Chapter 279: Wooing the Parties
readx; Although those ordinary people don't know much about the political struggle at the top, and don't even understand what this parliamentary election is, they also know that these political struggles will affect the development of China's situation, and the overall situation in China will also affect the lives of ordinary people, for example, if the Beiyang Army and the National Army are not in harmony, Chen Jingyun and Yuan Shikai are determined to divide the victory and defeat, then war will break out again in southern Jiangsu. The war is enough to affect everyone's life, needless to say, the people in southern Jiangsu are affected by the war and their wives are separated or even injured by the chaotic army, and the people in other places will also be affected by these wars, the most obvious is that commercial activities are hindered when the war is carried out, resulting in the flow of goods is not smooth, and then affecting the lives of the people. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
What's more, because of the turbulent situation, all warlords are expanding their armies, and in order to expand their armies, they are arresting strong men everywhere, collecting taxes, and so on, all of which affect the vital interests of the people.
It is precisely because of such a big impact that most of the people are very concerned about this congressional election. Correspondingly, newspapers around the world are also reporting at length about the congressional election, which is true and false, and people are unlikely to learn the truth carefully, but through the newspapers, they can still learn about the latest trends in the situation in the country.
For example, after Liang Qichao accepted Yuan Shikai's invitation, he gathered a large group of pens to create momentum for the formation of a new party, and he himself traveled around the country to meet the leaders of various parties. All these things were carried out with great fanfare, and the newspapers naturally reported in detail, and ordinary people also learned about the imminent merger of the three parties.
However, it is not so simple for the three parties to merge to form a new party, whether it is Liang Qichao running around or Yuan Shikai has publicly expressed his support for the merger of several parties to form a new party. However, the conflict of interests between the various parties is not a matter of a few simple words. When the actual interests of all parties are involved, empty words are of little use.
Therefore, on the surface, Liang Qichao is running around, but secretly, Yuan Shikai's personal representative, Yang Du, is once again active among all forces, holding secret meetings with all parties and conducting negotiations related to the exchange of interests. For this reason, Yang Du not only traveled back and forth between Yanjing and Tianjin many times, but even secretly went to Shanghai again to meet with people from several other parties.
Liang Qichao and Yang Du moved around, trying to unite several major parties to fight against the Kuomintang in the Congress, for which the people from the Kuomintang also felt quite panicked, and Song Jiaoren even found some other small parties in an attempt to win them into joining the Kuomintang, and promised that as long as they joined the Kuomintang, everything would be easy to say. Not only did they win over small parties, but the Kuomintang people even talked to people from the United Party, the Republican Party, and the Democratic Party in an attempt to sabotage Liang Qichao's merger plan.
However, the United Party, the Republican Party, and the Democratic Party are not very compatible with the Kuomintang, and most of the first three parties are conservative constitutionalists, and they have no good feelings at all towards the Kuomintang transformed into the League, and the Kuomintang has always been regarded as an enemy in the previous congressional elections. What is more crucial is that now that the Kuomintang has too much power in the Congress, if it joins and then falls to the Kuomintang, those lieutenant colonel parties will not be able to keep their reading power at all, and they will inevitably be swallowed up by the Kuomintang and there will not even be any scum left, which is unbearable for those people.
This conflict of interests disappointed the KMT's attempt to win over other parties, but the Republican Party, the United Party, and the Democratic Party could not win over them, and the KMT could also win over other parties, that is, Chen Jingyun's Kuomintang and Cai Yi's and Tang Jiyao's United Republican Party.
Judging from the current situation, the three parties are all constitutional conservative forces, the new party that is ready to merge and form is also strongly supported by Yuan Shikai, and the Kuomintang is the base of the revolutionaries, and in addition to these two parties, there are also third-party forces in the Congress, that is, the National Socialist Party and the United Republican Party. However, these two parties have a strong reading surname, and these two parties have come out largely not to fight for control of Congress, but to stabilize their own turf. This is similar to that of both the Kuomintang and the United Republican Party, except that the Kuomintang has been more successful, and after vigorously implementing it in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces and in the Nationalist Army, the Kuomintang has become a sharp weapon under Chen Jingyun to control the territory and the army, and its performance in the National Assembly is only an incidental effect.
The National Socialist Party and the United Republican Party were in third and fifth place with more than 80 and 50 votes respectively, and although the combined votes of more than 100 votes were not much, they were enough to influence the direction of Congress at a critical moment.
In view of the antagonistic situation between the Beiyang Army and the Nationalist Army, it was impossible for the Kuomintang to support Yuan Shikai, so it was natural for Song Jiaoren to think of drawing the Kuomintang to the side of the Kuomintang.
