Li Yuanhong not only raised the problem, but also provided solutions and ways to solve the problem. He pointed out that in order to fundamentally solve the problem of military personnel interfering in government affairs, the necessary way out lies in the separation of military and civilian rule.

He said sincerely: "Yuan Hong is not talented, and he should lead the military circles in central Hubei to advocate for the world. ”

Yuan Shikai started with a small station training, and there is no Beiyang Army that can fight well, can Yuan Shikai have today? There is no doubt that Yuan Shikai is the biggest beneficiary of military power. But what is interesting is that it was Yuan Shikai who strongly supported Li Yuanhong's motion on the division of military and civilian rule. promised that "when the Senate opens, the bill should be the first to be raised".

Yuan Shikai is like this, it's really not a pretentious gesture, the reason is very simple, his identity and status have changed, and he is now worrying about the revolutionaries everywhere supporting the army and respecting themselves!

However, Li Yuanhong's views on the division of the military and the civilian rule were resolutely opposed and resisted by Li Liejun, Tan Yanmin, Hu Hanmin, Bai Wenwei, and other governors of the League.

Because after the first uprising in Wuchang, all places established military and political affairs. These people relied on guns to gain power, because they did not want to let go of the military power in their hands, and they were afraid of losing their administrative power. Other provinces also have this kind of idea to a greater or lesser extent.

Due to everyone's opposition, Li Yuanhong's idea of benefiting the country and the people was "stillborn" before it was implemented.

Whoever has more guns has the final say, and whoever is strong is justified; for many years to come, the country and the people suffered from warlord melee and war.

Looking back, thinking of what Li Yuanhong said, I can't help but admire his foresight.

It's just that the idea is good, the reality is skinny, but it is just that it takes a long way to go from relying on strength to win the world and sit on the world to relying on democracy and the rule of law to build the country. However, it was at that time that Li Yuanhong's valuable ideas also attracted the attention and resonance of many people of insight, which made Li Yuanhong even more famous.

At that time, people had the saying that "Sun (Sun Yat-sen) Huang (Huang Xing) Yuan (Yuan Shikai) Li (Li Yuanhong)" was the four heroes of the founding of the country. Although Li Yuanhong is ranked last, he seems to be more famous and respected, and everyone regards him as a "loyal elder" and a steady and reliable person.

After Li Yuanhong heard these words, he was sincerely frightened, and humbly confessed many times: "Shen Ji is silent, wise and deep, Hong is not as good as Yuan Xiangcheng (Yuan Shikai); Clearly measuring the opportunity, the mind is open, Hong is not as good as Sun Yat-sen; Hard-working, bent on going his own way, Hong is not as good as Huang Shanhua (Huang Xing). ”

Mr. Zhang Taiyan is especially partial to Li Yuanhong.

On July 24, 1912, he went to Wuhan for sightseeing and met Li Yuanhong several times, and Li Yuanhong left an excellent impression on him. At that time, Li Yuanhong had been vice president for half a year.

After Mr. Zhang returned to Beijing, he published his impressions on his trip to Wuchang in the New Era Daily.

The article wrote: "Li Gong (Li Yuanhong) is forty-nine years old, dry and fat, and his words are concise. The secretary and the senator are not dressed in flashy clothes, and they close the documents every day to the seat of Li Gong, and there are eight or nine people at one table, all of whom hold the handle of the pu kui fan, and Li Gong also holds it from time to time. It wears a suit uniform and is made of coarse summer cloth. From the metropolitan governor to the state and county clerks, they all have a monthly salary of 20 yuan. ”

Before the uprising, Le Yuanhong's monthly salary was 500 yuan, which was 25 times the salary of the governor and vice president.

Zhang Taiyan has a nickname, called "You Heng of the Republic of China". Because he dared to scold anyone, he was known as the You Heng who beat the drum and scolded Cao during the Three Kingdoms. Almost all the celebrities in the Republic of China have been scolded by Mr. Zhang, and the only person he has always praised is Li Yuanhong.

A new type of country has been established, with the state system as a "democratic republic" and the country name as the "Republic of China." However, there is a great deal of disagreement over the flag and the location of the national capital.

If there is a so-called national flag in the Qing court, it is the so-called dragon flag. Triangle, yellow-bottomed dragon ornament, also known as the yellow dragon flag.

