After entering Li Yuanhong's house, after Xia Jun sat down with him, he chatted a few words, and then cut to the chase and discussed with Li Yuanhong about the expulsion of the Manchu emperor.

Xia Jun did not plan to discuss the matter of the president with Li Yuanhong, the matter was already a certainty, and Xia Jun was more concerned about the expulsion of the little Puyi emperor.

The little emperor Puyi not only lived in the Forbidden City at this time, but also had money every month, which Xia Jun couldn't bear, so he needed to implement it after Li Yuanhong became president.

"My brother laughed, how can I have the ability to expel Pu Yi." Li Yuanhong asked knowingly, Xia Jun had revealed when he publicly answered questions before that he wanted to invite Li Yuanhong to come out and become the second president of the Republic of China, although Li Yuanhong was imprisoned in Dongchang Hutong, but it was not that the news was closed, he still had a certain degree of freedom of movement, and reading books and newspapers was the most common thing to do.

Xia Jun glanced in the living room and found that the maid making tea was still standing on the side, so he deliberately said loudly to Li Yuanhong: "Brother Li, don't be too modest, who else can have a brother who is so suitable to be the second president today?" I am still young, and I can't afford this responsibility. ”

"That ......" Li Yuanhong couldn't help but move, he had been Yuan Shikai's angry daughter-in-law for three or four years, if he could become the president, wouldn't it be time to run?

Xia Jun immediately talked to him about the Xinhai Revolution, "My brother can know that when we launched the revolution, what we did was to overthrow the Qing court and support the Han industry. However, now that the little emperor Puyi still lives in the Forbidden City, how can it be said that the revolution has won? The Xinhai Revolution was a racial revolution, and the little emperor did not leave the Forbidden City without covering it, and it was not a success. ”

As a matter of fact, all the revolutionary parties that launched the revolution in those years have run out, and it is only the Hubei New Army that launched the revolution, so it has nothing to do with the revolutionary party.

And Li Yuanhong was dragged by life at that time and forcibly pushed to become a leader, because he was the biggest official at that time, and if he wanted to talk about revolution, in fact, Li Yuanhong was still very reluctant, but naturally he didn't mention it afterwards.

"What my brother said is good." Li Yuanhong nodded.

The two talked happily, Li Yuanhong insisted on leaving Xia Jun for lunch, and Xia Jun also stayed and had a hearty lunch in Li Yuanhong's house.

…… Duan Qirui's internal meeting in Beiyang was underway, and suddenly a middle-aged man walked into the venue and whispered something in Duan Qirui's ear.

Duan Qirui is the successor of the mantle designated by Yuan Shikai, and the intelligence system established by Yuan Shikai was also taken over by Duan Qirui.

In fact, in the intelligence agency of the Beiyang Political Axe, there are internal annihilations of the East China Political Axe Military Intelligence Bureau everywhere, and it doesn't look any different in peacetime.

After all, the East China Political Axe did not use a knife against the Beiyang Political Axe or anything, so the Beiyang Political Axe naturally couldn't detect any intelligence leakage.

"There is no need to discuss Li Yuanhong's inauguration as president, our king of East China wants Li Yuanhong to be president, can you control it?" Duan Qirui said to the Anhui officers under him.

Suddenly, there was silence below, Duan Qirui said before that Li Yuanhong should be the president, and the emotions of a group of officers were very great, how could Beiyang find an outsider to be the president? What's going on?

However, now it seems that Li Yuanhong's presidency is an unchangeable ending, because Beiyang at this time needs to fully consider the attitude of East China's political axe.

Xu Shuzheng got up and said: "Li Yuanhong is indeed the best choice to be president, we can use this to postpone the contradiction with the East China political axe, after all, Li Yuanhong is an acceptable figure to anyone." ”

"Let Li Yuanhong be the president, then what will happen to our military salaries in the future?"

"Why are you so unenlightened, he is a bare-handed president, how can he be controlled by him."

"Now that the chairman has spoken, what else can we do?"

There was a lot of discussion below, but no one stood up to oppose it, and the matter was finalized for a while.

On the same day, the Beiyang political axe sent a telegram to the whole country, announcing that Li Yuanhong would succeed Yuan Shikai as the second president of the Republic of China, and Duan Qirui would be the prime minister of the Republic of China.

This result made the people of the provinces in East China very puzzled, why did Chairman Xia not become the president?

And Chairman Xia's attitude is really puzzling, why did he refuse to be the president?

A lot of puzzlement!

Obviously, the world has not seen Xia Jun's true intentions, and so far, Xia Jun's puppet central policy has been very successful.

This kind of puppet policy can be much more clever, he treats the whole of Beiyang as a puppet, not as a puppet to push one person into the front of the stage.

And the Beiyang political axe is with Li Yuanhong as the president!

Li Yuanhong became the president, and all factions in the Beiyang system were acceptable, especially Cao Kun, Wu Peifu, and Feng Yuxiang.

As for Feng Guozhang, he was imprisoned for three years after being tried by the East China Military Court, and he didn't have the heart to go against the East China Political Axe again, otherwise it would be extremely easy to be imprisoned again, and then it would be possible for the East China Political Axe to find a crime for him to sit in prison.

Feng Guozhang's political position at this time was rather confused, and the old man handed over the Second Army to him before he died, and told him to take care of the Yuan family's bloodline, which is what Feng Guozhang is currently interested in.

