Sun Yuanqi was stunned: Which one is Tang Shaoyi singing? Could it be that the White Emperor City is lonely?

It didn't seem like Tang Shaoyi was joking, Sun Yuanqi hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Prime Minister Shaochuan don't want to play tricks, Sun is actually a teacher, at most he can teach students and compile books, as for Prime Minister Shaochuan's ability to dominate the world, it is nothing!" Now that he is the chief of education, he is fortunate to be invited, and he dares to have other extravagant hopes? Moreover, now that the government affairs are complicated, and there are more and more contradictions and conflicts between the alliance and the Beiyang system, you need to mediate and reconcile between them, how can you suddenly withdraw at this time? ”

Tang Shaoyi smiled bitterly: "Baixi, why doesn't Tang know that it is an eventful time now?" To be honest, if it weren't for this, Tang would not want to resign as prime minister. In life, who doesn't want to make an earth-shattering cause that protects the country and the people? It's just that now the president has a deep prejudice against Tang, which makes me uneasy about my position, so I can only resign. ”

Sun Yuanqi said: "You are the prime minister of the cabinet, unless the Senate votes to remove you, who else can make you resign voluntarily?" Zeng Wenzhenggong once said, 'A good man knocks out his teeth and swallows blood', the more embarrassing and humiliating he is, the more he must hold on. The manly man stands between heaven and earth, and what he fights is the tenacity to endure humiliation and stand up for himself. Why is Prime Minister Shaochuan so cowardly? ”..

Tang Shaoyi sighed and shook his head: "That's the means that Bai Xi has never seen the president!" Tang has worked with the president for nearly 30 years and knows him well. ”

Sun Yuanqi persuaded again: "On the other hand, Song Dunchu and Wang Liangchou, the two general chiefs, Ping Rìli, were quite dissatisfied with the colleagues of the Beiyang Department, and once Premier Shaochuan resigned. They are isolated in the cabinet and will inevitably advance and retreat with you. Such a situation would lead to the complete collapse of the current cabinet, and at worst, it would undermine the North-South peace agreement that had already been reached. It is not impossible to re-establish a situation of division and confrontation between the north and the south. So please also ask Prime Minister Shaochuan to think twice! ”

Tang Shaoyi said: "Baixi rest assured, if it really comes to that point, I will persuade the two chief directors of Dunchu and Liangchou to stay in office!" ”

Seeing that Tang Shaoyi had made up his mind, Sun Yuanqi no longer persuaded him. The two talked for a while, and Tang Shaoyi got up to leave. Although Tang Shaoyi did not clearly state the purpose of his visit, Sun Yuanqi already knew that he would fully support his last battle in the cabinet, if this was the last battle.

After Tang Shaoyi left. Sun Yuanqi felt a little upset: since the implementation of the responsible cabinet system at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Prince Qing Yixuan has been in office for 6 months, and Yuan Shikai has been in office for 5 months. Now Tang Shaoyi has only been prime minister for 3 or 4 months before he thinks about resigning, and his tenure in office is getting shorter and shorter. The little rì next door seems to have changed the prime minister quite diligently, and it is said that each prime minister has only been in power for a little more than two years. Could it be that the implementation of a responsible cabinet system in East Asia is like a replacement of the prime minister?

In real history, though. The cabinet of the Beiyang zhèngfǔ period did change quite quickly. According to later statistics. In the 17 years from 1912 to 1928, 32 cabinets were officially appointed, and if the Nanjing Provisional Cabinet and other provisional cabinets were included, it was a staggering 49 terms, far exceeding the rate of CPU renewal. At that time, people once sighed: "The recent political phenomenon, how can it be the same as when Ming Chongzhen died in the country!" Because during Chongzhen's seventeen years of reign, there were more than 50 prime ministers, which were on a par with Beiyang zhèngfǔ.

Things have come to this point. It was useless to be melancholy, so Sun Yuanqi had no choice but to call Chen Xunen and Yang Jie to discuss countermeasures.

After listening to Sun Yuanqi's introduction. Chen Xunen was a little puzzled: "My lord, Tang Shaochuan took the initiative to let you be virtuous, isn't it a good thing?" At present, the contradictions between the Beiyang faction and the revolutionary party are becoming more and more acute, and Tang Shaochuan vainly tries to use one person to leave the left and right factions, and it is inevitable that he will take care of one and lose the other, and the two sides will have grudges. My lord, you not only represent the New China Party, but also Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu and Jin, which can be described as very important. If you are in power, the Beiyang system and the revolutionary party will try their best to hand over, and the contradictions will naturally become invisible. Moreover, the fact that adults are in power is also great news for the New China Party and Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu and Jin! ”

Sun Yuanqi shook his head and said: "Yan and you, you only see the benefits, but not the disadvantages!" Our foothold in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Jin has not yet been stable, and the New China Party has only been established for less than half a year, and its foundation is weak. For the sake of today's plan, we should keep our heads in the dark, gather strength, and wait for the opportunity, instead of jumping out and making a head rafter. Otherwise, it will be like moss after rain, its rise and its death will be sudden. In fact, Tang Shaochuan is now in power very well, which can not only reconcile the contradictions between the Beiyang system and the revolutionary party, but also curb the expansion of the presidential palace.

