108241908 Far East Madman Chapter 343 fell Yuan Shang

The atmosphere in the seat was so solemn that no one dared to speak, and some people lowered their hairs. Chuan was on his toes, but he didn't know what he was thinking, and some others stared at President Yuan Shikai intently, and the expressions on their faces were also quite complicated.

Yuan Shikai stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, looking at the pouring rain in the courtyard, the expression on his face was not despair, but numbness, so numb that he couldn't even notice that the raindrops that drifted into the house outside the window had soaked his front placket.

The world is sinister, people's hearts are unpredictable, this warning is now hovering in Yuan Shikai's mind, and a sense of powerlessness makes Yuan Shikai unable to even vent the anger in his heart.

Treachery! What could be more irritating? But what's the use of being annoyed? At the beginning, Yuan Shikai could betray the gentlemen who presided over the "Wuxu Change", so now, someone betrays him Yuan Shikai, which is also clear and justified.

It was not a catty, a person, or a few people who betrayed Yuan Shikai, but a group of people, a large group of people, and the person who was the leader was called Sheng Xuanhuai.

Sheng Xuanhuai is the person who is called the "Beiyang God of Wealth." The foreign warrior Sheng Xuanhuai.

For the sake of common interests, they can not hesitate to join hands to establish offensive and defensive alliances against those who threaten their status or forces, and when there are differences and contradictions between their interests, they will also unceremoniously meet each other This is the law of action of Beiyang, here, there is no concept of axiom and justice, everything revolves around interests.

For the sake of this benefit, the members of Beiyang can achieve the same hatred and hatred among themselves, and they can also achieve the same hatred.

And now, Sheng Xuanhuai's betrayal of Yuan Shikai is exactly the same as Yuan Shikai's defeat to the Manchu court.

It must be admitted that Yuan Shikai's luck was still good, at least before Sheng Xuanhuai officially launched it, at this point. He must thank his brother Xu Shichang.

There is no secret message that Xu Shichang just photographed! Yuan Shikai is afraid that he will be kept in the dark until he is overturned by a group of Beiyang rebels.

Xu Shichang's telegram did not contain too complicated content, but only told Yuan Shikai a piece of news: Just yesterday, Sheng Xuanhuai, the Beiyang God of Wealth who lived in seclusion in the Shanghai Public Concession, sent a secret telegram to Governor Xu Shichang and Xu, who was sitting in the three eastern provinces, announcing his support for Xu Shichang's candidacy for the official president of the Republic of China as a Beiyang Chinese, and swore that Sheng Xuanhuai would handle all the funds needed for the campaign. As long as Xu Shichang half-agreed to run for the official president. Sheng Xuanhuai can immediately give Xu Shichang a million yuan of silver dollars, which can be regarded as the early campaign funds.

Xu Shichang did announce his participation in the official presidential election some time ago, but this was not Xu Shichang's own plan, and he came out of the "Junxian Wizard" Yang Du's plot and also won Yuan Shikai's support.

The reason why Yuan Shikai made such an arrangement is completely a small campaign tactic made by Yang Du, and there are four candidates who announced their participation in the official presidential election last time, namely Yuan Shikai, Xu Shichang, Zhang Renjun, and Tao Chengzhang, and among these four people, Tao Chengzhang is running as a candidate nominated by the Kuomintang, and his probability of winning the presidential election is almost the same as Yuan Shikai, which makes Yuan Shikai very worried, so Yang Du suggested that Beiyang nominate another candidate to reduce Tao Chengzhang's support rate by dispersing votes. In order to be foolproof and hide people's eyes, Zhang Renjun, the governor of Guangdong, was also favored by Yuan Shikai, so he also had the courage to announce his participation in the official presidential race, but on the surface, Zhang Renjun was not elected by Beiyang, but by the Junxian faction in Guangdong.

According to Yang Du's plan, if everything goes well, in the first round of voting, Yuan Shikai will definitely have enough votes to enter the next round of voting. And through the method of dispersing votes, there is a great chance that Tao Chengzhang will be eliminated in the first round of voting, so after entering the second round of voting, Xu Shichang and Zhang Renjun will announce their withdrawal from the race at the same time, so that as the only official presidential candidate, Yuan Shikai will win without suspense.

