6 bluff

The sky was getting dark. Looking at the deputies who were scattered, Li Xiang was very uneasy. The provincial representatives dispersed unhappily. Today's two proposals, with no result, is an unsolved case. If everything has to be talked about like this, is the interim government still efficient?

Li wanted to think like this, and he had arrived at the gate of the presidential palace.

"Marshal Li, please stay!" Miss Song trotted all the way to catch up and shouted breathlessly.

Li wanted to stop and asked doubtfully, "What's the matter? My Miss Song."

"It's a big deal!" Miss Song said breathlessly, "President, please come and discuss it."

Li Xiang's mood was originally heavy. He was pressed more heavily by Miss Song. He said anxiously, "Why are you still standing here and panting? Take the lead!"

Miss Song couldn't stand it and gave him a white eyeball, but she still twisted her waist and turned around to lead the way.

Li Xiang's head rotated rapidly and immediately realized that it was likely that it was Yuan Shikai who saw Sun Yat-sen take the lead in the position of president, so he made trouble in the north. Although this is a crisis, it is also a turning point - at this critical juncture, it is a good time to unite the Northern Expedition of all walks of life!

Li Xiang asked as he walked, "Do you know what's so urgent?"

Miss Song said urgently: "The venue of the National Assembly agreed by the North-South and South is Shanghai. Yuan Shikai not only opposed the meeting in Shanghai, but also telegramed the south. Yun: There are only three representatives from various provinces, which is not enough to trust the public. The Tang envoy did not wait for e-commerce and agreed to cooperate, which was not unavoidable. It was difficult for the Prime Minister to admit it, Yunyun. It's nothing more than your own plan. Think about it! Tang Shaoyi came to the south, and he was obviously the plenipotentiary representative of Yuan Shikai. When the two representatives met, they had already changed their diplomas, and there was indeed a plenipotentiary. Because of the number of people in the parliament, which was signed by Tang Shaoyi, was refuted by Yuan Shikai. What else is there any power? Now that Tang Shaoyi has resigned, Yuan Shikai will call Wu Tingfang and directly telegraph to discuss peace. The north and the south came to negotiate with a telegram. It's really unheard of!"

"It's better if you don't agree!" Li wanted to smile coldly.

Miss Song was stunned for a moment and stopped, but she had a delicate heart. In an instant, she understood the meaning and continued to walk forward. Thinking about it and crossing the corridor, he was still a little worried and said, "Yuan Shikai immediately called the south after approving Tang Shaoyi's resignation to question Representative Wu. The issue of the national system should be solved by the National Assembly. We are discussing the right way, and we should take the political system of the national people's referendum as the decision. I heard that Nanjing suddenly organized a new government, and on the day Sun Wen became president, he announced the expulsion of the Manchu Qing government, which was contrary to the former Congress to solve the problem. What is the purpose of this presidential election? The establishment of the country will be a constitutional monarchy. Will the government and the president be cancelled immediately? I hope you can reply!"

Li wanted to sneer repeatedly: "This is questioning Representative Wu, and it's questioning Mr. Zhongshan!"

"Yes! After Mr. took office as president, his telegrams were taken one after another!" Miss Song also sneered: "When Representative Wu received this message, he transferred it to the president. The president also planned to review the manuscript and patted it to Yuan Shikai: Now the people's army has been restored to 17 provinces, and there can't be without a unified organ. Before the National Assembly's decision, the Republic of China organized a provisional government to elect the interim president. This is the internal group of the Republic of China. Weaving is a general rule of politics. If you cross-knotate this, please ask the government why it is not eliminated immediately before the National Assembly is decided, and why is it still appointed to appoint large and small officials? It was also agreed with the Tang envoy that the National Assembly would decide the majority. After the resolution, both parties must comply. For those who call and ask questions, please set up a meeting of the People's Republic of China to make a constitution. Will the Qing Emperor abdicate immediately? I'm looking forward to your reply!"

"I shouldn't have been polite to him!" Li wanted to still sneer and said, "What else does he have to say?"

"Of course he has nothing to say!" Miss Song said angrily, "Yuan Shikai looked at this message, so as not to be angry to death!" At present, he patted electricity everywhere and gave it to Zhang Xiluan, the governor of Shanxi. He quickly led the whole army of the three towns to attack Niangziguan and peeped into Taiyuan. Therefore, the governor of Shaanxi was promoted, from Gansu to recruit troops again, from Pingliang to see Qianzhou, Shaanxi; then transferred the Qing army in Henan, and Tongguan in the west of Shaanxi; Ni Sichong, the Qing vassal in northern Anhui, was stationed in Yingbo; Zhang Xun, the defeated governor of Nanjing, from Xuzhou. Recruit the scattered army, attack Suzhou, contain the civilian army everywhere, and have the power to convince people..."

