1o82419o8 Far East Madman Chapter 343 Falling Yuan Shang

The atmosphere in the seat was extremely solemn. No one dared to speak. Some people lowered their hair. They were hunched on their toes but didn't know what they were thinking. Others stared at President Yuan Shikai and looked at President Yuan's face. The expression on his face was quite complicated.

Yuan Shikai stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back and looked at the heavy rain in the courtyard. His face was not despair, but so numb that he could not even notice that the raindrops floating into the room outside the window had already poured his front penis through.

The world is unpredictable. This warning is now circling in Yuan Shikai's mind. A sense of powerlessness makes Yuan Shikai unable to even vent his anger.

Betrayal! What behavior can make people more annoyed? But what's the use of annoyance? Yuan Shikai could betray the gentlemen who presided over the "Reform of 1898". Now someone betrayed him, Yuan Shikai, is also very righteous.

The person who betrayed Yuan Shikai was not a pound of people or a few people, but a group of people who did it through a large group of people was called Sheng Xuanhuai.

Sheng Xuanhuai is the Westernization General Sheng Xuanhuai who is known as the "Beiyang God of Wealth".

After years of career, Yuan Shikai and Sheng Xuanhuai are both enemies and friends for the common interests, they can work together without hesitation to establish an offensive and defensive alliance against those who threaten their status. When there are differences and contradictions in interests between them, they will also fight unceremoniously. This is the Beiyang law of action. There is no axiom here. The concept of justice revolves around interests.

For this benefit, members of Beiyang can share the same hatred and attack the enemy or take the lead in the way.

And the betrayal of Sheng Xuanhuai to Yuan Shikai is just like Yuan Shikai’s improper behavior to the Qing court.

It must be admitted that Yuan Shikai's luck is still good at least before Sheng Xuanhuai officially moved, he mastered this betrayal at this point. He must thank his brother Xu Shichang.

Without the secret seal that Xu Shichang just photographed! Yuan Shikai would probably be kept in the dark until he was overthrown by a group of Beiyang rebels.

There was no complicated content in Xu Shichang's telegram, but just told Yuan Shikai a news: Just yesterday, the Beiyang God of Wealth Sheng Xuanhuai, who lived in seclusion in Shanghai's public concession, sent a secret telegram to Governor Xu, who was in charge of the three eastern provinces, as a Beiyang Zhongren, announced his support for Xu Shichang's election for the official president of the Republic of China and pledged to ensure that all the funds required for the election were handled by Sheng Xuanhuai. As long as Xu Shichang half agreed to run for the official president, Sheng Xuanhuai could immediately give Xu Shichang one million yuan in silver dollars to be regarded as early election funds.

Xu Shichang did announce his participation in the official presidential election some day ago, but this was not Xu Shichang's own plan, but he came out of the "Junxian genius" Yang Du" and also won the support of Yuan Shikai.

The reason why Yuan Shikai made such an arrangement was completely Yang Dumou's small campaign tactics. The last time he announced that he would participate in the official presidential election was Yuan Shikai, Xu Shichang, Zhang Renjun, and Tao Chengzhang. Among these four people, Tao Chengzhang was a candidate nominated by the Kuomintang. His chance of winning in the presidential election was almost the same as Yuan Shikai, which made Yuan Shikai very worried. Yang Du suggested that Beiyang nominate another candidate to reduce Tao Chengzhang's support rate by dispersing the votes. In order to be foolproof and cover up, Guangdong's governor Zhang Renjun was also favored by Yuan Shikai, so he also plucked up the courage to announce his participation in the official presidential competition. However, on the surface, Zhang Renjun was not recommended by Beiyang but by the Junxian faction of Guangdong.

According to Yang Du's plan, if everything goes well, Yuan Shikai will definitely have enough votes to enter the next round of votes in the first round of votes. And by dispersing the votes, there is a high chance that Tao Chengzhang will be eliminated in the first round of votes. After entering the second round of votes, Xu Shichang and Zhang Renjun will announce their withdrawal from the election at the same time. In this way, Yuan Shikai, the only official presidential candidate, will win without any suspense.

