Zhang Shizhao's praise only caused the displeasure of everyone in the room, and even Huang Xing, who had been defending him, jumped up from the chair angrily after listening to his words, and circled around the people in the meeting, Song Jiaoren looked at Zhang Shizhao and said: "Xingyan, if you really participated in the Provisional Congress, then you know that democracy is just a cover for Yang Jingcheng, and what he really wants is autocracy." In addition to raising the number of people who have initiated a motion of no confidence extremely high, he also does not allow the National Assembly to initiate a motion of no confidence against a single cabinet member, and even requires that before a motion of no confidence is initiated, the opposition parties must first elect a new cabinet candidate, which is much more difficult than simply toppling the cabinet. If there had been such a provision in the Japanese Diet, Ito might still be the prime minister of Japan. ”

"Ahh We have to elect a new cabinet first,......" Zhang Shizhao repeated this, a little surprised, and then nodded, "As long as half of the parliamentarians pass the no-confidence motion, Yang Jingcheng wants to step down, but a new prime minister must be elected first, so ...... It really increased the difficulty of the cabinet several times. But in the beginning, the benefits of this ......"

Hu Ying saw that Zhang Shizhao began to say good things for Yang Jingcheng again, and said angrily: "Be strict, are you from the Huaxing Society or the Fuxing Society, when Yang Jingcheng rebelled in Chaozhou, he counted us, and the Guangzhou Uprising was even more so." A few months ago, when we attacked Guangzhou, the Furen Literary Society colluded with the Manchu remnants Zhang Mingqi and Li Zhun to kill our comrades.

Not to mention that Guangxu spent millions of taels of silver, but many Manchu bureaucrats also became big officials, Yuan Shikai was still the governor of Zhili, and Yang Zengxin was actually the governor of Xinjiang. There are also Cen Chunxuan, Yuan Shuxun, and Duan Fang, these people are all going to be big officials. But what about us, how many years from birth to death. There are many comrades who have sacrificed, but don't talk about being an official, even if you want to see that Yang Jingcheng can't do it on the one hand, he is afraid that we will disturb his authoritarian dream, so he will drive us to extermination. ”

Hu Ying was angry, and in 05 in Shanghai, he and Tian Tong faced Feng Temin's invitation to join the revival association. Tian Tong joined, but because he was a disciple of Huang Xing, he didn't dare to quit the alliance and join the revival association. Now Tian Tong is already a member of the Hubei parliament. He's nothing. Of course, whether you are an official or not is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that the League will shed blood for the revolution, so you must give an explanation to many comrades. Instead of spending a few dozen taels of bereavement money.

"Say no more!" Everyone in the room was excited by Hu Ying's words. Seeing this, Huang Xing shouted: "Our revolution is not for the sake of being officials, and now we can only blame ourselves for not recovering a province......

Saying this, he glanced at Song Jiaoren, and now, he understands that Song Jiaoren was right and he was wrong. After the recovery of Beijing, if the hundreds of people attacking Guangzhou were launched in Tanzhou, then the whole of Hunan would be an alliance. But there is no regret medicine in the world, and the opportunity to recover a province under the eagle flag is fleeting. It's too late to do anything.

Seeing that everyone had calmed down, Huang Xing said in a deep voice, "I agree with the mention of the reorganization of the alliance at the beginning of the year, and I hope everyone will also agree with this proposal, but it is okay to unite Liang Zhuoru, but I will never agree with the Furen Literary Society!" ”

Seeing that Huang Xingweng finally agreed to reorganize the Alliance, Song Jiaoren put down a big stone in his heart. On the side of the League, in addition to the revolutionary party, what he valued was the Huguang people's clan, and Yuan Shikai's side was mostly Manchu bureaucrats and northern gentry. More importantly, once the reorganization is carried out, the actual leadership of the League will be transferred from Sun Wen to Huang Xing, but the actual control will be in his hands, which will finally take back the leadership that was handed over at the beginning of the establishment of the League.

When the stone in Song Jiaoren's heart fell to the ground, the stone in Yang Rui's heart had just been lifted. Most of the things in the Provisional Congress have been completed, but an unexpected problem has been raised, that is, most of the parliamentarians hope that Zhu Kuansu will ascend the throne as emperor, and in addition to Song Jiaoren's opposition, others, including some representatives of the Revival Association, are also in favor.

