In 1916, the head of the Beiyang government, Yuan Shikai, passed away due to illness. The Beiyang ministries that had lost the central control immediately fell apart and entered the era of warlord melee.
In May 1917, the central government broke out between Li Yuanhong and Duan Qirui in the "family court" dispute. The two sides had a quarrel over the distribution of power. The then President of the Republic of China Li Yuanhong immediately removed Duan Qirui, and Duan Qirui Ordered the provincial governors to declare independence. Under the crisis, Li Yuanhong ordered Zhang Xun, an Anhui governor at the time, to lead his troops into Beijing to mediate.
What Li Yuanhong did not expect was that Zhang Xun, who was once a Qing general and later defected to Yuan Shikai, was a complete one. A member of the "royalist party", after the abdication of the Qing emperor, although Zhang Xun’s army was renamed the former Wuwei Army, Zhang Xun still prohibited the soldiers from cutting their pigtails to show their allegiance to the Qing dynasty. They were called "braided soldiers" at the time.
June 1917, Zhang Xun rate The 5000 "braid soldiers" entered Beijing under the name of "mediation", and then drove out President Li Yuanhong and disbanded the National Assembly. On July 1, Zhang Xun entered the Qing Palace and carried out the 12-year-old abdicated emperor Pu Yi to announce the restoration, which was renamed this The year was the'Xuantong Nine Year', the nation was energized and the dragon flag was hung. He served as the chief cabinet minister, governor of Zhili and minister of Beiyang. Since then, the admiral Zhang Xun in the Qing Dynasty has changed, and he has completed the change of one person under one person. At the same time, Duan Qirui, another head of the Beiyang government, issued an article to discuss Zhang Xun in Tianjin and connected the whole country with electricity, and then organized a counter-rebellion and took office. The commander-in-chief of the rebel army set off at the horse factory on July 4, and officially started the war on the 5th, and attacked Beijing at dawn on the 12th. The "braided soldiers" broke out at once, and under the two-way attack of the rebel army, some actions The white flag surrendered, and some cut off their braids and threw away their guns to escape. "Braid Shuai" Zhang Xun fled in a hurry and went into hiding in the Dutch embassy. On that day, Pu Yi, who had only been the "Emperor of Beijing" for 12 days, announced his abdication again.
July On the 14th, Duan Qirui returned to Beijing, re-elected as prime minister, and took the real power of the government. This 12-day farce came to an end.
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