Yu Peilun originally came to Wang Dongcheng aggressively to ask for supplies. Of course, he didn't have high hopes, but even if he couldn't get the supplies, he still wanted to scold Qiao Yu to vent his anger. But when Wang Dongcheng said this, Yu Peilun suddenly didn't know
How should I refute this? The two sides are not the same at all. We are rivals, both competing for power in Sichuan. If you failed, it would be good if you were not killed. Do you still want to get benefits?
Yu Peilun became more and more disheartened, and left the place where Wang Dongcheng was staying, and left Wuchang overnight. Before him, Xiong Kewu had already left Wuchang in the name of going to Nanjing for help, and the remaining thousands of soldiers were recruited by Li Yuanhong.
After Wang Dongcheng left Wuchang, he went directly to Nanjing. He had already received telegrams from Xiaoxiang and Zhou Daiben. Now Nanjing city was in chaos for the election. Originally, Nanjing was going to elect a generalissimo to lead the provinces. At first, everyone voted for Huang Xing.
Generalissimo, Li Yuanhong serves as deputy marshal.
However, they were opposed by the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Allied Forces. Why did the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Allied Forces oppose it? In fact, most of the people from the Liberation Society were behind the opposition. Although the leader of the Liberation Society, Tao Chengzhang, was a revolutionary party like Sun Wen, Tao Chengzhang was dissatisfied with Sun Wen's revolutionary strategy.
He also despised Sun Wen's character and set off two anti-Sun waves. Finally, he reestablished the Guangfuhui and became independent.
After the Shou Uprising in Wuchang, the conflict between the Liberation Society and the Tongmenghui became even greater. Among the independent Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, the Liberation Society contributed the most, but the governor of Shanghai fell into the hands of Chen Qimei. The governor of Jiangsu also returned to the old bureaucrat Cheng Dequan. Tao Chengzhang had no influence on the Tongmenghui.
The peach-picking behavior was very angry. If Huang Xing was elected, the central government would completely fall into the hands of the Tongmenghui group. Therefore, the Guangfuhui strongly advocated the election of Li Yuanhong as generalissimo.
The reasons are also very good. How can Huang Xing be the leader of the revolution when he was the defeated general of Hanyang? Representatives from various provinces also felt that it was inappropriate to elect Huang Xing. Moreover, Huang Xing himself knew the shame and resolutely resigned. In the end, the two people had to be replaced by one.
position, let Huang Xing serve as deputy marshal. At the same time, because Li Yuanhong could not leave Wuchang, Huang Xing acted as general marshal.
But Huang Xing is a figure after all, and he also has a group of supporters. How can you manipulate him as a revolutionary leader? So these people ran to the representative meeting and shouted loudly. The city of Nanjing was in chaos for a while, but Huang Xing was determined not to go.
When Nanjing took office, it immediately fell into a deadlock. It happened that at this time, the news came that Sun Wen was about to return to China. When everyone saw it, they stopped arguing and waited for Sun Wen to come back to take charge of the overall situation.
At this time, Wang Dongcheng came to Nanjing on behalf of Qiao Yu. His identity was different from those temporarily elected representatives. He was a powerful figure in Sichuan, one of the core members of the Qiao Yu Group, and a wealthy businessman. He was very important to both political and business circles.
Wang Dongcheng had great influence, so Wang Dongcheng attracted the attention of various factions as soon as he arrived in Nanjing. He also followed Qiao Yu's wishes and began to actively contact the Liberation Association and the Constitutional Party in an effort to form a pan-Yangtze River alliance.
When Qiao Yu captured Sichuan, he carefully evaluated his own strength and knew that he would not be able to unite the whole country in a short time. However, in order to avoid various political struggles that undermined democratic constitutionalism in the early Republic of China, Qiao Yu wanted to build a huge alliance by relying on
This alliance intimidated Yuan Shikai so that he did not dare to act arbitrarily, and at the same time suppressed Sun Wen's group who were also extremely passionate about power.
After looking at the overall situation, Qiao Yu selected three allies: Hubei Li Yuanhong, Liberation Chairman Tao Chengzhang, and Constitutional Party leader Zhang Jian. Each of these four parties has its own advantages. Geographically, Sichuan occupies the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Hubei controls the middle reaches, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang are in the lower reaches.