"Didn't you have a meeting before, why did the situation repeat again?" After listening to the report, Yang Rui frowned and blamed, whether there is an emperor or not is really not a big problem, but this step has a far-reaching impact and must not be sloppy.

"Yes, I said it, and everyone agrees, King Min is only the former Ming royal family, and the country gives four million taels a year, and the people respect it. However, those parliamentarians in Hunan made a coax again...... Yes, yes, I remember," Yang Du patted his head, he had been busy lately, "it was when he was discussing the national flag." Everyone said that none of the alternative national flag styles were good-looking, and it was better for us in China to use the Yellow Dragon Flag back. They also said that the power is already in the Congress, and it doesn't matter whether King Min is the emperor or not, but now Japan is the emperor, India is also the emperor, even the little Korea, and it is actually the emperor, and in the future, our envoys will bow five times to the emperor of other people, and their envoys only need to bow four times to us, which is really a loss of great country demeanor......"

Yang Du chattered, only pulling things on for a long time, Yang Rui finally got impatient and interrupted, "Then what is the final result?" Which bastard dares to make an emperor and is not afraid of being expelled from the club? ”

"It's just a mention of yì, and there is no way to vote." Seeing that the great leader began to be impatient, Yang Du wiped his sweat vigorously, "But it's not right to be so slender, now the outside world is willing to ascend the throne except for those people in the Alliance, if everyone finds out that we are obstructing it, then this people's will will ......."

"What are you afraid of, as long as the council can't pass it." Yang Rui asserted that he had long expected that some puppets would be disobedient, but only a few.

"But...... However......" Yang Du began to wipe his sweat again, "everyone thinks that if the relevant provisions of the emperor are not written into the constitution, the constitution is incomplete." Now everyone has put forward these points, one is that the emperor is the symbol of the country, the second is that the three princes must be appointed by the emperor, and the third is that the emperor must ...... the law, amnesty, convening the parliament, and receiving ambassadors and ministers of various countries."

"Is this a constitutional monarchy or a constitutional democracy?" Yang Rui was impatient again, he resented that there were still many slaves in this country.

"Democracies!" Yang Du did not understand the thoughts and unspeakable secrets of the great leader, but he still insisted on principles and manipulated the provisional parliament. "Now everyone just thinks that the emperor should be the symbol of the country, which is exactly the same as what we discussed at the beginning, he is a torii. Make a show. ”

Listening to the symbol of the country again, Yang Rui suddenly thought of Little Japan, after World War II, Japan was also a democracy, but... But it seems that the emperor system has also been retained, as if... It seems that the emperor is also a symbol of the country.

"And what do they want to put in the Constitution?" Yang Rui was in a trance for a moment, and then asked.

"They want to write Article 1 of the Constitution: The emperor is the symbol of the Great China State, and the sovereignty of the Great China State belongs to all the people. The emperor's act on state affairs must be established and recognized by the cabinet, and the cabinet shall be responsible for it. Yang Du read out the article. Yang Rui could feel that he agreed with this, "Actually, there must be a provision in the constitution on whose national sovereignty lies, and the original draft did not have this article." It's a please. The Constitution now clearly stipulates that national sovereignty belongs to all citizens. Then this is naturally a democracy, and the emperor is just a symbol, which is in line with your previous requirements. ”

After Yang Du finished speaking, he looked at Yang Rui deadly, wondering his opinion on this, and Yang Rui thought for a while but smiled, "If you want to use the Yellow Dragon National Flag, you actually carried the emperor out, what about the national anthem?" Do you want to pull the queen out too? ”

"It did. It's hard to disobey the people's will! Yang Du smiled bitterly, "It's okay without this King Min." Now that King Min has it, he will not be allowed to ascend the throne, not to mention the people in China, even overseas Chinese abroad are not convinced, they buy so many founding bonds, just thinking that King Min will ascend the throne as the emperor. Now things are being stopped by us, but we are going to be hated by everyone. ”

"Huizi, it's your constitutional monarchy's heart that doesn't die!" Yang Du said that it was so pitiful, but Yang Rui didn't believe it, "I didn't come out with a Min Wang at the beginning, how can I sell overseas founding bonds?" How do the states and counties receive it? Do you know, in those states and counties below, the revolutionary army went to receive them, and the militia rebelled to the death, but as soon as the holy decree arrived, those people opened the city gate and surrendered. This is not one place, but hundreds of places, especially in Guizhou, when the person in charge Zhang Bailin raised the righteousness, he did not have a few guns, he took a holy decree stamped with Zhu Kuanji's seal, read it to the public at the Yamen of Guiyang City, and the patrol battalion of the new army surrendered, and the whole province received it.

