Prince Zheng's Mansion is said to have been the residence of Yao Guangxiao Yao, a minister of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and was occupied by Zilharang, the son of Shuerhaqi, the third brother of Nurhachi, in the early Qing Dynasty. Jierharang is one of the eight iron hat kings, and it is an unusually large palace built by the king, covering an area of more than 80 acres and more than 900 houses. After the Provisional Government evacuated the Zongren Mansion, it saw that there were many houses here, so it temporarily settled here. And Yang Rui also lives in the backyard of the palace, of course, there is not the word 'Yixian Hall' here like in later generations, I am afraid that it will only be called 'Jingchengtang' in the future.

Let the distant cousin be led down, Yang Rui returned to the front yard, Yang Du had been waiting here for almost an hour, and finally settled down when he came. Yang Rui saw that he was a little anxious, and said with a smile: "Huizi, how is the situation in the Congress now?" Are those people in Song Dunchu easy to deal with? ”

Yang Duben waited impatiently, and as soon as he heard about Song Jiaoren in the Congress, he immediately pulled his hair and said angrily: "Then Song Dunchu has to put the word 'people' on the country name, it's really annoying!" He is also very good at speaking, and he even instigated the parliamentarians on our side to follow and make a fool, which is really a big scourge. ”

Yang Rui still laughed when he saw him like this, although the Congress was a puppet, he was still very tired of ripping off, "What's the matter, he wants to change the name of the country to 'Republic of China'?" That's not an auspicious name! ”

"Exactly." Yang Du sighed, "Although he doesn't want to be a republic or a big president like Sun Wen, but he wants to add the word 'people' to the name of the country to live or die, it seems that this is not the case, then this country must be an autocratic country." ”

Empire, party-state, republic. Yang Rui is the party-state, but he hates the word very much. Every time he hears the party-state, he thinks of a classic line - for the sake of the party-state, pull the brothers; The party-state does not like it. The empire is not easy to use, and he does not love the Republic of China, the thirty-eight years of the Republic of China in history are really the most painful years for the nation; In the end, the name of the republic, because of the alliance, Yang Rui resolutely resisted, so. In the end, the committee decided that the name of the country was 'Greater China', or China for short. The era name also follows the old custom, and it does not take many years AD. It doesn't take how many years the Yellow Emperor has, only 1912 is called 'the first year of the Great China Kingdom' or 'the first year of the China Kingdom'.

Not expressing the nature of the country is beneficial to borrowing imperial power to engage in propaganda to fool the people in the future, which is the original intention of Yang Rui's agreement. But Song Jiaoren had to add the word 'people' to the country name. In addition to wanting to prevent the restoration of the imperial system like Sun Wen, he also had other thoughts: that is, to make China the same as France, Yang Rui was elected president, and the prime minister was someone else. As a result, in the end, the president is just a title, and the cabinet and the real power are all in the prime minister, and the dispute between the government and the court of the Republic of China in history comes from this.

Yang Rui wanted Zhu Kuanji to become a hypocrite without the title of emperor, and then the power was concentrated in the hands of the prime minister; But Song Jiaoren wanted Yang Rui to become a symbol who only had the title of president but no real power. Then power was concentrated in the hands of the prime minister. Because of this, the Provisional Congress was opened. Fortunately, most of the parliamentarians were in the hands of the Renaissance Society, and Sun Wen did not agree to the reorganization of the League—once the League was reorganized, the power of control would be in Song Jiaoren and not in Sun Wen, but Song Jiaoren also created a lot of obstacles, which made the progress of the National Assembly's agenda slow.

"Where is Congress now?" Yang Rui frowned and asked, he was getting more and more annoyed with this Song Jiaoren now, "You have to remind those people in the Congress, especially to tell Song Jiaoren, that the Japanese will come to Beijing to negotiate in ten days, don't even be able to set up a provisional government at that time, then it will delay state affairs." ”

"Now that the government structure is being discussed, this step is over, and then the prime minister will be elected. Today is September 22, and the election process will definitely be in place before the end of the month. Yang Du sweated in his heart when he spoke, time is indeed tight enough, there are still too many people in the seventy-five temporary Congress, and an issue will be endless if it is not discussed for a few days.

