readx; Yuan Shikai and even the entire Beiyang system did not pay much attention to the so-called parliamentary election at the beginning, most of their minds were on the military aspect, from the beginning of the North-South peace talks Yuan Shikai began to make preparations for the reunification of China by force, of which the aftermath of the big loan is one of the most critical things, but the situation in China has been in turmoil, and there is a lot of trouble in various places, and it is simply impossible to let Yuan Shikai expand the armament war wholeheartedly. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info in which the expansion momentum of the National Army and the strength of the Dian Army made Yuan Shikai not eat well and sleep well.

While busy preparing for war, Yuan Shikai also used various means to divide the southern warlords, among which Cai Yi entered Beijing and appointed Lu Rongting as the governor of Guangdong. But he didn't expect the National Army or Chen Jingyun's appetite to be so big, and it didn't take long to connect and control northern Zhejiang, and control Guangzhou in the second half of the year, which made Yuan Shikai feel that there was a crisis, and then gave birth to Feng Guozhang to lead the army south, control Jiangsu, a wealthy province, while suppressing the development momentum of the National Army, if possible, hit the National Army hard, and then control Zhejiang. And almost all the movements of the Beiyang Army in 1912 revolved around this goal, and other things were not taken care of at all, and even acquiesced to Tang Jiyao's dispatch of troops to Sichuan, and he didn't have the heart to pay attention to the vigorous congressional election.

But what Yuan Shikai didn't expect was that he successively increased three or four divisions to southern Jiangsu, and in the end it turned out to be a complete defeat, Zhang Xun's eighth division was lost in Jiangnan, not to mention, even Cao Kun's third division, Jin Yunpeng's fifth division and even the seventh division that went to reinforcements behind were all heavy losses, and the news of defeat came one after another, Zhenjiang was not defeated, and Jiangbei was lost, so that the three divisions in Jiangnan were blocked from retreating. In the end, it turned out to be a confrontation with the national army across the Yangtze River.

The disadvantage of the war in southern Jiangsu had a great passive impact on the Beiyang Army, not to mention the demoralization, and the generals under him gradually thought that he Yuan Shikai was no longer good, although there was no open disobedience, but Yang Feng Yin disobedience also happened from time to time, which made Yuan Shikai extremely depressed.

Finally suspended the war in southern Jiangsu under the mediation of the great powers, Yuan Shikai is planning to use the rare time to expand the armament war, and so on for the aftermath of the big loan, the original several divisions to rest and replenish, the two new divisions are also formed, at most, Yuan Shikai will be able to wave the army south again after half a year, and at that time, he is bound to unify China, China's current situation of continuous division must not be delayed like this, otherwise it will not only be a big disaster for Beiyang, but also a disaster for the whole of China.

Then just when Yuan Shikai was planning to settle the matter, and even gave Chen Jingyun the title of the Southeast Xuanfu Envoy, hoarding power in one fell swoop, the parliamentary election gave him a big problem.

At the beginning of the North-South peace talks, the Southern Revolutionaries came up with a temporary covenant in order to limit Yuan Shikai's power, and the temporary covenant formulated a responsible cabinet system, which made Yuan Shikai nervous for a while, but what kind of person Yuan Shikai was, and the people who formed the cabinet were all from Beiyang, so this responsible cabinet system was in vain. Then today, he didn't expect that Song Jiaoren's reorganized Kuomintang to pull people everywhere would be so strong, and he would occupy half of the seats in the National Assembly in one fell swoop, and he thought that those multi-party factions, in addition to the Kuomintang, also had the United Party, the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, and even the National Socialist Party that Chen Jingyun came up with, and the unified Republican Party of Tang Jiyao and Cai Yi.

But as soon as the results of the parliamentary elections were announced, the KMT won half of the seats, which is not good. As long as the Kuomintang controls the Congress, it can organize a cabinet, assuming that if Song Jiaoren is not the prime minister of the cabinet, and most of the ministers are also members of the Kuomintang, it is almost conceivable that the president will officially become a puppet, after all, Song Jiaoren will not be the prime minister of the stamp, and will firmly control the power of countersigning, and it is impossible for Yuan Shikai to do whatever he wants. Even more importantly, the KMT, which takes control of the National Assembly, can completely re-elect a president. You must know that the current Yuan Shikai is still the same as Sun Yat-sen before, and he is the provisional president. When the first session of the National Assembly is convened, the official president will be elected, and I originally thought that the presidency would be fine, after all, Sun Wen, Huang Xing, and even Chen Jingyun and Tang Jiyao did not come to the election, and he was the only one who ran for the president, Yuan Shikai alone, and those congressmen had no one else to choose except him.

But there are always variables. At that time, even if Yuan Shikai could use various means such as bribery and force to ensure that the National Assembly would not interfere with his rule, he would say a thousand things and ten thousand, that is, there would be a lot of trouble after the Kuomintang took control of the National Assembly.

But the congressional election has come to an end, and the votes of all parties have become a foregone conclusion, and Yuan Shikai can only use other ways if he wants to find a way.