As for the people who sent water and food to the Baxing Army, and helped lead the way to spread the news, did they do this because they understood the revolution? No! They don't know what a revolution is at all, they only know how to change the dynasty, and they only know how to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. But because of this, we can no longer have an emperor, the emperor is the foundation of Confucianism, we can borrow it at the beginning of the founding of the country, but we can't always go down with the three outlines and five constants, and if we continue like this, the country will become the same again.

In fact, in terms of the emperor, I am no different from Sun Wen. He is against the emperor, I am against the emperor, he wants to eradicate feudalism, I also want to eradicate feudalism, but I am different from him, he throws bombs, no matter whether there are people in the house or not, as soon as the bomb is thrown, as soon as the house falls, he says that he succeeded; And I am a plasterer who steals beams and replaces columns, and if I don't prop up the new wall, the old wall will never be demolished, but this is only for a while, not a lifetime. ”

What Yang Rui said only made Yang Du's sweat more, he just cared about wiping his sweat, he didn't know how to reply, only to hear Yang Rui sigh for a long time and said: "'The emperor is the symbol of the country' This sentence can be written into the constitution, but it must be clearly written that we are a democratic constitutional country, I don't care about the national anthem, if everyone likes the national flag, you can use the Yellow Dragon Flag, but the country name still has to be according to the original, don't add any empire to it, this is my most basic requirement!" ”

"Yes! I will definitely arrange for a democratic constitutional state to be included. Yang Du breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, this word 'symbol' can be regarded as the final balance between him and Yang Rui. Plus, in addition, there are a couple of little things. ”

"Say it." Although Yang Rui promised that the phrase 'the emperor is the symbol of the Great China country' would be written into the constitution, he was still thinking about how to destroy it.

"First, everyone thinks the term prime minister is not good, and they think it is better to change it to prime minister; There is also this national anthem...... "Yang Du habitually wipes sweat," the gentlemen raise their love, and most of the parliamentarians chose the song of the Yellow River composed by me and Uncle Shen, this song...... Hey, I don't know how everyone chose it, but the lyrics are not good. ”

"The song is good!" Yang Rui listened to the song of the Yellow River, which is not bad, and the Yellow River is the root of China, and he belongs to the kind of people who do not agree with the river at all, "What's wrong with the words?" ”

"This word was written in 04, when Russia broke the contract and did not withdraw its troops, and I read the newspapers with great indignation, and at that time I felt that something was going to squirt out of my chest. So he found a pen and paper and waved the word. Yang Du said, "Because it was written by anger." Therefore, there is a saying in the lyrics, "Drink Ma Wuliang Sea, Ride Ma Ula Mountain, swear not to defeat and never return", if this song is really made a national anthem, it will definitely cause protests in Russia. ”

"Oh, that's right." Yang Rui said, "What else is the alternative? ”

"The alternative is Qingyun Ge in Shangshu." Yang Du replied.

"That won't work. It's too soft, and it doesn't have any strength at all. Yang Rui shook his head and said, "Hey, aren't this Wulianghai and Wula Mountain both in China?" What is Russia protesting for? Now Outer Mongolia Dading. Could it be that they are going to fight over this song? ”

"Actually, this Ula Mountain is not the Mongolian Ula Mountain, which means the Ural Mountain, which was for the purpose of rhyming at that time. I only took the word Ula Mountain. "Yang Du feels a little bad." Hey, now I want to change the lyrics, but I can't find the feeling I had at the beginning! ”

"Don't change it, go through it again when the Congress is officially formed, if you really want to vote, then I will definitely use it. The Russians had the most of our land, and that year they really broke the contract and did not want to withdraw their troops. Russian Maozi can send troops, but we can't sing? It doesn't make sense! Yang Rui said. There is also the prime minister to change the prime minister. I have no opinion, as long as the authority remains the same. ”

Yang Rui agreed to several things he said. Yang Du said goodbye happily. As soon as he left, Yang Rui also asked the new secretary Li Zilong to arrange the carriage, and for the sentence "The emperor is a symbol of the country", he had to personally enter the palace to arrange the arrangement.

