The Revolution of 1911, Asia's first independent republic was established, ending China's inherent system of more than two thousand years; the five-ethnic republic, democracy, constitutionalism, and rule of law have since become the mantra of all officials, both civil and military, and both the government and the public - Good novel:

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To a certain extent, the Congress has become a symbol of Asia's first republic. The Congress of the Republic of China was the first Congress after the founding of Japan. On August 27, 1912, the provisional president

Yuan Shikai promulgated the Congress Organic Law, the Senate Member Election Law and the House of Representatives Election Law formulated by the Provisional Senate, and established a temporary agency "Preparatory Congressional Affairs Bureau". According to the Congress Organic Law, Congress is divided into upper and lower

Houses: Senate and House of Representatives.

Senators, 22 provinces, 10 in each province; Inner and Outer Mongolia, Taiwan, and Qinghai each have election meetings to elect 27, 10, and 3 respectively; another 8 are elected by the Central Society; overseas Chinese in various places elect

According to the statutory quota, there are 274 senators in total. Following the American system, the term is six years and elected every two years to maintain its metabolism.

The number of representatives is determined according to the population of each region. One representative is elected for every 800,000 people. However, each province has at least 10 representatives. Small provinces with a population of less than 8 million are also elected. Only Mongolia, **, and Qinghai

Then the number of senators and representatives is equal. Among the 22 provinces, the direct-controlled province has the largest population, with 46 representatives. The provinces with the least population, such as Xinjiang, Jilin, and Heilongjiang, each elect 10 representatives. The number of other provinces varies. The term is three years.

It is a term with an election every three years. The election is divided into primary and secondary elections. There are many regulations and they are not all included. According to the statutory quota, there are 596 members of the House of Representatives in the country. There are 841 members of the Senate, the House of Representatives and the two houses in total.

From early December 1912 to March 1913, members of the House of Representatives and the Senate were elected across the country in accordance with the electoral law. There were more than 40 million registered voters, accounting for 9.98% of the national population. In terms of the proportion of voters, in this era, it was also

Not inferior to countries such as Europe and the United States. For two thousand years, the Chinese have participated in a government in a general sense every time.

The elected members mainly include political activists, freelancers, former officials of the Qing Dynasty, etc. In China's Congress, although there are the Progressive Party, the Communist Party, other small parties, independents, and the president

Straightforward MPs from Mongolia and Tibet, but any foreign observer in China knows - other book friends are reading: The Congress of this first republic in Asia is composed of factions, not political parties.

The so-called factions are mainly small political groups formed based on various relationships, kinship relationships, teacher-student relationships, classmate relationships, hometown relationships, family friendship relationships, staff relationships, colleague relationships, marriage relationships, etc. and interests. These factions do not have

A stable political platform lacks ideological consensus and has a weak foundation; the factions are very unstable. The relationship between the factions often changes. Although these factions also form so-called political parties, party discipline is loose and members often work across

There are many parties. People often defect from the party because of the temptation of money and official position.

After 1911, the two factions had the same spirit. At this time, the political parties had no obvious differences in their party ideology. Each party aimed to compete for seats in the Congress. "Everyone wants to show their skills and only care about the purpose. The original partisan character disappears."

.Except for a few visionaries, political party figures do not regard developing the party as their professional ambition." The so-called political party is "in name only, but in reality it is a faction."

The political party was probably in name only, but the Congress was in reality. However, in July of the second year of the Communist Party of China, Sun Yat-sen organized a second revolution and failed. After being elected as the official president, Yuan Shikai ordered the dissolution of the Communist Party on the charge of "rebellion" and expelled him.

** members of Congress, which caused the Congress to be suspended due to insufficient numbers and unable to function. The following year, Yuan Shikai formally dissolved the Congress. Then, Yuan Shikai ordered the dissolution of the provincial councils.

As a result, the National Assembly, which was the main symbol of Asia's first republic, was dissolved, but China is still the first republic in Asia, but only two words are missing.

The elected ones can be disbanded, and the disbanded ones can be restored, it just varies from time to time!

"Restore Congress!"

Raising his head and looking towards Liang Shiyi, Yuan Shikai couldn't figure out why.

Even thinking about Congress makes his hair tingle.

It can be said that the Congress at that time made Yuan Shikai panic. It was a group that could not be eliminated with guns. Other book friends are reading: Not only can it not be eliminated, it must be respected, and it must also be given a smile.

Therefore, he thought hard for a while before he came up with a way to deal with Congress.