Yuan Shikai can also be regarded as China's hero in recent decades, and after looking at the temporary covenant many times, he closed his eyes slightly, and then called Yang Du in.

Yang Du has been running around Yuan Shikai in the past two years, basically becoming Yuan Shikai's personal representative, actively negotiating with other forces, although outsiders don't know much, but insiders know that Yang Du has become a big celebrity around Yuan Shikai.

"Now there is some chaos in the Congress, you go and walk more, talk to several other parties, and say that I, Yuan, support them, and one party seat is not enough, then merge, after all, there is no temporary agreement that does not allow parties to merge!" Yuan Shikai didn't talk nonsense, and directly said his thoughts.

After listening to Yuan Shikai's words, Yang Du said: "Among the remaining parties, the Republican Party, the United Party and even the Democratic Party are easy to say, these parties are all constitutionalist people, and it is not difficult to unite, but Chen Jingyun's National Socialist Party and Yungui's United Republican Party are afraid that they are ......."

Yuan Shikai said: "The Kuomintang is Chen Jingyun's, as long as Chen Jingyun is not stupid, then he can't face us, although he used the name of a southeast propaganda envoy in exchange for his promise to support me as president, but this promise has not been fulfilled, so there is no hope over there." The same is true of the United Republican Party, Tang Jiyao can't wait to see me laugh. However, the number of votes on these two sides is not much, and the total is only one hundred or forty, which cannot affect the overall situation. The key now is to unite the three parties of unity, republican, and democratic, and when the time comes, together with the votes of some other small parties, then it will be enough to confront the Kuomintang. Don't let that make too much of a mess over there! ”

Although Yuan Shikai is a little disgusted with the Provisional Covenant, he also has some understanding of the Provisional Covenant, Song Jiaoren thinks that it is not enough to control the Congress with only half of the seats, and when the time comes, he will support the union of the Republican Party or something, and then win over some small parties, plus there is also a play next to Chen Jingyun and Tang Jiyao, Yuan Shikai thinks that the Kuomintang will not be able to turn the sky.

For Yuan Shikai, this parliamentary election is just a little troublesome, and it has not yet reached the time when he can't eat or sleep, relatively speaking, the surging development of the National Army and the Dian Army is his henchman, as for those revolutionaries, he has never paid attention to them.

Although the revolutionary party forces controlled Anhui and Jiangxi, and their strength was almost 100,000 on the surface, in reality it was not satisfactory. According to the last time the Beiyang Army fought with Huang Xing's troops in southern Jiangsu, the combat effectiveness of Huang Xing's troops was really limited, although the number was large, but most of them were rabble, and the Beiyang Army did not need much, as long as a division made up the god that Henan went south, plus the troops of Chuzhou cooperated, it would not be much effort to take Anhui.

After all, the army under Huang Xing and Li Junlie was not the national army under Chen Jingyun, and after a fight in southern Jiangsu, the Beiyang Army recognized the strength of the national army, although they felt that the national army was not as good as Beiyang, but it was not there. And how did the combat effectiveness of the National Army come about, everyone is training for training and the like, there is nothing to say, the key is the equipment, which of those guns and heavy artillery is not a silver for nothing. Chen Jingyun, who controlled Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangzhou, and Shanghai, looted so hard and borrowed so much money, and I heard that tens of millions of bonds alone had been sold, and with such sufficient financial support, it was possible to produce a fully equipped army of 100,000. The Yunnan army is okay, relying on Yunnan and Yuntu, it is not difficult to get a few regular divisions.

Military training is not just a matter of training, but also of money. As for the revolutionaries, Yuan Shikai doesn't think that they can spend so much money to purchase equipment for military training, even if they turn Anhui and Jiangxi upside down, they can't get a few well-equipped divisions, so there are 100,000 troops on the surface, but Yuan Shikai has never looked at it squarely.

If it weren't for the fact that the Kuomintang made by Song Jiaoren occupied half of the seats in the Congress, I'm afraid that he Yuan Shikai would not have bothered to deal with it, and then continued to bury himself in expanding the armament war.

In order to prevent the Kuomintang from controlling the parliament, Yuan Shikai asked Yang Du to unite the three parties of unity, democracy, and republican to form a new party, and Yang Du also knew that this matter was not so easy, which involved various affairs of the three parties, and it was necessary to find a famous person, so in this case, Yang Du found Liang Qichao and prepared to let Liang Qichao be the intermediary liaison to unite the three parties to form a new party.

Yuan Shikai also gave 200,000 yuan of party building funds for this, but Liang Qichao thought that it was not enough, and he had to ask for 500,000 yuan, Yuan Shikai gritted his teeth, and squeezed out another money from between his teeth and scraped together 500,000 yuan for him. After Liang Qichao received Yuan Shikai's reply, he immediately set off from Tianjin to Yanjing, preparing to unite the three parties to form a new party, and even the name of the new party was thought of, which was called the Progressive Party.