324 is just empty talk

A sound of horses' hoofs came from far and near, breaking the tranquility of the morning, and the horse stopped outside the Hongyuan with a hisss.

Li Xiang broke in with a sweat and went straight to Mr. Sun Yat-sen's room.

"Why is the tutor so irresponsible? Did you send such a telegram to Yuan Shikai? What is the virtual waiting heart? Does the president want to step down before he took office?

Li Xiang's angry roar made Xuan Hongyuan restless early in the morning.

Sun Yat-sen looked at the impulsive general, shook his head secretly, and said with a straight face, "I have always been unwilling to compromise, and the comrades who have important responsibilities inside and outside are inclined to peace."

Li Xiang was stunned. He knew that at the few banquets attended by Sun Yat-sen in the past few days, almost all the elite figures in Shanghai Beach held peace votes, and the Northern Expedition votes were all middle and lower-level officers of the revolutionary army. These officers were not "comrades with important responsibilities inside and outside", so he was powerless to resist and only seek compromise?

Li Xiang said in a low voice: "Yuan Shikai waved the olive branch of peace to the southern revolutionaries with the intention of defrauding the presidency; with the other hand, he clenched the butcher's knife and wantonly killed the revolutionaries in the northern provinces to consolidate his territory. He thought that in case the peace could not be negotiated, he could also fight against the revolutionary army according to several provinces in the north. Yuan Shikai took advantage of the comprehensive armistice between the two sides to carry out a bloody suppression of patriots from the northern provinces in the name of bandits. In mid-to-late December, Cao Kun and Lu Yongxiang led the third town to attack Shanxi, occupied Niangzi Pass, fell into Taiyuan, and divided troops to plunder Jinnan Yanbei. Zhang Xiluan served as the governor of Shanxi. At the same time, Qi Yaolin replaced Bao as the governor of Henan and ordered the arrest of the Revolutionary Party and the killing of eleven people including Zhang Zhongrui, a member of the Alliance in Kaifeng. Previously, Sun Baoqi, the governor of Shandong Province, was forced to declare independence under the pressure of alliance members and gentry merchants of the consultation bureau. After Yuan Shikai formed a cabinet, he sent Zhang Guangjian and Wu Bingxiang to Shandong to incite Wu Dingyuan and Zhang Shuyuan, the fifth town, to oppose independence. After Sun Baoqi canceled the fake independence on November 24, he immediately sent the fifth town to the states and counties to suppress the revolutionary people. Officials in the province are about the arrest and killing of the Democratic Party. There are more than ten million killings in cities and Mexico. Ni Sichong led his troops to capture Taihe and Yingzhou in northern Anhui. Zhao Wei and Zhou Fulin led the Yi army to attack Tongguan from western Henan in an attempt to eliminate the Shaanxi Revolutionary Army. Yuan Shikai also sent Zhang Zhenfang to take over the role of the governor of Zhili and strictly control the territory of Zhili..."

Sun Yat-sen cried in his heart and whispered, "But what the people's army is concerned about is Yuan Shikai's attitude towards the Republic and whether he can force the Qing Emperor to abdicrate."

Li Xiang hated secretly and sighed, "But do you know that Yuan Shikai is concerned about whether he can be the president and whether he has real power. The president he hopes for is a president who can take all power, similar to the emperor."

"Therefore, the first phase of the North-South peace talks focused on the establishment of the National Assembly and the representation of provinces." Sun Yat-sen hurriedly said, "In the view of the civilian army, the National Assembly represents the implementation of civil rights, which is the basis of the republican regime and the fundamental to the power of the president. After many meetings, the representatives of the two sides reached the terms of the National Assembly to be held in Shanghai on January 8 next year. The provisions stipulate that the National Congress is composed of 24 departments, including Inner Mongolia, Tibet and provinces, each with three representatives. The representatives of the three northeastern provinces, Zhiluyu, Gansu and Xinjiang are convened by the Qing government, the representatives of the representatives of the 14 independent provinces are convened by the provisional government of the Republic of China, and the representatives of the two departments of Mongolia and Tibet are called by double The party is called by electricity. The government of the Republic of China controls at least 42 representatives from 14 provinces, and representatives who are inclined to the republic, basically guarantees the two-thirds majority required to exercise the presidential power. This result is beneficial to the south.

"What's the use of having a ticket in your hand? It's the hard truth to have a gun in your hand!" Li Shang suddenly sneered, "Yuan Shikai doesn't have a gun in his hand. Are you so afraid of him? I don't have a gun in my hand. How dare I stand up with the foreign devils?

