Although Duan Qirui restored Zhang Zuolin's "reputation" and spared the three provinces of Guannei, the two finally tore off the disguise on their faces. However, Zhang Zuolin needed to digest the fruits of victory and temporarily had no time to overthrow Duan Qirui by force, Duan Qirui was also disgraced and low-key for a long time because of the Paris Peace Conference and needed time to reunite people's hearts.

It's just that since then, Duan Qirui and his Anfu National Assembly have become the target of Chinese abuse, and the people who can't forget the shame of the Shandong issue have begun to challenge his authority as a powerful prime minister with a pen.

On September 15, 1919, Shanghai's "Republic of China Daily" published an article entitled "An Explanation of the Anfu Lineage Table", which modeled the form of genealogy and listed more than a dozen dignitaries of the authorities into a transnational five-generation family lineage. jokingly called the then president Xu Shichang the "illegitimate child" of the Japanese, which caused a sensation throughout the country.

The so-called "Anfu faction" is because at the beginning of last year, Duan Qirui's cronies Xu Shuzheng, Zeng Yujun, Wang Yitang and others established the Anfu Club in Anfu Hutong, and relied on the strength of this faction to establish a new parliament, so this parliament is also called "Anfu Congress" or "Anfu Government".

The government secretly manipulated and elected Xu Shichang as the president, implemented a pro-Japanese policy, and exchanged the rights and interests of railways, mines, and forests for huge loans from Japan to expand its military strength, arousing public indignation. During the Paris Peace Conference, Britain, Britain and the United States ceded China's interests in Shandong because of this handle, which led to the "May Fourth Movement".

This genealogy signed "A certain gentleman's play" shows that the "Japanese" are placed in the highest position "ancestor", implying that Japan is controlled by the Chinese authorities, and the Beiyang government is a vassal of Japan's descendants;

Xu Shuzheng is Duan Qirui's most relied on confidant, and he is also the first cadre of the Anfu department. He planned to form the Anfu Club, set up the Anfu Congress, and held real power and showed up to preside over the betrayal of suzerainty in exchange for Japan's support, so it was designated as "itself";

Duan Qirui is the actual manipulator behind the Anfu government, so he is the "father";

President Xu Shichang's position was manipulated and elected by the Anfu Congress, and "the son born of an informal marriage is an illegitimate child";

Ni Sichong and Zeng Yujun are Xu Shuzheng's right-hand men, sharing blessings and difficulties, positioning them as "brothers" and "brothers";

Zhu Shen, Wang Yitang, and Fang Shu were loyal to Xu Shuzheng, positioning them as "sons";

Gong Xinzhan and Zhang Arc tended to join the Anfu Department to seek promotion and fortune, "just in line with the moth, godson";

Liu Enge and others have the status and authority under the son, "they all have the hope of inheriting the family and dividing the property, and the name is Sun Yiye";

Yuan Rongsu came by defection, and his status was under Liu Enge and others, and he was called "step-grandson".

Such a "genealogical map" depicting the Anfu family vividly reflects its political divisions, and the sarcasm is amazing. For a time, the sales of the "Republic of China Daily" increased significantly, and the princes of the government became a big joke in the country.

In ancient times, insulting the emperor was a "heinous" and a "great disrespect" that seriously infringed on the emperor's personal dignity. Duan Qirui, Xu Shuzheng, and other dignitaries were naturally angry and even let out their words, saying that they must be sentenced to close the "Republic of China Daily" and sentenced Shao Lizi and Ye Chuling to prison.

Founded in Shanghai in January 1916 and located at No. 12 Henan Road, the Republic of China Daily is the main propaganda publication of the Chinese Revolutionary Party in China. Its supplement, "Enlightenment", was one of the four major supplements during the "May Fourth" period. Shao Lizi was born in 1882 in Shaojiawei, Taoyan, Shaoxing, with his original name Jingkui, his name Zhonghui, and his pen name Lizi, a famous politician and educator in modern times. Ye Chuling was born in 1887 in Wu County, Jiangsu, formerly known as Shan Ye and Zongyuan, a famous poet and political activist in Nanshe.

