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Li Xiang's eyes were confused for a moment. He had just raised a glass. The powerful footsteps of soldiers in the distance sounded in the corridor. Song Que's voice came urgently: "Marshal, at two o'clock this afternoon, the representatives of the South (Revolutionary Army) and the North (Qing Court) held their first meeting at the City Hall of Nanjing Road in Shanghai. The north-south peace conference has begun. Zhongtong Lv Zhongqiu, who sent the message, is waiting in the front hall. Please see the general immediately!"

Li Xiang was shocked. If he missed this big event in Hankou, then the trajectory of history will go to the original old way! However, the matter of Hankou is also rewriting history. Don't be careless... Now, we must understand the progress of the first negotiations between the North and the South before deciding whether we need to leave for Shenjiang immediately!

"Go!" Li Xiang frowned and immediately got up and rushed to the front hall.

In the year of 1911, at 2 p.m. on October 27th, representatives of the Southern Revolutionary Army and the Northern Qing Court held their first meeting at the City Hall of the British Concession Road in Shanghai.

The chief representative of the south is Wu Tingfang, and the counselors are Wen Zongyao, Wang Chonghui, Wang Zhaoming and Niu Yongjian; the chief representative of the north is Tang Shaoyi, and the counselors are Ou Yuxiang, Xu Dinglin, Zhao Chunnian and Feng Yitong.

Tang Shaoyi invited Xu Dinglin to participate, mainly because he has a deep friendship with Zhang Jian, and he is still a latecomer. His elegant remarks are very famous and morale, and many representatives in the south also admire him.

The conference table is a Western-style long case. Wu and Tang are seated together, and the counselors of both sides are on the left and right. Wang Zhengting, Director of Foreign Affairs of the Wuchang Military Government, is also on the opposite side of Wu and Tang, but they have no right to speak.

After the two sides sit down, they will check each other's documents and announce the meeting at the same time.

Tang Shaoyi glanced at Wu Tingfang, hugged her fist, and said with a smile, "Ouch, Zhi Lao! Ou Yuxiang, Xu Dinglin, Zhao Chunnian, Feng Yitong, this is Wu Tingfang, a great diplomat of the Kuo Dynasty who is even praised by the Foreign Minister of Citi!"

Is this Wu Tingfang who signed the Sino-Mexico Treaty of Commerce? The representatives of the north looked at him attentively. He was skinny, his cheeks were clear, and there was no coat on the outside of a gray cloth robe. He was a little fairy, but he didn't see any foreign flavor. Xu Dinglin only glanced at Wu Tingfang and immediately felt a kind of coldness and invisible great pressure. The name of a person, the shadow of the tree. Even if you wear a robe, you can't underestimate it.

It's just in front of the long table, and the costumes of the two representatives in the north and south are really a little ironic. The Northern Man Court represents General Tang Shaoyi in suits and leather shoes, and the Southern Revolutionary Party represents General Wu Ting's fragrant cloth robe. The world seems to be upside down!

"Tang Minister," Wu Tingfang and Tang Shaoyi exchanged a few casual greetings. Before the formal meeting, they were a little reluctant to be as intimate as the night before yesterday, so Wu Tingfang began to talk about business. Before the discussion came today, there was a proposal to solve it in advance. Since the two sides agreed to make an armistice from the 29th, all provinces of Hubei, Jin, Shaanxi, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Feng and other provinces will be implemented, and Jin, Shaanxi, Anhui and Lu have reported that the Qing army has entered the country to attack. If it seems to be a breach of contract, how can we negotiate? Therefore, if you are the first to solve it now, you must ask your representative to send a telegram to Yuan's cabinet to order an armistice everywhere. You really have to promise to call back before you can start the discussion.

Wu Tingfang picked up the teacup and took a sip. She added another sentence and said, "Southern believes that peace talks are to talk in acord. You can't talk about it. You can talk at the same time, because this is not a real peace talk."

