This season, although it is not the hottest season, the temperature at noon is still very high.

Now, Li Yuanhong is covered in stinky sweat, on the one hand, he is dressed very formally, on the other hand, because he is in a hurry, just now a group of reporters surrounded him in the Capitol, asking questions, so that President Li Da was overwhelmed, and finally got rid of the entanglement of reporters, blowing an electric fan in this office, but received a phone call again.

The phone was shaken by Premier Tang Shaoyi, the main content of which was to tell President Li Yuanhong that there would soon be an army of petitioners arriving in front of the Capitol, and the leader of this army of petitions was not an ordinary veteran, but the former President of the Republic of China, Zhao Bei, who would lead the 1,000 veterans and representatives of military families to the Congress to petition, in addition to formally submitting the petition to the current President of the Republic of China, Li Yuanhong, Zhao Bei also planned to ask these petition representatives to make speeches in the Congress, It is also intended to convene a plenary meeting of parliamentarians to discuss the current situation.

According to the law, as a senator of the National Assembly, Zhao Bei has every right to ask the National Assembly to convene a plenary session, and as a representative of the people's will, the senator also has the right to invite the people to enter the National Assembly to participate in the discussion of national affairs, which is the power given to the senators and the people by the law, and no one can take it, and even the president has no right to refuse the senator's request to convene a plenary session of the National Assembly, so Li Yuanhong cannot prevent Zhao Bei from leading this army of petitioners to enter the pedestrian street in front of the National Assembly. At least there is no legal basis for it, Cai Cai Li Yuanhong has already discussed this matter with the chief of justice and advisers, and Li Yuanhong has not received any help from the chief of justice, so he is now eagerly waiting for the arrival of another person, this person is Lu Jianzhang, the chief of internal affairs, Li Yuanhong plans to discuss with this chief of internal affairs to see if he can use the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to intercept the petitioning army, as for the troops of the national defense forces, Li Yuanhong does not dare to work. He was well aware of Zhao Bei's status in the hearts of the soldiers of the National Defense Force, and he didn't want to take this risk.

So, standing in front of the window of the office, looking out the window at the military vehicles roaming back and forth on the road, Li Yuanhong waited for the arrival of Lu Jianzhang, and the small Ministry of the Interior was no better than the Ministry of National Defense, and Li Yuanhong did not dare to carry out a drastic "rectification" of the Ministry of National Defense, but as for the Ministry of the Interior, Li Yuanhong has been working hard to cultivate the strength of his descendants in the past few years, and in addition to trying his best to win over Lu Jianzhang, the "Lu Tu," he has also made a major adjustment to the personnel of the Ministry of the Interior. It can be said that among the entire state violence apparatus now, the Ministry of the Interior is the most worthy of Li Yuanhong's trust.

Of course, this kind of trust is only a frustration for the general. After all, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is mainly responsible for police affairs, and the equipment is completely inferior to that of the National Defense Army, and Zhao Bei also installed many cronies in the Ministry of Internal Affairs back then, and it is impossible for these people to be eliminated, even Lu Jianzhang is really loyal to Li Yuanhong, or has other plans, even Li Yuanhong himself does not have much confidence.

Li Yuanhong waited here for almost half an hour, and finally, a sedan drove up the front of the Capitol, broke into the street, and drove until it reached the steps of the Capitol before stopping, and several people jumped out of the car, headed by Lu Jianzhang, the chief of internal affairs, who looked upstairs, and then hurried up the steps with his attaché and entered the Capitol building.

Seeing that Lu Jianzhang finally arrived, Li Yuanhong sighed. Turning around and walking to the desk, I pressed the electric bell and a secretary walked into the office.

"Mr. President, what are you doing to me? The secretary asked.

"Go and invite Chief Rao over, I have something to tell him Li Yuanhong said.

The secretary left in a hurry, and soon after he brought Rao Hanxiang, the chief of transportation and chief of staff to the president, over.

At this time, Rao Hanxiang was also sweating, and when he saw Li Yuanhong, he asked straight to the point.

"I don't know what the president is doing when he asks Lu Jianzhang to come over?

"I'd like to talk to him about stopping the petition procession, which is more than a thousand people, and if they all gather in Congress, I'm afraid of complications. Zhao Zhenhua can bring some petition representatives over, but the number is too high, and I am really worried that the situation will be out of control. Li Yuanhong said.

When Rao Hanxiang heard what Li Yuanhong meant, he immediately shook his head again and again, and said, "No, no!" Never, never.

How could Zhao Zhenhua listen to you? He also asked the president to be cautious and not to add fuel to the fire. Just now, Premier Tang made it clear on the phone that he is now in the petition team, following Zhao Zhenhua to act, what he is afraid of is that he will be intercepted on the road, once the team is intercepted, the situation will definitely continue to deteriorate, now, those petition veterans on the road have not been cleared, and they are still gathered on the side of the road. In addition, the Wehrmacht should also be cautious, Zhao Zhenhua's influence is by no means comparable to others in the government, the Wehrmacht is nominally a national army, but how many Zhao Zhenhua's cronies are placed in this national army, no one knows, but at least, the people in the General Staff will not listen to the words of Rao Hanxiang of the Presidential Office to calm Li Yuanhong, in fact, he was also angry just now, the current president wants to look at the face of a down-the-top president, which is too much to save face for Li Yuanhong, no wonder Li Yuanhong will be angry, If this person is angry, his brain is not very good, not to mention that Li Yuanhong is not a heroic figure, he can become the president, and the support of Zhao Bei back then is inseparable, such a person, don't expect to be able to turn the tide at a critical moment.

