Chapter 197 196. The case of Luo Wengan

On the evening of November 18, 2011, Wu Jinglian and the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Zhang Bolie, took Li, a comprador of the Huayi Bank, to Dongchang Hutong, saying that they had a confidential matter to see the president, and asked Li Ping to step back so that he could make a secret statement.Li was puzzled, but seeing their complexion, he didn't dare to neglect them, so he did as they asked.Wu took out from his briefcase an official letter stamped by the House of Representatives and addressed to the President in the name of the speaker. Li tore open the official letter and saw that the content was to report to the Minister of Finance Luo Wengan and the agent of Huayi Bank Rosenda 1. On November 14, Gesoli signed the Austrian loan extension contract without authorization and replaced it with new bonds, which caused a loss of 50 million yuan to the state property.Chao country's loan has been resolved by the Paris Peace Conference as a bond to compensate China. Of course, there is no need to sign a new contract and issue a new bond.In addition, the case was neither submitted to the State Council for approval, submitted to the President for approval, nor submitted to Congress for discussion.At the same time, Huayi Bank had secretly paid a check of 80,000 pounds because it achieved the purpose of exchanging new bonds. This check was stamped with the seal of the Ministry of Finance and Luo Wengan's autograph.Now Li Jun, the comprador of Huayi Bank, came to testify and asked the President to make a ruling.

After reading the official letter, Li asked Li Jun, "Do you understand the law?" Li replied, "Report to the President, our country's law stipulates that those who make false accusations should be punished by reverse sitting. This case is absolutely true, and I am not afraid of reverse punishment." .” Since Li replied firmly, Li lost his mind.Wu Jinglian encouraged and said: "This is a 100% corruption case. Please follow the precedent of Chen Jintao, the chief financial officer, and immediately order the military and police to arrest Luo Wengan and send him to court." .Wu then threatened and said: "The president can no longer hesitate. If Luo waits to run away first after hearing the news, then the responsibility will be on the president."

At this time, Li was most afraid of being tricked by others. He was afraid that Luo Wenqian would really escape and give an excuse to those who opposed Li, so he immediately ordered the military attache to call the infantry commander Nie Xianfan and Jingshi police chief Xue Zhiheng to come to the presidential palace.Li Yuanhong summoned Nie Xianfan, the infantry commander, and Xue Zhiheng, the capital police chief, and ordered them to send troops to arrest Luo Wengan and Huang Tilian, director of the treasury department of the Ministry of Finance, and send them to the court after they were caught.Nie Xianfan, the commander of the infantry, was ordered by Li to return to his office immediately, and after completing an official document, Wang Degui, the platoon leader, led more than ten soldiers armed with live ammunition, and went to Luozhai, Nanchang Street with the official arrest document. When he arrived, Mrs. Luo Kai went to He didn't go home after watching the movie. After waiting for more than an hour, Luo was arrested as soon as he returned home.Luo didn't know what was going on at the time, and was very angry. When he saw the official document of the infantry commander, it said:

"According to the President's letter, Wu Jinglian, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Zhang Bolie wrote: 'Finance Minister Luo Wengan signed the Austrian loan extension contract. If there is any bribery, please order the infantry commander to arrest and send it to the District Prosecutor's Office for interrogation.' etc., hereby approved I hope that the commander will follow it, arrest the chief and send him to the capital's local procuratorate for custody, pending interrogation. This order will be issued for this reason. He urgently hopes that the chief will go to arrest Luo Wengan, and wait for the letter to be sent to the prosecutor Please don't delay! This order."

When Luo saw this official document, he said angrily: "Since there is an official document, of course I will go with you, but this approach is a joke and extremely absurd." Then he asked someone to prepare a car and went to the infantry commander with Wang Degui and others. At the Yamen, Huang Tilian, the director of treasury of the Ministry of Finance, was also arrested at this time, and was moved by the infantry commander to the Jingshi Police Department for temporary custody. On the night of Luo's arrest, Premier Wang Chonghui, Minister of Foreign Affairs Gu Weijun, Minister of Internal Affairs Sun Danlin, and Minister of Transportation Gao Enhong all got the news, and they immediately went to the police station to inquire.Wang Chonghui excitedly accused the president of illegally ordering the arrest of cabinet members directly.

