Chapter 367 Yuan Shikai’s compromise (please give me a monthly vote!)

"How to fight for power as much as possible!"

Sitting on the hospital bed, this question flew towards the north as my thoughts came to an unavoidable point.

If a country has two positions as president and prime minister at the same time, then one of these two positions will inevitably be false. In a presidential country, the prime minister is false, and in a cabinet country, the president is false.

But what about in China?

As strong as Yuan Shikai, how could he be willing to be a false president?

So what about yourself? How could you be willing to be a deaf ear!

The current "Constitution" confirms from a legal perspective that China is a country that implements the presidential republic. This means that unless you want to try big moves, it is impossible to change this reality. Moreover, any attempt to change now may lead to a civil war. Any form of civil war will make China miss the precious development opportunity of World War I. If you cannot seize this opportunity, China will miss the last opportunity to be a powerful country in history.

And now according to Yuan Shikai's idea, at least before Yuan Shikai's death, he could only accept Yuan Shikai's power division of "Two One Add to Five", that is, the State Council controls five ministries, and then carry out his own work in these five ministries.

Thinking of the five divisions that Yuan Shikai was going to hand over to him as shown in the information, and two of them would be used as bargaining chips for "discussing bargaining", Li Zicheng shook his head helplessly.

“The power is too small!”

If I directly accept Yuan Shikai's suggestion, I would be just a trap. At that time, it would be "the government orders do not leave the welcome hotel". No, it should be "the government orders do not leave the State Council."

Among the five departments, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and the Ministry of Transport, the most powerful is the Ministry of Internal Affairs, responsible for the national civil governance, police, positions, and performance assessment (appointment of local officials, rewards and punishments, chieftain inheritance, etc.). This department was indeed beyond Li Zicheng's expectations when it fell into his own hands. Even according to the initial plan, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was a must-fight for.

The reason is very simple. Yuan Shikai could not hand over any of the Army and Navy Departments. This means that if Li Zicheng wants to have his own force, he can only use his brain outside the Army and Navy Departments. The Ministry of Internal Affairs responsible for police in the country is one of the few departments that can "legally" have armed forces.

As for the other four departments, they are only necessary departments to "promote industry and build a country". Although the Ministry of Transport controls the national ports and railways are barely considered as a power organ, and a "fair advantage and disadvantage", for itself, the need is not money or a fat reward to reward its meritorious subordinates.

Li Zicheng knew clearly what he needed, and what he needed was a power organ that could "promote himself". Those power organs cooperated with each other and could directly influence the country and influence the Presidential Office. Now, these five departments, except for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and the Ministry of Transport, are not what they need at all.

It is precisely because of this that I am using this dangerous chess game, forcing Yuan Shikai to make concessions in a case of assassination, and thus obtaining the power organs he needs. Among these organs, the most important one is the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Finance is undoubtedly the most important organ. Finance is the mother of all politics. Why can Longhai have various privileges? The root cause is that the central government's financial difficulties have caused him to exchange a huge sum of money for the privileges along the Longhai Railway.

As for the Department of Justice, in this era, the Department of Justice had little power, but in later generations, the US Department of Justice was one of the most powerful organs in the United States. Not to mention the others, it was just the powerful organs of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Tobacco, Alcohol, and the Anesthesia Control Bureau. The Department of Justice could form several powerful organs in accordance with the law, which was exactly the department that Li Zicheng needed.

With the Ministry of Internal Affairs, institutions such as the Interior Forces or armed police can be established for various reasons. With the Ministry of Finance, financial support for establishing these agencies and armed forces. As for the Ministry of Justice, it is a prerequisite for establishing a central intelligence agency like the FBI.

Now, only the Ministry of Internal Affairs was classified as himself by Yuan Shikai, and the Minister of Justice was appointed by someone close to Lian Yun. This is acceptable, but Yuan Shikai did not hand over the most important Ministry of Finance. Without the Ministry of Finance, he would have lost the job of maintaining a basic balance. Without the support of the Ministry of Finance, he would not be able to obtain enough funds to establish the "Second Army". There was also no funding to establish intelligence agencies such as the FBI. It was obviously not realistic to rely solely on companies and railways to provide funds. There was only one way to solve the problem, which was to obtain the Ministry of Finance. But will Yuan Shikai hand over the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Justice because he was shot so few times?

"Liang Zhuoru, I'm going to point at you this time!"

At 2 p.m., Yuan Shikai got up on time after taking a nap, then picked up the vine cane with a trolley and went down from the second floor to the office on the first floor. Along the way, the cane was on the floor and made a "tick" sound. The people downstairs knew that the president had gone downstairs, and they all stood with their breath. When they went down to the last stairs, he said "oh" as if he was coughing. This was his habit, and he was trying to tell everyone that he was going to enter the office.

Xia Shoutian hurried over and opened the office door. Instead of entering the door immediately as usual, he asked:

"Has Zhuo Rugata come?"

