Chapter 367 Yuan Shikai’s Compromise (Please vote for me!)

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

Sitting on the hospital bed, this question flew north with my thoughts, and the problem had reached an unavoidable point.

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

But what about in China?

How could someone as powerful as Yuan Shikai be willing to be a false president?

What about you? How can you be willing to act like a deaf ear!

And the current "Convention" confirms from a legal perspective that China is a country that implements a presidential republic. This means that unless you want to try a big move, it is impossible to change this reality, and any attempt to change it now may be possible.

It will lead to a civil war, and any form of civil war now will cause China to miss the precious development opportunity of World War I. If it cannot seize this opportunity, China will miss the last opportunity to become a powerful country in history.

And now according to Yuan Shikai's idea, at least before Yuan Shikai's death, he can only accept Yuan Shikai's "two to one plus five" power division, that is, the State Council controls five ministries, and then starts its own work among these five ministries.

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Li Zicheng shook his head helplessly when he thought of the five ministries that Yuan Shikai was planning to hand over to him in the intelligence, and that two of them would be used as bargaining chips for "discussing counteroffers."

"Too little power!"

If I directly accept Yuan Shikai's suggestion, I will be in a cocoon. I am afraid that by then "government orders will not leave the State Council." No, it should be "government orders will not leave the State Council."

Among the five ministries: 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 Transportation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has the most power and is responsible for the country's civil governance, police administration, staff, performance appraisal (the appointment of local officials, rewards and punishments, and the inheritance of chieftains).

etc.), it was beyond Li Zicheng's expectation that this department fell into his hands. Even according to the original plan, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was a must-win department.

The reason is very simple. Yuan Shikai cannot hand over any of the Army and Navy. This means that if Li Zicheng wants to have his own force, he can only use his brains outside the Army and Navy and be responsible for the national police.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is one of the few departments that can "legally" possess weapons.

As for the other four ministries, they are only necessary departments to "promote industry and build the country." Although the Ministry of Transportation controls the country's ports and railways, it is barely a power agency, and it is a "fat gap", but for itself

, what is needed is not money or a fat job to reward meritorious subordinates.

Li Zicheng clearly knows what he needs. What he needs is power agencies that can "promote themselves". Those power agencies cooperate with each other and can directly influence the country and influence the presidential office. Now these five departments, except the Ministry of Interior, Education

Apart from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Ministry of Transport are not what we need at all.

It is precisely because of this that he took this risky move and used an assassination case to force Yuan Shikai to make concessions, thereby obtaining the power agencies he needed. Among these agencies, the most important ones are the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Justice.

The Ministry of Finance is undoubtedly the most important organ, and finance is the mother of all political affairs. The reason why Longhai has all kinds of privileges is not because of the financial difficulties of the central government, which made it use a huge sum of money to buy the land along the Longhai Railway.

privilege.

As for the Ministry of Justice, in this era of China, the power of the Ministry of Justice is not great, but in the later generations of the United States, the Ministry of Justice is one of the most powerful agencies in the United States. Not to mention other things, it is the FBI, tobacco, alcohol, firearms, etc.

Bureau, Bureau of Narcotics Control, several powerful agencies, and the Ministry of Justice can establish several powerful agencies in accordance with the law. This is exactly the department Li Zicheng needs.

With the Ministry of the Interior, agencies such as internal affairs forces or armed police can be established for various reasons. With the Ministry of Finance, there is financial support to establish these agencies and armed forces. As for the Ministry of Justice, it can establish agencies like the FBI.

A premise for central intelligence agencies.

Now, among these three departments, only the Ministry of Internal Affairs was transferred to him by Yuan Shikai, and the Minister of Justice was appointed by someone close to Lian Yun. This was acceptable, but the most important Ministry of Finance was not handed over to Yuan Shikai.

Without the Ministry of Finance, it would lose the job of maintaining basic balance. Without the support of the Ministry of Finance, it would not be able to obtain enough funds to establish a "second army." It also would not have the funds to establish intelligence agencies such as the FBI. It would just rely on

It is obviously unrealistic for companies and railways to provide funds. The only way to solve the problem is to obtain the Ministry of Finance. But will Yuan Shikai hand over the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Justice now because he has been shot so many times?

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

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Yuan Shikai got up from his nap on time, then picked up the rattan cane with an iron support and walked down from the second floor to the office on the first floor. Along the way, the cane touched the floor and made a "click" sound. People downstairs knew that

The president went downstairs, and everyone stood with bated breath. When he got to the last step of the stairs, he said "oh" with a half-cough sound. This was his habit, and he meant to tell everyone that he was about to enter the office.

Xia Shoutian hurried over and opened the office door. He did not enter immediately as usual, but asked:

"Is Zhuo Ru coming?"

Liang Qichao would take the initiative to visit him, which was really beyond his expectation, but he was still very grateful to Liang Qichao. Since the "Zhang Yuan case", he had been thinking about how to vindicate himself to the world, and yesterday Liang Qichao's share of power,

But it made him breathe a sigh of relief. Now finally a heavyweight person, Yuan Shikai, spoke for him.