Strategically speaking, this campaign tactic is quite clever and quite black, but the problem is that sometimes the plan often fails to keep up with the changes. When Yang Du was proud of himself, a sudden change made this campaign tactic very inappropriate.

This catastrophe is the "Hunan-Guizhou Incident." The Junxians of Hunan and Guizhou provinces took a coup to seize the political power of the two provinces, but they were not happy for a long time under the planning of Zhao Bei, the commander-in-chief of the Republican Army. After that, the Republican Army marched smoothly and successfully, it took only a short time to regain Hunan and Guizhou provinces to control the Southern Revolutionary Party.

The Junxian faction in Hunan and Guizhou provinces is relatively strong. It was originally the focus of Yuan Shikai and Yang Dura's votes. In fact, the reason why the "Xiang-Guizhou Incident" was born was not unrelated to Yuan Shikai's secret support. He hoped that the Junxian faction fully controlled the power of these two provinces to ensure that the election committee members were members of the Junxian faction. However, he never expected that his plan was just a trap set by Zhao Bei. Zhao Bei made full use of the social sentiment after the "Xiang-Guizhou Incident" and put Hunan and Guizhou in his own control. In this way, not only did the Junxian faction in Hunan, but also the wishful thinking of Yuan Shikai and Yang Du was lost.

More importantly, after the baptism of "dispute war", the revolutionary forces in the South further united and greatly increased the possibility of Tao Chengzhang winning the presidential election, which made Yuan Shikai very annoyed and worried.

Regarding this difficult situation, Junxian genius Yang Du was helpless. Yuan Shikai was worried and asked other confidants for advice. Zhao Bingjun and others gave him a pound of "destroying pottery" plan. Although he was a little hesitant, Yuan Shikai decided to take the risk in the end, so his subordinates ran for the master for a while and looked for the assassin.

Of course, in addition to Yuan Shikai, there are people who hope that Tao Chengzhang will die, but the Beiyang side is not clear about it.

Later, Tao Chengzhang was assassinated in the French Concession in Shanghai and was at a loss.

Yuan Shikai originally thought that the plan to "destroy pottery" was

""The certificate was planned to be long-lasting, but unexpectedly, a new change that he had unexpectedly changed in Sichuan Province

Tao Chengzhang died. The Kuomintang announced its disbandment. But then the Southern Revolutionaries announced the formation of a new political alliance called the "United Front". Because it absorbed more small parties, it made its momentum stronger. The new leader of this political alliance is more difficult to deal with than Tao Chengzhang because this person was Zhao Bei.

Zhao Bei is not Tao Chengzhang. He not only has prestige but also has a very combative army. If he is allowed to run for the official president, Yuan Shikai was not sure to eliminate this "Far East Madman" in the first round of voting.

So the Beiyang Army began to make a large-scale transfer of the South and the North to the South, and there was a momentum of conflict, but then the "United Front" suddenly announced that it would not nominate members of its party to participate in the official presidential election. Yuan Shikai then breathed a little relieved and thought that Zhao Bei did not have the courage to challenge him, so he ordered the Beiyang Army troops to postpone the schedule of the southward travel to see the situation before talking about it.

However, Yuan Shikai was deceived again. The United Front made this move. It was simply to use the smokescreen shots fired by the southern army to transfer north. During the days when the Beiyang Army was slow, many southern troops began to go to Hubei and Jiangxi. After Yuan Shikai reacted, the United Front's "Dawn of the South" operation had actually begun.

What happened later was the "South Henan War" that everyone knew. It can be said that both the north and the south had responsibilities in this battle, but the Beiyang side had greater responsibilities on the surface.

Rule Beiyang won the victory in this battle. Then everything is easy to say and just push the responsibility to the United Front. But the problem is that the winner of this battle is not Beiyang. But the United Front's result of the development of things is far from the original intention of Yuan Shikai and Yang Du. Not to mention running for president, even Yuan Shikai, the leader of Beiyang, is a bit unstable.

Now this telegram from Xu Shichang, the governor of the three eastern provinces, confirmed the concerns of Yuan Shikai and Yang Du. Seeing the Beiyang defeat, someone jumped out of the Beiyang group and they connected each other. It seemed that they were planning to change a new leader to Beiyang.