"..."

"I've said everything I have to say, and you understand." Li wanted to take out a ball of paper from his trousers pocket and threw it to Sun Yat-sen. "This is Li Yuanhong's congratulatory message. To tell you the truth, he is a puppet that I hung up.

Sun Yat-sen unfolded the paper ball, and it was scribbled: "In a moment, the provincial representative meeting said: As the temporary president, Mr. was elected, congratulations! Sir knows the ages, cares about the world, saves the decadent wind of the end of the world, restores the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, so that the sea can see the prestige of Han officials again, not only the blessing of 40,000 compatriots, that is, the eastern and western countries also admire the high wind, for the National Day of China! This is a special message to congratulate you. Long live the Republic of China! Long live the President of the Republic of China!"

After looking at him carefully for a while, Sun Yat-sen took a deep breath and said, "After taking office as the interim president, I will try my best to mediate and start the Northern Expedition."

"Don't worry!" Li wanted to nod firmly and said, "Hubei 100,000 revolutionary troops, 30 million people are all your backing!"

Seeing that he was so firm, Sun Yat-sen said excitedly, "I originally planned to be the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition Alliance Army, with Hubei and Xiang as the first army, from the Jinghan Railway; Ning and Anhui as the second army, advancing to Henan, and joining the first army between Kaifeng and Zhengzhou; Huaiyang as the third army, Yantai as the fourth army, towards the mountain. Moving east, it will be in Jinan; Qinhuangdao will join the army outside the customs as the fifth army, and Shanshan as the sixth army, and move forward to Beijing. After the first, second, third and fourth armies have achieved their first goal, they will join the fifth and sixth armies and break the nest together. Don't worry about the success of the revolution.

Li Xiangxin said that since the situation has never broken down, this seemingly grand plan is just a piece of paper. My heart was moved, and I still went to Nanjing as soon as possible to attract some allies who were interested in the Northern Expedition. He said with a straight face, "As long as I can reach my ability in Hubei, I am bound to define it."

Sun Yat-sen frowned and said, "What is beyond his ability?"

Li thought, "Some people are just empty talk instead of action, not the real Northern Expedition."

Tan Yanqi from Hunan, Sun Daoren from Fujian, Lu Rongting from Guangxi, Shen Bingkun and other local authorities with troops, but they passionately called the Nanjing government, saying that they were firmly opposed to the continuation of the armistice and insisted on an immediate expedition to the north. They replaced their actions with empty talk, and added all the responsibility for the negotiation and timidity and the resulting surrender of Yuan Shikai to the Nanjing Provisional Government.

The armies of all provinces are in the hands of the authorities in each province. Although some troops from Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi and other provinces ran out of the province due to internal conflicts in the province and came to the Nanjing area in the name of Beizhi, they only reached out to ask the Nanjing government for food and salary, and did not obey the command of the Nanjing government.

Sure enough, Sun Yat-sen also thought of this and frowned and said, "Then you go to Nanjing first. What should you do? You have to discuss it with Brother Keqiang!"

Li wanted to let go of half of his mind, because there was still Huang Xing's elbow and said, "I'm going now."

Sun Yat-sen sighed, "Go ahead."

Looking at Li Xiang's back leaving unwillingly, Sun Yat-sen's helplessness in his heart was really endless.

Before the outbreak of the Wuchang Revolution, China had been divided into two parts: constitutionalists and revolutionaries. As soon as the revolution broke out, the constitutionalists gave up their banner of constitutional monarchy and advocated republicanism, saying that they would participate in the revolution, but the constitutionalists were still constitutionalists. Their idea was to absolutely avoid using revolutionary methods, but to use reformist methods to compromise and accommodate the landlords to achieve the republic. This idea of the constitutionalists has received a sympathetic response from the revolutionary factions who believe that the victory of the revolution has been achieved, or at least has been expected. The difference between the constitutionalists and the revolutionaries seems to no longer exist, and many revolutionaries no longer think that they have any difference between themselves and the constitutionalists. Formally, the constitutionalists conform to the revolutionary trend, but in fact, the revolutionaryists are largely assimilated by the constitutionalists ideologically and politically. The temporary regime of the Nanjing Provisional Government can be said to be a joint regime of Chinese revolutionaries and constitutionalists. In this union, the dominant idea is the idea of the constitutionalists.

