In 1918 there was a major event!

Xu Shuzheng suddenly shot Lu Jianzhang in Tianjin!

Lu Jianzhang went from Shanghai to Tianjin, he was a behind-the-scenes activist of the main peace faction, and had some direct and indirect relations with the Beiyang warlords in various provinces. This time, the Overseer held a meeting in Tianjin, and this meeting had a tendency to be unfavorable to the main battle faction, so Feng Guozhang secretly instructed Lu Jianzhang's eldest son, Lu Chengwu, to call his father to Tianjin, the purpose of which was to use Lu Jianzhang to persuade Cao Kun to return to his direct line and cooperate with Li Chun to turn the Overseer Legion meeting into a situation that was favorable to Feng and unfavorable to Duan.

After Lu Jianzhang arrived in Tianjin, Xu Shuzheng wrote a letter asking him to go to the headquarters of the Fengjun Army stationed in Tianjin to talk. Lu Jianzhang believes that he is the current general and an old-timer of the Beiyang faction, and he has no doubt that someone will kill him. He went as promised, Xu Shuzheng politely invited him to the secret room in the garden to talk, and when he walked into the garden, a guard shot him from behind and killed him.

Lu Jianzhang is a native of Mengcheng County, Anhui Province, a graduate of the Armed Forces School, participated in the training of small stations, and served as the director of the Military and Political Law Enforcement Division for 2 years in the Republic of China. He often invited people to dinner, and shot people in the back when sending them off, and people called his invitation red Cambodia "Hades ticket".

In March of the 3rd year of the Republic of China, he served as the commander of the 7th Division, and in June of 3rd year, he served as the governor of Shaanxi, and was driven away by Chen Shufan in May of 5th year. When the news of Lu Jianzhang's detention reached Yanjing, Duan Qirui was afraid that he would be killed, so he immediately asked Zeng Yujun to rush to Tianjin by car to stop him, but when he arrived, it was already executed.

Zeng Yujun returned to Yanjing the next day and brought a package of documents to Duan Qirui to see, and Duan Qirui even said after reading it: "Damn, damn!" ”

No one knows what this package of documents is.

Lu Jianzhang's killing made two people give a terrible impression at the same time, the first of course was Xu Shuzheng. He is 39 years old, and he and Lu Jianzhang's son Lu Chengwu are classmates of non-commissioned officers, and Lu Chengwu's wife and Xu Shuzheng's wife are also classmates, and the two families have a close relationship.

The other is Feng Yuxiang, after his uncle Lu Jianzhang was killed, he was appointed as the Xiangxi town guard and reinstated brigade commander, and was awarded four honors, so he never mentioned the Lu case, pretending as if there was no such thing.

And during this period, Feng Guozhang was no longer able to compete or fight with Duan Qirui. But Duan Qirui's words are not good, on the one hand, the surname of the whole country is anti-saying, and they oppose borrowing from the capital; On the one hand, there is the selfishness of the Anhui warlords. Duan deeply felt that the old Beiyang faction had been divided and could not become a situation, so he decided to speed up the establishment of his own direct force, and ordered Xu Shuzheng to set up three mixed brigades of the army to participate in the war at Xiaozhan first, hoping to achieve the goal of reorganizing the new army.

Then Zhang Zuolin went to Tianjin, and then Zhang Huaizhi also went to Tianjin. After the two men arrived, the Overseer held a meeting in Tianjin. One of the characteristics of this Tianjin conference was that Zhang Zuolin personally attended the meeting of the Governor's Corps, and the others who participated were: Cao Kun, Zhang Huaizhi, Xu Shuzheng, Ni Sichong, and Tanaka Yu. The three governors of the Yangtze River have not yet sent representatives to attend.

The Tianjin meeting was still to discuss the issue of the president and the issue of the southern expedition. Zhang Zuolin was in favor of electing Xu Shichang as the next president, and suggested that Duan Qirui be elected vice president. Zhang Zuolin was unwilling to be subordinate at this time, and he also had the ambition to become vice president. Ni Sichong was afraid that the meeting would cause a deadlock, so he suggested that the choice of vice president should not be decided for the time being, and that it should be reserved for those who had made special contributions to the war against Yugoslavia.

This suggestion was put forward by Xu Shuzheng through Ni Sichong's mouth, because Xu Shuzheng had promised Cao Kun and it was inconvenient for him to break his promise, but now that Zhang Zuolin had entered the customs in person, he wanted to entrap Zhang Zuolin with this son, so as to encourage Zhang Zuolin to transfer all the Feng troops to fight in the south, and on the other hand, he used the vice president as a bait to lure Cao Kun and his direct army to continue the war against the south. to salvage the impasse in the South.

Since Zhang Zuolin appeared as a "thug," the warlords of the provinces advocated that the Feng army should be the main force at the front, in order to replace the direct army that stood still on the front line. But of course Zhang Zuolin refused to do this, he suggested that the Feng army should be regarded as the general reserve force of all fronts, and should be at any time to support the front, which was of course opposed by other warlords, which was equivalent to consuming the strength of other departments, and then the Feng army went to receive it, everyone is not stupid, who is willing to do this? Therefore, this issue is delayed, and you push me.

At the Tianjin meeting, everyone unanimously called for the great unity of the Beiyang faction, and first asked the representatives of the provinces who did not attend the meeting to attend as observers. This refers to the three provinces of the Yangtze River, which are directly related, and they did not attend the Tianjin meeting and did not send representatives to attend. Therefore, the Tianjin meeting called all members in the name of all members to ask for their opinions on the "issue of the southern expedition". Ask them to reply quickly, and they replied: I have no opinion, I am only willing to protect the territory and the people!