When the infantry commander of the capital and the head of the police department reported the arrests of Luo Wengan and Huang Tilian to Li Yuanhong, Li also felt that this measure was illegal, so he sent someone to the police station to inform Xue Zhiyan to suspend the transfer of Luo and Huang to the court, so as to avoid the situation from expanding. .But Luo Wenqian refused. He insisted that the police department send him to court for trial, so Xue Zhiyan transferred Luo and others to the local prosecutor's office on the 19th. On the morning of the 19th, Wang Chonghui led all the cabinet members to meet Li at the presidential palace. Li did not wait for the visitors to open his mouth, and complained that he had violated the law. Wang Chonghui asked Li to send him to the court. Li compensated them a lot and said a lot. He apologized, and even expressed his willingness to order self-blame, and willing to go to the prosecutor's office to pick Luo up in person.But the cabinet members didn't take it seriously, and the cabinet members angrily held an emergency meeting in the presidential palace to resolve:

(1) Send a telegram to the whole country, explaining the process of Congressmen Wu and Zhang coercing the President to order the arrest of cabinet members. (2) The President issues an order to refer the case to the District Attorney's Office for handling according to the law, based on the cabinet's submission. At the meeting, everyone was very angry, and Li Ze said all the good things to them. After the emergency meeting at the presidential palace, the cabinet members drafted an order for the president according to the resolution, and asked Li to publish it. The full text of the order is as follows:

"According to the report of State Prime Minister Wang Chonghui, Luo Wenqian, the Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Finance, sent a letter to the President because of the signatures of the Speaker of the House of Representatives Wu Jinglian and the Deputy Speaker Zhang Bolie, saying that he dared to sign the Austrian loan extension contract, and asked the President to be arrested by the military and police. Regarding this case, the chief minister once consulted and submitted the case to the State Council for approval. Now that he has been arrested, according to the chief minister, he is unwilling to leave the court until the truth comes to light. However, he suddenly arrested the state servant without legal procedures, which caused deep doubts and other words The reason presented is that the chief executive is unwilling to leave the court, and the court should handle it in accordance with the law, so that the truth can be fully revealed, and justice can be used to clarify right and wrong. This order."

Li Yuanhong read the order on the spot, expressed his agreement, and was willing to seal it and announce it.At this time, a large group of people suddenly rushed in, and broke in without notification. They turned out to be the speaker Wu Jinglian and the deputy speaker Zhang Bolie. They heard that the cabinet members were meeting in Li, and they were afraid that Li would be influenced by them, so they invited more than 20 people. The councilor rushed in arrogantly, scaring the cabinet members out of the side door.When Wu and the others saw the president's order that had not been stamped on the Nanmu table, they threatened Li not to stamp it. At the same time, they told Li that: Congress is about to initiate an investigation against Luo, and the president should issue an order based on it when the case is delivered. Hand it over to the court according to law.Li had lost his mind at this time, and when Wu and the others said it, Li also agreed, and put the order on hold.

On the 20th, a government court joint meeting was held in Ju Ren Tang. All cabinet members except Luo Wenqian attended to discuss the handling of the Luo case.Li reported the process first, and then Wang Chonghui expressed his opinion. He said: "This case has not been approved by the cabinet. It is really problematic that the president issued an order to arrest cabinet members based on the speaker's one-sided remarks. This is no longer Junren (Luo Wengan)'s personal This problem involves the preservation and abolition of the responsible cabinet system. Today we must figure it out.” At this time, the cabinet members were hurting their own kind, so all of them were angry, and Li Xin felt that this was a serious matter. He was too reckless, so he said very tactfully: "I should admit my mistake." Gao Enhong pointed to Li Di's nose and said, "Is it enough to admit my mistake? We must think of a remedy and a way to deal with the aftermath." Li said embarrassingly: "How to remedy it?" , please think of a way.” Sun Dansen advocated restoring Luo Wengan’s freedom and his personal reputation first.Gao Lingxuan believes that this is the responsibility of the court and does not need to be discussed here.Zhang Shao once echoed Gao Lingxuan's proposition.Gao and Zhang are now members of the Baoding sect, who share the same stand with Wu Jinglian and aim to overthrow the court.

