Chapter 632: The Man Who Won't Die If He Doesn't Die
Yuan Shikai had to urgently convene a meeting of everyone in Beijing to discuss how to deal with the assassination of Song Jiaoren, and the news of Song Jiaoren's assassination could not but be reminiscent of the assassination of Wang Yongan.
Yuan Shikai shouted at the meeting: "We must catch the murderer, catch the mastermind behind the scenes, and catch those who sabotage the republic!" ”
Wang Yongxin was amused, the assassination of Song Jiaoren seemed to come up earlier, perhaps because of his little butterfly, so that many historical events happened in advance or later. However, the famous events in history have occurred one after another, and they have not disappeared because of their own appearance, which has to make Wang Yongan feel how powerful the inertia of history is, and the little people who are a drop in the ocean can only influence but cannot prevent the occurrence of history after all.
Among the participants, naturally Wang Yongan has the most right to speak, after all, he also suffered an assassination, but Song Jiaoren died, and Wang Yongan was safe and sound, Yuan Shikai hoped that Wang Yongan could say something, and finally Wang Yongan had to say: "Song Jiaoren's assassination occurred in Shanghai, I hope to set up a special investigation team to go to Shanghai as soon as possible to investigate, before the investigation team finds evidence, anyone who makes arbitrary conclusions is suspected of diverting public attention." ”
Yuan Shikai was stunned by the case, and then immediately set up a special investigation team to go to Shanghai to investigate, and Wang Yongan was also running for the next cabinet at this time, and the first cabinet premier Tang Shaoyi then announced his resignation, and the 12th cabinet ministry was also dissolved.
There is no causal relationship between the assassination of Soong Jiaoren and Tang Shaoyi's resignation, but they are linked, because Soong Jiaoren's identity is the leader of the Kuomintang, and in the parliamentary election the previous month, the Kuomintang won a resounding victory, whether it is the Senate or the House of Representatives, the Kuomintang has more than half of the votes, according to international practice, the leader of the party that wins the parliamentary election automatically becomes the prime minister of the cabinet and has the right to reorganize the cabinet. And Tang Shaoyi seemed to have the intention to achieve Song Jiaoren, so he accepted the resignation application of the Congress, and waited for Song Jiaoren to resign immediately after coming to Beijing from Shanghai to hand over the power of the prime minister.
Although Song Jiaoren did not have Sun Yat-sen's ability to produce a cow, Song Jiaoren's connections far exceeded Sun Yat-sen's, and his position in the Kuomintang was extremely high, and due to Sun Yat-sen's lack of political experience in the Nanjing Provisional Government and his many strategic mistakes, the Nanjing Provisional Government parted ways, and Song Jiaoren reorganized the Kuomintang and forced Sun Yat-sen away. This is also one of the reasons why Sun Yat-sen finally accepted the North-South peace talks and accepted Yuan Shikai's appointment as the director of the General Administration of Railways, after all, he became a bare-bones commander, and no one except Chen Qimei and Huang Xing supported him anymore.
Song Jiaoren united the conservative faction of the Kuomintang and the Fuxing Society, and was elected president of the Democratic Party. At a time when Sun Yat-sen was obsessed with 100,000 kilometers of railways in ten years, Song Jiaoren silently developed party members, and finally won the parliamentary election in one fell swoop, shocking the world. However, this news was drowned out by the assassination of Wang Yongan at the same time, until the triumphant Song Jiaoren openly and unequivocally set aside the five-power constitution invented by Sun Sun Yat-sen at the Kuomintang meeting held in Shanghai some time ago and talked about his own constitutional idea of separation of powers: "To discuss the constitution, how the executive, legislative, and judicial powers should be distributed, and how the relationship between the central and local governments and their powers should be stipulated.
If Soong Jiaoren only opposed Sun Yat-sen, then he completely denied the domestic and foreign affairs of the Yuan Shikai government in even more vehement terms, believing that only the parliamentary party responsible cabinet organized by the Kuomintang was the doctor who cured the "bad government".
According to British and French practice, the president is a fictitious office, and the Congress has the greatest power to form a cabinet, and according to the American method, the president is elected by the Congress, and Song Jiaoren can even directly kick out Yuan Shikai, but Song Jiaoren proudly thinks that after all, Yuan Shikai has made great contributions to the overthrow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so let him be the president of the virtual office. However, Song Jiaoren was very dissatisfied with the 12 cabinet ministries, and he criticized many of the 12 cabinet ministries today for being a corpse and not seeking political affairs, while some government personnel could only take bribes and do not do practical things, so he should resolutely organize a cabinet and reappoint the candidates for the 12 cabinet ministries and the four general bureaus.
In fact, Song Jiaoren is announcing to everyone, the next cabinet reshuffle, you must surrender to me, hurry up and show allegiance to me, I have opened my mind......
However, the current cabinet of 12 candidates is the result of the tripartite game of Beiyang, Jiangbei and the Kuomintang, in order to be able to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty and establish the Republic of China, the three parties have made no small concessions, after two years of repeated negotiations, now Song Jiaoren has not yet served as the prime minister of the cabinet, and actually completely repudiated the original structure.
There is a saying in later generations that if you don't die, you won't die, and Song Jiaoren responded to that sentence.
He made many big mistakes, first of all, he should not deny the founding program of Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the Kuomintang, which is equivalent to a split in the Kuomintang, although Sun Yat-sen is a leader of the cannon, but after all, it was Sun Yat-sen who founded the Kuomintang, and has made great contributions to the party.
Second, Song Jiaoren mistakenly believed that the Chinese Congress was the same as a foreign Congress, and as long as the KMT took the leadership of the Congress, he would be the prime minister, and Tang Shaoyi's choice to resign in order to curb Yuan Shikai's dictatorship also gave him a wrong signal and made him flutter. However, at this time, China had not yet decided whether the country should implement a presidential system or a prime minister system, and as a result, Soong Jiaoren believed that China must implement a prime minister system, and even proposed a complete re-election of the cabinet.
In the end, Soong Jiaoren did not understand the vertical and horizontal relations in the political struggle at all, and before he became the prime minister of the cabinet, Soong Jiaoren was ashamed to talk about the reform of the world, and he did not have the idea of co-opting the other faction, the Kuomintang and the Jiangbei faction, to confront the powerful Beiyang faction, and made a big political mistake.
In particular, after the KMT won, it completely ignored the position and attitude of the Jiangbei department, and even Song Jiaoren thought that Wang Yongan, Zhang Jian, Chen Zhaotang, and other Jiangbei officials would take the initiative to approach him, but it was a pity that the Jiangbei department only recognized strength and did not recognize him as the future cabinet premier, so Song Jiaoren also criticized Wang Yongan and said: "Jiangbei officials interfere too much in the army, which will inevitably affect the stability of the country, and the rise of national instability." ”
Wang Yongan was sick and ignored Song Jiaoren, but Song Jiaoren thought that Wang Yongan was afraid of him, and his arrogance became even more arrogant, and the newspaper began to praise Song Jiaoren, thinking that Song Jiaoren's formation of a cabinet would definitely be able to create a bright tomorrow for the Republic of China, completely ignoring Yuan Shikai's attitude, thinking that Yuan Shikai was really a puppet president.