The Survival Wisdom of the Beiyang Era (319): The phoenix that falls into the water is not as good as the chicken.
In the early summer of the sixth year of Beiyang, the contradictions between Duan Qirui and Li Yuanhong could not be reconciled. Duan Qirui sacrificed the Overseer's big killing weapon, but Li Yuanhong still did not buy it, although the Overseer's selection of Li Houji, the Fujian Overseer, who was skillful in his rhetoric, invited more than 400 parliamentarians to make generous statements in person, stating the stakes for Germany's participation in the war, but the effect was also thunder and rain. On May 3 of that year, Duan Qirui sent various overseers to meet Li Yuanhong, hoping that the momentum of the overseers could scare Li Yuanhong, but Li Yuanhong had already given an iron heart and angrily rebuked: "Your responsibility is to defend the territory, all of the above is lawless behavior!" After touching the nails, the Overseers could only retreat with a nono. That night, Li Yuanhong's small circle held a closed-door meeting, and the staff said that Li Yuanhong's temper was good, and Li Yuanhong also felt that his temper should not always be stuffy in his stomach, and it was good to have a big attack.
However, on the same night, duan qirui and his staff were also discussing countermeasures at Duan Zhai in Fuxue Hutong. Duan Qirui, who was stubborn and stubborn, thought that Li Yuanhong's embarrassment to the Overseer Corps was punching himself in the face, and his words were indignant. Fu Liangzuo, one of his confidants, stood up and said loudly: "There is no big deal, if you don't stamp it, you will drive it away, and if you don't pass, you will disband it." Zhang Guogan thought that this was inappropriate, everything should be carried out on the track, and Duan Qirui also followed suit, saying that it should follow the so-called track, that is, force plus petition. However, now that Li Yuanhong was already unable to enter the oil and salt, Duan Qirui had to personally take the cabinet members to ask him to seal it. However, Li Yuanhong still did not sell face, although Fan Yuanlian rebuked Li in person for "being gentle and misleading the country", rushing out like thunder, and when closing the door, he used too much force to shatter the glass, and Duan Qirui had to be silent and retreat.
Later, Duan Qirui sacrificed his faint moves, so much so that he had to use bitter meat to maintain a cabinet that was only his own. It turned out that various petitioning groups such as beggars and barmen organized by Duan's subordinates, and the remuneration of the five-pointed ocean every hour, staged a strange farce, and Duan Qirui was naturally discouraged. Wu Tingfang, Cheng Biguang, Zhang Yaozeng, and Gu Zhongxiu in the cabinet all suggested that Duan Qirui, who was the head of the cabinet, resign, but Duan Qirui refused to accept it, and the four people had to submit their resignations separately, and Fan Yuanlian had to pretend to resign and resign together, leaving duan Qirui alone to commute to work as usual. It is reasonable to say that with Duan Qirui's strength, he should have once again convened his own people to form a cabinet, but among the new supplementary cabinet members, Xia Shoukang, Rao Hanxiang, and Tang Qianming were all Fellow Villagers of Li Yuanhong's Hubei Province, and the rest of Sun Baoqi and Zhuang Yunkuan were also people with considerable good feelings for Li Yuanhong.
In the end, Li Yuanhong naturally knew that Duan Qirui's supplementary cabinet member was actually a bitter plan to maintain the position of the head of his cabinet. After consulting with his staff, Li Yuanhong made up his mind to spare Duan, and could not win Duan Qirui's bitter plan. For Zhang Guogan to come to accommodate, Jin Yongyan directly pointed the gun at each other, and said viciously: "Don't open your mouth, I will shoot you with one shot," Li Yuanhong asked Jin Yongyan to retreat, and apologized to Zhang Guogan, but the order to dismiss Duan Qirui was also immediately issued. Li Yuanhong, who had a troubled heart, sent Ding Huai to give Duan Qirui a send-off fee of 10,000 yuan, and at the same time let the military attaché Chang Yinchang send him off on his behalf, which was also enough to give Duan Qirui face, but with the stubborn temper of the Beiyang Tiger, Li Yuanhong, who had the tiger's whiskers, would directly cause another hate farce in the Beiyang period.