Chapter 201 200. From Wang Daxie to Zhang Shaozeng

Wang Daxie took office at 9:30 a.m. on November 30, 2011, and resigned at 9:00 p.m. Why did he resign?Originally, because Wang did not want to be the Chief Financial Officer, he planned to recommend Huang Yu to be the Chief Financial Officer. However, Li Yuanhong thought that Huang Ying's qualifications were too low and refused to agree.When Li Yi heard that Wang was making a fuss about throwing his gauze cap, he panicked and hurriedly apologized, urging Wang to send a letter of appointment to be stamped with a big seal, so Wang was reinstated by telegram. The Wang cabinet was proposed by Li Yuanhong himself by taking advantage of the privileges of the head of state, because the Wang cabinet could no longer continue, and he did not want to let the subsidy protectionists form a cabinet, so he approached Wang.Since Wang and all parties have no grievances, it is most appropriate for him to play the role of the transitional cabinet, so as to buy time to find a new prime minister who can be accepted by all parties.

The list of Wang's cabinet was also proposed by Li Yuanhong, the Minister of Internal Affairs Gao Lingyu, the Minister of Finance Wang Jian, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Zhengting, the Chief of the Army Zhang Shaozeng, the Chief of the Navy Li Dingxin, the Chief of Justice Xu Shiying, the Chief of Education Peng Yunyi, the Chief of Transportation Gao Enhong, and the Chief of Agriculture and Commerce Li Genyuan . After the announcement of the Wang Cabinet, on December 1st Wu Jinglian and Zhang Bolie first telegraphed their opposition, and on the 2nd Cao Kun issued a message saying:

"Wang Daxie is the one who left the prosecutor's office with Paul Wenqian, Xu Shiying is the president of the Huayi Bank related to the Austrian debt, and Gao Enhong, who is now the head of the transfer, has both the behavior of the Pillow case and the new case of borrowing the Jingsui Road. The members of the cabinet intend to eliminate the Luo case proposed by the Congress to investigate and deal with it. It seems that this new cabinet is not only suspected of contempt for the Congress, but also can meet the expectations of the people. In order to consolidate the center and rectify the law, it is absolutely difficult to admit it. "

Cao's telegram did not send to the president, so Li said in great pain and full of complaints: "Things are really difficult now. I asked him for instructions about the cabinet, but he ignored them at first. Then he called and stated that he had no prejudices. Wait until the order is issued. Afterwards, he strongly opposed it. I am not a roundworm in his stomach. What should I do? I did not want to be this powerless president. They insisted that I take office. I was caught between a rock and a hard place.” After Cao Kun was electrified, the direct warlords of various provinces and his followers opposed Wang's cabinet one after another, which made Wang a dilemma; the three cabinet members of the Bao faction used their refusal to take office as a means of dismantling the situation. Thank you, and let the food be closed.Gao Enhong represented Luoyang, so he was electrified and took office, but someone told him: The old commander (referring to Cao Kun) was very unforgiving of him, and once said such a sentence: "I and Ding'an (Gao Enhong) are incompatible." Cao's telegram questioned why he withheld various documents and telegrams related to Luo's case, which frightened him to temporarily withdraw his inauguration announcement.Huang Yu didn't dare to take office because of the bad weather, Xu Shiying hadn't handed over the governor of Anhui, and Wang Zhengting left Beijing on the pretext of going to Shandong to handle the matter of taking over Qingdao.In a Wang cabinet, only two cabinet members from the Political Science Department are left to attend the state affairs meeting, and the other ministries are represented by deputy ministers.

In order to please Baoding, the Wang cabinet decided to cancel the Austrian extension contract at the state affairs meeting, but the Zhili warlords did not send a congratulatory message to the new cabinet. The former cabinet members were closely monitored by the military and police in Beijing. He wanted to escape from Beijing, but was turned back by the military and police at the station. On November 30, Wu Peifu called again to admit his mistake. In the telegram, it said: "I have been very jealous all my life. Although I am not a relative, I am willing to go against my original intention. I am a stranger."

People who have never met before refer to Wang Chonghui and Luo Wengan. On December 5, the House of Representatives passed the investigation into the case of Gao Enhong, the chief of transportation, and Luo Wengan, the former chief of finance, for committing fraud, betraying the country, dereliction of duty, and signing a railway material contract without authorization. On this day, Li Yuanhong sent a "guilty" telegram, explaining the composition of Wang's cabinet in order to have an order to receive Qingdao by the cabinet premier.It turned out that China and Japan were going through the formalities for the transfer of Jiaozhou Bay according to the Washington Conference, and Li said that this was an expedient measure.At the same time, he also said that he has decided to invite Zhang Shaozeng to form a cabinet, and he will propose it to Congress soon.