In 1895, when Sun Yat-sen launched the first uprising in Guangzhou, Lu Haodong made a banner called the "Blue Sky and White Sun Flag", which means uprightness, freedom and equality.

Lu Haodong (September 30, 1868 - November 7, 1895), whose real name is Lu Zhonggui, is a native of Cuiwei Township, Xiangshan County, Guangzhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province (now Cuiheng Village, Nanlang Town, Zhongshan City).

Lu Haodong was Sun Yat-sen's fellow villager and childhood classmate. In 1886, Lu Haodong went to Shanghai to study at the Telegraph School, and after graduating at the age of 23, he successively served as a translator at the Shanghai Telegraph Bureau and a foreman at the Wuhu Telegraph Office.

In 1893, Lu Haodong, together with Yi Lie, Zheng Shiliang, Cheng Kuiguang, Cheng Biguang, and others, attended a meeting held by Sun Yat-sen at the Anti-Fengxuan in the South Park of Guangya Bookstore in Guangzhou, and conceived the establishment of a revolutionary organization, the Xingzhong Society. In 1895 he assisted Sun Yat-sen in Xiang. Hong Kong established the headquarters of the Xingzhong Society, and decided to take Guangzhou as a revolutionary base for an armed uprising.

He personally painted the blue sky and white sun flag as the banner of the uprising, and in order to cover the unfortunate arrest of the revolutionaries. In prison, he was tortured to extract a confession, and he would rather die than give in, and wrote a letter in court to denounce the Qing government. The government is corrupt, surrendered and betrayed the country.

He said: "Although this thing is not successful, this heart is very comforting, but I can kill it, and those who rise after me cannot be killed!" ”

He died heroically on November 7, 1895.

Sun Yat-sen later praised him as "the first person in the history of China to die for the republican revolution".

After the establishment of the League, the issue of the future national flag was discussed, and Sun Yat-sen advocated the use of the "blue sky and white sun" flag designed by Lu Haodong.

In the Wuchang Uprising, the Hubei revolutionaries played the "Eighteen-Star Banner of Iron and Blood". A black star on a red background, red represents blood, black represents iron, and eighteen stars represent the eighteen provinces at that time. It means to use the spirit of iron and blood to liberate the whole of China.

Later, the Shanghai side unfurled the five-color flag. There are five colors, and the five colors represent the five major ethnic groups of Han, Manchu, Mongolian, Hui and Tibetan. At that time, people did not know that there were more than 50 ethnic groups in China. When we talk about the five major nationalities, we mean all nationalities in a broad sense, and we are talking about the great unity of the nations, and we do not mean to recognize only these five nationalities and exclude other nationalities.

With the recovery of the provinces after the first uprising in Wuchang, because there is no unified banner, everyone plays a variety of flags.

In order to seek reunification, on January 9, 1912, Wuchang sent a telegram to the Nanjing government. The government unifies the national flag. The provincial councils, which act as the Senate, discussed the design of the national flag.

The Jiangsu deputies advocated the use of the five-color flag, the Hubei deputies insisted on using the iron-blooded 18-star flag, and the Fujian deputies proposed that the blue sky and white sun flag were the best.

Everyone argued endlessly, and each insisted on his own opinion, and finally a vote was held, and the majority opinion was to use the five-color flag.

At that time, many people were still very narrow-minded in their mouths about anti-Manchurian slogans, and the majority of the Senate introduced the five-color flag and attached importance to national unity and equality, which was very remarkable.

Since Hubei's deputies still insisted on using the Eighteen Banners of Iron and Blood after the resolution was made, Fujian did not give up its own views due to Hubei's influence. In order to balance the situation, the Senate decided that the five-color flag should be the national flag, and the iron-blooded eighteen flags should be the army flag, and the blue sky and white sun flag should be the navy flag.

Sun Yat-sen preferred the blue sky and white sun flag, thinking that using the five-color flag as the national flag felt "unavoidable", and also pointed out that using colors to represent the nation was not accurate enough. The Senate was asked to reconsider the flag resolution, but it was rejected by the Senate.

Although Sun Yat-sen was unwilling, he was bound by the "Outline of the Organization of the Republic of China" and could only implement it according to the resolution of the Senate.

The five-color flag was used until 1928, when the Beiyang regime was overthrown. After the Kuomintang took power, it established the blue sky and white sun flag as the national flag.

