Chen Ke visited the Forbidden City when he was traveling in the 80s, and the dragon chair was indeed too hard for a small child. For the dragon chair, Chen Ke didn't have a special feeling. Isn't that just a chair, it is the human being who gives the chair status, not the chair that gives the human power.

Looking at the group of dumbfounded comrades around him, Chen Ke smiled and said: "Comrades, when we enter Beijing City in the future, I am preparing to change the current Forbidden City into a museum and open it to the whole of China." Everyone can go in and have a chance to sit on the dragon chair. ”

This is Chen Ke's sincere words, if according to the consumption level of the 21st century, ten yuan per minute. On average, 200 minutes a day are provided, and that can also charge 2,000 yuan. There are more than 700,000 a year. Those who are willing to pay dozens of yuan to go in to see the Forbidden City will not care about paying an extra ten or twenty yuan. It's definitely a lucrative deal.

"Chairman Chen, this dragon bed is to be the emperor." Li Mingrenqiang said with a smile.

"What you said is not right," Chen Ke corrected, just now he said that he missed his mouth, no matter how round it is, there is only one thing left, drag the comrades' thoughts to Chen Ke's thoughts, and now the Tartar Emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is finished. I don't know if Pu Yi's little guy still sits on the dragon bed every day. But what's the point of sitting on the dragon bed. Can he continue to be emperor? Or does the world see him as an emperor? Yuan Shikai has not moved into the Forbidden City to live now, nor has he sat on the dragon bed, but Yuan Shikai is still the president. ”

As soon as Chen Ke said this, the status of the dragon bed and the Forbidden City in the hearts of the young comrades of the People's Party was greatly reduced. It doesn't matter whether it occupies the Forbidden City, whether it has sat on the dragon chair, or even whether it has ever hung the name of the emperor. The Manchu imperial family in front of you is a living example.

"In the future, there will be no emperor in China, and it is most appropriate for this Forbidden City to be converted into a museum. When we liberate the whole of China, we will do it. Chen Ke said with a smile.

"Chairman Chen, do we really want to liberate the whole country in the future?" Huang Yuyue seized the opportunity to ask.

Of course, the fall of the Manchus was only a landmark event in the previous revolutionary phase. As far as our People's Party is concerned, the revolution has just begun, and comrades must continue to work hard. Everyone hurriedly discussed and made a list of the people they wanted to visit, and then went to visit separately. Chen Ke said.

Chen Tianhua knew that this was the right time, and he said appropriately: "Next, I want to show you the intelligence information of Beiyang officials that we have collected. This is something that needs to be kept secret. After reading it, comrades should not go out and spread it. ”

After the work was brought back to normal, there was no time to ask Chen Ke about his relationship with the Forbidden City. At least the workload was quite large, and after the thick stacks of documents were moved into the house, the young comrades were frightened by these materials.

Chen Tianhua didn't care about whether Chen Ke had ever made a dragon bed. For him, Chen Ke was the leader of the People's Party, and Chen Ke always adhered to the revolutionary program of the People's Party. That's enough. As Chen Ke said, this era is no longer the era of imperialism. No one can reverse this trend. Not even Chen Ke.

When the young comrades began to flip through the documents, Chen Tianhua pulled Chen Ke outside. Chen Ke thought that Chen Tianhua was also going to ask about the Forbidden City, but he didn't expect Chen Tianhua to ask: "Chairman Chen, aren't you optimistic about Yuan Shikai?" ”

"Xingtai, in this diplomatic matter, we also have to be in constant contact to know the specific reaction of the other party. Whether Yuan Shikai will accept our suggestion, or what his plans are, can't be guessed by guessing. When it comes to work, Chen Ke has returned to his usual and orderly appearance.

Chen Tianhua nodded slightly, "I read your plan for the British, why do I think Wen Qing thinks you are so kind to foreign devils?" ”

Chen Ke said with a smile: "I have said this many times, foreign devils come all the way to China to seek wealth. And we need to do business with them now. Business is business, and we don't need to talk nonsense. This is what our People's Party has now advocated in its foreign economic policy. ”

Chen Tianhua couldn't accept this, "Putting forward his own proposition so openly is the same as handing over the bottom line in advance." Wouldn't the other party in the negotiation go directly to the bottom line? ”

"The struggle of contradictions is inevitable, and in many cases it is inevitable that coercive means, even means of war, have to be used. Xingtai, negotiation and peace talks are two different things. Negotiation is only an open and honest way to express one's position, not an approach to solving problems. ”

"If so, then there's no problem." After Chen Tianhua confirmed that Chen Ke did not give up the idea of military struggle in the slightest, he completely relieved his heart.

Yuan Shikai was really taken aback when he received the news that the People's Party delegation was moving around and visiting central officials and members of the National Assembly in Beijing. At this critical moment, the People's Party not only did not say that it would continue to cooperate with Yuan Shikai, but instead lobbied everywhere. What's the plan?

These news can be accepted by Yuan Shikai, and when Chen Ke went to Dongjiaomin Lane to visit the missions of various countries, Yuan Shikai knew that Chen Ke had seen through his plans. Yuan Shikai walked back and forth in the house a few times, and said to the attendant, "Call Zhao Bingjun over." ”

Chen Ke knew that his visit to the embassies of various countries would cause problems, but it was unlikely that Chen Ke would change his plans. In any case, diplomacy is diplomacy. When it comes to the diplomacy of the Republic of China, we must mention Dongjiaomin Lane.