Zhang Shao used to be a member of the Jinbao faction, Li Tizhang said that he had given up his original idea and decided to organize the Baopai cabinet, which was a full surrender to Cao Kun. On December 6, Li formally submitted the consent case for nominating Zhang Shaozeng to organize the cabinet to the National Assembly.Of course, Zhang Shaozeng had been in collusion with Wu Jinglian for a long time, so Wu Sui patted Li on the chest and could be responsible for the passage of the Congress.This is Wu's one-sided remarks, and his own wishful thinking. The political parties in the Congress opposed Wu Jinglian's single-handed arrangement, so he proposed that political parties participate in the cabinet as a condition for the appointment of the prime minister.Although Cao Kun included Zhang Shaozeng in his small group, he was not at ease with Zhang, because he was afraid that he and Wu Peifu were in-laws.The Tianjin Bao faction has always hoped that Gao Lingyu will come out to form a cabinet, and Cao Kun himself hopes that Beijing will always be in anarchy.

December 9th (October 11th in the lunar calendar) is Cao Kun's 61st birthday. This is the peak of his career, and there are countless people who flatter him from all directions.In addition to the special car from Beijing to Baoding four times a day, there are members of Congress, soldiers, politicians and all kinds of dignitaries who take the car to pay homage to birthdays.More MPs participated in the birthday celebration than in normal parliamentary sessions.The most notable ones are the two young sons of Guijie, one is Zhang Xueliang, the son of Zhang Zuolin, and the other is Lu Xiaojia, the son of Lu Yongxiang.

Wu Peifu did not come to celebrate his birthday, which made Baoding's grand event less colorful.Special Wu sent Xiao Yaonan, the governor of Hubei, as a representative, and went to Baoxiang to celebrate the old man's birthday.Xiao reported to Cao: The patrol envoy Wu was planning to come to celebrate his birthday, but because the old man was angry and afraid of being angry, he decided to reschedule to come to make up for his birthday.At the end, he also said a lot of words that "Bao and Luo cannot be separated".Cao Kun said loudly: "Well, Bao and Luo have an iron-like relationship. How can they be separated? Ziyu did something wrong. I won't blame him, but who will. In the future, no one is allowed to talk about Bao and Luo. one word."

When Cao Kun celebrated his birthday, there were a lot of crowns and crowns in Baoding.As a result, there were rumors that Baoding was holding an important meeting to discuss current situation issues.In fact, there is no official meeting, but the current situation is discussed freely, especially the president and the cabinet.Cao Rui once publicly stated: "Our third brother, Feng and Duan are all predecessors of the Beiyang School. Feng has become the president, Duan has become the cabinet prime minister, and the third brother is over sixty years old. Why not be the president for one term?" Regarding the cabinet issue, Cao Rui It is advocated that neither agrees nor opposes, and that "our own people" should not participate in this cabinet.As for the two factions of Feng and Anhui, they adopted methods of winning over. As long as they did not object to Cao being president, they could restore Zhang Zuolin's title of "General" and give Lu Yongxiang the status of a tour envoy to Zhejiang and Fujian.