Although Sheng Xuanhuai was the one who stood out, he also understood that if they wanted to overthrow Yuan Shikai, their "literary factions" could not do it, so they decided to use Xu Shichang to attack Yuan Shikai to use the presidential campaign to push Yuan Shikai off the stage.

If Xu Shichang did not announce his withdrawal from the presidential election, Sheng Xuanhuai's group of people would have succeeded. This is exactly the main tactic of the Yuan faction.

After the disastrous defeat in southern Henan, Yuan Shikai's prestige was hit hard. Now it is all thanks to the hat of the "Interim President of the Republic of China" to decorate the storefront. If he can't keep the position of president, he will not be qualified to continue to lead Beiyang.

The Republic of China is Beiyang, the Republic of China is not Yuan Shikai alone. This is the consensus among many people in Beiyang without Beiyang support Yuan Shikai could not sit in this position. The reason why Beiyang fully supported Yuan Shikai to usurp the Qing Dynasty was completely out of the overall interests of the Beiyang Group.

Whether it is the "martial school" or the "cultural school." The only reason they support Yuan Shikai is that he can maintain the unity of Beiyang and protect the overall interests of Beiyang. If Yuan Shikai cannot do this, their loyalty to Yuan Shikai will be weakened even if the Beiyang generals promoted by Yuan Shikai have their own interests because they also have their own interests and this interest is dependent on the overall interests of Beiyang.

Where will the skin be attached if it does not have hair?

Now, due to the crushing defeat in southern Henan, the interests of the entire Beiyang Group are under threat. If you want to continue to maintain control of the center, it is necessary to kick out this "culprit" and act as a scapegoat to change the current disadvantage situation in Beiyang.

This is the main reason why Sheng Xuanhuai and others presided over the conspiracy to overthrow Yuan.

However, the friendship between Xu Shichang and Yuan Shikai is very unusual. If you want to convince Xu Shichang to overthrow the Yuan faction, you must be willing to spend money. The temptation of money alone is not enough. You must also use the power of foreigners. Because Beiyang itself relies on the support of foreigners to grow. Without the support of Britain and Japan, Beiyang cannot remain calm in internal and external troubles.

So the Yuan faction went to the Yuan faction to contact the four ministers of Britain, Japan, the United States and France through various relations and carefully solicited their position on the Beiyang "change horses". Among these four countries, the first thing to clarify the position was that the American minister immediately sent a secret telegram to the Consul General of the United States in Fengtian and ordered him to contact Xu Shichang as soon as possible to find out Xu Shichang's position.

This is the only reason why Xu Shichang visited Sidd. According to Xu Shichang, Sidd himself had no good impression of Yuan Shikai, so the United States probably supported the Yuan faction on the issue of "inverting Yuan".

Because Yuan Shikai is too close to Britain and Japan, the US government is very dissatisfied with it, and because of the Guangdong-Han-Han Railway, the US consortium has lost patience with Yuan Shikai. They hope that Beiyang can change to a leader who has a "friendly stance" towards the United States, and Xu Shichang has a good relationship with Sidd because of the matters of Railways and Industrial Banks in the three eastern provinces. Therefore, Americans have high expectations for Xu Shichang to become the new leader of Beiyang.

However, in addition to the United States, the British, Japanese, and French ambassadors to China were vague on the issue of "rejecting Yuan". The French ambassador refused the suggestion of the reversal of Yuan. The Japanese ambassador did not make a clear statement. As for the British ambassador Juerdian, he did not make a clear statement. However, as a British politician with good personal relationships with Yuan Shikai, Juerdian did not remind Yuan Shikai of the reversal of Yuan Shikai. He only hinted at the financial issue.

Zhu Erdian's ambiguous attitude made Yuan Shikai very worried that he had every reason to believe that Zhu Erdian used financial issues to imply that Sheng Xuanhuai's abnormal movements may not go out of a political standpoint but only go out of a private relationship. After all, the two have been dating for more than ten years, they are friends.
Chapter completed!