After Li Yuanhong became the president of the Republic of China, the Beiyang side was reluctant to restore the old "Covenant Law", so it proposed to revise a new Covenant Law modeled on the Covenant Conference.

On June 25, the Shanghai Navy suddenly announced its reading power, and Li Dingxin, commander-in-chief of the Shanghai Navy, Lin Baoyi, commander of the First Fleet, and Zeng Zhaolin, commander of the practice fleet, issued a joint declaration, declaring reading power because of their support for the old "Covenant Law"!

The reading power of the Shanghai Navy made Duan Qirui feel that the situation was serious and he was isolated. The Chinese Navy has a total of three fleets, and the first fleet is the main force of the navy. This blatant reading not only seriously threatens the coastal provinces and regions under the Beiyang forces, but also helps all the opposing Beiyang forces to move troops north.

At the same time, due to the campaigns of Lin Changmin and Zhang Guogan, Li Yuanhong officially issued an order on June 29 to still abide by the "Provisional Covenant Law" promulgated in the first year of the Republic of China.

Hong Xian fell, Yuan Shikai died, and Wang Hengyue, Liang Qichao and Cai Yi, the two teachers and students, became popular at that time. After Li Yuanhong became the president of the light pole, he desperately hoped to win over the strength of the protector of the country and rely on it for support, so someone suggested to Li that Liang Qichao be appointed as the secretary general of the presidential office. Li Po thought so, so he called Liang Qichao on July 1.

Liang Qichao is a smart person. I didn't know that this was a thankless job, so I thanked him politely. Li Yuanhong then sent several letters to invite Liang to Beijing, praised everything, and ordered the revenue and expenditure office of the public government to give a monthly allowance of 2,000 yuan from July.

Subsequently, Li Yuanhong rebuilt the republic and issued a large number of award orders as a reward for mediocrity. The first to confer the title of Sun Yat-sen; Wang Hengyue, Cai Yi, Tang Jiyao, Lu Rongting, Liang Qichao, Huang Xing, Cen Chunxuan seven people are honored with one; Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen, and Feng Guozhang won the first-class Baoguang Jiahe Medal.

These medals were awarded too much, such as the generals of the anti-imperialist faction in the southwest, the military power of the Beiyang imperial faction, and even the descendants of the Xunqing royal family, Zaitao, Shaoying, etc., were also awarded. So the fish and dragons are mixed, and there is a trend of medals like rain.

It is said that after Wang Hengyue, the governor of Sichuan, heard that he had been awarded the medal, he just smiled disdainfully

Yuan died and Li succeeded, and the power of Yanjing's political axe was in Duan Qirui's hands, and all major policies were Duan's decision. On June 10, the Generalissimo of the Army and Navy was abolished, and this was the organ of Yuan Shikai to seize military power in the capacity of president, and the most unpleasant thing about Yuan Shikai and Duan Qirui was that this institution was abolished, and Li Yuanhong was the president, and Duan Qirui naturally could no longer let this institution exist, so it was abolished first. 13. Xu Shuzheng was ordered to be the secretary general of the State Council, and Wang Shitong was appointed as a senator of the State Council. Xu Shuzheng is Duan's brain, relying on his heart, but he is the person Yuan Shikai hates the most. When Duan Qirui became the premier, he had a very unpleasant quarrel with Yuan Shikai in order to send Xu Shuzheng as the secretary general of the State Council. This is in line with the old saying that once a son of heaven and a courtier. On the 19th, he ordered the abolition of the Gyeonggi Military and Political Law Enforcement Department, which was Yuan Shikai's secret service agency and the most hated agency by all parties. 29The name of the Secretary of State was abolished, the Prime Minister was restored, and the Office of the Governor under the Senate and the Peace Administration was abolished.

30 Cao Rulin, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Communications, Wang Yitang, Minister of Internal Affairs, Liu Guanxiong, Chief of Navy, Zhang Zongxiang, Minister of Justice, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, and Zhang Guogan, Minister of Education, resigned as approved. Tang Shaoyi is the chief of foreign affairs, Xu Shiying is the chief of internal affairs, Chen Jintao is the chief of finance, Cheng Biguang is the chief of the navy, Zhang Yaozeng is the chief of justice, Sun Hongyi is the chief of education, Zhang Guogan is the chief of agriculture and commerce, Wang Daxie is the chief of communications, and Duan Qirui is also the chief of the army. Before Tang Shaoyi took office, Chen Jintao temporarily served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and before Zhang Yaozeng took office, Zhang Guogan was also Minister of Justice.

On 6 July, it was announced that the names of the military and political chiefs of the provinces would be revised, and before the official system was decided, the governors of military affairs in each province would be renamed overseers, and the governors of civil affairs would be renamed governors.

Wang Hengyue, the governor of Sichuan, has since become Wang Hengyue, the governor of Sichuan!

The Governor of the King? Wang Overseer? In fact, no matter what, it doesn't mean anything to Wang Hengyue, but it's just a different name

At that time, Sun Yat-sen preemptively appointed Lü Chao as the overseer of Sichuan without consultation.

But Sun Yat-sen is too naïve, at this time, Sichuan is already Wang Hengyue's Sichuan, how can an overseer appointed by Sun Yat-sen enter Sichuan?

And Lu Chao, who is also an "industrial group", also saw this very clearly, and simply did not take office.

So after the next paragraph, Duan Qirui appointed Wang Hengyue as the overseer of Sichuan and the governor of Sichuan Province!

Duan Qirui made a big mistake!