Cao Kun opposed multiple involvements in Luo Wen's case, and advocated appropriate comfort for Wang Chonghui, Gu Weijun and others.As for Wu Peifu, since Wu bowed his head and pleaded guilty, there is no need to continue to attack him.He believes that there is a gap between the Bao and Luo factions on the issue of the president and the cabinet, but their fundamental interests are the same in terms of the Kuomintang, Feng, and Anhui. Feng Yuxiang sent someone to monitor Gao Enhong, and came to Baobao to pay his respects to the old man for his birthday.Cao Kun wanted to be rude to Gao, but because of Wu Peifu's face, he only received him coldly and did not detain him. Gao Enhong still returned to Beijing to wait for his punishment after paying his respects. On December 11, Wang Daxie's ten-day period as acting premier expired.When he agrees to act as an agent, it is for ten days.In order to act as the prime minister, he was scolded bloody by the Bao faction, and the ten-day period of suffering had expired, and he refused to extend it no matter what, so Li had to make another plan.He invited the speaker of the National Assembly and Wang Zhengting, who had just returned to Beijing, to the presidential palace to discuss cabinet issues. He urged Wang Zhengting to act as prime minister temporarily until the official cabinet was formed.Of course Wang refused to accept it, but he could not accept Li's kind words, so Wang reluctantly agreed, but he put forward three conditions: (1) Ask the Speaker of the National Assembly to immediately put Zhang Shaozeng's cabinet's agreement on the agenda; (2) During the acting period The limit is ten days; (3) During the agency period, no major government orders will be announced, and no important personnel will be appointed or dismissed. Li Ziran agreed to Wang Zhengting, and after negotiating with the speaker of the National Assembly, he issued a personnel order for Wang Zhengting to act as the prime minister on the evening of the 11th.Wang took office on the 14th.So the transitional cabinet, which is better than anarchy, is finally there again. According to the agreement with Wang Zhengting, Li sent Zhang Shaozeng's case to the Congress for approval. On December 15, the House of Representatives discussed Zhang's cabinet agreement. Members argued enthusiastically, even flew ink cartridges, and fought violently. Finally, they broke up without any results. .Wu Jinglian persuaded Zhang Shaozeng to personally entertain the members of the Senate and the House of Representatives to connect with each other. Zhang held a tea party on the 17th and invited the members to gather together. In private, everyone reluctantly agreed to it, so on the 18th the consent bill of Zhang's cabinet was passed by the House of Representatives, and on the 29th it was passed by the Senate. It is a major event that the Congress approved Zhang Shaozeng’s cabinet formation, because after Li Yuanhong returned to office, this was the official cabinet approved by the Congress, and it can also be said to be the only "legitimate" cabinet after the Congress was dissolved in 6 years of the Republic of China. Zhang Ge was approved by the National Assembly, and Wang Zhengting finally did a good thing.Wang Zhengting, courtesy name Rutang, was born in Fenghua, Zhejiang Province. He studied in Japan and the United States successively, and received a doctorate in public international law from Yale University in the United States.After the Revolution of 1911, he served as the Foreign Affairs Director of Li Yuanhong's Governor's Mansion, and later participated in the Nanjing Provisional Senate as the deputy speaker (the speaker was Lin Sen) as a representative of Hubei, and was one of the drafters of the "Provisional Constitution".When Tang Shaoyi formed the cabinet, he was appointed as the deputy minister of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (Chen Qimei, the chief executive, did not take office). In the 2nd year of the Republic of China, when the National Congress was established, he was elected as the vice speaker of the Senate.After the second revolution, Wang went to Guangzhou to serve as the foreign minister of the military government. In 1988, the king of the Paris Peace Conference was appointed as the representative of China. He refused to sign the peace treaty due to the Shandong issue. After returning to China, he became the president of China University in Beijing. In 2010, he was appointed by the Beijing government as a member of the recovery of the Jiaoji Railway, and as a supervisor of Qingdao's business affairs.Wang Daxie's acting cabinet was appointed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. After Zhang Shaozeng's case of forming a cabinet was approved by the National Assembly, Li was very excited, thinking that the situation had turned for the better, so he couldn't wait to issue an appointment order on December 29 so that the new cabinet could take office on New Year's Day. Unable to publish. On December 31, Wang Zhengting issued an important personnel order on behalf of the cabinet, promoting Wu Peifu to General Fuwei and Feng Yuxiang to General of the Army. On New Year's Day in 2012, as usual, the president would issue a proclamation. Li Yuanhong's proclamation was to discuss the scourge of soldiers and bandits everywhere and the evils of the warlord system.At the time, such words fell on deaf ears. On January 4, 2012, Li Yuanhong officially appointed Zhang Shaozeng to form a cabinet, and announced the list of all cabinet members: Premier Zhang Shaozeng Minister of Foreign Affairs Shi Zhaoji Gao Lingxuan Liew En Guan Chief of the Army Zhang Shaozeng (concurrently) Li Dingxin Attorney General Wang Zhengting Peng Yunyi General Manager of Agriculture