The cabinet was divided into two factions. The members of the Baoding faction believed that the Austrian debt case had not been submitted to the State Council meeting for discussion, and the cabinet should be held responsible for the violation.Wang Chonghui retorted that this was a formality error, and even if the cabinet was responsible and had to be punished, it was only an administrative punishment, not a criminal one. Gao Enhong concentrated on attacking a little bit, thinking that the president ordered the infantry to arrest people, especially the arrest of the current cabinet members, which is really illegal. Where is the judiciary? Li denied that he had ordered the police chief to arrest Luo Wengan and send him to court. Wang Chonghui, Sun Danlin, and Gao Enhong unanimously condemned Xue Zhiyan for misinterpreting the president's order and should be dismissed. However, Li felt that he should not shift the responsibility to the police chief, so he said forcefully: "This matter has nothing to do with Director Xue. It was Junren himself who asked to go to the court. I should be responsible for the whole incident. If you must deal with someone, please deal with me first." Li's last words were particularly high-pitched. Said he was out of breath.Gao Enhong repeatedly shouted: "Don't dare, dare not." But Wang Chonghui, Gu Weijun, Sun Danlin, and Tang Erhe all agreed that Li himself had done something wrong. Instead of facing the reality, he was arrogant and arrogant. It was really unfair, so everyone resented He said that since the president is unwilling to remove Xue Zhiyan from his post, then please ask the president to remove us.Because one side of the problem is always wrong, the president is right, of course we are wrong.There must always be a clear truth in everything, and it cannot be careless.At this time, Li had already lost his mind, so he said sharply: "Okay, if you don't want to do it, everyone will quit. I will resign first." Li went to the field, so that the general election can be held, and Cao Kun can be embraced on stage. Seeing this, Zhang Shao once said: "Everyone, please resign. I have submitted my resignation separately." When the meeting was in full swing, the guards suddenly came to report that a large group of congressmen was coming to see the president again, the number of them was no less than a hundred.Li hurriedly ordered that the waiter sit outside.But it was too late, and then soon, the congressmen had already barged in, all of them looked like menacing ghosts.The cabinet members saw that this was a sincere attempt to make trouble, so they made thirty-six tricks, and the best plan was to walk away, and once again slipped away through the side door. As the cabinet members slipped away, Li politely dealt with them and sent them away. It turns out that these congressmen have passed the investigation of Rowan's case in the House of Representatives, and they have consulted the President to cancel the Austrian money extension contract.The message is to the effect: "... Luo Wenqian colluded with overseas gangsters to convert the debts of the Paris Peace Conference to Germany and Austria as China's unpaid and invalid bonds, and exchanged them for new bonds. ... This bond has no value in Europe at all. German-Austrian profiteers actually bought more than 7.5% of all creditors at a very low price. They claimed to be creditors, campaigned against the Chinese financial authorities, and exchanged them for new bonds along with other bonds....The businessman and others avoided conflicts with the German-Austrian government. Direct relationship, changing to Italian nationality, entrusting Huayi Bank to represent Rosenda and Gesoli to exchange new bonds from the Chinese government, depositing huge sums of money in Huayi Bank, various activities, for more than a year, successive finance ministers Guan Guoquan refused all of them. Unexpectedly, not long after Luo took office, the representative waited for another round of campaigns, and secretly plotted day and night with Huang Tilian, the treasury director of the Ministry of Finance, to ask Luo to sign a contract, allowing the use of invalid bonds that China had not received. It is a disguised compensation. Without the approval of the Congress, without the approval of the State Council, without the approval of the President, it will be signed by Luo and representatives of Huayi Bank on November 14, and the huge amount deposited by Huayi Bank on that day will be checked. Three cheques to be paid out of the money, one for £80,000 to the Treasury, one for £30,000, and one for £5,000.  …” The real inside story of this case is as follows: It was not surprising that the army was in arrears of salary at that time. The giants who led the troops always tried their best to get money. Since Wu Peifu was the big boss of the cabinet at that time, he asked the cabinet for salary, and the cabinet had to pay attention to it.Gao Enhong, Wu's direct descendant, once thought of a way to increase postal and telecommunication charges, and planned to use the proceeds as a fund for issuing public bonds. Unexpectedly, the military and political chiefs of the provinces outside the immediate sphere of influence refused to implement the ministry's order to increase postal and telecommunication charges, so this plan fell through. .The Beijing government has no way to make money, so it has to take the only old way - borrowing from outside.Britain, the United States and other countries are willing to support this so-called "good government", but there is not a single pro-Japanese faction in this cabinet. Therefore, Japan uses the excuse that the Chinese government is unable to repay foreign debts and its credit is bankrupt, and opposes providing loans.The four-nation banking group must act in concert among the four countries. Now that Japan opposes it, it is naturally impossible to achieve it.Wang Chonghui, Luo Wengan and others secretly negotiated with Western countries, planning to use the old debt as a cover to make a new loan of 100 million yuan from the four-nation bank group.Therefore, the Italian minister first proposed to sign the Austrian money extension contract, and then the British minister also approached the Minister of Foreign Affairs Gu Weijun to urge it to be completed.According to Wang Chonghui’s statement, the postponement of the Austrian loan involves many aspects. The official documents of the nine countries’ envoys went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make demands under international law. According to international law, private loans cannot be included in the scope of national debt, so this debt must be repaid.The total amount of this debt is more than 5.7 million pounds, which has been transferred to the hands of the Italians, and the background of the debts includes people from all over the world.In order to restore China's international credit, Wang's cabinet agreed to sign an Austrian loan extension contract as a beginning to sort out old debts.This case aroused the suspicion of corruption because Luo Wenqian did not submit it to the State Council for approval when he handled the case, and there were many deficiencies in the procedures. In addition, there is another inside story. It turns out that both Baoding and Luoyang sent telegrams to Beijing to demand payment. The financial authorities had nowhere to raise money. In addition to the fee of more than 100,000 yuan, the remaining 500,000 yuan should be equally distributed between Baoding and Luoyang, but the amount of one point is even less, and Luoyang will naturally not be satisfied, so Sun Danlin and Gao Enhong, members of the Luo faction cabinet, came up with a plan to hide the truth. A clever plan was to hide the money from Baoding and remit all the money to Luoyang.That is not to submit to the State Council for discussion, but to adopt the method approved by the Prime Minister, and Wang Chonghui orally reported to Li Yuanhong.The Ministry of Finance first transferred the money to the Ministry of Communications to repay the railway debt, and the case was written off.Then the Ministry of Communications will hand it over to Luoyang, which can deceive people's eyes and ears. However, if people don't want to know about the affairs of the world, they have to do nothing about it. Even though Luo Pai's cabinet members tried their best to cover all the gaps, they still leaked the news.It turned out that Xu Shiyi, the manager of Huayi Bank, was a relative of Bian Shoujing in Baoding. When Huayi Bank secretly negotiated with the Ministry of Finance to issue new bonds, he informed Cao Rui, Wu Jinglian, Bian Shoujing and others.Wu Jinglian told him to wait for the deal to be completed, and then report it after he got evidence.Because the Baopai's ambition is to overthrow the cabinet and drive away the Li, and it happened to use this case to launch it, so as to achieve the goal of killing two birds with one stone. State Prime Minister Wang Chonghui, courtesy name Liangchou, was born in Dongguan, Guangdong. He was born in Hong Kong in the seventh year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1881). He studied English at St. Paul's School when he was young, and later studied at Queen's College, and finally studied law at Beiyang University in Tianjin.In the 26th year of Guangxu, he participated in Qin Lishan's righteous campaign in Datong, Anhui, but failed and fled to Japan. Later, he transferred to Yale University in the United States, obtained a doctorate in law, and became a member of the Tongmenghui.In the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu's reign, he went to England to study law, and Sun Yat-sen once sponsored 1,500 pounds.The Nanjing Provisional Government of the Republic of China was established, and Wang returned to China as the first Minister of Foreign Affairs. After Yuan Shikai became President, Wang served as the Chief Justice of Tang Shaoyi's cabinet.In August of the 9th year of the Republic of China, with the consent of Sun Yat-sen, Wang served as the president of the Dali Academy of the Beijing Government.In June 2010, he was sent to attend the League of Nations as a plenipotentiary representative. During the meeting, he opposed the unreasonable demands of 21. Japan was pressured to give up