Chapter 196 195. Lineal split

After the first Zhifeng War, Zhili became the backstage boss of the Beijing government. If Cao Kun and Wu Peifu can make good use of this favorable situation, the overall situation of Beiyang will be under Zhili's control. Unexpectedly, Zhili is at its peak and split into The Baoding faction (Cao Kun) and the Luoyang faction (Wu Peifu), so the situation of the direct lineage went from prosperity to decline. Wu Peifu didn't want to separate from Cao Kun, and Cao Kun couldn't tolerate Wu Peifu. On the contrary, Cao Kun had a lot of trust in Wu Peifu, and Wu Peifu was also loyal to Cao Kun. Selfishness, provoking from it, forged the fate of failure in the future.

Cao Kun and Wu Peifu seem to be in harmony with each other. On the one hand, Wu Peifu is the master of high achievements, and on the other hand, Cao Kun's left and right are not successful.There is a habit in Beiyang that everyone can be called "handsome" if he is a warlord, and those who are above the warlord are called "marshal".Before the Zhifeng War, only Zhang Xun, Cao Kun, and Zhang Zuolin could be called commander-in-chief. Later, Wu Peifu's reputation grew, and he was also called commander-in-chief.A rising tide lifts all boats.Wu Peifu became the commander-in-chief, so Cao Kun changed his name to the old commander to show that he was superior to the commander-in-chief.

When Marshal Wu was giving orders in Baoding, Marshal Cao was left out in the cold. Everyone who came to Baoding only knew that there was a Marshal but not that there was a Marshal, because if the Marshal promised, it counted, and if you have milk, you are a mother. It is even more realistic in politics, which of course makes Cao Kun a little sour.To give an example, before Li Yuanhong came to power, when he sent Jin Yongyan to Baoding, he only had secret talks with Wu Peifu and ignored Cao Kun at all. Things like this gradually increased, and naturally there was a rift between Cao and Wu.The presidential issue increased the gap between the two. Cao himself wanted to be president, and Wu wanted to welcome Li Yuanhong back to his post. People around Cao took the opportunity to challenge Cao, saying that Wu didn't want the old man to be president because he wanted to be president, so he praised Li Yuanhong. Li as a shield, as the transitional president.Cao Kun's cronies include Cao Rui, Bian Shoujing (Chairman of the Zhili Provincial Council), Xia Wuyi (Advisor), Xiong Bingqi (Chief of Staff), Wang Yuzhi (Secretary-General) and so on.Cao Kun's private property is all managed by Cao Rui, and Cao Rui's son also has two households, so they are very close brothers.And Wu Peifu looked down on Cao Rui the most. It was Wu Peifu's idea that Cao Rui could not continue to be the governor of Zhili.Therefore, Cao Rui hated Wu to the bone, and often slandered him in front of his brother, saying that Wu acted arbitrarily and had no superiors, and that in the future he would definitely climb up to our brothers.Also, Li Yanqing, whom Cao favored, was often reprimanded by Wu Peifu. Li Yanqing was born to bathe and wipe Cao Kun's back. He had close relatives, so he kept complaining to Cao, so Cao Kun and Wu Peifu became increasingly estranged.

The direct and proximate cause of the discord between Cao and Wu was that Wu strongly advocated welcoming Li Yuanhong back to his post, which made Cao Kun and his followers feel that they were too disregarded for them.This kind of dissatisfaction affected Li after he took office as president. Li had repeatedly invited Cao to meet in Beijing, but Cao refused to go there under the pretext of being ill. Baoding, but it also aroused Cao's extreme dissatisfaction. Li Yuanhong entered Beijing on June 11, 2011 to re-elect the president. He once asked Wu to recommend several people to join the cabinet. Wu recommended his secretary Sun Danlin to Li and designated him as the deputy minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In order to please Wu, Li announced that Sun was the president. The Deputy Secretary-General of the government and Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Sun Danlin is not very good at being a man. He often uses Marshal Wu to bluff people, and keeps saying that Marshal Wu only needs to say what is going on in the world. As for whether Marshal Cao is ignored, it doesn't matter at all.There are also Gao Enhong, the director of transportation, and Dong Kang, the director of finance. They both belong to the Luoyang faction and are popular people around Marshal Wu. They immediately ask Wu for instructions when they encounter problems, but they ignore Cao.So Cao Kun was extremely dissatisfied with these three people, and everyone in the Baoding Department glared at them.Gao Enhong and Sun Danlin are both from Penglai County, Shandong Province. They are from the same hometown as Wu Peifu. The first time he arrived in Tianjin, Gao Enhong greeted him at the station, and Wu told Gao face to face that he wanted him to prepare to be the traffic director.Unexpectedly, at that time, Li Yuanhong had already decided to appoint Gao Lingyu as the Chief of Communications based on Cao Kun's recommendation. Wu Peifu proposed to Cao that Gao Enhong should be promoted to another position, and Gao Enhong should be given the Chief of Transportation to maintain his credit. But Wu only thought of his own credit. , but forgot Cao Kun's credit, but Cao Kun was very complacent at the time, and immediately agreed to do so.