Duan Qirui's list of military and political leaders in various provinces was painstaking; on the one hand, it was necessary to promote the reunification of the north and the south, and on the other hand, it was necessary to consolidate the Beiyang forces. For example, the name of the general and the name of the governor promulgated by Yuan Shikai were abolished at the same time, and they were replaced by the overseer, but one word was drawn from each of the two titles of the governor and the general to create a new term for the overseer; This time, regardless of whether the imperial system or the anti-Yuan faction, on the stage or the newly expelled, they were given certain positions, and everyone got their own place, and they finally did their best in the arrangement.

Duan Qirui's original intention was to achieve the division of military and civilian rule in the provinces, so only a few provinces were appointed governors with military overseers, and the bureau was a temporary surname. There were only four provinces that were governors and overseers. Sichuan, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi.

In these provinces, the military governors were appointed by warlords or civilians, which of course were temporary surnames.

As for Duan Qirui's distribution of power in Sichuan, Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi provinces, it simply sowed the seeds of war and created the root cause of chaos.

Especially for Hunan, Hunan is a battleground for the north and the south, and it is even more important than Sichuan, because for the Beiyang Army, it is much easier to take Hunan than Sichuan!

After the order of Yanjing Zheng Axe appointing the provincial overseers was issued, there was first a dispute between Feng Guozhang and Zhang Xun over territory. Feng and Zhang were both "generals" in the Yuan era, but Feng Guozhang's prestige in the Beiyang faction was far above Zhang Xun. Zhang Xun's territory was in Anhui, his headquarters was in Xuzhou, and he took the vast areas east of Xuzhou on the Longhai Line, which belonged to Jiangsu, and Feng Guozhang could not tolerate this for a long time. At the end of Yuan Shikai, Yuan Zheng wanted to take advantage of the contradictions between Feng and Zhang in order to indulge in it, Feng Guozhang in view of Yuan Shikai's attitude, so he had to forbear, after Yuan's death, the overseer order was issued again, Feng Guozhang thought that it could no longer be tolerated, so he telegraphed Zhang Xun to move to Anqing to customize. Zhang Xun told Feng Guozhang that in addition to the post of Anhui overseer, he was also the Yangtze River patrol envoy, Jiangsu was in the Yangtze River basin, and the Yangtze River patrol envoy stationed in Xuzhou could not be said to be in line with the custom. Feng Guozhang received this telegram, so angry that one Buddha was born, and the second Buddha ascended to heaven, and he was so angry that he resigned to Yanjing Zhengaxe.

Feng Guozhang's resignation was of course a gesture, urging Yanjing to order Zhang Xun to let Xuzhou, but where did Yanjing have the strength to implement this kind of action at this time, he could only euphemistically persuade Zhang to give way to defense, and Zhang Xun ignored it at all.

The dispute between Feng and Zhang had to be settled.

This is a very wonderful phenomenon, the garrison of the Anhui Provincial Governor is not in Anhui but in Jiangsu, and the Governor's residence is not in the provincial capital Anqing but in Bengbu, and Anqing only has the Provincial Office of the Overseer and the Governor. Of course, Anhui's civil affairs, finance, education and other general affairs are in Anqing, the provincial capital, so the provincial government affairs must be handled by letter and telegram to Bengbu every day. The governor of Anhui Province, Ni Sichong, is also an arrogant and lawless warlord, and he refuses to leave Bengbu no matter what he says. Although Yan Jing repeatedly urged him to move the provincial governor's office to Anqing, he also ignored it.

It's messy, it's just a mess.

At this time, Cai's condition was further aggravated.

The next day, the French doctor examined the results and believed that the laryngeal disease had been delayed for too long, the vocal cords had been narrowed, and the condition was serious, so it was necessary to go to Shanghai quickly or be treated by a specialist.

"Cai Ye can't do it." When he heard the news, Wang Hengyue let out a long sigh.

Letting go of this thought, he focused his attention on a telegram.

This is a call from Zhang Xunlai, inviting Wang Hengyue, the overseer of Sichuan, to attend the Xuzhou meeting.

As early as the beginning of the collapse of the Hongxian Empire, Zhang Xun, the Yangtze River patrol envoy who hated the republic and plotted to support the restoration of the Qing Dynasty, convened the Xuzhou Conference, and decided to organize a military offensive and defensive alliance in Jilin, Heilongjiang, Fengtian, Zhili, Shanxi, Anhui, and Henan provinces to consolidate unity, protect the territory and the people, implement constitutional government, and "resist the participation of violent elements in the pre-political power." It was the first Xuzhou meeting of the Overseer Corps.

After Duan Qirui came to power, Duan Qirui invited representatives of the overseers of the 14 provinces of Sichuan, Shandong, Fengtian, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Henan, Zhili, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hubei, Jiangxi, Suiyuan, Chahar, and Rehe to gather in Xuzhou again, preparing to announce the establishment of the "Federation of Provinces and Autonomous Regions" led by Zhang Xun and Ni Sichong, formulate an eight-point program, support Zhang Xun as the "leader of the alliance", send a telegram to criticize the "rioters", and the political axe cabinet members to disrupt state affairs under the pretext of disrupting state affairs.

How could Wang Hengyue go to such a meeting!

"The country is going to be in chaos, Chief of Staff." Wang Hengyue handed the telegram in his hand to Jiang Baili.

Jiang Baili looked at it, and then silently put it down: "Actually, Yuan Shikai's death may not be a good thing, he is here, maybe the country will not be like this." ”

"yes, but he's not here after all."

Wang Hengyue sighed softly, and suddenly his body kept becoming:

"Order, my Sichuan is strictly guarded, monitor the movements of Yunnan and Guizhou, all departments are stepping up the expansion of the army, ready to move at any time, and without my order, I will not be allowed to enter Sichuan!"

(To be continued)