"I know that our two parties have had many contradictions and conflicts before, but any contradictions and conflicts can be resolved through coordination!" Song Jiaoren looked at Qian Hanlang with a smile on his face and continued: "Now that the country has completed the republic, the next step is to work together to develop all aspects of the country's military and economy, so that the people can live a prosperous life, and this is the greatest responsibility of my generation!" Didn't you say that it is always a minority who make sacrifices for the country, but now we are the ones who need to make sacrifices, put aside our prejudices and cooperate for the sake of the country! ”
Qian Hanlang smiled and didn't speak, he didn't feel anything about Song Jiaoren's words, and he wasn't interested in talking about any cooperation with Song Jiaoren, don't talk about him, a group of high-level leaders in the Kuomintang basically didn't have a good attitude towards the Kuomintang, thinking that they were just a group of people who could only talk empty words and talk in generalities, and they could do anything for political purposes, and they could not abide by any principles. As long as you can grow and control the Congress, you can do anything.
But unlike the Kuomintang, the Kuomintang was a loose political alliance that developed from the League, and the two provinces of Anhui and Jiangxi were not very strong, so they were eager to take power from the National Assembly. However, the Kuomintang had the Nationalist Army, and then the Kuomintang, and in the process of its establishment, the Kuomintang had always had a full and strict party constitution, and its greatest purpose was to maintain its rule and control over the army, and it had a tight organization, which was not comparable to the loose political alliance of the Kuomintang.
As a political tool in Chen Jingyun's hands, the movements of the National Socialist Party have always been subordinated to Chen Jingyun's personal will. No matter which side the Kuomintang wants to support, it must consider the issue of interests from the perspective of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces and the Nationalist Army.
Although neither Chen Jingyun nor Qian Hanlang wanted the Kuomintang to merge, let alone Song Jiaoren's plan to merge the National Socialist Party into the Kuomintang, but now the National Assembly is in a critical state, and Chen Jingyun is also continuing to muddy the waters of the Congress, and then see if he can fish in the troubled waters, and finally provoke a war between the Kuomintang and Beiyang, Chen Jingyun has been waiting for the second revolution in history to break out, and then after Song Jiaoren was assassinated, the revolutionaries and the Beiyang Army will fight. But time has slowly passed, Song Jiaoren is still alive and well, and Yuan Shikai's side seems to be planning to form a new party to fight against the Kuomintang, and did not adopt a radical military crusade, which made Chen Jingyun a little disappointed.
So Chen Jingyun can only continue to wait now, wait for the situation to slowly become clear, and finally find an opportunity to show the fangs of the national army.
Under such circumstances, Chen Jingyun also adopted a vague attitude towards the Kuomintang's co-optation, and if it was really beneficial to himself, it was okay to cooperate, and if the Kuomintang was too ruthless and bent on annexing the Kuomintang Socialist Party, Chen Jingyun would not bother to dump them. In addition to talking with the Kuomintang, Chen Jingyun even met with Liang Qichao's people once, saying that he would invite the Kuomintang to join the newly formed Progressive Party to prevent the Kuomintang from becoming a monopoly. Chen Jingyun did not directly refuse this, talked slowly, and just dragged it out. Anyway, whether it was Song Jiaoren or Liang Qichao's initial joint cabinet, Chen Jingyun was not able to move, and in the joint cabinet method proposed by Song Jiao, Chen Jingyun was even appointed as the chief of the army and Huang Xing was appointed as the deputy minister. Especially Duan Qirui, he has already regarded the position of army chief in the official cabinet as his own, if he really lets Song Jiaoren form a cabinet and replace it with someone else, Duan Qirui can bear this breath.
On the contrary, Liang Qichao's plan was much more realistic, and he proposed that if he could defeat the Kuomintang in forming a cabinet in the future, then Chen Jingyun could be given two candidates for general chief, and the vice minister of the War Department could also be given to the Nationalist Army. Chen Jingyun definitely wouldn't go north to go to school like Cai Yi to throw himself into the net, so the conditions given were quite suitable.
But both Chen Jingyun and Yuan Shikai know in their hearts that in the near future, a new round of war between the Beiyang Army and the Nationalist Army will definitely break out within a year at most.
In this era when the barrel of the gun determines the position of the buttocks, the expansion of armaments is the only serious thing, and the rest is just incidental face-saving work. It's just that most of the people who can understand it are real-power warlords in various places, even Huang Xing and Sun Wen can understand it, but Song Jiaoren just can't understand it, he has to go to the Congress to fight, maybe he also understands it, but he still has to fight, and being able to achieve real national unity and development of people's livelihood in a peaceful way is a good thing for the whole of China, and Cai Yi's idea may be similar to the original.
In this congressional election, what Chen Jingyun has to do is to wait, and before the situation is clear, he will never show his hole cards.