Chapter 27 fourth quarter

Cabinet Prime Minister Tang Shaoyi has worked with Yuan Shikai for more than 20 years.Unlike the generals in Beiyang, his relationship with Yuan Shikai is both subordinate and friend, and he has his own independence (this is why the revolutionaries can accept him as prime minister), so Yuan Shikai felt that it was "very uncomfortable" to use him. ".Tang Shaoyi wanted to exercise the power of prime minister, and Yuan Shikai hoped that the prime minister would only listen to himself, and the contradiction between the two gradually became more and more serious. Finally one day, Yuan Shikai said after impatiently listening to his report on the current situation: "Shaochuan, I am already old, so you can be the president!"

Tang Shaoyi knew that he could not continue, so he avoided to Tianjin first, and then wrote a letter to resign; Yuan Shikai approved his resignation on June 28 after pretending to persuade him to stay.Tang Shaoyi, the first prime minister of the Republic of China, was appointed by Yuan Shikai on March 13, 1912, and his resignation was approved on June 28, which took only a few days. In the early years of the Republic of China, everyone's common enemy was cleared away, so various factions and factions began to fight each other.The revolutionaries had conflicts with Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai had internal conflicts, and the revolutionary camp had internal conflicts. In addition, there was a faction of Wuchang Vice President Li Yuanhong.In the political arena at the beginning of the Republic of China, there were intrigues and turmoil, which disappointed the people who had high expectations for the republic.In order to integrate various forces, Yuan Shikai very much expected to achieve a "high-end alliance", that is, Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing, Li Yuanhong and himself, the four of them could hold a meeting of the "Four Giants of the Republic of China" in Beijing.

What finally came true was in August 1912, when Sun Yat-sen was invited to Beijing to meet Yuan Shikai amidst opposition. On August 18, when Sun Yat-sen boarded the ship in Shanghai and set off, a young woman in black followed the crowd to see him off. After boarding the ship, she took the opportunity to invite Sun Yat-sen to a small room where there was no one, and pulled out a gun Putting the sharp knife against his neck, he said to Sun Yat-sen, "Sir, you must not go to Beijing. Yuan Shikai is too cunning and dangerous. If you go here, you will fall into the jaws of a tiger! If you don't get off the boat, I will die in front of you!" Sun Yat-sen was shocked. Quickly snatched the knife from her hand and repeatedly comforted her.

In fact, everyone was wrong. With Yuan Shikai's scheming, not only would he not do any disadvantage to Sun Yat-sen who came from afar, but he would treat Sun Yat-sen with the utmost courtesy.He wanted to win the trust and support of Sun Yat-sen to increase his weight. Amid the cheers and welcome of tens of thousands of people in Beijing, Sun Yat-sen arrived in Beijing, and the two heroes of the Republic of China met for the first time.Yuan Shikai was so courteous that he covered his special carriage with yellow satin for Sun Yat-sen's use; he arranged for Sun Yat-sen to stay in his presidential palace, while he moved to work in the State Council; Entertain Sun Yat-sen.

Sun Yat-sen believed that although Yuan Shikai was a politician of the former Qing Dynasty, he had modern ideas, actions to overthrow the Qing government, and a statement in favor of the republic. If he could be persuaded to think more about the country and less about individuals, this trip would be of great significance. But after seeing Yuan Shikai's face, Sun Yat-sen felt that this person was not as treacherous as he had imagined.Yuan Shikai flattered Sun Yat-sen in every possible way. Whatever Sun Yat-sen said, Yuan Shikai nodded again and again: "What you said is very true!" Yuan Shikai nodded likewise if he was inconvenient to agree: "What you said is very great. Shikai can learn and refer to it!"

As soon as the two talked, they speculated, and the more they talked, the more intimate they became.In Beijing for more than a month, Sun Yat-sen and Yuan Shikai had thirteen talks, usually between 4:00 pm and 10:00 pm to 12:00 pm, and sometimes they even talked until 4:00 am the next day. Yuan Shikai held grand banquets for Sun Yat-sen many times.During the banquet, he raised his wine glass to pay tribute to Sun Yat-sen, and shouted: "Long live Mr. Zhongshan!" Sun Yat-sen stood up to thank him, and also shouted: "Long live President Yuan Da!" Shows are so intimate. After the meeting between Sun and Yuan, Sun Yat-sen spoke highly of Yuan Shikai, believing that he was the number one person in the Republic of China both in terms of thought and talent.He said to Yuan Shikai: "Within ten years, the president must be the public!"

After the founding of the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen witnessed the infighting of the Tongmenghui and the rapid degeneration of some members, and he became discouraged and tired of political activities. Now that he saw Yuan Shikai so wise, he felt that he could leave politics and do social work. At this time, Sun Yat-sen fell into what historians today call the first "mistake" in the decade after the 1911 Revolution: his theory was the "Three People's Principles." Sun Yat-sen now believed that the Manchurian royal family had been overthrown, "It has been realized; the "Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China" was enacted, stipulating various rights of citizens, and President Yuan Shikai was willing to safeguard the achievements of the revolution. "Civil rights" have been realized; then, what is left now is to improve the living standards of the people and improve the "people's livelihood" "Problem.

Regarding people's livelihood, Sun Yat-sen attached great importance to railway transportation.He lived in exile in the West and Japan for many years, and he admired the developed railway transportation abroad. A common slogan today can sum up Sun Yat-sen's thinking at that time: "If you want to get rich, build roads first." He proposed to Yuan Shikai: "In the next ten years, you will train millions of elite soldiers, and I will build 200,000 miles of railways. Why not worry about the country being strong and the people rich!" Yuan Shikai chuckled, and said: "Mr. must be very confident in building a railway for 200,000 miles; but Shikai is afraid that he will not be able to do it if he trains a million elite soldiers." In the heart of this veteran bureaucrat with great administrative experience, Sun Yat-sen The plan to build 200,000 miles of railways in ten years is deeply unrealistic.

However, Sun Yat-sen did not care about politics, how good it is!He just pushed the boat along the way, appointed Sun Yat-sen as the National Railway Governor, with a monthly salary of 30,000 oceans, and allocated the luxury float specially made for Empress Dowager Cixi when she returned to Luang to Sun Yat-sen for special use in order to inspect the road conditions across the country; Make a grand treat. Many of the revolutionaries were in a state of "laid-off" at that time: the Qing court was over, and there was no "desire" to "reform";This is good, and they came to defect to the old leader Sun Yat-sen one after another, so Sun Yat-sen took a group of unemployed party members to investigate everywhere and give speeches in all directions.After the "Second Revolution", Sun Yuan tore his face, Yuan Shikai was not polite, and sent someone to check the accounts of Sun Yat-sen's China Railway Corporation, and found that it had cost hundreds of thousands of yuan, and the railway was all in Sun Yat-sen's speech. And in the works, not an inch has been built yet!