Yuan Shikai wanted to authorize Xiong Xiling to form a cabinet, mainly because of Xiong's two advantages: first, Xiong is knowledgeable, famous, conscientious and responsible, and has the spirit of stupidity. The second is that Xiong is basically a non-partisan person, (although he later joined the Progressive Party and later the United Republican Party, but he is not a leading figure) has no political ambitions, and is a steward-like figure. He is a scholar, has no official frame, and is easy to approach people. It is okay to have relations with all political parties, and it is easy to get the support and approval of all parties.

After the dissolution of the Tang cabinet, after two transitional cabinets, Yuan Shikai proposed to the National Assembly that Xiong Xiling reorganize the cabinet.

On July 23, 1913, the House of Representatives voted against Xiong Xiling. Business. Total. The matter was passed by a majority of votes.

On 30 July, the Senate voted in the final round and Xiong Xiling passed it with 126 votes in favor, 72 votes against, and 4 abstentions.

On July 31, Yuan Shikai officially appointed Xiong Xiling as the state. Business. Total. Reason.

Xiong Xiling did not expect that he could be the general state beforehand. After the Senate and House of Representatives voted to approve it, he obviously did not make sufficient ideological preparations.

When Yuan Shikai personally called him to invite him out of the mountain, he hesitated for a moment and put forward a request: If he is to form a cabinet, he must implement a principle: "Do not ask whether the party is the party or not, only ask about the talent," and he must form a "cabinet of real talents."

Yuan Shikai immediately agreed, because he knew in his heart that no matter what the cabinet was called, its dominance was in his hands.

Later, people used to call Xiong Xiling's cabinet "celebrity cabinet" or "talent cabinet".

The "celebrity cabinet" also went through some twists and turns, and Xiong Xiling was forming a cabinet. once said: Zhang Jian, Liang Qichao, and Wang Daxie must enter the cabinet at the same time. Reason is not improper.

However, the Bear Cabinet had a difficult birth. Yuan Shikai insisted that his henchmen be in charge of important departments such as finance, transportation, and foreign affairs, leaving only three idle departments: agriculture and commerce, justice, and education.

Xiong Xiling was not good at arguing with others, let alone competing with Yuan Shikai, so he had to ask Liang Qichao to be the chief of justice, Zhang Jian to be the chief of agriculture and commerce, and Wang Daxie to be the chief of education.

However, Liang Qichao did not enter the cabinet because he could not take charge of finance, and Zhang Jian, Wang Daxie, and others did not take office because Liang Qichao did not go out of the mountain.

Someone came out to do Liang Qichao's work, saying: "If the public level is not out, the Xiong Cabinet is about to be aborted or organized purely by bureaucracy, what kind of attitude will you have at this time?" ”

Liang Qichao naturally did not want to see the Xiong Cabinet miscarry. Yuan Shikai also made a slight concession, that is, Xiong concurrently served as the chief financial officer.

On September 11, Xiong Xiling's "celebrity cabinet" was finally formed:

Sun Baoqi is the chief of foreign affairs, Zhu Qichao is the chief of internal affairs, Liang Qichao is the chief of justice, Wang Daxie is the chief of education, Duan Qirui is the chief of the army, Liu Guanxiong is the chief of the navy, Zhang Jian is the chief of industry and commerce, Zhou Ziqi is the chief of communications, Xiong Xiling is also the chief of finance, and Zhang Jian is also the chief of agriculture and forestry.

On September 14, Xiong Xiling officially issued the "Inauguration of State Affairs. Total. Bulletin. At the same time, Xiong Xiling also led all the cabinet members to attend the congress and announced his eight policy policies.

Several of Xiong Xiling's cabinet members are famous progressives in the world, and most of the cabinet members are social elites and celebrities, so Xiong's cabinet is very favored by everyone, and it is highly expected, and it has also greatly improved Yuan Zheng. The prestige of the house.

Xiong Xiling served as the general manager of the Republic of China. After the reason, I really want to do my best for the country and the people, and do a career.

On 27 September, Xiong Xiling delivered a speech at a tea party for members of the Senate and the House of Representatives and representatives of various political parties, pledging to shoulder the responsibilities of the cabinet, clearly delineate the powers of the State Council and the Presidential Office, and strive to build the Republic of China into a country ruled by law.

Together with Liang Qichao and others, he formulated the "Political and Political Affairs" on detailed plans for internal affairs, foreign affairs, military affairs, finance, industry, transportation, justice, and education. Declaration of the Government's Major Policies.

Politically, we should create a new deal, advocate a republic, implement the spirit of the rule of law, and establish a "true republic".

Economically, he put forward a series of plans and basic laws for improving finances and prospering the economy, and boldly put forward the idea of unifying the central government's finances and opening up industry to develop the economy.

In terms of education, it is proposed to "carry forward China's inherent culture and transform the hearts of the people in society".

Xiong Xiling pointed out in a submission to Yuan Shikai: "When the republic was established, the order of the provinces was not fully restored, and there was no humanity in the contention and multiplication. Therefore, due to the corruption and moral degradation of the old society, education was not popularized, and customs were declining. If we want to do it now, we must start with education, which is enough to alleviate the poverty of education. ”

Xiong Xiling (1870.7.23—1937.12.25), the name Bingsan, alias Mingzhi Pavilion owner, Shuangqing layman. A native of Phoenix, Xiangxi, Hunan, his ancestral home is Fengcheng Stone Beach, Jiangxi. He was a politician, educator, social activist, industrialist, and philanthropist during the Republic of China.

