Chapter 602: Recovering the Shanghai Concession
readx; Since the beginning of the era of fighting the Fujian military and political axe, the Fujian and Zhejiang military clique with Chen Jingyun as the core has always had three parties: the National Socialist Party, the National Progressive Association, and the Allied Party, and this situation has become more obvious after Chen Jingyun's reunification of China, although it is said that the National Progressive Association and the Allied Party are far inferior to the National Socialist Party because their power is far inferior to that of the National Socialist Party, and most of the political voices have echoed the voice of the National Socialist Party, and this compromise has given the two parties the opportunity to form a joint cabinetIn fact, since the era of Fujian's military and political axes, the cabinet has always been a model of joint cabinet formation by the three parties. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Although the National Socialist Party has become stronger and stronger over the years, and the National Progressive Association and the League Party have faded out of people's sight, in any case, these two parties have maintained their surname, and they are one of the three major parties in China.
However, this situation has changed, and the announcement of the merger of the National Socialist Party and the National Progressive Association and the Alliance Party to form a new 'Chinese Socialist Party' means that China's three-party politics is gone forever, and it is now a one-party system.
No one can say clearly whether this situation is good or bad for China, and even the literati in the newspapers who pointed out the country could not figure out for a moment whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.
However, before people had time to dwell on this matter, there was once again shocking news that Chen Jingyun publicly announced for the first time that he would not participate in next year's presidential election.
This news caused a greater reaction than the signing of the London Treaty in the middle of last year, and people found themselves unable to figure it out, and many more people could not imagine what would happen to China without Chen Jingyun's leadership.
Although Chen Jingyun is not a good person, suppressing political enemies and suppressing strikes and rebellions is extremely ruthless, but these things ordinary people will not pay attention to, in the hearts of the people, it is because of Chen Jingyun that today's China is born, it is Chen Jingyun who led them to overthrow the Manchu Dynasty and the Beiyang Reading Talent Political Axe, and led the people to establish a rich and powerful republic. Over the years, Chen Jingyun has led China to win victory after victory, from recovering the concessions in various places, declaring war on Germany and recovering Qingdao, intervening in the Russian civil war and recovering more than 100 square kilometers of land, and recovering Lushun and Taiwan in the war. Even if the propaganda department of the Kuomintang is not able to carry out deification propaganda, then Chen Jingyun's prestige is already high enough, not to mention that the propaganda department of the Kuomintang still carries out deification propaganda against Chen Jingyun every day.
I don't dare you believe it or not, anyway, people say this: "Only Chen Jingyun can lead the Kuomintang to save China!" ”
Other people, whether Zheng Zuyin or Tang Shaoyi or other important magnates, are not taken into account by the people, and it will not cause too much turmoil if China wants to replace a certain general minister or even the president of the Government Council, but if Chen Jingyun wants to go into the wilderness, it will be a big problem!
Therefore, when Chen Jingyun publicly announced that he would not run for president next year, domestic public opinion suddenly boiled, so that the domestic situation, which was already somewhat turbulent because of the general strike and purge, became turbulent again, and thousands of students at Nanjing University even signed 10,000 letters and handed them to the presidential palace, asking Chen Jingyun to put the country and the nation first and continue to lead the people to carry out the great cause of China's rejuvenation. And even some radical young people even shouted that Zheng Zuyin, Tang Shaoyi and others were ill-intentioned conspirators trying to overthrow the great Chinese leader Chen Jingyun.
When Chen Jingyun saw the reaction of these people, it made him cry and laugh a little. Now people talk as if he has lost power, he only said that he will not hold the next president, and he does not say that he will never be president, let alone that he will resign from the two positions of real power, the chairman of the National Military Council and the chairman of the National Socialist Party.
Although the president is nominally China's supreme leader, Chen Jingyun went down in order to continue his studies, but he made a separation of military and political affairs, and the president and the chairman of the State Military Commission were two separate positions, and the military power was controlled by the chairman of the State Military Commission. If he is like Chen Jingyun who holds the two positions of president and chairman of the State Military Commission, then it is not a big problem, but if it is just a simple president, then how much voice this president has has to be discussed separately.
