The so-called "second revolution" failed in less than two months due to the huge power gap, especially the disparity of the Kuomintang itself, and the lack of public support. As a result, the anti-Yuan forces in the country quickly collapsed. Due to the lack of political supervision and military restraint, Yuan Shikai became more confident and determined to implement his centralization. In military terms, he quickly advanced his Beiyang army from north of the Yangtze River before and after the Second Revolution to south of the Yangtze River, and took advantage of the "legal power of the central government" to continuously eliminate the power of the southern governors who were not in the Beiyang clique. Soon, except for the southwest region, the Beiyang forces were spread all over the country.

In order to further complete the centralization, Yuan Shikai wanted to abolish the provinces and preserve the road, so that the road became directly related to the central government. The initial implementation of this plan was to abolish the civil affairs ministers of each province on May 23, 2018, and to change the provincial government to the inspectors, and to change the provincial government to the Daoyin. Although the inspectors actually replaced the original civil affairs ministers, they were not administrative officials, but supervisors in terms of title. Especially when appointing, the central government clearly ordered the power to supervise finance and supervise the judiciary. After this system was implemented for a long time, it was possible to gradually abolish the provincial governments and preserve the road.

Another measure of centralization is to abolish the civil affairs chief system, and also to abolish the system of governors of each province. Whether the central and local generals, they are granted generals or generals. Those who are in the central government have the character "Wei", those who are in the local government have the character "Wu", and those who are in the east have the character "Zhen'an", and those who are in the east have the character "Zhen'an", and those who are in the left and right are divided into generals. The character "Wei" is in the character "Zhen'an", and the character "Zhaowei" is in the character "Zhuwei". The character "Zhuwei" is in the character "Zhuwei" of the local generals, and the character "Zhuwei" is also in the name of the place names of the important military places of the provinces, such as

The official position of Shanxi General Yan Duoshishan was changed to "General Tongwu Supervisor Shanxi Military Affairs". The Shandong Governor was changed to "General Taiwu Supervisor Shandong Military Affairs", and the same was true for other provinces. The same character of the Tongwu General Shanxi was taken by the same character as Datong, an important town in Shanxi. The Tai Wu General Shandong was taken by the Tai character of Tai'an, a major town in Shandong. Why didn't Shanxi take the name of Taiyuan and Shandong take the name of Jinan? The difference of this character is very profound, that is, in the future, the general Shanxi will move to Datong, and the general Shandong will move to Tai'an, and implement the division of military and political power with the division of military and political power.

At the same time, Beijing specially established a general's office as the base camp of military generals. In name, the main duties of generals in each province are also in the General's Office. Supervising military affairs in a certain province is only a part-time job. In the order of Yuan Shikai on June 30, the third year of the Republic of China, it was said that "if you leave, you will be sent, and if you enter, you will be stationed, you will be stationed." The reason why he changed this system was to gradually take the general's power to the central government.

It can be said that under Yuan Shikai's authority, except for the southwestern provinces of Guangxi and Hunan, almost all of China are controlled by Yuan Shikai. Although this control does not mean mastery, at least to a certain extent, Yuan Shikai realized his centralization. In order to deal with the Kuomintang, he abolished the parliament and the four levels of the province, city, county and township, and gave the Kuomintang a heavy blow to the "politics-based" Kuomintang. Thus strengthening the centralization. At the end of the third year of the Republic of China, it signed a decree to reopen the parliament and parliament at all levels, but this was to seize the power of local generals. No one in China would doubt Yuan Shikai's power skills. For Yuan Shikai, who is proficient in power skills, he always had a way to solve the local power faction and achieve the goal of collecting power to the central government.

But now, some people see power schemes in the State Council that are not inferior to Yuan Shikai. A simple "bandit suppression order" forced the generals of all provinces in China to a corner that had to make decisions, and the worst thing is that the provinces had no choice at all.

"High-minded?"

In Juren Hall, Yuan Shikai looked at Tang Xingming's electricity, and thought about the comments on Tang Xingming in the newspaper. The corners of his lips raised slightly, and a hint of mocking appeared on his face.