Sun Yat-sen even felt that the Alliance at this time could no longer play a leading role as a revolutionary organization. Before Wuchang's righteousness, he heard Wu Yuzhang say, "Since the failure of the Guangzhou Uprising, the alliance has tended to be lax, and after the Wuchang Uprising, it has almost fallen into a state of disintegration." As soon as he returned to Shanghai, he heard Zhang Taiyan say, "The revolutionary army rises and the revolutionary party disappears." Although these two sentences are extremely wrong, they are very true to describe the situation at this time.

What made Sun Yat-sen more frustrated was that some members of the alliance followed the constitutional faction and played the same tune on the same instrument. Wu Tingfang and Zhang Jian led the publication of a "Republishment Opinions of the Republican Unification Association", which was drafted by Zhang Taiyan, and Wang Jingwei and many other senior cadres of the League were listed as the initiators. Although this opinion expresses its advocacy of the "communist political system" and advocates the "speed northward expedition", it expresses great concern that it will be difficult to "restore order" due to the prevalence of the air of democracy and freedom. The declaration said: "If it is unrecovered, or it has been in chaos for a long time, it will inevitably lead to a state of anarchy, which is a great worry in the era of republican transformation. "It's also a problem." The declaration also believes that the extension of the war will inevitably lead to the interference of the great powers. "If you want to avoid the interference of the great powers, you will be able to achieve the success of the revolution." At the beginning of the revolution, it was afraid that the revolution would be too much. It was just a manifestation of the idea that the upper bourgeoisie was afraid of the revolution and sought to end the revolution as soon as possible.

There are also some original ally members who form another political party. Zhang Taiyan and Tao Chengzhang reorganized the Guangkai Association, and Chen Qimei, the alliance, openly grabbed the territory. Sun Yat-sen also heard that some members of the Hubei Alliance Association Sun Wu, Zhang Zhenwu and others were abandoned by Li Xiang because they once supported Li Yuanhong. These frustrated members of the Hubei Alliance Association are preparing to set up a "people's social society" with a political party nature in Shanghai. Zhang Taiyan was the first to put forward the saying that "the revolutionary army rises, the revolutionary party disappears". Sun Wu is very much in favor of this statement, and also developed this statement and put forward "the establishment of the republic, the revolutionary army disappears". In this way, of course, what they organize is not a party with the purpose of revolution. Their party is a party that advocates compromise with Yuan Shikai.

Before Sun Yat-sen returned to China, the League, which was in a state of collapse, only issued a declaration in Shanghai in the name of the Alliance Headquarters. Although this declaration also says that it also needs to "drive the river, plough the court to sweep the cave, restore our old state, establish the Republic of China, and get the original intention", but in its many flashy words, there is no specific discussion on the situation after the Wuchang uprising and what role the alliance will play. At that time, various old forces created public opinion in society that the revolutionary party was nothing more than to be in power. Sun Yat-sen made such a defense in this declaration: "If you succeed, you will be scattered in the city, or you will be in the forest, and you will get your own place". You will never be "arrogant the group, the power of power, and the family is the world."

After Sun Yat-sen returned to China, he called a meeting of party members that night in Shanghai and issued another declaration, which was more practical than the previous one. It pointed out that among the party members, there is a situation that "opinions are not the same, and the discussion is different from each other" and "good and wrong can be distinguished, and the smoke is the same as one". It believes that now "the number of wins and losses has not been expected. Once the heart of the army collapses, the people's spirit will sink. At this critical moment, it will take the lead and donate the liver and brain as the driving force to fight for the last one, and who belongs to our party." Therefore, "must be self-combined first to become a strong group" in order to "acknowledge" and "Luo Zhi" all aspects of power. This declaration refuted the statement that "the revolutionary army rises and the revolutionary party disappears" and believes that "the responsibility of our party does not go to nationalism, but to civil rights and people's livelihoodism." Although Sun Yat-sen's declaration proposed to "transform" the alliance, it actually failed to do it.

Hu Hanmin also said to Li Xiang, "It was the initial success of our party's revolution. Once it was made public as a political party, a group of bureaucratic politicians and speculators came to join the party. In the past, there were comrades who successfully gave up their responsibilities and those who formed another party because they were dissatisfied.

However, it should also be pointed out that in the provinces that are still under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, in Nanjing and the provinces that have been separated from the rule of the Qing Dynasty, there are many aspiring people who have participated in or not participated in the alliance. They hold the good wish to build an independent and democratic new China, are fighting and working, and even do not hesitate to shed blood and sacrifice. . For these positive forces, the headquarters of the League cannot lead and organize them. They see that reality does not match their wishes, or gradually become depressed, or finally assimilated by the old social forces. As for the problem of how to mobilize and organize the huge revolutionary forces hidden among the working people, mainly the peasant masses, the Alliance will not take into account in its declarations and constitutions.