Regarding the place to set the capital, not only Yuan Shikai and the southern revolutionaries had their own agendas, but the opinions of the members of the Senate were also unanimous.

Some people advocate Beijing, some people think that Nanjing is the best place, and Hubei believes that Wuhan's geographical location in the middle of the country is the best choice for the national capital.

In the event of a dispute, the only vote had to be passed, and the result was 20 votes for Beijing, 5 votes for Nanjing, 2 votes for Wuchang, and 1 vote for Tianjin.

This result was contrary to the opinions of several leading figures of the Southern Revolutionary Party, and Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing were furious. They convened a meeting of the members of the Coalition to unify their positions.

The next day, Sun Yat-sen demanded a reconsideration of the location of the national capital in accordance with the law.

Huang Xing personally went to the scene, threatened the councillors, ordered the case to be overturned, and threatened: "Otherwise, I will be admitted to the hospital as a military police officer and all the members of the alliance will be arrested." ”

It seems that even a fighter for democracy and republic like Huang Xing, when the result of democracy does not go his way, will crusade against democracy and will regard democracy as a burden.

After Wu Yuzhang and others repeatedly dredged it underneath, they finally reluctantly passed the proposal of setting the capital of Nanjing with 19 votes in favor and 17 votes against.

Wu Yuzhang (December 30, 1878 - December 12, 1966), formerly known as Yongshan, was born in Rong County, Sichuan; He was an outstanding revolutionary, educator, historian and linguist, and a pioneer of higher education in New China.

He has studied at Chengdu Zun Jing Academy, Luzhou Chuannan Jingwei School, and schools in Japan and France. He was first a supporter and propagandist of the Reform Movement, and then joined the League. He actively participated in the Sichuan Road Protection Movement and the Xinhai Revolution.

He joined the Communist Party of China in 1925, participated in the Nanchang Uprising, was sent to work in the Soviet Union, France and Western Europe, and participated in the Seventh Congress of the Communist International. As early as the forties of the last century, it was known as the Communist Party of China together with Dong Biwu, Lin Boqu, Xu Teli and Xie Jueya. Give birth. The party's famous "Yan'an Five Elders".

When the north and south were at a stalemate over the capital of Nanjing and Beijing, Li Yuanhong took the opportunity to put forward the idea of building the capital of Wuchang and tried to take the third way.

On 24 February, the Hubei Provisional House passed a resolution to "make Wuchang the capital."

On the 26th, the "Minsheng Daily" published a telegram from the Minsheng Society: "On the issue of building a capital, Beijing is not suitable for southern China has become public opinion. The Senate seconded the policy. The private opinion of a small number of people in the government decided that Nanjing was the provisional government. Prefecture location. Those who are ignorant of the general trend and revive public opinion are absolutely unacceptable to our party. The day of the dispute between the north and the south, the time of the old and the new...... Compromise formulation, Mo Ruo Wuchang...... It not only removes the old stain of Beijing, but also avoids the day when Jianye is in peace. ”

Regarding Dingdu, Li Yuanhong and Hubei were of the opinion that they were resolutely opposed to Nanjing, that Beijing could discuss, and that Wuchang was the best. But Li Yuanhong and Hubei's opinions have almost no responders. As a result, Li Yuanhong took another step back and proposed that the national capital should be set up in Beijing first, and then move to Wuchang when the conditions were ripe.

On 27 February, Li Yuanhong sent a telegram to Sun Yat-sen and the Senate, accusing them of insisting that the capital of Nanjing was a "preconceived notion of sticking to the law," pointing out that Wuchang was "in the middle and controlling the distance," that the terrain was dangerous, the transportation was convenient, and that it could control the hub of the whole country, and that it was the most suitable reason for being the national capital. At the same time, "open up Wuhan and build a new capital", the new capital can be relocated after it is completed.

Later, there was a mutiny in Beijing, and Li Yuanhong was keenly aware that the capital of Beijing was already irreversible, so he sent a telegram to the whole country: "I heard that Beijing and Tianjin were in turmoil...... The timing couldn't be more critical. If you don't give up Nanjing, you will not be in chaos, and if you give up Beijing, you will die,......" echoes Yuan Shikai who is sitting in Beijing.

As a result, the battle for the national capital at the beginning of the Republic of China came to an end.