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Chapter 656: Changing Flag Troubles

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    At this time, within the "National Unification Committee", the superficial unity that was forcibly brought together by the pressure of the Feng faction and the prestige of Sun Yat-sen of the Kuomintang began to divide again after the war came to an end.  The main manifestation of its disputes is on a small national flag.

    The national flag is one of the symbols of the country.  As early as after the Wuchang Uprising, the Provisional Senate of the Republic of China, which was founded in Nanjing, caused disputes among representatives of each province due to the inconsistent military flags used by the revolutionary armies of each province:

    The three provinces of Hubei, Hunan, and Jiangxi Provinces use the iron-blooded eighteen-star flag to represent the eighteen provinces; the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui Province use the five-color flag, with red, yellow, blue, white, and black representing Han, Manchu, and Mongolian  The five provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Yunnan and Guizhou followed the tradition of the Tongmenghui and used the blue sky and white sun and the red flag on the ground; Chen Jiongming once used the tic-tac-toe flag when he raised troops in Huizhou, but after joining forces in Guangzhou, it was no longer used  .

    At the beginning of the Republic of China, the legal national flag that replaced the Yellow Dragon Flag of the Qing Dynasty was the five-color flag. This was a decision made by the Federation of Representatives of the Provincial Governors' Offices on December 2, 1911. The five-color flag was used as the temporary national flag, and the Iron Blood Flag of Wuchang Shouyi was the temporary national flag.  The army flag and the navy flag are the blue sky and white sun and the red ground.

    The then Generalissimo Huang Xing had a dispute because Sun Yat-sen was optimistic about the blue sky, white sun and red earth, so he hesitated to make a decision.  However, Shanghai newspapers had already disclosed the relevant information. In this case, Huang Xing believed: "Since it has been revealed, there is no need for me to approve it. Besides, the national flag should be determined by law, so we have to wait for another day."

    At this time, Sun Yat-sen was overseas trying to prevent Britain, France and Russia from continuing to provide military supplies to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so he did not hear anything about it.

    The following year, the Nanjing Provisional Government was established, and Sun Yat-sen was elected as the provisional president.  Although he advocated the use of red flags with clear skies and white sun, but considering that the five-color flag was originally the official flag of the first and second-rank naval officers of the Qing Dynasty and the military flag of the Beiyang Navy, it was also commonly used in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang and other provinces during the revolutionary period. In addition,  In order to win over Yuan Shikai's defection to the revolution, he continued to endorse it.

    The use of flags at this time is very chaotic: the provisional Senate approved the five-color flag as the temporary national flag, the eighteen-star flag as the army flag, the blue sky and white sun on the ground as the navy flag, and the five-color flag was also used as the navy's bow flag.  In the same year, the Provisional Senate moved to Beijing to review the national flag case again. Only the army flag was changed to the nineteen-star flag (plus the three eastern provinces), and everything else remained unchanged.

    By the time Yuan Shikai became emperor, everything else had been changed, leaving only the five-color flag as the national flag.  During this period, Fengjun always used the five-color flag as its military flag, but there was no distinction between the army and navy flags.  Until Zhang Hanqing was reorganized in Ningxia and the People's Army was born, the Feng Clan produced two military flags: the old Feng Clan had a five-color flag, and the Young Marshal Clan had a yellow | star-red flag, each with different attributes.

    After Sun Yat-sen took office as the extraordinary president in Guangzhou in 1921, he explicitly abolished the five-color flag and the eighteen-star flag, and used the blue sky and white sun flag as the party and military flags, and the blue sky and white sun all over the ground as the national flag. At this time, Zhang Hanqing changed the five-star red flag to the party flag.  The government flag was hung high and the government flag also had the five-star red flag as its signboard.

    After the power of the Feng clique was transferred to Zhang Hanqing, Fengjun gave up the five-color flag and converted all to the five-star red flag.

    Don¡¯t underestimate this flag, it is a symbol of power, a collision of ideas, and a guide to the direction.  The historical change of flags in Northeast China was this flag.  But it did not die after that. It became the banner of the pro-Japanese government during the Anti-Japanese War and continued to exert its remaining heat

    It was at this time that various parties began to argue fiercely around this flag.  This is a directional concept: whose product is used in the end marks who wins in the end.

    Duan Qirui and other Beiyang factions believe that the five-color flag has been officially promulgated by Yuan Shikai at the time with the "Provisional Presidential Decree" and has been used for 12 years. It has been widely recognized by China and foreign countries, and it is recommended to maintain it.  This is easy to understand. After all, he claims to have "created a republic three times". If the flag falls, it is equivalent to erasing his achievements - if Beiyang is gone, how can he talk about his achievements in creating a republic?

    Sun Yat-sen has been fighting against the five-color flag for more than ten years. Now that he has the opportunity to overthrow him, of course he will do his part.  However, his request to use the Kuomintang's blue sky, white sun and red earth seemed a bit excessive in Zhang Hanqing's opinion: The north and the south have been fighting for so long. If the Kuomintang flag is replaced, does it mean that the north has lost or something?  Could it be that the People's Army fought bloody battles on the battlefield to make wedding clothes for others?  Is it possible to get something that was not obtained on the battlefield at the negotiation table?

    However, the most powerful Zhang Hanqing clique insisted on using the five-star red flag of the People's Party, and both the Kuomintang and the Anhui clique opposed it.  The People's Army has an absolute advantage in the military, and if the flag follows theirs, the "National Unification Council" will actually be defeated by the People's Party's united front!

    Therefore, it is normal that all parties have not been able to form a unified opinion. This is also the common feature of the so-called Western dishes: a thousand people have the same idea in their hearts.?The main reason for the opposition is that the national flag is the same as the People's Party flag, so the signal sent out to the outside world is that the People's Party represents the Republic of China, which no politician can agree with.

    But in the end Sun Yat-sen approved the decision, which was actually a last resort.  Because the rumor spread by Zhang Hanqing is that if this decision is rejected by all parties, the People's Party will propose its own political plan and will no longer seek the consent of all parties!

    Facing the advantage of the People¡¯s Party, Sun Yat-sen could only compromise. After receiving Zhang Hanqing¡¯s guarantee to modify the party flag, all parties finally agreed to use the five-star red flag as the national flag.

    However, they were still fooled by Zhang Hanqing, because at the subsequent Politburo meeting held within the People's Party, Zhang Hanqing proposed a plan to modify the party flag: minus the four small stars on the five-star red flag!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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