"If only you knew!" Yang Rui asked about the key things, and then said, "The Japanese are not here to say that they will negotiate immediately, now that the Northeast is flooding, those divisions and regiments are dying, and it is actually beneficial for us to delay it, you can do your best." You are not here today because of Congress, but because of something else. ”

Yang Du wiped a handful of sweat, and when he heard this, he hurriedly said, "It's not a matter of the Congress, what is it?" ”

"Glory to the ancestors and the wife of the shadow." Yang Rui said very solemnly, "The first few are not a big deal, the key is in the shadow." All dynasties and dynasties are the protection of officials and officials, the father dies and the son succeeds, only the imperial examination can come out, but not to mention the fraud in the imperial examination, even if it is high school, it must be married to the powerful family in order to be in a high position, which is still the same in the end. And the reason why this is so lies in the shadow, the children of many high-ranking officials, as soon as they are born, they are five or six grades, and when they enter the office, they have their fathers and brothers as backers, and they will speed up when they want to come out. If the new country wants to make the situation fairer, the shadow must be restricted, especially now that the meritorious people are knighted, the shadow should be even more restricted. ”

I didn't think that I wanted to talk about this matter by leaving myself, but then thinking that the entire national government structure was designed by himself, Yang Du was not surprised, but pondered for a while and said: "Brother Cheng, what kind of restriction law do you want, you really want to restrict, those meritorious people are afraid that they will be dissatisfied, if they are dissatisfied, then ......."

"I understand what you say!" Yang Rui also thought about it for a long time, "It is impossible to completely restrict, even for example, martyrs, his descendants must ensure that they can become officials, otherwise everyone is worried about their children, who is willing to be loyal to the country." The restriction is mainly for these people who are still alive, and the Revival Society is not the Eight Banners, it is the Revival Society. ”

As soon as Yang Rui talked about the martyrs, Yang Du smiled, and he said: "This Qing Dynasty shadow is divided into three kinds, one is the grace shade, the other is the difficult shade, and finally the special shade. Enyin is mainly aimed at civil officials above the third grade, as well as the major princes; The shadow is generally divided into casualties, casualties, martyrdom, martyrdom, etc.; Special shade is the emperor's method of winning over his cronies, mainly rewarding the worldly position, selecting the guards, and rewarding the principal. Now that there is no emperor, the special shade can be completely canceled, although the difficult shade has drawbacks, it should still be retained, that is, the grace shade is more difficult to deal with. Especially the heroes who have knighthoods......"

"Grace and shade are also abolished, the title can be hereditary, and the people of the country will respect it. But the privilege of interfering in politics is no longer necessary. Yang Rui said in a decisive way. Nanyin should ensure that the martyrs are worry-free and the son inherits the father's business, but it cannot guarantee the official rank, such as the martyrdom of the general, the son can enter the military academy without examination, but if he is not capable, then he will be a lieutenant for the rest of his life...... The revival congress is about to be held. You sort it all out and come up with a plan. ”

Seeing that there was another task, Yang Du hurriedly agreed. Since arriving in Beijing. The affairs became more and more complicated, Chen Guangshou went to the ministry again, Cen Chi was a master who came up with tricks, and all these practical things were thrown to Yang Du. It doesn't matter if he's busy or not.

"I'll do it before then." Yang Du nodded. "But the Congress, Song Dunchu's side is really troublesome. Even if the legislators do not support him, he can create public opinion in the newspaper and expand his influence. Now the three difficulties are that paying taxes is the only condition for elections, and the limit of 5 percent of the seats in the National Assembly is also clear, but it is still very difficult to restrict the power to overthrow the cabinet. ”

Yang Rui has great power to adopt the cabinet system, and his term of office is also unlimited. But what I hate the most is that the parliament has the power to overthrow the cabinet, and it really doesn't have to control the parliament. One night, Yang Rui was about to step down. Although the cabinet also has the right to dissolve parliament, in this way, the whole country will only be politically unstable. Yang Du's previous idea was to raise the number of votes, such as a no-confidence motion that requires at least a quarter of the signatures of the MPs, and a no-confidence motion that requires more than two-thirds of the voters. However, these restrictions are beyond the standards of other countries, and now Song Jiaoren and his people are resisting to the death, and they are even more uproarious, so that Yang Du cannot step down.