and Commerce Li Yuanyuan Wu Yulin From the above list, it can be seen that the Baoding faction is the center of the cabinet. In the behind-the-scenes cabinet consultations, the Cao faction must focus on internal affairs, finance and transportation.Wu Peifu wanted to keep Gao Enhong but couldn't.Li Yuanhong insisted on maintaining the two cabinet members of the Department of Political Science. After obtaining the consent, Wang Zhengting resigned from the position of chief justice and replaced him with Cheng Ke recommended by Feng Yuxiang.Minister of Foreign Affairs Shi Zhaoji was vetoed for refusing to host a banquet for members of Parliament, and Zhang Shao once reassigned Huang Yu as Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs. Zhang originally promised the parliamentarians to allocate several cabinet members of the political parties in the Congress, but failed to fulfill them. The parliamentarians planned to retaliate by not agreeing. After several negotiations, the government admitted that it would allocate funds for the Congress under the item of tariff increase. The funds owed in the 2nd and 6th years of the Republic of China It is also raised by the Ministry of Finance to pass the customs. Zhang Shaozeng, courtesy name Jingyu, was born in Dacheng, Hebei Province. He graduated from the first batch of Japanese non-commissioned officers. He was at the same time as Wu Luzhen. In the third year of Xuantong, he served as the commander of the 20th town of the Qing army. After the Wuchang Uprising, the 20th town was transferred from the northeast to the customs. Yuan Shikai, Yuan served as the prime minister of the cabinet, and recommended Zhang, the Minister of Xuan Fu with the title of minister, to go to the Yangtze River to appease the revolutionary army.Minyuan served as the governor of Shanxi, but resigned because of disagreements with Yan Xishan. Served as the director of army training for 5 years, and Li Yuanhong returned to the presidency in 11 years. Zhang Shao once worked hard and served as the chief of the army in the successive cabinets of Tang Shaoyi, Wang Chonghui, Wang Daxie, and Wang Zhengting.He and Wu Peifu are in-laws. Because Wu did not support him in forming a cabinet, he fell to Baoding.After Zhang Shaozeng formed a cabinet, it showed that Wu Peifu was too suppressed by Cao Kun to speak out, so the Jinbao faction was full of arrogance, so the idea of ​​"election of the president first" won.The characters of the Cao faction actively arranged everything. Cao Rui is the leader who arranges everything for his third brother Cao Kun.He and Wang Yuzhi took the initiative to hire all members who were willing to accept bribes to vote as consultants to the Zhiluyu Tour Mission Office. Starting from January, they will be given a monthly allowance of 200 yuan.The list of consultants was issued by Jingzhaoyin Liu Menggeng. Liu also served as the director of the investigation department of the Zhiluyu Tourist Mission in Beijing. He had a total of 3,450 advisors. The list was sent to Cao Kun. Cao was shocked because the two There are only more than 700 members of the House of Representatives, and the consultants are selected from among the 700 members who are willing to vote for Cao Kun as the President. How can it be five times more than the total number of members of Congress?There is an inside story about this. It turns out that there are dozens of "political parties" in Congress, and some congressmen list seven or eight "party parties". political capital.Liu Menggeng was responsible for drawing up the list. In order to simplify the procedures, he asked the "party leaders" in the Congress to send the list, and the future consultant allowances were also handed over to the "party leaders".These "leaders" sent their own rosters, which add up to duplicates, so it became 3,450.Cao Kun read it for a long time before he understood it. He scolded Liu Menggeng for being confused and sent Gao Lingyu and Wang Yuzhi to organize the roster.Gao Lingzhen checked the list of members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, and deleted the duplicates. This caused new disputes. Every "party" did not want his list to be duplicated, and all wanted to keep the original amount. I would like to go one less. Before the first grant of allowances, in order to develop the "Xinminshe" faction under his leadership, Zhang Bolie, the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, first borrowed 1 million yuan from the bank and distributed it to the members of the Xinminshe under his banner. If you join his Xinminshe, you can also enjoy the same treatment.The loan was secured by Gao Lingxuan, which aroused public anger from various "political parties", and they called Gao to question him.So the councilors rushed to Gao's mansion again to question the culprits. Gao had no choice but to send someone to carry the check and hand it over to each "political party" to issue it on his behalf. To avoid duplication and impersonation. January 12, 2012 was the payment period, and a total of more than 1,040 checks were issued. If there were too many checks, they would be deducted and returned next month.The seal of "Tanfentang" is stamped on the check. Afterwards, it was found that there were more than 380 members of parliament receiving subsidies, which was only half of the total number of members of Congress. At the end of the Lunar New Year, Cao Kunzhi sent Wu Jinglian 30,000 yuan in "charcoal respect" and Zhang Bolie 10,000 yuan.Zhang Bolie was very dissatisfied with the disparity between the chairman and the deputy speaker, so Cao Kun had to send an additional 1,000 yuan.The councilors are noisy because the speaker is 30,000 yuan, the deputy speaker is 11,000 yuan, and the councilors