Therefore, he must respect it and lift the Congress to the sky;

He wants to make claims and use Congress as a shield;

He will gradually purify Congress and make it his tool;

He only intends to use it as a cover to run the Congress.

After all, the established Congress is a gathering of the contemporary elites in the country. It includes celebrities from all political circles, leaders from various academic circles, and local overlords. Otherwise, any party will cause trouble, especially the Communist Party.

Fortunately, in the end, Sun Wen himself took action and the Congress was destroyed. The second revolution, what kind of revolution, is a rebellion. Rebellion is easy to deal with. First quell it and then investigate. After Yuan Shikai becomes the official president, he will naturally be able to investigate those who "launched the rebellion"

Therefore, "rebellion" became the best reason. The government was dissolved, the members of the National Assembly were expelled, and there were not enough members of Congress to act. It didn't matter. We convened a separate "political meeting" and "law making".

"Conference" to replace the Congress, and then the dissolution of the Congress. In order to prevent the "resurrection" of the Congress, it even ordered the dissolution of the provincial councils. Only the Jiangsu Provincial Council refused to dissolve the provincial council in the name of "disobeying orders."

But those are only a few provinces, and the overall situation is still under his control. Moreover, the Jiangsu Provincial Congress also performed meritorious services during the second revolution. Naturally, Yuan Shikai will not pursue anything further. But now, Liang Shiyi actually asked him to reinstate the Congress.

Isn’t this a waste of effort? He, Liang Jifu, did not contribute to why the Congress was dissolved in the first place. Why did he say something to the contrary today?

For a moment, Yuan Shikai really couldn't figure out what Liang Jifu was thinking, but he couldn't show it. As a superior, even if he didn't understand, he couldn't say he didn't understand, let alone understand. Otherwise, what would these staff do?

More importantly, he wanted to hear how Liang Jifu responded to his argument.

Yuan Shikai didn't speak at this time. He picked up the cigar that he had extinguished in front of him, lit it, and then walked slowly around the table - Good novel:.

Liang Shiyi was familiar with Yuan Shikai's character. Others could not force him to do things he did not want to do. If he was persuaded, he would pace silently. Seeing this situation, Liang Shiyi, who had participated in the whole secret conspiracy to dissolve Congress, didn't know what the president was worried about?

, so he commented.

"President, today is different from the past. In the past, we dissolved the Congress because of the situation. Now it is also the situation that we need to restore the Congress!" Liang Shiyi knew that if he could not convince Yuan Shikai today, then all his plans could be said to be his wedding dress. See you.

The president seemed to be somewhat interested in what he said, so he continued to comment:

"In the past, we were dealing with the Communist Party. That group of people knew nothing but chaos in politics, so we had to disband it. Only in this way can the country's political situation be stabilized. But now, we have to deal with Li Zhiyuan, so

, we just need this Congress.”

"Tell me in detail!"

Upon hearing what Liang Shiyi said, Yuan Shikai hurriedly spoke. Probably realizing that he was a little impatient, he paused for a moment before speaking.

"What's the difference in dealing with Li Zhiyuan?"

Let Li Zhiyuan be the Prime Minister. Yuan Shikai was originally unwilling to do so, but he had to do it as a last resort. He had to show his courage to the people and his meritocracy. Of course, more importantly

It is a "soldier that conquers the enemy without fighting". It is worth using the title of Prime Minister to send his 200,000 troops to Europe!

But knowing the value in his heart does not mean that Yuan Shikai is willing to have a prime minister to divide his power. Therefore, although Liang Shiyi's words were not made clear yet, Yuan Shikai understood the meaning of his words.

“Use Congress to check and balance the State Department!”

Liang Shiyi slowly expressed his idea. For him, he would probably choose to cooperate with Li Zicheng, but it did not mean that he would turn to Li Zicheng. For Liang Shiyi, the most important thing was the power in his hands.

At this time, Liang Shiyi's mentality was completely different from that in the past. He even regarded himself as a part of this power game.

He wanted to use Li Zicheng to balance Yuan Shikai, he wanted to use Congress to balance Li Zicheng, and finally he used Yuan Shikai to balance Congress. But he, Liang Shiyi, was ultimately the person in charge of this game, and as the person in charge of this game,

He must have the ability to restrict all three parties. Only in this way can he, the Secretary-General of the Presidential Office, maintain a detached position in the future - Good novel:.

Looking at the President, Liang Shiyi, who had worked with the President to abolish the Congress, naturally knew why Yuan Shikai was afraid of the Congress and afraid of the Congress. Therefore, if he wanted the President to agree to restore the Congress, he must first make the President realize that

Not only would there be no downside to restoring Congress, but there would also be benefits and, well, probably a little downside.

