Chapter 138 was gently put down

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Nanjing has a headache about how to deal with the assassination case, the north accelerates the abdication of the Qing court, but the three provinces in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River have vigorously opened the prelude to great changes because of the administrative power that shocked China, what will it finally bring to South China? Even the people who started this revolution could not have predicted it.

With the arrest of Tang Hualong and the resignation of Hu Ruilin, the two most important constitutionalist leaders in the upper reaches of the Yang Zijiang River collapsed, and countless constitutionalists and conservatives involved with them were panicked, especially when Yang Qiu sent a telegram on political reform, from Chengdu to Changsha, from Chongqing to Wuchang, cheered one after another, and there were countless angry eyes secretly cursing. A conflict between the New Deal and vested interests began to slowly ferment, and the initiator Yang Qiu stepped up the speed of dispatching troops, and at the same time, he also began to outline the final step of his rise.

On the Wuchang wharf, the gunboat Jianghan of the Navy Battalion hoisted the full flag, the gongs and drums on both sides of the street fluttered colorful flags, and hundreds of Hubei officials came here to see off the new vice president of the Republic of China and the former governor of Hubei Li Yuanhong.

Li Yuanhong still had the expression of a calm and self-contained mud bodhisattva, but his heart was as uncomfortable as ashes. The Vice President said it nicely! After President Sun came to power, he abandoned the parliamentary system proposed by Song Jiaoren and implemented the presidential system to hold all the power in his hands, and the vice president was just a vase ornament. But what now? After the fall of Tang Hualong, the Hubei constitutionalists had their last breath left, Hunan Tan Yanmin was a typical wall-head grass, and Sichuan Deng Xiaoke was simply a puppet erected by Yang Qiu, otherwise how could he compete for Pu Dianjun and those people with his qualifications! It's too late to regret it now, if the party had taken the initiative when they elected him as the governor, and took advantage of Sun Wu's gain of power to directly take down this young man, would there still be today?

Coming from the first day, Li Yuanhong can be regarded as having a lot of experience, he understands that politics is like this, if you can't defeat the other party, you have to endure it, once it is launched, you will live or die. After Xiaocang Mountain, there is no one in the three provinces who can shake this person, and it is even more impossible after he goes to Nanjing, so it is better to take the initiative to transfer power and go to Nanjing to retire as soon as possible. Thinking of this, he sighed quietly, turned his head to Yang Qiu and said, "Once I leave this time, I don't know when I will be able to come back." ”

After experiencing so many political storms, Yang Qiu's heart was already as hard as iron, and he smiled: "Does the vice president remember the pistol I gave you?" Yang Qiu's words are put here today, he is a chief for one day and a lifetime. No matter whether it is Nanjing or Beijing in the future, if there is someone in the temple to make things difficult for you, vice president, as long as you send a telegram to me, I will never give up with 100,000 national defense tigers! ”

Li Yuanhong knew that Yang Qiu was going to use himself to fight against the Beiyang family that was definitely going to come to power, but he was already very relieved to have this guarantee, as long as he maintained this relationship, even if Yuan Shikai became the president in the future, he would not be able to do anything with him, and it would not be a problem to be a stable vice president in this life, so he said in a very simple showdown: "Does Chen Hua have anything to say to Nanjing?" Huang Yiou I can t move, but Sun Wu and they can still talk about this matter, Nanjing is still waiting for news from your side, depending on what you think, these people are exiled overseas or. ”

"There are also Chinese people overseas."