its privileges in the three northeastern provinces. In December, Liang Shiyi formed a cabinet, and Wang became the chief justice again, and later transferred to the chief education minister. In September 2011, Li Yuanhong was nominated as the prime minister.Unfortunately, at this time, Li Yuanhong was threatened by Cao Kun's faction in Baoding. Luo Wenqian, styled Junren, was born in Panyu, Guangdong. He studied in England in the late Qing Dynasty, specialized in law, and received a master's degree from Oxford University. After returning to China, he was awarded a Jinshi background.Minyuan served as the Director of Justice in Guangdong, and in the spring of 2, he was transferred to the Chief Prosecutor of Beijing.The Chou Anhui was established, and Luo participated in the impeachment of the organization of the Chou An Association as the chief prosecutor. Because Yuan ignored it, Luo Nai resigned angrily.In July 2011, Wang Chonghui served as the president of the Revised Law and Jinguan, and Luo was the vice president. In 2010, he was appointed as the deputy minister of justice. After Luo was detained and transferred to the prosecutor's office, Xiong Yuanxiang, chief prosecutor of the Beijing District, saw his old boss coming, so of course he dared not neglect. He invited Luo to live in the chief prosecutor's office and chatted with Luo himself to relieve his boredom.Questions are also done with the courtesy of subordinates visiting their superiors, and they dare not ask more questions.According to the court regulations at the time, detainees could only receive visitors on Wednesdays, and they had to approve in advance. During the interviews, the bailiffs would watch from the side, and the conversations should not involve the case.But after Luo Wenqian came to the case, from the prime minister, the chief minister and even the dignitaries, came to visit one after another, speaking freely.The Siyanjing District Prosecutor's Office in Beijing has become a hillside, from dawn to dusk, full of traffic, and the road is blocked. Li Yuanhong became the center of criticism.Since the cabinet was not removed, the president directly ordered the arrest of cabinet members based on one-sided remarks, which not only exceeded the scope of the president's power, but also seriously damaged the responsible cabinet system, so all parties did not understand Lebanon.Liang Qichao publicly accused: "The president has trampled on human rights."Western countries are particularly dissatisfied with the Beijing government, and many newspapers have similar remarks: "Only considering the circumstances of this case, consular jurisdiction cannot be revoked in China at present." The Luo case is a major case since the Republic of China. There are too many things to discuss in this case, not only the "president trampling on human rights". It is really not proper to use the dignified speaker to inform the president of cabinet members.Wu Jinglian and Zhang Bolie brought the official letter of the House of Representatives to report to Li that the cabinet member was corrupt and dereliction of duty. According to the "Contract", the cabinet member's corruption can be investigated and dealt with by the Congress.If this is a private denunciation, it should not be listed as the speaker and openly stamped with the congressional seal on the document.Another point is that the agency responsible for extending the Oyo contract is the Department of Public Debt of the Ministry of Finance. However, the other person Wu and Zhang sued is Huang Tilian, Director of Treasury of the Ministry of Finance. As for the Congress, it is puzzling that the House of Representatives only proposed to investigate the case after the speaker reported it, but ignored the crime of stealing sealed letters and forging documents.According to the provisions of Article 19, Item 12 of the Provisional Constitution, only impeachment can be proposed for state servants who have neglected or dereliction of duty, and investigations are not applicable. The objects of investigation are ordinary officials. Can't live.Even if it is an impeachment bill, it needs to be passed by both the House of Representatives and the Senate before it can be referred to the president for execution.The Roe case was only brought up for discussion in the House of Representatives, not the Senate at all.The cabinet should also be responsible for this case, because this case was not discussed in the State Council, but only approved by the State Council. Who has the right to approve it?Of course it is the Prime Minister. Wang Chonghui's instructions on this case are: "The extension contract should be quickly concluded according to the final negotiation method, so that it can be concluded." The State Council held an extraordinary meeting on November 21 to discuss with the cabinet members the State Council's statement on the investigation and handling of the Luo case.Outraged, two decisions were made: (1) Return to the House of Representatives the illegal statement on the investigation and handling of the Luo case.This document was not issued because Li Yuanhong was afraid of offending the Congress and