Yuan Shikai muttered: "Sooner or later, we will have to start, but our current priority is to maintain the overall situation of peace between the north and the south, gradually pacify the southern provinces, and not suddenly make too many enemies." Moreover, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Jin and other provinces are in a corner, which has nothing to do with the overall situation, and Sun Baixi has no great ambitions, so he can wait for the south to calm down and then slowly figure it out. Of course, now is the time to prepare. ”

Zhao Bingjun said: "What does the marshal mean is that we agreed to Huang Keqiang's invitation to let all members of the cabinet join the Kuomintang, thus forcing Sun Baixi and the other three commanders of the New China Party to withdraw from the cabinet?" ”

Yuan Shikai said: "It is not appropriate for us to come forward in this matter, so as not to bear the notoriety and form a grudge with the New China Party; But we don't need to come forward, just show a little bit of tone next time Huang Keqiang looks for you, and ensure that the Kuomintang will hype up the report and take the initiative to be this villain. ”

Zhao Bingjun thought for a moment, and said with some hesitation: "Zhang Jizhi and Tang Yuxian should be fine if they go and stay, but if Sun Baixi is dismissed, I am afraid that it will affect the bandits!" Because according to the agreement between the previous marshal and Sun Baixi, from now on, all domestic education affairs will be decided by him, and the central government shall not interfere; He used all the taxes paid by Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces for the education of the faculties, and the central government did not care about whether there was a surplus or a shortfall. Now that the national compulsory education has just been rolled out, if Sun Baixi is dismissed, who can take over and resign? Once Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces withhold taxes, and the state treasury is unable to make up for them, how can the huge shortfall be filled? ”

Yuan Shikai seems to be confident: "Judging from the old man's experience in reading people for many years, Sun Baixi should be quite knowledgeable, and he will not deliberately withhold taxes from Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces because he goes personally." Causing a shortage of education funds. As for who will take over the post of chief of education, you might as well listen to Sun Baixi's opinion and ask him to recommend candidates; After Sun Baixi left office. He was appointed by the Old Husband Association as a senior advisor to the Presidential Office and president of the National Chinese Academy of Sciences, responsible for national education and scientific research.

Moreover, with only two or three months to go before the congressional election, the Kuomintang is menacing and aggressive, and it has the potential to win the Senate and the House of Representatives first, and then occupy the State Council and the Presidential Palace, and their strength should not be underestimated. It is quite possible to win the election. If we want to prevent them from entering the cabinet, in addition to helping the Republican Party a lot, we must also think about defeat before we can win. Strive to make the New China Party and the Republican Party unite the front and jointly fight against the League. At this time, Huang Keqiang's proposal for all cabinet members to join the Kuomintang is undoubtedly the best time for us to learn from the New China Party. ”

Zhao Bingjun praised: "The handsome man is far-sighted and thoughtful, and his subordinates admire him very much!" ”

Yuan Shikai said again: "If possible." might as well tactfully let Huang Keqiang persuade Zhang Jizhi and Tang Yuxian. Let's see if we can move them. Although the future of the New China Party is promising, after all, it is still a little weak at the moment, and it is somewhat out of place to strictly prohibit cross-party relations. They have been cabinet chiefs for nearly a year now, and they have tasted power, so it should be difficult to give up suddenly, right? ”

Zhao Bingjun bowed down and replied: "My subordinates understand! ”

A day or two later, the Kuomintang radical newspaper "Minquan Bao" and the moderate newspaper "Minli Bao" successively published the news that all cabinet members planned to join the KMT, thus creating a great public opinion momentum for the "political party cabinet."

As soon as the news was published, the Republican Party and the New China Party immediately reacted strongly. In the radio, newspapers, magazines and other media to which he belonged, he violently criticized the actions of the Kuomintang, believing that the imperial power politics was the whole world. Now the Kuomintang wants to build the party in the world again, and the wolf's ambition is simply obvious! Sun Yuanqi made it clear in the China Broadcasting Journal, the "Political and Economic Daily," and the "Independent Review" (a political commentary magazine edited by Liang Qichao) that the New China Party strictly forbade party members to cross the party, and that no one from ordinary party members to the chairman of the CPPCC National Committee would resign if the cabinet decided to join the KMT in its entirety, and there would be absolutely no compromise.

After seven or eight months of painstaking investigation, study, verification, and adjustment in the national education system, Sun Yuanqi's improved version of compulsory education was finally fully implemented in county-level primary and secondary schools in most provinces and autonomous regions of the country in the second half of the first year of the Republic of China. This initiative, which was later called "the greatest in the early years of the Republic of China", is expected to benefit more than 2.5 million children and adolescents across the country. In other words, primary and secondary school students who enter school on September 1 this year not only do not need to pay any fees, but also can enjoy free textbooks, free school uniforms, free lunches and other benefits. At present, the first batch of education subsidies of 3 million yuan has been allocated to the accounts of the provincial education departments, and it is expected to be distributed to every student before and after the mid-term examinations.

At a time when the whole society was rejoicing at the vigorous development of education, news suddenly came that Sun Yuanqi might be forced to resign by the Kuomintang, and public opinion immediately became in an uproar, accusing the Kuomintang of imposing political views on others and vainly trying to realize the unity of the party and the state. Demonstrations of various scales broke out across the country, and for a time, telegrams of protest from schools, groups, and people flew to the headquarters of the Kuomintang in Beijing, almost burying Song Jiaoren and others alive. For example, in poor areas such as Hunan, Guizhou, and Guangxi, indignant teachers and students even organized to smash the Kuomintang branches in various prefectures and counties, beating and expelling Kuomintang members from the counties.

