Three hundred and fortieth chapters legal down Feng
A major event occurred in 1918!
Xu Chuzheng suddenly shot Lu Jianzhang to death in Tianjin!
Lu Jianzhang arrived in Tianjin from Shanghai. He was a behind-the-scenes activist of the peace faction. He had some direct and indirect relations with the Beiyang warlords in various provinces. Feng Yuxiang's peace proposal was related to him. The Anhui clique had already regarded him as a dangerous figure. This time
The governor's army held another meeting in Tianjin. This meeting had a tendency that was not conducive to the main war faction. Therefore, Feng Guozhang secretly instructed Lu Jianzhang's eldest son, Lu Chengwu, to call his father to Tianjin. The purpose was to use Lu Jianzhang to persuade Cao Zuo to return to the Zhili clique.
Later, he cooperated with Li Chun to turn the military governor's meeting into a situation that was beneficial to Feng and not beneficial to Duan.
After Lu Jianzhang arrived in Tianjin, Xu Shuzheng wrote a letter asking him to come to the Fengjun headquarters in Tianjin for a discussion. Lu Jianzhang regarded himself as a current general and an old-timer of the Beiyang faction, and he had no doubt that someone would murder him.
He went as promised, and Xu Shuzheng graciously invited him to talk in the secret room of the garden. When he entered the garden, a guard shot him from behind and killed him.
Lu Jianzhang, courtesy name Langzhai, was born in Mengcheng County, Anhui Province. He was a graduate of the Armed Forces School. He participated in military training at a small station. In the second year of the Republic of China, he served as the director of the Military and Political Law Enforcement Division. He killed many people, so he was known as the "Butcher Lu". He also often invited people to dinner.
, shot someone in the back when seeing off guests, and people called his red invitation card "The King of Hell's Ticket"
In March of the Republic of China, he was appointed commander of the Seventh Division and governor of Shaanxi in June of the same year. He was expelled by Chen Shufan in May of the same year. When the news of Lu Jianzhang's arrest reached Beijing, Duan Qirui was afraid that he would be killed and immediately called Zeng Yujun.
He rushed to Tianjin by car to stop him, but by the time he arrived, the execution had already been carried out.
Zeng Yujun returned to Beijing the next day and brought a package of documents to Duan Qirui. After reading it, Duan Qirui said: "Damn it, damn it!"
No one knows what this package of files is.
The murder of Lu Jianzhang gave two people a terrible impression at the same time. The first one was of course Xu Shuzheng. He was 3 years old. Gu and Lu Jianzhang's son Lu Chengwu were classmates of the sergeant, and Lu Chengwu's wife and Xu Shuzheng's wife were also classmates.
, the two families have a close relationship, and it is chilling that Xu Shuzheng would commit such a murderous act.
The other one is Feng Yuxiang. After his uncle Lu Jianzhang was killed, he was appointed as the garrison commander of Xiangxi and reinstated as the brigade commander. He was also awarded four honors. Therefore, he never mentioned the Lu case and pretended that it did not happen.
Same.
At this period, Feng Guozhang was no longer able to fight openly or secretly with Duan Qirui. But Duan Qirui's life was not easy either. On the one hand, there was a nationwide anti-Japanese movement and opposition to borrowing money from Japan; on the other hand, there were the Anhui warlords.
Duan deeply felt that the old Beiyang faction had been torn apart and could not be integrated into one situation, so he decided to speed up the establishment of his own direct force. He ordered Xu Shuzheng to first establish three mixed brigades of participating troops at the small station, hoping to achieve reorganization
The purpose of the new army.
Then Zhang Zuoshuang arrived in Tianjin, and then Zhang Huaizhi also arrived in Tianjin. After the two arrived one after another, the Governor's Army held another meeting in Tianjin. This Tianjin meeting had a special feature, Zhang Zuoshuang personally participated in the Governor's Army meeting, and the other participants were: Cao
Ting, Zhang Huaizhi, Xu Shuzheng, Ni Sichong, Tian Zhongyu, etc. The three governors of the Yangtze River have not yet sent representatives to attend.
