"Jingcun, do you think Yao Rudi's method can save China?" The question was asked by Sun Yat-sen, the forerunner of the Chinese revolution. The generalissimo sat there with a kind smile on his face. It is indeed difficult to equate him with words like dictator. A very friendly face, with a slightly gray beard, made him look like a kind elder.

But Chang Ruiqing and Chen Jiongming, who were sitting opposite him, both knew that this person is now much more dictatorial than Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui in Beijing! Even now, although the three of them are not in the relationship between the upper and lower monarchs and ministers, Chang Ruiqing and Chen Jiongming can still feel a kind of high-minded leadership momentum from Sun Yat-sen.

Hearing this question, Chen Jiongming's eyebrows couldn't help but tighten tightly. He is holding a copy of the "National Salvation Plan" proposed by Chang Ruiqing, but in his opinion, this so-called National Salvation Plan is more of a dictatorial plan! The core of this plan is to use four words - military dictatorship!

The first step of the plan is to rectify the Guangdong army and the Yunnan army stationed in Guangdong according to the "Fujian model" and integrate them into a "law protector army" that obeys Sun Yat-sen's orders.

After completing the absolute control of the army, Chang Ruiqing built a system in which Sun Yat-sen used the army in his hands and his own prestige to integrate the local power and local armed forces in Guangdong, and completely eradicate all disobedient forces! Establish the absolute authority of Sun Yat-sen in Guangdong! The third step is to establish local political power, and like Fujian, it will also build political power in towns and villages, and at the same time rectify the local tyrants and gentry and gang forces in Guangdong, so as to firmly control Guangdong. One last step. At the same time, it is also necessary to establish fishery and peasant associations in Guangdong to help peasants, and to establish a national mobilization system relying on local township governments, Yixian primary schools, and fishery and peasant associations, and to implement a compulsory military service system and a general war system in Guangdong.

After all these military and political measures were reached in Guangdong, Chang Ruiqing agreed to lead the entire Fujian and Fujian Army, as well as the forces of the Chinese GCD, to join the Protector Military Government. Help Sun Yat-sen fight the world and praise Sun Yat-sen as the president of China, and it is for life!

Chang Ruiqing himself is willing to occupy a deputy position. In order to become the successor of Sun Yat-sen. Considering that our Generalissimo Sun is only 53 years old this year, and he is in very good health, there is nothing wrong with him. Chang Da warlord's asking price seems to have suffered a bit...... After all, there are so many variables in the next two or three decades!

Sun Yat-sen's first reaction to Chang Ruiqing's requirements was overjoyed. At present, he only has half a provincial territory and tens of thousands of non-elite Guangdong and Yunnan troops, even if he can control all Guangdong provinces with the support of Chang Ruiqing, he is still far from the goal of dominating the world! Now is not the time to be suspicious of heroes and fierce generals, a "genius" like Chang Ruiqing, with a province of territory and tens of thousands of elite soldiers to take refuge, of course he can't ask for it, an almost empty "vice president", how can he not be reluctant? Even the figures in Sun Yat-sen's inner circle did not have the slightest objection to Chang Ruiqing's request.

After all, now "Lao Dou" (referring to Sun Yat-sen) is still young. The body is also very tough, and the Kuomintang really needs Chang Ruiqing's refuge too much. More importantly, everyone can figure out Sun Yat-sen's intentions, and he has been deeply moved by this "cooperation plan"! Of course, these obedient guys won't say half a word!

After getting Hu Hanmin, Xie Zhi, and Xu Chongzhi. and after the unanimous support of Jiang Jshi and other confidants. Sun Yat-sen invited Chen Jiongming, who had just arrived in Guangzhou, and Chang Ruiqing, who had stayed in Guangzhou for a few days, to his Generalissimo's Palace. also proudly showed Chen Jiongming the draft of "Sun Chang Cooperation", on the surface it seemed to be asking for his opinion, but in fact, I am afraid that I still want to win over my old buddy again...... Now that the revolutionary shape is bullish, you should always change your mind and help me fight the country, right?

