XXI

"Uncle Mei, it's not that the Americans want to buy and sell, this is that the submarine itself is a warship, although this ship is not equipped with torpedoes, but the bow and stern are all torpedo tubes, once the torpedoes are installed, then the war can start." Xie Zhangtai said. "Now we're trying to figure out how to convince the Peruvian or Chilean governments to pay for the purchase, for example, that the two submarines can still be kept."

Xie Zhangtai said that Yang Rui seemed to have seen it somewhere, and when he heard it, he said, "Are they willing?" ”

"After all, submarines are not big troop boats, and this matter is not difficult to do. What's more, we need only a few months, and if we can ease things up until August through the purchase agreement, then the situation in the country will turn around. Xie Zhangtai said. Among the South American countries, where Zhu Kuansu is now settled, Chile is because there were Chinese who helped them fight, so the status of the Chinese in the country is not low, while Peru, in officialdom, is not much different from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, everything is done with silver, and the matter of buying a submarine can be done with silver.

"Don't go until August, just two more months." Yang Rui put down the submarine model in his hand and said. Everyone didn't know about Chongzhen's plan in advance, and they still thought it was August 15.

"Two more months?" Bell Sightseeing Road. "More than two months in advance, will it be too rushed?"

"yes. Wouldn't it be too much of a rush? Yu Zixun also said. He most wanted to overthrow the Manchu Qing as soon as possible, but he was also most afraid of any chaos because of the advance of the plan.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Yang Rui said, "This time convene a meeting." That's what we are talking about. I sorted it out, and there were eight topics in total. The first is the implementation of the Chongzhen plan in advance. "According to the plan, we should have to rest for two days before talking, but Yang Rui was a workaholic. As soon as he came, he said the theme of this meeting, "The second is the issue of the state system, the third is the issue of the political system, the fourth is the issue of political power in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the fifth is the issue of checks and balances within us, the sixth is the issue of foreign affairs after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the seventh is the issue of dealing with the Manchus, corrupt officials, and gentry." The eighth is the issue of rewarding martyrs and those who have made meritorious contributions. At this meeting, all of us reached an agreement on these eight issues, and then the next step is to fight. and so on to completely overthrow the Manchu Qing. At the end of the year, we will have our third in-session congress. ”

Yang Rui said here, and Chen Guangshou took out a few memos that he brought with him, and the text was written on the eight questions that Yang Rui said above. The first question was mainly military in nature, and the details would be presented after the meeting. But the second question starts with a short description of the sentence. Several people took the text issued by Chen Guangshou. After that, I took a closer look.

Among the eight issues, the most important for Yang Rui are the fourth and fifth, the fourth question is the issue of political power in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, in fact, in the final analysis, it is the question of whether to implement the one-party system, and the fifth issue of internal checks and balances is the question of whether to implement democracy or democratic centralism within the council. The one-party system does not mean that there is only one party in the whole country, but this ruling party must be in a completely dominant position. The other small parties can only be subordinate. The revival of major matters will have the final say, and small parties can participate in decision-making on small matters. But they really play a role as a foil. At the same time, the establishment of the one-party system is equivalent to determining that the military power of the whole country will be completely in the hands of the Renaissance Society, and the establishment of the Taiwei Mansion (in fact, the Zhongyang Military Committee of the Renaissance Society) in the three-public and twelve-ministry system is justified.

Although democratic centralism was practiced during the revolution in order to make quick decisions and reduce disputes, there are still different opinions on whether or not to implement this system after the founding of the People's Republic of China. For example, Wang Jitong and Yu Zixun are completely opposed, and except for Zhang Taiyan, Yang Rui cannot get the support of others on this issue. This democratic centralism, although the name is democracy, but according to organizational behavior, it is still a pyramid structure, and the people below only have the power to put forward opinions, not the right to choose opinions, but even so, whether their opinions are thrown in the waste carton or on Yang Rui's desk, it depends on luck. This democratic centralism, to put it more seriously, means that Yang Rui is democratic when he wants to be democratic, and he is centralized when he wants to be centralized, and that's it.

After everyone finished reading the text in their hands, they didn't speak, and Yang Rui didn't want to discuss these issues with everyone on the first day, and soon everyone's conversation shifted to other things. Zhong Guanguan and Yang Rui sat recently, and Yang Rui could still feel the friendship between him and him, and now he was also asking Yang Rui about his family affairs as an old friend.

"Does your son look like you or like Cheng Ying? Got a name? He asked casually, as if they were reunited after a long absence.

When others asked about his family affairs, Yang Rui could ignore them completely, he only felt that this was his own private matter, and no one could interfere with it, especially now that he and Cheng Ying looked like this. However, Zhong sightseeing is different.