This Tianjin meeting again discussed the presidential issue and the Southern Expedition. Zhang Zuoshuang agreed to elect Xu Shichang as the next president, and suggested that Duan Qirui be elected vice president. Zhang Zuoshuang was no longer willing to be subordinate to others, and he also had the ambition to become vice president.
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Ni Sichong was afraid that the meeting would cause a deadlock, so he suggested not to make a decision on the vice president for the time being, leaving it to someone who had made special contributions to the war against Yugoslavia.
This suggestion was made by Xu Shuzheng through Ni Sichong, because Xu Shuzheng had already promised Cao Zuo and could not break his promise, but now that Zhang Zuoshuang had entered the pass in person, he wanted to win over Zhang Zuoshuang and encourage Zhang Zuoshuang to transfer all the Feng troops to fight in the south.
On the other hand, they used the vice president as bait to lure Cao Zhen and his direct army to continue fighting against the south in order to restore the deadlock in the south.
When the war against the South was discussed at the Tianjin Conference, there were different opinions on who should go first and who should come last. Since Zhang Zuoshuang appeared as a "thug", the provincial junlangs advocated using Fengjun as the main force in the front to replace the direct troops who stood still on the front.
But of course Zhang Zuoshuang refused to do this. He suggested that Fengjun be used as the general advance force on all fronts to provide support to the front at any time. This was of course opposed by other warlords. This was equivalent to consuming the power of other factions, and then Fengjun
Everyone is not a fool when it comes to receiving the goods, so who would be willing to do this? Therefore, this issue has been put off and everyone is reluctant to accept it.
During the Tianjin Conference, everyone unanimously called for the great unity of the Beiyang faction. First, they asked representatives from all provinces who did not attend the meeting to attend. This refers to the three directly connected Yangtze River provinces, which did not participate in the Tianjin Conference and did not send representatives to attend. So the Tianjin Conference called in the name of all members.
Ask them what their opinions are on the "Southern Expedition Issue"? Ask them to respond quickly. They replied: They have no opinions and are only willing to protect the territory and the people!
Therefore, although Zhang Zuoshuang personally participated in the Tianjin Conference, there was still no result. During this period, the only thing the provincial warlords agreed on was to ask the Beijing government for military pay, and the amount they offered was 15 million yuan.
Of course, war cannot be fought without money, so the Duan Cabinet was busy thinking about money. Cao Rushuang, the Chief of Finance, suggested issuing gold coin coupons 2
400 million yuan, and borrowed 80 million yuan from the Bank of North Korea as one-third of the reserve. The currency represented by gold coin certificates is one-half US dollar. The Currency Bureau was established as the supervisory authority for the issuance of gold coin certificates, and a trading company was set up to operate and issue the gold coin certificates.
and international exchange business. Duan Qirui adopted this suggestion and proposed regulations on the issuance of gold coin coupons, and asked Feng Guozhang to announce them for implementation. But Feng Guozhang once again refused to stamp them.
Western countries have expressed opposition to this measure of the Beijing government. They believe that [China] should first discuss its reform of the currency system with the five-nation banking group and should not act alone. This is against the common interests of the West, so they jointly protest against [China].
At this time, as the European War was coming to an end, the great powers began to pay attention to China again. They were not as relaxed as they were during the emergency period of the European War. Therefore, they could not tolerate various collusions between the Japanese government and Duan Qirui's government, and they still wanted to think through it.
Through a consortium of banks from five countries, China was controlled, which also prevented Japan from having a monopoly on borrowing money from China.
In view of the strong pressure from Western countries, the [Japanese] government did not want to excessively incur the ill will of Western countries, so it recalled Nishihara, the prime minister and representative who stayed in [China], and also did not consider the issue of gold coin loans for the time being.
The collusion between Duan Qirui's government and Japan did not yield any benefits, because the supply of arms only benefited Fengjun. Both Japan's arms were robbed by Fengjun. Although the loan was large, it was far away.
Cannot put out close fires.
Zhang Huaizhi and Ni Sichong both left Tianjin and returned to Tianjin. Only Zhang Zuoshuang remained in Tianjin. By this time, he had become interested in the political arena in Beijing.