What's even more rare is that Liang Qichao's electrifying article analyzed Yuan's reasons for killing Li one by one, and finally demolished them one by one, and then analyzed the reasons for killing Li against the party one by one, and finally analyzed them one by one.

Confirmed, in Yuan Shikai's opinion, this is probably the most wonderful article he has ever read in his life.

Because of this, he had not been able to sleep peacefully for many days until yesterday.

"He is already waiting for you in the drawing room."

Xia Shoutian answered respectfully.

Yuan Shikai turned around and walked towards the reception room.

"President!"

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

"Mr. Zhuoru, you are here, sit down quickly, sit down quickly!"

After Yuan Shikai asked Liang Qichao to sit down, he also sat down on the sofa opposite. As soon as he sat down, Yuan Shikai gave instructions to the waiter.

"Tea!"

"Zhuoru! That means you understand me, Yuan Shikai!"

After sighing, Yuan Shikai looked at Liang Qichao, with a look of sincerity in his eyes, but more of a sense of gratitude. Obviously at this time, anyone who could stand up and speak out for him and defend his unfair grievances would be his.

Grateful.

Liang Qichao did not receive any credit, he just made a remark.

"What the president said was surprising, Liang was just telling the truth!"

"Zhuoru, I have suffered a lot from others in my life, but this time, I am not willing to give in, but not because I am unwilling to do so..."

Nodding his head, Yuan Shikai sighed involuntarily. He glanced out the window, and then spoke again and again.

"I am not willing to give up for our China. Now China is showing signs of rejuvenation. If it falls into civil strife again because of this, how will it be a blessing for China? How can we be worthy of our ancestors!"

Listening to Yuan Shikai's emotion, Yang Du was familiar with Yuan Shikai's conversational style of not using polite words and always going straight to the point. Liang Qichao did not mince words, so he followed his words and immediately turned to the topic.

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

"oh?"

Yuan Shikai was slightly stunned, another thing? What?

"Anything, as long as it's as good as yours, I will try my best to handle it."

Liang Qichao shook his head and said.

"President, I am not here for personal matters, but for national affairs! Qi Chao wants to ask the President why, six days after Li Zhiyuan was injured, the President has not sent anyone to express his condolences to ease the hearts of the people.

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"this……"

Yuan Shikai was slightly stunned and found it difficult to answer directly. He had also thought about who to send, but after asking several people, they all had various reasons why they were not suitable to go. In short, no one wanted to go to this pool.

Water. However, Liang Qichao's words aroused great interest in him. He knew that someone like Liang Qichao would never come to him if he didn't make a decision.

"Zhuoru, do you have any good candidates?"

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

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

"Well, there is indeed a draft!"

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

"Of the ten ministries under the central government, 50% belong to the government, which indeed shows the president's ambition. But has the president ever thought that military power and financial difficulties are under the jurisdiction of the presidential office, so how can Li Zhiyuan be willing to come to Beijing?"

When Liang Qichao said it, Yuan Shikai was accustomed to stroking his beard, but when Liang Qichao said this, Yuan Shikai's heart skipped a beat, and he was thinking: What is Liang Qichao thinking? Does he want to be Li Zicheng's lobbyist?

, No, with Liang Qichao’s personality, it is absolutely impossible for him to act as Li Zicheng’s lobbyist, and there is no need to act as Li Zicheng’s lobbyist. If he acted as Li Zicheng’s lobbyist, he would not publish that article.

"Military power and financial power are the weapons of the country. China is a presidential country, how can we give it to others so easily!"

Yuan Shikai used merciless words to beat Liang Qichao to death with a stick, but unexpectedly, Liang Qichao smiled and said.

"Where military power is, it will prosper; where military power is gone, it will be destroyed!"

This sentence made Yuan Shikai stunned. He looked at Liang Qichao in surprise, but saw that Liang Qichao only had a smile on his face, as if he just said it casually. Although he was surprised that Liang Qichao said it so straightforwardly, he was not satisfied with this sentence.

However, Yuan Shikai had a deep understanding of this. During the Qing dynasty, the reason why he went out of the field was just because he showed his virtue and demonstrated the power of the Beiyang army, which made the imperial court fearful, so he was forced to go out. Later, he was forced to go out for the last time in his life.

The woman he was afraid of - Lafayette died, and later, in Wuchang Xingyi, faced with the clan members who were young and capable of pinching the water, first relying on his influence on the Beiyang Army, he regained control of the Beiyang military and military power.

After that, he forced the young emperor to abdicate. It can be said that in this generation, his official career is actually the military career. He became successful in the military, prospered in the military, and flourished in the military. But now...

"But wealth is the mother of soldiers. Without wealth, there are no soldiers!"

Although he knew that what Liang Qichao said was true and that Li Zicheng had no military power or financial power, he would definitely not want to come to Beijing, and the current Thornberry case was just an excuse for him.

“If you have wealth, you may not have soldiers, but if you don’t have soldiers, you certainly can’t protect your wealth!”

At this time, Liang Qichao seemed to have lost the appearance of the "constitutional expert" and only looked like an old and cunning politician. However, the words he said were quite useful to Yuan Shikai's ears.
To be continued...