Since this is the first time that such a presidential election has been held in China, the election day has attracted many reporters and some spectators, and people are still concerned about the future and destiny of the country, hoping to know the results of the election as soon as possible.

Since this is the first election campaign after the republic, in order to prevent some violent, terrorist, and restorationist elements from taking advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble, and in order to ensure the smooth conduct of the election, the military police and plainclothes were dispatched to protect the House of Representatives, which also seems to be beyond reproach.

It's just that what happened later is really unreasonable.

According to the newly promulgated Presidential Election Law, a presidential election is valid only if more than two-thirds of the total number of electors are present. By secret ballot, the winner of a three-fourths majority of the votes is elected. In the event that no candidate obtains three-fourths of the votes cast in two consecutive ballots, the second election shall be held in which the second candidate receives the largest number of votes, and the second election shall be held by a majority of the voters.

The number of members present at the meeting was 759, exceeding the quorum, and the election was valid.

A total of four candidates participated in the election, they are Yuan Shikai, Li Yuanhong, Sun Yat-sen, and Wu Tingfang.

In the first round, Yuan Shikai received 471 votes, Li Yuanhong received 154 votes, and Sun Yat-sen and Wu Tingfang received only a few votes. Although none of the four reached three-quarters of the votes, in the first round of voting, Yuan Shikai was close to three-quarters, while Sun Yat-sen only got a few votes.

In a parliament where the Kuomintang is the largest party, the vast majority of Kuomintang legislators voted for Yuan Shikai, which is enough to prove that Yuan Shikai had a high prestige at that time.

All four candidates did not reach the required three-fourths majority, and a second ballot was required under the Presidential Election Act.

When the news of Yuan Shikai's failure to be elected came, those wearing civilian clothes, military boots, military pants, and short guns were all exposed, and people with a discerning eye could see what they were doing. strode into the venue in a neat and serious manner, and surrounded the members who were voting in three layers of water, and the people in the circle could not fly even if they planted their wings.

The councillors originally wanted to go to dinner, but when they saw the posture outside, they were all stunned in an instant, and obediently sat back in the parliamentary chamber to continue the discussion.

When the parliamentarians had seen such a "democratic" posture, they had no choice but to push the speaker to negotiate and demand that these people withdraw from the meeting and not interfere in the election.

After hearing this, the gang shouted loudly: "We are all citizens' groups, and it is very important to elect the president today." If you elect a president who lives up to expectations, we will not agree! We have ugly words ahead, if you choose someone else, you will want to walk out of the venue today! ”

In this case, the parliamentarians will understand seven or eight points.

Many legislators participated in the voting election for the first time and did not understand the voting rules, resulting in a lot of invalid votes in the first vote. Most of those invalid votes were cast for Yuan Shikai, that is to say, if these invalid votes are valid, Yuan Shikai should be able to get three-quarters of the votes in the first vote.

There were almost no invalid votes in the second vote, and it was said that Yuan Shikai could pass smoothly this time, but no.

What cannot but be admired is that those parliamentarians still had some backbone at that time. Under such high pressure, they refused to vote for Yuan Shikai. In the second vote, although Yuan Shikai increased, he only got 497 votes. There are still 72 votes short of 569 votes for three-quarters of the 759 people. Sun Yat-sen and Wu Tingfang basically did not change, and Li Yuanhong got some more votes.

In terms of effect, the practice of the "civic group" is actually adding to the chaos. It is likely that the extra votes won by Li Yuanhong were voted by KMT lawmakers, although they may not support Li Yuanhong in their hearts.

Secret ballots, also known as secret ballots, can't always hold a gun and watch people write votes.

Since everyone was not very familiar with the voting process at that time, it took about four hours to complete the circle from **, filling in the ballots, voting, counting the ballots, and the parliamentarians were also a little hungry and planned to hold a third election tomorrow.

However, these "citizens' groups" resolutely refused to agree, and they had already surrounded the venue and were not allowed to enter or leave. Even the four walls are full of military police, and no one will want to jump out of this confinement circle if "President Yuan" is not elected.

In the evening, the parliamentarians were hungry and tried to break through the door to find something to eat, but that didn't work. Before the parliamentarians could reach the door, they were dragged by the members of the "citizens' group" and scolded at the worst and were full of old fists. The parliamentarians were beaten to the point and fled back to the meeting in embarrassment.

The most ridiculous thing is that some legislators are good smokers, and they can't make up for their addiction to cigarettes for a while. This group of people yawned at the venue, their noses were not snot, their tears were not tears, they were so anxious that they scratched their ears and cheeks, beat their chests and feet, and let the "civic group" make fun of them in vain.

There are also food deliveries. For example, when the Civic Party that supported Yuan Shikai brought food to their legislators, the "Civic League" let them go straight in.