"Then, in your opinion, let them come over like this? Then walk into the Capitol

Rao Hanxiang said, "Please calm the president's anger." In fact, there are also congressmen who are as anxious as the president, and they are also worried that those petitioning veterans will do something out of the ordinary in Congress, after all, they are a bunch of hungry and red-eyed poor ghosts, and they all think that their money has been snatched away by the big guys, and these people are easily instigated, and the Russian revolution and the fascist movement in Italy are instigated in this way, so now the congressmen are also thinking about how to deal with this matter. Before I came here just now, I was discussing with Vice President Zhang and the others, and I still felt that it would be better to respond to everything without change. When those people come over, we'll see you again. Moreover, Zhao Zhenhua's actions also seem to show that he does not intend to use violence, as long as he does not move roughly, everything will be easy to do, after all, the Congress is still ours, and it cannot be overturned.

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Seeing that Rao Hanxiang was so calm, Li Yuanhong finally calmed down, so he nodded and stopped dwelling on this topic.

"I don't know what the president told me to come over. Rao Hanxiang then asked Li Yuanhong why he called him over.

"It's nothing, I just want to ask, did those reporters outside send them away?" Li Yuanhong asked.

Rao Hanxiang shook his head and said, "They refuse to leave, so naturally we can't forcibly drive them away." But the president is better not to go out, now Zhang Jizhi is dealing with those reporters, but he is almost unable to parry, the reporters are very dissatisfied with the government's martial law order, some time ago, this newspaper has begun to report the news of the veterans' hardships, and now it is such a trouble, this person's heart is not on the government's side, the president must not go to see those reporters again

"It's okay, I'll stay here, and I'll go out after Zhao Zhenhua comes over

Li Yuanhong nodded, and at this time, there was a knock on the door of the office, and then, the chief of internal affairs, Hang Jianzhang, followed the secretary into the office.

"I wonder what the president ordered me to call me over?"

Lu Jianzhang was also simply, and asked Li Yuanhong first after entering the door.

Li Yuanhong said: "I want to ask you, how are the security measures arranged in various parts of the city? Is there a tacit understanding with the Wehrmacht? If there is a gap, I will coordinate with the Ministry of Defense

"Rest assured that everything is under control, although the Wehrmacht is not the same as the Ministry of the Interior. Now the Wehrmacht is mainly responsible for street patrols, while the Ministry of the Interior is mainly responsible for the protection of all important departments in the city, such as government departments, power plants, telephone offices, and telegraph offices, which are currently under the control of the Ministry of the Interior

Lu Jianzhang replied so. However, his intuition told him that Li Yuanhong asked him to come over in person, not to ask these irrelevant questions, but what Li Yuanhong had in mind was indeed very confusing, and now it seems that Li Yuanhong has obviously changed his mind.

"So, go back and stay in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. If there is a situation, it must be reported to the National Assembly by phone as soon as possible

Li Yuanhong nodded and sent Jianzhang away.

After Lu Jianzhang left the office, Rao Hanxiang closed the door to the county, and then walked to Li Yuanhong and whispered a few words.

"The current situation, Zhao Zhenhua has to make a comeback, whether it is public opinion or his own actions, it shows that the next presidential election will not be calm, if Zhao Zhenhua really decides to participate in the next presidential election, I don't know what Song Qing plans to do? .

Li Yuanhong was stunned, he hadn't had time to think about this question yet, so when Rao Hanxiang asked this, he was a little speechless for a while, and after pondering for a while, he asked Rao Hanxiang for a plan.

"What does the monk think I should choose?"

Rao Hanxiang said: "Zhao Zhenhua is a member of the United Front and has high prestige, if he is willing to participate in the next presidential election, then, in order to win the election, the United Front will only nominate him as a candidate, but it is impossible to put forward Song Qing as a candidate." If Song Qing still wants to continue to develop in the political circles, I think maybe Song Qing can consider Zhang Jizhi's suggestion, and when I discussed with him just now, Zhang Jizhi told me that if Song Qing intends to participate in the presidential election, the national prison can be Song Qing's backing, and then contact a group of dissidents in the united front, and may not be able to compete with Zhao Zhenhua

Li Yuanhong was very surprised, thought about it, shook his head, and said: "Monk, now I have thought about it, next year I will be an ancient person, I am a lot older, and it is really not like to stand in the way of young people, so ah, I have decided." After completing my current term, I will retire to the countryside, and in the future, I will not ask about politics. ”

This is the truth, now Li Yuanhong is physically and mentally exhausted, he has seen Zhao Bei's unparalleled prestige and advantages, so he will choose to retire, after all, in terms of age, qualifications, prestige, and cunning, he is not Zhao Bei's opponent, what qualifications do he have to be Zhao Bei's enemy? Even if the National League and the United Front support him, he will not be able to win the next election, not to mention, his intuition also tells him that as a person who single-handedly provoked this incident, Zhao Bei cannot only have such a move, either not moving, or offensive, this is Zhao Bei's consistent style of doing things, Li Yuanhong does not dare to be an opponent with this kind of person. Li Yuanhong's answer surprised Rao Hanxiang very much, and he was about to persuade a few words, but suddenly heard a burst of military songs outside the window.

Rao Hanxiang walked to the window, looked at the road, and then let out a low sigh.

"Come here! Zhao Zhenhua's team is here! Awesome, awesome! No wonder Song Qing is disheartened

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