On February 13, Sun Wen officially announced his resignation as president, but he put forward a request to Yuan Shikai, that is, the capital must be in Nanjing, and Yuan Shikai must go to Nanjing to take office, and he will leave after Yuan Shikai takes office. In other words, Yuan Shikai can be the president, but he must come to Nanjing to take office, and Sun Wen will resign and not leave!

After Yuan Shikai received this public telegram from Sun Wen, his face was gloomy and terrifying.

Cao Kun on the side said: "I have long said that none of these party members in the south are kind, some time ago they dared to say anything for the sake of peace talks, and the clinking of their chests said that they were going to elect our adults as the president, and it was only the next day, so I repented, and I wanted to say, and talk about a fart, anyway, we have the edict of the Queen Mother in our hands, which clearly says let the adults organize a republican political axe!" Just ignore those people in the south, let's get a political axe ourselves! ”

Cao Kun's words were recognized by many people, and even Feng Guozhang nodded and said: "Those people in the south are really not like words, they were fine a few days ago, why did they change their hexagram after a lot of hard work, aren't they afraid that the world will laugh at them?" ”

Duan Qirui, who had just returned from the southern front, said: "They are obviously not well-intentioned, Nanjing is their nest, and adults go there to be presidents, so they don't want to be puppets!" ”

Xu Shichang on the side said with a smile: "Actually, it's okay to go, you can take two towns to take up your post in Weiting!" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone laughed, and Cao Kun even said: "I said that it is enough to directly get another political axe in Tianjin, and you also said that you will take two towns to take office, and it is strange that those party members can agree!" ”

"Alas!" Yuan Shikai also sighed: "The world is difficult! ”

In the past few months, although things are still developing according to his expectations, Yuan Shikai always has a feeling that he can't control the situation, for example, this time Sun Wen and the others are in a dilemma that he didn't expect before.

Turning his head to look at Yang Du, he said, "What do the governors in the south say?" ”

Yang Du has always been in charge of contacting several governors with real power in the south, so Yang Du replied: "Don't worry, my lord, the governors of the south have not participated in this matter, Cai Songbo and Chen Zihua have already sent secret telegrams in the morning, claiming that they did not know about this matter in advance!" ”

"What else?" Yuan Shikai asked again.

Yang Du knew what Yuan Shikai was going to ask, and immediately replied: "They didn't openly support Sun Wen's proposition, but they didn't oppose it for a while!" ”

Yuan Shikai nodded after hearing this: "In this way, this matter should be made by the people in Nanjing themselves!" ”

Yuan Shikai's biggest concern before was that the southern provinces would unite, and he had previously attracted Chen Jingyun and Cai Ye to prevent this from happening, and the alliance between a Nanjing political axe with a righteous name and the governors of the southern provinces was what worried him the most. Now that he knew that Chen Jingyun, Cai Yi, Lu Rongting and others were not involved in this matter, he was relieved.

After pondering for a moment, he said: "Don't care about it in advance, those people can say whatever they like, and we will do our own thing." "Anyway, for Yuan Shikai, the president is just a title, and now the Qing emperor has abdicated, and he has also done something on the abdication edict, adding a sentence to clearly indicate that Yuan Shikai is preparing to build a republican axe, so that he has a righteous name, this righteous name is not given by the so-called parliament in Nanjing, but by the ruler of the previous dynasty, the Qing Emperor, this title is the most weighty in China for thousands of years.

So Yuan Shikai didn't need to look at the faces of those people in Nanjing, and took 10,000 steps back and said that the group of people in Nanjing didn't let him be the president, wouldn't he be inappropriate, joke.

At this time, he said to Tang Shaoyi, who had just returned from Shanghai and completed the important task of negotiation: "Although the imperial court is gone now, we still have to maintain the political axe's shelf, Shaochuan, when the time comes, you will be the prime minister, help me put up the political axe's shelf first!" Regardless of whether Nanjing is compromising or not, but the capital must be Yanjing, and the political axe must also be done! ”

Hearing that Yuan Shikai asked him to be the prime minister, Tang Shaoyi did not show surprise at this time, in fact, Yuan Shikai talked to him just after he came back yesterday, saying that he wanted him to be the prime minister.