"Buff!" Li wanted to say, "The dog that can bite people doesn't bark."

"I don't look like a bluff." Miss Song shook her head worriedly and frowned, "After Mr. Zhongshan took office as the interim president, Yuan Shikai instigated "Duan Hu" and "Feng Gou" to contact more than 40 Beiyang officers, and telegraphed cabinet representatives to advocate the constitutional monarchy and strongly oppose the republic. When he played on behalf of Duan, Feng and other Beiyang generals, he said that the requirements of the people's army were too cool. According to Duan and Feng's proposition, he went on a crusade, but there was no military expenditure and could not be implemented. He was willing to resign as prime minister. The Empress Dowager Longyu comforted and issued 80,000 ingots of gold. In addition, she also issued an edict to donate bank deposits, which is estimated to be 40 million yuan, which is used as military expenses. After Yuan Shikai extorted a sum of money from his relatives, he issued another order for the whole army to prepare and fight again..."

"It's still a bluff!" Lixiang's smile is already very cold. "Yuan Shikai's conspiracy, on the one hand, is to exert pressure on the provisional government with Beiyang force, and on the other hand, in the name of supplementing military expenses, using it as a special use."

"Maybe you're right." Miss Song said discouragedly, "But Yuan Shikai's party members, Feng Guozhang, Duan Qirui and other 48 generals jointly telegraphed representatives of Wu Tingfang, claiming that they resolutely opposed the republic and supported the constitutional monarchy. Yuan Shikai's staff and subordinates even threatened everywhere: The subsequent battles are all Xiangcheng, not Manchuria."

Seeing that the north and south were about to fight, Miss Song was a little lack of confidence and looked at Li Xiang eagerly. Sun Yat-sen was so eager to come to him for discussion, that is, he had the intention to go to war.

"That is to say, in the future, it will no longer be the Qing court but Yuan Shikai that the civilian army will fight against. Hey! The so-called opposition to the republic, of course, is against the Nanjing government with its mentor as the president. This is a demonstration launched by Yuan Shikai's subordinates against the Nanjing government. There is nothing to be afraid if you want to start a fight a long time ago. I'm afraid that he won't come to fight with me and have to talk to the South, and it's just that he intimidates the revolutionaries to get more favorable conditions at the negotiating table. Li thought suddenly remembered and asked, "The tutor didn't take a telegram to Yuan Shikai after being elected president, saying: the heart of waiting for a virtual position can eventually be made in the future."

For this telegram, Li Xiang is still making a scene in Hongyuan.

Through a small courtyard in a neatly tidy West Garden, Miss Song said, "Yuan Shikai sent a telegram: Sun Yixian Junjian: I know. On the issue of monarchy and republican, there is no way to predict the national referendum. The words of the interim government did not dare to be heard. It's a false reward and temptation, and it's not worthy of it. I'm sorry to be lucky!"

"This can also be seen as the essence of his bluff. After all, he dismissed Tang Shaoyi, but did not deny the proposal of the National Assembly. No one in this era knows Yuan Shikai's thoughts more clearly than Li Xiang.

"It seems that we panicked when we first heard the intimidation of the Beiyang Army." Miss Song sighed, "It's true as you expected. After Tang Shaoyi's dismissal, she lived in Shanghai and claimed to be an outside mediation. She still had a secret business with Wu Tingfang. She went to Xiyintang every day and did not break the north and the south. On the one hand, he was forced and on the other hand, Yuan Shikai did have the means.

"Don't think that Yuan Shikai can take it lightly if he is bluffing. He will still eat us without hesitation whenever he has a chance." Li wanted to say, "If you don't sweep away the Beiyang disaster and carry out the revolution to the end, the Republic of China is just a dream, and the mentor is just the interim president."

Li Xiang never forgets to remind Miss Song anytime and anywhere that her ideal is closely related to the Northern Expedition.

When he came to the door of Sun Yat-sen's residence, Sun Yat-sen stood aside and greeted the invited guests with a smile. There are not many visitors, but they are all soldiers with large-brimmed hats. Seeing that Sun Yat-sen is really going to the north.

While taking advantage of Sun Yat-sen's tea, Li wanted to take a good looked at the living room.