did not dare to stamp it. (2) In the name of the cabinet, notify the whole country of all the circumstances after the case occurred.Not all the cabinet members were listed in this telegram, because the Baoding faction cabinet members Gao Lingxuan and Zhang Shao had refused to sign on the pretext that the Austrian money extension contract had not been approved by the State Council, so the only cabinet members listed were Wang Chonghui, Gu Weijun, Sun Danxiu, Li Dingxin, and Tang Er He and Gao Enhong are six people.The last paragraph of the telegram said: "Chonghui and others should retire immediately, but the Yiluo case has not yet come to light, so we have to temporarily wait for the crime to be resolved." When this case reaches the court, an informer must file a complaint against the defendant. Based on the facts, the procuratorate summoned Wu Jinglian and Zhang Bolie to appear in court to confront each other. This case was assigned by the President, and the government is neither a litigation agency nor the Speaker of the House of Representatives, so of course he does not bear the responsibility of the informer. One of the strange phenomena in this case is that the speaker and lawmakers came to the government office in groups to meet the president and threatened the cabinet members. The cabinet members were afraid of being beaten and fled. After the Luo case happened, Luo sent cabinet members to ask for help from Luoyang, and Wu Peifu certainly couldn't ignore it.Nai sent a telegram to Li Yuanhong on the 20th, condemning the illegal arrest. There were a few hot words in it: Even if Finance Minister Luo has violated the law, it should be submitted to the cabinet for discussion, first dismissed from office, and then sent to the court.It seems unacceptable to send him to court without being dismissed, and it is suspected of breaking the law.This telegram seems to reprimand the president in the tone of a boss, and it is the first time in the history of the Republic of China.Li read the telegram, trembling with anger, threw Wu's telegram on the table, and said repeatedly: "It's unreasonable, it's unreasonable." Said: Xue Zhiyan was instructed to pass on the secret biography, but no official order was issued, so there is no need to ask the cabinet to countersign.The last paragraph was full of anger. He said: "... If you say that the governor will be abolished and the army will be respected, if you say that the army will be cut, the number of troops will increase day by day, if you say that the war will be stopped, the war will become more and more serious, and Yuan Hong will send it to the White House alone. The National Assembly. Since it is an unacceptable matter (note: this sentence refers to those who scolded Li in Wu Dianzhong), it is appropriate to establish talents and do not want deacons to cut off the government and degrade the head of state lightly. The telegram also brought up the story of Wu Peifu's previous telegram to the Beijing Police Department to arrest Zhong Shiming, the former deputy finance minister, to counter Wu Peifu.It was after the Zhifeng war, when the Zhili found out that Zhong Shiming, the deputy finance minister, had paid more than one million yuan to the Fengjun army. Wu Peifu ordered the Beijing Police Department to detain Zhong and transfer it to the court for investigation. Li's telegram was written but not sent. After a burst of anger, he regained his senses and felt that there was no need to break with Wu, so he left the telegram without sending it. On the 22nd, Li ordered Wang Daxie, Sun Baoqi and others to issue an insurance policy to the Beijing District Prosecutor's Office to send their own car, Beijing Red No. On the 1st, the diplomatic corps has a green card, the cabinet members have a blue card, and civilians have a white card), went to welcome Luo Wengan out of prison, and brought Luo to the presidential palace. Luo changed from a prisoner to a guest on this day. The president personally greeted him by stepping down, shook hands and apologized, and asked Luo to go home and rest.Luo expressed that he would wait for the legal solution, and was willing to return to the local prosecutor's office to await trial.So Li Nai asked Luo to live in Jurentang temporarily, but Luo refused. Everyone advised Luo not to be too stubborn.Of course Luo was very indignant, he said: "If I am not guilty, the military and police officer who arrested me will be guilty. How can I be careless and trample on human rights!" Li called Nie Xianfan, the infantry commander, and Xue Zhiyan, the police chief, and asked them to apologize to Luo, but neither Nie nor Xue refused. Make an apology?" This time Li was at a loss for words again, he didn't know what to do, so he had to say some comforting words to Nie and Xue, and told them to retreat. Luo Wenqian changed from a prisoner in the court to a guest at the presidential palace. The president apologized to him, but he ignored him. His cabinet colleagues and important political figures all expressed their condolences to him. He must argue right and wrong legally.He studied law, and has served as the deputy minister of justice