1o77219o8 Far East Madman Chapter 291 Direct Influence

There was a low "buzzing" sound in the auditorium of the Xunxian Conference. All the people in the audience were whispering to each other on the rostrum where the meeting was presided over, but there was no one there. Although Huang Xing and Tan Renfeng were standing under the rostrum and whispering, they obviously had no intention of going up to the rostrum and ringing the bronze bell to calm the auditorium, which was as lively as a vegetable market.

Everyone couldn't calm down. After all, this meeting was extraordinary. It was a political assassination and because it was an emergency meeting, it was impossible for the Constitutional Committee members to be on call. Many people were not allowed to contact each other in other places. Even local committee members could not be able to arrive in a short time. Many people still pulled the banquet to the venue. The alcohol was not over yet. There was really no way to say that they could shut up.

The news that the Kuomintang Prime Minister Tao Chengzhang was assassinated at the French Concession Work Department was enough to make people stunned. Most of them could not believe that the news was true at first. It was not until they arrived at the Constitutional Assembly Auditorium that they realized how rampant the assassins of this era were.

Speaking of this, this political assassination is not a rare thing this year. When the Qing Dynasty was not over, the revolutionaries repeatedly planned and carried out assassinations of the Qing dynasty officials. Former Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Tokshou, former Governor of Guangxi, Wang Zhichun, former Governor of the Ministry of Revenue, Tieliang, former Governor of the Ministry of Revenue, and Li Jun, former Governor of Guangdong Navy, were all powerful figures who were targeted by the revolutionary party's muzzle or bombs. The most famous of these assassinations was that Wu Yue, the "Northern Assassination Group" that was the assassination of the five constitutional ministers. The assassination used a powerful bomb and the assassination site was the Daqianmen Railway Station in Beijing, which was the train station where Hirobuki Ito, the Speaker of the Japanese Privy Council, was assassinated the day before yesterday.

Obviously, it is not only Chinese assassins and foreign assassins who are crazy these days, but also very bold.

It is particularly worth mentioning that the identity of Wu Yue, who assassinated overseas to investigate the five constitutional ministers, was not a formal member of the Restoration Association, but the Restoration Association has been promoting his deeds after the Revolution. The "Northern Assassination Group" he organized was classified as a peripheral organization of the Restoration Association, and the bomb used by Wu Yue was provided by the Restoration Association.

Tao Chengzhang, who is now assassinated in the French Concession, was the president of the Restoration Association before!

Cause and effect brushing

More than one of the Constitutional Committee members present thought about assassinating the revolutionary party in the south, and they were really the best in the Far East. They were fanatical believers of the Russian "Nevil Party".

However, none of the Constitutional Committee members dared to express this idea. After all, Tao Chengzhang is the leader of the "China's largest party", and the coalition party has clearly announced that it will seize power through parliamentary politics. So it is indeed not appropriate to dig out the old accounts of that year.

Speaking of which, this is the second time the Constitutional Assembly held a meeting to discuss the political assassination incident. The last time was a meeting to discuss the attempted assassination of the commander-in-chief of the Republican Army Zhao Bei by the "International Cabal Group" but later, the assassins were "unknown" in the prison fire in Huayang County, or died in prison or escaped. In short, after the Constitutional Assembly issued the order, it had already put the attempted assassination case on the shelf.

Compared with the Nashley murder case, Tao Chengzhang's assassination case is even more difficult because he did not catch the assassin at all. There was not even a suspect.

The assassin moved his hands in the back garden of the Concession Department. At that time, Prime Minister Tao was sitting in the pavilion with the French Consul General in Shanghai to cool off and got up to go to the banquet hall to attend the dinner. Assassin who had been lurking nearby suddenly shot two shots from behind the bushes and ran away, Tianyao did not leave any clues. Although the French Concession Police blocked the scene for a short time, they searched for nothing, but they didn't even know how the assassin sneaked into the Concession Department. And because the light was dim at that time, no one could see clearly the assassin's face or not, even if they didn't know whether the assassin was tall or short.

In the words of the French concession, this is a "headless case" unless the assassin surrenders himself, the possibility of solving it is very slim. Moreover, the French constable also said that there may be an assassin's accomplice in the Works Department. Otherwise, the words are not enough to explain why the assassin can penetrate smoothly and escape quietly. Perhaps the French consul will carry out a thorough "cleaning" work because the French consul is worried that one day he may become the target of the assassin.

How the French Concession "cleansed" the infidels is that the French Concession has nothing to do with the Constitutional Convention. The only issue that Constitutional Council is concerned about now is how to recover aftermath.

Now the congressional election and the formal presidential election are about to be held online. The Kuomintang, which was formed shortly afterwards, suddenly lost its political leader. This is undoubtedly a heavy blow to them. If the problem of the successor of the party leader cannot be solved, then this coalition party may face the danger of disbandment as soon as it was formed.

More importantly, there are only a dozen days before the congressional election. If the new party leader cannot be determined as quickly as possible, the Kuomintang will not be sure to win the county election.

So whether it is Huang Xing or Tan Renfeng, their most concerned issue now is not how to investigate the mastermind behind the scenes, but to choose a prestigious new party leader to continue to lead this complex-competent coalition party to avoid division.