On June 17, Dong Kang and Gao Enhong came to Baoding to meet Wu. At this time, Wu and Cao were chatting in "Guangyuan". Dong and Gao asked Cao Kun to leave the table first and wanted to talk to Wu alone. I got up and said loudly: "The chief wants me to leave the seat, I can leave, but Guangyuan is my place, I have the freedom to come and go." : "It's really unreasonable." Dong Kang and Gao Enhong wanted to report a big case to Wu Mi, that is, the 20 million yuan that Cao Rulin handled during his tenure as the transportation chief had no account and was suspected of corruption. They asked Wu how to deal with it.

On June 18, when Dong and Gao returned to Beijing, Dong Kangmi submitted a proposal to the president and proposed at the State Council that the police be ordered to arrest Cao Rulin and take care of his private property and residence. Cao Rulin was not in Beijing at this time.Prime Minister Yan Huiqing advocated careful handling, but Li agreed to hand it over quickly. Yan Yi was angry and asked to resign, so the Cao Rulin case was transferred to the court for handling.When Cao Rulin's case was published in the newspapers, Cao Kun knew about it. He was so angry that he asked the guards to invite Wu Peifu to inquire about the details. Wu had already gone to bed, and the guards did not dare to disturb him. Come here, Wu asked after seeing Cao: "What's the important thing for the old man to come to me so late?" Cao suppressed his anger and said angrily: "You are now a handsome man, how can you have time to talk to me? "

Only then did Wu know that Cao was really angry, so he had to smile. The establishment of Wang Chonghui's cabinet was closely related to illegitimate children, and because Li Yuanhong was too accommodating to the Luoyang faction when he formed the cabinet, it was no surprise that he was strongly opposed.Especially because Cao Kun's Baoding faction did not win a seat in the two ministries of finance and transportation, so they instigated a movement to overthrow the cabinet, attempting to reassign Gao Lingyu to act as the prime minister of the cabinet. At the same time, because the cabinet members and the big bosses in the background are not coordinated, they are also doing their own things, and many jokes have been made.Zhang Shao, chief of the army, once drew up a plan to abolish supervisors and reduce troops, stipulating that ten military regions should be established across the country, and the army should be organized into 20 divisions and 28 mixed brigades.Finance Minister Luo Wenqian often disagrees with Gao Enhong and Sun Danlin on the allocation of funds, and often quarrels in the cabinet seats, and Wang Chonghui is quite troubled when he sees this situation, so he persuades Luo Wengan to make some concessions, but Mr. Luo refuses Once, Wang Chonghui became angry and said to Luo angrily: "I asked old friends to help, not to make trouble." You can only serve one prime minister, not three prime ministers!" What did Luo mean by saying this?He refers to the backstage bosses who have two shadows besides Wang, one is Gao Enhong and Sun Danlin who represent Wu Peifu in Luoyang, and the other is Gao Lingyu who represents Cao Kun in Baoding.This is the meaning of the old saying: "One country and three princes, who I should obey".

On October 11, the Senate and the House of Representatives jointly held the opening ceremony of the third regular session. Li Yuanhong and all the cabinet members went to congratulate.The speaker of the House of Representatives, Wu Jinglian, announced the opening of the meeting. Before he delivered the opening speech, he heard a member of the parliamentary seat shouting. He said: "The legal issue has not been resolved. Why did the speaker call the meeting? Li Yuanhong sang unification, now may I ask?" Is the Congress itself unified? Wu Jinglian is obsessed with power and cannot escape, and Li Yuanhong must also bear joint and several responsibilities!" Everyone took a closer look, and the person who surprised everyone was Peng Yangguang, a congressman. "National Council" and "National Sixth Council" issues, because the Guangzhou session on June 3 advocated the continuation of the "National Eighth Council" and denied the "National Sixth Council" held in Tianjin by Wang Jiaxiang and others. When the National Assembly resumed on August 1, the "Min Liu Members" were refused to participate. Therefore, the "Min Eight Members" in the Beijing-Shanghai area launched a campaign to fight for orthodoxy. It can be considered that he has lost his qualifications as a member and should no longer steal his seats. On August 30, a group of "eight members of the people" broke into the House of Representatives in Beijing and beat the speaker.In order to calm things down, Li Yuanhong not only used his official position to appease the "Eight Members of the People", but also set up a "political discussion meeting" to appease them.After Peng Yangguang quarreled, Congressman Ling Yi also questioned, loudly saying, "What qualifications does Li Yuanhong have to come here? You are just a commoner. What qualifications do commoners have to attend Congress?"

Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Yuanhong urged Wu Jinglian to finish reading the meeting speech as soon as possible. After Wu Jinglian hurriedly finished reading the opening speech, he announced that President Li Dawei would be invited to give the opening speech. There was even more clamor in the venue, and some people slammed the tables and chairs with their hands.Jiao Yitang yelled loudly at this moment, and he said: "Li Yuanhong, you are the one who dissolved the second Congress, what face do you have to give a speech today?" Who are these people in this row? If you are here to listen, you should go to the auditorium upstairs." Then he pointed to Wang Chonghui and said, "Aren't you Wang Chonghui? I know you, you are a commoner, how could you Sit on the seat of Prime Minister?"

Li Yuanhong hurriedly finished his eulogy amidst the noise, but no one actually heard what he was reading, because at this time the congress hall had become the central market, and no one could hear clearly up. Seeing that the situation was too violent, Wang Chonghui dared not give a speech, and asked the Speaker to scribble an end to this "democratic farce".At the end of the meeting, a photo is taken as usual, and everyone walks to the front of the meeting room and waits for the photo to be taken.Just as he was sitting, Zheng Jianghao ran over viciously, yelled at the "Cabinet of Bastards", and pushed Wang Chonghui with his hands to prevent him from sitting. It was thanks to Wu Jinglian's good words that he persuaded him to leave.

On October 12, the Wang cabinet proposed the general resignation. On October 14, Baoding held a memorial meeting for the soldiers killed in the Gengshen and Renxu battles. Many congressmen went to Baoding to contact the cabinet in the name of attending the memorial service.However, the most important person, Wu Peifu, did not go to Baoding to participate in this conference.Of course there was a reason why Wu Peifu did not come to Baoding, because at this time, the two factions in Baoding and Luoyang had extremely difficult to reconcile opinions on the issue of the president. The Baoding side advocated that the Congress should first elect the president and then formulate the constitution, while the Luoyang side advocated that the constitution should be drafted first Then run for president.Cao Kun was already eager to try for the presidency, but Wu Peifu did not advocate that Cao be the president first at this time. Wu's original intention was to benefit the immediate group, but Cao Kun listened to his provocations, but misunderstood Wu's opposition because Wu wanted the president to act on his own. , With this kind of misunderstanding, Cao would not accept Wu's kindness.In this way, Cao and Wu became farther and farther apart. On the 28th, Wu Peifu replied to a telegram from an important person in the government, which mentioned: "The Tianjin faction (referring to the Cao faction in Tianjin) made trouble and instigated elections without the consent of Zhongshuai (Cao Kun's word Zhongshan). It's close to death, the crime lies in confusion, and the Congress should be urged to make a constitution first. If the constitution is not completed, that is, elections will not be mentioned for a day. The dispute has been going on for eleven years, and this is the case. Gou is not crazy, so why not pay attention to it. When it is quite During this period, it should be telegraphed.” Wu’s secretary-general, Bai Jianwu, made another telegram (28th): “The inspector general (Wu) advocated the establishment of the constitution first, and the congressmen who came here also reported this. Sincerely, the past is the past, and I would rather wait for the present." These two telegrams were sent from the presidential palace, of course they were not forged, but who is the important person?Who did Bai send the telegram to?Neither was announced.This may be Lai using Wu's opinion to boycott the general election. At the same time, the Presidential Palace also issued a telegram of Zhao Hengti's advocacy of the pre-establishment of the constitution (27th). The anti-Wu faction carried out the campaign to overthrow the cabinet and the general election at the same time. On November 15, Gu Weijun held a banquet in the Foreign Affairs Building, and all cabinet members and important people in Congress attended.For some reason, Wu Jinglian and Wang Chonghui quarreled.Wu Jing lowered his face, borrowed some alcohol and asked Wang: "The National Assembly wants you to step down, why are you holding back?" Wang was naturally furious, and said angrily, "Could it be that you are the National Assembly? What a joke! "So the two turned their faces.Wu Jing started to scold, and he scolded Wang: "It's an asshole." And said: "Of course the speaker can represent the National Assembly." Wang Chonghui trembled with anger and said: "What is it like? The dignified speaker of the National Assembly actually said such obscene words Come." Wu Jinglian waved his fist and said, "I am like this, I want you to get out." On the evening of the 17th, Wu Jinglian convened a secret meeting at his private residence in Maxian Hutong to discuss the issue of overthrowing the cabinet.