and the chief minister. Within the scope of the law, he has full confidence that he can win. On the day Luo Wenqian arrived at the presidential palace from the local prosecutor's office, Wu Jinglian led more than 30 members of parliament to the presidential palace, requesting an order to remove Wang Chonghui and Luo Wengan.At this time, Li Yuanhong was full of anger and had no place to vent his anger. He said bitterly to these vicious congressmen: "I don't know what you mean. When you agreed to Tang Shaoyi's formation of the cabinet, I brought the consent bill to the Congress. In the end, you returned it." You have agreed to the king's cabinet now, and you will dismiss him in a few days. It was also your plan to deal with Luo Wengan. You asked me to order Luo Wengan to be arrested, and I did as you wanted. You do what you do today, and do what you want tomorrow , treat me as a president.” Wu Peifu "peace the world with anger", although Li Yuanhong couldn't stand his telegram, but he released Luo Wengan, so the Luoyang faction suddenly became full of arrogance, and the traffic chief Gao Enhong ordered the telegraph office to stop shooting any telegrams that were not good for the Luo faction. Therefore, telegrams from Wu Jinglian and the Baoding faction cabinet members had to be sent to Tianjin to be sent. Newspapers and news were also arbitrarily withheld. The case of Luo Wenqian suddenly took a turn for the worse. Because Huayi Bank testified in court on behalf of Berkel, the two checks of 30,000 pounds and 5,000 pounds paid by the bank were all Italian handling fees and had nothing to do with Luo Wengan.Another £80,000 was publicly collected by the Treasury.Of course, this is not enough for one person.As for the original informant that Wu Jinglian relied on, Xu Shiyi, the deputy manager of Huayi Bank, escaped without a trace and dared not testify in court.Therefore, the case of Luo Wengan's bribery and dereliction of duty cannot be established. On the night of the 23rd, when Li Zai was about to go to bed in his residence in Dongchang Hutong, Wu Jinglian led more than 20 members of parliament and rushed into the inner room in great strides.Li panicked and asked why?Wu and others arrogantly took out the Yangdian call from Cao Kun (23rd).In this telegram, Cao scolded Luo Wengan for losing power and humiliating the country, accepting bribes and dereliction of duty, and suggested organizing a special court to investigate thoroughly.Wu Jinglian said proudly: If Wu Peifu shelters Luo Wengan again, Baoding has already prepared the second step, which is to ask the government to punish him.Wu Jinglian threatened Li to send out a telegram reprimanding Wu Peifu.Li was still hesitating, but Wu added: "The matter is already very urgent. If this telegram is not sent, the direct generals headed by Qi Xieyuan will send a joint telegram, and the president will be isolated." The idea was to add a word "stalk" to the telegram (23rd) and send it out. Cao Kun was really angry this time in Baoding, because he knew that Wu had received 500,000 yuan from the Austrian loan extension contract, but he had no money. He immediately sent someone to the Ministry of Communications to check the accounts and found out the list of funds transferred by the Ministry of Communications in the past six months. , a total of 5.099 million yuan was allocated to Luoyang military expenses, and only 2.424 million yuan was allocated to Baoding. Cao Kun just believed what he said. Wu didn't take him seriously at all, and Wu had the heart to take him instead. Cao Kun hated Gao Enhong at first, and thought he was Wu Peifu's running dog. He only knew that there was Wu, but he didn't know that there was Cao. In the past, he was embarrassed to deal with Gao Enhong because of Wu's face. To attack Wu, Gao must be severely punished at the same time. The Baoding faction managed to make Cao determined to deal with Wu. In order to strengthen Cao's confidence, Wang Chengbin sent a secret telegram to the direct warlords in all provinces, asking them to be the backing of the "Old Marshal". , so he focused his arrows on Wu. Wu used to accuse Zhang Zuolin of treason and cover up Liang Shiyi's cabinet in the past. Now he himself has gone the same way as Zhang and Liang. The Baoding faction seized this opportunity to attack Wu Peifu's prestige and Li Yuanhong at the same time, because Wang Chonghui's cabinet was supported by Wu Peifu. Now if Wu Peifu is beaten into silence, Wang's cabinet will naturally collapse, and Li Yuanhong will not please everyone. Naturally, they must collapse, so as to achieve their goal and support Cao Kun to sit on the presidential throne. In order to focus on dealing with Wu Peifu, the Baoding faction was willing to turn enemies into friends with the Feng and Anhui factions, as well as the Anfu, Communications, and Research departments. They only took Wu Peifu as their only enemy, and accused Wu of being arrogant and ungrateful. After Cao's telegram was sent, Wang Chengbin issued a respectful telegram on the 24th, asking Li Yuanhong to immediately send military police to arrest all criminals related to the Luo case, and