"If you want me to resign, it's okay to follow Song Dunchu's meaning," Yang Rui also remembered that this annoying power to overthrow the cabinet came, "But there is a premise, that is, a new cabinet must be elected before the parliament collapses, if they can't be elected, then I still have to stay in power, otherwise the country will be anarchic." ”

"Form a new cabinet?" Yang Du thought, "Okay! It's a good idea! In this way, we are on the defensive. ”

"It's very simple to make trouble and dismantle the stage, it's a person who can do it, but it's very difficult to get those who make trouble to do something." Yang Rui said, "Song Dunchu in the alliance is still quite brainy, and it is difficult for others to say." Huizi, this period of time is a bit harder, and when the country enters the norm, if you, the temporary speaker, don't do it, come to the government, as long as you can do things well, there will always be a position. ”

Seeing that Yang Rui actually promised himself, this only made Yang Du immersed in excitement when he returned to his apartment, the Revival Association itself has a lot of talents, and the subordinate schools of the Education Association are constantly cultivating talents, which makes Yang Du very nervous about coming halfway, and he is really worried that he will not be able to find a good position in the end, but now that Yang Rui has promised, then he will be completely relieved.

After Yang Du left, Yang Rui was busy with family affairs again, and when he ate in the evening, Yang Maocai, who had rested for half an afternoon, was invited to the restaurant again, this was a family banquet prepared by Yang Rui for him to wash the dust, and there were Cheng Ying and the child who just came over yesterday, and Han Xianfeng was also there. The introduction of Yang Rui to Cheng Ying was very natural, but Han Xianfeng did not go through the door, and after careful investigation, she was born in a Qinglou, and she did not even have the right to eat at the table, so Yang Rui's introduction to her was vague. Yang Rui's entanglement Yang Maocai didn't care, he felt that the two women of his nephew were very Peugeot, and the child was also a man, and the Yang family would definitely be prosperous.

"Why do you want me again?" Yang Mao walked back, Cheng Ying handed over the child to his subordinates, and found an opportunity to ask Yang Rui.

"You are still my wife, and it is normal for you to come to Beijing. And Qiu Jin will arrive early tomorrow morning, and you can accompany her around in the next few days, but," Yang Rui emphasized with a pause, "It's better for you not to get involved in the affairs of the Alliance, so as not to cause trouble again." ”

As soon as Yang Rui talked about Qiu Jin, Cheng Ying's heart was hurt, Qiu Jin gave her a lot of ideas when she got married that year, but now the two of them have nothing to say all day, they are strangers, and the concubine is about to marry, except for a child, the whole family does not look like a family at all.

"Am I here to be an ornament?" Cheng Ying asked again, she just wanted to save the relationship between the two people.

"That's pretty much what it means." Feeling her expectations, Yang Rui still hurt people, "At this time, I want to divorce you to marry Xianfeng, which can be regarded as abandoning from the beginning to the end." Our thing. It's all made up by you without permission, and now that the country has decided on it, please don't make trouble for me. ”

After Yang Rui finished speaking, he left. only put Cheng Ying Liang there, but fortunately, at this time, Zhang Taiyan's continuation, Tang Guoli, and her classmate Zhang Zhaohan came and called Cheng Ying, otherwise she really didn't know how to deal with herself in this new home.

Zhang Taiyan's wife died of illness when he was imprisoned in Shanghai, and although he already had four daughters, he was not old after all. Therefore, the continuation is still needed, but there is no suitable one to find it, just waiting for the Revival Association to occupy Beijing in one fell swoop. Enthusiastic people introduced to Tang Guoli, who graduated from Shanghai Wuben Girls' High School in her early years, and later became a female teacher, with outstanding knowledge. The two hit it off at first sight. The wedding was done quickly.

Although Tang Guoli is a female streamer, there are also many classmates who are oriented to the revolution, plus Lu Bicheng and Wu Zhiying who came from Shanghai, plus a group of women such as Chen Chufen, Zhang Zhaohan, Zhang Hanying, etc., it didn't take long to come up with a Shenzhou Women's Revival Association, which was located in the China Women's Newspaper Hall moved from Shanghai, with the purpose of "uniting the national women's class, popularizing education, studying law and politics, advocating industry, and cultivating a completely noble female citizen in China". It basically brings together all the words of the new government, and its real purpose is to have women participate in politics.

"Does my sister have a table?" It's different from the somewhat restrained Tang Guoli. Zhang Zhaohan, who came with him, was a self-acquaintance, and greeted Cheng Ying as soon as he got into the carriage. Although Cheng Ying is not very old, considering Yang Rui's identity, she still called her sister.

"Ahh There is no word on the table," Cheng Ying didn't know where to go, "You, you just call me Cheng Ying." ”

"My sister is so delicate, I can't believe it's ...... This is ......" Zhang Zhaohan continued, although she is from Hunan, but after all, she is a beautiful girl, and her Beijing dialect is excellent.

