Beiyang reactionaries

People like the Supreme Council have considered this.The current situation in China is that wherever Duan Xun is, there is power.This is something that has been shaped by history.The current situation allows Duan Xun to return to the cabinet as the prime minister, so Dai Kan, who has been the cabinet prime minister for many years, can only serve as the cabinet deputy prime minister.This will mess up the current situation of the cabinet.

Therefore, the presidential system can solve the current problems.

After expressing the fact that China implements the presidential system, Yang Wei continued: "During this process, Congress also needs to play a role. For example, when the presidential system is implemented, the scope of responsibility of the presidential palace, the relationship between the presidential palace and other departments. Including the presidential system, the tenure of the president and the tenure of leaders of other departments need to be discussed and approved by the Congress. Therefore, it is correct to hold parliamentary elections first. Director Liao (Liao Zhongkai), what do you think?"

"Makes sense."

Liao Zhongkai nodded.

Liao Zhongkai was worried that the Supreme Council had too much power, and that Duan Xun was obsessed with power and would go back to Yuan Shikai's old path.If, as Yang Wei said, the parliamentary elections are held first, then such worries will be reduced by half.

After all, Congress is the highest legislative body, and now this power is also in the Supreme Council.If the Congress is re-elected and can exercise its power normally, a large part of the power will be taken away from the Supreme Council.

Even if the Congress faces the Supreme Committee and Duan Xun, it is a half-show situation.But as long as the Congress can perform its functions normally, then the Supreme Council and Duan Xun will be greatly restrained.Moreover, as long as Duan Xun agrees to reopen the Congress, he is expressing his position from the other side, and he will not follow Yuan Shikai's path.

Although satisfied with Yang Wei's suggestion, Liao Zhongkai still said: "But I think it is better to have a specific time. When will the parliamentary elections be re-convened and the Congress reconvened. Only in this way can we follow the specific time Time, specific plans, and preparations. This is also the best way to appease the current public opinion."

In this meeting, Liao Zhongkai must force Duan Xun to take an attitude and not allow Duan Xun to be ambiguous.

Only with time planning can Liao Zhongkai be satisfied and relieved.Duan Xun couldn't help smiling when he saw Liao Zhongkai's serious look.He opened the mouth and said, "There should be a clear timeline and a clear plan so that everyone can rest assured. According to what Vice Chairman Yang (Yang Wei) said just now, I will briefly sort out the timeline. According to the current situation, post-war There are still many problems. Next year (1945) the Asian Joint Conference will be held to discuss the establishment of a new Asian order with Asian countries, including political, military, and economic order. And the war in Europe will end next year, and we will also participate in it at that time In the formulation of the world order, many world institutions such as the United Nations have to be established. In addition to these, we have a lot of countries in Asia that need independence, not only Southeast Asia, but also some Pacific islands, and countries in South Asia, all of which need our supervision And support. To get this done, I think it will take at least two to three years. So my opinion is, start parliamentary elections in 1947. Start at the local level and finish with the election of MPs. Complete all elections in 1948. In 1949, a series of issues related to the change of the political system and the presidential system were passed. Of course, many issues that were postponed due to the war had to be resolved in 1949. In 1950, the existence of the Supreme Council officially ended and the presidential Elections, enter the presidential system."

Duan Xun directly gave the timeline.

Many people below immediately began to write it down, and then considered Duan Xun's suggestion.Duan Xun continued: "Of course, this is just my preliminary idea. There may still be some variables in the middle, and everyone can fully discuss and formulate a more detailed plan. Director Liao (Liao Zhongkai), what do you think?"

"I generally agree with Chairman Duan's plan."

"What do you think?"

"Support. Convene Congress, and use these few years to restore various departments and local governments to normal. Allow the Supreme Council to smoothly transition to the presidential system."

Dai Kan also nodded in support.

Others also echoed, in favor of this plan.Duan Xun said: "That's it. Vice Chairman Yang (Yang Wei) is in charge of this matter, and he will sort out a detailed plan, including a report on the presidential system. We will discuss it at the next meeting."

"Yes."

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At the Supreme Council meeting in December 1944, much was discussed.Many of them are very important things, related to China's next actions, and even issues that can affect the world order.

But the most sensitive issue remains one.

Question of the Supreme Council.

It's not just that many people in the general public are worried about Duan Xun's choice, or guess, but also have such doubts within the People's Party and government agencies.Everyone had some concerns before, but they can still accept it, after all, the world is at war.But now everyone has more and more worries, because the Far East War has ended, and in fact the war in China has also ended.Under such circumstances, now that Duan Xun has too much power and prestige, how can everyone not think much about it.It's just that everyone didn't ask.

But this time the Supreme Council meeting, Duan Xun openly discussed the matter of terminating the Supreme Council.

And nothing is hidden.

After the meeting, the Supreme Council soon published some of the contents.Of course, it does not mean holding a press conference and announcing the content of the meeting to reporters.The content of each meeting of the Supreme Committee is confidential, and a piece of paper inside will not be leaked out, and it will be sealed.The so-called announcement of the content is nothing more than distributing documents to the following through the organization's internal procedures, so that the following organizations can understand the spirit of the meeting.

This includes things about the Supreme Council.

In the document, the timeline for the termination of the Supreme Council was roughly announced.It is very clear that before 1951, the Supreme Council will definitely be terminated.Of course, no document was issued regarding the content of changing the political system to become a presidential system.

But this alone has reassured many people.