Regarding Tang Xingming, Yuan Shikai never regarded him as his confidant. This person had known too many masters. He had been in charge of too many people, and he was also the vice president Li Yuanhong, but how could Li Yuanhong control him? Now, Tang Xingming's power-up clearly told Yuan Shikai a fact that even Li Yuanhong could not control this medicine.-(

As for the act of the General Tang Xingming's promise to be called a noble character, in Yuan Shikai's view, this was Tang Xingming's helpless decision. If he had other choices, he would never have done so.

Does Tang Xingming have any other choice?

Thinking about the problems faced by generals from various provinces, Yuan Shikai's mind appeared in his mind: "Power people with power!"

Since he became the Prime Minister, he has been "building momentum" and constantly "building momentum" to achieve his own goals. Unlike Yuan Shikai's use of power and strategy, Li Zicheng also acted, but his strategy was mostly under the banner of serving the country and the people, and it was obvious at a glance that his actions had no selfishness, which was definitely a move for the country and the people.

This is true for tariffs, salt taxes, tax sharing, and Lijin, and the "bandit suppression" is still the same, but it seems simple "for the country and the people", but it is moved according to the situation and is launched with the trend. It is impossible to implement it. It is much more wiser than Yuan's power schemes, and it is more difficult to implement and is also more difficult to fight.

What's even more terrible is that Li Zicheng's power schemes are almost transparent, so its power schemes have no flaws. He just needs to grasp the direction. It can be said that it is taking advantage of the momentum to promote all inevitable development to achieve its goals. Just like a flood breaks a dam, everyone knows that people will die, but those who stand in front of it still have to die, and they can't even leave.

Thoughts on the local generals who had originally intended to slowly clean up the country, Yuan Shikai sympathized with them. Now those people have no choice. Li Zicheng is in the name of righteousness. He now uses the Lincheng carjacking case to suppress bandits within a specified period of time. Although he knows that suppressing bandits is false and seizing power is real, the local people can't help but watch it. Because if they do what they do, they can only die faster, but if they don't do it, it will only last half a year. Even if they resist, they will not get support from the local people. The people's hearts are on the side of the State Council, so they can only be controlled by others.

Tang Xiangming obviously understood this point. This choice of "fighting when it should be, and letting go when it should be" became a "local general's noble character", and brought himself to the position of a hero. The rest would probably be waiting for the treacherous ministers and the great treacherous ministers who destroyed the Republic of China. At that time, Li Zicheng would not need to speak. In order to maintain national order, Yuan Shikai would probably have to raise troops to attack the "treacherous minister".

But is the biggest beneficiary of this incident Yuan Shikai?

no!

This matter is simply that the State Council uses the power of Yuan, to act in the local area and to exercise its power. Thus, to establish the prestige of the State Council! In addition to those local generals, Yuan Shikai is the second biggest loser, because since then, the State Council has established the central authority across the country, rather than using Yuan Shikai's power to fool people.

When he sat opposite his father, Yuan Keding understood everything from his father's low mood. He spoke before his father asked.

"Uncle, you don't have to worry about what's happening right now. As I think, if the matter is resolved, Pepsi will be settled."

Thinking that the State Council would establish prestige from it, Yuan Shikai felt confused. He wanted to talk about what his son had come to, but he was so confused that he forgot about it. Now, his son seemed to know and brought it up first. But the words were vague. He glared at Yuan Keding and then said.

"What's the matter solved? Pepsi has settled?"

"It's still the old saying. If you have strong till weak branches, you will be afraid of anything as long as you catch the army."

Yuan Shikai turned his back and said nothing. He knew that when his son came back from Germany in his early years, German Emperor William II repeated what he had said to the regent of the Qing Dynasty to Yuan Keding, hoping that the Yuan father and son would also capture an army that could control the fate of China and was equivalent to the "trunk". In that way, he would not be afraid of the scattered troops with branches and leaves causing trouble.