Although Wu Tingfang spoke in a relaxed tone, these words were all teaching people a lesson. He was not happy or angry, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, as if he was expressing his contempt to the other party at any time. Tang Shaoyi felt that he was a decoration invited by the south. There were too many words, which was more difficult to deal with than Mr. Zhao in Xiyintang. When the other four people in the north saw him like this, their self-esteem seemed to have been poked by a knife, and the cheerful mood cultivated that night suddenly disappeared.

Tang Shaoyiqiang pressed her unhappiness and said with a smile, "The whole world knows that it is the Southern Army, Hubei Li, who wants to fight first. Who doesn't know the declaration that he vows to carry out the revolution to the end?"

"Tang Envoy!" Wu Tingfang bowed politely and also raised an official voice, "Who will start the war first? Although it costs a lot of investigation, there is only one way: any place where the breach of contract during the armistice period should be returned by the Qing army first. For example, Niangziguan, Tongguan and other places are the most author. In addition, the location should be withdrawn, which should be in line with the original intention."

Seeing that Tang Shaoyi's face turned red, Xu Dinglin knew that he was going to attack. He smiled and said, "It's okay for the Northern Army to withdraw from Niangziguan and Tongguan. Li Xiang should also withdraw from Hankou..."

"You can go to Hankou to talk to Li Xiang about this." Wu Tingfang had no expression on her face and cut off Xu Dinglin's words coldly.

Tang Shaoyi sneered and said, "He? Can he represent the Southern Army?

Wu Tingfang smiled faintly and said, "The Hankou problem, we can't be his master. If you want to talk about the Hankou problem, don't talk about it here."

Yuan Shikai's peace agreement is just a means by which he is ready to take the highest power in the country. While sending representatives south to negotiate peace, he sent heavy troops to launch a fierce attack on the two provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi, which had declared independence in the north, in an effort to put the north completely under his control.

Yuan Shikai ordered Zhao Tiao, the commander-in-chief of the Yi army and commander-in-chief, to lead his troops to capture Tongguan, the gateway of Shaanxi, and Zhang Jian and Liu Zhenhua of the revolutionary army retreated to Huazhou. The next day, Cao Kui and Lu Yongxiang, the commander of the third town in Beiyang, led their troops to capture the gateway of Shanxi. This naturally aroused the great indignation of the revolutionaries.

Wu Tingfang must also make a difference at the meeting, otherwise the indignation of the revolutionaries will be vented, and all of them will go to the Northern Expedition, and the problem will be great. Wu Tingfang continued to suppress her temperament and said, "Until the war, it is difficult for the south to continue to talk about it... All provinces should be suspended and not to attack again. Once the electricity is promised, there will be a formal discussion."

After all, there are many people in the old officialdom. Wu Tingfang only downplayed it lightly. Tang Shaoyi knew his intention and put a sentence first for future discussion. Tang Shaoyi thought about it, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said, "It was to avoid military disasters between the north and the south, and to put an end to the interests of foreigners, there was a north-south peace. Now if you procrastinate like this, the sco of war may not stop."

The more he said, the more twisted he became. Wu Tingfang also felt that it was up to her own. She did it a little too much, so she smiled and said, "So, do you want to stop the war? Do you want to talk about it?"

"Discussed! It's about the people's livelihood," Tang Shaoyi saw that Wu Tingfang began to loosen, and immediately said, "Turn around and immediately send a message to Mr. Yuan's proposal to the Yuan cabinet. At the same time, please ask Mr. Zhi to immediately call General Li of Wuchang to tell the provinces to check the photo."

Wu Tingfang smiled and said, "I will tell the people's army in Wuchang, Shan and Shaanxi to strictly abide by the contract. This is a matter of the Southern Army, but Li Xiangjie is arrogant and unruly and may not obey the order of the provisional government.

As soon as Tang Shaoyi heard the problem, he was stuck in Li Xiang's head again. He stood stunned for a long time. Fang sighed, "The general trend is certain. He has to stop if he doesn't want to stop... The British government is sending 15,000 expeditionary troops from their own country and India to the Far East. The trouble in the concession is enough for him to have a headache. He won't have this. I want to go to the Northern Expedition again. I would also like to advise the provisional government not to let this anti-imperialist trend continue to expand..."