only have 200 yuan.Therefore, Cao Kun reassigned Yuan Naikuan to be responsible for distributing the parliamentary allowance for February, but before the payment was completed, there was no money to be paid, so Yuan Naikuan had to sneak away and quietly fled to Tianjin for the New Year. Zhang Shao once formed a legal cabinet that Beiyang did not have for several years, but legality does not mean stability or authority. On the contrary, this legal cabinet has many disasters and is extremely unstable. There are continuous civil wars, mutinies in various provinces, and banditry alarms are increasing. Many agencies and educational circles in Beijing saw a climax of salary demands.In terms of diplomacy, the four-nation banking group repeatedly protested against the non-repayment of foreign debts due, publicly suggested that the international co-management of China's finances, and proposed to entrust the General Taxation Department Anglian to supervise all the revenue and expenditure of the Beijing government.The leader of the diplomatic corps, the Portuguese minister to China, Frederick Frederick, on behalf of various countries, severely ordered the Beijing government to rescue the foreigners who were taken away by bandits. The two direct giants of the Taishang government, Cao Kun is busy with the presidential dream, and Wu Peifu is busy with "aiding Fujian" and "attacking Guangdong" in order to achieve the plan to unify China by force. And what about Zhang Shaozeng?He is eagerly trying to show his skills, and intends to realize the peaceful reunification of the country in his hands.He suggested convening representatives of powerful factions in various provinces, leaders of various political parties, and celebrities in the opposition to hold a "state affairs conference" in the Summer Palace in Beijing to discuss the issue of peaceful reunification. On January 8, Zhang Shao sent a telegram to the southwestern provinces, advocating that "the internal negotiation should be carried out first, and the legal unity should be completed externally." Reality." Li Yuanhong was afraid that Zhang Shaozeng would completely stand on behalf of the Jinbao faction, but later saw that what Zhang Shaozeng had done was not on behalf of the Jinbao faction, especially planning for political unification first and then holding a general election, which was closer to his idea; Li Gengen, a think tank and cabinet member of the Department of Political Science, offered a plan to bring Zhang Shaozeng over to realize the cooperation between the government and the court to deal with the Jinbao faction. He felt that this way was feasible. In order to seek peaceful reunification, Zhang Shao once attached great importance to various forces other than the direct lineage, and sent a large number of representatives to the southwestern provinces to liaise.The first object to fight for was Sun Yat-sen.Zhang Shao once planned to follow Yuan Shikai's approach and ask Sun to preside over the national railway work.However, Li Yuanhong advocated that according to Sun Yu's proposal not long ago, Sun should be appointed as the national military supervisor.However, both Zhang's and Li's ideas were opposed by members of the Kuomintang in the National Assembly, so this plan fell through. Regarding the Feng family, Zhang Shao once found Bao Qiyuan, who had served as Zhang Zuolin's adviser, and respected him as a guest of honor, and asked him to be a link. Zhang Xueliang and Yang Yuting were promoted to lieutenant generals.Zhang was very determined about the case, and did not worry about whether Baoding or Luoyang would object.Bao Qiyuan sent several telegrams to Zhang Xueliang about these situations, and the telegrams went, like a stone sinking into the sea, without any reply. Cao Kun's friends realized that Zhang Shaozeng was indeed not an obedient partner.What angered them the most was that Zhang Shao's policy of unification first and then elections was completely contrary to what they had done.Therefore, as soon as this Prime Minister who came from the Zimbabwe faction came to power, they were extremely unhappy. Zhang Shaozeng's policy of peaceful reunification ran counter to Cao and Wu, because both Cao and Wu advocated reunification by force. On January 8, Zhang Shaozeng sent a telegram to the southwestern provinces, advocating peaceful reunification. However, what happened in Guangdong and Fujian was contrary to Zhang Shaozeng's wishes.Wu Peifu urged Sun Chuanfang to quickly lead troops into Fujian and attack the bandit army to rescue Chen Jiongming's crisis; on January 7, 2012, Sun Chuanfang's troops went to eastern Jiangxi to prepare to enter Fujian, but on January 15 Chen Jiongming failed in Guangdong, and Li Houji Also on this day, he left via Shantou. Chang Desheng, the "aid army" sent by Beijing, also retreated from western Fujian to Shanguan. The Zhili lineage sent troops into Fujian, but Sun Chuanfang had no choice but to station troops under the unfavorable situation. On January 22, the Beijing government ordered the revocation of the commander-in-chief of the Thief Hunting Army. Li Houji was transferred back to Beijing to wait for another appointment. Sa Zhenbing, Liu Guanxiong, and Sun Chuanfang are responsible for the aftermath.These orders are Zhang Shaozeng's initial measures to practice peaceful reunification.Sun Chuanfang was added to the order to perfunctory Wu Peifu, but how did Sun Chuanfang go to Fujian?He cannot go to Fujian alone to deal with the aftermath, so this order is impractical. It not only fails to meet the wishes of Cao and Wu, but also does not meet the requirements of adapting to all aspects of Fujian. At the same time, it is more concerned about the Fujian issue. Deepen the contradictions.