Li Xiang jumped on horseback and looked up at the clear and transparent sky like blue crystal. The crystal clear white snow on the eaves ran away like a horse.

This road ahead is rugged, and you can only rely on yourself to move forward.

At dusk, Little Toyo Miyazaki walked into Sun Yat-sen's apartment. All of Sun Yat-sen's subordinates went to Nanjing to prepare for the establishment of an interim government. In the setting sun, the usually noisy courtyard looks lonely, and the building is empty.

Sun Yat-sen is sorting out documents in the study. Miyazaki walked into the study, looked at it quietly for a while, and suddenly asked, "Don't you feel lonely today?"

"No, I'm too busy. There are only a few of us left, but it's still quiet. Sun Yat-sen said and continued to sort out the documents.

At this time, Secretary Miss Song came in and delivered the presidential dress that had just been sewn. She was extremely gentle and considerate to help Sun Yat-sen try it on.

Sun Yat-sen stood in front of the cabinet mirror and looked around. Miss Song helped him tidy up his collar and tidy up his movements with affection.

Sun Yat-sen casually asked Miyazaki, "How about it? Is it okay?"

Miyazaki stared at Sun Yat-sen affectionately and answered faintly, "It's sloppy. What, do you feel very happy?"

With the help of Miss Song, Sun Yat-sen took off his dress again, smiled indifferently and said, "Is it a pleasant talk? It's still hard!"

"What's the matter with you looking for me?" Miyazaki asked loudly.

Sun Yat-sen hesitated again and again, but said, "Can you lend me five million yuan? I'm going to Nanjing tomorrow to be the president, but I'm penniless.

Miyazaki was shocked and said with an exaggerated smile, "I'm not a magician. Where can I get so much money in a night?"

"It doesn't matter if you don't have money tomorrow. But if you don't promise to lend me five million yuan within a week, I will have to run away as president. As soon as he finished speaking, Sun Yat-sen couldn't help showing a bitter smile on his face.

Miyazaki restrained his smile and said, "There is no way, but he wants your student, Li Dashuai, to nod."

"Brother Keqiang has already said that it is impossible. Hubei is the most tragic battlefield, and Li Xiang also has his difficulties. Before Miyazaki finished speaking, Sun Yat-sen stopped the road.

Miyazaki couldn't help laughing and said, "Of course I know that he is very kind if he doesn't ask you for money."

Sun Yat-sen suddenly felt embarrassed and said blankly, "So... what should I do?"

"Let me tell you, it's a good way to protect it." Miyazaki changed his tone and said treacherously, "There are several consortia in Japan that are interested in Han Yeping Company. Han Yeping Company is the industry of Manting. You can borrow a loan from a Japanese consortium by using the assets of this company as collateral... Han Yeping Company is located in Hanyang, which must be nod by Li Xiang... ...You don't need to come forward by yourself to find Sheng Xuanhuai. He is a veteran in this field..."

"No!" Miss Song, who was standing next to her, had already changed her face and blurted out, "In order to solve the financial crisis, Manting used Sheng Xuanhuai's strategy to forcibly nationalize the Hanchuan Railway, and then mortgaged it to foreign banks for loans, which aroused the anger of the masses of the people and ignited wolves everywhere, and even Wuchang's head righteousness, one manchang chaos, and ten thousand people's view!"

What she said was urgent and fast, not only because she wanted to reach an alliance with Li, but also instinctively realized the seriousness of this matter.

Miyazaki said with an embarrassed smile, "You just think I didn't say anything."

Sun Yat-sen saw her beautiful little red face, smiled in pain, and nodded and said, "Don't worry, I won't make such a mistake."

"This is the bottom line of the Chinese people. Don't touch it at will." Miss Song nodded with a smile in a blink of an eye and said, "But it's the time when you need money. Marshal Li has to find a way for him anyway. I heard from my father that he is presiding over the merger of the Hankou Chamber of Commerce and the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, and is preparing to establish Xinhua Bank, issuing a share capital of 10 million taels. The capital is far more than the Daqing Bank of Manting, and his Hankou military government has a shareholding of 5 million taels. He is very rich. Three hundred warriors live in the best hotel in Shanghai. The gentleman asked him for millions, which is not much.