition of governors is Zhejiang.Lu Yongxiang of Zhejiang is semi-independent of Beijing. On June 15, he invited the Zhejiang Provincial Council and various organizations to hold a joint meeting, announcing the abolition of the military governor, but he also stated that he did not obey the Beijing government. In the name of the division commander, the province maintains law and order.Then Zhang Zaiyang, the commander of the Second Division of the Zhejiang Army, made a speech, thinking that there must be a contact organization between the division commanders, and hoped that everyone would make a decision.So Lu Yongxiang declared that he asked all groups to agree on the aftermath measures within two days, and he would definitely obey.The next day, various groups in Zhejiang passed the "Outline of Zhejiang Military Affairs Rehabilitation Measures", which stipulated that one person be appointed to supervise the aftermath, but Lu Yongxiang was still pushed to be in charge.On the same day, Zhang Zaiyang, commander of the 2nd Division of the Zhejiang Army, Chen Leshan, commander of the 4th Division of the Beiyang Army, and Pan Guogang, commander of the 1st Division of the Zhejiang Army, jointly recommended Lu Yongxiang as the aftermath supervisor of Zhejiang's military affairs. On the 20th, Lu announced his acceptance of the new post and announced seven items of the "Aftermath Outline".This measure of abolishing the governor is not to support Li Yuanhong, but it is a disguised independence from the Beijing government, because the main points of the aftermath plan are: "Since the abolition of the governor, Zhejiang will not be violated by any party, so as to prevent the restoration of the military governor system, and to supervise the army in disguise. If it invades the province under the guise of the name, it will act as the public opinion and try to resist. From the date of abolishing the governor, until the legal government is established, everything in Zhejiang will remain the same." This is independence in disguise. If the Beijing government dares to change the status quo of Zhejiang , Zhejiang will confront with force.Therefore, this measure aroused great anger in the Zhili, and they planned to use troops to Zhejiang and Shanghai to eradicate the remnants of the Anhui clique.Cao Kun and Wu Peifu sent telegrams to request the Beijing government to abolish the Songhu Guards and re-establish the Shanghai Guards, under the control of the Jiangsu Governor.Du Xigui, the new commander-in-chief of the Navy, prepared to carry 6,000 Soviet troops to land in Shanghai. He Fenglin issued a martial law order in Shanghai, but Li Yuanhong did not advocate the use of troops, and Cao and Wu did not dare to be the leaders of the army. Qi Xieyuan and Du Xigui were instructed to explain to Lu Yongxiang and He Fenglin Misunderstanding, the war between Jiangsu and Zhejiang was avoided. The third person who expressed his support for the abolition of the governor was Zhang Zuolin, the leader of the Feng faction. He also recognized Li Yuanhong as the de facto president, and wrote to Li in favor of the abolition of the governor and the reduction of troops.In fact, there are no warlords in the three eastern provinces anymore, because when the Feng faction was defeated and returned to the customs, he used the name of the commander-in-chief of security in the three eastern provinces to exercise the ruling power in the three eastern provinces, while Sun Liechen and Wu Junsheng used the names of "deputy commanders of security" to exercise Jilin and Hebei. Rule of Heilongjiang.After the establishment of the Fengzhi armistice agreement, Li Ben planned to ask Zhang Zuolin to handle the aftermath of the military affairs of the three eastern provinces in the name of "General Zhenwei". The three provinces in the east were still under the jurisdiction of the Beijing government, and the number of provinces and districts that were abolished by the governor increased by three more. Wouldn't it make Li face much better? However, because Wu Peifu could not get through this barrier, this order was not issued. Wu Peifu advocated the establishment of several military regions across the country on the issue of the abolition of supervisors and disarmament. In fact, the "military region commander" is the "patrol envoy".Due to the difficulty in completely abolishing the governor, Li planned to issue an order to cut troops first.At this time, Cao Kun sent a telegram, thinking that the governor can be abolished, but the soldiers cannot be abolished.The reason is that the Northern Expeditionary Army went deep into Jiangxi, Fengjun still tried to attack again, and bandits in various provinces were rampant, so the disarmament must be postponed.When Cao Kun's telegram reached Beijing, the order for disarmament was not sent. Therefore, Li Yuanhong's abolition of the governor and the reduction of the army became that the governor could not be abolished, and the soldiers could not be abolished. Wu Peifu refused to be the chief of the army, so that Li's first shot could not be fired at all.In order to step down, Li proposed at the state affairs conference to set up a National Disarmament Committee, with Wang Shizhen from the Beiyang faction as the chairman and Li Liejun from the south as the vice chairman.This proposal could not be realized, because both Wang and Li refused to take office.In fact, even if they took office, they would not be able to implement the task of disarmament. Later, Li finally came up with a good idea. For the military governor who is also the governor, the governor will be dismissed and the governor will be retained. He will handle the military affairs of the province in the name of the governor. For the governor who is not the governor, he will be reassigned as a governor. Manage military affairs aftermath. Li sent a telegram to Yan Xishan, the governor of Shanxi, urging him to resign as the governor of Shanxi to serve as the governor of Shanxi.He also summoned Xinjiang's representative in Beijing and asked him to persuade Yang Zengxin to resign from the Xinjiang military governor. He also planned to send Feng Yuxiang as the commander-in-chief of the bandit suppression in Suyuwan and abolish the post of Henan Governor. Yan Xishan from Shanxi and Yang Zengxin from Xinjiang ignored Li Yuanhong's claims and did not reply to Li at all.At the same time, Qi Xieyuan of Jiangsu opposed Li's division of Jiangsu into the Suyuwan bandit suppression area, so Li's three plans could not be realized.From June 18 to July 24, Li issued an order to appoint Gao Lingyu as the governor of Zhili, Zhang Shaozeng as the governor of Shaanxi, Zhang Qizhen as the governor of Guangxi, Wang Yongjiang as the governor of Fengtian, Tang Xiangming as the governor of Hubei, and Wang Hu as the governor of Hubei. As the governor of Shandong, Han Guojun was the governor of Jiangsu. Cao Rui, the former governor of Zhili, was Cao Kun's brother. How dare Gao Lingfei replace him?Except for Wang Chengbin and Han Guojun, the other five provincial governors appointed by Li did not take office. Li Yuanhong's work of abolishing the superintendent was restricted by the soldiers, so it didn't work at all and went bankrupt.And Cao Kun and Wu Peifu also joked with him, calling repeatedly to recommend Cai Chengxun as the Jiangxi governor.Li neither dared to refuse nor accepted.Because Jiangxi was abolished due to changes in the situation, but it was still the first province to abolish the governor, so he had to use the name of the Shenlu Office to send Cai Chengxun to "supervise Jiangxi's military affairs and clean up the aftermath."This is only one word different from Lu Yongxiang's renaming of the military affairs aftermath supervisor as "official". The issue of disarmament also went bankrupt. Cao Wu Dianbao Jin Yun'e was promoted to the commander of the 14th Division (the brigade was expanded into a division), and Zhou Yinren was promoted to the commander of the 12th Division (this division was originally Chen Guangyuan and the division commander, Chen has stepped down).Li said that Cao and Wu's telegram violated the principle of disarmament, and it was difficult to reply, so the Ministry of War approved and filed it instead.