They were all his pawns, and they all wanted to show loyalty, and in less than three days, the "rumors" were all expressed. No one mentioned what was wrong with the draft law itself, and it is estimated that they could not find anything wrong, and Yuan Shikai also knew this.

He has a number of royal legal experts at his disposal. He had a draft constitution and had scrambled with several people for their opinions. These people all echoed his preference for speaking, and it was difficult for them to raise legal objections to the draft.

Later, one person had the courage to say that as a democratic republic, most of the principles expressed in this draft are the most basic principles. It is precisely the true essence of the democratic republican system to replace the rule of man with the rule of law, to use the law to restrict and supervise the administrative power, to control the arbitrariness of individuals, and to prevent the willfulness and lawlessness of individuals. It is the fundamental difference between the democratic republican system and the feudal autocracy.

Although he didn't say it explicitly, there was nothing wrong with the draft constitution, but Yuan Shikai could still understand what was going on. Just like Lafayette didn't understand the constitution back then, Yuan Shikai followed everyone to shout about the democratic republic for so long, but in fact, he never understood what this democratic republic was. Now, I finally understand a little bit.

He seems to have finally figured out one thing, it seems that it is not that the "Provisional Covenant" and the "Draft Constitution" cannot get along with him, but that the democratic republic itself cannot get along with him.

What to do? Can we bow down and be at the mercy of this democratic republic? Yuan Shikai was not convinced, he was unwilling. He never believed in evil, but only believed in one sentence: with power you have everything, and with power you can do whatever you want.

Of course, Yuan Shikai didn't expect anything wrong with the draft constitution from below, he just needed to speak from below. We need to listen to the voices from below, and we need to use the voices from below to put pressure on the Congress and relevant parties.

The civil and military officials under his command seemed to have guessed his thoughts, and these people really knew how to "figure out what was going on," and they all unanimously pointed the finger at the National Assembly, the draft constitution, the constitutional drafting committee, and the Kuomintang legislators.

They denounced the National Assembly and the Constitution Drafting Committee as "thieves of the state" and strongly demanded the eradication of the Kuomintang, the expulsion of Kuomintang legislators, the dissolution of the National Assembly, and the annulment of the draft constitution.

Ni Sichong, Feng Guozhang, Zhang Zhenfang, Tang Qianming, and Zhang Xun shouted the most fiercely.

In particular, Ni Sichong has long appealed: "It seems that if the black sheep of this (Kuomintang parliamentarians) are not eliminated, there is hope for eternal peace in the world!" It is proposed to request a general order to dissolve the Kuomintang everywhere outside Beijing, and those who are suspected of being involved in Tianjin should be ordered to be dismissed from their posts and returned to their hometowns, so that they can think about it behind closed doors. ”

After receiving Yuan Shikai's telegram, he made even more nonsense, saying that the draft constitution "is obviously unreasonable, and it is actually a means for the party to make persistent efforts to undermine the Republic of China, and it is against the plot of Huang Xing and others. He shouted: "The National Assembly will be dissolved immediately, and the Kuomintang members will be expelled and returned to their hometowns, and handed over to the provincial courts for detailed inspection."

On that day, the "Draft Constitution" was completed, and the Constitution Drafting Committee passed the third reading and submitted to the Constitutional Conference.

Yuan Shikai saw that everyone was rushing for time, so he decided to have a showdown.

The National Assembly was no longer useful, and it was intended that they would make a constitution of their own to replace the Provisional Statute; Now, it's impossible, and he's going to go down to Congress.

However, there is still a problem that needs to be solved before this, that is, to pull the country. Business. Total. Li Xiong Xiling. For, according to the Provisional Statute, the proclamations and decisions issued are still required by the State. Business. Total. Signed by the Faculty of Justice.

After some planning, the total. Li Xiong Xiling was invited to the presidential palace for deliberations.

As soon as Xiong Xiling arrived, a foreign envoy asked to see the president. This is, of course, pre-arranged. There is a difference between inside and outside, and Yuan Shikai naturally wants to meet foreign guests first.

He apologized and asked Xiong Xiling to wait in the office.

Xiong Xiling had nothing to do, and casually glanced at a file on Yuan Shikai's desk. It was Xu Shiying, the former chief of justice, who investigated the case of Chengde Summer Resort. After a little peeping, I found out that the relationship itself was shocked.

It turned out that when Xiong Xiling was the commander of the Rehe River, he lived in the Chengde Summer Resort. It was the palace of the Qing court, and the emperor often went there for summer hunting. The villa displays many treasures and antiquities of the Qing Dynasty, and each one of them is in charge, and the cultural relics here are inspected and reported to the Qing court.

When Xiong Xiling lived in the villa, he counted the cultural relics of the villa.

He once gave a folding fan to Yuan Shikai's confidant Jiang Gui. Jiang Guidi didn't dare to leave it privately, handed over the treasure to Yuan Shikai, and reported Xiong Xiling secretly.

When Xiong Xiling served as the commander of Rehe, it was at a time when the Kulun Meng bandits rebelled, and the border affairs were tight. In order to protect these precious cultural relics, Xiong submitted two consecutive letters to Yuan Shikai, requesting that the palace be repaired and the cultural relics on display were sorted out. It was also suggested that the cultural relics should be packed and shipped to Beijing and sold to the Republic of China Museum for collection.

Yuan Shikai approved Xiong's suggestion, and Xiong Xiling began to repair the palace houses in May 1913 and thoroughly inventory the cultural relics on display. He also issued thirteen clean-up methods, compiled various clean-up forms, and appointed two clean-up officials, together with the chief of affairs in the palace, to spend several months of work to classify and complete the inventory of the palace antiquities.