In fact, for Chen Jiongming's talent. Sun Yat-sen is very appreciative! In history, Sun Yat-sen at the end of 1924, before going north to Beijing, repeatedly wanted to pull Chen Jiongming back into the revolutionary ranks, but it was a pity that this Cantonese army boss (in history, there were Cantonese army generals who called Sun Yat-sen 'Lao Dou' and Chen Jiongming called 'big guy') was too stubborn, and everything he recognized was probably a hundred cows that couldn't pull it back, right?

And now, the differences between Chen Jiongming and Sun Yat-sen have reached the point of irreconcilability, just like in history! Different from what Chang Ruiqing believes, the dispute between Sun and Chen is not mainly a power struggle, but a line difference, a line difference on how to achieve democratic constitutional government in China!

Sun Yat-sen's current line is completely consistent with Chang Ruiqing's, which is a kind of top-down constitutional roadmap of dictatorship first and then democracy.

Chen Jiongming believes in a kind of bottom-up democratic constitutionalism, and he believes that the basis of democratic constitutionalism lies in local autonomy, and only when the grassroots townships and towns and county-level political power have achieved popular election and autonomy can the provincial council be elected on this basis, and the provincial level of democratic constitutionalism and autonomy can be implemented, and after all the provinces have achieved democracy and autonomy, a nationwide parliamentary election can be held, and finally a central government with limited power can be elected.

And Chen Jiongming stubbornly believes that the bottom-up democratic constitutionalism he believes in is the only feasible thing at the moment. Sun Yat-sen and Chang Ruiqing wanted to achieve national unification from the top down, through the military government and the warlord civil war, and then use the discipline to consolidate the nascent centralized central government, which may be very feasible, but the possibility of letting a centralized government with consolidated power take the initiative to give up power and return the government to the people and implement constitutional government is almost non-existent!

Therefore, following the line set by Sun Yat-sen and Chang Ruiqing, there will only be another Manchu dynasty without an emperor, and there will never be a free China with democratic constitutional government.

Chen Jiongming looked at Sun Yat-sen's look of trying to be more enlightened, smiled silently, he gently put down the text in his hand, and said lightly: "Sir, I also believe that your cooperation with General Yaoru can defeat the Beiyang warlords, because compared to your military and political system." Beiyang is nothing but a plate of loose sand...... However, in my opinion, the scattered sand of the Beiyang is not useless.

For example, in the 'anti-imperialist struggle' at the end of last year, the people of Beijing marched in front of Zhongnanhai for many days, cursing Feng Guozhang, Wang Shizhen, and Duan Qirui for betraying the country every day, but in the end they still did not dare to order a suppression. Even after the incident, a few people were arrested, and they were quickly released under the pressure of the people of the whole country. ”

Saying that, he looked at Chang Ruiqing beside him solemnly: "General Yaoru, you tell the truth." What would you do if the people of Fuzhou marched against you like that? Will you swallow your anger like this and dare not do anything? ”

Chang Ruiqing smiled slightly: "Gong Jing, Fujian is now executing military politics. There would have been no protests without my permission! ”

Chen Jiongming snorted coldly, straightened up and stood up, and arched his hand at Chang Ruiqing and Sun Yat-sen: "Since this is the case, the Tao is different, and they do not conspire with each other, since this is the case, I will forgive Chen for his resignation." With that, he turned around and walked out, but was stopped by Sun Yat-sen.

"Jingcun, are you still obsessed with the method of local autonomy?" Sun Yat-sen looked at Chen Jiongming calmly.

Chen Jiongming lightly spat out a sentence: "Yes, I still believe in bottom-up democratic constitutionalism." ”

Sun Yat-sen smiled slightly. glanced at Chang Ruiqing: "Brother Yaoru, why don't we let Jingcun try again?" ”

Chang Ruiqing was stunned for a moment, and just wanted to open his mouth to object, but saw a strange smile slip across Sun Yat-sen's face - this must be playing some bad idea! So Chang Ruiqing also said calmly: "It's all up to Mr. to decide." ”

Sun Yat-sen nodded and beckoned to Chen Jiongming. He was invited back to his seat: "How is your set of 'local autonomy' going to be implemented throughout the country?" You don't want to use force to defeat the local warlords and the Beiyang government, and then come to local self-government, right? ”