Who knew that at this juncture, Premier Zhao Bingjun, Liang Shiyi, who succeeded Zhao Bingjun as Minister of Internal Affairs, Duan Zhigui, who replaced Duan Qirui as Chief of the Army, Liu Guanxiong, Chief of the Navy, and Xiong Xiling, Minister of Finance, suddenly announced that they had accepted Huang Keqiang's proposal and joined the Kuomintang. At this time, in addition to the three members of the New China Party, only Lu Zhengxiang, the foreign minister who had always believed in Catholicism, was left in the cabinet.

There is no doubt that these people suddenly joined the Kuomintang at this time, and they were forcing the palace of the New China Party!

The current development of the situation is obviously different from the description of this period in middle school history textbooks, which made Sun Yuanqi a little panicked, and hurriedly summoned the think tank in the government to come over to discuss together. Sun Yuanqi said: "Although the situation was confusing in the past, there was a grass snake gray line to be found, and you can understand it if you think about it carefully. The current situation is incomprehensible. You're all smart people, and you're a bystander, so let's see what's going on? ”

Yang Jie didn't answer and asked: "Mr. is talking about Zhao Zhi'an, Liang Yansun, Duan Xiangyan (Duan Zhigui), Liu Ziying (Liu Guanxiong) and other hardcore Yuan families joining the Kuomintang, right?" ”

Sun Yuan nodded: "It stands to reason that Yuan Xiangcheng's Beiyang Department and Song Dunchu's Kuomintang are mortal enemies, and they should take advantage of the early establishment of the Kuomintang and its fledgling wings to nip it in the bud, why do they join forces instead?" Although our New China Party has never betrayed its sincerity to Yuan Xiangcheng, it has always been impartial in the cabinet, and it has acted in a low-key manner, and the number of party members is less than one-eighth of that of the Kuomintang. ”

Yang Jie said: "Briefly, the participation of Beiyang cabinet members in the Kuomintang this time is due to the lobbying of Huang Keqiang and Song Dunchu, and it is more of Yuan Xiangcheng's move to push the boat. ”

"Oh? Geng Guang, you might as well be more detailed. Sun Yuan said.

Yang Jie went on to explain: "It is well known that Song Dunchu and Huang Keqiang have always advocated the implementation of a purely party cabinet. Not long ago, the Kuomintang had just been founded, and in order to attract party members, expand its influence, and strive to win the congressional election at the end of the year, it was very likely that they would lobby Zhao Bingjun and other Beiyang cabinet members to join the KMT. And it could also pave the way for a pure-party cabinet after winning next year's parliamentary election. From this point of view, the initiators should be Huang Keqiang and Song Dunchu.

Yuan Xiangcheng naturally wanted to get rid of the Kuomintang as soon as possible, but now the number of Kuomintang members has been claimed to have exceeded one million, and its momentum is unstoppable, and it is difficult to prevent it from becoming the largest party in Congress with the Republican Party, so it can only outwit the enemy. At this time, Huang Keqiang and Song Dunchu came to persuade Zhao Bingjun and others to join the Kuomintang, and Yuan Xiangcheng had an idea, so he came up with this trick to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and ordered Zhao Bingjun and others to agree to Huang Keqiang. ”

Chen Xun Enqi on the side said: "How to drive the tiger and devour the wolf?" ”

Yang Jie replied: "Although our New China Party is far inferior in numbers to the Kuomintang and the Republican Party, and even inferior to the Democratic Party and the Chinese Socialist Party, we are tightly organized, and every party member is extremely loyal, and we occupy the five provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, and Qingdao, as well as parts of Hubei and Tibet, and own the Bloomage Bank and many industrial companies, which are difficult for the Kuomintang and the Republican Party to match. I am afraid that in Yuan Xiangcheng's heart, our New China Party is no less dangerous than the Kuomintang.

"The so-called strategy to drive the tiger and devour the wolf is to first use the opportunity of Huang Keqiang to lobby Zhao Bingjun and others to join the party, force our New China Party to withdraw from the cabinet, reduce its influence in the congressional election, and make us enemies with the Kuomintang; After the general election, once the Kuomintang occupies the position of the largest party in the Senate and the two houses, Yuan Xiangcheng will take advantage of the feud between us and the Kuomintang to force our New China Party to join hands with the Republican Party to prevent the Kuomintang from forming a government. ”

Chen Xunen said: "Facts have proved that the Kuomintang forced us to withdraw from the cabinet, not only did not reduce our influence, but on the contrary, it made the people think of the good things of adults, but they themselves ended up being scolded by the whole country. ”

Yang Jie shook his head and said: "Although we have been blessed by misfortune, it is still the Beiyang Department and Yuan Xiangcheng who will profit in the end." ”

Sun Yuanqi asked: "Now that there are only the three chiefs of our New China Party and Lu Zixing, who believes in Catholicism, there are only three chiefs left in the cabinet, and the situation is so chaotic, what do you think I should do?" ”

Chen Xunen said: "My lord, don't the Kuomintang and the Beiyang Department want to squeeze our New China Party out of the cabinet and reduce our influence? Then we will not be as they wish! At present, the world is raging because of the possibility of adults going to work, which shows the prestige of adults in the government and the opposition. As long as the adults and the three chiefs, Zhang, Tang, and Lu do not take the initiative to resign, what can Yuan Xiangcheng and Song Dunchu do to me? ”

Yang Jie said: "According to the student's opinion, it should be better for Mr. to resign now than to be on the job!" (To be continued.) )

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