Soon after the Senate session was dismissed, while Yuan Shikai and Li Yuanhong were actively moving, Li Zhaofu, Xiong Chengzhang, Zhang Weisen, and other senators of the New China Party also came to Houhai Sun Mansion with Yang Yongtai to discuss countermeasures.

After listening to Li Zhaofu's statement on today's Senate meeting, Sun Yuanqi was slightly distracted: When later generations mentioned politics during the Republic of China, everyone's first impression was negative words such as "dark", "**", and "incompetent". Speaking of the Beiyang period, it was even worse! What betrayed the country for glory, lost power and humiliated the country, slaughtered students, fished the common people, and bribed the congress...... It's simply the end of the world. I didn't expect the temporary Senate to be so lively at this time! Senators have such courage! Not only did they dare to silence Army Chief Duan Qirui, but they even dared to impeach Vice President Li Yuanhong. Although there is a conflict of partisan interests and sentiments, the senators ignored the authority of the vice president and argued on the basis of reason, and even wanted to bring the Zhang Zhenwu case into the legal field of vision for exploration.

If you think about the legislative, political and political organs of later generations, they only know that raising their hands and applauding are completely deaf ears! Not to mention that letting them take the initiative to impeach leaders at the same level is to remove officials at the next level, and they have to look at the faces of the party committee and zhèngfǔ first. Compared with the Senate and Congress in the early Republic of China, the difference between the two is world-apart..

Yang Yongtai was a little worried: "My lord, now the Senate is divided into three or four factions, and everyone has different opinions, but they are deadlocked. If the Senate votes tomorrow, there will be more than 30 or 40 votes and 120 votes less. No one can reach the required number of impeachment votes, and in the end they will only fall short. Do you think we're going to do something extraordinary tonight? ”

The so-called extraordinary measures are nothing more than unseemly tricks such as soliciting promises, buying with large sums of money, and threatening violence. Sun Yuanqi barely collected his emotions. Shook his head: "It's not our family who plans to hold on to the Buddha tonight, if we do it improperly, not only will we be unhelpful, but we will be honest and let people seize the handle." At times like these, we need to be calm, because we now have at least 25 votes in our hands. Although we can't impeach anyone to remove from office. But it can guarantee that no one will be left in office. In that case, why not wait and see what happens? ”

Xiong Chengzhang said: "What the adults said is extremely true! At this critical moment, it is to do more and make more mistakes. Do less and make fewer mistakes, and don't do well. It was mixed with Yuan Xiangcheng, Li Huangpi, Song Dunchu and others, but they watched the fire from the other side and settled cleanly. ”

Yang Yongtai said: "But the Sichuan army is going east. It has made us hostile to Li Huangpi. Once this fight against the snake fails. Let Li Huangpi sit big in Hubei, there will be endless troubles! It is better to take this good opportunity to encourage the Republican Party and the members of the League to work together with us to complete the battle and completely sweep away the hidden danger of Lai Huangpi. In any case, Zhang Bolie, Liu Chengyu and other Republican congressmen have completely turned against Li Huangpi, and the League will also be very angry at Li Huangpi for plundering the fruits of the revolution and serving as vice president. ”

Yang Jie, who was standing behind Sun Yuanqi, suddenly said at this time: "If you want Li Huangpi to resign." Isn't that easy? In the following can be asserted, there will be no tomorrow. Li Huangpi will take the initiative to call the whole country and announce his resignation. ”

"Oh?" Everyone stared at Yang Jie in confusion.

Chen Xunen thought for a while and immediately understood, and said with a smile: "In the past, when the people were full of grievances and the heavens were angry and people were complaining, the emperor had to issue an edict against himself; If the minister is impeached by the official, he must also take the initiative to suspend him from office and stay at home. This has been a practice throughout the ages. Therefore, as soon as Tang Shaochuan heard the news of Zhang Chūnshan's murder, he immediately hid in an American hospital and pretended to be sick. I think that Li Huangpi will be uneasy when he hears the news of the Senate's impeachment of him, and he will take the initiative to call the whole country to ask for his resignation? ”

Yang Yongtai said: "Li Huangpi will take the initiative to resign?" If he really had a shameful heart, he should have taken the initiative to resign when the Senate raised a question, but he has not moved, what does this mean? It shows that he loves the power position and refuses to go lightly. Even if Li Huangpi really took the initiative to resign this time, it could only be that he was retreating and surviving. Who would believe it? ”

Everyone nodded when they heard this, but Yang Jie smiled slightly: "Since Li Huangpi is advancing by retreating and surviving in death, then why don't we use clever tricks to make him fake?" ”

Yang Yongtai glared at Yang Jie: "Brother Geng Guang, why did you suddenly become a mother-in-law?" Not at all! It's all your own people here, there's nothing to hide, just tell you your tricks and tricks, so we don't have to guess! ”

Yang Jie said: "It's not a clever plan, I just have a rough idea." If you really want to implement it, I'm afraid you will have to make a serious arrangement. ”

Sun Yuanqi said: "Then Geng Guang will tell me your rough thoughts, right?" ”

Yang Jie said: "Whether it is uneasy to be in position, or to retreat as advance, there is no doubt that Li Huangpi will definitely call the whole country to take the initiative to resign before the Senate meeting tomorrow." Since he sent out a telegram and didn't want to resign, he must have already figured out how to end it. Throughout history, there have been only two ways for ministers to resign without resigning, one is for the higher authorities to warm their words and for consolation, and the other is for the subordinates to try their best to keep them.