"Of course not!" Chen Jiongming frowned slightly, his "local autonomy" does have a problem that cannot be bypassed, that is, how to implement this system to the whole country? If "local autonomy" cannot be extended to the whole country, the autonomy of just one province and two provinces is meaningless. It will even be like Hunan, Granny Tan wants "local autonomy" Beiyang but sends a large army to crusade, so that a good Hunan has become the main battlefield of the north-south war! For the people of Hunan who are trapped in the military disaster, it is probably not as comfortable as a dictator like Chang Ruiqing, right?

Sun Yat-sen nodded vigorously, and the smile on his face became a little more sincere: "Competition, I think now is a good opportunity to promote local autonomy to the whole country!" At present, the Beiyang government has been divided by the 'customs incident' and the 'Xiamen incident', and Duan Qirui's unification by force seems to be a failure. Feng Guozhang also issued a presidential decree for an armistice between the north and the south, and also offered to send representatives to negotiate peaceful reunification with us...... Do you see if we can take the opportunity to propose a method of 'inter-provincial autonomy', which will implement local autonomy on a provincial basis, and then unite the provinces to form a unified country." Let's see if the Beiyang government can accept your approach? If we can, we might as well do it, if they don't agree, then we can only use force to overthrow Beiyang and establish a military government! ”

Chen Jiongming was stunned for a moment, and asked rhetorically: "Sir, do you want me to be the representative of the peace talks with the north?" ”

Sun Yat-sen nodded and said with a smile: "Exactly, I would like to ask you to be the chief negotiator of our southern delegation and go to Shanghai to negotiate with the representatives of the Beiyang government." And the negotiating conditions put forward by us in the South are the autonomy of the First United Provinces; Second, the United Provincial Assembly will hold elections, and then the United Provincial Assembly will formulate a new constitution and elect the President and the Prime Minister. ”

As soon as Chen Jiongming heard Sun Yat-sen's Jianyi, he knew that the other party was not at ease at all, and he must have wanted to divide Beiyang by means of "inter-provincial autonomy"! Although he is in the wilderness, he still knows a little about the general trend of the world. At present, Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng in Beijing probably also see the benefits of Chang Ruiqing's "military dictatorship system", and they are also reorganizing the participating army according to this method, and they also have the meaning of treating the participating army as a descendant of Beiyang.

Now that he has a lineage, of course, he has to treat the other Beiyang Army as an unreliable miscellaneous brand. Whatever good things are given priority to the participating army, others can only eat the rest of the participating army, and due to the reduction of "Guan Yu", the financial resources of the Beiyang government are not as good as before, even if there is a "Liang God of Wealth" to sort out the finances, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. It can only greatly reduce the military expenditure of other Beiyang armies to ensure the expenses of the participating armies!

Those Beiyang troops who have land to loot have a good life, and it's a big deal to scrape the land. But those military leaders who don't have land to scrape are miserable. The ranks often can only pay three or four percent of the salary, and the food of the officers and soldiers is also much worse than before. Either mutiny and trouble, or nuisance the place, so that the military leaders are full of complaints. Telegrams urging wages flew to Beijing like snowflakes, and some military leaders simply set up cards in their garrisons to collect taxes, causing public resentment to boil. Even the Great Powers protested to the government in Beijing!

Seeing that the problem could not be solved by demolishing the east wall and making up the west wall, Wang Shizhen and Liang Shiyi of the Beiyang government had no choice but to come up with the idea of increasing income. Of course, the only way to increase income is to "compete with local governments".

this period. The tax system of the Beiyang government is also divided into central tax and local tax, of which the second tax of Guanyan is the central tax, and the land tax, the lijin and the urban commercial tax are all local taxes. Speaking of which, it is true that the financial power of the local government is greater than that of the central government. And Beiyang Central wants to fight the idea of urban commercial tax this time! It is not to collect the commercial taxes of all local cities to the central government, but to try to hit the idea of a few metropolises, such as Shanghai, Tianjin, Nanjing, Fengtian and other places.

