303 Impact

303 Impact (Part 1)

In Beijing's social life, Li wants to socialize most with those famous democrats, people in the scientific and technological industry, as well as international friends. Liang Qichao, Lin Changmin, Cai E, Zhang Taiyan, Gu Hongming, Xiong Xiling, etc. have the closest relationship with Li Xiang. Li Xiang talked about nothing among them, and often talked for a few hours. Li wants to introduce the Kuomintang's policy of peace and democracy and the construction of Hubei, and expose the civil war dictatorship policy of the Beiyang authorities. Li's profound knowledge, incisive insights and humor made them sigh.

Of course, some novel words often come out of Li Xiang's mouth, which also let everyone see the language characteristics of this "crazy".

At the same time, Zhang Taiyan, a "madman", admitted that he was a madman, but he said that revolution needs a psychopath: "Dafan is very talkative. People who are not psychopaths can't think, can think and dare not say. When encountering hardships, people who are not mentally ill can't go back and do their own way. Therefore, in ancient times, those who have a college questioner to become a big career must have a psychopath to do it... For this reason, the brothers admitted that they were mentally ill. I also hope that all of you comrades will have one or two points of mental illness. Recently, it has been said that so-and-so is mentally ill, and so-and-so is also mentally ill. In my brother's opinion, I'm not afraid of mental illness. I'm afraid that when Fugui Lilu appears in front of him, the mental illness will be cured immediately. This is the only way!"

The rare thing about this rare person is that many people who were "psycholy ill" before the revolution quickly "cured" in the glory and wealth after the revolution, and he is still sick, and the more ill he is.

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Li Xiang did not forget to listen to the suggestions of political and cultural activists who have been fighting for a long time in the Beiyang unified area.

"The delegation's peace talks were very fruitful." Li Xiang said, "Next time I'm going to put forward a * opinion to Yuan Shikai: (1) In peace. We will realize national unity on the basis of democracy and unity, build an independent, free and prosperous new China, and completely realize the righteousness of the three people.

(2) Support Yuan Shikai and recognize Yuan Shikai's leadership in the country.

(3) Recognize the equal and legal status of all democratic parties, including the Kuomintang, and establish the policy of long-term cooperation between the North and the South and peaceful state of the country.

(4) Recognize the achievements and legal status of the troops and local governments in maintaining the unification of the border areas.

(V) Stop all armed conflicts, and the ministries will stay on standby for the time being.

(6) Realize political democratization, nationalize the army, and be equal and legal.

(7) Necessary methods for political democratization: Beijing Zheng government will convene political meetings of representatives of all parties and non-party parties, and all parties will participate in the government and re-elect the National Assembly; the central government will recommend the chairmen of the provincial capitals of Hubei District and Rehe, Chahar, Hebei, Shandong and Shanxi provinces, Suiyuan, Henan, Jiangsu, An Vice-chairmen of the ten provinces of Anhui, Hubei, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Northeast China, and deputy mayors of the four special cities of Beiping, Tianjin, Kaifeng and Shanghai; promote local autonomy and universal suffrage.

(8) Necessary measures for the nationalization of the army: fair and reasonable reorganize the national army and determine the phased implementation plan; the troops in Hubei are organized into 16 army and 48 divisions, stationed in the Huaihe River Basin and the area north of Longhai Road; Kuomintang and local military personnel participate in the work of the Army Department and other departments; establish Wuhan The camp and the Southern Political Committee, served as the director of the Kuomintang.

(9) Necessary methods for party equality: release political prisoners, lift all unreasonable bans, remove secret agents, etc.

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Everyone thought about Li's words.

This is an extremely important peace document, which is actually the basic document for the peace talks between Beiyang and the Kuomintang.

This document made many obvious concessions compared with all the publicly published documents in Wuhan before Li Xiang went to Beijing. Among them, the most important concession is that Li Xiang not only gave up the idea of establishing a democratic coalition government.

The whole plan has two characteristics: one is that it adheres to the policy of peace, democracy and unity politically; the other is that it has made huge concessions.

It's just that on the issue of the army and Hubei, Li wants to offer a higher price, but he is not divorced from the actual price. The reason why the price is higher is to preserve Li Xiang's achievements in the revolution as much as possible, and also to leave some room for bargaining with Yuan Shikai.

Why did Li want to make such a big concession? Of course, because Beiyang is the largest military and political force in China, it is also in the ruling position and its politics. The economic and military strength is much stronger than that of Wuhan, and Li thought he must admit this basic fact. But on the other hand, it also shows that Li wants to yearn for peace and has great sincerity for peace talks.

Of course, in the face of a strong opponent, for the interests of the Kuomintang and the fundamental interests of the people, Li Xiang, Tang Hualong and others also put forward their own demands in these nine opinions.

Its main contents are: determining the principle of building a peaceful and democratic country; recognizing the liberated areas and the army led by the Communist Party of China; recognizing the legal and equal status of all parties; stopping all armed conflicts; quickly ending party governance and taking necessary measures to achieve political democratization, military nationalization and equal party cooperation.

In a word, the impact of this plan will be immeasurable in the whole Beijing negotiations, which has always led Li Xiang and Tang Hualong in the peace talks.