Strategically speaking, this campaign tactic is quite clever and quite thick, but the problem is that sometimes, the plan often can't catch up with the change, and just when Yang Du was triumphant, a sudden change occurred, which made this campaign tactic very out of place.

This catty, the change is the "Hunan and Guizhou Incident." The Junxian faction in Hunan and Guizhou provinces staged a coup d'état and seized political power in the two provinces, but before they could be happy, under the planning of Zhao Bei, the commander-in-chief of the Republican Army, the "war of rebellion" broke out quickly. After that, the Republican army marched smoothly, and it took only a short time to regain control of Hunan and Guizhou provinces in the hands of the Southern Revolutionary Party.

In fact, the reason why the "Hunan and Guizhou Incident" occurred was not unrelated to Yuan Shikai's covert support, and he hoped that the Junxian faction would completely control the power of these two provinces in order to ensure that the election committee members were from the Junxian faction, but he never expected that his plan had just fallen into a trap laid by Zhao Bei, and Zhao Bei made full use of the social mood after the "Hunan and Guizhou Incident" to put Hunan, Guizhou was included in his own control, and as a result, not only did the power of the Junxian faction in Hunan and Guizhou provinces disappear, but also the wishful thinking of Yuan Shikai and Yang Du also failed.

More importantly, after the baptism of the "war of rebellion", the revolutionary forces in the south were further united, which greatly increased the possibility of Tao Chengzhang winning the presidential election, which made Yuan Shikai very annoyed and worried.

In this tricky situation, Junxian wizard Yang Du was helpless, Yuan Shikai was worried and asked other henchmen for advice, Zhao Bingjun and others gave him a catty, "destroying the pottery" plan, although there was some hesitation, but in the end Yuan Shikai still decided to take a risk, so his subordinates were busy for the master for a while, looking for an assassin.

Of course, in addition to Yuan Shikai, there are also people who want Tao Chengzhang to die, but Beiyang is not clear.

After that, Tao Chengzhang was assassinated in the French Concession in Shanghai, and the state has no leader, and he was a little helpless for a while.

Yuan Shikai thought that the plan of "destroying pottery" was obtained

"The end of the day. The witness was going to sigh for a long time, but unexpectedly. A new change that he didn't expect

Tao Chengzhang died, and the Kuomintang announced its dissolution, but then, it was these southern revolutionaries who announced the formation of a new political alliance called the "United Front", which was stronger because it attracted more small parties to participate, and the new leader of this political alliance was more difficult to deal with than Tao Chengzhang, because this person was Zhao Bei.

Zhao Bei is not Tao Chengzhang, he not only has prestige, but also has a very effective army in his hands, if he is allowed to run for the official president. Yuan Shikai was not sure that he would be eliminated from the "Far East madman" in the first round of voting.

As a result, the Beiyang Army began to move southward in a big way, and the conflict between the north and the south was on the verge of breaking out, but then the "United Front" suddenly announced that it would not nominate members of its own party to participate in the official presidential election. Yuan Shikai breathed a sigh of relief at this time, thinking that Zhao Bei did not have the courage to challenge himself, so he ordered the Beiyang Army troops to postpone the timetable for going south, and the situation would develop.

But Yuan Shikai was fooled again, the United Front's move was simply a smokescreen for the purpose of transferring the southern army to the north, taking advantage of the slow movement of the Beiyang Army in the past few days, many southern troops began to concentrate on Hubei and Jiangxi, and after Yuan Shikai reacted, the United Front's "Southern Dawn" operation had actually begun.

What happened after that was the "Great War of Southern Henan" that everyone knows, so to speak. Both the north and the south are responsible for this battle, but on the surface, the responsibility of the Beiyang side is greater.

As tired as Beiyang won in this battle. Then everything is easy to say, just put the blame on the United Front, but the problem is that the winner of this battle is not Beiyang. It was the United Front, and as a result, the development of things far deviated from the original intention of Yuan Shikai and Yang Du, not to mention running for president, even Yuan Shikai's position as the leader of Beiyang was also a little unstable

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And now, this telegram from Xu Shichang, the governor of the three eastern provinces, confirms Yuan Shikai and Yang Du's fears. Seeing the Beiyang fiasco, someone in the Beiyang Group really jumped out, and they connected with each other. It seems that he is planning to change Beiyang with a new leader.