Xiong Xiling himself is a complete layman for antiques, and has neither appreciation knowledge nor collection of Yaxing. In the process of repairing the house and cleaning up the cultural relics, due to the shortage of funds, Xiong, with the consent of Yuan Shikai, sent people to select more than 10 pieces of slightly valuable porcelain from the ancient cultural relics in the palace and shipped them to Beijing and Shanghai for sale, and obtained a huge amount of money for repair.

However, Yuan Shikai couldn't trust anyone, and after approving Xiong Xiling's proposal to renovate the palace and tidy up antiques, he instructed the officials of the former Qing Internal Affairs Office to secretly monitor behind his back.

Officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs put together more than 200 pieces of porcelain sold by Xiong Xiling in Beijing and Shanghai with other stolen antiques, and made a list of them, asking Yuan Shikai to track them down.

Yuan Shikai sent someone to secretly investigate the matter, and the investigator deliberately flashed on the investigation report according to Yuan Shikai's intentions, suggesting that Xiong Xiling was suspected of stealing treasures. After Yuan Shikai received this investigation report, he deliberately suppressed it and did not send it.

As a result, there was Xu Shiying, the former chief of justice, to investigate the case file of Chengde Summer Resort. That case file has been pressed on Yuan Shikai, and now it comes in handy.

After Yuan Shikai met with the foreign guests, he invited Xiong Xiling to talk about things outside.

Seeing that Xiong Xiling's face was different, he was particularly concerned: "Bingsan, don't you didn't sleep well last night because you were busy." Otherwise, why is the complexion so bad and the spirit is very tired? How can we have a busy time to finish our work? Take care of your rest and protect your body. ”

Xiong Xiling is a particularly timid and fearful person, and he has not experienced any storms. I was still thinking about what happened just now, and I wondered if Yuan Shikai wanted to implement the question of the treasure theft case in the summer villa, and he hadn't figured out how to answer it.

Seeing that Yuan Shikai cared about his body, he was busy expressing his gratitude.

The two of them chatted a few words, and Yuan Shikai's face suddenly changed, "Bingsan, you should have seen clearly during this time, the state affairs are not moving forward well, all because the Kuomintang has set up obstacles everywhere." It's sad that accidents are so difficult and difficult! China practices a responsible cabinet system, and if the Kuomintang obstacle cannot be removed, the cabinet will not be able to carry out its duties smoothly, and the power of the president will not be able to be exercised. Now that I have figured it out, in order to govern our country well, I can only make up my mind and dissolve the Kuomintang. Bingsan, what do you think? ”

Yuan Shikai's voice was fierce, and it was not the expression of discussing things with Xiong Xiling at all.

Xiong Xiling, who has a cowardly personality, at this time, what else can he say except nodding?

Seeing that he had no objections, Yuan Shikai put the prepared order to dissolve the Kuomintang in front of Xiong Xiling and asked him to sign it.

Xiong Xiling didn't care about what was written on it, so he obediently signed it.

After Xiong Xiling signed, Yuan Shikai immediately called the chief of internal affairs who was waiting in the next room, and also signed it.

At this moment, Xiong Xiling realized that this was a trap set for him.

He felt very uncomfortable and sad, and felt that he had become an accomplice to a man who had done bad things. He regretted it very much, why did he take the things of Chengde Summer Resort and give them away, and it became a handle for people to grab, who can blame him? Previously, Xiong Xiling had always been very proud of himself and admired himself very much. Now, it's different, and I look down on myself.

Before Yuan Shikai ordered the dissolution of the Kuomintang, Liang Qichao, leader of the Progressive Party, heard the news and hurried to the presidential palace, hoping that Yuan would take care of the overall situation and not make things out of control.

When he arrived at the entrance of the presidential palace, the guards blocked him from entering and told him, "The president is discussing important business, please come tomorrow (Liang is the chief of justice)!" ”

Liang Fa hurriedly said: "I have important business to discuss with the president, I'll wait here for a while!" ”

Liang waited for most of the day before the guards said to him, "The president has an invite." ”

After Liang met Yuan Shikai, he said a lot of reasoning and advised Yuan Shikai not to give an order to dissolve the Kuomintang.

Yuan Shikai listened to him with a smile and patience, and finally, said lightly: "It's late!" The order has been given! ”

At the same time as the order was issued, Yuan Shikai dispatched more than 300 people to surround the Beijing branch of the Kuomintang on Waizhangyimen Street with lightning speed. The rioter-like military police searched for four hours and confiscated all the party members' registers, documents, and archival materials.

The next day, they surrounded the Senate and the House of Representatives, and even went to the homes of Kuomintang legislators in the middle of the night and seized more than 300 certificates and badges of Kuomintang legislators.

Yuan Shikai declared in his order to dissolve the Kuomintang and disqualify the Kuomintang legislators: "In this civil strife (referring to the Second Revolution), the Kuomintang headquarters and the Kuomintang MPs are instigating each other...... However, knowing that the chaos is in order, he has already put the country in danger, the people are out of the way, and the country is in chaos,...... The special order was issued to dissolve the headquarters of the Kuomintang Beijing Division; It also ordered all localities to dissolve all organs set up by the Kuomintang, regardless of their branches, branches, communications, and other names, within three days. ……

"In the future, those who publish printed materials, make public speeches or hold secret meetings in the name of the Kuomintang are all disorderly parties and should be investigated and dealt with immediately, without a little indulgence! …… As for the Kuomintang legislators, they steal the high position of the country and plot to subvert the country, so they are actually disqualified from the legislators,...... All Kuomintang legislators will have their certificates and badges confiscated. The Governor of the Interior shall promptly order each province to search for the current legal candidates for the Senate and the House of Representatives, and fill them in the same place. ”

The pretext for dissolving the Kuomintang and disqualifying the Kuomintang legislators was actually a "second revolution" that had already passed the times.