A major incident broke out when Zhang Zuoshuang was in Tianjin. He discovered that since Duan Qirui formed the cabinet for the third time on March 25, Xu Shuzheng had received a total of 5.5 million yuan in military expenses from Fengjun, but Fengjun had only received 1
More than 800,000 yuan. He further inquired and found that Xu Shuzheng had used other money to train the war troops and organize the election of the new Congress. It turned out that Xu Shuzheng had used "fake reimbursements."
After Zhang Zuoshuang entered the customs, all he heard in his contacts with various parties was how domineering and rampant Xu Shuzheng was, and how he used Duan Qirui to bully the Beiyang armies. Therefore, he was already dissatisfied with Xu Shuzheng, and now he found out that he was able to manipulate the soldiers.
How could he not be angry that the military expenditures were used for other purposes and defrauded others but himself? Therefore, without waiting for consultation with the Beijing government, he immediately ordered the dismissal of Xu Shuzheng from the post of deputy commander of the Fengjun Army and wanted to settle accounts with Xu Shuzheng.
Duan Qirui heard that Zhang Zuoshuang had fallen out, and for fear of causing other troubles, he quickly asked Xu Shuzheng to see Zhang Zuoshuang to apologize and admit to returning the money in a short period of time.
After this matter was settled, Duan Qirui quickly began to organize the election of the new Congress.
The election of the new Congress During the Civil War, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Jin were controlled by Wang Hengyue.
The five provinces of Sichuan were firmly opposed, and the elections in Hunan, Hubei, and Shaanxi provinces were also unable to be normal due to war. Only the Fourteenth Province was actually able to hold elections. The election results gave the Anfu clique a complete victory, winning 33
0 seats, the old transportation department received 120 seats, and the research department only received more than 20 seats.
After the new members were elected, they were required to report to Beijing before August 1, 2007, in accordance with the convening order. On August 12, the Senate was dissolved and a new Congress was established. Because it was run by the Anfu Clan, the new Congress was also called the "Anfu Congress."
On August 20, the House of Representatives elected Wang Yitang, leader of the Anfu faction, as speaker and Liu Enge as deputy speaker. On August 22, the Senate elected Liang Shizhao, leader of the old transportation faction, as speaker and Zhu Qiling as deputy speaker.
The deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Liu Enge, has no official name. It turns out that he is a member of the Fengtian family. Zhang Zuoshuang supports him, so he must be elected as the deputy speaker.
After the Anfu Congress was established, Duan Qirui and Wang Hengyue learned a trick, which was to "legally defeat Feng"
Now that the time has come, he first offered to step down to force Feng Guozhang to fulfill his promise to retire at the same time. However, after he stepped down, the newly elected president was controlled by Duan Qirui, and Duan Qirui still retained the post of war supervisor, so Duan Qirui
Stepping down is still on stage, but when Feng Guozhang steps down, he really steps down. The struggle between Feng and Duan failed after the Anfu Congress was convened.
Duan Qirui decided to re-elect the president at all costs, but the South disagreed.
In 1918 AD, on August 31, the seventh year of the Republic of China, the Generalissimo of the Guangzhou Protectorate Military Government,
Wang Hengyue, commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army, issued a declaration to the whole country: The military government will continue to convene law-protection meetings and conduct presidential elections at an appropriate time! All foreign treaties and laws promulgated by the Beijing government will be considered invalid.
The declaration from Guangzhou led members of the political science department to further advocate the election of Feng Guozhang as president.
On September 2, Guang Wang Hengyue once again issued a declaration denying that the Anfu Congress had the right to elect the president. If the president was elected, Southwest would never recognize it.
Since Duan Clan was determined to hold an election, in order to avoid any accident, he summoned the First Brigade of the Fengjun Army and marched to Nanyuan.
Zhang Zuoshuang petitioned the Beijing government to restore Zhang Xun's "freedom", and Kang Youwei arrived in Beijing again. As a result, people inside and outside Beijing were panicked, thinking that a second restoration was about to happen!!