Liang Qichao would take the initiative to visit him, which was beyond his expectations, but he was still quite grateful to Liang Qichao. Since the "Zhang Yuan Case", he has been thinking about how to defend the world. However, Liang Qichao's electricity yesterday made him feel relieved. Now a heavyweight figure has finally spoken for him Yuan Shikai.

What's even more rare is that in Liang Qichao's power-up article, he analyzed the reasons for Yuan killing Li one by one, and finally pushed it down one by one, and then analyzed the reasons for the rebels killing Li one by one, and finally confirmed it one by one. In Yuan Shikai's opinion, this is probably the most exciting article he has read in his life.

It is also because of this that for many days, it was not until yesterday that he had a safe and sound sleep.

"He has already been waiting in the reception room."

Xia Shouda answered respectfully.

Yuan Shikai turned around and walked towards the reception room.

"Grand President!"

When Yuan Shikai's short and erect body appeared at the door, Liang Qichao immediately stood up to greet him.

"Mr. Zhuo Ru, you are here, sit down quickly, sit down!"

After Yuan Shikai called Liang Qichao to sit down, he also sat down on the sofa opposite him. As soon as he sat down, Yuan Shikai ordered the eunuch.

"Take tea!"

"Zhuo Ru! That is, you know me Yuan Shikai!"

After sighing, Yuan Shikai looked at Liang Qichao. The look of honesty was removed from his eyes, but he was more grateful. Obviously, at this time, anyone who could stand up and speak for him and argue for the unjust injustice was grateful.

Liang Qichao did not receive any merits, but just responded to the question.

"What the President said was surprised, Liang just revealed the facts!"

"Zhuo Ru, I have received a lot of people in my life, but this time I am unwilling to accept it, but I am not willing to accept it..."

Nodding his head, Yuan Shikai felt involuntarily. He glanced out the window and said again.

"I am unwilling to accept it for our China. Now China is showing its initial prosperity. If it is caused by this, it will be a blessing for China? How can we be worthy of our ancestors!"

Listening to Yuan Shikai's feelings, Yang Du was familiar with Yuan Shikai's style of talking in a straightforward manner that he did not say much politely and always went straight to the point. So he followed his words and immediately turned to the topic.

"President, Qi Chao came to see the President today for another thing."

"oh?"

Yuan Shikai was slightly stunned. Another thing? What's the matter?

"What's the matter? As long as Zhuo Ru's business is yours, I will try my best to do it."

Liang Qichaoyue shook his head and said.

"President, I am not for a private matter, but for a state matter! Qi Chao would like to ask the President why Li Zhiyuan was injured for six days, the President has not sent anyone to comfort him to lenient the hearts of the people!"

"this……"

Yuan Shikai was slightly stunned and couldn't answer directly for a moment. He had thought about who to send, but he asked several people, and they all had reasons to tell the reason why they were not suitable for going there. In short, no one was willing to traw in this pool to mix water. However, Liang Qichao's words aroused his great interest. He knew that if someone like Liang Qichao had not made a decision, he would definitely not come to him on his own initiative.

"Is there any good candidate for Zhuo Ru?"

"President, I heard that the power and responsibilities of the government have been divided!"

Although he knew that Yuan Shikai was somewhat wary of him, Liang Qichao took the initiative to talk about something.

"Yeah, there is a draft!"

Yuan Shikai did not hide this. In fact, he deliberately showed his wind to show that he would never kill Li because of his "greed for power."

"The ten ministries under the central government are divided into 55% of the government offices, which shows the president's intentions. But has the president ever thought that military power and financial difficulties are under the jurisdiction of the presidential office, and how could Li Zhiyuan be willing to come to Beijing?"

When Liang Qichao said that, Yuan Shikai used to touch his beard, but after Liang Qichao said this, Yuan Shikai's heart skipped a beat, and he was thinking: What is Liang Qichao thinking? Is he trying to be a lobbyist for Li Zicheng? No, with Liang Qichao's character, he would never be able to be a lobbyist for Li Zicheng, and there is no need to be a lobbyist for Li Zicheng. If he acts as a lobbyist for Li Zicheng, he would not have published that article before.

"Military power, financial power is a weapon for the country, and China is the president-general country, how can it be given to others easily!"

Yuan Shikai beat Liang Qichao to death with merciless words, but who expected that Liang Qichao smiled and said.

"Where the military power is located, it will be promoted; wherever the military power is gone, it will be destroyed!"

One sentence made Yuan Shikai stunned. He looked at Liang Qichao in surprise, but saw that Liang Qichao had a smile on his face, as if he was just talking casually. Although he was surprised that Liang Qichao would say so bluntly, Yuan Shikai had a deep understanding of this sentence. At the time of the Qing Dynasty, the reason why he stepped down was because Zhangde was able to exercise, and the power of the Beiyang army made the court fearful, so he was forced to step down. Later, the woman he feared most in his life - the death of the Old Buddha. Later, Wuchang Xingyi, facing those tender royal party who could make water, first relied on the Beiyang army, he regained the Beiyang military power. After taking control of the military power, he forced the young emperor to abdicate. It can be said that in this generation, his official path was actually the military path, which was achieved through military power, prospered through military power, and now...