Dongjiaomin Lane is an old street. In the Yuan Dynasty, Dongjiaomin Lane and Xijiaomin Lane on the west side of the square were connected together in an alley called "Jiangmi Lane". Because this alley had the tax office and customs office and customs that controlled the transportation of rice and grain into Beijing in the Yuan Dynasty at that time, it became the throat of the southern grain transportation to the north, so it was named Jiangmi Lane. Yuan Dadu, outside the east wall of the imperial city, there is a waterway, in 1292 the Tonghui River was dug to connect the North-South Grand Canal, the grain ship at that time was directly moored in the Chuanban Hutong area outside the city, people unloaded grain on the spot and sold, so formed a grain trading street.

After China's defeat in the Second Opium War in 1860, according to the relevant provisions of the Treaty of Tianjin signed between the Qing government and Britain, France, the United States and Russia, in March 1861, the British envoy officially stayed in the palace of Prince Chun in Mixiang, Dongjiang (then known as the Mansion of Liang Gongfu, which was the residence of the seventh son of Emperor Kangxi, King Yunyou); The French minister officially stayed in the Anjun Palace, which was then called the Chungong Mansion, which was the residence of the Anjun Wang Yuele, the grandson of Nurhachi; The U.S. Envoy was stationed in the private residence of Dr. S. S. Illiam, an American citizen, in Mi Lane, Dongjiang, while the Russian Envoy stayed in the Russian Pavilion of the Orthodox Church, which was built here in the early Qing Dynasty.

Subsequently, the legations of various countries chose the area of Dongjiaomin Lane as the site, to 1900 before the Boxer Rebellion, there were embassies of France, Japan, the United States, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and other countries, after the outbreak of the Boxer Rebellion, here because the foreigners gathered in the last years of the Qing Dynasty Dongjiaomin Lane was taken as the focus of the attack, there was a nursery rhyme that said, "Eat noodles without vinegar, bombard Xishiku; Eat noodles without sauce, and bombard Jiaomin Lane", the former refers to the Xishiku Church located in the root of Beijing's West Imperial City, and the latter refers to Dongjiaomin Lane. After the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, according to the provisions of the "Xinchou Treaty", Dongjiang Mixiang was renamed Legation Street (Embassy Street), and it was officially renamed Dongjiaomin Lane in the map drawn by the Chinese side, becoming the embassy area managed by each embassy itself. Later, foreign banks such as HSBC and Macquarie Bank of the United Kingdom, Russo-China Dowson Bank of Russia, Yokohama Shojin Bank of Japan, Deutsche Hua Bank of Germany, and Crédit Agricole CIB of France appeared here, as well as French post offices and hospitals, and a large number of Western-style buildings appeared. This embassy area remained after the Xinhai Revolution. It was not until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937 that diplomats from the Axis powers, except for Germany and Italy, were transferred to the Nationalist Government.

The important thing in this street is the foreign banks, who are supporting the economy of foreign devils in the Far East.

"This street is really not as good as Wuhan." Chen Tianhua said. Wuhan's urban planning was led by Chen Ke. It is full of the flavor of economic development zones around China in the 21st century. At least it's evident from the model and renderings. The road is wide, with a hard pavement, a gutter covered with cement slabs, and a wide green belt on both sides of the street. In the open space enclosed by these roads are residential neighborhoods. It looks very atmospheric and tough. Chen Tianhua and Chen Ke had been to Dongjiaomin Lane before, and they didn't think this street was so bad at the time, but now that they look at it, Dongjiaomin Lane looks narrow and messy.

Chen Ke didn't have this idea, the last time he came here to attend the German minister's cocktail party, the first time he officially talked to his wife He Ying was also in this cocktail party. Thinking of this, Chen Ke showed a smile. He said something else, "Wang Bin will return to China soon." What do you think of putting him in charge of diplomacy for the time being? ”

Chen Tianhua had a lot of dealings with Wang Bin in 1905, but he didn't know how far Wang Bin could do diplomacy. "Actually, if you really engage in diplomacy, I think Mr. Song Jiaoren is more suitable."

In Chen Tianhua's view, Wang Bin is really not a revolutionary party. In contrast, Chen Tianhua hoped that the People's Party would resume contact with Soong Jiaoren.

"Our People's Party is a very xenophobic organization. In the future, the other revolutionary parties were, in a sense, our enemies. Chen Ke's answer was a bit simple and crude, but there was no way around it. This aspect has long been dealt with in an institutional way in the party constitution, "All comrades who voluntarily join the BJP must sever all ties with parties and groups that run counter to our program before joining our ranks." ”

This is the theoretical basis for the "political survey" that has been criticized by many people. But it is also the core foundation for the survival of the BJP. In its program, the BJP made it clear, "We don't want to eat people from the inside."

Chen Ke's carriage stopped at the entrance of the German embassy this time, and it was very rude to lose the embassy to visit them. According to the custom of foreign countries, you have to let foreign devils invite you to the embassy. The first person to send a letter of invitation to Chen Ke was the German ambassador.