In the afterglow of the day, the tension in the city was further strengthened, and the sky was still cloudy. The street lights are on, which is a necessary measure to minimize panic among the inhabitants of the city and to facilitate patrols to monitor the situation on the roads and intersections.

As the political center of the city, and also as the highest center of power in the country, the current presidential palace is heavily guarded, with three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, the soldiers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are fully armed and loaded with guns, even the police guarding the nearby streets are also on standby, and as for the presidential palace guards, they are like a great enemy, and machine guns are set up on the barricades in front of the presidential palace.

At the same time, the president of the Republic of China, Li Yuanhong, was also anxiously waiting for a phone call in the president's office, which should have come from the Ministry of the Interior. The content is precisely a report on the deployment of defenses in various parts of the city and the development of the situation, and the person responsible for this is Lu Jianzhang, chief of internal affairs; in fact, the current defense of Beijing is basically in charge of Lu Jianzhang, the chief of internal affairs, and as for the national defense forces, they have not yet received an order for a large-scale mobilization, although Li Yuanhong does have this power, and the Ministry of National Defense and the General Staff have also expressed their stance that they will assist the president in intercepting the chaos at a critical juncture.

The Wehrmacht, as the name suggests, is used to clean up the external enemy, and as for the internal enemy, it is enough to hand it over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and only when the Ministry of Internal Affairs can't suppress it, will it be the turn of the Wehrmacht, but when that time comes, I'm afraid there is no need for Li Yuanhong to continue to stay in this diamond-shaped office.

Standing in this diamond-shaped presidential office, you can easily see the commander's hall that has become the dormitory of the presidential palace.

But now it seems that if Li Yuanhong can't handle the situation in front of him, then, perhaps, it won't be long before the commander's hall will play the role of the center of power again. Li Yuanhong has no doubts, and he also believes that as long as the commander's hall is not demolished, the democratically elected president will never be able to get rid of that huge and oppressive shadow.

Since the day before yesterday, the first train full of veterans has entered the railway station, and those veterans have come to petition President Li Yuanhong, and by now, according to the most conservative estimates of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, at least 50,000 veterans have flocked to Kisuke, and if their families are added, this number will increase several times, as long as Li Yuanhong does not solve the livelihood problem of these veterans and their families for a day, then the chaos in Kisuke will continue until Li Yuanhong steps down, Or give an order for repression by force.

Li Yuanhong does not dare to issue an order for force to suppress it now, and he knows very well that as long as this order is issued, then he will retire from politics forever, let alone be president, even as a member of parliament, because his reputation is stinky, because his suppression order is aimed at those soldiers who have served the country on the battlefield, and once he loses the allegiance of the army, the so-called "president" is just a puppet.

To put it in his heart, Li Yuanhong is very eager to seek re-election of the president, he has been working in this diamond-shaped office for four years, he has been obsessed with this work, this feeling of ruling over tens of thousands of people is really wonderful, the country's major policies are decided by him in the end, the country's foreign policy is directly led by him, and even the appointment and dismissal of senior generals in the army, Li Yuanhong can also intervene, these are the power of the president, and it is the main means for Li Yuanhong to realize the value and ideal of life.

When he was just elected as the official president, Li Yuanhong was worried that he would become a puppet in Zhao Bei's hands, but later he was surprised to find that Zhao Bei seemed to be sincerely going into the wilderness, and after going into the wilderness, Zhao Bei almost never took the initiative to ask about the affairs of the presidential palace, all presidential affairs were handled by Li Yuanhong and his staff, and the cabinet really had power, all kinds of signs showed that Zhao Bei may really be the legendary "saint"

However, Li Yuanhong has always been skeptical about the existence of the "saint", he has always believed that people have selfishness and self-interest, and those who have no selfishness and self-interest may have been eliminated in the cruel social competition long ago, and the rest of the people are selfish people, and there can be no saints who have no desires and no desires, and this kind of creature only exists in the ideals or fantasies of Confucianism.

It is precisely because of this that Li Yuanhong always feels a little apprehensive in his heart, since taking over the presidency, he has been cautiously handling the relationship with Zhao Bei. In the first year of his presidency. He always sent someone to the Xishan Mansion every few days. Presented the work briefing to Zhao Bei, and at the same time asked Zhao Bei's opinion, but every time Zhao Bei's answer was "very good, Li Songqing will do things at ease" and something like that, and never vetoed Li Yuanhong's decision, seeing that Zhao Bei really seemed to be planning to stay away from politics, Li Yuanhong put his mind at ease, and later reduced the number of times he sent personnel to Xishan Mansion, and began to perform his duties as president arbitrarily.

Speaking of those glorious days, Li Yuanhong is always very proud, no one at the top is restrained, no one is making trouble below, and his president is doing it freely. Compared with the president of the United States, it is more free, because Congress is not as tough as the United States Congress, in fact, if you think about it, it is clear that the Congress, which has been suppressed by the "mad president" for many years, will certainly not be able to immediately exercise all the powers granted by the Constitution, people are a little inert, and the Congress composed of people is also a little inert, and many members of Congress have an instinctive awe of the authority of the president, and this awe is a continuation of the era of self-government.

But the good times didn't last long, and when the Great Depression broke out in the United States, it spread to the domestic financial and industrial markets. Since then, the weak parliament has suddenly become tough, and the congressmen who have lost red in the stock and futures markets have launched attacks on President Li Yuanhong, demanding that he take responsibility for the economic crisis and that he formulate new economic policies that are in the interests of the parliamentarians.

