However, the current fact is that since the move to the north, the League has lost control of the provisional Senate and has been reduced to a supporting role in competing with the New China Party for the second largest party; Moreover, the seats in the provisional Senate have been carved up, and it is difficult to find room for the League to expand.

What to do?

This question naturally does not make it difficult for Song Jiaoren. He immediately thought of a solution: to unite other political forces, especially the United Republican Party, which has a sizable seat in the Senate. Moreover, by uniting with other political parties, it can also reduce the control and influence of those elders of the League over the parties, and increase their own strength and status."

But which of the elders of the League is not old and cunning? At a glance, he saw through Song Jiaoren's trick of "mixing sand" and strongly opposed the reorganization. Their reason is that the League is the result of decades of study by revolutionary comrades, and now it should defend this great name with their lives and let it share the glory with the Republic of China. Most ordinary members also believe that the three words "Alliance" are time-honored and golden signs, and should not be reorganized casually.

Song Jiaoren sternly refuted this, holding that at present, the League will be full of indecent and muddy products, internal differences of opinion, and ideological confusion, resulting in the entire party being divided and scattered, and its influence in the provisional Senate is even less than that of the newly established Republican Party and the New China Party. In order to weed out the old and the new, reinvigorate itself, and strive to win the parliamentary election, the League must be reorganized, and it must be reorganized as soon as possible!

The elders of the League sneered at each other, and it was not that the League had not been reorganized before. The result? As a result, the more it changes, the more chaotic it becomes, and the worse it gets. The so-called "miscellaneous products, mud and sand", "differences of opinion." In fact, the shortcomings of ideological confusion and "fragmentation and weakness" were all caused by the reorganization at that time. Who knows if this reshuffle will make matters worse? In the case of unpredictable results, it is better to "be still than still"!

The patriarch's opinion was not unreasonable. In fact, at the time of the establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China in Nanjing, the League had indeed been reorganized once, and the purpose of the reorganization at that time was mainly twofold. The first is to change from underground to open, and the second is to change from a revolutionary group to a political party. The "General Chapter" of the reorganized League stipulates that as long as they are adult Chinese with a certain amount of knowledge. If you agree with the purpose of the Alliance, you can become a member of the Alliance after being introduced by two members and approved by the Evaluation Department.

At that time, the revolution had just succeeded. Among the members of the League are the chief and deputy ministers of the Provisional Government. Outside are the governors and directors of the provinces, which can be described as magnificent. Naturally, enthusiastic revolutionaries flocked to participate, and those who tended to be inflammatory, opportunistic, and wanted to be the first to join, and the conditions for membership were so relaxed that the number of members soon exceeded the 100,000 mark. In the case of a sudden increase in the number of members, it is inevitable that there will be a mixture of mud and sand. is like Zhao Xiucai in "The True Story of Ah Q", who exchanged four foreign coins for the "top of the persimmon oil party".

Seeing that the majority of members were opposed, Song Jiaoren did not back down. On the one hand, he claimed that the reorganized alliance would be the same as the attitude and methods it had held before. The enterprising jingshén of sacrifice will be consistent and will not change; On the one hand, he gave speeches everywhere and actively lobbied. Fight for more support. Despite Song Jiaoren's bitter words, there are still many people who do not buy Song Jiaoren's account, and the recognition of the reorganization is only limited to the Beijing headquarters of Song Jiaoren's League. Moreover, judging from the whole process, it was also Song Jiaoren who promoted the approval of the reorganization by the Beijing headquarters, and the Beijing headquarters expressed its approval on behalf of the entire alliance.

Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing, as the leaders of the League, seemed to have made up their minds to retire after success, but in the process they did not make a clear statement, completely stayed out of the matter, and Soong Jiaoren was completely responsible for all reorganization affairs, including negotiations with the United Republican Party, the National Convention and other parties. Therefore, there are rumors outside that Song Jiaoren's move is purely to imitate Song Jiang, intending to elevate Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing, and then throw off his arms and go it alone.

When Sun and Huang did not come forward to oppose it, and repeatedly expressed their reluctance to ask more about party affairs, this rumor intensified, and even some members of the league believed it. In desperation, Song Jiaoren had no choice but to invite Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing to attend the reorganization meeting in order to clarify the facts and restore his innocence.

Sun Yat-sen did not refuse this, and readily agreed to Song Jiaoren's request. During the meeting of the Big Five, he made a special trip to participate in the reorganization meeting held at the Huguang Guild Hall. The conference was long in the making and was attended by more than 2,000 people. Sun Yat-sen delivered a speech at the meeting: "Sun has wandered overseas for decades, and the countries he has traveled to are innumerable, but whether the government is democratic or monarchical, political parties always exist, and the government's guidance power is always transferred from one party to another. Before the revolution, there was autocracy but no rule of law, there were servants but no people, all government affairs were done in accordance with the will of the monarch, and there were only friends among the ministers and bureaucrats, and there was no political party. Now that the revolution has succeeded and the Republic of China has been established, China has begun to have its own political party!