Yuan Keding gave his father two specific opinions, one was to welcome Wang Shizhen to Beijing. He was the one who presided over the army on behalf of Duan, and the other was to set up an office in the Presidential Palace, which was the highest military institution in the country and was controlled by the President. Yuan Shikai accepted them one by one, and then began to recruit local governments by establishing the General Palace to achieve the goal of re-establishing the authority of the central government and slowly regaining local power.

Now, seeing that my father was in a little confused, combined with the performance of the State Council in the past few days, Yuan Keding immediately expressed his views.

Yuan Shikai was silent for a long time and said:

"Although the army is easy to capture, by next year, there will be about 200,000 to 300,000. This is the most powerful army in China, but... you have also seen those people, that one is not staring at the army in the war!"

In order to seize military power, Yuan Shikai did too many articles on the issue of the army, but those articles were not necessarily useful. Just like now, those who participated in the war and did not participate in the war, Lao Duan stared at the war army, and the local government also stared at the war army. Although the State Council did not stare, if Li Zicheng had no other ideas, no one would believe that he would have no idea about the Expeditionary Force Headquarters at the same time?

Duan Qirui wanted to win the position of commander of the Expeditionary Force for Xu Shuzheng, and Xu Shuzheng was determined to win, but the local government was watching the central government's transfer of troops from the local government, whether it was for the country or for personal gain, and whether it was just to treat everyone as cannon fodder. Therefore, there were people from the local government to calm their hearts at the headquarters. As for Li Zhiyuan, he did not make any statement, but the headquarters must leave a place for Jiangsu.

As a result, this matter became complicated. He wanted to turn the private army into a "national army" in the name of participating in the war, of course, to be loyal to him, Yuan Shikai's national army. If these people were allowed to intervene, the participating army might have changed its flavor. By then, he would have been a wedding dress for others.

"well!"

Sighing first, Yuan Shikai continued:

"Most of the old people in the small station are in a state of depression. Feng Huafu got up at 12 o'clock every day, and Duan Zhiquan always did not care about the affairs of the ministry! As for the others, they all had strange intentions and wanted to turn public into private affairs and acted as warlords to harm the country. How could such a decent person have great use? Li Zhiyuan, seeing that his heart is dedicated to public and using what the world said, was Zeng Guofan of the Republic of China, and what he did was based on Zeng's way - only the world's sincerity can defeat the world and the world's clumsy can defeat the world's best!"

As he said it, Yuan Shikai still had a little ridicule on his face. This is the newspaper’s evaluation of Li Zicheng. In the newspaper’s statement, Li Zicheng was the mainstay of the rejuvenation of the Republic of China!

At the beginning, in order to welcome Li Zicheng to Beijing, he specially arranged dozens of stunning women in the welcoming hotel, including many of them, including Mongolian and Manchuria to dig up mixed-race beauties. All of them were both beautiful and skillful. They originally wanted to trap them in the land of gentleness, but in the end, those women were sent away by Li Zicheng and they didn't even touch them.

After learning the news, Yuan Shikai was so surprised that he didn't come back to his senses for a long time. If he hadn't known that he had brought a few maids from Lianyungang, he was afraid that Yuan Shikai would be really sick for him, and in the end he thought about Li Zhiyuan's restraint on **, he would have only aroused a sense of admiration. People in this world who have no desires and no desires must be people with great ambitions.

"But no matter what, these people have selfish intentions! Feng, Duan, and Li Zhiyuan is the same..."

After a moment of silence, Yuan Shikai spit out a name.

"Cai Songpo..."

When my father pondered, Yuan Keding immediately understood that his father wanted to use Cai E, but he felt that Cai E was not his own and could not rest assured of him. Cai E arrived in Beijing, but he did not have real power to give him.

Yuan Keding knew his father as well as his father. He knew that he always dreamed of power, especially military power; he dreamed of losing power, especially military power. During the transition from the interim president to the official president, Yuan Shikai established a model regiment with himself as the leader of the regiment, imitated the Qing Dynasty. On the one hand, this regiment used second and third-rate figures in the Beiyang faction to preside over the work, and on the other hand, he selected the middle and lower-level officers who were most loyal to him as soldiers, so as to gradually expand from this regiment to establish a Yuan family army beyond the Beiyang faction.