Huang Xing and Tan Renfeng were not in the French Concession. They were kept by Tao Changzhang. "The list of the first party members' meeting of the joint party in Yibu, so they did not know the details of the assassination. It was only through the escort sent back by Song Jiaoren that they learned about Tao Chengzhang's death. However, the two of them were safe in their work. Although they notified the party cadres and the Constitutional Committee, they had not yet revealed the news to the press that the French Concession is currently implementing a blockade. Therefore, the news of Tao Chengzhang's assassination has not been made public. This meeting was considered a secret meeting.

Since the Kuomintang was formed by the Tongmenghui and the Restoration Society for the joint efforts of the foundation, the differences between these two revolutionary organizations were only united with the support of local powerful factions in the revolutionary camp. It can be said that Tao Chengzhang's status as prime minister of the party itself is not very stable. Now Tao Chengzhang died in favor of profit. This question of successor suddenly stumped everyone.

Although not many people know about the assassination now, some people have begun to discuss it privately. They speculate whether the assassination is a struggle for power within the Kuomintang. After all, the Tongmenghui and Wufuhui have been stalemate for a long time on the issue of party leader. If it weren't for the national telegram and newspaper statements by Zhao Bei, the commander-in-chief of the Republican Army, it would be almost impossible for Tao Chengzhang to be the party leader, and Zhao Bei himself was a cadre of the Restoration Association, so it would be difficult for some people of the Tongmenghui to convince.

Of course, there is another possibility that this assassination may be another possibility. Maybe Tao Chengzhang died not by the hands of the opposition within the party but by the competitors of the presidential election. After all, the Kuomintang is known as "the largest party in China." Tao Chengzhang's call for the election of the formal president is very high and it is hard to guarantee that he will not be regarded as a thorn in his eyes.

As of yesterday, there are only four interim presidential elections that have announced that they will participate in the official presidential election. The most likely possibility of being elected is that Tao Cheng is the second to be elected. The second is that there are two Guangdong Governor Zhang Renjun, who is the candidate elected by the Guangdong Constitutionalists, but the possibility of being elected is Xu Shichang, the governor of the three eastern provinces. He was jointly elected by the Beiyang generals, but in fact he came out of Yuan Shikai's plan. This can also be seen as the Beiyang Group's response plan. The method of sharing votes is used to gradually increase the chances of winning of the Beiyang Group. There must be experts behind the guidance of Zhang Renjun's election, and Zhang Renjun's run is likely to be for the same purpose.

If Tao Chengzhang really died at the hands of his presidential opponents after this analysis, then the most likely suspect that Beiyang Group is the mastermind behind the scenes can even be directly pointed at Yuan Shikai.

But all this is speculation and no evidence. However, no matter who was the assassination of Tao Chengzhang, he put himself in a situation that thousands of people pointed out. Now the revolution has been successful and the republic has come to an end. Everyone hopes to quickly stabilize the national situation. If Tao Chengzhang wins the presidential election and becomes the official president, then the unification of the government orders of the north and the south will have a good premise. Even if he cannot be elected as the official president, the Kuomintang can guarantee to control the majority seats of the parliament. Then it can also lay the foundation for the unification of the government orders of the north and the south.

But now the mastermind behind the assassination was not only trying to wipe out the efforts to reunify the government orders in peace, but also put the differences between the north and the south from the bottom to the tabletop with rough and barbaric means to stimulate the nerves of the powerful southerners. This can only be described as crazy.

The Constitutional Committee members performed differently in the assassination of the Dow, some were heartbroken. Some were gloating, some were watching, some were right and wrong, but after everyone calmed down, they also paid attention to the issue of the successor of the party leader, the Kuomintang, especially regarded this matter as the party's top priority at present.

When! When!

The bronze bell on the rostrum rang two times before the Constitutional Committee members calmed down and looked to the rostrum to see Huang Xing, one of the "Ten Secretary-Generals" of the Kuomintang, who was already standing there.

"Everyone is quiet!"

Huang Xing stood upright and looked at the Constitutional Committee members with a solemn expression, and said word by word: "It is really heartbreaking for the unfortunate murder of our party leader. The French Concession had moved Prime Minister Tao's spiritual cabinet to Nanshi after party consultations. After party consultation, a mourning hall was set up in front of the main gate of the Constitutional Committee to accept condolences from all parties. Just now, the cadres of our party have also rushed back to Nanshi. Now, Mr. Song Dunchu is asking you to read the will orally stated by Prime Minister Tao on his deathbed."

As soon as Huang Xing finished speaking, there was a "buzzing" sound in the auditorium.

It was so surprising that Tao Chengzhang actually left a will? Everyone turned their eyes to the entrance of the auditorium and wanted to know what Tao Chengzhang said in his will.

Some people walked into the entrance of the auditorium and walked in front of Song Jiaoren and Li Sousu, but they did not immediately walk onto the rostrum but stood under the rostrum and Huang Xing. Tan Renfeng whispered to recommend.

The Constitutional Committee members and members of the political party delegation stood up and looked up, but they saw that the people under the rostrum all looked solemn, whether they were from the Tongmenghui or the Restoration Society. Everyone stared at Song Jiaoren.
Chapter completed!