Moreover, he is also the chairman of the National Socialist Party, the National Socialist Party was originally the largest party in China, and now after the merger of the three major political parties in China, the National Socialist Party has become the only legal party in China.
Isn't it just so that he, the party chairman, can play a greater role in the case of one-party rule?
Although he cannot participate in the third presidential election because of the restrictions of the constitution, as long as he has party power and military power in his hands, his actual power will not be much weaker, even if he does not continue to stand in the front, but he is still the ruler of China, and no one can deny this.
In their opinion, the president is the supreme leader of the country, and Chen Jingyun chose not to continue to run for president, which is equivalent to giving up power.
Giving up power, Chen Jingyun never thought that he would not run for president this time, that is because the constitution stipulates that he can only serve two consecutive terms as president, if he can continue to be re-elected, he must amend the constitution, and this kind of thing will have a great bad impact.
Moreover, this will also make the people and some people in the party also have some bad thoughts about Chen Jingyun, such as this, Chen Jingyun might as well simply support a puppet president to avoid people's attention, and delay for five years before running for president.
Chen Jingyun's announcement that he would not run for the next presidential term not only caused a major reaction at home, but also took the powers by surprise, and made them even more worried about whether China's foreign policy would change if Chen Jingyun was not re-elected as president.
Among them, the most worried is naturally the United States and the Russian Republic, the Russian Republic is now a grasshopper tied to a rope with China, once there is a problem in China, the Russian Republic will also be unlucky, especially when the two sides are still facing the huge pressure of Soviet Russia, they have to worry that if Chen Jingyun is no longer in power, then whether the successor will inherit the policy and foreign strategy of the Chen Jingyun era, will it say that it will ease the contradictions with Soviet Russia or even no longer support the Russian Republic.
Therefore, it is natural that the ambassador of the Russian Republic to China soon asked Chen Jingyun to see Chen Jingyun and cautiously asked Chen Jingyun whether China's future foreign policy, especially China's diplomatic attitude toward Russia and the Soviet Union, would change.
Chen Jingyun told him very frankly that he would not be re-elected as the next president, but he assured that China's existing foreign strategy will not change, and the alliance between China and the Russian Republic will not waver in any way.
After receiving Chen Jingyun's affirmative reply, the Russian Republic side was a little relieved, although it was not known that it would be like this in the future, but according to Chen Jingyun's strong position in China, the guarantee he made should be able to bind the successor. As long as China can maintain its current foreign policy towards Russia and towards the Soviet Union, then Russia will not worry too much
The Russians are worried, and the Americans are also worried, because to a certain extent, the quasi-alliance between China and the United States is based on Chen Jingyun's personal attitude, and it was because of Chen Jingyun's anti-rhetorical attitude that the United States has always supported Chen Jingyun.
In the face of the Americans' worries, Chen Jingyun also made a promise that China's future foreign policy would not change in any way, and even in order to reassure the Americans, Chen Jingyun took the initiative to mention that he had no intention of resigning from the posts of chairman of the National Socialist Party and chairman of the State Military Commission.
Hearing such an obvious hint from Chen Jingyun, then the Americans can understand that Chen Jingyun's visit to the field this time is only superficial, and in fact he will continue to control the situation in China.
China in 1924 was extremely turbulent, even more turbulent than last year's Sino-Russian and Soviet wars, first with strikes, then purges, then the merger of the three parties, and finally Chen Jingyun's announcement that he would not run for the next president. These things add up one by one and constantly stir people's sensitive nerves.
And in such a turbulent situation, people need some good news to be motivated, and this matter is the issue of the repossession of the Shanghai Concession.
The negotiations on the Shanghai concession have been going on for many years, but they have not made much progress in the past few years, and the real negotiations have only begun after the end of the Sino-Chinese War last year, and the people in China are looking forward to this negotiation with great expectations.
On 24 June, after more than half a year of negotiations and many domestic turmoil, the negotiations between China, Britain and other countries on the early resumption of the Shanghai Concession finally came to an end.
Although people are still quite worried that Chen Jingyun will not continue to run for the next president, Chen Jingyun's words have already been released, and it is naturally impossible to change them, so they can only wait anxiously for the 1925 congressional election and the presidential election.