"The forehead is like me, and the eyes are like." Speaking of children, Yang Rui seems to be a little lax in his heart, he wears armor when he works, but once he thinks of children, he is like a soldier who abandons his sword and takes off his armor, and he looks at the battlefield where the smoke of gunpowder has dissipated.

"Hehe, that must be very spiritual when you grow up. If your temperament is like you again, it's another lover. Zhong Guanguan laughed, but he didn't laugh twice, and coughed slightly, his lung disease has never been cured, sometimes it is good and sometimes it is bad, but Germany can't lack him, so he can only persist with illness.

Zhong Guanguan said this, and there is a basis. In Shanghai, all the masters will go to the kiln to call Mr. Female, this is entertainment, but Yang Rui has never been like this, and the matter between him and Cheng Ying is known to everyone, and everyone says that he is a lover. In fact, Yang Rui is also a normal man, but he is extremely disgusted with eating grass by the nest, and he is afraid that those prostitutes will be sick, he remembers that so-and-so was recruited in this way, and when the time comes, it is not counted as a lifetime of illness, and his hair will fall out, and he will lose his children and grandchildren, which is not worth it. So he can only bitter turtles.

Zhong Guanguan's words were very tactful, but Yang Rui understood the meaning very well, he didn't want to go around in circles, and said in a deep voice: "I didn't know it before, but now I understand." If there is a revolution, it can only be abandoned. I knew I was looking for a ...... at that time" Yang Rui stopped when he said this, before the Hangzhou uprising, he had asked Chen Guangshou to inquire about the daughter of a certain food stall owner. But then the matter was gone. At that time, he felt that Cheng Ying had read books, understood the revolution, and could know his heart, but now that he looks at it, he is simply a burden, no, it is a scourge at all.

Yang Rui stopped for a while. He whispered again: "To her, I have already done my duty." She knew it in her own heart, so she didn't take the child with her when she left. It's just that the old man didn't agree and hanged herself, but fortunately she was rescued, so she didn't dare to say anything about the divorce. Now the old man sent someone to pick up the child. I didn't say anything either. He sent someone to pick up the child to see what I meant, if I don't agree, then it means that I really want to break off with the Cheng family. People always have feelings, the old man has been running around for the Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce in the past few years, he has been sick several times, and his leg will be broken once, I can't do too much. Besides, overseas Chinese are still very important, and they cannot be lost now. You can't lose it in the future. After talking about family affairs, Yang Rui sighed: "Xianfeng." Those of us who are engaged in revolution can only look at people as numbers at all, and we must not be soft-hearted and hard-hearted, and even more people will die in the future. It's no wonder that in the past, in China, women didn't have the right to speak on major matters, and they really couldn't be allowed to speak, so they relied on their hearts and IQs, and everything was over as soon as they spoke. ”

Only Yang Rui would speak like this to Zhong Guanguan in private, most of what he said was true, but whether it was because he wanted to win over overseas Chinese did not finally divorce Cheng Ying, or because his feelings were still not divorced from Cheng Ying, then only he knew. Zhong Guanguan didn't delve into Yang Rui's statement, but just smiled bitterly when he heard the words: "I used to feel that my wife didn't understand anything, I just felt that she didn't know her heart, but I didn't expect you to have such a confidant wife." Ay. It seems that it is the same to marry any wife in the revolution, I am a cold bitter, you are a bitter complaint! By the way, isn't the fairy phoenix going to go? When are you going to marry her home? ”

Zhong Guanguan's last casual question only made Yang Rui's face slightly hot. Outsiders don't understand the entanglement between him and Cheng Ying, and they will only think that he has succeeded in the revolution and will change his wife in the end, but when he sees the newcomer laughing and the old man crying, it is not good for this matter to be spread. Although Yang Rui didn't care what others said, he was still a little embarrassed about Han Xianfeng's matter in the face of Zhong Guanguan's friend.

"I was driven to the Propaganda Department, studying abroad, what is not easy to learn, but I learned a Western music and came back, it is really ...... This is fundamentally inconsistent with the quintessence of the country. "Han Xianfeng has no culture since she was a child, and she doesn't understand foreign languages, fortunately, the music she likes doesn't need too many languages, and Arabic numerals only need to learn from 1 to 7, so Europe went around a circle, and finally ran to the Paris Conservatoire, the language barrier, originally not allowed to enroll, but the erhu pulled the foreign devil and admitted her, it's really an evil door, can the foreigner understand the erhu?

