Years of the Republic of China 1913

The formal convening of the National Congress was a major event in the Republic of China, and it was also a triumphant step for Song Jiaoren towards constitutionalism.Yuan Shikai's personal attendance and inspiring speech at the opening ceremony made all the people who are fighting for the constitutional government see the hope of real democracy and gave them great encouragement and encouragement.

All this is beautiful, but the reality is also helpless.Constitutionalism, democracy, Congress... Although these new terms are widely known today, there are very few people who can really explain what they are. Not to mention ordinary citizens, even some members of Congress have not figured it out themselves, and even some Human beings are basically able to understand nine of the ten orifices, and the remaining one is not clear.In some people's eyes, it seems that after the establishment of the Congress and the election of members, it is time to form cliques and fight for power. As for those fashionable words, they are just beautiful clothes worn on the body. tool to achieve the goal.

After the joy, you will face the reality that the next election will be more difficult than expected.During the entire congress period, the venue was as lively as a vegetable market all day long. More than 800 members of Congress did not agree with each other. Fists facing each other, wrestling together, sweeping the floor gracefully, it has become the Arhat Hall of Shaolin Temple. It is really worthy of the term that the outside world jokingly calls members of Congress eight hundred arhats.Once even Fang Zida, who was helping to maintain order, was almost beaten. Fortunately, he was quick to dodge in time, but the happy old man standing behind him, who was spitting and yelling at others, suffered disaster immediately. Just being hit by this flying hidden weapon made his eyes stare, and even the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose flew to nowhere...

In this way, under the unremitting coordination of Noisy and Song Jiaoren and others, the congress meeting progressed little by little amidst the daily beatings and scolding, and finally elected the chairman of the whole house of Congress and Speaker of both houses.

Because of the changes in history, Song Jiaoren, who has great political prestige, is still the chairman of KMT, and he personally presided over the congress.During the election, KMT competed fiercely with the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, and the Gael Party...these parties competed fiercely.In the end, the chairperson of the whole house of Congress was appointed by KMT member and respected Lin Sen. In the election of the Senate, KMT senators Zhang Ji and Wang Zhengting were also elected as the chairman and deputy speaker respectively. The speaker is KMT member Wu Jinglian.Except for the temporary gains of the Democratic Party, the rest of the parties gained nothing, and the kmt led by Song Jiaoren won a huge political victory.

According to the normal procedure, the next step is to elect the official president, elect the cabinet, and then Song Jiaoren, who is well-received by everyone, will be appointed as the prime minister.But no one thought that at this moment, someone suddenly revealed the large government loan, which caused an uproar in the country for a while, and the members of Congress were even more uproarious, and they couldn't care about anything all of a sudden. , and focused all his attention on the big loan.

"This is an act of treason! It must not be done!" Zhang Ji, the chairman of the Senate, was so angry that he slapped the table and cursed loudly. Although Wang Zhengting, the deputy speaker, was not as rude as Zhang Ji, he said more seriously than Zhang Ji: "The big borrowing is not enough. To sign upon the approval of the National Assembly is undoubtedly to treat the National Assembly as nothing, which is absurd! It is unreasonable! Yuan Shikai must be held accountable for his illegal borrowing and contempt of the legislature!" Wu Jinglian, the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, also shook his head again and again, expressing his desire to boycott the loan.

"Mr. Lin, Brother Puquan, Brother Ru, Brother Lian, sit down and have a cup of tea to calm down..." Song Jiaoren greeted them with a wry smile. Ren, Tang Shaoyi, including Fang Zida and others hurried forward to persuade them to discuss things carefully, and there is no need to get angry and hurt themselves.

"When is this still drinking tea? Don't drink it!" Zhang Ji yelled that he was very angry, but for Song Jiaoren's sake, he sat down angrily.

"Dun Chu, Zhong Kai... I came here today just to borrow money. Such a big incident happened at the beginning of the National Congress. Yuan Shikai's move is a serious illegal act! Our duty is not to be left alone, for the future of the country, to safeguard the country We must immediately express our attitude and boycott borrowing!" Wang Zhengting, who was a law student, spoke in a clear and orderly manner, and when he came up, he put the big hat of breaking the law on Yuan Shikai first.

