At the same time that the rules of the Senate were finalized, Xia Bohai, elected chairman of the government, also submitted a list of nominations for the president, vice chairmen, and members of various ministries of the Executive Yuan: Wang Yunpeng, president of the Executive Yuan, Xu Jichao, vice chairman, Jia Zhenzhao, member of the Finance Commission, Xiao Jianjun, military commissioner, Gao Shize, member of the Agriculture Commission, Lu Hong, member of the Industrial and Mining Energy Commission, You Mingqian, member of the Postal Commission of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations, Ye Yanfu, member of the Commercial Commission, Li Sanjie, member of the Foreign Affairs Commission, Zhang Yuming of the Civil Affairs Commission, and Wang Jun, member of the Culture, Education, and Health Commission.

On the one hand, this is because in the past year, the operating conditions of various departments have been basically good, and the ministers of various ministries have accumulated considerable experience in administrative management; on the other hand, it is also the lack of administrative personnel in the current East China Government, and there are only so many people who can be used, and there is not much room for choice, among which only Ye Yanfu, a member of the Commercial Committee, is the former vice minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who is responsible for foreign economic and trade affairs, because there is no Ministry of Commerce among the 17 departments of the original Ministry of Administration, but there is only a commercial department under the Ministry of Finance, and foreign trade and economic cooperation is placed under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but after the establishment of the East China GovernmentIt is certain that there will be a vigorous development of internal and external commerce, so it is absolutely necessary to set up the business committee in the list of nine major ministries.

However, the 11 people nominated by Xia Bohai must be consulted by the members in the Senate and explain their own governance ideas, and then the members of the parliament voted to approve them, of course, in the end, these 11 people have passed the confirmation of the House, which means that the main members of the first democratically elected government leadership of the East China government have all been completed, and can officially take office and exercise their administrative powers.

After the leadership of the new government came to power, the first major event was the handover of Beijing to the Qing court and the full takeover of Shandong Province.

In Beijing, Li Songchen held a handover ceremony on behalf of the East China Government and Li Hongzhang, formally handing over all the military, administrative, and public security management powers in Beijing to the Qing army, and only the Shandong Provincial Office in Beijing remained in Beijing, and the director was Deng Yongjian, the deputy political commissar of the former Kunming ship, who was the deputy who visited Xi'an with Qin Zheng, and had a certain understanding of the officialdom habits of the Qing court, and also got acquainted with Li Hongzhang, Prince Qing, Rong Lu, Wang Wenshao, Yuan Shikai, and other military and political officials, which was conducive to exchanges and communication with the Qing court.

In addition, the railway management office set up in Beijing, because the Beijing-Tianjin railway is jointly operated by both sides, and now because the Qing government has not officially returned to Beijing, it is still managed by the East China government alone for the time being, and from Li Hongzhang's heart, he thinks that it is simply to hand over the Beijing-Tianjin railway to overseas Chinese to operate, after all, the Beijing-Tianjin railway is a railway hub related to the transportation of materials from the south to Beijing, and the operation must not be sloppy, and according to Li Hongzhang's understanding, the overseas Chinese are obviously better at operating the railway than the Qing court, and handing over the Beijing-Tianjin railway to the overseas Chinese to operate can not only ensure the stable operation of the railway, but also the Qing court can also reduce a lot of trouble, and get the benefits of railway operation at your fingertips, why not?

After the handover was completed, Li Songchen and the last group of about 700 people evacuated from Beijing boarded the train and returned to Tianjin, while Li Hongzhang led a cadre of personnel who stayed in Beijing to send Li Songchen and others all the way to the train, and watched the train leave the station and drive to Tianjin.

Li Hongzhang had received a telegram from Xi'an five days earlier, knowing that Cixi and Guangxu had set off from Xi'an and were expected to arrive in Beijing in about two months. If there is any accident in the meantime, it will not be easy.

It turned out that after Qin Zheng and the others left Xi'an, although Cixi was very dissatisfied with Qin Zheng's behavior in Xi'an, she hoped that after Qin Zheng returned to Beijing, she would reach an agreement with Li Hongzhang to hand over Beijing as soon as possible, so she successively issued orders to Li Hongzhang, asking him to negotiate with overseas Chinese as soon as possible. After the traverser and Li Hongzhang formally signed the transfer agreement, Cixi was also very happy and immediately ordered to prepare to move back to Beijing. And in the name of Guangxu, the edict of "Holy Driving Back to Luan" was officially issued.

Compared with the old time and space, the biggest difference in the consequences of the Gengzi Revolution was that in addition to the substantial reduction of compensation and the transfer of sovereignty, even the ministers who supported the Boxers to fight wars with various countries during the Gengzi Revolution were not asked to liquidate, because now the countries have no ability to force the Qing court to punish these war makers, and the time-travelers have no interest in this.

In fact, during the Gengzi Revolution, many ministers of the Qing court died in the war, including Nie Shicheng, the former commander of the Wuwei Army, Yulu, the governor of Zhili, and Li Bingheng, the minister of the Yangtze River Navy; the ministers who were hunted and killed by the Eight-Nation Alliance Army were the Minister of Military Aircraft, the Shangshu Qixiu of the Ministry of Rites, and Xu Chengyu, the servant of the Criminal Department; the suicides included Xu Tong, a scholar of the university, Jing Shan, the Minister of Internal Affairs, and Chongqi of the Household Department.

