Beiyang reactionaries

Duan Xun was very embarrassed.Because the people involved are all Duan Xun's elders, and some of them are even from Duan Qirui's direct lineage, and have helped Duan Xun before.But sometimes all it takes is determination.

If Duan Xun is hesitant, then these people will always do things that are on the edge of the law by virtue of their qualifications in the Beiyang Army.He will even become more and more fond of intervening in the affairs of the Jun Xun government.

This is something Duan Xun cannot tolerate.

"We just announced that we will carry out a large-scale anti-smoking campaign across the country. If we can't even deal with the matter in Beijing, how can it be convincing. This matter is a matter of the Ministry of Justice. President Dong (Dong Kang), President You (You Min) ), you two departments cooperate and check for me. If there is any resistance, let them come to me."

"Yes."

Duan Xun finally made up his mind.

If I don't really touch these people, I will never be able to completely separate myself from the Beiyang Army.Some politicians and soldiers of the Beiyang Army still need to be dealt with.

Why do many people say that politicians are cruel and politicians are ruthless.

Because sometimes, if people in politics are sentimental, they have to be scruples in all aspects, and they want to be comprehensive, then it will be bad.It should even be said that for a politician with too much human touch, ordinary people may look good and think that this person is good.But in fact, such people are the most incompetent politicians.This kind of person can do bad things instead, and will delay the important affairs of the country.

Now is the best chance.

If Duan Xun is hesitant now, it will be even more difficult to deal with those people when they become popular.Therefore, although there will be a lot of resistance, Duan Xun still made up his mind.If you don't even dare to deal with this point, how will you deal with the forces of those great powers in the future.

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When Duan Xun was preparing to organize the opium trade in Beijing, the Congress was also doing it at the same time.

1922 3 Month 27 Day.

本该是讨论卢永祥提出的议案的日子，但王揖唐以参议院议长的身份宣布，推迟讨论卢永祥的提案。卢永祥提案被推迟到1922年4月3日。3月27日这一天的开会内容变成了如何处理内阁转交过来的34名国会议员。因为这是突发事情。

Not many surprises.

It is a discussion, but in fact there is not much value for discussion.

Because the regulations are clearly there.The "Government Staff Handbook" of the cabinet is not only a decision of the cabinet, but also signed by the president and approved by Congress.In that manual, Duan Xun's words were directly printed.Anyone who violates the four principles of government officials, which refers to going to brothels, gambling, smoking opium, and taking bribes, will be expelled and not allowed to continue to hold government positions.This starts from the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, down to members of Congress, and government officials without exception.Members of Congress at the time just regarded this as a political show by Duan Xun.

It's not a big deal.

Since the founding of the Republic of China, those warlords who have served as the president and the prime minister of the cabinet will have such actions just after taking office.They will use such actions to improve their reputation.

So no one takes this thing to heart.Although it says that this "government staff manual" includes cabinet members and members of Congress, none of those members of Congress really think that this thing can control them.So the resolution passed smoothly.

But who would have thought that Duan Xun would really use this thing on them.

unambiguous evidence.

These congressmen were all caught on the spot.And there are photos, there are a lot of confessions, and the evidence is solid.Under the pressure of the cabinet and the attention of public opinion, there is no room for maneuver.

These 34 people must be terminated as MPs.Originally, many people hoped to use Lu Yongxiang's proposal to bargain with Duan Xun.Duan Xun let these 34 people go, but Congress rejected Lu Yongxiang's proposal.Congress wants to make a deal with Duan Xun and the cabinet.

As long as the cabinet does not give pressure, then the attention of public opinion is actually nothing.Congress has plenty of ways to delay things for a while.When everyone doesn't pay attention, this matter can be rounded up.

But Duan Xun didn't give them any chance to bargain at all.

Direct threats to members of Congress.

If he dares to make any small moves on Lu Yongxiang's matter, Duan Xun will definitely make Congress go crazy. What is 34 people, but Duan Xun has a list of hundreds of people in his hand.

If everything is announced, Congress will really close its doors.Even if the door is not closed, those congressmen will lose face and have no right to dictate to the cabinet.