"Personally, I think there are two biggest crises in the Republic of China: one is Yuan Xiangcheng's ambition, he is not willing to be only an empty and vain president, so he will continue to destroy the "Provisional Covenant" and the responsible cabinet system to achieve his ambitions; The second is the agitation of the revolutionary party, although the revolutionaries are now densely scattered in the provinces south of the Yangtze River, they are by no means satisfied with the status quo, and will find out from time to time to go on the Northern Expedition. Now let them supervise each other and keep fighting among themselves, which may not be a good thing for the country! ”

Yang Jie said: "Mr. hopes that Tang Shaochuan will stay in office, and Tang Shaochuan himself hopes to stay in office, but the reality forces him to resign." The reason for this is not only the breakdown of his relationship with the president, but also the decline of his influence in the cabinet. The chiefs of the Beiyang Department originally thought that Tang Shaochuan had a friendship with the president for nearly 30 years, and after becoming the prime minister, he would wantonly favor his side, but the actual result surprised them.

"It stands to reason that Tang Shaochuan defended the interests of the League everywhere in the cabinet, and sometimes even argued with the president, and the League should be grateful to Tang Shaochuan. In fact, Song Dunchu was quite critical of Tang Shaochuan, thinking that he was too steady, and should be tougher and more radical in policy in the cabinet, forcing the Beiyang Department and the Great Presidential Office to back down and compromise; If they don't budge, the League can threaten them by resigning, protesting, etc. Anyway, the alliance will start by rebellion, and it is a master of fighting public opinion warfare, and armed confrontation and bomb assassination are also good at it.

"In the case of resentment between the Beiyang Department and the Alliance, Tang Shaochuan's position in the cabinet is in jeopardy, so the last few times he wants to forcibly pass the proposal in the cabinet, he first seeks the support of adults. The longer the time drags on, the more hatred accumulates, and eventually it will explode in a concentrated way. Tang Shaochuan, as a party concerned, naturally noticed these things a long time ago, so he wanted to take the opportunity to take advantage of Wang Tieshan's direct incident to get out, at least to get the sympathy of the alliance and avoid being attacked on both sides. ”

Sun Yuanqi said: "Since Tang Shaochuan is determined to resign, we have nothing to do, but it is best to delay for as much as possible, the later the better." Because now the education work across the country has just been rolled out, the industries of Sichuan, Shaanxi and other provinces are being planned, everything is renewed, and what we lack most is the time in this period of relative political stability. Moreover, Tang Shaochuan was the premier of the first formal cabinet of the Republic of China, if he resigned after only three or four months in power, how could he set a model for future generations? ”

Chen Xunen said: "If you want Tang Shaochuan to stay in office for a longer period of time, the first thing is how to get through the current difficulty. As the lord just said, it is absolutely impossible for the president to hand over the position of governor of Zhili to Wang Tieshan, and Tang Shaoyi insisted on appointing Wang Tieshan as the governor of Zhili, and the key to the problem lies in Wang Tieshan's attitude. If Wang Tieshan is determined to win the post of governor of Zhili, it will be a little troublesome; If he just loves power and covets money, it will be much easier. ”

Yang Jie sneered: "According to the students, if you really want to solve this problem, how can there be so much trouble?" As long as Wang Tieshan dies, everything is guaranteed to be over! Anyway, Wang Tieshan is a former Qing bureaucrat who has been in the officialdom for decades, and he must have done a lot of things to fish the people and bend the law for bribes; Later, he became a revolutionary father, but in fact, he was forced by the situation to change his court, and he was awarded the rank of commander and general of the Third Army by waging his tail and begging for mercy, with no merit at all. Now that the body is related to the overall situation of the country, the sacrifice can be said to be a well-deserved death, so you might as well let the adults do the punishment on your behalf. ”

The term "天诛" is used relatively rarely in China, and generally refers to the assassination of foreigners and pro-Yi dignitaries in rì during the late Edo shogunate, during which the Restoration scholars assassinated foreigners and pro-Yi dignitaries in rì, and they called this activity "天诛". Yang Jie studied at the Rì Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and it seems that he not only learned the word "Tian Zhu", but also learned the mystery of the assassination of the commander by the samurai.

Although Sun Yuanqi once used the method of "heavenly punishment" to get rid of Chen Qimei, he did not have a good impression of this assassination method and did not want to use it more. The so-called "murderer is always killed", you always use assassination methods to deal with others, maybe one day others will send someone to assassinate you, to "give back to the other in the other way". So he shook his head: "Assassination is a method, if you can, you should try not to use it!" ”

Yang Jie said: "Since you don't kill, you can only buy it!" If Wang Tieshan takes the initiative to announce his retirement or seek another job, I believe that Tang Shaochuan will have nothing to do. Judging from Wang Tieshan's eunuch resume, he is not a loyal martyr, as long as he offers the right price, he will not worry about his refusal to bow his head! However, Wang Tieshan had served as the deputy governor of Guangxi and the commander of the Third Army before, and now he has the hope of being appointed as the governor of Zhili. ”

"So we can only try to force him to retire?" Sun Yuanqi asked rhetorically.

Chen Xunen said: "Dealing with Wang Tieshan with the current status of an adult is nothing more than the words 'coercion and temptation'. The so-called 'Wei' is to explain the stakes to him, especially to exaggerate Yuan Xiangcheng's ruthless methods, as well as the fact that the garrison of Zhili has recently telegraphed against his supervision, so that he does not dare to touch Zhili. The so-called 'profit' is to smash it with money, 30,000 is not 50,000, 50,000 is not 100,000, 100,000 is not 200,000, as long as the money is enough, don't worry about him not giving in! (To be continued......)