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Under the double pressure of internal and external troubles. Beiyang is already dying

Domestically, with the rapid rise of the pan-political alliance of the United Front, Beiyang has been forced to the edge of the cliff, abroad, governments have seen clearly the essence of Beiyang's foreign strength through the performance on the battlefield, the United States, Germany has decided to completely abandon the Beiyang group, and even the Beiyang's financiers, Britain and Japan, have begun to look for new agents, and now Beiyang, to be honest, is really embattled.

Under this heavy internal and external pressure, even Xu Shichang, the new head of Beiyang, could not hold on. On the afternoon of the same day that the members of the anti-Xu faction in the National Assembly formally submitted the proposal to impeach the president to the National Assembly for a first reading, Xu Shichang, who had only been the official president of the Republic of China for a few days, sent a formal resignation telegram to the National Assembly, and immediately sent a telegram to the presidential palace.

Xu Shichang is self-aware, he understands that with the political capital he now has, it will be difficult to prevent the Congress from passing the impeachment motion against him, and the death of Song Jiaoren not only deprived the original congressional constitutionalists of leaders, but also deprived Xu Shichang of one of his most powerful potential political allies. The current situation in the parliament can be said to be one-sided, and the United Front is very likely to use the impeachment case to oust Xu Shichang from power.

There is no doubt that the United Front has always been a political tool, and in the past, there were two people who used this political tool, one was Zhao Bei. One is Song Jiaoren, the former uses this political tool to integrate the revolutionary forces in the south and strengthen their military strength and political strength, while the latter uses this political tool to control the Congress, their goal is basically the same, that is, to strike at the Beiyang group, now, although Song Jiaoren has been assassinated, but the purpose of the united front has not changed in the slightest, and with the disappearance of another person who uses political tools, Zhao Bei can use this political tool to carry out a fatal blow to Beiyang as he likes.

This political struggle was a trap from the beginning, waiting for Xu Shichang to jump in.

Xu Shichang did jump into this political trap, and he couldn't pull it out.

In desperation, after careful consideration, Xu Shichang finally decided to take the initiative to withdraw from this political game, and he stopped playing.

Rather than being ousted from power, it is better to retire by himself, at least to save some face, and in the future, he Xu Shichang will not go down in history as the first president to be impeached and removed from power in the history of the Republic of China. He is still the first official president of the Republic of China, but his term of office is very short.

For Xu Shichang's catty, the decision was very shocked, because this was completely Xu Shichang's own initiative, and he didn't even discuss it with anyone in advance, and even the telegram from Shimono was a telegram dictated by him standing in the telegraph room.

But Xu Shichang insisted on going his own way, no one could redeem his intentions, and the Congress had approved his resignation, and the wood was already in the boat, and he was powerless to return to the sky.

After Suh's resignation was approved, the National Assembly completed the transfer of presidential power with great efficiency. Just this morning, Vice President Zhao Bei was sworn in as president of the Republic of China in Zhengzhou, Henan Province; legally speaking, the political center of the central power of the Republic of China has been transferred from Beijing to Zhengzhou, and Xu Shichang's "caretaker government" has completed its mission and announced its dissolution in less than a day.

The trapped beast is still fighting, as the party that suffered a big loss in this political contest, the Beiyang Group is very unwilling, Xu Shichang surrendered, but it does not mean that others will immediately surrender with Xu Shichang. Duan Qirui, Duan Zhigui, Jiang Chaozong, Liu Guanxiong, these people still want to continue to resist, since Xu Shichang doesn't want to be the head of Beiyang. So. Don't blame them for electing a new head to replace Xu Shichang to rule the Beiyang.

Originally, Xu Shichang also intended to give up the position of the head of Beiyang to Duan Qirui to sit, but the opinion of Meng Enyuan, the southeast patrol envoy in Nanjing, could not be ignored, so in the end, the matter was left to the people below to discuss by themselves, now that the republic is republic, pay attention to a consultation, Xu Shichang will let his subordinates negotiate by themselves, as for whether the negotiation is good or not, he has no heart to worry.

Although he is still the nominal head of Beiyang, no one looks at him squarely, Xu Shichang also felt bored, so he simply decided to leave, anyway, the president has already done it, and no one will blame Ran for ignoring state affairs.

Now, Xu Shichang is leaving the presidential palace in an ordinary four-wheeled carriage and heading to Beijing's Daqianmen railway station, where he is preparing to take the train down to Tianjin. There were not many people accompanying him, only a few cavalrymen, which were sent by Duan Qirui. According to Xu Shichang's meaning, he only needs a carriage to suffice, and the fewer people who know when he will leave Beijing, the better.

At this time, it was drizzling in the city, and the weather was a little cold, sitting in a carriage with the windows closed. Xu Shichang stretched out his hand to lift the curtains, looked at the crimson wall of the presidential palace, and only desolate in his heart.

From now on, he Xu Shichang is a grass citizen, and from now on, this political matter has nothing to do with him.

Behind the crimson wall, Xu Shichang's dream of a pound of little head of state was once pinned, but now, this dream has woken up, in fact, in retrospect, this dream should have woken up a long time ago, since Yuan Shikai died, this dream should have woken up, it's a pity. This sharp realm is too nostalgic, Xu Shichang himself is unwilling to wake up, this dream was actually woken up by someone.