publicly condemned Wu Peifu for not following in Zhang Zuolin's footsteps and serving as bodyguard for Wang's cabinet.Wang Chengbin was Wu's subordinate, and Wu was Cao's subordinate. Before Cao launched an attack on Wu, Wang was the first to launch an attack, publicly condemning the chief as a subordinate.After Wang's telegram was published, Jiangsu Governor Qi Xieyuan issued a telegram (25th), Jiangxi Governor Cai Chengxun, Anhui Governor Ma Lianjia, Shandong Governor Tian Zhongyu, Zhejiang Governor Lu Yongxiang, Shanghai Guardian He Fenglin, Navy Commander Du Xigui, etc. In response to Cao Kun's Yangdian successively, they unanimously denounced Luo Wengan for losing power and traitorous country, and demanded that the Beijing government punish the crime according to law.Wu Peifu's direct descendants, Hubei Governor Xiao Yaonan, and Henan Governor Zhang Fulai also sent telegrams to express their unanimous attitude.This is simply a one-sided situation, which makes it difficult for Wu Peifu, who is arrogant and arrogant. Seeing that the situation was not good, Wu Peifu sent a telegram on the 25th to explain two points: first, he declared that he did not know Wang Chonghui before, and only met him when he met with the head of state; We think that procedure is wrong.Finally, he expressed his obedience to the inspector Cao and his support for the head of state.Wu's telegram showed that his attitude had softened, so the political temperature in Beijing changed again on the 25th. Due to the dispute between Bao and Luo, Wang Chonghui was in a dilemma, so he announced his resignation.Since November 25th, the Beijing government has been unable to issue the presidential order because no one has countersigned it, and thus fell into a state of anarchy.Li Yuanhong felt that the issue of cabinet overthrow and the issue of the general election were two and one. He realized that he had been fooled by others, so he wanted to find Li Dingxin, the chief of the navy with a less political color, to act as the prime minister of the cabinet. On the 26th, Li sent Jin Yongyan to Baoding and Luoyang to seek consent.Cao Kun was noncommittal, but in fact the Baoding faction wanted to use Gao Lingyu, a cabinet member of the Baoding faction, to act as the prime minister. Since neither Luoyang nor Baoding had a definite answer, Li Yuanhong wanted to find any one of Yan Huiqing, Jin Yunpeng, and Zhou Shumo to act as an agent, but they all "thank you for not being sensitive." He stepped down and went to Tianjin.When Li said this, Gao Enhong immediately recommended himself and said: "I went to Tianjin to welcome the president to Beijing. Now I am willing to send the president to Tianjin." When it was photographed on the horse's leg, Li Yuanhong thought that this sentence meant to push him out of the stage, so he was furious, and scolded Gao Da without thinking. On the 27th, the House of Representatives further passed the investigation into the case of Wang Chonghui and Gu Weijun, arguing that they are all persons related to the Luo case.Li Zai called to ask Cao and Wu to propose cabinet candidates, but they all called back and said: "Forming a cabinet is the prerogative of the head of state, and we will never interfere." On this day, Jin Yongyan returned from Luoyang and conveyed Wu Peifu's opinion, and did not insist on maintaining Wang's cabinet. , but in the new cabinet in the future, at least one of Sun Danlin and Gao Enhong must be retained. As for the candidate for the cabinet, except for the Jinbao faction, anyone is not opposed to it. After Li knew Wu Peifu's attitude, he became excited again. On the 29th, Li Yuanhong sent Li Gengen to find Wang Daxie, who had been resigned for a long time, into the palace. When they met, there was no pleasantries. Just fill in the name of Wang Daxie and send him to act as the Prime Minister of the cabinet. Wang Daxie, courtesy name Botang, was born in Hangzhou County, Zhejiang Province. He was born in the ninth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty. , Served as Minister of Foreign Affairs for 6 years. On November 22 of this year, Duan Qirui resigned as Premier of the State, and Wang Zeng acted as Premier of the State for Jiutian.That's because the two factions of Zhi and Anhui were sharply opposed, Duan hung up the crown and left, and President Feng Guozhang couldn't find a suitable candidate.I had to pull Wang Daxie to fill in the gap.Now it was the old drama repeating itself, and Li Yuanhong also asked him to fill in the gap.He declared that the period of agency shall not exceed ten days. On November 29, Li appointed Wang Zhengting as the head of foreign affairs, Gao Lingyu as head of internal affairs, Xu Shiying as head of justice, Peng Yunyi as head of education, Li Gengen as head of agriculture and commerce, and the rest of the cabinet members remained unchanged. All previous members of the Wang cabinet were allowed to resign, and only Finance Minister Luo Wengan was dismissed. Wang Daxie is peaceful and clean, and he is quite unpopular in the Beijing government.So whenever the political tide is the most intense, he is always pulled out to transition.