In the small meeting of four people, Pu Ji said with a grinning attitude that it was a big deal to collect money and not do anything, Cao Kun was a fool, and he would not take this money for nothing. It made Yang Du smile bitterly, and Dongfang Hong whispered on the side: "Xiushuai means that you can't ask for it." Pu Ji was surprised: "Why can't you ask for it?" ”

"Some money can reach out, and some money must not reach out." Dongfang Hong said.

Yang Du nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Dongfang Hong said again: "Cao Kun has been harassing Xiushuai all along, asking Xiushuai to support him as president, and Xiushuai is overwhelmed. We can take advantage of this to get Cao Kun out of the election. Liu Enge and Pu Ji asked how to do it, Dongfang Hong said that we are like this and this, Yang Du smiled and nodded without speaking, and after discussion, Pu Ji found Wang Maoru and asked him for instructions, Wang Maoru also smiled and said that he supported.

After Yang Du came back, he said to Wang Maoru: "Dongfang Hong is a talent, or he can inherit my mantle." ”

Wang Maoru said with a smile: "Brother Huizi is planning to accept apprentices?" ”

Yang Du nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Wang Maoru said: "This person is a thousand miles of horses, uncontrollable." ”

Yang Du said: "In the past, Zhuge Liang Chan tried his best to guard against Wei Yan, did Xiu Shuai think he was Wei Yan? ”

Wang Maoru laughed silently.

A few days later, the members of the Youth Promotion Association suddenly announced the news that Cao Kun had bribed him on Capitol Hill, and took out all the bribes, and when the 200,000 oceans were gathered in the Congress, Liu Enge, the speaker of the House of Representatives, shouted angrily to all the members with a distorted face: "How can the national law be trampled on by money." We don't want this money, and ask Cao Kun to send someone to take it back. Otherwise, I will mention yì and the parliamentarians who support Cao Kun will help him bring him back. How is it? ”

500,000 silver dollars were placed in the center of the venue, who would dare to do it? Who dares to touch it?

The members of the Progressive Party who originally supported Cao Kun turned pale, they did not expect that the presidential candidate they supported would actually bribe their opponents at this time, and the most important thing is that the members of the Progressive Party did not receive half of the benefits, and everyone gritted their teeth with hatred.

Liu Enge said justly: "Li Yanqing, the financial director of the Department of Railways, took advantage of his official duties to bribe parliamentarians. As the President of the Senate, I propose the impeachment of Li Yanqing, and the presidential candidate Cao Kun sent Li Yanqing to bribe the election, and I propose the impeachment of presidential candidate Cao Kun. At this time, Liu Enge secretly rejoiced in his heart. Glad that he was not deceived by the ocean of 10,000 yuan, otherwise how could the person who was impeached here be himself?

Members of the Senate expressed their support for Liu Enge and passed the impeachment ordinance on the spot. In the afternoon of the same day. Newspapers across the country were running news that Cao Kun had sent Li Yanqing to bribe the election. The news of the impeachment of the two by the House of Representatives was also published. Immediately, this news caused a national shock, and the people of the country took to the streets to protest against the bribery of presidential candidate Cao Kun, demanding that he go down to the field to apologize, and some even demanded that Cao Kun commit suicide to apologize.

When Cao Kun learned the news, it was the next day, and no one informed Cao Kun that afternoon, because he took his subordinates and recruited a few celebrities to run to Bada Hutong to play with a few singers. And in order not to be found out by his opponents, he bought celebrities. Cao Kun specially picked up the quietest and most difficult place to be discovered, and even his subordinates did not find him. After Cao Kun's henchman Li Yanqing learned the news. I was so anxious that I almost hanged myself, and it wasn't until the next day that Cao Kun went home and learned about the severity of the matter.

Cao Kun read the newspaper and almost fainted, this matter was actually reported? He hurriedly found the mayor of Beijing, Xia Chao, and asked Xia Chao to suppress the demonstration, Xia Chao sneered and said How can I go against the will of the people. The mayor of Tianjin, Cao Rui, foolishly ordered the police to suppress the crowd of demonstrators in Tianjin, but the chief of the Tianjin police refused. Wu Peifu, Cao Kun's former ministry in Mongolia, sent a telegram, asking Cao Kun to avoid the limelight, not to confront public opinion at this time, and demanding that Cao Kun severely punish the staff who offered the idea of bribing the election. The staff member saw that his bad idea was unfavorable to Cao Kun, and he had already absconded with Cao Kun's activity funds.

In the midst of invective, Cao Kun reluctantly announced that he would withdraw from the presidential race, and interim premier Tang Shaoyi also dismissed Li Yanqing from the post of treasurer of the Railway Department of the Ministry of Communications and removed Cao Rui from the post of mayor of Tianjin, and the bribery scandal ended here.

The number of senators and houses of the Republic of China in history is far larger than the number of current senators and the House of Representatives, at that time, Cao Kun obtained state power as the chief of the army, and moved the country's military spending, and the entire bribery spent a total of 32.42 million oceans, bribed parties and individuals, and finally succeeded in becoming president. It was precisely because of Cao Kun's bribery that Feng Yuxiang and other soldiers in the direct army were dissatisfied, and in order to be elected president, he actually diverted the military expenses of his subordinates for the next year, which Cao Kun was really stupid at that time. It is no wonder that during the Second Zhifeng War, Feng Yuxiang betrayed and betrayed, and so many direct troops responded.