"Let's talk about the superior's consolation first. For Le Hoang Pi, there are only two superiors: the Grand Presidential Palace and the Senate. Now that there is a lot of trouble in the Senate over the case of Chang Chūnshan, and even a motion to impeach him, it is naturally impossible to pass a resolution to save him. Since the murder of Zhang Chūn Mountain, the relationship between the Grand Presidential Palace and Li Huangpi has been somewhat delicate, both fighting and pulling, pulling and beating. As for whether Yuan Xiangcheng will say anything to save him, it is estimated that Li Huangpi has no bottom in his heart.

Since it is unlikely that the superior Wen Yan will stay in comfort, Li Huangpi can only play the next level and try his best to keep this card. It is believed that soon after Li Huangpi sent a telegram to resign, some people would send a telegram to the whole country in the name of the military and civilians of Hubei, praising Li Huangpi's meritorious deeds and virtues, and vigorously stating Li Huangpi's importance to Hubei. Move with affection, know with reason, and even kill with threat, in a word: without Li Huangpi, Hubei will be in chaos in the world.

"The electrification of the military and civilians in Hubei is the props for Li Huangpi's end and the ladder for stepping down, and the idea is that after Li Huangpi electrified and resigned, and before the Hubei military and civilians were electrified to stay, we invited Zhang Bolie, Liu Chengyu, Fang Wei, Zhang Guoquan, Ji Yulin and other high-ranking officials from Hubei to come forward, and then organize people from all walks of life in Hubei to express a warm welcome to Li Huangpi's resignation in the name of Hubei military and civilian studies and businessmen. This is compared to confiscating the props of Li Huangpi's end and removing the ladder for Li Huangpi to step down, so that he can't close the stage and can't get off the stage.

Immediately after that, without waiting for Li Huangpi to use the name of the military and civilians in Hubei to send a telegram to refute it, the China Broadcasting Corporation, the "Political and Economic Newspaper" and other media vigorously broadcast the news of Li Huangpi's resignation, and Mr. Sun, Zhang Tang, the two governors, and the governors and parliaments of the four provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Jin, jointly sent a telegram to Li Huangpi, expressing regret for his voluntary resignation and praising his voluntary confession on the other. At that time, all kinds of telegrams flew all over the sky, and Li Huangpi's resignation became an established fact, and he did not have the face to continue to stay in the position of vice president and governor of the Hubei army! ”

Sun Yuan said in his heart: Isn't this just taking advantage of the time difference and media advantages to confuse the public with information fraud and fight an asymmetrical public opinion war?

After hearing this, Li Zhaofu couldn't help but shout: "This plan is very good!" With just a few telegrams, the soldiers killed the enemy invisibly without blood, and the key is not to violate the "Temporary Covenant", so that Li Huangpi stealing chickens is not a loss of rice, and the end is wonderful! ”

Yang Yongtai and the others couldn't help but be overjoyed: "What Brother Geng Guang said is really a clever plan!" After a while, the foolish brother prepared a telegram and went to visit Zhang Bolie, Liu Chengyu, and other people of Hubei origin in Beijing, who were filled with righteous indignation at Li Huangpi's murder of Zhang Chūn Mountain, and asked them to sign a letter to welcome Li Huangpi's resignation, thinking that they would not refuse. As for people from all walks of life such as the military, civilian, academic, and commercial people in Hubei, we have to think about it carefully, and the weight of the people who don't sign is too light, so that people can see the flaws! ”

Chen Xunen said: "The adults have served as a student envoy in Hubei for several years, and they have established various schools, which have benefited the province of Hubei and have a good reputation. This time to contact academics, all you need is a telegram from an adult, so why worry about a big deal? ”

Yang Jie said: "In addition to Fang Xuchu, Zhang Guoquan, Ji Yulin and other figures in the military and political branch of Xiangyang, Hubei military people can also ask Liu Bocheng (Liu Mingzhao) and Yin Shuoquan (Yin Changheng) to find a few military leaders in Yichang Mansion. With the support of the strong brigades of Sichuan and Shaanxi, Fang Xuchu led the army to attack Jingmen Prefecture, which was only garrisoned by one standard, and defeated the Tang Sacrifice Branch, which was under the control of the seventh town, to the point that he lost his armor and collapsed into an army, and his demise was only in a moment. Let's borrow his name now, why is he powerless to object, right? Then randomly find the names of a few intermediate characters in Wuchang to support the scene, and then use the word 'wait', which can almost fool the past. ”

Yang Yongtai said: "Business people are also easy to find. Mrs. Lilith has been involved in the business world for so many years, has traveled extensively, and has controlled many enterprises in Hubei, such as Hanyeping Company, Bloomage Flour Mill, Bloomage Bank Branch, China Industrial Machinery Company Branch, and Youyang Pharmaceutical Factory Branch of Zhiyong Pharmaceutical Company. ”

Sun Yuanqi said: "What about another 'people'? ”

Chen Xunen said: "The word 'people' is easy to say, after all, there are 24 million people in Hubei, and we now control Xiangyang, Yunyang, Yichang and other places, and it is really easy to find a few people to sign." But it's hard to say, looking at the whole province of Hubei, who dares to say that he can represent more than 20 million people in Jingchu? ”

Sun Yuanqi said: "In this case, we don't have to care, we just need to send a telegram from Wuchang, signed with the six words 'all the people of Hubei'." Anyway, tomorrow will be a different matter, and no one will seriously care about these details. ”

Just when everyone's plan was undecided, the confidential officer entered the room and announced: "Report to your Excellency, Vice President Wu Changli issued a telegram to the President and the Senate to resign from the post of vice president, and recommended Huang Keqiang to succeed as the governor and chief of staff of Hubei. ”

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other and laugh. (To be continued......)