Chapter 222 221. Zhang Zuolin enters and exits Beijing

On November 24, 2013, Zhang Zuolin arrived in Beijing. The day before, General Li Jinglin of the Feng Faction led his troops to Beijing for pre-deployment. Wang fled to the British Concession in Tianjin for refuge, and resigned by telegram.After Li Jinglin arrived in Beijing, he was very arrogant and stationed some of his troops in important strongholds inside and outside the city. Then Guo Songling also brought a group of elite troops to the Huangsi in the north of Beijing, controlling the two gates of the northern city. Zhang Xueliang brought a battalion to station In the city is the palace of Shuncheng Wang, which is where Zhang Zuolin stayed in Beijing.

The Feng army marched into Beijing one after another, oppressing the national army to give up defense areas such as Beijing, Baoding, and Xuanhua.After Zhang Zuolin entered Beijing, he was heavily guarded. He told his subordinates that he could not trust Feng Yuxiang at all, and at the same time looked down on Feng Yuxiang. It is said that when Feng Yuxiang met Zhang at Shuncheng Palace, he kowtowed and became a brother with Zhang Xueliang. After Zhang Zuolin entered Beijing, Feng's momentum was greatly suppressed, and Feng's defense area in Beijing was also forcibly surrendered by the Feng army. Therefore, the senior generals of the National Army were quite indignant.

On the evening of November 30th, Hu Jingyi and Sun Yue met with Feng together, and told Feng one by one about the situation in which their defense area was forced to give up by the Fengjun. As a friendly army, the army poured out everything to Feng. Feng asked them how to deal with it. They all agreed to capture the thief and capture the king. Very easy to appease.Hu Jingyi and Sun Yue also drafted an order to attack the Fengjun defense area and Shuncheng Palace, and asked Feng to sign it.Feng was quite moved when he heard this, and felt that he would not be able to get along with Feng Zhang in the future, so he might as well take advantage of this golden opportunity and make a big fight.Therefore, he and Hu and Sun repeatedly studied, and at the same time ordered the guards to prepare for the response.However, after careful study, they believed that the Feng army entered Beijing in an attitude of preparing for war, and there was no certainty of victory when they made a surprise attack on the Feng army.

The news of the secret meeting of Feng, Hu, and Sun was known to Zhang Zuolin on the morning of December 2. He issued an emergency order at 10 o'clock that morning, and all Feng troops were evacuated from Beijing. He did not resign from Duan Qirui. Take the train to Tianjin in a hurry.His train was heavily guarded, like an enemy.After he arrived in Tianjin, part of the Feng army retreated outside the pass. Zhang Zuolin's entry and departure from Beijing shows that the political situation in the north is seriously disturbed.Although the direct line has collapsed, the victor has planted a bomb that can explode at any time.After Zhang Zuolin left Beijing, he still expressed goodwill with Duan Qirui. The two sides kept sending messengers, and Duan was in contact with Zhang in all important military and state affairs. Between Duan, Zhang, and Feng, Duan seemed to have a better relationship with Zhang than with Duan and Feng. many.

After Zhang Zuolin led his troops out of Beijing, Feng Yuxiang's troops were stationed in the defense lines left by Feng Jun, so Beijing fell into Feng Jun's hands again. As early as when Feng Jun staged a coup and entered Beijing, Feng issued two orders: one was to arrest Cao Kun's luck, Li Yanqing, who was a celebrity in Beijing at the time; the other was to detain former Finance Minister Wang Kemin.Feng's personal grudge against these two men was because Feng misunderstood that these two men deliberately did not pay him military pay, that Wang Kemin was in charge of finances, and Li Yanqing was in charge of military supplies.In the Baoding era, Li was the chief of Cao’s military supplies department, and in the Beijing era, he was the deputy director of military supplies. No matter how high his rank was, he could influence Cao Kun. Beijingers regarded him as the same as Li Lianying, who was under the Queen Mother, but Li Yanqing was different from Li Lianying. It was because there was an unspeakable scandal between him and Cao Kun, so he had all the power and was looked at by others.

Feng Bu successfully captured Li Yanqing, and the smash hit villain was finally executed by shooting.Feng wanted to kill Li Yanqing, not only the people in Beijing applauded, but people all over the country, including the old people of the direct lineage, applauded. Feng Bu went to catch Wang Kemin, but Wang escaped. In fact, it can also be said to be Wang's luck, or it can be said that Wang is scheming.Wang Zi Mulu, a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, was born in Guangdong. He was a Juren in the Qing Dynasty. He was recommended by Zhao Erxun and Yang Shixiang as an observer of Zhili during the Guangxu era. Later, he served as a supervisor of students studying in Japan. He served as the North's representative for the peace talks held in Shanghai between the representatives of the North and the South for eight years. In the winter of 2012, he served as the Chief Financial Officer and President of the Bank of China.Cao Kun became Cao's chief financial officer after bribery. At this time, Beijing's financial situation was extremely bad. Feng served as an army inspector and expanded a lot of troops in Beijing.