This is an antique living room, simple and clean. On the north wall is a four-foot-high ink painting. On the picture, the clouds are green and rainy, and the water is light and smoke. Next to the half-moon-shaped arch bridge, a scholar looks at the sky with his hands on his back. On the south wall, there is also a banner, which is also four feet high and four feet long, which is in line with the north wall. It says four characters that Li Xiang is familiar with: the world is public!

shu: Sun Wen.

The layout of the living room fully highlights the owner's elegant taste and lofty ambition, and is also full of the warmth of Miss Song's personal decoration. Li Xiang was envious in his heart. There were many women around him, but none of them was as considerate as Miss Song.

Miss Song took out four cups of covered bowls of tea with a tea plate and said generously, "There is only the Lingnan Tieguanyin drunk by the president here. I don't know if you are used to it, so I can only invite you to drink it!"

Xu Shaozhen took the tea and said with a smile, "Although I am from Qiantang, I was born in Guangzhou. When I was a child, I drank Lingnan tea. There is nothing I'm not used to."

Everyone laughed.

Miss Song also directed the chef to bring out four dishes and a soup bowl, and said, "Once, the chef put one on the table

Mr. Zhongshan said, "It's too fastidious. Don't bring it again in the future." He eats every day

's ordinary bowls and chopsticks."

Everyone laughed again.

Sun Yat-sen watched the chef spread out four dishes and a soup bowl, pointed to them and said, "It's really urgent, so I can't wait for everyone to come home for dinner and call you. There are no good dishes to treat you when you come to me. Be slow, wait."

When everyone looked at it, there was a large bowl of warm jasper-like soup. The four dishes contained traditional Cantonese snack steamed vermicelli roll, roasted five-spice peanuts, radish cake, and a salt-baked fat chicken.

"These are all good dishes!" Hu Hanmin said that he grabbed a chicken wing casually. "This is an authentic Dongjiang salt baked chicken. It is made with a unique method, rich flavor, smooth skin, slightly yellow color, crispy skin and tender meat, delicious bone and meat, attractive flavor, delicious and famous. Soup is a famous national dish. Legend has it that the young emperor fled to a barren mountain and broken temple on the outskirts of Chaozhou one evening. Later, there were chasing soldiers. There was a sunset in front of him. He must have burst into tears. However, the people take food as the sky, and there is nothing in the belly, and this dragon seed is no exception. However, the precious food and jade food in the past was like a sunset in front of me, leaving only a sad memory. The old monk waited for the driver in panic. In the pure land of Brahma, it was difficult to cook imperial food, so he hurriedly grabbed a pinch of sweet potato leaves from the back garden of the temple, boiled the water, sprinkled some salt, and served the meal to save him. Unexpectedly, the young emperor ate it and praised it. He asked why this dish was. The monk was smart and casually replied, "Protecting the country's dish". After listening to it, the king and ministers praised it, and everyone was very happy. This steamed vermicelli roll is also a famous snack in Chaozhou..."

"Mr. Hu is really eye-catching," Miss Song said, "Mr. Zhongshan's diet is usually very simple, often four dishes and one soup. Today, I specially ordered someone to go to "Fun Leju"

I bought a Dongjiang salt-baked fat chicken to treat guests. As for this bowl of national cuisine and the other three dishes, they were made by the chef of the presidential palace.

Li wants to review it carefully. The taste of Cantonese cuisine is famous for its light taste, while that of Hunan, which is similar to that of Guangdong, is different from the south. It is famous for its heavy taste, especially spicy! Looking at the delicious food on the table, there is nothing to taste.

"There are more than four dishes today!" Sun Yat-sen smiled happily and said, "Yi Ling, go and ask if the Hunan specialties prepared by the chef have been cooked. You see, Ke Qiang, Li Shuai and Tianwei haven't finished their chopsticks yet."

Xu Shaozhen said with a smile, "Xiangwei is heavy on the word 'spicy'. Can you stand it, the president?"

Sun Yat-sen laughed and said, "I can't stand it. I'm sacrificing my life to accompany the gentleman today."

Miss Song also laughed and said, "I think the personality of Hunan people is made by eating chili."

Everyone will smile. The living room is full of home entertainment. No matter how you look at it, you can't see that Sun Yat-sen has anything urgent to ask them to discuss.

Li Xiang's dish had not come up yet. He took his chopsticks and ate a little and put them down. Suddenly, he asked Sun Yat-sen, "I heard that forty-eight generals of the Beiyang faction led by Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang sent a joint message to the south, saying that they vowed to support the monarch constitution to the death, resolutely oppose the republic, and to fight again?"