More than two months, the changes brought to the Zhu family in Tanzhou are no different from earth-shaking, although they were rich earlier, but they have never been expensive, and now there is an emperor in the family, which only makes people happy and worried. If this Beijing is fought by the Zhu family, then it will be safe to be an emperor or something. But the whole world is laid by the Fuxing Society, and the Fuxing Society has nothing to do with the Zhu family, everyone knows the human trafficker Cai Yuanpei, and now at the initiative of the Fuxing Society, he suddenly became a royal family, and his descendants will be emperors in the future, what is this? But if you really don't agree to the revival meeting, this great wealth will be gone, and you can become a princess and queen and become a village sister-in-law, and you will become a rough girl when you become a princess, which is really a loss.

With hesitation and reluctance, at the invitation of the trafficker Cai Yuanpei, Zhu Kuanji's father and uncle came to the capital, in fact, he wanted Zhu Changlin's family to go north, but Zhu Changlin and Zhu Da's shopkeeper were very steady, and before the business with the Fuxing Association was not negotiated, the bet was not bet, he was afraid that Fuxing would put forward harsh conditions, and there would be no way out at all when dozens of people in the family were in the capital.

Yang Rui met Zhu Changlin one day, the two sides had an open and honest long talk, the revival will want a memorial arch, of course, in order to erect this archway, you can give 400,000 taels of silver as alimony every year, the Forbidden City, and other places of the palace can be provided to the Zhu family to live, but the palace also has antique calligraphy and paintings everywhere belong to the state.

Then there is the management of the Forbidden City belongs to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, considering that only 400,000 taels are given, so the maintenance costs of the Forbidden City and other places will be paid by the state treasury, and the eunuchs and palace maids are also considered civil servants. However, these thousands of civil servants are in the process of being abolished and diverted, and there are literate and honest eunuchs among them, all of whom have been sent to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, more than 1,000 counties across the country, and each county has an inspectorate, so let these eunuchs who have no place to go go there to be officials, which is equivalent to the director of the Letters and Visits Office in later generations.

When Yang Rui thought about the petition office, the sedan chair transferred outside the Forbidden City had arrived at the Yangxin Palace, the name of the palace was taken by the Ming Dynasty, and now only the sign written by the Manchu and Han Dynasty at the entrance of the palace was changed, and the plaque of the 'Zhongzheng Renhe' in the Yongzheng handwritten book in the front hall was also given, and the other furnishings were no different from before.

"Sir......" Sheng Shu, the head of the Forbidden City, who had already received the news of Yang Rui's entry into the palace, shouted in the sedan chair, he was Yang Rui's own person who was rightly placed next to Zhu Kuanji,

"Is Mr. Zhu here? I have something to talk to him about. Yang Rui asked. The sedan chair bearer has good kung fu, and the sedan chair is very stable, but he is still not used to this thing.

"I'm writing in Xiangning Palace." Sheng Shudong replied, "The family is here. ”

"That's good." Yang Rui said, he walked to the Heart Cultivation Palace, Zhu Kuansu had come to visit the Heart Cultivation Hall before he moved in, and the imperial chair also sat down, only feeling uncomfortable.

As soon as Yang Rui entered the front hall, Zhu Kuanji's voice rang out, "Yang Aiqing is exempt." ”

The palace has its own palace rules, but Yang Rui is an unruly, in order to give both sides a step, as long as Yang Rui comes. Zhu Kuansu had to shout early to be polite. Yang Rui only felt that he had called too early this time, because he had not yet entered the hall, and he was just smiling in his heart. At this time, Zhu Kuansu said to the left and right, "You all stand down." ”

When Zhu Kuansu dismissed the eunuchs and palace maids, Zhu Changlin and Zhu Wanxu, who were writing in Xiangning Palace, also arrived in the front hall, and Yang Rui smiled at them and asked, "Mr. Zhu, Mr. Zhu, how many days have you been used to living in the past few days?" ”

Yang Rui bowed his hand, Zhu Changlin and Zhu Wanxu hurriedly returned the salute and asked Yang Rui to sit down. Zhu Yuxu said, "All are used to it, all are used to it." Mr. Cheng has a heavy workload. If there's anything you want, just let someone else spread the news. ”