"Haha......" Zhong Guanguan laughed, he knew that Yang Rui would complain, he didn't say anything before he had a relationship with Han Xianfeng, but now that he was about to become his own person, he really began to complain. I remember you said that art is also very important to a country, and tell me an example...... anyway, I forgot about it, but I always remember what you mean, when you are usually tired, humming tunes and singing, which is also very good, you, in the future, someone will play the violin for you every day at home, what's not bad? In Germany, you have to dress appropriately to get into a concert. ”

Zhong Guanguan was talking and playing, and Yang Rui also followed his meaning and didn't want to make the conversation so melancholy, so he only smiled: "Do you know what it will be called if everyone outside calls us rejuvenation, it's called the National Quintessence Party." The quintessence of the country, the violin and cello of foreigners, others can listen to it, but we can't listen to it, and when the time comes, it will be repaid, how can we stand on the mountain and govern the country after the revival meeting? ”

Yang Rui led by example everywhere and carried out nationalism to the end, and heard Zhong Guanguan laugh for a while. When he was laughing, Xie Jintai next to him took a chair, moved a few steps over and said, "Actually, you say the quintessence of the country, but the analysis of countries on you is not like this." "The closer he got to the uprising, the more he ran from place to place to find out the situation in the countries, and many of the things that were not clear in the telegrams could now be spread out and discussed.

"Chong'an, tell me, what do you think of the analysis of various countries?" Zhang Taiyan said. Just now, they were discussing Xu Huafeng's submarines, and how to keep those two submarines. After the matter was discussed, Xie Jintai came over, and he, Wang Jitong, and Yu Zixun also came over.

Xie Jintai's words had a lot of helplessness, and Yang Rui heard it. When he looked up and saw that everyone was there, he said, "Chong'an, now I am sure of everything." It's that diplomacy is not sure, and the most important thing is that Britain is not sure. ”

"Very bad! Very bad! As soon as Xie Jintai opened his mouth, he lowered everyone's temperature to the lowest, and as soon as he said this, Yang Rui wanted to smoke, but thinking of Zhong Guanguan's lung disease, he only took out a cigarette and did not light a fire.

"Tell me more. Our revolution does not need to look at the faces of foreigners. Yang Rui held a cigarette. Half-tough, half-self-soothing. He understood what Xie Jintai meant when he said that it was not good, it must have been that there was no consensus with the British side.

"Churchill told me that the Cabinet was not in favour of the Revival and the constitutional monarchy that we were going to adopt. But I said. Then I can implement a democratic constitution, can such a cabinet support it? He shook his head at that, too. Xie Jintai said what happened to him in England with a solemn expression, "Later, I went to France again." This time I'm talking about democratic constitutionalism. said that Zhu Kuansu would only become a royal family in the future, and it was impossible for him to become an emperor, and they did not express their position like the United Kingdom. I did not go to all the European countries except Germany and Austria-Hungary, but I went to Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands, but they were all with the same attitude, and I suspect that they are angry, that is, they do not support us. ”

Deauburn was a supporter of the Manchus. So the whole of Europe did not support the Renaissance, but two months ago. There are still a lot of consulate staff with press signboards who have contacted the Renaissance Society, but now it has changed after two months?

"How so?" Without Yang Rui to speak, Yu Zixun asked. "Doesn't that mean that no one will support us except Russia? Did we and the Russians know about it? ”

"It's not." Xie Jintai shook his head and said: "We don't have any agreement with the Russians yet, and now in order to deal with Germany and Austria, the relationship between Britain and Russia has eased. My speculation ......" Xie Jintai glanced at everyone with blazing eyes, and said: "My speculation is that the British have begun to attach importance to our strength, and know that the retro quintessence we advocate is just a trick to unite people's hearts." When I was in London, I approached my adviser, Claire – a former Conservative MP who is now out of politics altogether – and he suggested that I better think about South America. ”

"South America?" Everyone wondered, "Does the Revival Society's revolution have anything to do with South America?" ”

"It's not that we have a relationship with South America, it's that we think about the history of South America." Xie replied: "The United States is a colony of the British, so Spain and France contributed to the independence of the United States, and South America was once a colony of Spain, and the British also wanted to avenge the original arrow, so in 1810, Spain was invaded by Napoleon, and with the support of the British, revolutions broke out in various parts of South America. After several fierce battles, two heroes finally appeared, one was Jose. Morality. St. Martin, one is Simon. Bolívar. Both are considered heroes of the South American independence movement, and both have great prestige to become the founding presidents of the entire South American republic, but they are both supported by the British, and who can really govern depends on who the British support.

Although San Martín was a soldier, he was a Lautaro, that is, a Freemason, and he hoped that the whole of South America would enlighten the people and develop the economy like the United States or Europe. And although Bolívar is the leader of the revolution, he is completely a Guizhou, and he only wants Latin America to get rid of Spanish rule, but he doesn't want to make any big changes, so he ......" Xie Jintai said this, and glanced at everyone with deep meaning, and lamented: "The British chose Bolívar in the end." Moreover, not only did the whole of South America be divided into several countries, but even the Bolivarian Republic of Gran Colombia was finally divided.