Song Jiaoren groaned in his heart, and secretly exchanged glances with Liao Zhongkai, Tang Shaoyi, and Fang Zida.He and Fang Zida knew about the big loan a long time ago, and the other two didn't hide it afterwards, and discussed it in private.As for Wu Zhonghua, Yu Youren and the others, Song Jiaoren thought over and over again that they were worried that their bookish anger would spoil the country's affairs, so they kept it a secret, but now that this matter was exposed, Song Jiaoren could no longer stand on the sidelines.

"My lords, the president may have his own reasons for this matter. The affairs of the country are not as simple as selling out interests. How about we ask the president first and listen to his explanation before drawing conclusions?" After thinking for a while, Song Jiaoren persuaded again: "Besides, the signing of the loan was signed before the Congress. From this point of view, the President did not violate the law, nor can he be contemptuous of the legislature..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhang Ji became impatient and waved his hands and said, "Dun Chu, this is a matter of great right and wrong. How can you speak for Yuan Shikai like this? You still keep calling him the president? Pooh!" Is he still worthy to be the great president?"

"Yeah! Brother Dunchu, this is not like your old style! What? Are you worried that if you offend Yuan Xiangcheng, you won't be able to become the Prime Minister? Now our party has enough control over both houses of Congress, let alone a mere Prime Minister, even Yuan Xiangcheng, the great president, if we say let him be the president, and let him go, he has to go away!" Although Wu Jinglian was born as a scholar, he had organized regiment training, and during the Revolution of [-], he also organized the New Army riots. He looked a bit like a soldier. Song Jiaoren.

Influenced by them, Yu Youren and others also persuaded Song Youren, hoping that he could lead everyone to oppose the big loan and lodge a strong protest to Yuan Shikai.

"Dunchu, I have already drafted the telegram before coming here, and I will send the telegram to the whole country after you sign it!" Zhang Ji took out a piece of paper from his pocket, and slapped it on the table.

I glanced at the content of the telegram, and it was nothing more than the reasons that Zhang Ji and others just said, and the bottom was densely packed with signatures, except for the beginning, which was temporarily blank, Lin Sen, Zhang Ji, Wang Zhengting... most of the councilors, KMT party members have already signed.

Looking at this telegram, Song Jiaoren was in a dilemma. It was easy to sign, but once he signed it, he knew very well what the result would be.Although he does not approve of large borrowings from the bottom of his heart, what will the country spend if it does not borrow money?Is it possible to maintain the government just by shouting slogans and enthusiasm?Do you want to build a country?Song Jiaoren had figured it out a long time ago, even if he was in Yuan Shikai's position, he would have to borrow this money, otherwise the finances would go bankrupt, and the country that was finally stabilized would be in chaos again.

"I can't sign this word!" Frowning for a while, Song Jiaoren pushed the telegram to Zhang Ji and said firmly.

"Dunchu...you...!" No one expected Song Jiaoren to have such an attitude. Zhang Ji and the others stood up immediately and looked at him incredulously.

"Dunchu, did you already know about this big loan?" It was Lin Sen who saw it first and asked tentatively.

Facing their questioning eyes, Song Jiaoren hesitated for a moment, then nodded slowly.

"What! How could you do this at the beginning of the day? You...you have been deceived by lard? I want to break up with you for the first time!" Zhang Ji was stunned and then flew into a rage.

The rest of the people couldn't believe their ears, especially Yu Youren, who was heartbroken: "Dunchu, oh Dunchu! Why did you hide such a big matter from us? Could it be that Yuan Shikai gave you ecstasy soup? Your original revolutionary ideas Where did it go? Where did your conscience go? You and I have known each other for many years...I thought...you...you let me down so much!"

"My lords! My lords!" Liao Zhongkai and Tang Shaoyi hurriedly smoothed things over and defended Song Jiaoren: "This matter is not as simple as everyone imagined. In fact, I don't agree with the big loan matter, but this Right and wrong must be borrowed, there are difficulties in escaping from the beginning!"

"Difficulties? What are the difficulties? Being in collusion with traitors, betraying the country is calm! Is this his so-called difficulty?" Wu Jinglian asked back with a sneer.