After the farce of Cao Kun's bribery, the Progressive Party, which originally supported Cao Kun, had to change the direction of its support and supported President Xu Shichanglai. On the contrary, Xu Shichang became the biggest beneficiary because of Cao Kun's bribery, winning 9% of the votes in the House of Representatives. At present, 34 percent of the votes in the National Assembly are in favor of Meng Enyuan and 31 percent in favor of Sun Liwen, and the 26 percent votes of the Youth Promotion Association are extremely important.

Moreover, the Youth Promotion Association showed Cao Kun, which showed that this young party was extremely fair and honest, and because their party members were all young people, many young people participated in this party. Sun Wen, Xu Shichang and Meng Enyuan kept sending people to intercede with Liu Enge, promising that there would definitely be a place for the Youth Promotion Association in the country in the future.

Liu Enge was forced to be anxious, so he had to say that the Youth Promotion Association was originally a party established by a group of young people who admired the martial generalissimo Wang Maoru, and at the beginning of the founding of the party, he did not expect that it would affect the Congress in the future, so the Youth Promotion Association did not submit a presidential candidate in this presidential election. After Wang Maoru announced that the soldiers would not run for election, if you want to get the support of the Youth Promotion Association, you must first obtain the support of the Generalissimo Shangwu, if Wang Maoru supports whom, the Youth Promotion Association must support whom.

When Cao Kun was missing, the Youth Promotion Association stated that only Wang Maoru ordered him to follow, and now Meng Enyuan, Sun Liwen and Xu Shichang had more purpose and direction. Now the votes of the three are 34%:31%:9%, even if Xu Shichang, who is the least, gets 26% of the votes of the Youth Promotion Association, then his total votes will reach 35%, and he will win by a narrow margin and turn the situation around, so Xu Shichang will not give up this only opportunity.

In today's government, because of the presidential election, the important affairs of the country have been handed over by the presidential office to Premier Tang Shaoyi, the president is busy campaigning, and the prime minister is busy doing things, which has become a peculiar landscape of the Republic of China.

In fact, since the Republic of China, whether it is the presidential responsibility system or the prime minister's responsibility system has always been the focus of debate, which is also the focus of previous government disputes. Is it the American system or the French system that is involved?

In the United States, it seems that the president is in charge, but in fact the secretary of state is in charge of the entire government, while in France it is the president who is in charge of the entire country. In the early years of the Republic of China, when Tang Shaoyi established the entire national system, he considered curbing the power of President Yuan Shikai, so he followed the example of the United States and used Congress and the prime minister to limit the power of the president. In the United States, state power is basically in the hands of Congress, which can impeach or veto the president, which is also the original intention of Yuan Shikai to dissolve Congress later.

At this time, when the position of China's president is in people's hearts, especially when the country's 90 percent of the people are illiterate, many people do not understand what a president is, and most people accept the explanation that the president is equivalent to the emperor. Yes, the Chinese people don't understand what the president is, what is the prime minister, most people think that the president is the emperor, but it is no longer passed on to the son, the prime minister is the prime minister, and there are countless examples of the struggle between the imperial power and the prime minister in Chinese history. The most appropriate explanation for the dispute between the presidential palace and the State Council is the struggle between the emperors.

After the bribery of the August presidential candidate Cao Kun in the Republic of China, speculation about the president has become the headline of major news newspapers, but at this time, there is another important thing happening.

Tsarist Russia finally reached a consensus with the military under the mediation of the empress to recognize the Outer Northeast and Outer Northwest regions that had been occupied by China. Kolchak, the supreme commander of Tsarist Russia, angrily denounced this move as a stupid act of surrender, and even threatened his resignation to demand that the empress withdraw the order, and staged a military coup.

Utkin was about to sign the agreement a second before he was suddenly stopped by an intensification telegram, Kolchak put the empress under house arrest, the empress became a puppet, and the tough Kolchak agent disposed of all the size of the country. Kolchak's military coup was supported by Prime Minister Jacques Vyshoshenko and Chief of the General Staff Beravierje, who, although friendly to China, sided with the motherland in the face of territorial disputes.

No one will ever abandon their allegiance to the Motherland because of friendship, and from this point of view, there is nothing wrong with Yak Vyshoshenko and Berevje.

Tsarist Russia became a military state, which made Russia more cohesive, and Kolchak did not forget to invade Moscow at any time, and he immediately heralded the entry of a large number of Russians into the army. As a result of Kolchak's madness, more and more Russians fled to other countries. The military coup d'état of Tsarist Russia did not affect the decisive battle of Tsaritsyn, and because Kolchak stopped the empress from abandoning the disputed territories in the Far East, it avoided the uncertainty of the Tsarist army and preserved its morale, otherwise once this news was revealed, the Tsarist army would have been defeated. Once again, Kolchak saved Russia, saved the tsarist government. (To be continued.) )

ps:ps: Regarding Tang Baoqi, please watch it in the related works, Simon has already written an explanation. As for Time Magazine, it's true that Simon didn't find out, sorry, just as they crossed over...... Ha ha