The one who woke up this dream was the United Front. It was Zhao Bei, the chairman of the United Front, who not only woke up Xu Shichang's political dream, but also woke up Yuan Shi...... The difference is that Yuan Shikai Tan chose to fight to the end. And Xu Kouchuan chose to retire gloomily, this different choice has nothing to do with the sense of responsibility, but the character.

If the Beiyang Army had not staged a mutiny when it was ordered to go south to crusade against the revolutionary army, but had nipminally nippled the revolution in the bud, perhaps Beiyang would not have encountered the current situation of confrontation, and after the elimination of the revolutionary army. What choice will Beiyang make? Will he continue to serve the Manchu court, or will he take the opportunity to rule the country in place of the Qing dynasty? If it's the latter, perhaps. Beiyang will be the winner.

If,,If,,If,If,But history has no "if" History is history, Yuan Shikai chose what he thought was the right path, but now, the people of Beiyang finally understood. This path is wrong.

What's the use of thinking so much now? Not asking for trouble? Since the torrent is retreating, there is no need to worry about yourself.

Xu Shichang smiled bitterly, gathered his thoughts, lowered the curtains, closed his eyes in the dark carriage, from now on, this political matter has nothing to do with him, or think more about how to return to the countryside in the future, poetry and painting to entertain themselves, leisurely travel in the landscape, and friends to learn pen power, it is better than crossing the corpse on the street.

This is a troubled time, the political struggle in the troubled times is always so ruthless, either friend or foe, until death, Xu Shichang can see it, so he retreated bravely, as for what others say about his choice, Xu Shichang doesn't want to care, after all, people live for themselves.

Xu Shichang's carriage finally stopped, and the old servant sitting opposite Xu Shichang glanced out the window, then opened the door and stepped out of the car. Hold up an oil-paper umbrella.

"Sir, the train station has arrived." The old servant glanced at Xu Shichang and found that the former president was still with his eyes closed.

Hearing the servant's call, Xu Shichang squinted at the raindrops outside. With a sigh, he stepped out of the carriage with a tired face, took the umbrella handle, and said to the old servant, "You can hold the umbrella yourself, don't catch a cold." ”

After speaking, he walked towards the railway station, and several cavalrymen in charge of escorting hurriedly jumped off their horses. followed.

As the former president of the Republic of China, Xu Shichang at this time looked really down, and he couldn't even hang a special car, so he could only hang a special car at the end of an ordinary train.

That's it, that's it, people go to tea and cool, it has always been the norm in officialdom, compared to the despondency of Yuan Shikai when he fled the capital in a hurry, Xu Shichang at least a few armed horses followed.

When I entered the train station, there was a person standing at the ticket gate, but it was Yang Du.

"Temporary, why are you here?. Xu Shichang was slightly surprised.

"I'll send Xu Xiang." Yang Du said.

"How do you know I'm leaving today?.

Xu Shichang asked again, he really had no shame to face Beiyang's subordinates, after all, he was a deserter, so he decided to leave quietly, but the news seemed to have leaked.

"There is no impermeable wall in the world, Xu Xiang wants to leave, but he doesn't even say hello, is Beiyang really a tree falling apart? .

Yang Du sighed a few words, then glanced at the old servant who was walking over quickly, and said to Xu Shichang: "Xu Xiang is disheartened, I understand." It's just that he just walked away, which is a little too affectionate. From the bottom of his heart, Xu Xiang is not strange. ”

"For the time being, I'm not Yuan Xiangcheng, Yuan Xiangcheng may die and carry it down, but I won't, I'm just a scholar, the current situation in Beiyang is not something that scholars can save, perhaps, I shouldn't have gone south to take over as the president of the Republic of China. I didn't wake up from my dream then, but now I wake up. ”

"Xu Xiang went to Tianjin, and only brought such a few attachés? Yang Du looked at the horses.

"A cloth cloth, do you still have to hug back and forth? Now I have no power and no power, and the common people are one. Who will do it to me? Mixed in officialdom, which one is not a clever ghost? No one will do thankless work. ”

Seeing that Xu Shichang misunderstood his meaning. Yang Du smiled bitterly: "Duan Zhiquan and Duan Xiangyan didn't come to see Xu Xiang off, which is really a bit unreasonable." ”

"They tried to do it for me, but I didn't agree. What's more, now that they are still busy with their own affairs, where can they have time to send me? As for whether I will live in the concession or in the countryside in the future, I have not yet decided. Xu Shichang also smiled bitterly.

"Where do I have any good ideas, Xu Xiang just said that you are dreaming, why am I also dreaming. In the past, I thought very highly of myself and thought that I was an all-rounder. Now this dream has also woken up, there is a sky outside the sky, there are people outside the people, and the words of the ancients do make sense. Maybe. We scholars can indeed only assist the life of the master, and we can't fight the world by ourselves. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Du pointed to the outside of the train station. said: "Xu Xiang's train will not depart in an hour, and now there is still time, we have prepared a table of thin wine in that small shop, and we hope that Xu Xiang will appreciate his face." ”

"You guys?"

"There are not many people, just like me, they are all scholars, useless scholars, they are all calling for people's lives, they can't fight the country by themselves, and they can't sit in the world."

Although Xu Shichang was a little surprised, he still followed Yang Du into a small hotel next to the train station. The people who came to fight for Xu Shichang were there.