Although it was Sheng Xuanhuai who came out, he also understood that they couldn't overthrow Yuan Shikai with their "literary faction", so they decided to attack Yuan Shikai through Xu Shichang and use the method of presidential election to squeeze Yuan Shikai out of power justifiably.

If Xu Shichang does not announce his withdrawal from the presidential race, Sheng Xuanhuai's gang will succeed. And this is the main tactic of the Yuan faction.

After the fiasco in southern Henan, Yuan Shikai's prestige was dealt a heavy blow, and now it all depends on this catty, and the hat of "Provisional President of the Republic of China" decorates the façade, if he can't keep the position of president, he is completely unqualified to continue to lead Beiyang.

The Republic of China is the Republic of Beiyang, not the Republic of China of Yuan Shikai alone, this is the consensus of many people in Beiyang, without the support of Beiyang, Yuan Shikai will not be able to sit in this position at all, and the reason why Beiyang fully supported Yuan Shikai to usurp the Qing Dynasty was completely out of the overall interests of the Beiyang Group.

Whether it is the "martial school" or the "literary school". "The only reason they support Yuan Shikai is that he can maintain the unity of Beiyang and protect the overall interests of Beiyang, if Yuan Shikai can't do this, their loyalty to Yuan Shikai will weaken, even if it is the Beiyang generals who Yuan Shikai single-handedly promoted, because they also have their own interests, and this interest is dependent on the overall interests of Beiyang.

One must build on a firm foundation?

Now, because of the fiasco in southern Henan, the interests of the entire Beiyang clique have been threatened, and if we want to continue to maintain control over the center, it is very necessary to kick out this "culprit" as a scapegoat and change the current disadvantaged situation in Beiyang.

And this is the main reason why Sheng Xuanhuai and others presided over the conspiracy to overthrow Yuan.

But Xu Shichang's friendship with Yuan Shikai is very unusual, in order to convince Xu Shichang, the Yuan faction must be willing to give up the capital, only the temptation of money is not enough, but also must use the power of foreigners. Because Beiyang itself relied on the support of foreigners to develop and grow, without the support of Britain and Japan, it was impossible for Beiyang to maintain calm in the midst of internal and external troubles.

Therefore, the Yuan faction got in touch with the envoys of Britain, Japan, the United States, and France in China through various relations, and carefully solicited their positions on the "change of horses" in Beiyang.

And this is the only reason why Xu Shichang visited Stad, and according to Xu Shichang, Staid himself did not have a good impression of Yuan Shikai, so the United States may support the Yuan faction on the issue of "overthrowing Yuan".

Because Yuan Shikai was too close to Britain and Japan, the US government was very dissatisfied, and because of the Guangdong-Hanzhou railway, the American consortium had lost patience with Yuan Shikai, and they hoped that Beiyang could change a leader who held a "friendly stance" toward the United States, while Xu Shichang had a good relationship with Steder because of the affairs of the railway and the industrial bank in the three eastern provinces. Therefore, the Americans have high expectations for Xu Shichang to become the new leader of Beiyang.

However, in addition to the United States, the British, Japanese, and French envoys to China are in the process of "reversing Yuan." The position on the issue was vague, the French minister rejected the proposal to reverse the Yuan faction at that time, and the Japanese minister did not make a clear statement, and as for the British minister Zhu Erdian, he did not make a clear position, but at the same time, as a British politician who had a good personal relationship with Yuan Shikai, Zhu Erdian did not remind Yuan Shikai of the action of reversing the Yuan faction. He only hinted at the financial issue.

Zhu Erdian's ambiguous attitude made Yuan Shikai very worried, and he had every reason to believe that the main reason why Zhu Erdian used the financial problem to imply that Sheng Xuanhuai's change was probably not out of his political position, but only out of personal feelings, after all, the two have been dating for more than ten years and can be regarded as friends.

If it is really as Yuan Shikai guessed. Then, the British position on the issue of "to Yuan" is very interesting.