But in this way, it violated the interests of the Beiyang warlords who ruled there. Although these military leaders do not openly express their opposition, they are bound to be dissatisfied in their hearts! If Sun Yat-sen proposed inter-provincial autonomy at this time, I am afraid that there will be a large number of responders within the Beiyang system, right? Once the Beiyang government rejects Sun Yat-sen's proposal of "inter-provincial autonomy", those Beiyang warlords who have divided one side will definitely be separated from the Beiyang central government, thus creating more favorable conditions for Sun Yat-sen's reunification of China by force!

Chen Jiongming's expression was slightly hesitant, and now he felt that he was in a dilemma. If he refuses to exert his strength for Sun Yat-sen's version of "inter-provincial autonomy", then I am afraid that I will not have the opportunity to realize my ideals in this life. But if he takes on this task. Is there a chance to realize the idea of "inter-provincial autonomy"? Sun Yat-sen and Chang Ruiqing don't really want to engage in local autonomy at all, they want to mess up this matter is too simple!

But how could he give up such a unique chance to realize his ideals! A sudden urge appeared in his heart to do what he knew he couldn't do.

Chen Jiongming looked at Sun Yat-sen with deep eyes, and said solemnly: "Sir, Jiongming is willing to do his best to fulfill your entrustment and persuade all parties to accept the arrangement of inter-provincial autonomy. But...... Jiong Ming also has something to say. If the autonomy of the provinces cannot be implemented because of Mr., then Jiong Ming will defeat Mr. with the strength of his life! After saying that, he bowed to Sun Yat-sen respectfully, and then walked away.

Looking at the back of his old friend who was gone, Sun Yat-sen sighed softly and muttered: "When can this Chen Jingcun stop being so reckless......

On such an occasion, Chang Ruiqing didn't know what to say. So he stood up and prepared to take his leave. Sun Yat-sen waved his hand at him and motioned for him to sit down. Sun Yat-sen smiled at Chang Ruiqing and said, "Yaoru, when I was talking to Chen Jingcun about the autonomy of the United Province just now, I remembered something and wanted to hear your opinion. ”

Chang Ruiqing smiled slightly: "What's the matter?" Sir, might as well come and hear about it? ”

Sun Yat-sen said with a smile: "It's about Hunan, Tan Zu'an will be in Guangzhou in two days, he wants us to help him drive Zhang, that is, to expel Zhang Jingyao, the overseer of Hunan, Yaoru, do you think this matter is not feasible?" ”

Chang Ruiqing was stunned when he heard this, and said in his heart: "This Sun Yat-sen is really an urgent child!" Guangdong has not yet been reunified, so they pondered extending their hands to Hunan. But what kind of cunning figure is that Tan Yanmin? The year before last, he relied on Beiyang to sneak out of Hunan Province, and last year he relied on the Gui Army and the Dian Army to fight against Beiyang, and now he saw that the Gui Army had gone downhill, so he thought about taking refuge in Sun Yat-sen. Even if such a repeated villain is the master of Hunan, most of them still have to play his 'inter-provincial autonomy', and they will not really go with Sun Yat-sen!

And there is not only Zhang Jingyao's Beiyang Army in Hunan, but also Wu Peifu there! Before Feng Guozhang issued the armistice order, he had already commanded the army to capture Hengyang, an important town in central Hunan Province...... The reason why the 'expulsion movement' in history was successful was because he and Feng Yuxiang released water, which allowed Tan Yanmin to pick up a bargain. However, in the current situation, Feng Guozhang has not stepped down yet, how can Wu Peifu, a direct general, sell President Feng Da some face, right? It may not be easy for him to help him reverse the situation, unless there are enough benefits for him. ”

Thinking of this, Chang Ruiqing shook his head slowly: "Sir, there's nothing wrong with driving Zhang down, but I can just think about it." This Tan Weigong has always advocated local autonomy, if he is allowed to take charge of Hunan again, I am afraid that it will become an obstacle to our future Northern Expedition, and his Hunan army does not have much strength, and it will not be able to defeat the Beiyang Army in Hunan at all...... So, the idea under is to drive Zhang Yongwu! ”

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