"President, can you still remember that when Zhiquan was acting as Prime Minister, members of Congress questioned Zhiquan about borrowing money?"

Looking at the president, Liang Shiyi mentioned an old incident, which was caused by Yuan Shikai's avoidance of Congress. At that time, in order to avoid Congress from consulting on state affairs, Yuan Shikai stipulated that "all matters belonging to the public government shall be managed by the Prime Minister and the State Councilor"

Go answer!", so he successfully got rid of the complexity of consulting on state affairs.

At that time, the State Council had Duan Qirui as the acting prime minister, and the Congress was boiling over the borrowing issue. Faced with the parliamentary inquiry, Duan Qirui naturally did not know how to deal with it. Before going to the House of Representatives, he asked Yuan Shikai for help, but

Yuan Shikai only used a few words to "prevaricate", "discretion" and "calm down", but he only said two words in the Senate of the National Assembly without any explanation, and then walked away.

When Duan Qirui left, the congressmen suddenly became stunned. Those congressmen who knew a little about the Republic and the Communist Party were all dumbfounded. They could not imagine that the prime minister of the government under their supervision dared to be so ignorant.

**! Staring and dumbfounding, the Acting Prime Minister left without hesitation.

After Duan Qirui left, how could the House of Representatives in the National Assembly be willing? They were either clamoring to return the speech to the government to see how he would explain it to the people. Or they were clamoring to impeach the government immediately and ask if they still have people in their eyes.

.But in the end, we had no choice but to let it go.

How could Yuan Shikai not be impressed by this incident? It was his first "victory" against the Congress, and it was that incident that made him realize that the Congress was nothing but "a strong external force but a powerful internal force". Those members of Congress were elected by the people of the world over and over again.

They were the spokesmen, but it was that time that made Yuan Shikai understand that dealing with them was no different from dealing with ordinary officials, at least most of them were like that.

Thinking about his great victory over the Congress, a smile appeared on Yuan Shikai's face, and he looked at Liang Shiyi with a smile. It was not he who saw the hypocrisy of the Congress from this incident, and thus formulated the "step-by-step" plan.

In the end, Congress was "forced to death" step by step.

Thinking of the past and contacting Liang Shiyi about his past achievements, Yuan Shikai realized that he had misunderstood him a lot. Yang Shiqi and others said that he had bad intentions by befriending soldiers. But Yuan Shikai, who was born in the military and had been in the officialdom for decades, understood

, those soldiers didn't take Liang Shiyi seriously at all. As for Yang Shiqi and others, they were just jealous of his power and slandered him.

In connection with the recent months, Liang Shiyi was busy before and after. Thinking of his misunderstanding of him, Yuan Shikai warned himself in his heart.

"Lu Yao knows the power of the horse. You must not listen to one thing or believe it in the future!"

At this time, Yuan Shikai naturally believed that the dismissal of Liang Shiyi was due to the slander made by Yang Shiqi and others. But he just "misheard" it.

"Although it calmed down later, at that time, Zhiquan was very tired of dealing with it!"

Yuan Shikai said with emotion that it could be said that it was that incident that made Duan Qirui, who was struggling to cope, take the initiative to resign from him. And Yuan Shikai was naturally happy to go along with the situation and grant his resignation.

Mentioning this old incident, Yuan Shikai's eyes suddenly lit up. He looked at Liang Shiyi, and the smile on his face gradually grew. Liang Jifu wanted to cause trouble to him or Li Zicheng, but he simply wanted to use the Congress's justifiable "waste Li".

"President. Those members of the House of Representatives wanted to return the speech to the government to see how the government would explain it to the people. Some even wanted to impeach the government immediately! But in the end they had no choice but to leave it alone. Why is that?"

When he asked a rhetorical question, Liang Shiyi smiled in his heart. Those members of the House of Representatives were really too cynical. China is China, and it is China that has followed the path of feudalism for thousands of years! Who has the power, and whose hands are the military?

, whose hands are the etiquette and law? The supervisory power is given by them. Never forget that the supervisory power he gives you is not really for you to supervise him - other book friends are reading:.

Just show it off. If you really exercise it, you will end up supervising them.

Liang Shiyi's words made Yuan Shikai nod. Of course he knew why. But then Liang Shiyi continued:

"President, if you had supported Congress back then, what would have happened to this incident?"

Support Congress?
To be continued...