"Actually, it's nothing." Yang Rui said politely, "It's that a member of the Provisional Congress issued a motion today, saying that an article should be added to the Constitution. It is expressly stated that the emperor is the symbol of the state. Of course, the state is still a democratic constitutional state, and other things remain the same. I have come today to bring this news and discuss with the old gentleman what to do. ”

Yang Rui said that it was a discussion, but everyone knew his previous attitude, Zhu Wanxu said, "The country is created." Most of the parliamentarians have old habits and old ideas, if they mention it. If we don't say yes, it's okay. ”

After the nephew finished speaking, Zhu Changlin also said, "It turned out to be true, I am old, the Zhu family can enter the Forbidden City again in a few hundred years, and be able to worship the ancestral temple again, because of your wealth and the wealth of the revolution." I also understand what you said before, the country has weakened to the point where it can no longer follow the old path. The old man has been a businessman all his life, although he has not saved the world, but it was too easy to get money at the beginning, so he has always spared no expense in doing good deeds. Now that Shenzhou is in Dading, there are all kinds of waste to be lifted, what is our Zhu family going to do, just say it, as long as you can do it and help this country, it is to dismantle this old bone, and the old man is also willing. ”

Zhu Changlin's words were sincere, and Yang Rui was a little blushing when he said it, he glanced at Zhu Kuanji, who was wearing a yellow robe and was also listening, and said: "As long as the country is a democratic country, the emperor doesn't care if the emperor revives the society." However, I remember that Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, had been a king for decades before becoming the emperor, I think that if the National Assembly really passed this article, then please be sure to shirk one or two when you ascend the throne, for example, under the pretext that the people are not enough food and clothing, and delay the accession to the throne......" Yang Rui stood up as he spoke, this method was also thought of by him temporarily, and it was not complete, "However, the delay is also time-limited, so be it, in addition to saying that the enthronement will be postponed, another forty years will be allowed, and then the National Assembly will vote, If the people still want to do so at that time, then ascend the throne and become emperor. ”

Zhu Changlin and Zhu Wanxu thought that Yang Rui would stick to his previous views, but they didn't want him to let go now, although it was a long time later, but now Zhu Kuanxu is only fifteen years old, and forty years later he will only be fifty-five years old, and he will be pampered in the Forbidden City, it is impossible to live to that age, even Zhu Wanxu is only in his thirties now, and I am afraid that he will be able to see that day.

"It's done, it's ...... Is it good for the country to do so? Zhu Changlin knew that Yang Rui was telling the truth, but he still asked again.

"Now everyone is still the same old idea, but forty years later, everyone still insists on having an emperor, then we really have no reason to stop it." Yang Rui said, "Actually, I have a very good impression of the Ming Dynasty, if it weren't for the times changing, it would be okay for this emperor to do it, but if the people want to be happy and wise, then they have to borrow imperial power and limit imperial power at the same time; In addition, some revolutionary parties are bent on sweeping away the imperial system, and if they really want to get out of the emperor, they will throw bombs everywhere again. ”

Yang Rui's words were as sincere as Zhu Changlin's, and the ancestors and grandchildren of the Zhu family looked at each other, and they agreed with this, and Zhu Changlin finally said, "It's done, that's what you do." When the old man came to the capital, Huguang and other places were flooded, and the people ...... Oh, bitter! Now in this Forbidden City, food and clothing are ...... Shame, shame! ”

"Don't worry, old gentleman, now that the Northeast War has been fought, the grain over there is being transported to Huguang for disaster relief, and in the future, the standing positions in various places will be rebuilt, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs will also set up a disaster relief department; In addition, water conservancy repair, afforestation, these will also be done, you can rest assured. This country is always getting better and better! Yang Rui said.

Zhu Changlin saw that Yang Rui said so well, just nodded, and when Yang Rui was about to leave, Zhu Yuxu said, "This, Mr. Cheng, when Su'er was a child, she set a family affair and wanted to marry a woman surnamed Zhang, before Su'er said that he died, but now he is alive again, this marriage is ......"

Zhu Wanxu was worried about Yang Rui's son's marriage, but Yang Rui was only worried about the Zhu family's coup d'état, and he didn't worry about who to marry, besides, the family affairs that were previously decided must be the children of small families, and they must have no power, so he said at the moment: "Marriage or something, it is not under the jurisdiction of the Revival Association, you can do it with confidence." Although the emperor will not do it for the time being, the big wedding will still be lively, and it will come according to the rules. (To be continued......)