167 suffer before suffering

The weather is warm in the spring. It's just that there is still a chill in the morning. At noon, the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the soft light is scattered all over the streets.

Li Xiang walked through the sunny street and entered a teahouse. The narcissus was already waiting for him.

"Have you eaten yet?" Li wanted to ask.

"Not yet," the Narcissus smiled and said, "Don't worry."

Li Xiang sat opposite the narcissus and asked for the hair tip of Hujun Mountain.

"What's the matter with me?" The Narcissus asked.

Li wanted to pull out a cigarette and hesitated for a long time. Finally, Narcissus took out a lighter and lit it for him.

Li Xiang took a deep breath and said, "It's nothing. I'm bored. I just want to find someone to accompany me for tea."

"I have some information to report to you?"

"What's the matter?"

"Yuan Shikai appointed Lu Zhengxiang as Prime Minister."

"Lu Zhengxiang?"

"The former minister of the Qing Dynasty in Russia, after the Wuchang Uprising, he cooperated with some foreign envoys to ask the Qing Emperor to abdicate. Therefore, he became the head of foreign affairs of the Tang cabinet."

"I know that." Li wanted to take a cigarette impatiently and said.

"Yuan Shikai pushed him out to be the prime minister because he was non-partisan and could realize his idea of a detached prime minister's mixed cabinet. The Senate voted by 74 votes to 10. Lu Zhengxiang got the support of the Republican Party, and the Alliance and the United Republican Party saw that they did not have the hope of forming a separate cabinet, so they did not oppose it fiercely.

"How to say?" Li wanted to ask, "Song Jiaoren is frequent in Beijing. Hasn't he been preparing for a political party cabinet?"

In order to express the position of the party cabinet, the League announced that all the members of the League would withdraw from the cabinet the day after the establishment of Lu Zhengxiang's cabinet: "In view of the disadvantages of the mixed cabinet, and the harm of the detached cabinet is the same, that is, it absolutely advocates the party cabinet. There is no way to remove the obstacles to political progress. This time, Lu Zhengxiang is the premier, Lu Junshuo, and both Chinese and foreign, but the righteousness is detached, which is not in line with the Party's ideas. The state officials of Wudang, together with Cai Yuanpei, Song Jiaoren, Wang Chonghui, Chen Qimei and Wang Zhengting, have retired in accordance with the resolutions of most comrades of the Association. On the same day that the League sent a telegram, Song Jiaoren, Cai Yuanpei, Wang Chonghui, Wang Zhengting and others once again proposed their resignation to Yuan Shikai. The next day, they went to the presidential palace to face Yuan Shikai and resigned.

"Yuan Shikai won't break up so early..."

"Yes!" Narcissus said, "Yuan Shikai knew that it was not the time to break with the alliance, so he expressed his determination to retain Song, Cai and others."

Li Xiang didn't know what he was thinking. After a long time, he squeaked his mouth and said, "Yuan Shikai still needs the alliance to decorate his face and will not approve their resignation."

Narcissus nodded gently and said, "In order to express their determination to resign, Song Jiaoren, Cai Yuanpei and others sent a letter to Lu Zhengxiang, stating that from now on, they will not attend the State Council and will no longer work in the Ministry. Yuan Shikai will be asked to send someone to take over as soon as possible. Only then did Yuan Shikai approve the resignation of Song, Cai and other alliance members.

Li Xiang sighed, "Song Jiaoren's efforts are destined to be in vain. Yuan Shikai can't be embarrassed like this."

"It's the same. Although the League issued a telegram, in addition to ordering the cabinet members of the League to resign, it also stipulated: "All members of the Association are not allowed to join freely." However, Yuan Shikai ignored the statement of the Alliance Association and was still ready to appoint Sun Yuyun, Hu Ying and Shen Bingkun, the members of the Alliance, as the presidents of the Education, Agriculture and Forestry, Industry and Commerce respectively. Sun, Hu and Shen are all members of the Alliance, and they are also new members of the Provisional Senate. After coming to Beijing, I was the most comfortable with Yuan Shikai.

"There are traitors in the alliance again. Was Song Jiaoren angry and vomited blood?"

Since Song Jiaoren joined the alliance, he has had a good journey and full of ambition. He has both the ability to organize party affairs and the ability to manage the management.