After three years in prison, Feng Guozhang practiced a good hand, and his heart was much calmer, but he no longer had the confidence to fight in East China at this time, which was very different from when he went south to attack Nanjing.

Although the news was announced, Li Yuanhong still has to wait a few days to prepare for his inauguration, and it is not clear what powers and responsibilities are between the East China political axe and the central political axe.

And at this time, the name of East China political axe is not applicable, and the six provinces of East China are: Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, and Jiangxi.

In addition to these six provinces, the East China political axe also controlled the provinces of central, western, and southern China, and even recovered Taiwan and the Ryukyus, and ceded Sakhalin Island from Yuben.

It is indeed inappropriate to call the East China Autonomous Political Axe.

Xia Jun returned to East China on the evening of the seventeenth day of the first month and convened a high-level meeting to discuss follow-up actions.

"It is better to change the name to the 'political axe of the United Autonomous Region of China' and play the card of joint autonomy." Yan Xishan said first at the meeting.

"It's a bit too middle-of-the-road to tell the difference." Xia Jun shook his head and vetoed, but the entire venue was entangled for more than an hour, and he came up with all kinds of names, but the results were not suitable.

Because the East China Autonomous Political Axe is defined as a local political axe, there are various restrictions on the name, first of all, it must not be too self-serving, and then it must have a name that can be in sharp contrast with the central political axe, so as not to confuse people.

In the end, nothing came out of this meeting, and the top and bottom still thought that it was okay to use the name of the East China political axe, anyway, they used to use this name, and they continued to use it.

However, the East China Autonomous Axe was changed to the 'East China United Autonomous Axe'.

As a result, the name East China Autonomous Axe was defined as: "The local autonomous government axe responsible for the administration of most provinces in China, under the control of the central government, and outside the central government, and exercising various duties separately from the central government." In this way, it is intended to find the most correct road to strengthening the country, which is an important part of China's republican road and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Because the administrative center is located in East China, it is called 'East China Autonomous Political Axe', which was developed from the original three autonomous provinces of East China after the Xinhai Revolution, and then joined and developed by the provinces, covering East China, Central China, South China ......"

This definition will be included in the textbook, and the Ministry of Education will immediately revise the textbook.

Subsequently, the East China Autonomous Government re-rationalized the division of power between the central government and East China.

First of all, the East China Autonomous Government has a series of powers, such as the administrative power of the autonomous government axe, and the central government has no right to meddle in the way forward of local joint autonomy.

In addition, the East China Autonomous Government was in charge of China's tariffs, and had the sole right to mint money, diplomatic rights, and the right to declare war. and in charge of China's anti-narcotics and anti-smuggling powers.

On this basis, the East China Autonomous Government asked the central government to expand the scope of power, that is, to take over the education of the whole of China, and the expenses were uniformly borne by the East China Autonomous Government Axe. Take full control of the defense of the three northeastern provinces in order to deal with a possible crisis of aggression.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of East China immediately passed this document to Beiyang Zhengaxe, and at the same time, this document appeared in the newspaper the next day, and was immediately widely praised.

What a great undertaking it is to take the initiative to bear the education funds so that all children in China can enjoy the right to compulsory education!

Moreover, taking over the national defense of the northeast is a matter of course in the eyes of the people, and everyone knows that the central military is not good, and the national defense issues of the three northeastern provinces will naturally be taken over by the autonomous political axe of East China, so as to prevent the invasion of China by the three provinces of the East China Autonomous Region.

In fact, before that, the Beiyang political axe accepted the condition that troops were not allowed to be stationed in the northeast, and the three northeastern provinces have always been the territory of the East China Army, but the administration is not under the jurisdiction of the East China Army.

This time, the condition put forward by the East China United Autonomous Government is to take over the national defense of Northeast China in an all-round way.

What does it mean to be comprehensive?

That is, the East China United Autonomous Government Axe set up an armed forces department in the northeast to train the militia, set up a propaganda department, mobilized the people to cooperate with the national defense strategy, established a civil affairs department in the northeast to ensure the livelihood of the people in the northeast, and set up police stations in various parts of the northeast to maintain law and order in the northeast.

However, the Beiyang political axe administration was not banned, and this comprehensive takeover of the northeast defense belongs to the comprehensive military takeover and the administrative partial takeover.

The tax still belongs to the Beiyang political axe, but depending on this condition, especially the establishment of a police station.

Beiyang political axe in the three northeastern provinces there is no garrison, if you accept this condition, it is equivalent to even the police are gone, which makes the administration of Beiyang political axe in the northeast like a rootless wanderer, East China political axe wants you to how to administer how to administer, if you are not happy, let the police and the militia of the armed forces intervene directly, and see the report afterwards or something, or the East China political axe is reasonable!

In Yanjing, Beiyang Political Axe had no choice but to back down in the face of a praising public opinion situation and appointed Xia Jun as China's Minister of National Defense.

Duan Qirui thought: Don't you like national defense? Then let you be the Minister of Defense, and you will be in charge of the Northeast and Northwest! Lao Tzu took back the troops and concentrated his strength, so as not to be overshadowed by you.

In fact, when Xia Jun went to Yanjing, he had reached a consensus with Duan Qirui, but Duan Qirui was obviously still a little wary.

(To be continued)