After the coup, Feng's troops entered Beijing and immediately sent troops to the palace to arrest the king. The troops entered the palace and went straight to the king's bedroom.Wang's bedroom is a two-volume suite. Wang got up and washed in the back room, and the windows in the front room were opened. The soldiers were all country bumpkins. Seeing that Wang's bedroom window was open and there was no one in it, they thought Wang had escaped after hearing the wind, so they did not enter the room to search. Search other rooms instead.Therefore, Wang Sui took the opportunity to escape from the back door and hid in his servant's house. After the army passed, Wang took a car to the Sino-French Bank in Dongjiaomin Lane.Wang had already fled to Dongjiaomin Lane, Feng Jun searched Wang's house again, and went straight to the inner floor of Wang's bedroom, only to find that the bath water flowing in the bathtub was still hot, and it was too late to eat after the breakfast was set on the table.

After Zhang Zuolin left Beijing and Huang Yu's cabinet was dissolved, Feng Yuxiang also tendered his resignation, expressing his intention to travel abroad, and he had no intention of greedy for power and position in Beijing.At the same time, he himself went to Xishan to rest. However, Feng Jun was still inside and outside the city of Beijing, and Duan Zhizheng had to deal with Feng, so there was constant traffic between the Zhiguan government and Xishan Road. Duan is between the two great powers, Feng Zhang is not easy to mess with, and Xiao Feng is close at hand, which is a dilemma. Compared with Duan Huo after Yuan's death, this kind of life is really different.

After Cao Kun's downfall, the worst was not Wu Peifu, but the group of MPs who took the money to vote for Cao Kun.Because Beijing is in full swing to report members who participated in bribery elections, these members who were called piggies at the time became bereaved dogs. Beijingers saw the pitiful appearance of the Anfu members after the failure of the Anhui group in the past few years, and now they are again. See bribing MPs. These congressmen fled from Beijing to Tianjin one after another, and issued a declaration in Tianjin saying that they could not exercise their powers in Beijing, and they had moved the Congress to Tianjin.Of course, this kind of declaration is totally unreasonable.

On December 2, 2013, the Provisional Executive Government issued a personnel order, appointing Hu Siyi as the Governor of Jiangxi Province. The cabinet meeting on the 2nd passed the outline of the organizational law of the aftermath meeting and the regulations for the aftermath meeting.The regulations were promulgated on December 24, and it was a difficult thing to produce, because most of the South did not support it, and Sun Yat-sen had already gone north. Both Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang clearly opposed the aftermath conference.Therefore, some people advocate holding a meeting of the six giants first. The six giants are: Sun Yat-sen, Duan Qirui, Zhang Zuolin, Lu Yongxiang, Feng Yuxiang, and Tang Jiyao.This brewing did not become a reality.

Duan Qirui's interim administration was not pleasant, because he had to deal with and coordinate Fengzhang and the emerging national army. He announced the convening of an aftermath meeting to rebuild a new political environment, but Sun Yat-sen and the southern provinces responded indifferently. The interim government issued a series of personnel orders, which shows that the politics at that time were unstable. On December 3, 2013, Lu Yongxiang was specially appointed to supervise the aftermath of Zhili military affairs, and Yang Yide temporarily served as governor of Zhili.On this day, in the south, Li Zongren took office as the supervisor of the Guangxi Appeasement Department appointed by Guangzhou, and Huang Shaoxiong was in charge. On the 4th, the interim government announced the official system of the Provisional Legal System. Yao Zhen was appointed as the president of the Provisional Legal System, Gong Xinzhan was appointed as the relief supervisor, Cai Tinggan was also the vice chairman of the Yangtze River Waterway Discussion Committee, Yuan Liang was the president of the National Water Conservancy Bureau, and Li Zhongsan was the vice president. . On the 5th, Zhong Shiming succeeded the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Finance, the Director of the Salt Administration, and the General Office of the Audit Office. On the 5th, Zhang Zuolin, the tour envoy of the three eastern provinces, sent a telegram to the Beijing executive government to request the abolition of the post of patrol envoy, and was willing to implement the initiative from the three northeastern provinces first. The next day, Zhang Zuolin sent a telegram to announce that the name of the Zhenwei Army had been cancelled, and the form of fighting had been stopped. The Soviet minister in Beijing asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to inform Zhang Zongchang of the Fengjun, asking him to disband the White Russian soldiers under his command. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the request of the Soviet Union on the grounds that these White Russian soldiers had been naturalized in China and should be Chinese. Because of Zhang Zuolin's telegram, the Beijing Executive Government issued an order on December 10th that the patrolling envoys of all provinces should be abolished immediately. All the troops in the three eastern provinces were still under the command and control of Zhang Zuolin. Aftermath. On the same day, Feng Yuxiang sent a telegram to cancel the name of the National Army and immediately relieved the commander-in-chief. On December 12, the executive government declared to the diplomatic corps in Beijing that all orders issued by the former Huang Yu regency cabinet were valid.Three days before that, on December 9, the executive government ordered Zhang Jinghui to be removed from supervising the preparation of national highways across the country and replaced by Huang Yu. From this series of personnel orders, it can be seen that the executive government tried its best to seek harmony between the two major forces of Zhang Zuolin and Feng Yuxiang, and made both sides take a step back and each step forward. On December 13, the executive government's cabinet meeting made three resolutions: (1) Revocation of Cao Kun's constitution. (2) Declaring the "Interim Contract" invalid. (3) Elimination of parliamentary organs.The extraordinary members of parliament who stayed in Beijing were disappointed when they heard that the government would order the abolition of the constitution and the treaty and Congress. They gathered together to discuss how to deal with it.These congressmen were persecuted when they opposed Cao Kun's election bribery. When Cao Kun collapsed, they thought they could stand out, but they still suffered the fate of dissolution. The democratic politics of that era was full of disasters.