Wu Tingfang thought about it for half a day, and felt quite reasonable and expected. She thought, "Maybe Li can build a diplomatic miracle of a weak country, an opportunity for China to rise." Naturally, he would not say this idea. He took a taste of it with a teacup in his arms, turned the topic, and said, "First of all, the representatives of the provinces were expected to gather in Wuchang. There are four most important conditions for the deliberation and ministers: First, the abdication of the Qing Emperor. II. Establish a republican government. Third, the annual salary of the Qing Emperor is allowed. Fourth, the Han flag implements equality.

Tang Shaoyi laughed unconsciously. Today's negotiations were all disrupted by the name Li Xiang. The four conditions put forward by Wu Tingfang are actually five conditions with Yuan Shikai: first, to determine the republican form of government; second, the first to overthrow the house will be the temporary president; third, preferential treatment for the abolished emperor; fourth, the generals of the Manchu and Han dynasties in the north and south enjoy the treatment they deserve, and do not bear the responsibility of harming the enemy in war; fifth, agree to organize an interim parliament to restore Restoration of order in all places. There is not much difference, but the most important thing is that the person who first pushes down the room is the interim president.

Tang Shaoyi said, "If Xiangcheng can be elected president, it will not be difficult!"

Speaking of a story at the same time, Tang Shaoyi became more and more excited, and the words came out like the water that opened the sluice. "When Wang Jingweijun was in Beijing, Mr. Huang Xing talked about promoting Xiangcheng to participate in the revolution. Mr. Huang returned Wang Jingweijun and said that if Xiangcheng could participate in the revolution, he could be the first president of the Republic of China. Mr. Huang Xing's reply, Wang Jingweijun once handed it to Yang Du, and Yang Du transferred it to Chen Xiangcheng. Xiang Cheng also said, "I can't do it, Commander. It should be done by Huang Xing." Therefore, it can prove that Xiang Cheng's inner tendency towards republicanism, but as a minister of the Qing Dynasty, he can't speak out..." So Tang Shaoyi concluded, "I think that what is discussed in the current peace talks is not against the purpose of the republic, but how to achieve peace first."

The first meeting ended without any substantive progress.

Like all negotiations in the world, real negotiations will never be on the negotiating table, and what is on the negotiating table will always be these painless trivialities. And the real place for the north-south peace is Xiyintang.

After the first peace talks, the representatives of the South put forward a pre-decisive issue of the peace talks, that is, the representatives of the North must first recognize the national system of the democratic republic, which is the purpose of the revolution. If we do not talk on this basis, there will be no need for peace talks.

Tang Shaoyi telegraphed the "prerequisites for peace talks" from the south to Beijing, asked Yuan's cabinet for instructions, and put forward Tang's own views. Tang's view is that the revolutionary army has no room to bargain on this prerequisite, so if it refuses, it can't go on. It's better to go around the circle, that is, to hand over the issue of "national body" to a "provisional parliament" for a vote, so that the peace talks can still be negotiated. Some people say that Tang's opinion is basically Yuan's instruction, because Yuan's method is to pretend to be a revolutionary army to end the rule of the Qing Dynasty, while leaving room for himself.

Wu Tingfang, the representative of the South, was not satisfied with Tang's reply. Tang repeatedly explained, "This is just a formal and procedural problem. This is a transformation, and there is no conflict to achieve the purpose of the revolution." The representatives of the south thought that they could barely agree by taking a detour, so they further discussed with the representatives of the north how to convene the "National Assembly" to solve the "national problem". The two sides agreed that the 14 provinces occupied by the revolutionary army and the eight provinces ruled by the Qing government, and each province sent three representatives to participate in the National Assembly. The location of the National Assembly was proposed by the southern representative in Shanghai, while the northern representative said that it must ask Premier Yuan for instructions before making a decision.