For this model regiment, Yuan Shikai was the leader of the regiment in the first phase, and Jiang Fangzhen was the leader of the second phase. The reason for appointing Jiang Fangzhen as the leader was that in Jiang Fangzhen's view, establishing national defense is the most important thing, and there is no intention to take the opportunity to establish a private army, and Cai Songpo was the same.

However, if they were asked to train troops, if they wanted them to take charge of the troops... the uncle was still worried! Dad was worried, and Yuan Keding was also worried!

"We still have to run the model group well."

However, Yuan Keding said something profound:

"Uncle, if you have done the model regiment well, even if the senior officers have a strange intention, middle and lower-level officers and soldiers may not follow them. As long as they remember the country in their hearts, they will not follow others!"

What his son said made Yuan Shikai nod. This was the reason why he set up a model regiment. When he set up a model regiment, he no longer taught those officers such as "eating the food of a commander" like in the past, but "the country raises soldiers". What is a country? As long as Yuan Shikai is the president, then Yuan Shikai is the country! They are loyal to the country, they are loyal to him Yuan Shikai! Then they changed the topic.

"Remember, I won't talk about anything else. I just want to ask you one thing and give me your opinion."

"uncle."

Yuan Keding said,

"What's the matter?"

"Zhiquan is so sad."

At this time, Yuan Shikai finally understood his thoughts.

"As soon as the expeditionary army was formed, he instructed the Army Department to issue a report, demanding that the military pay increase for the expeditionary army officers and soldiers be raised. Isn't this a bribery!"

"Didn't the uncle reject him?"

Yuan Keding said.

"I heard you criticized twelve words: The National Bureau is like this, and there is a little bit of heart, so I can't think of it! It's so strict!"

Yuan Shikai sighed,

"Oh... things happen one after another. As long as Xu Youzheng is around him, this chaos always comes to him."

"Uncle, what if Xu Youzheng wasn't sent to France?"

Yuan Keding said that and came up with an idea.

"This is not what they wish!"

Yuan Shikai snorted, then put his face on his face again:

"The reason why Zhiquan handed over that report was probably because of Xu Youzheng's instruction. If I wanted to remove Xu Youzheng's position, he would probably threaten him with resignation. If he wanted them to separate, he would probably have to dispatch Europe one way!"

"What's wrong? Uncle, isn't it just right to transfer him to Europe?"

When he looked at his son, Yuan Shikai couldn't help but feel a little annoyed when he saw that his son hadn't figured out that link.

"If that were the case, wouldn't this expeditionary force be controlled by Xu Youzheng!"

When Yuan Keding heard this, he immediately understood what his father meant. It seemed that the candidate for the commander was really hard to choose. It was not appropriate to choose anyone. Xu Youzheng was determined to win the position of commander. After all, the first batch of expeditionary forces were mainly the First Army, and Li Zhiyuan also had similar requirements. Perhaps they did not seek the position of "commander", but within the command, they must have a say. Otherwise, the local government would also be watching this matter. If they wanted them to send troops, they could not see that they were using them as cannon fodder. However, no one of the father could feel at ease with these people.

Indeed, one of these people was a worry-free person. After Yuan Keding, who had no idea, understood what his father meant, he naturally couldn't say anything.

Yuan Shikai didn't say anything, but was silent. For a moment, the study room in Jurentang suddenly fell into silence. Yuan Shikai held a teacup and drank tea, but looked absent-minded. He knew that now, just wait for Li Zhiyuan to sort out the "bandit suppression" matter, and the expeditionary army was going to be dispatched there, and before dispatching, the matter of choosing a lieutenant must be resolved! Otherwise, if it is dragged on, there will definitely be chaos.

After a long silence, Yuan Shikai, who really had no suitable candidate, finally gave up a name. The "General Zhaowei" he invited back from the southwest, after thinking about it, perhaps only he could barely be considered a suitable candidate.

"What if Cai Songpo is the commander of this expeditionary army?" To be continued...


Chapter completed!