The alliance can control the entire Yangtze River.
Li Yuanhong has a high reputation. As long as he has enough strength, he can compete with Yuan Shikai. Tao Chengzhang's Liberation Association has a huge influence in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. At the same time, the Liberation Association can become the prototype of forming a political party in the future. Zhang Jian is even more famous and powerful.
If the leader of one party brings these forces together, he can even suppress Beiyang...
However, Qiao Yu didn't have much hope for this alliance, because each of the four families had their own interests and the differences were too big. However, Qiao Yu just did his best to obey fate and try his best to promote constitutionalism and avoid the division of China. If he could keep the fragile
With a democratic system, it would be a great merit if China could no longer be divided and fall into warlord chaos.
Of course, Qiao Yu's current main task is to develop Sichuan with all his strength. After discussing with Qiao Yu, Zhang Lan stayed up several nights and formulated a new education development plan. The plan is divided into two parts. One is the long-term plan, which plans to spend thirty
Within 20 years, Sichuan's illiteracy rate has been reduced to less than 20%, a modern education system has been fully established, and a large number of talents in various industries have been cultivated.
The short-term plan is to popularize basic education within five years. Each county should build more than ten primary schools to ensure that more than 60% of school-age children can enter school. At the same time, corresponding junior high schools and high schools should be established. In addition, five universities and ten universities should be established.
This college can guarantee the enrollment needs of 20,000 people.
The Sichuan government will invest 42 million yuan for this purpose, and will also need to raise large amounts of donations and rely on social forces to run schools. Although this is a five-year goal, it will cost nearly 10 million yuan each year, accounting for almost three-thirds of Sichuan's fiscal revenue.
More than one percent is a big deal.
The establishment of universities also focused on science and engineering. Among them, two universities and three colleges were to be built in 1912: Sichuan University, Chongqing University of Technology, Chengdu Jiaotong University, Chongqing Business School, and Chongqing Light Industry Technical College.
When Sichuan legislators saw such a plan, they also expressed a lot of opposition.
In particular, Sichuan University, the most important university, also emphasizes science and engineering, while Chongqing University of Technology is simply founded on science and engineering! It seriously stimulated the superiority complex of the old-fashioned scholar-bureaucrats, and they all cursed and insulted the sanctity of the university. Several senior Confucians in the parliament were very important.
Although Qiao Yu was in a desperate posture, Qiao Yu was too lazy to talk to these people, so he decided to vote by a show of hands in the parliament.
Fortunately, the industrial and commercial groups in the parliament now have a lot of advantages. In addition, Zhang Lan has also contacted many new-style literati. In addition, Qiao Yu's authority has successfully passed the bill. Next year, 800 yuan will be spent from the finance.
Ten thousand yuan was used to develop education in Sichuan.
As usual, Sichuan's education development bill also attracted nationwide attention. For a time, the dispute over school running, arts and sciences became the hottest topic in the country, second only to the peace talks between the north and the south.
"Captain Qiao is really a young hero. He has launched new policies one after another to develop Sichuan. It will not be long before Sichuan becomes a place that the whole country looks up to!" The speaker was Tao Chengzhang. After hearing that Wang Dongcheng came to Nanjing, Tao Chengzhang and Zhang Taiyan came together.
Wang Dongcheng had originally intended to contact the Guangfuhui, so he hurried out to greet them when he saw them coming.
"President Tao, you are so polite. You are the tiger that frightened the Qing Dynasty. You are a revolutionary hero. When Governor Qiao mentioned to us a figure in the world, you were also very complimentary!"
When Tao Chengzhang heard Wang Dongcheng mention his nickname, he felt relieved. It seemed that he was not only famous in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but Zhang Taiyan also heard the goodwill in Wang Dongcheng's words. Zhang Taiyan was very enthusiastic about education and was interested in being able to
Qiao Yu has a lot of favorable impressions of Qiao Yu, who introduced a bill to develop education when he first took office.
"Minister Wang, now that the Republic of China is about to be founded, I wonder what Governor Qiao thinks?"