Yang Qiu's faint sentence decided the life and death of Sun Wu, Zhang Zhenwu and others, Li Yuanhong was not angry but nodded with satisfaction: "Chenhua did a good job, the first time you can forgive, the second time you are to blame ()!" ”

"Vice President Li is well aware of the righteousness, please convey to the president on my behalf that Yang Qiu has never thought of separating China, and if the Northern Expedition is confirmed, I will definitely send troops to cooperate." After settling the matter of Sun Wu and others, Yang Qiu immediately asked Chen Guofu to hand over a check of 300,000 yuan issued by the Southwest Bank: "This is a little bit of my heart, Nanjing doesn't know when it will be able to issue the political salary, you can collect it for daily use first." Li Yuanhong knew that Nanjing was in financial difficulties, so he didn't excuse Wang Anlan to put it away, and said with a smile: "I'm afraid Chenhua already has a candidate for the new governor of Hubei in his heart, right?" Tell me, Li is not old and confused, and he still knows who is good for the country! It is still possible to raise a governor of Hubei. ”

"Although the governor is my Han name, it is now a republic, so I think the name of the governor is better." Yang Qiu had long wanted to remove the term "governor", which had too much feudal flavor, and said with a smile: "The nominee's name is Li Shixing, a disciple of Mr. Zhan Tianyou, 27 years old, graduated from Harvard Business School in the United States. ”

"Okay, I'll make a note of it."

Li Yuanhong wrote down this unfamiliar name and walked towards the warship, and was just about to step on the gangway, when he suddenly looked back and said: "Enshisa has sent me a letter, and he has invested in the purchase of ships for the righteousness of the nation, and Chenhua has done a good job!" Now although your three politics are out, the touch is too big! There must be twists and turns, since Chenhua has decided to do it, be ruthless, faster! I hope that when Li returns to his hometown, he can see the best Hubei! ”

These words made Yang Qiu slightly stunned, and in a blink of an eye, he somewhat understood the thoughts of this person with mixed reviews in history. Although he was forced away by himself, he did not change the idea of the Chinese people's attachment to his homeland, experienced the fiasco of the First Sino-Japanese War, and saw the reality of the weak and miserable people in the late Qing Dynasty made them very contradictory to the Beiyang generation, on the one hand, they hoped that the country would make changes so they sympathized with the revolution, and on the other hand, they were afraid that they would fall into turmoil and aggravate the suffering, and they finally expressed their hearts until now that they were leaving.

With a whistle, Li Yuanhong, who was forcibly promoted to the position of governor of Shouyi and stepped into the center of China's political arena, ended his career in Hubei. At the same time, Li Shixing, who everyone has never heard of, was nominated as the governor of Hubei Province. His departure also allowed Hubei to completely enter the Yang Qiu era, and in the afternoon of the same day, the three provincial inspection missions were moved to the Hubei Consultative Bureau, and Wuchang once again became one of the political centers of Hubei and even the whole of South China.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Yuanhong arrived in Nanjing, and in order to congratulate the vice president on his arrival, Yang Qiu first expressed his goodwill, not only ordering the second regiment to return to its original station, but also sending a telegram to the whole country, saying that the assassination was only the work of a small group of revolutionary traitors, and also said that the national defense forces were ready for the Northern Expedition and could set off only after the order from Nanjing.

Li Yuanhong also responded, and when he attended the cabinet and senatorial meetings that day, he immediately proposed that the post of governor be abolished and replaced by a provincial governor who is more in line with the republic. At the same time, Zhan Tianyou's student was nominated, and the never-famous Li Shixing was appointed as the new governor of Hubei. After getting Yang Qiu's signal, these two things were unanimously approved almost after they were proposed, although everyone knew that this was Yang Qiu's instruction, but who else was willing to continue to confront him for this little thing? The most important thing now is how to solve the assassination incident, give Yang Qiu an explanation, restart the Northern Expedition, which has come to a standstill, and accelerate the unification of the whole country.

