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4 unusual facts about Constitutional Protection Movement


Constitutional Protection Movement

Then they selected the leaders of the National Protection War Tang Jiyao of the Yunnan clique and Lu Rongting of the Old Guangxi clique as marshals, Wu Tingfang as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tang Shaoyi as the Minister of Finance (abstained), Cheng Biguang as the Naval Minister, and Hu Hanmin as the Minister of Communications.

The Extraordinary Session of Parliament was controlled by the Guangxi clique, and was restructured on May 1918 in which the generalissimo was replaced by a committee of seven executives consisting of Sun, Tang Shaoyi, Wu Tingfang, and Tang Jiyao on one side and Lu Rongting, Cen Chunxuan, and Lin Baoyi on the other.

Xu Shichang also advocated peace negotiation when he was inaugurated as the president in October, which led to the end of the war.

After the assassination of Tang Hualong by a Nationalist in Canada, several KMT overseas branches were banned.



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