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Chapter 616 Cao Kun bribes the vote (Part 1)

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    There are various signs that the presidential election held in the twelfth year of the Republic of China was extremely abnormal.  The MPs who were normally lonely suddenly felt that their fortunes had turned around and they were receiving attention from all parties.

    Since the beginning of the Republic of China, China has been devastated several times. The National Assembly has gone through chaos and chaos. Most of the members are in poverty. And out of disappointment with the current situation, they have long been desolate and abandoned themselves. This is very different from the early years of the Republic of China.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????OUTOUT out of the warlord separatism during the Republic of China, whoever had the military power would sit firmly on the top of the mountain. These congressmen were just decorations for peace and peace, which were better than nothing.  But parliamentarians are also machines for electing the president. If all parties want to obtain votes legally, this level is indispensable.

    However, the current political situation in Beijing has disturbed the attention of many domestic people and foreign observers as to where China will go in the future. Countries such as Britain, France, the United States, and Japan are all speculating and making behind-the-scenes movements, hoping that their agents will come to power legally so that they can continue to gain influence in China.  Interests.

    The outside world is optimistic about Sun Yat-sen.  After all, the leader of the Chinese Pan Boil Movement enjoys high prestige at home and abroad: he is upright and selfless, and he has the strong support of the Kuomintang behind him. Although the Kuomintang's current military strength is not enough to occupy a dominant position, as an advanced  The party has a strong advantage in organizing the public and publicity - and has the full support of the Feng faction, which has the highest voice.

    The Zhili Clique elected spiritual leader Cao Kun as the presidential candidate and set up a parliamentarian club in Ganshiqiao, Beijing, as an organization for conducting elections.

    Cao Kun is self-aware. In terms of military and political talents, there are no less than a dozen people who are more suitable to be president than himself. If the election is truly fair, he will not be able to win in any case. He will only make wedding clothes for others.  His close confidant, Wang Chengbin, governor of Zhili Province and Beijing garrison, believed that Cao Kun had considerable advantages and urged him to run.

    Wang Chengbin believes that Cao Kun has several advantages: he is sympathetic to the soldiers, respects teachers and values ??education, thus gaining a good reputation, and has the geographical advantage of directly operating Beijing for many years.

    Cao Kun is famous for his compassion for soldiers.  Once, he was reviewing the troops stationed in Baoding. When he passed the ranks of soldiers, he found a soldier crying, so he stopped and asked what was going on.  The soldier said that his father had died and he could not go back to attend the funeral.  Cao Kun immediately gave him 50 yuan and gave him leave to go home and bury his father before joining the army.  Therefore, although the Zhili army was small in number, its victory was due to its high morale and its ability to fight to the death.

    Although Cao Kun is a rough man, he often likes to go to school for walks, especially chatting with professors.  At Hebei University in Baoding, he often summoned faculty and students to give lectures, but he was very polite to professors. In front of them, he often claimed that he was a cloth seller from a cart and relied on professors to run the school.

    He often lectures students: "You must respect professors. These professors are carefully selected by me from all provinces. If you are found to be disrespectful to professors in the future, I will kill you with your head."

    ¡°He said this and he also practiced it.  The professors went to the lounge to rest after class, and Cao Kun came in to express condolences.  During the summer, when I saw that the professors were sweating profusely from lectures in the classroom, I ordered the school staff to bring towels to the professors to wipe their sweat during class, and also installed refrigerators and other equipment in the classroom.  Whenever salary came, he would instruct the General Affairs Office to wrap the salary in a big red paper bag and give it to the professors on a tray.

    Whether this behavior is for show or to gain attention, Cao Kun is famous for respecting intellectuals. This is one of the reasons why his reputation has always been good in official history.

    Relying on these alone is still not safe, what should I do?  Wang Chengbin has another trick: vote bribery.

    Regarding bribery, Cao Kun was still shy at first and wanted to cover it up. His subordinate Wang Tan comforted him and said: "Paying money to buy the president is much better than asking for money to get a reputation for corruption, and it is better than using a gun."  The person who ordered the election is much more powerful. As long as he can be elected, he will be the legitimate president. And with Marshal Wu and his troops outside, who can have any opinions?"

    Of course, "buying" the president will definitely have a bad reputation. The staff have their own ideas. Aren't the congressmen always arguing about "unpaid wages"? Isn't it justifiable for me to help the government pay salaries?

    Since 1913, the first Congress has not only been dissolved many times, but the annual fee "is only paid one month in three months, and only 70% is paid in a month."  The congressmen at that time were not like the National People's Congress in later generations in China. Representatives did not need money. They had to attend meetings. If I didn't have money, I wouldn't come.

    So Cao Kun sent his relatives and friends to offer members of all parties a "high price" salary of at least 5,000 yuan per vote, provided that you wanted to participate in the congressional election.

    During the Republic of China, 5,000 yuan was not a small amount. It was equivalent to the salary of an ordinary member of Congress for nearly ten years at that time.  Moreover, theoretically, Cao Kun's move has nothing to do with "vote bribery": he is just using money to appeal to you to vote, and there is no rule as to whether you vote for Cao Kun or not.  It is estimated that Cao Kun thought that the number of votes supporting him was enough and asked other members to vote, just to ensure that the number of voters reached 583.sp; planned to instigate 480 congressmen to accept bribes from Cao Kun. Although the principle is 5,000 yuan per person, in fact, depending on the status or role of the person, the highest can reach 10,000 yuan, all in the form of a check on the day of the election.  issue.

    The entire bribery includes subsidies to political parties, special fares, ordinary fares, attendance fees for the Constitutional Conference, attendance fees for regular meetings, special remuneration fees, "ice respect", "charcoal respect" and husband and wife fees, and guest house temporary fees.  , secret fees, etc. Anyway, there are many tricks and each has its own name. It can be regarded as the first of administrative corruption in modern China, and it also requires a considerable amount of expenditure.

    Cao Kun had a net worth of 50 million, ranking first among Beiyang military and political figures.  But this election bribery did not come from his own pocket.  In order to raise money for the general election, Wang Chengbin, the governor of Zhili Province, arrested a group of drug dealers and ordered them to ransom their lives with money. He received millions of dollars in money and forced to borrow a total of millions of dollars from 170 counties in Zhili.

    In addition, many provincial governors and governors have "rewarded results", with the largest number being the direct governor of Shanxi, Yan Xishan, and the governor of Jiangsu, Qi Xieyuan, with each of them worth 500,000 yuan.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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