The Progressive Party also sent people to deliver food, but these vicious "citizens" did not let them in.

The Progressive Party hurriedly said, "We support President Yuan!" ”

When the "citizens' group" heard this, they smiled happily, waved their hands, and said, "Then hurry in!" ”

The Kuomintang sent people to deliver food, saying: "We are from the Kuomintang, send food to the parliamentarians!" ”

The "citizens' group" was furious and scolded: "The Kuomintang is not allowed to enter, it is better to starve him to death a few more, he deserves it!" ”

Seeing that they would not be allowed to go out until the election continued, the parliamentarians had no choice but to swallow their anger and proceed to a third vote.

Qian Mian said that according to Article 2 of the "Great Presidential Election Law": "If no one is elected in two votes, the second time the candidate with the largest number of votes shall be elected, and the one who receives more than half of the votes shall be elected." In other words, this time only one person will be elected between Yuan Shikai and Li Yuanhong, and only a majority of them will be elected.

When the ballots were distributed to the legislators, the "citizens' group" shouted again: "Elect President Yuan!" "Whoever doesn't elect President Yuan won't want to go out!" "Whoever doesn't elect President Yuan doesn't want to eat!"

Under this hustle and bustle, the hungry Kuomintang parliamentarians were already weak and dizzy. But even so, there are still some hard-core lawmakers who draw crosses on their ballots in protest.

The result of the vote was 507 votes, far more than half of the president-elected.

When the chairman announced the results of the vote and Yuan Shikai was elected as the first president of the Republic of China, the audience was still very excited.

People have reason to be happy that China's first president has been elected for the first time in 2,000 years, whether it is the Kuomintang, the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, the United Party, or even some small political parties, the congressmen have decided the supreme leader of a country by voting for the first time.

Many of the people who watched from the outside stayed from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., some of them without eating all day. They all want to know, who was China's first president?

Now the results are finally out, "Long live President Yuan Shikai!" There must be a director's cheers, but there must also be people who are free.

In fact, there was no suspense that Yuan Shikai was elected as the first official president, but the behavior of the "Civic League" was really self-defeating, and the vote, which should have ended in the afternoon, had to be ended by them until 10 o'clock in the evening, and they almost starved a few lives.

People, you really can't be too smart, because being smart is mistaken by being smart. It was originally a very beautiful thing, but it was brought down by such self-made cleverness and drawing snakes, but it became a farce that would be ridiculed every time it was mentioned, and it was forever written in the book of shame in history.

It seems that Yuan Shikai can't be blamed too much, he is too greedy and obsessed with the position of the president.

Although the election process was ridiculous and sad, Yuan Shikai became the first democratically elected president of the Republic of China after all. In the past, in Chinese history, the emperor was called "rebellion", "revolution" and "violence", and only Yuan Shikai was the first time that the parliament passed the ballot and ascended to the supreme power.

Although China's democratic elections were not yet perfect at that time, and it was not yet possible to elect the president by referendum, it was an unprecedented event at that time to be able to elect the president through the indirect method of parliament.

The vice-presidential election was held the next day, with a total of 719 legislators present, and Le Yuanhong received 611 votes in the first vote.

Everyone knows that because of the killing of Zhang Zhenwu, the founder of the Shouyi, Li Yuanhong stinks. But time is still very powerful and can dilute a lot of things. Besides, Li Yuanhong's personality and personal qualities are still affirmed by everyone. After all, a good person is a good person, and he is different from a conspirator, and he can still be forgiven by the world for doing a few wrong things.

In this way, in addition to Yuan Shikai being the recognized first leader of the Republic of China at that time, Li Yuanhong became the second leader of the Republic of China.

On October 10, Yuan Shikai held a presidential inauguration ceremony in the Taihe Palace, the place where the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties ascended the throne.

This day is the National Day of the Republic of China and the inauguration day of President Yuan Shikai, and the two celebrations are held at the same time.

It is said that there was a dispute between the Diet and the Presidential Office over the layout of the venue. The presidential palace proposes to set up seats in the hall according to the east, west, south and north positions, the north is the rostrum, as the seat for the president to take the oath, the south is the foreign envoys and ** officials and their representatives, and the east and west are the speakers and members of the two houses.

However, Wang Jiaxiang, the speaker of the Senate, thought that the arrangement was inappropriate and objected, advocating that the president should take an oath to the speaker and the members of the parliament. Although this is only a question of the form of the oath, it is reflected in the early days of the Republic of China, when the system of separation of powers in China was not fully established, which was manifested in the constitution that the legislative power still dominated the executive power.

At 10 a.m., the presidential inauguration ceremony and the ceremony for the second anniversary of the National Day began. This was also the first presidential inauguration ceremony in Chinese history, which was attended not only by more than 400 parliamentarians, but also by many guests and dignitaries from various countries.