China has been stable for 20 years, and no one wants any earthquake in China's political arena.If Duan Xun does not terminate the Supreme Council and wants to make the Supreme Council a permanent body, with the power and prestige that Duan Xun possesses, it will definitely be completed, and no one can stop it at this stage.But once this is the case, there may be some problems.Even if there are no problems when Duan Xun is here, there will definitely be problems when he succeeds.China's political and military circles, including the Chinese people, can tolerate Duan Xun's continued control of party, government and military power.Because Duan Xun's status is formed by history, but they will never tolerate Duan Xun's successor having the same supreme power as Duan Xun.At that time, if there is a problem with the succession, it will definitely cause political turmoil and affect the stability of the whole of China.Fortunately, the Supreme Council already has a plan to slowly cancel the Supreme Council, which of course stabilized these government officials.

After the document was issued, many university professors, government consultants, and newspaper celebrities who were concerned about this matter also got the news.It can be regarded as alleviating their restlessness.

And with the end of this meeting, China's various tasks are advancing faster and faster.

On February 1944, 2, China and the United States signed the "Sino-US Tariff and Trade Agreement" in Washington.

The appendices of the agreement also include the "Sino-US Navigation Agreement", "Sino-US Aviation Agreement", "Sino-US Investment Agreement", "Sino-US Currency Agreement", and "Sino-US Military Police Cooperation Agreement".

It includes almost all cooperation agreements between China and the United States.

The purpose of Sino-US negotiations is for trade and to promote trade globalization.The main purpose is to weaken the impact of tariffs and currencies on world trade.After the First World War, the world economy was in a downturn. In order to ensure their own interests, countries took two measures.

One is to raise tariffs.

In order to protect their domestic industries, those industrial countries have raised tariffs one after another, and the average tariff in some countries even exceeded 50%.The result is indeed to temporarily protect their own interests and protect their own domestic industries.However, this behavior of raising tariffs one after another has greatly damaged international trade and plunged international trade into an unprecedented downturn.This is a very serious blow to some industrial powers and industrial powers.The United Kingdom, in particular, raised the tariffs of the Commonwealth and the British colonies to block the inflow of American products, which greatly hit the trade of the United States and protected the interests of the United Kingdom.

The other is currency devaluation.

After World War I, it was Japan that played this trick the most.In order to improve its trade situation, Japan has depreciated the yen by a large amount, and the amount of depreciation is astonishing.For a while, Japan relied on this method of currency devaluation to make its own trade very prosperous.But the result of this is that it directly affects the interests of Europe and the United States, and affects the exports of Europe and the United States.As soon as European and American countries got angry, they kicked Japan out of the ranks of world currencies and began to impose economic sanctions on Japan.

But don't look at them accusing Japan one after another. In fact, European and American countries have also begun to adopt means of currency devaluation.

In the process, the entire world trade has been hit.Especially the United States, which is the largest industrial country in the world, their import and export have been greatly affected.In the end, there was a serious oversupply in the American industry, and the Great Depression in the United States shocked the world, which in turn caused a global economic crisis, which greatly affected the world economy.

It is for this reason that America hates these things the most.The current "Bretton Woods Conference" held by the United States, Europe, and some allies aims to change this situation.

The same goes for negotiating with China.

The final agreement of the Sino-US negotiations is the "Sino-US Tariff and Trade Agreement", together with the following attachments, there is an agreement on the tariffs and currencies of the two countries.There are restrictive clauses on the formulation of Sino-US tariffs and the value of Chinese and US currencies.

According to the agreement, China and the United States will gradually reduce their respective tariffs within the next ten years.Reduce tariffs to about one-third of current levels to boost trade between China and the United States.

And then there's the currency.

In order to prevent deliberate devaluation of the currency and pursue exports, China and the United States are prepared to carry out an adjustable and relatively fixed exchange rate within a certain range of fluctuations in the contract.Of course, it is not an absolute fixed exchange rate, but both China and the United States have promised in the agreement that once the exchange rate fluctuates on a large scale, the central banks of the two countries should intervene to maintain the exchange rate.

Moreover, in order to promote trade between China and the United States, the two sides have reached a consensus on freedom of navigation.For the world's high seas, all ships have freedom of navigation.No country can use any reason to prevent the normal freedom of navigation and affect the conduct of trade.

There is also a consensus on airspace.

Respect each other's airspace, and agree that airspace is also a kind of national sovereignty.In order to promote trade between the two countries, China and the United States have decided to increase flights.

The next step is the investment agreement.

Respect investment in both countries, and protect investment in both countries.In order to crack down on economic crimes, China and the United States also need to cooperate in the military police.After all, it is all for Sino-US trade.

In addition to signing the "Sino-US Tariff and Trade Agreement", China and the United States have reached another consensus.

China is here to give the United States a promise.That is, regarding the "Sino-US tariff trade agreement", not only China will abide by it, but China will also push for other member states of the Asian Federation to abide by this agreement at the Asian Joint Conference.In other words, this is not just an agreement between China and the United States, but also an agreement between the member states of the Asian Joint Organization and the United States.

The United States is very satisfied with this result.

why?

Because the United States can take advantage of this agreement to begin to enter the Asian Federation member countries, a market that has half the world's population.Although this agreement is not very perfect, and it is just the beginning, there are still obstacles to tariffs.But as long as this agreement continues, the tariffs on both sides will continue to be reduced.It is not just a trade issue. The United States has strong capital. According to the "Sino-US Investment Agreement", American capital can enter the member countries of the Asian Federation for investment.This is of great benefit to the United States.

China has given the United States such a large market and such a big promise, of course the United States has to make concessions.The concession of the United States is that the United States agrees to take care of some economically backward countries in Asia, including China, when formulating tariffs between the two sides.In terms of tariffs in some fields, the United States agrees that the tariffs of economically backward countries are higher than its own, so as to protect the industries of economically backward countries.