Due to the imminent reorganization of the cabinet, many people's minds are lively, not only the Beiyang Department is active, but the Jiangbei Department is not idle, Wang Yongan recommended Zhang Jian to Yuan Shikai as the new Prime Minister of the Cabinet, and there are many candidates in the Beiyang Department, but because there are many candidates, no one has absolute certainty. The National Assembly proposed that the next president of the People's Party succeed him as prime minister, but if the president of the People's Party succeeds him, the People's Party will need to be re-elected, and it will be the year of the monkey.

In order to support Zhang Jian as prime minister, Wang Yongan frequently shuttled between the National Assembly and the presidential palace, and while recommending Zhang Jian to Yuan Shikai, Wang Yongan frequently wooed the parliament and held banquets in the palace to invite members of the congress. Among the members of the National Assembly, there are 27 members from Jiangbei, although their identities are different, some are from the Kuomintang and some are from the Republican Party, but as a native of their hometown, Wang Yongan asked them to support Zhang Jian. Although the 27 parliamentarians did not have many seats, Wang Yongan and many legislators from Jiangbei visited and invited KMT legislators one by one, which gradually increased the number of people in the parliament who supported Zhang Jian.

Originally, Zhang Jian's prestige in the north and south was very high, but now with Wang Yongan's strong support, more and more people in the parliament are calling for Zhang Jian to be recommended as the premier of the cabinet.

Yuan Shikai saw that the boiled duck was about to fly, and he must not allow outsiders to serve as prime ministers, so he quickly recommended Xiong Xiling, the former minister of finance, to be the prime minister of the cabinet. Yuan Shikai originally wanted to be a serious and obedient Zhao Bingjun in his heart, but Zhao Bingjun was deeply involved in the assassination of Song Jiaoren, and if Zhao Bingjun was truthfully appointed, I am afraid that the Kuomintang would have to make a fuss.

With half supporters and half opponents in Congress, it was questionable whether Xiong Xiling could be approved by Congress as the new prime minister.

Xiong Xiling can be described as a legendary figure in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, first of all, people often say that the Hunan prodigy is not Yang Du, but refers to Xiong Xiling. His father was a general of the Hunan Army, the tiger head general of Zeng Guofan, Zeng Guofan advocated the rule of the army by literati, and Xiong Xiling's father sent him to study in the best private school. Xiong Xiling read the three-character scripture for the first time when he was six years old, and it only took two days to memorize it all, and the more obscure Four Books and Five Classics are also familiar with the heart. At the age of twenty-one, he ranked 19th in Hunan Province, and his name shook Huguang. At the age of twenty-four, he was appointed as a scholar of the Hanlin Academy. At the age of twenty-five, the First Sino-Japanese War broke out, and Xiong Xiling brazenly abandoned his pen to join the Hunan army and decided to fight to the death with Japan. At the age of twenty-six, he was appreciated by Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Liangjiang, and was entrusted with the important task of reforming the Hunan army. At the age of twenty-seven, with the support of Chen Baowei, the governor of Hunan Province, he launched the reform movement in his hometown, organized the Southern Society, abolished the foot-binding movement, established railways and shipping, and established mines, but soon the reform movement failed, and Xiong Xiling was dismissed from his post and never resigned.

After living in his hometown for five years, Xiong Xiling was reactivated by Zhao Erxun, and then Xiong Xiling still supported the industrial development of economy, culture and technology, so that the finances of Hunan Province were greatly improved. After returning to China, Xiong Xiling firmly believed that the Qing Dynasty should follow the example of Britain in implementing a constitutional monarchy, so he began to run around for the constitution. After the establishment of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai thought that Xiong Xiling was a rare master of accumulating money, so he appointed him as the Minister of Finance, and Xiong Xiling really made a lot of contributions to the finance of the newly established Republic of China, so he was recommended by Yuan Shikai.

Of course, Xiong Xiling is most appreciated by Yuan Shikai is that he is obedient, Yuan Shikai believes that this Xiong Xiling will never fall out with him like Tang Shaoyi, and emphasize constitutionalism and the like when he has nothing to do, Xiong Xiling will only do some facts, and will not play tricks.

And some members of the National Assembly are also because of Xiong Xiling's low profile, lest he become Yuan Shikai's lackey, and resolutely do not support Xiong Xiling. In the subsequent rounds of voting, Xiong Xiling failed by a narrow margin, and the decisive vote to decide whether Xiong Xiling would be the prime minister of the cabinet was actually the votes of the Jiangbei district legislators.

Yuan Shikai had no choice but to find Wang Yongan and Zhang Jian and asked them if they could support it, Wang Yongan shook his head and insisted that Zhang Jian be the prime minister, but Zhang Jianqian gave in, saying that he could not be the prime minister of the cabinet. Yuan Shikai was overjoyed, but Zhang Jian put forward a request, that is, in the new cabinet, the power of the Jiangbei faction should be increased. Yuan Shikai agreed after a little consideration, and promised to hand over the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to the Jiangbei Department, which made the Jiangbei Department, which originally only planned to get the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture and Sports, overjoyed.

In the subsequent congressional election, due to the re-election of the Jiangbei parliamentarians, Xiong Xiling was finally approved by the parliament and became the second cabinet premier of the Republic of China. Xiong Xiling quickly nominated the new cabinet list of 12 departments, but after the list was handed over to Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai couldn't cry or laugh, saying What is the difference between your list and Song Jiaoren, it's just that Song Jiaoren thinks that only the revolutionary party does practical things, and you think that only the Beiyang Department does practical things, but you ignore the political giant of the Jiangbei Department.

Xiong Xiling hurriedly discussed carefully with Yuan Shikai, and finally made a list of the new cabinets, including Minister of the Interior Zhu Qichao, Minister of War Duan Qirui, Minister of the Navy Liu Guanxiong, Minister of Finance Xiong Xiling, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Zhou Ziqi, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sun Baoqi, Minister of Culture and Sports Liang Qichao, Minister of Industry and Commerce Zhang Jian, Minister of Communications Shen Yunpei, Minister of Education Xu Dinglin, Minister of Health Xiao Xiangshan, and Minister of Justice Chen Zhaotang. The candidates for the four general administrations are Sun Yat-sen, director of the General Administration of Railways, Liang Dunyan, director of the General Administration of Customs, Chen Zhenxian, director of the State Administration of Religious Affairs, and Wei Wenkang, director of the General Audit Bureau.

After the list was announced, neither the Beiyang system, the Jiangbei system, nor the revolutionary party were satisfied with this, and the Beiyang department thought that it could become a dominant family, but found that the Jiangbei department had grown stronger instead of being excluded. The Jiangbei Department only got the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, which Yuan Shikai promised Wang Yongan in private, did not let it out, but let Zhou Ziqi of Beiyang take the position. The revolutionary party was even more miserable, as there was only one general railway bureau left, and Sun Yat-sen became the only seedling of the revolutionary party in the new cabinet.

As the spiritual leader of the revolutionary party, Sun Yat-sen naturally could not serve alone, so he immediately returned to China from his technical inspection of railways in Japan, and announced his resignation from the post of director of the railway administration.

Because of Sun Yat-sen's resignation, Wang Yongan led the Jiangbei Department to Yuan Shikai to ask the government to provide support for the construction of the Jiangbei Fourth Railway.

At this point, Xiong Xiling's cabinet was officially established, and the Xiong Xiling cabinet in history is very different from the Beiyang family, today's cabinet is divided into two major factions, Xiong Xiling has to be angry by Yuan Shikai, but also by the Beiyang officials and Jiangbei officials, but more depressed than the rat in the bellows.