"Don't worry, the president, I will handle the political axe affairs properly!"

Hearing Tang Shaoyi call him the president, Yuan Shikai's face immediately showed a smile, although it was inevitable that he would be the president, but no one had officially called him the president, and now he felt very good when he heard it.

At this time, Cao Kun, Feng Guozhang and others also said: "Congratulations to the president!" ”

Regarding Sun Wen's request to set the capital in Nanjing, the whole country once again set off a storm for this! However, to the surprise of Sun Wen and other allies, this time the national public opinion did not tilt to the southern provinces as before, but divided into several factions, and vaguely turned out to be the most popular support for the Dingdu Yanjing.

So much so that Zhang Taiyan and others of the Guangfu Society all supported the Dingdu Yanjing, and several southern governors, including Cai Yi, Chen Jingyun and others, also issued telegrams one after another, saying that Sun Wen's two conditions were too harsh and did not conform to the current situation of China. In such an atmosphere, the Senate, composed of representatives from various provinces, passed the proposal of Yanjing with an absolute majority of 20 votes in favor and 8 votes against. For this result, the high-level leaders of the alliance had not thought of it in advance.

Sun Wen has resigned on the surface and is not easy to speak, but Huang Xing is unscrupulous, as Sun Wen's most hardcore supporter, he even publicly declared that the resolution of the Senate cannot be counted, and must be re-resolved, and this time he asked the senators of the League to support the capital of Nanjing, otherwise he will send troops to arrest the senators of the League.

But what Sun Wen and Huang Xing didn't expect was that Song Jiaoren also opposed the Dingdu Nanjing, but supported the Dingdu Yanjing, so he did not hesitate to publicly turn his face with Huang Xing, Sun Wen and others, and it is rumored that he also suffered a big mouth from Ma Junwu, and the disagreement in Dingdu was also the fuse for the break between Song Jiaoren and Sun Wen and Huang Xing.

Zhang Taiyan of the Liberation Society was called a madman and scolded people for being ruthless, and published several editorials in succession, discussing the harm of building the capital of Nanjing, saying that the military strategy of Dingdu Nanjing could not control the north, the northern culture would decline in shape, the politics would be worried about collapse, it would be difficult to deter the forces supporting the Qing restoration, and it would be difficult to demolish foreign embassies. Then he pointed out that Sun and Huang fought for the capital of Nanjing for their own interests, ignoring the country just to satisfy their personal power and selfish desires.

Sun Wen was stunned by the scolding, and also made public the reason for supporting the Dingdu Nanjing, saying: "The key person who is fighting for it today, but with the location of the temporary central organs of the new Republic of China, it is related to the foresight of China and foreign countries, and do not let the Huaigong Temple in the world remain unchanged, and make the bureaucracy feel that the city and society still exist, then Yanjing will be temporarily placed as an idle city, and Ningfu will be built as the new capital...... As for the long-established metropolis, the location is appropriate, and the overall situation is laid, and it is decided from the official national theory, and now it is not expected! ”

The meaning in the words is also simple, that is, if you are afraid of the capital Yanjing, people think that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has not yet perished, so you can't set the capital Yanjing, you have to set it in Nanjing first, maybe this is a little weak-hearted, so I added another sentence, as for where the capital will be in the future, you can discuss it again, and then say whether the president is surnamed Yuan or Sun.

Sun Huang's thoughts are just like Sima Zhao's heart, which is known to everyone, and it is nothing more than wanting to use Nanjing to trap Yuan Shikai. But Yuan Shikai is not a fool, so naturally he will not come to Nanjing stupidly.