In the old time and space, after the peace of Xin Chou, the ministers who were executed at the request of various countries included Prince Zhuang Zaixun, Minister of Military Aircraft and Shangshu Zhao Shuqiao, Governor of Shanxi Yuxian, Hubu Shilang Yingnian and others;

However, in this era, the ministers who fled to Xi'an with Cixi can at least save their lives, and it is estimated that the official title will not be lost, so after Cixi and Guangxu decided to return to Luan and return to Beijing, all the ministers were also happy, and the bad luck finally passed, and after returning to Beijing, the past life will begin again.

Of course, not all ministers can return to Beijing with Cixi and Guangxu, during the escape of Cixi and Guangxu, the ministers who have made meritorious contributions such as Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Gansu, Yuxian, the governor of Shanxi, Hu Yan, the prefect of Xi'an, Wu Yong, the county governor of Huailai, and Li Ziheng, Yang Juchuan, who are civilians in Guanshi Town, have received different promotions, but they are all local officials, and of course they cannot return to Beijing with Cixi and Guangxu. And Cixi also generously rewarded them with a large amount of money and goods to show her gratitude to them, after all, these people helped Cixi and Guangxu when they were in the most crisis.

On the day of departure, the city of Xi'an was in chaos, and local officials not only put up lanterns, but also prepared a grand guard of honor. The people came out to see and knelt on both sides of the cleaned street. The army that protected Cixi and Guangxu and their return to Beijing was mainly Dong Fuxiang's Gan army, plus Ronglu's temporary army, with a total of more than 3,000 people. Although she was on the run, Cixi still accumulated a lot of property by selling officials and officials from all over the country, and when she left Xi'an, the officials in Shaanxi also sent a lot of gifts, so she loaded nearly 100 carts, and the whole team stretched for several miles.

After sending off the traverser, Li Hongzhang immediately ordered in Beijing, ordered Yuan Shikai to rush to Baoding immediately, and prepared to meet the queen mother and the emperor and his entourage, and ordered the streets of Beijing to be decorated with lights to create a festive atmosphere, and tidy up the palace, and also arranged the band dragon dance, lion dance and other programs, because when the queen mother and the emperor returned to Beijing, it was almost the New Year, so they had a good mood as soon as they entered Beijing. In addition, Cixi still did not know that the overseas Chinese had taken all the palace maids captive to Tianjin, and the matter of the eunuchs asking for bribes had also been poked out, and there had been a lot of uproar in the southeast coastal areas, and Li Hongzhang also hoped that his arrangements could dilute Cixi's unhappiness after learning these two news.

At the same time that the Traveler handed over Beijing to the Qing court, the Qing court also officially handed over Shandong to the Traveler.

Since the former governor of Shandong, Yuan Shikai, and the new governor of Shandong, Qin Zheng, were not present, the handover of Shandong was represented by Xu Shichang of the Qing court, and Wang Sheng, who represented the East China government. In fact, Wang Sheng has another identity, that is, the new prefect of Jinan, and now the former prefect of Jinan has been ordered to leave office, and the edict of the Qing court has also been sent to Jinan, and although Wang Sheng's people are in Jinan, he did not take office in the prefect's yamen, because as soon as Wang Sheng takes office as the prefect of Jinan, he cannot take over Shandong on behalf of the East China government.

In fact, at this time, the Beiyang New Army stationed in various parts of Shandong had already withdrawn to Jinan Prefecture and stationed there, and the People's Army had also dispatched troops to various prefectures and prefectures in Shandong, so in fact, the East China Government had basically controlled the whole province of Shandong, and the current handover ceremony was just a passing scene, and it was also the time for the entire Beiyang New Army to withdraw from Shandong.

On behalf of Yuan Shikai, Xu Shichang handed over the official seal of the governor of Shandong, as well as the archives such as the scroll map to Wang Dong, and then led the remaining Beiyang Army to leave Jinan Mansion.

After taking over the Great Seal and these materials, it was as if the new governor of Shandong had taken office, and Wang Dong collected all these materials and sent a special person to manage them, and on the other hand, he sent people to inform the officials in various parts of Shandong in the name of the governor of Shandong, asking them to maintain good local order, serve their own duties, and not use Jinan to meet the new governor.

Originally, according to the practice of the Qing court, after the new governor took office, the provincial officials should come to the governor's yamen to meet the new governor, of course, they should usually send some money and gifts, and if some local officials could not come due to the large number of government affairs, they should also send subordinate officials to bring gifts to greet them. Therefore, the governor who takes office will make a fortune to some extent.

However, the East China government's seat in Shandong is located in Qingdao, not Jinan, and Qin Zheng, who took over as the governor of Shandong, has now been elected as the chairman of the Senate of the East China government, so he has no time to come to Jinan to entertain these meaningless officialdom exchanges, and the traveler does not intend to use the administrative system of the Qing court to manage Shandong, but only to use the big tiger skin of the governor of Shandong, so the work of the governor of Shandong is actually carried by Wang Sheng. Anyway, after he took office as the prefect of Jinan, it was convenient to be nearby.

However, although Wang Sheng could send official documents in the name of the governor of Shandong and issue orders to subordinate officials, he could not meet with local officials in Shandong in the capacity of governor of Shandong, so he could only refuse to meet with local officials, and even if he came, he would not meet. And the first thing he had to deal with was not the local officials in Shandong, but the middle and lower-level officials in Jinan Prefecture.

After dealing with the affairs of the governor of Shandong, Wang Shengcai came to the prefect's yamen opposite the governor's yamen and officially assumed the prefect of Jinan.