However, the idea that the provisional government made Nanjing its capital was opposed by most members of the provisional Senate. On February 14, 2004, the Provisional Senate held a meeting to discuss the location of the capital. "All the speakers talked about Beijing successively, but some people occasionally talked about Nanjing." The voting result was: * * * a total of 28 votes, "including 20 votes in Beijing, 5 votes in Nanjing, 2 votes in Wuchang, and Tianjin 1 vote" (the supplementary voting result of the Senate, Ta Kung Pao 18). According to the resolution of the Senate, " Now the situation is different. We should make the Beijing government work according to the time, thus denying the decision of the interim government and Sun Yat-sen's request.
When Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing heard about it, they called a meeting of members of the League in the Senate that day. "Strict responsibility should not be borne by Bird. Huang Xingyou was furious and paced up and down with his hands in his uniform pockets. Li (Zhao Fu) and Huang (Fu Sheng) asked for reconsideration. Huang Xingsui said: "The government will never compromise on this, and the House of Representatives automatically overturned the case today; Otherwise, I will send military police to the hospital and bind all members of the alliance. ""Sun Yat-sen decided to consult the Provisional Senate to reconsider the case. 19 12 February 15, when the provisional Senate held a provisional presidential election meeting, "suddenly, members of Guangdong and Guangxi said that they would reconsider the location of the provisional government and would like to die in Nanjing." People say that this is not the case, that is, if they want to reconsider, they must submit it to the president for reconsideration as soon as possible without discussing it before the president. When the words are not finished, the reconsideration address arrives and it is reconsidered. The result was still a secret ballot, with 27 votes invoiced. Among them, Nanjing 19 votes, Beijing 6 votes and Wuchang 2 votes "(see Ta Kung Pao1965438+March 7, 2002). Although the reconsideration overturned the original case and still took Nanjing as the capital, what Sun and Huang did caused widespread dissatisfaction among the elders. "Most senators advocate resignation" (special broadcast, Shen Bao1965438+February 24, 2002), which undoubtedly intensified the opposition between the provisional Senate and the provisional government.
At the beginning of March, Sun Yat-sen was forced by various pressures to change his original intention and gave up Yuan Shikai's request to take office in Nanjing and set up an interim government in Nanjing. Before noon on March 6, he submitted a government address to the provisional Senate, the main content of which was: "1. Call Vice President Li to represent Yuan Shikai in Nanjing; ..... Third, if Vice President Li Can doesn't come to the South, he plans to hand it over to Wuchang; 4. Whether Yuan Shikai can temporarily set up the Beijing Branch at the official inauguration ceremony of his trip to Beijing, the location of the interim government will be decided by the Senate. " (Nanjing government resolution, Shen Bao1965438+March 9, 2002) It is obvious that Yuan Shikai was abandoned to take office in Nanjing, and the interim government was unwilling to be established in Nanjing.
After receiving this speech, the Provisional Senate held a meeting that afternoon and decided: "1. The Senate telegraphed Chairman Yuan to allow him to take up his post in Beijing; 2. After President Yuan received the call, he called the Senate to take an oath; 3. After receiving the sworn telegram, the Senate replied that it was appointed and informed the whole country ... "(Provisional Government Gazette No.34, 19 13.02 10) Compared with Sun Yat-sen's speech, its dissatisfaction and contempt for Sun Yat-sen and the provisional government are self-evident. It is said that after Sun Yat-sen's speech was delivered, "a certain gentleman in the Senate denounced the measures proposed by the government, saying that they would not only help the current problems, but would cause more troubles" (Nanjing government's resolution, declaration1965438+March 9, 2002). On April 2nd, the Provisional Senate officially decided the location of the provisional government. As a result, Beijing voted 20 in favor and 6 against (special broadcast, Shenbao1965438+April 4th, 2002), ending the dispute between the Provisional Government and the Senate about the location of the capital. The Nanjing Provisional Government fell into extreme financial difficulties as soon as it was established. The provisional government had no money to pay the salaries of its staff, let alone the salaries of its soldiers, so that "the people's army was in danger of collapse." For a time, Nanjing was "full of soldiers who gathered to make trouble and clamored for repayment of the arrears." When the interim government was forced to give up the position announced by Sun Yat-sen that "if the new government borrows foreign debt, it will lose its sovereignty, have no mortgage, and the interest will be very light", but when borrowing foreign debt, there was a serious contradiction with the interim Senate.
There were four foreign debts negotiated by Nanjing Provisional Government, and only one Sulu loan was negotiated. Both China Merchants Bank and Han Yeping failed because of strong opposition inside and outside the Senate. Although the Sino-Russian Dawson Bank loan was barely passed in the provisional Senate in an improper way, it was not successful.
191265438+1On 26th and 29th of October, Nanjing Provisional Government and Sheng Xuanhuai signed two similar draft agreements with Mitsui and Zheng Jin Consortium respectively to "jointly establish" Hanyeping Company. The draft agreement stipulates that "the share capital of the company will be divided equally between China and Japan", and in addition to the 10 million yen previously lent to the company, the Japanese side will also pay it back. After the contract is initialled, the Japanese side will pay 2 million yuan first, which will be paid in full after the contract is formally established. When the news came out, public opinion was in an uproar, and all walks of life opposed it. "And the Senate held it particularly strongly."
/kloc-in February, the provisional Senate questioned the provisional government and accused it of illegal borrowing. Sun Yat-sen didn't know that the loan was harmful to the national rights and interests, but he had to do it because of extreme financial difficulties. In a letter to Zhang Taiyan in February 13, he said: Han Yeping borrowed money. "My brother is not ignorant of the proliferation of rights and interests, and he dare not cherish his reputation. Therefore, he is frozen in the cold, willing to take risks, pay for it himself, and be hungry." However, when he answered a question from the Provisional Senate on February 18, 2008, he still refused to tell the whole story of the loan, only vaguely saying that the government had originally planned to "borrow a huge sum of money from the head of China Merchants Property, Han Yeping and General Shang, and after Peter paid it, he would lend it to the government in in the name of people as part of the national debt of 1 100 million yuan. In addition, because the government approved Han Yeping's private joint venture with outsiders, it is difficult to guarantee that the funds will not be unexpectedly complicated. He ordered the cancellation of the joint venture proposal of 5 million yuan, and still borrowed 2 million yuan in the form of private lending to the government. It was the government that borrowed 2 million yuan to meet the needs of the army, and the procedures were unclear, so it was prepared for your hospital to violate the law "(Provisional Government Gazette No.26, 19 12 March 1).