Therefore, although many members of Congress do not want Congress to be suppressed by the cabinet in this way, they can only admit it with their noses pinched.As the President of the Senate, Wang Yitang absolutely must not allow anything to happen in Congress.Therefore, Wang Yitang and members of Congress can only accept the advice of the cabinet. On March 3, the House of Representatives took the lead in voting.

Without any suspense, the proposal to terminate the qualifications of 34 members of Congress was easily passed.

On March 1922, 3, the Senate met.

Nothing else happened in the Senate, and the proposal to terminate 34 members of Congress was passed smoothly.So far, the House of Representatives and the Senate have successively passed bills, and the 34 members of Congress who were arrested that night were regarded as unlucky ghosts, as the chickens that killed chickens and monkeys, and terminated their qualifications as members of Congress.

Moreover, the cabinet and the National Assembly announced at the same time that those who violated the four guidelines for government employees and were disqualified as cabinet members will not be eligible to run for office again within eight years.Members include county councilors and provincial councilors.

Not just parliamentary qualifications.

These people are not allowed to work in other government agencies for eight years.The 34 people arrested this time are not only members of Congress, but also [-] people who are members of their respective provincial councils.

Therefore, at the same time as the termination of their qualifications as members of the National Assembly, the cabinet and the National Assembly sent an official letter to the provincial assembly where they were located, requesting the provincial assembly to terminate their qualifications as a member of the provincial assembly.

sensation.

In fact, this is not the first time since the founding of the Republic of China.

As early as when Yuan Shikai was there, hundreds of members of Congress were terminated at one time.Later, Duan Qirui did the same thing.But this matter still received a lot of attention.

After all, the Beijing government has been stable for a year and a half.

But look.

First, Prime Minister Wang Chonghui resigned, and Duan Xun became interim Prime Minister.After Duan Xun became the prime minister of the interim cabinet, he moved frequently.The biggest move is to promote "military-civilian separation" and start oppressing Lu Yongxiang.Then there's the knock on Congress.

In peaceful times, it is already a big deal to terminate the qualifications of 34 members of Congress at once.

But when everyone hadn't digested these things, another big thing came out from the prosecutor's office.The Prosecutor's Office and the Beijing Police Department announced at the same time that they had conducted a city-wide raid on opium dens and sources of opium in Beijing.All opium dens in Beijing are closed according to law, property is confiscated, and the owners of those opium dens are arrested.

It even captured a large number of opium dealers one after another.

It's not just Beijing.

While the police station in Beijing was doing the work, there was also a big raid in Tianjin not far from Beijing, as well as Baoding, the capital of Zhili Province, and Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province.Closed more than a hundred opium dens, and captured many opium dealers.

A large amount of opium entered Beijing, Tianjin, and Zhili from Fengtian, and a small amount of opium came from Shanxi.

After Duan Xun entered Beijing, the cabinet never spoke empty words.Just like last year's one-year campaign to suppress bandits, the army really carried out a vigorous campaign to suppress bandits.

Within a year, there were nearly 20 front-line troops and local troops dispatched.And just now it was said that there would be an anti-smoking campaign, but I didn't expect a big sweep to be carried out so soon.

After the big raid, the Prosecutor's Office began to summon many people to conduct a big investigation.

In the beginning, many generals who went to the field were involved.

There are generals from the Anhui lineage and generals from the direct lineage.They were all summoned by the prosecutor's office and the police station, asking them to cooperate with the investigation.Some generals of the Beiyang Army were even directly arrested by the police station at their own homes.

Chickens and dogs jump.

The areas around Beijing, Tianjin, Zhili, and Shandong were the old lairs of the Beiyang Army.Many generals of the Beiyang Army who went to the field have real estate in these places.Since the Revolution of [-], the Ministry of the Army has conferred many titles of generals.If you count them all, there are thousands of people.

Many people were arrested.

For a while, public opinion didn't know what to report.Is it to report on the fight between the cabinet and Lu Yongxiang, or to report on the termination of some members of Congress by the Congress, or to report on the current opium raid?

On April 1922, 4, the prosecutor's office suddenly summoned Jiang Chaozong.