It was only then that Li Yuanhong suddenly woke up to the fact that the "saint" was indeed one of you. Some are just smart people, and compared to the smart President Zhao Da, Li is a little stupid. At least it is also sluggish, being president on such a cusp, this is simply giving someone someone else's back, but Li Yuanhong was happy to do it himself, but he couldn't complain about others.

Since the turbulent waves of the economic crisis have washed up on the shores of the Far East, then the analysis of the real reason for Zhao Bei's voluntary abdication is not the most important, and the most important thing now is how to lead the country out of this economic crisis, Li Yuanhong knows his ability, at this time, he did not dare to be arrogant, so he honestly went to President Zhao Da, who was "living in seclusion" in Xishan, and asked him to help, give an opinion, or give a plan.

Zhao Bei also simply came up with an economic revitalization plan, which was clearly organized and majestic, which made people have to applaud after seeing it, and Li Yuanhong also applauded, and immediately announced this economic revitalization plan planned by lifelong senator Zhao Bei in the Congress, the reason why he did not dare to sign Li Yuanhong's name on this plan is not that Li Yuanhong is modest, but that he is worried about being the last time. Now, this economic revitalization plan was formulated by "Zhao Shengren", of course, Li Yuanhong must be cautious and cautious, in case there is an effect, there is also his hard work, if there is no effect, or make the economic situation worse, then, the sky will fall and there will be tall people on top.

Fortunately, this tall man is very powerful, the sky has not fallen, he is forced to resist, relying on this economic stimulus plan The domestic economy has actually improved slightly, the unemployment rate has decreased, and the wealth of parliamentarians has also decreased, so the Congress has resumed a harmonious atmosphere, Li Yuanhong temporarily survived, but it did not last long, with the further deterioration of the world economic environment, the economic stimulus plan has finally come to an end, and the next thing is endless ripping and noisy, not only Congress is arguing, now, Even veterans are making a fuss.

It is really not easy to be president in these years, and Li Yuanhong has realized the difficulty of being the leader of a big country.

Just yesterday, the veterans who went to Beijing to petition sent representatives to the presidential palace to not only submit the petition, but also to inform Li Yuanhong of an important news

Although he was later reminded by his staff that he had sent personnel to negotiate with the representatives of the veterans, asking them not to enter Beijing, if there was anything he could say, he could negotiate amicably with the presidential administration, and there was no need to escalate the incident to the point of being out of control, and he should not put President Li in a dilemma, after all, this is the capital, not an amusement park, and the presidential palace and the parliament building are the center of the country.

However, the soldiers did not accept Li Yuanhong's "suggestion," and they still decided to march to the National Assembly on time and "surround" the presidential palace in a division to show their strength and determination.

In the words of one of the president's aides, this is called "giving face and shame on you." This is begging for a beating, and some aides insist on a hard-line stance and suggest that Li Yuanhong suppress it by force, so that the "troublemakers" can see the central center's hard-line stance of maintaining social order, and kill chickens and monkeys, thinking that those who follow the example will be punished. However, other aides took a cautious stance, reminding Li Yuanhong that if it was suppressed by force, Li Yuanhong would be able to rest in the next presidential election, and that it would not even be necessary to sign up for the election, and that the United Front, considering the interests of its own party, would probably not nominate Li Yuanhong as the next presidential candidate, because no one would choose a politician who would turn a gun on his own people as the head of state.

After considering this, Li Yuanhong decided to wait and see for the time being, not to order the mobilization of the National Defense Forces, but only to block the troops of the Ministry of the Interior from entering Beijing. The next step is to consider the option of repression by force.

Now, Li Yuanhong is anxiously waiting for the call of Lu Jianzhang, the chief of internal affairs, in the office, Li Yuanhong still trusts Lu Jianzhang's ability very much, this person's biggest advantage is that he has no position, how can the superior give orders. He will not ask why this order was issued, such a person, of course, Li Yuanhong is relieved.

Finally, at seven o'clock in the afternoon, when it was almost dark, the Ministry of Internal Affairs finally shook the phone, and the person who spoke was Lu Jianzhang. "Reporting to the president, the troops failed to block the operation, and the procession into Beijing is still marching along several avenues towards the Capitol, singing military songs and holding torches. The determination was strong, and non-force could not stop its advance. It is hoped that the President will make a contingency as soon as possible. ”

Li Yuanhong was taken aback and was about to ask for details, but the other party had hung up the phone, so Li Yuanhong had no choice but to shake the switchboard and ask the switchboard to connect with the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

However, before the switchboard could connect to the call of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, several presidential aides had already hurriedly walked into the office, led by none other than Rao Hanxiang, Li Yuanhong's chief of staff and chief of communications.

"President, it's not good! There's something going on in Congress! As soon as he entered the door, Rao Hanxiang's words scared Li Yuanhong into a thrill.

"What's going on on in Congress? All the fuss? Li Yuanhong calmed down and asked sharply.

"Yang Du gave a speech to the National Assembly, inciting lawmakers to pass a resolution demanding that the government refrain from using force to suppress veterans' petitions." Rao Hanxiang said.

"What? How dare Yang Du be so arrogant? Doesn't the president have the power to order martial law? Li Yuanhong ran out of ideas for a while. can only scold Yang Du.

Rao Hanxiang was still calm and said: "The matter has come to this point, and now the president can only prevent the Congress from passing a resolution if he personally rushes to the Congress to make a speech." We have already prepared the car, and we ask the president to move to the Capitol as soon as possible, it will be too late to do so! ”

Li Yuanhong was stunned for a moment, then called his secretary, brought him a coat, and then left the presidential office surrounded by the staff of the presidential palace.

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