Chapter 273 - Congressional Elections I

readx; The reduction of various conditions has led to a sharp increase in the number of voters, and in Fujian and Jiangsu, for example, there are about 1.2 million registered voters in Fujian, while in Jiangsu there are nearly 2 million. Although the number www.biquge.info is not very true and accurate, it is not as false as the six million people of Naoli, so that people can know that it is false at a glance. This figure is very different from the number of electors in the former Qing Advisory Council, which is more than 10 times. Together, the country's electors are close to 40 million, accounting for one-tenth of the total population.

Although this number is very large, and most of the electors will not vote at all, it still shows how huge the scale of this congressional election is, and it is even called the world's largest election. It is not surprising that such large-scale elections could not be effectively carried out under the conditions of the time, and that various problems arose.

It is a trivial matter to bribe votes and sell votes to buy votes, and many people will sell their votes for a few cents to buy a baked cake or something. What's more serious is that there are violent clashes and the like, countless candidates have been killed and injured, and some remote prefectures and counties have not held any elections at all, and the county clerks have directly filled in the ballots, and after filling out an election, they will all be elected with enough votes, and there is not a single ballot that has not been elected, because since they are all determined to be elected, it is not interesting to fill in a few ballots, it is better to save some effort and not fill in a single one.

It has to be mentioned that in this election, the power of the party still plays a role in determining the surname, and those individuals or small parties have no chance of winning at all, whether it is the Kuomintang or the National Socialist Party or other parties, most of them will use the human and financial resources of the party to conduct elections, such as buying votes, and the financial resources of individuals are no match for organizational strength in any way. Even if they don't rely on this financial resources, the candidates of the big parties are all playing politics, which is naturally one set of things, and the prestige is not comparable to others, and it has won the hearts of many voters.

This advantage is the largest occupied by the Kuomintang, except for a few provinces, most of the parliamentarians in other provinces are occupied by them, even the Republican Party has to envy, as for the Kuomintang in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces are OK, but as soon as it goes out of the provinces, it is very difficult, without the support of the bayonets and bullets of the Nationalist Army, the development of the Kuomintang in other provinces is still relatively difficult, not only the Kuomintang suppresses, even other warlords also regard the Kuomintang as an enemy, especially in the northern provinces, the Kuomintang members dare not openly show their identities, Otherwise, not only will their movements be restricted, but they will be caught if they are not careful, and in the minds of those powerful warlords, the National Socialist Party has already been equated with the National Army, and the infiltration of the National Socialist Party is equivalent to the infiltration of the National Army, which is absolutely intolerable to them.

Therefore, although some of the slogans of the Kuomintang constitution have aroused the popularity of many enthusiastic young people in China, due to various restrictions, the effectiveness of the Kuomintang in other provinces is quite limited, and even some local party offices dare not openly display their signboards, let alone openly participate in the election campaign.

After all, while Chen Jingyun was purging the Kuomintang and Beiyang and other warlord forces in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, other warlords were not idle, especially Beiyang, who fired a member of the Kuomintang Socialist Party when he saw it internally, and arrested many people in secret.

Comparatively speaking, the KMT's actions were much smoother, there were basically no restrictions on public activities in the provinces, and even the open elections in the northern provinces under the control of Beiyang were met with great resistance, which was much better than that of the Kuomintang Socialist Party.

In addition, after the peace between the north and the south, the Kuomintang tried its best to wash away the radical impression, and in some remarks, it cooperated with Yuan Shikai's central political axe, which won the favor of a considerable number of people to a certain extent. As for the National Socialist Party, because of the more radical slogans, many older factions and even calm people are not interested in the National Socialist Party, to a certain extent, the National Socialist Party is like the early years of the League, attracting more enthusiastic young people, in addition, because the National Army has been fighting everywhere in recent years, it is even more in southern Jiangsu and the Beiyang Army representing the central political axe to fight fiercely, so that many Chinese people think that the National Army is a group that destroys domestic unity, Chen Jingyun's personal prestige is gradually rising, but the National Socialist Party cannot occupy a high point morally. So much so that some moderates in the north and even in other provinces were not interested in or even disgusted with the National Socialist Party.

The Kuomintang was slowly moderate, especially in the process of transformation, and had a lot of contact with the ordinary gentry, and the cooperation with the constitutionalists achieved great results, which is why the Kuomintang developed and expanded rapidly in just one year.

In the last few days of the year of Renzi, when Chinese New Year's Eve is approaching, the parliamentary elections have reached the final stage, and before Chinese New Year's Eve, the re-election of the Senate and the House of Representatives will be held to determine the final composition of the Congress.

Even Chen Jingyun, who has always been calm, has to pay attention to the final result of this election, although he has no intention of using the parliament to limit Yuan Shikai's power, but as a later generation, he knows that this seemingly farce-like congressional election will cause a very serious result, and this result is the second revolution. In later generations, this election triggered the assassination of Song Jiaoren, and Song Jiaoren's assassination allowed Sun Wen to find an opportunity to launch the so-called second revolution, while Yuan Shikai was even more excited to find an excuse to wave his army south and establish the unification of China by force.

Now he is not interested in using Congress to control Yuan Shikai, but he is very concerned about whether this election will trigger a second revolution as in history. Chen Jingyun remained skeptical about this for the simple reason that his own appearance, and the strong rise of the Nationalist Army had completely disrupted the domestic situation.