On the 15th, the Nanjing Senate re-held the resolution, this time with 19 votes in favor and 7 votes against the resolution of the capital of Nanjing, which was only two days before and after, and the result was reversed, in which it has to be said that Huang Xing's threat to send troops played a great role. Later, Yuan Shikai used hooligans to blackmail the National Assembly to elect him as the president, which was a trick learned from Huang Xingxue, otherwise Yuan Shikai, who had never played parliamentary politics, would not have found such an effective and fast method.

After hearing the news, Chen Jingyun, who was far away in Fuzhou, just smiled, so far he saw through the group of people in Nanjing, although most of them have lofty ideals for the country and the people, but in their bones they still strive for power and profit, talking big words one by one, but they don't see them doing any practical things, so far Nanjing Provisional Political Axe has been more than a month, but it is still chaotic, a group of party members quarrel in newspapers and electricity every day, but the people's lives are actually becoming more and more difficult, Compared with the north, because there is no war and no major political turmoil, the people's lives are far better than those in the south. In all fairness, one south and one north, the north is much better than the south.

On the eve of the Spring Festival of the Xinhai New Year, the controversy over the capital was unfolded one after another, and the people still knew something about it in the first two days, but according to the practice of the newspaper industry, after the 27th day of the lunar calendar, the newspapers stopped publishing to prepare for the New Year, and they would not be republished until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. However, ordinary people do not understand the information and do not participate, but the high-level people continue to exchange views through telegrams.

As time passed, more and more people supported the capital of Yanjing, and the real power factions in various places included Cai Yi, the governor of Yunnan, Chen Jingyun, the governor of Fujian, Lu Rongting, the governor of Guangxi, Zhuang Yunkuan, the new governor of Jiangsu, Jiang Zunwei, the new governor of Zhejiang, Sun Yuyun, the governor of Anhui, Tan Yanhong, the governor of Hunan, Ma Yubao, the governor of Jiangxi, Yan Xing, the governor of Jiangbei, Zhu Rui, the commander of the Zhejiang Army and the commander of the Second Division, Bai Wenwei, the commander of the First Army, and so on...... It can be said that there is a large list, if you add a Li Yuanhong who supports the temporary political axe in Yanjing and the official political axe in Wuchang, then almost all the real power faction in the south.

In addition, the attitude of the great powers is also unanimously in favor of the capital of Yanjing, and they declare that all countries do not recognize the provisional political axe of the south, and if the political axe of the south insists on making the capital of Nanjing for the selfish interests of one or two people, it is despising diplomacy, and the countries will make formal representations.

This Spring Festival of Xinhai Year ushered in Chinese New Year's Eve in such a noisy state, and Chen Jingyun also took his new wife Lin Yun and second aunt Tai Luoli back to the old house in Liuhe Lane to accompany Chen Yushi for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Chen Jingyun's two sisters went back to the house with their husbands to pay New Year's greetings, and they both brought their children over. That's not all, it didn't take much time to work hard, several of Chen Jingyun's cousins and cousins, and even a few uncles who were slightly higher in seniority, all went on to bring family members to Chen Yu's New Year's greetings.

Even if the Chen family came, but Chen Yu's mother's family led by Yu Ruofei also came to pay New Year's greetings, and there were more people talking, whether it was watching or listening, it seemed very lively, these people gave Chen Yu's New Year's greetings, and the ladies all gathered around Chen Yu's to talk, and Lin Yun They all stayed together, talking and laughing, although most of them were flattering words, but Lin Yun was also happy to listen, as for the men, they all formed a small circle with Chen Jingyun as the center to speak.

Due to Chen Jingyun's identity, there are actually not many people who talk to Chen Jingyun, that is, a few uncles of the senior generation, and among the younger generation, only Yu Ruofei and Chen Jingsheng can stay by Chen Jingyun's side to talk, as for some other young people, they are all accompanied by the side, and they just say a few words from time to time.

Overall, this is a very gratifying Spring Festival for Chen Yu's family.