At this time Sun Yat-sen formed a three-way alliance with the Manchurian and Hubei warlord armies to organize an attempt to bribe parliamentarians not to vote in Yuan's charade of an election.
在此同時，中山先生和奉系、皖系（湖北軍閥）結成的三角同盟則積極以「賄不選」反制，力阻曹錕「竊國」。