"The wealth can be the mother of soldiers. If there is no wealth, there will be no soldiers!"

Although he knew that Liang Qichao was talking about the facts, without military power or financial power, Li Zicheng would definitely not want to come to Beijing, and now the Li Zhi case is just an excuse to give him.

"If you have money, you don't have soldiers, but if you don't have soldiers, you won't be able to protect your wealth!"

At this time, Liang Qichao seemed to have disappeared from the appearance of the "constitutional expert". He only looked like a traitorous politician, but what he said was quite useful to Yuan Shikai.

If you have money, there is not necessarily a soldier. This soldier refers to military power. How likely is it for a person who has no military power to protect his financial power?

If this is the case, Yuan Shikai, who was thinking about it with his hand, savored it carefully and found that both Min Er and now, he had ignored one thing, that is, he had forgotten how he got the power from the Qing Dynasty, and only thought about taking over the power alone, but he did not expect that there was a key in this power.

Military and wealth seem to complement each other, but in fact, if there is no guarantee of military power, then financial power is not the right to collect it as soon as you want to! Why did the royal families rely on themselves at the beginning? It was not because the Beiyang Army listened to them, and why the young emperor abdicated later? It was not because he had military power in his hands, as long as the military power was in hand...

But Li Zicheng also has military power... But when he thought about it, those soldiers were sent to Europe, he suddenly felt relieved. According to the situation of war in Europe for a few years, not to mention soldiers, even officials have changed a few times. If the central government will supplement it, let alone Li Zicheng's troops, or other troops, they will not become national troops in the end, well! The country's troops are naturally Yuan Shikai's troops, and Yuan Shikai is the president of the Republic of China!

"The way of constitutionalism lies in checks and balances. Without checks and balances of power, there is worry about abuse of power. Using troops to control wealth and wealth to control troops. This is the way to balance the government and the court. If there is no balance in the government and court, there will be no balance in China!"

While Yuan Shikai was thinking, Liang Qichao suddenly said something that matched his identity as an old constitutional expert.

"This can be said to be the separation of powers with Chinese characteristics!"

"Zhuo Ru! You are just waking up the dreamer with just one word!"

At this moment, Yuan Shikai finally understood what Liang Qichao meant. His meaning was for his constitutionalism. What he thought about was nothing more than checks and balances of power in constitutionalism. However, Liang Qichao understood that in this power, absolute balance does not exist, at least the surface balance can be sought.

If it were the past, Yuan Shikai would never agree with Liang Qichao's point of view. Now, in Yuan Shikai's view, the most important thing is to bring Li Zicheng to the capital and take it as the Prime Minister. The appropriate power sacrifice is tolerated. As for the others, it is better to adjust it slowly in the future.

"The five key departments of diplomacy, justice, finance, army and navy belong to the Presidential Office, while the five ministries of education, internal affairs, agriculture, forestry, industry and commerce, and transportation are under the jurisdiction of the State Council. On the surface, it seems fair, but in fact there is no way to check and balance the power. Wouldn't this be decent as the first Asian Republic? Well!"

Yuan Shikai seemed to have a sudden realization and showed a bit of a grand duke.

"The state power of this republic requires checks and balances. The State Council uses financial power to check and balance the Presidential Office, so that the Presidential Office cannot be unscrupulous. The Presidential Office uses military power to check and balance the State Council, so that the State Council will not be domineering. Well, Zhuoru, you are really our first-class constitutional expert in the world! This statement has become a world of China for thousands of years!"

"I dare not dare to stabilize China's current situation for thousands of years, but it will be helpful!"

Then Liang Qichao continued.

"In fact, the power and responsibilities of the government do not need to be too rigid. For example, diplomacy, the Presidential Office is responsible for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but the State Council has no foreign affairs?"

"this……"

After pondering, Yuan Shikai also knew that what Liang Qichao was talking about was the fact, but if there was no division of power and responsibility, the future political situation in the capital would be... Thinking of this, Yuan Shikai looked up at Liang Qichao and waited for his next sentence. Sure enough, Liang Qichao did not disappoint him, and he continued to speak.

"Such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, such departments can be under the jurisdiction of the Presidential Office and under the jurisdiction of the State Council. If necessary, the Presidential Office can be reclaimed at any time..."

His words only made Yuan Shikai feel like a fishing net, the tighter the surround, and the tighter it became. He seemed to realize that if he continued to divide it like this, he was afraid that his power would be continuously decentralized, and in the end he would become a decoration.

"No, no, diplomatic matters are very important and should not be taken lightly. Well, the State Council can establish a foreign secretary to handle domestic foreign affairs and cooperate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to carry out work!"

When Yuan Shikai said these words, he did not even realize that to some extent, he simply agreed with Liang Qichao's suggestions and the diplomatic authority of the State Council.
To be continued...