Huang Keqiang didn't have time to care about the quiet changes in Nanjing's political circle after Li Yuanhong's arrival, he was now anxious, on the one hand, the empty treasury, on the other hand, the tens of millions of money needed for the Northern Expedition, and the involvement of his son in the assassination case, all made him feel deeply tired, and sometimes he simply wanted to leave everything behind and go back to Hong Kong to be a fool. When Song Jiaoren came to him to inform Li Yuanhong of his proposal, he was also startled after pushing the door open, in just a few days, this tall and well-known tough guy of the Chinese League has lost a whole circle, and his two eye sockets are deeply sunken in, and all he can see when he opens his eyes are bloodshot, and he can't help but care: "Keqiang, don't worry too much, Sun Wu can see from their confession that this child was deceived by someone, I think Yang Qiu is not a person who is easy to kill, there should be room for change in this matter." ”

Huang Keqiang has been physically and mentally exhausted recently, and when he saw Song Jiaoren coming, he forcibly cheered up and said: "I don't want to ask about Yiou, and if you do something wrong, you should be punished." But now that the Beiyang soldiers have pointed to Huaiyin, the Northern Expedition is urgent, what do you think should be done at the beginning of the escape? ”

Song Jiaoren saw that he was reluctant to mention the assassination case, so he agreed with him and said: "Keqiang is right, if you can't unite the Northern Expedition again, maybe there will be some chaos, but how to solve the money?" ”

Huang Keqiang said: "I talked to the president yesterday, and he thinks that he can call Chen Jiongming in Guangzhou and use the Guangzhou Railway as collateral, and in addition, Jiangsu will come forward to take out the railway from Shanghai to Fengjing, and use these two as an emergency loan of 6 million yuan to Japan, and wait for the unified taxes of the whole country to be paid back slowly." ”

"Mortgage the railroad to the Japanese? ()！ Song Jiaoren is not unaware of the current financial problems, but he is still very worried about taking the railway as a mortgage, and said: "Kegong can think about it, our current political fu is only temporary, Yuan Shikai has already called yesterday and said that he will speed up the persuasion of the Manchu Qing to abdicate, and the power will be temporarily handed over to him in the future, in case this matter is taken out to talk about things, I am afraid it will be very unfavorable to the future election." ”

"Is there still so much to care about?" Huang Keqiang smiled bitterly and returned to the topic of the assassination case: "I heard that Li Yuanhong is here, did you bring Yang Qiu's message?" ”

Song Jiaoren nodded: "The message is here, Li Yuanhong has already said that he must severely punish the main culprit and establish the prestige of the central government, and he didn't mention the second offender, but everyone means to let them go back to Hong Kong and not engage in politics again." Hearing this, Huang Keqiang seemed to have exhausted all his strength, and these words meant that Huang Yiou and others would withdraw from the political stage from now on, and as long as Yang Qiu did not fall for a day, they would never be able to turn over.

Seeing his painful expression, Song Jiaoren also knew the bitterness in his heart, and got up and said, "Keqiang, you have a good rest, you don't have to think about it anymore." ”

Shortly after Song Jiaoren left, the Nanjing government officially announced the results of the Hankou assassination case, Huang Yiou was dismissed from his post and sent back to Guangzhou to be detained and imprisoned, Vice Admiral Tang Qianming was dismissed and replaced by Yang Jingxiu, Wang Guangxiong took over as the commander of the First Fleet of the Republic of China Navy, which had been reorganized stationed in Shanghai, and finally 17 masterminds of the assassination case, including Sun Wu, were sentenced to death for the crime of murdering a senior member of the Central Committee and counter-revolutionary.

Because Yang Qiu gently put down the assassination case, South China, which had just breathed a sigh of relief, was once again restless because of the two assassination cases. On January 24, Liangbi, a die-hard member of the main battle faction of the Qing government, was killed by a bomb. The next day, Tao Chengzhang, the head of the Liberation Society and the most likely to take over as governor of Zhejiang, was also assassinated in the hotel.

Four major assassinations related to the Kuomintang broke out in succession in 10 days, causing many people to begin to become disillusioned with Nanjing, which still clings to the politics of assassination. Just when the land of China was still in turmoil and the future was uncertain, Yang Qiu began his first trip to the two provinces after taking office