If the National Assembly elects the party and the president, and Song Jiaoren successfully gains control of the parliament, and then forms a cabinet, or even passes the cabinet system, then Yuan Shikai will become an empty puppet, but Yuan Shikai allowed Song Jiaoren to do this? Naturally not, so will the assassination of Song Jiaoren happen? I can't say for sure, at least Chen Jingyun is not sure.

If the reasoning continues, if Song Jiaoren was really assassinated, then do Sun Wen and Huang Xing have the ability and courage to launch a second revolution? You must know that the Kuomintang forces in this time and space have undergone great changes from the original revolutionary party forces, and among the southern provinces of the original time and space, the Kuomintang controlled a considerable part of the area, not only Guangdong, Jiangxi, Anhui, but also Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, and their forces were much stronger than they are now. But there is also a slight difference, although the Kuomintang forces in the original time and space are huge on the surface, they actually do not control too many regions and powers, and only rely on Sun Wen's personal prestige, but now the Kuomintang really controls Anhui and Jiangxi, and the army under its command is claimed to be more than 100,000, and the number of troops is still more than the national army. Under such circumstances, will Sun Wen launch a second revolution? If it is launched, it will definitely want the National Army Alliance or something, and even pull Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting and others, but there are too many variables in each, and Chen Jingyun can't figure it out for a while.

Even he thought that if Sun Wen launched the second revolution, should he join forces with Yuan Shikai, and then cede Anhui to Beiyang, and then take Jiangxi by himself, and continue to maintain a state of confrontation with the Beiyang Army across the river. But in this way, other warlords in the south, such as Lu Rongting and Tang Jiyao, may have to regard themselves as the Beiyang Army, and when the time comes, they may be able to flank the Nationalist Army with the Beiyang Army.

Regarding the strategic decision for the future, Chen Jingyun was also a little confused for a while! The development of the domestic situation to this state is already a matter of affecting the whole body, and any external action launched by the national army in the southern provinces may lead to a joint attack by other warlords, but if you do not use troops in the southern provinces and choose to ally with other warlords to go on a northern expedition, the national army's voice will be much smaller in the future, Chen Jingyun has never thought about forming a joint political axe with Sun Wen and Tang Jiyao, this may be almost equal to zero, because even if it is in the joint political axe, it must be a constant internal struggle, Either the Nationalist Army annexed other forces or the Nationalist Army was annexed, and if you want to live amicably, you will not be able to die unless the Chinese are dead. Of course, it is different if the national army has a great advantage and uses force to force them to form a joint political axe, and then slowly absorbs the army, but this also belongs to the category of military unification, and peaceful coexistence and the formation of a joint political axe are two different things.

China can only have one army, and it is not feasible to have any so-called inter-provincial autonomy, a central army, and then a large number of local armies.

The year 1913 was important for China, and the 1913 election, despite its farce, was equally important for China's future.

On February 4, 13913, the 29th day of December in the second year of the Republic of China, this day is the solar term of the beginning of spring, and tomorrow is the Chinese New Year's Eve of the traditional Chinese festival, and the day after tomorrow is the Spring Festival. On the last day of the year, the first parliamentary election of the Republic of China finally came to an end, and the final election results were reached after the re-election of the Senate and the House of Representatives, and among the 870 seats, the Kuomintang won a big victory, and the Kuomintang occupied a total of 392 seats in the parliament, becoming the largest party. , but the Kuomintang under the control of Chen Jingyun unexpectedly received more than 90 votes, and even the United Republican Party made by Tang Jiyao and Cai Yi also got more than 50 votes. The United Party, the Republican Party, and the Myeongcho Party were disappointed by the constitutionalists, with the combined three parties holding only 250 seats. In terms of seats alone, the Kuomintang is in first place, the United Party is in second place, and the National Socialist Party is in third place.

However, there is a huge difference between the second, third, fourth, and first major parties, the Kuomintang, and the goal of the Kuomintang to control the parliament has been basically achieved......

After learning of the results of the congressional election, Chen Jingyun was not surprised that his own Kuomintang was able to win the third place, relying on the votes of Fujian, Zhejiang, some Guangdong, and Jiangsu, it was already expected that it would receive more than 90 votes, and he felt a little surprised by the strength of the Kuomintang.

"Now, I'm afraid Lao Yuan is going to have a headache!" Chen Jingyun smiled after learning the results, although it has long been a consensus that the Kuomintang will dominate the Congress, but when Song Jiaoren is running around to form a responsible cabinet, Lao Yuan will be disgusted, if Sun Wen gives up his earlier promise to participate in the presidential election, with the Kuomintang's seat in the Congress, it will be certain.

Chen Jingyun watched the play with the attitude of watching the fire from the other side, but Yuan Shikai was really a little worried, although he also bypassed the people below to get a political party to run for the election, but he didn't pay much attention to it, and he didn't have hope, he used to think that even though the Kuomintang people were strong, but he didn't expect that the Kuomintang people would occupy almost half of the seats, and if there was anything wrong with the Congress, wouldn't the internal position of president be lost, even if there was no problem with the president's position, but in case Song Jiaoren wanted to get some responsibility for the cabinet to form a cabinet, Can I only be an empty president?

For a moment, he realized that the congressional election, which he had never cared about, had caused him such a big trouble!