Chapter 95: The Beijing Mutiny
Since the day of its founding, the National Socialist Party has set off a great storm in Fujian, and if it was only promoted by virtue of Chen Jingyun's power and personal influence from the beginning, then when the various programs of the National Socialist Party became known through various channels, it quickly attracted people's attention.
In this era, China's political parties are still in a very primitive stage, whether it is the Kuomintang reorganized by the League, or the Republican Party reorganized by the constitutionalists headed by Zhang Taiyan, or the unified republican party supported by Cai Yi, strictly speaking, it does not have the characteristics of modern parties, but is more like the product of the further development of China's friends, township parties, and pro-parties since ancient times. Their only role is to tell people: Look, we have a republic, and we have a political party.
Comparatively speaking, Chen Jingyun's National Socialist Party, which was created to rule and control military power, is much more formal, and more radical than some other conservative parties, and is more likely to attract the support of enthusiastic young people and ordinary people.
In order to popularize the role of the National Socialist Party in the army, Chen Jingyun not only personally went to military academies and barracks to give speeches and propaganda, but also sent a large number of National Socialist Political Commissars to the troops to publicize the National Socialist Party to ordinary soldiers, and at the same time gave these National Socialist Political Commissars the power to control the army at critical moments, such as when the commander-in-chief of the unit disobeyed orders, defected, and defected to the enemy, the political commissars would accept the command of the troops! In layman's terms, it is to brainwash ordinary soldiers, and the party commands the gun!
Zheng Zuyin, Lin Wenying, and others even united to oppose Chen Jingyun's forcible promotion of the Kuomintang in the army, saying that this kind of behavior was an act of military literacy, but the army was Chen Jingyun's hall, and their words did not play a role. But another opposition came from within the army, even including some officers, and the high-level officials could say that those who could achieve the position of division commander had been able to consider the problem from a political point of view, knowing that Chen Jingyun's move was to control military power, and if anyone dared to openly oppose it, it would be clear that they would argue with Chen Jingyun, and the consequences would not be something they could bear, so even if they were a little reluctant in their hearts, they would not say anything, and these high-level generals almost without exception joined the National Socialist Party. However, some middle-level officers did not have such a high level of consciousness, and they disregarded the so-called political commissars sent by the Kuomintang and the Socialist Party, and were even more dissatisfied with the criticism of these political commissars on training and combat issues, and even reflected it in the case of Chen Jingyun, saying that the political commissars did not understand military affairs at all, but blindly interfered in the normal operation and command of the army.
If this kind of problem was only once or twice, Chen Jingyun would not have said anything, but when several regiment commanders also sent secret telegrams to Chen Jingyun complaining that the political commissar was blindly commanding, Chen Jingyun realized that the behavior of the National Socialist Party was a bit excessive!
Not long after the founding of the National Socialist Party, in addition to the high-ranking military and political officials, Chen Jingyun's descendants, and the celebrities and other influential people recruited, the rest of the party members were basically young people who were instigated by Chen Jingyun, and most of them were students. The political commissars sent by the Kuomintang to the army are basically elected from these radical young people, and basically none of them understand military affairs, but after these people arrive in the army, it is fine that they are self-aware, but there are some radical and idiotic people who will do some things that point fingers and do not know how to pretend to understand, and they still say that the party commands the gun at every turn, and if they do not obey the orders of the political commissars, they will betray the National Socialist Party and Chen Jingyun.
After receiving the reaction of so many officers, Chen Jingyun is not a pedantic person, and he came up with this Kuomintang Socialist Party for the purpose of controlling the army and using it to strengthen the army's combat effectiveness, not to make the army into an army of children playing like a family. Therefore, he quickly made adjustments and directly issued an order to inform the whole army and the whole party: The political commissars sent to the army by the Kuomintang are not allowed to interfere in the training and combat of the troops, and that their regular work is limited to presiding over the propaganda work of the Kuomintang and that they can only accept the command of the troops in case of defection or disobedience from the commanders of the troops.
At the same time, the Kuomintang issued a circular from within the Kuomintang on the issue of political commissars and severely reprimanded them, while on the other hand, political courses were set up at the Fuzhou Military Academy to train political officers, which were later used to serve as political commissars at all levels.
Through the propaganda of these political commissars, quite a number of soldiers have already begun to join the Kuomintang, and many middle- and lower-ranking officers have also joined one after another, and as for the senior officers, they have already joined the Kuomintang in order to show their loyalty to Chen Jingyun.
In less than a month, the Kuomintang Socialist Party had taken root in the Nationalist Army and began to spread to every corner of the Nationalist Army, politically unifying the thinking of the whole army and speaking with one voice. This is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.