Speaking from the heart, in the early period of the Republic of China, including the middle period, freedom of speech is indeed incomparable to that of all Chinese dynasties. After the "May Fourth Movement", the people's consciousness has increased unprecedentedly, which is a great thing for the Chinese cooking process and worth advocating. Therefore, when this news was passed to Zhang Hanqing's ears as a tidbit, he sensitively felt that he could make a big fuss about it.

The People's Party organized the pen and stick of the party, gathered the leading members of the legal scholars in Fengtian, and successively published articles in the "Fengtian Daily," claiming to be "Thirteen Theses on Governing the Country According to Law," which greatly supported the actions of the "Republic of China Daily" and raised the incident and its handling to the level of governing the country, which resonated with hundreds of domestic media.

In his exposition, Zhang Hanqing believes that regardless of right and wrong, allowing the people to scold the streets is a symbol of the government's progress, and the freedom of speech stipulated in the Constitution of the Republic of China is reflected in this aspect. As long as it is not slander, the government should humbly listen to the opinions of the people, and if there is any, it will change it, and if it is not, it will encourage it. For people who do not know the truth or one-sided statements, we should not take the blame at every turn, but guide and persuade. Because with the advent of the era of the great government, the administrative power of the original separation of powers has become more and more inflated, and the legislative power is still a product in China, lacking a certain civil foundation, and is completely formed from the top down. In this case, the newspaper is the mouthpiece of the people, the voice, the public opinion, and an important form of supervision by the people.

In his view, the president is a human being, journalists are human beings, ordinary people are human beings, and everyone is a citizen of the Republic of China and has the right to put forward their own opinions on the development, behavior, policies and strategies of the country. The reason why the United States is considered a symbol of cooking is that Americans can scold the president as they like. Later, there was a joke: "The Chinese think that scolding the United States is patriotic, and the Americans also think that scolding the United States is patriotic, and in this case, the Chinese and American people have finally found a consensus." ”

The president of the United States, the newspapers can scold, Congress can scold, and even the previous president can come out and scold, and you have to scold you to the point that you are incomplete. Of course, this kind of scolding is not a shrew scolding the street, but a criticism of her words and deeds. Of course, the president also has to show an open-minded attitude, to smile and spit, to convince people, this is a kind of culture.

This kind of culture existed in ancient China, but it was mainly based on the introspective behavior of officials as part of self-cultivation. In the Book of the Old Tang Dynasty, it is written that the younger brother of Lou Shide, the prime minister of Wu Zetian, was sent by the imperial court to guard Daizhou, and resigned to him before taking office, and he taught his younger brother to be patient in case of trouble. His brother said, "Somebody spits phlegm in my face, and I just wipe it off myself." Lou Shide said: "It's not okay, you clean it up yourself, you want to avoid the anger of others, you should let it do it yourself, you can be patient." ”

Could it be that in the 20th century, the moral outlook and legal outlook of the Chinese people are not as good as those of the ancients? It is difficult for a politician to believe that he can have a public heart to serve the country and society if he is not nurtured by different opinions. This kind of ridicule may be out of place, but after all, to a certain extent, it will lay a solid foundation and direction for China's future judicial fairness and independence. Under such circumstances, whether the judiciary can independently adjudicate disputes between citizens and government units on behalf of a neutral third party is the true embodiment of judicial independence. As a powerful government unit, whether it truly respects judicial independence is reflected in whether it can lower its stature and calmly sit in the defendant's or plaintiff's dock like ordinary people and accept questions from the judiciary. In this sense, the defamation case of the president of the Republic of China Daily has indicative significance.

Zhang Hanqing's words were like a gust of spring breeze, which made both the domestic press and legal circles feel happy. What kind of character is this? How can we conclude such a high and sensible positive attitude towards the media industry? They were impressed by the insight and knowledge of this young marshal in the Northeast.