Looking at the history of independence in South America and thinking about the revolution in China, I think there is a very correct saying, that is, foreigners will not make us strong. Not only did they not support our revolution, but even if the country was founded, they would still come back to make trouble, and they would never stop until the whole country was torn apart! In addition to the fact that they don't want to have another country that can compete with the European countries, what is more important is that Britain, France, the Netherlands and other countries have colonies in the South Seas. Once we rise strongly, these colonies are no longer safe. Wherever overseas Chinese, or those yellow people, will think about when they can also become independent and establish their own country. I didn't think of this before, and I kept telling him that diplomacy is important, diplomacy is important, and that Britain is important, and Britain is important. It wasn't until some time ago that I realized that I Xie Jintai was really blind, and I actually thought that the British would support us, which is absolutely impossible! Look at the countries in South America, big and small, one weaker than the other, I really ......"

Xie Zhangtai's words were indignant, he ran around, Yang Rui fully supported, and the money spent was as little as one million, but only when he was prompted by his old adviser Claire that he completely understood the tragic situation of the South American Revolution, and he completely woke up: It is impossible for the European powers to support the Revival Society, especially the excellent performance of the Revival Society makes them taboo.

He thinks so, but Yang Rui doesn't think so, he understands that the great powers will not support the Renaissance Society to govern China, so he usually does not Westernize at all, let alone learn from the West and the like - although those white-skinned editors and reporters of the Beijing-Tianjin Times who are full of a sense of superiority have been encouraging China to learn from advanced civilizations like the West, but if China really learns from the West, those European and American politicians will definitely do their best to beat China back to the prototype. For China, what they want is that the rulers are completely Westernized, so that everyone can communicate easily, and the middle and lower classes, that is, the more feudal and backward they are, the more they like it. Isn't that the Republic of China in later generations? It's exactly the same as South America! But the difference is that China has been a complete country for thousands of years, and South America was a colony from the beginning, so in the end China was finally unified, and South America was finally divided.

"It's not that we're too good at home." Yang Rui looked at the people who bowed their heads and pondered and said, "But our influence on the overseas Chinese side is too great, and Zhu Kuanji's influence is also too great, fifty or sixty thousand people in Peru have pledged four or five million taels at once, which is basically one hundred taels per capita." Many of the miners in Peru don't make so much money in a year, and some of them bring their wives and children, and even less so much. However, I am not saying that overseas Chinese should not be called upon to donate, the great powers are not stupid, even if they are deceived by us now, but the mule is a horse, once we come to power and come out with policies, they will know what we are going to do and what we can do, and when the great powers suppress us, it will be too late to mobilize overseas Chinese.

I said before that after the founding of the country, the country should be divided on the surface, which is also what it means, why should the Liangguang side use the name of Furen Cultural Society, and why should the northeast side fight in the nest? It is to give the illusion of constant civil strife in China, which is to be given to the great powers. We came to power, but China was completely divided, so that they would be reassured. China is too big, once it stands up, not only East Asia, but the whole world will be afraid, in the past, the second German emperor Wilhelm, what yellow peril he preached, he said that the yellow peril is Japan's conquest of China, and then with the help of China's manpower and material resources against the whole of Europe, and the rejuvenation we advocate is their own independence and rise, which is more terrible than the yellow peril he said.

That's why I say that the great powers will not support us, and only when we grasp their weakness, only when we break the boat, and only when we are not afraid of the dead will they compromise, and our country will be able to truly become independent and develop steadily. Now the plan of the General Staff is very good, but when the whole of China is really recovered, the great powers will definitely come out to cause chaos, they themselves will not come, but it is very likely that Japan will come, why the hundreds of thousands of peasant soldiers in the northeast do not move, just wait for the Japanese to come, as long as he dares to interfere in the revolution, then we will have another Russo-Japanese War......"

Yang Rui was suddenly excited, he suddenly felt that his heart was beating very fast, he suddenly felt that he and the Fuxing Society had already stood on the water of history, and had prepared so much, but at the last moment, it was still difficult for him to guarantee that he would win. All he could do now was to stand up like a man, and then encourage the revival members to fight to the end against those who dared to interfere in the Chinese revolution. This is like a street fight, the two gangs of gangsters who don't know the details, who can win in the first round, then who will be able to have a psychological advantage in the future, at this time not only rationality, not only calm, but also courage and ruthlessness.

Yang Rui's excited conversation, five of the six people were listening carefully, but Wang Jitong looked at Yang Rui's excited appearance and smiled in his heart. This is the Yang Rui he knows, and only in this way can Yang Rui lead the revival from scratch, get out of the trough, and lead the whole country to reverse the national fortunes and prosper and rejuvenate. Of course, it was this Yang Rui who made him feel afraid, because such a determined and courageous person, once he was stubborn, it would be a disaster for the whole country. (To be continued......)