Quality is a capable, speakable and hard-working person. Perhaps it was he who was too shrewd and capable that made many allies stay away from him.

Compason with him, Li Xiang is also jealous in the alliance meeting, so there is always a feeling that heroes cherish each other and can't help feeling.

"Song Jiaoren accused Yuan Shikai of this move as a "rape policy". He held an internal meeting of the alliance meeting and officially rejected the opinions of Sun, Hu and Shen to participate in the cabinet. And sent Wei Chen's group to meet Yuan Shikai and asked him not to propose it.

"Yuan Shikai should know that people like Sun, Hu and Shen will not be willing to be lonely. Song Jiaoren's protest is unlikely to come to an end.

"Yuan Shikai ignored the resolution of the League and still proposed these three people as supplementary cabinet members. Because the Republican Party disagreed with Hu Ying, they replaced Hu Ying with Wang Wen. The final list of supplementary cabinet members proposed by Yuan Shikai are: Finance Zhou Ziqi, Transportation Hu Weide, Judicial Zhang Zongxiang, Agriculture and Forestry King Humanities, Industry and Commerce Shen Bingkun, Education Sun Yuyun.

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Lu Zhengxiang was appointed as Prime Minister and was appointed as Prime Minister by the Senate with 74 votes. On the same day, Lu Zhengxiang, as the Prime Minister, took the list of cabinet members proposed by Yuan Shikai and went to the Senate to report on the policy and asked for approval.

Lu Zhengxiang said in a speech:

"Zhengxiang came to your hospital today to meet the gentlemen for the first time, and it was also the first time to work directly with the gentlemen. Zhengxiang was very happy. For the past 20 years, Zhengxiang has always been out, and this time he came back with a new atmosphere. When I was in the ocean, although I had 20 years, I hoped for the heart of my country and never forgot it for a day. The three-year tenure of a minister has not yet been stipulated, so it is a rare opportunity to return to China in 20 years. However, whenever you meet a Chinese in a foreigner, or a distinguished guest, or a merchant, or a student, or a hard worker, they all deal with it. Because Zhengxiang likes his own people very much. This time, there are very few friends in the country. It is a great honor for the gentlemen to treat Zhengxiang with their own people when they are in the ocean. In the past 20 years, the first time I returned to China was only three months, and I was in Beijing for only two weeks. The second return to China was the year before last, around November in my home country. When I came back, I had little contact with people from all walks of life, and people from all walks of life looked like a strange person. Zhengxiang did not want to eat wine, did not want to compliment the officialdom, and his relatives did not contact him. It was said that Zhengxiang did not quote his own people and refused to borrow money, so he was extremely indifferent in the social field. This time, he didn't want to compliment the officialdom and didn't quote the person who refused to borrow money. He actually asked him to do great things. He thought about himself at night. Today is the happiest day of his life. I didn't know there was a birthday when I was in a foreign country. Because my mother passed away early, this time can really be said to be the day of rebirth. The above words are not within business..."

The legislators listened to Lu's speech and made a big deal. Because Lu has an international reputation, the legislators think that they must have high opinions. How can they know that Lu is a foreign slave who is ignorant and doesn't understand politics at all? When he attended the Senate meeting and explained the list of cabinet members to the senators, he said a lot of vulgar words. The legislators listened to it and understood that Lu Zhengxiang was talking about opening the menu and writing. Birthday or other nonsense.

"Lu Zhengxiang's proposed supplementary candidate for cabinet members. Finance is Zhou Ziqi, transportation is Hu Weide, justice is Zhang Zongxiang, agriculture and forestry is Wang Wenwen, industry and commerce are Shen Bingkun, and education is Sun Yuyun. Unexpectedly, there are no unified Republicans."

The senator is unintentional, but the listener is intentional.

The League would have disagreed with the mixed cabinet, but naturally opposed it. The United Republican Party originally hoped to enter the cabinet, but now no one knows that it has been fooled by the Republican Party, and is equally indignant.

"Lu Zhengxiang's speech is obscene and does not deserve to be the prime minister."

Some of the angry Republican legislators began to find fault with Lu Zhengxiang.

However, some people said, "It's better to let Lu have a try."

"Give us a reason."