As a result, although Zhang Zuolin personally participated in the Tianjin meeting, it was still fruitless. During this period, the only unanimous thing among the provincial warlords was to ask for military pay from Yanjing Zhengaxe, and the amount they offered was 15 million yuan.

Of course, you can't fight without money, so the Duan cabinet was busy using his brains on "money". Finance Minister Cho Rulin proposed to issue 240 million yuan in gold coin bonds, borrow 80 million yuan from the Bank of Korea as one-third of the reserve, and the currency represented by gold coin coupons is one-half of the US dollar. Duan Qirui adopted this suggestion and proposed to ask Feng Guozhang to promulgate and implement the regulations on the issuance of gold coin coupons. And Feng Guozhang once again refused to be sealed.

Western countries expressed their opposition to the measure of the Yanjing political axe, they believed that China's reform of the currency system should first consult with the banking group of the five countries, and should not act alone, which is against the common interests of the West, so they jointly protested against China, at this time, because the European war was nearing the end, the great powers began to pay attention to China again, and they were not as relaxed as during the emergency period of the European war, so they could not tolerate the various collusions between the political axe and Duan Qirui, and still wanted to control China through the banking group of the five countries, which also prevented the monopoly of borrowing money from China.

In view of the strong pressure from Western countries, he did not want to incur the bad feelings of Western countries, so he recalled Nishihara, the prime minister's personal representative who remained in China, and at the same time did not consider the matter of borrowing gold coins for the time being.

The collusion between Duan Qirui's political axe and Yueben did not get any benefit, because the supply of arms only cheapened the Fengjun, and the two times the arms were robbed by the Fengjun, although there were many loans, but the far water could not save the near fire.

Zhang Huaizhi and Ni Sichong both left Tianjin and returned to defense. Only Zhang Zuolin remained in Tianjin, and he was already interested in Yanjing's politics at this time.

Zhang Zuolin broke out when he was in Tianjin, he found that since Duan Qirui formed a cabinet for the third time on March 25, Xu Shuzheng received a total of 5.5 million yuan in military expenses from Fengjun, but Fengjun only received more than 180 yuan. He further inquired and found that Xu Shuzheng had used other funds to train the war army and organize the election of the new Congress, and it turned out that Xu Shuzheng had actually played with "fake reimbursement".

Since Zhang Zuolin entered the customs, in contact with all parties, all he heard was how Xu Shuzheng was domineering and rampant, coercing Duan Qirui to bully the Beiyang armies. Therefore, he was already dissatisfied with Xu Shuzheng in his heart, and now he found that he was good at diverting the military expenses of the Fengjun for other purposes, and deceived others and bullied his head, how could he not be dishonored, so he did not wait for consultation with Yanjing Zhengaxe, and immediately ordered Xu Shuzheng to be dismissed from the post of deputy commander of the Fengjun, and wanted to settle accounts with Xu Shuzheng.

Duan Qirui heard that Zhang Zuolin had turned his face, and for fear of causing other trouble, he quickly called Xu Shuzheng to see Zhang Zuolin to apologize, and admitted to return the money in a short time.

After this matter was settled, Duan Qirui soon began to organize the election of the new parliament.

During the Civil War, the five provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, which were controlled by Wang Hengyue, were resolutely opposed, while the three provinces of Hunan, Hubei, and Shaanxi were also unable to hold normal elections because of the war. As a result of the election, the Anfu Department won a resounding victory with 33.0 seats, the old Department of Transportation won 120 seats, and the Research Department only won just over 20 seats.

After the election of the new parliamentarians, according to the convening order, they reported to Yanjing before August 1, 7th year of the Republic of China, and on August 12th, the Senate was dissolved, and the new parliament was established. On August 20, the House of Representatives elected Wang Yitang, the leader of the Anfu Department, as the speaker, Liu Enge as the vice speaker, and on the 22nd, the Senate elected Liang Shiyi, the leader of the old transportation department, as the speaker, and Zhu Qiling as the vice speaker.

Liu Enge, vice speaker of the House of Representatives, has no name, it turns out that he is a member of the Fengtian nationality, and Zhang Zuolin supports him, so he must be elected vice speaker.

After the establishment of the Anfu Congress, Duan Qirui and Wang Hengyue learned a trick, that is, "legally reverting Feng". Now that the time is ripe, he first said that he would step down to force Feng Guozhang to fulfill his promise to retire at the same time, but after he stepped down, the newly elected president was indulged by Duan Qirui, and Duan Qirui also retained the post of supervising the war, so Duan Qirui was still on the stage when he stepped down, but Feng Guozhang's resignation was really stepping down. The struggle between Feng Duan and the two was defeated after the Anfu Congress was convened.

Duan Qirui decided to re-elect the president at all costs, but the south did not agree.

In 1918, on August 31, the 7th year of the Republic of China, Wang Hengyue, the generalissimo of the Guangzhou Protector Army and the commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army, issued a declaration to the whole country:

The military and political axes will continue to convene the Council of the Protectors of the Law, and in due course the election of the president will be held! All foreign treaties and promulgated laws concluded by the Yanjing government are considered null and void.

The declaration in Guangzhou made the members of the Department of Political Science further advocate that Feng Guozhang be elected president.

On September 2, Wang Hengyue of Guangguang once again issued a manifesto, denying that the Anfu National Assembly had the right to elect the president, and if the president was elected, the southwest would never recognize it.

Since Duan was determined to be elected, for fear of accidents, he summoned the first brigade of the army to Nanyuan.

Zhang Zuolin petitioned Yanjing Zhengaxe to restore Zhang Xun's freedom, and Kang Youwei openly arrived in Yanjing, so people inside and outside Yanjing panicked, thinking that there was going to be a second restoration!

(To be continued)