History has entered the intersection of World War I. With the realization of the highest-level negotiations between the north and the south of Beijing, Yuan Shikai has been given the best opportunity. As long as he gives up the old feudal autocracy, changes the wrong policies in the past, conforms to the new historical trend, and adopts Li Xiang's correct opinions, it is not only the peaceful reunification of China. It is expected to come true, and he himself may also become the common leader of all parties and the domestic people. Li Xiang and others will wait and see where it will go.

In this conversation, Li Xiang has been talking about late at night and still refuses to rest. When Tang Yuewan was waiting to persuade Li to have a rest, he said, "It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. There are too many quilts in my room. Let's put it on the floor and talk about it!" Let's talk about it!"

Li Xiang's selfless work style moved everyone very much.

Visiting all walks of life in the Beiyang government and army is also an important activity of Li Xiang.

For this reason, many people in the Kuomintang naturally find it difficult to understand. They complain that there is nothing good about such a counter-revolutionary expert? But Li Xiang had a different view. He patiently explained, "Yes, these people are counter-revolutionary. But didn't I come to Beijing to negotiate with the reactionary leader Yuan Shikai? Beijing is now in power of Beiyang reactionaries. To solve the problem, we can't find democrats such as Liang Qichao. They agree to cooperate with us, but they are not in power.

Li Xiang's political vision is really lofty. Although meeting with counter-revolutionary hardliners like Duan Qirui inevitably had a war of words, Li Xiang was well prepared.

At Duan Qirui's home, after greeting, Duan Qirui showed an arrogant look. He said to Li Xiang, "We welcome Marshal Li to come to Beijing in person. However, the key to the success of the negotiations is that the Kuomintang should give up Sun Dapao's ideological concept, give up the one-party force and regime, and work with the government to build a new China. Otherwise, even if the government wants to be at peace, there is nothing it can do.

Li Xiang didn't care and took over Duan Qirui's topic with a smile: "General Duan is not good! Peace is not a matter of the Kuomintang, and it requires everyone to work together. During the Xinhai Revolution, there was the first cooperation between the north and the south. You and I were all people who came here. We still remember the scene at that time. We successfully forced the Qing Emperor to abdicate and avoided the bitter consequences of the division of the civil war. Later, if it hadn't been for President Yuan's kicking away the Kuomintang, how could there be a civil war of the second revolution?

Speaking of this, seeing that Duan Qirui was silent, Li Xiang slightly raised his tone and continued, "What happened to the civil war of the Second Revolution? The Kuomintang was not eliminated, but developed and strengthened. And the result of the Beiyang Army's 'suppression of bandits' almost led to financial bankruptcy. Isn't this lesson thought-provoking?

The more Li Xiang said, the more energetic he became, and the words became sharper: "You say that we are fighting for territory and the army. You know, it's all forced by you to suppress bandits, and you are forced to go to Liangshan. Just like the Monkey King havoc in the Heavenly Palace, the Jade Emperor named him Bi Ma Wen. The Monkey King was unconvinced and thought he was the Great Sage of Qitian. But you didn't even give us Bi Ma Wen, so we had to carry guns up the mountain! It seems that force and fight can't solve the problem. It's better to make peace.

This speech is soft and hard, and the lover is reasonable, which makes Duan Qirui extremely embarrassed and speechless. He had to nod repeatedly: "Yes! Yes! It's better to get it! Brother is willing to do his best for this peace talks.

Duan Qirui's anti-Kuomintang political views are extremely stubborn, but in the face of Li Xiang's unyielding and provocative discussion, he has no words to answer, so he has to find a "good word" to end the argument.

After that, Li Xiang returned to Wuhan from Beijing and said at a Politburo meeting: "There are many people who say that the Anhui system undermines the negotiations. I think many Anhui figures, including Duan Qirui, are wavering."

No matter whether Li Xiang's above judgment on Duan Qirui is correct or not, one thing is certain that Li Xiang is very determined to carry out tong war work in Beiyang. No matter what your political attitude towards the Communist Party of China is, as long as I have the opportunity, I will work.

Unexpectedly, when I returned from this visit, I happened to meet Yuan Shikai on a narrow road.

As soon as they met, Yuan Shikai asked politely, "Where is Li Shuai?"

Li Xiang also told him frankly, "I just went to see Duan Qirui."

Yuan Shikai was stunned when he heard this. It can be seen that he was stunned and not very happy. However, he didn't show it, but said with a dry smile, "Okay, see you, see you!"

In Beijing, some people accused Li Xiang of saying that your Kuomintang "don't start a new job". Li wanted to answer tit-for-tat, "I agree if you don't start another stove, but Yuan Shikai has to take care of the meal. He doesn't care about our meal. What if we don't start another stove?"

In Beijing's extensive contact with people from all walks of life, Li Xiang exchanged political opinions; second, introduced the ideas of the Kuomintang; and third, learned about the actual situation of the rear and foreign countries. In the report on the Beijing Negotiations made when he returned to Wuhan, he talked about his feelings in this regard. Li wanted to say: When I came to Beijing this time, I deeply felt the warm support of the people. They are not satisfied with the Beiyang government and place their hopes on our side. I also saw many foreigners, including Americans, who were very enthusiastic about us. ...We have many friends all over the country and the world. We are not isolated.

In a word, the negotiations that Li Xiang went to Beijing in person had a great political shock and influence on Chinese society at the beginning of World War I, and its role was difficult to achieve by any means of struggle and economic means.