When the Kuomintang Socialist Party brought out by Chen Jingyun was in an uproar in the Nationalist Army, Zheng Zuyin and Lin Wenying were not to be outdone, and promoted their respective political parties in Fujian, preparing to control the parliament in one fell swoop in the future provincial assembly elections. There is chaos in Fujian Province, and there is also chaos in other parts of the country, even worse than in Fujian. At best, Fujian is a high-level struggle and several parties attacking each other, but the ordinary people are still living well, and they have basically not been affected.
But it's not the same elsewhere.
On February 29, a mutiny occurred in the north, and some of the Beiyang troops stationed around Yanjing mutinied, and the soldiers burned, killed and looted, and Yanjing was ruined for a while.
Yuan Shikai's move is something that anyone who understands can see, when the Beiyang Army is not chaotic, but there is a mutiny at this time, it is not obvious that Yuan Shikai made it himself, but even if he knows, Sun Wen and Huang Xing still have no way at all.
At this time, the dispute between the north and the south of the capital can almost come to an end, in this battle, Sun Wen and Huang Xing were defeated, and in the end, only they were left to support themselves, not only the real power factions in the south supported Yuan Shikai to set the capital Yanjing, even ordinary businessmen, whether they were in the south or north, supported Yanjing, and even many people within the alliance were in Yanjing. In the eyes of many people, since the republic has been established, then it is time to put aside disputes and work hard to improve the standard of living, as for the capital, what is the use of fighting for it, so since the capital has become an obstacle to the republic, then this obstacle should be kicked out, under this trend, Sun Wen and Huang Xing, who have been revolutionizing all day long, will naturally have to be abandoned.
After fighting for a long time to achieve this appearance, Sun Wen and Huang Xing were a little disheartened.
After persisting for a few more days, Sun Wen finally gave up!
On March 6, the Nanjing Senate passed a resolution allowing Yuan Shikai to be inaugurated as interim president in Yanjing.
This time the battle failed, in the face of the whole world almost everyone in the world supported Yuan Shikai and opposed their own situation, which greatly hit the confidence of Sun Wen and Huang Xing, so that the two of them were disheartened, Sun Wen even said that he was ready to devote himself to the industry, to build a 100,000-mile railway for China, and was ready to leave Nanjing to inspect various places.
Although Huang Xing is disheartened, he is still trying his best to maintain the people's army near Nanjing, but the number of people's troops in the south is large, and now it adds up to nearly 300,000, and the military salary consumed is millions per month. The rebels made trouble and mutinies happened from time to time, which made Huang Xing very anxious.
The Nanjing Provisional Political Axe has reached this point, which can be regarded as a complete failure, because even the provincial members of the Senate have begun to prepare to go north, so that the period of division of the two political axes, one south and one north, has ended, and China has been officially reunified.
Although they have little confidence in the Nanjing Temporary Political Axe, they did not expect that they would be completely defeated in just three months, and they must know that they have provided tens of millions of loans to the Nanjing Temporary Political Axe, and they are counting on the Nanjing Temporary Political Axe to support it for a year or two! In comparison, Chen Jingyun of Fujian is much better, judging from the information returned by the advisory group, Chen Jingyun is ambitious, not only expanding the army of more than 50,000 people, but also reforming the rule of officials and expanding the arsenal internally, with great intentions to dominate Kyushu.
said that I am not afraid that Chen Jingyun is not ambitious, but I am afraid that he is not ambitious.
"Now that the situation in China has gradually stabilized, this is not a good sign, what is the strategy of your foreign ministry?" Saionji Gongwang Road.
Uehara Kondo said respectfully: "Your Excellency, rest assured, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has anticipated this situation, and according to intelligence, China is still in a state of division, and the peace talks between the north and the south have not formed the actual unification. ”
"How's the contact with Yuan Shikai?" Saionji Gongwang asked.
"We are currently in contact," Kondo Uehara said: "However, there are also ministers from the four countries who are also talking with Yuan Shikai to prepare to provide loans, so the results are not great." ”
Xiyuan Temple Gongwang said: "Then put pressure on him, if you can't put pressure on him diplomatically, then put pressure on him from the inside, and in my opinion, the north-south plan can be strengthened!" If the north can't create pressure for the time being, then strengthen the south, doesn't it mean that Chen Jingyun has ambitions, then support him and let him go on a northern expedition! ”
Kondo Uehara hesitated and said: "According to intelligence sources, Chen Jingyun has established a National Socialist Party, and the party's program is very radical, opposing colonization and unequal treaties!" ”
Xiyuan Temple Gongwang said: "We must go from a political point of view, look at reality, and don't just look at the surface." A program is a program, but how to do it is another matter. The people of China shouted every day to take back the concession, but who really dared to do it? ”
Kondo Uehara immediately realized: "Your Excellency is wise! The Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately set about accelerating the progress of the North-South program! ”