"Our alliance was established in the former Qing Dynasty, because at that time, our people were enslaved like cattle and horses, and their lives were miserable, so Sun put forward the three people's principles of nationality, civil rights, and people's livelihood, and drew on the cause of overthrowing and sabotaging. Now that the Republic of China has been established, and the two doctrines of nationality and civil rights have been largely realized, the most important task at present is to consolidate the republic and implement the doctrine of people's livelihood. However, construction is more difficult than destruction, and it is necessary to unite all those who agree with the republic to work together in order to achieve the goal.

"The so-called political party is the one who consolidates the country and represents the people by the Kuomintang Party. Now, our five parties are united and work together for the people's livelihood, which is in line with the original intention of the founding of the party. After the alliance, whether the new political party will be in an administrative position or a supervisory position in the future, it must always be based on the premise of benefiting the country and the people, and making the country rich and the people strong. If there are differences of political opinion or behavior between other political parties, they should also take whether it is conducive to the consolidation of the republic and the implementation of the people's livelihood as the starting point, and distinguish between right and wrong without distinguishing between right and wrong. In this way, the prosperity of the Republic of China is just around the corner! ”

Although it was said at the reorganization meeting that the League would merge with the five parties of the United Republican Party, the National Public Party, the National Communist Party, and the Republican Practical Association, in fact, the "National Joint Advance Conference" was also added to it, and in fact it was a "six-party merger." After the reorganization, the new party adopted the meaning of "republican system, with the people as the main body of the country" and was named the Kuomintang.

The name "Kuomintang" is not unfamiliar to the Chinese people, and when we mention it, we naturally think of the party to which Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek belonged. In fact, the "Kuomintang" was a very fashionable political party name in the early years of the Republic of China, so at the beginning of the founding of the New China Party, Shen Xiangyun put forward the proposal of naming the "Kuomintang". In addition to the well-known Kuomintang, there are at least two other parties named after it:

The first was the "Kuomintang" formed by the Imperial Constitutional Council organized by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao in the late Qing Dynasty, which was officially launched in Shanghai on February 27, 1912, and merged into the Republican Party in May of the same year.

The second was that in May 1912, the Republican Construction Seminar, the National Association, the United Republican Party, the Kuomintang and other parties held a meeting in Beijing to prepare for the merger into the "Kuomintang". However, this "Kuomintang" has not yet been formed, that is, the proclamation process, which can be described as stillborn.

The Kuomintang we are familiar with was founded at the latest, and its establishment was entirely the self-initiative of the headquarters of the Beijing League (or Song Jiaoren), and the consent of the vast number of League members at home and abroad was not sought. Many League branches resisted the reshuffle, such as the Canton League, which was not renamed the Kuomintang until early 1913.

At this meeting, everyone elected Sun Yat-sen as chairman of the Kuomintang, and nine people, including Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren, as directors. However, Sun Yat-sen does not seem to be interested in this title of chairman, and has repeatedly claimed that he wants to leave politics and concentrate on people's livelihood industry, so he wants to abdicate and make way for Xian. This move undoubtedly confirmed the previous rumors, and made Song Jiaoren not embarrassed. After a long period of hard persuasion, Sun Yat-sen finally reluctantly assumed the post of chairman. However, as soon as he turned around, he announced to the outside world that because of the great importance of his construction of the railway, he had no time to take care of the internal affairs of the Kuomintang, and entrusted Song Jiaoren to act as chairman of the board of directors and handle all matters with full authority.

As soon as the news came out, public opinion was in an uproar. However, at this time, Song Jiaoren couldn't take care of it so much, because the hot parliamentary election had begun to warm up, and he needed to devote himself to the most lively annual drama in the first year of the Republic of China. In addition, the reshuffle was originally intended to take control of the League, to gain a majority in the provisional Senate, and to prepare for the subsequent congressional election and the contest for the formation of a cabinet. Now that you have made real profits, why bother with those noisy false names?

Facts have also shown that after the founding of the Kuomintang, not only did the number of party members increase, but it also did occupy the position of the largest party in the Beijing Provisional Senate. Although they did not win the majority seats in one fell swoop, this is enough to make the Republicans and the New China Party wary. What's more, Song Jiaoren is still making small moves, and he has the idea of beating Republicans and non-party congressmen every once in a while?

In the face of such a result, Song Jiaoren was also full of joy, and said triumphantly to his cronies in private: "From now on, the political party of the Republic of China is the only one, although the Republican Party is horizontal, and although the New China Party is strong, can it compete with our party?" Although Li Yuanhong is known as the governor of Shouyi, and although Sun Yuanqi is known as today's saint, can he compete with me for the world? Zhao Yayi (Zhao Bingjun), Zhang Zhuangyuan (Zhang Jian), His Royal Highness Duan (Duan Zhigui), in the future, I will be the only one! (To be continued......)