Xiong Xiling was born intelligent, known as the "Hunan prodigy", at the age of fifteen, at the age of twenty-two, at the age of twenty-five, at the age of twenty-five, and then Hanlin.

In 1989, he was dismissed for participating in the 100-day Restoration. Later, he was invoked by the end side and served as a counselor to inspect the five constitutional ministers going abroad, and then transferred to the Tianyan envoy.

After the Wuchang Uprising, he went to Shanghai because of his meritorious service to the constitutionalists Zhang Jian, Liang Qichao and others who supported Yuan Shikai, and served as the Beiyang government. The chief financial officer of the province and the capital of Rehe.

In 1928, he became a member of the National Government. He was a member of the Government Relief Committee and President of the Chinese Association of the World Red Cross Society in 1932.

In 1937, after the Battle of Songhu on August 13, Xiong Xiling and his colleagues from the Red Cross Society set up a hospital for wounded soldiers and a refugee shelter in Shanghai to accommodate wounded soldiers and provide relief to refugees. After the fall of Beijing and Shanghai, Xiong Xiling went to Xiang. Hong Kong collects donations for refugees and wounded soldiers.

On December 25, 1937, Xiong Xiling was in Xiang. Hong Kong died at the age of 68. National Affairs. The government held a state funeral ceremony for him.

Xiong Xiling's cabinet was the first cabinet with policies and lineups in the early years of the Republic of China, which was what attracted more attention than the previous four cabinets, and it was also the key to its later failure. Because, these major policies, which Xiong regarded as the lifeblood of the cabinet, could only run into walls everywhere in Yuan Shikai, who was planning to implement the autocratic rule of feudal warlords.

Xiong Xiling served as Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Governor. The country of the house. Business. Total. Reason, sit on the country. Business. The first position in the academy is the pinnacle of his political career, and it is also the most criticized and criticized place in his life. From the day he entered the State Council, Xiong Xiling was destined to be unable to escape the fate of failure.

The reason why Yuan Shikai asked him to form a cabinet was not because he really liked his eloquence and strategy, but because he wanted to use him and the Progressive Party to help him "correct the position" and become the official president, and then dissolve the Kuomintang, and then bring down the National Assembly, paving the way for the restoration of the imperial system, in order to seek greater political interests.

Of course, that's an afterthought.

Having solved the cabinet problem, Yuan Shikai set his sights on the presidential election. Because the word "temporary" of the interim president made him very uncomfortable, and the appointed election time was approaching. That's why he hasn't done anything about the Kuomintang yet, just because he thinks about the needs of the presidential election.

After congressional elections, the old Senate was replaced, and a new parliament was established. However, the state still follows the Nanjing Provisional Government. There is no new National Constitution for the Provisional Constitution enacted by the government, and according to the provisions of the Provisional Constitution, the Constitution is first formulated by the Formal Parliament, and then the Formal Government is formed according to the Constitution. The government and the president.

Yuan Shikai's Politics of the Republic of China in Beijing. The government was established almost two years ago and remains a provisional government. Yuan, Yuan is only a temporary president, which is actually very inconvenient. Many countries in the world still do not recognize the government of the Republic of China in Beijing. The government was because of the government of the Republic of China at that time. The government is also a temporary government. The president is the interim president.

Due to the state politics. The government was in a temporary state, so that the relations between many countries and China, as well as the relations between the state and the localities, could not be normalized, and the remnants of the Qing Dynasty had been trying to restore because of this. Both the government and the president are temporary, and naturally these local officials must also be temporary.

In accordance with the provisions of the Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China. The procedure for the organization of the government shall be to elect a full National Assembly within 10 months of the implementation of the Covenant, which shall formulate a constitution and then elect a full president in accordance with the constitution.

However, Yuan Shikai couldn't wait. In order to take the post of president as soon as possible, at his behest, Li Yuanhong took the lead, united with the governors of 19 provinces, and the chief of civil affairs sent a telegram, advocating that the president be elected first and then the constitution should be formulated. Or quickly draft a constitution and then elect a president, in short, they hope that China will remove the word "temporary" that restricts development as soon as possible.

Because the constitution is not made in a short period of time. Soon after, the Progressives proposed that a presidential election law be enacted in the House of Representatives, and that the president should be elected before the constitution was enacted. The majority of lawmakers believed that the proposal solved the pressing problem at hand, and the bill passed by the House of Representatives by a vote of 213 to 120. Next, the Senate also passed.

On 4 October, thanks to the efforts of the Constitution Drafting Committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives, China's first "Great Presidential Election Law" was promulgated the next day.

In the history of thousands of years in China, the power of the emperor has been achieved through violent or hereditary methods, and the emergence of the "Great Presidential Election Law" indicates that China has also begun to implement presidential elections for the first time.

In order to ascend the presidential throne on the second anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising, at the insistence of Yuan Shikai, the Chinese Congress hastily decided to hold a presidential election on the 6th.

On the day of the election, early in the morning, Yuan Shikai dispatched Li Jincai, commander of the Gong Guard, to lead thousands of military police, change into civilian clothes, and under the banner of "civic group", to surround the parliament. Although these people were dressed in civilian clothes, military boots, military trousers, and short guns were all exposed, and a discerning person could know what they were doing at a glance.

When 759 members of the National Assembly (more than 800 members of parliament according to the quorum, commonly known as the "800 Arhats") come to the election venue, let these people come to the election hall first.