This person said five reasons in one breath: (I) Lu's speech in the Senate is to explain the reasons for the cabinet members, not to express political opinions; (II) The current situation is that the government is better than the absence of government, and the formation of the cabinet has not been completed. Without testing, there is no way to distinguish between good and bad; (III) Lu Xu's life does not gamble or birthdays. Seeing that his people are not pretentious or bullying; (4) Yuan later told people that even if he was not good at speaking, he was not not enough to serve as a prime minister. Bismarck blushed as soon as he arrived at the parliament, but Bismarck was a great politician; (5) Lu Zhengxiang won 74 votes in the Senate. If he overthrew his prime minister because of a conversation, the 74 votes in favor on that day would not be blind.

Despite Yuan Shikai's party members have the above proposition, the Senate still embarrass the mainland. Under the principle of not giving Premier Lu face, it rejected all the lists of the six cabinet members proposed by Lu in one go. Before Lu Zhengxiang passed the prime minister's addiction, he first tasted the pain of being a prime minister.

Hearing the news, Yuan Shikai hurriedly sent a letter to the Senate proposing to suspend the vote.

"President, I am the ability of an unorganized cabinet." After telling his story, Lu Zhengxiang looked calmer: "This is my resignation."

"Detchaunal cabinetism is my proposition." Yuan Shikai declared, "In any case, I can't change my purpose."

"President." Lu Zhengxiang is very distressed, but he can't always think like this. Whether he can adjust his mood is related to his future life. I have a brainache, and the foreign doctor of the church wants me to rest more.

Before Lu Zhengxiang passed the Prime Minister's addiction, he first tasted the pain of being a prime minister. He was so scared that he had to call him sick and go to the hospital. In fact, he had no face to see people. After he was admitted to the hospital, he refused to come out.

Yuan Shikai is determined to use his means to force the Senate to comply. He played with both soft and hard hands.

To this end, Yuan Shikai invited more than 60 senators from all parties to the presidential palace for a "tea party".

"The Beijing Federation of Military and Police accused the Senate of holding the party's opinion, pretending to be difficult and destroying the overall situation." Yuan Shikai's words scared people. At present, internal affairs and diplomacy are in danger. I hope that you will get rid of your presinekes and work together to save the country.

Then, Yuan Shikai incited and said, "Shikai is not honest, so that he is moved, but there is room for turning around, and he will never hesitate to follow each other."

"There are some people in the parliament who only know that there is a party, but they don't know that there is a country!" Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, Zhao Bingjun and others of Beiyang Group and their followers understood, and then said one after another: "It will be proposed that the members will still be handed over to the court for a vote. If he doesn't know how to react and is bent on holding it, he can only send the signature first to be responsible for it!"

Some people even shouted murderously, "Although I was scolded by the destructive legislature, I don't care."

Immediately, the parliament was scared by these soldiers and said, "The president will act cheaply for the time being. Don't allow the contract law to wait for death."

Some boneless legislators actually said, "It's better to have no Senate than no government."

Yuan Shikai saw that the public opinion that forced the Senate to take Fan had initially formed, so he took the opportunity to propose a supplementary list of second cabinet members: "I know that there is a problem with Lu Zhengxiang's last cabinet nomination, so this time after soliciting the opinions of the general public, he put forward a new list - finance Zhou Xuexi, judicial Xu Shiying, education Fan Yuanlin, Nonglin Chen Zhenxian, traffic Zhu Qiqi, Jiang Zuobin of Industry and Commerce.

There are still people who want to make the alliance and the United Republican Party.

Yuan Shikai said gloomily: "The appointment of state officials is agreed by the senators. As stipulated in the Provisional Treaty Law, those who deny the right to agree are the denial of the treaty law; those who insult the right to agree are insulted to the treaty law; the members of all parties exercise the right of consent to protect the spirit of the Republic of China, wash away the bad habits of bureaucrats, maintain sound political opinions, and seek the real The Republic."

Yuan Shikai thought that Lu Zhengxiang was pretending to be ill in the hospital, but he refused to come out. Zhao Jianjun, his trusted internal affairs chief, was the best candidate to replace the prime minister. He was just worried that there would be more resistance, so he only said, "As for the candidate for the prime minister, it will be agreed after Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing come to Beijing. Zhao Bingjun is temporarily appointed as the acting prime minister.