"I can't believe it's the one who killed Cixi, right?" Cheng Ying said what she was going to say, "Mojun, where are we going?" ”

"We're going to Tonghexuan on the other side of Di'anmen, which is where our Shenzhou Women's Revival Conference is located. Today, I heard that my sister came to the capital, and everyone was very happy, so they sent me and Guoli to come over and invite my sister to plan for the women's conference. Zhang Zhaohan's words made Cheng Ying funny, but when she arrived at Tonghexuan, she was taken aback.

There were several incandescent lights outside the teahouse, and there were women standing in the doorway, all of whom seemed to be waiting for her. As soon as the carriage stopped, the women clapped their hands, and the scene was even lively. Cheng Ying was puzzled by this, just waiting for a female voice to shout: "Gentlemen, this is our heroine of the women's class, Mr. Cheng Ying." ”

The girl is high, like a singer, as soon as these words came out, the women clapped their hands even more enthusiastically, and even the shopkeeper of the nearby teahouse, the guys, and many tea guests stopped to watch, some didn't understand who the woman next to the carriage was and asked around, some people asked, naturally someone pulled the tone and said that this was Yang Jingcheng's wife, and even lowered his voice and said that this person was the female evil star who killed Lafayette.

Cheng Ying was cold on Yang Rui's side, but she didn't expect to be treated like many sisters and relatives here, her eyes suddenly moistened, and at this time, Chen Chufen, who was familiar with her, stepped forward and took her hand and said: "Cheng Ying, the revolution has finally succeeded!" It's a pity that the fourth sister-in-law and Sister Tang can't see it. ”

As soon as Chen Chufen said that he had woken up Tang Qunying, Cheng Ying's tears couldn't help but fall, five years ago they fled from the capital in a panic, but five years later they became revolutionary fathers, but they sacrificed their comrades earlier, and now the bones have long been rotten. Chen Chufen and Cheng Ying wept, and the eldest sister Wu Zhiying ran over and welcomed Cheng Ying to Tonghexuan Inner Hall in comfort.

When Cheng Ying was welcomed in, Lu Bicheng only looked at it on the side, when she went to Shanghai to preside over the China Women's Daily, Cheng Ying was no longer in the newspaper because of her marriage, and today was the first time she saw this revolutionary heroine, Yang Jingcheng's wife. In her opinion, the men in the world can only be seen by the two of them in terms of literary talents, one is Liang Qichao, who is only married; is Wang Zhaoming again, but regrets that he is too young. In addition to these two people, if you want to say that Yang Jingcheng was the first heroic at that time, and the age is right, and the most important thing is that the two have met, but when she first went to Shanghai, Yang Rui was already married. Seeing his wife now, although she is beautiful, she thinks that she is only outstanding in marksmanship, and her literary knowledge should be average.

Lu Bicheng entered the inner hall of the teahouse with his evaluation of Cheng Ying, and Wu Zhiying had already started to talk about business, "...... The extraordinary congress was being held at the scene, but there was not a single woman in it, and although the revolution was successful, the women's revolution was not completed, and women were still at the bottom of society. Our Shenzhou Women's Revival Association is to restore the 20,000,000 female compatriots across the country, Mr. Cheng Ying, you are the revolutionary father. Even more Mr. Jingcheng's wife, we all want to invite you to be the president of our Shenzhou Women's Revival Association......"

Cheng Ying was depressed at this time because he thought of Zeng Xing, Tang Qunying and others, and was very puzzled by this new women's revival meeting, and now seeing that Wu Zhiying actually wanted to be the president herself, she hurriedly excused herself and said: "This, Mr. Ziying, how can I be the president?" I'm a person who can't even manage newspapers...... You guys. You'd better invite Mr. Qiu to come, she, she's coming soon. ”

"Mr. Qiu won't arrive in Tianjin so soon. Now I heard that she is paying tribute to Yi Zhirui in the West Lake, "Wu Zhiying is a friend of Qiu Jin, and she has long known her whereabouts," Mr. Cheng Ying still should not shirk. Now the parliamentarians and the people in charge are all men. Although there are not many women who join the revolutionaries, there are also many contributors and sacrifices. Now everyone just wants to ask Mr. Cheng Ying to be our leader, not to take care of specific affairs. Please also ask my husband to agree, otherwise, when will our women's class come out? ”

As soon as Wu Zhiying said, the tigresses in the inner hall also said together, "Yes! There will be no women in the Extraordinary Congress now, and I am afraid that there will be no women in the Formal Congress in the future. But women have also contributed a lot to the revolution, how can they not let women participate in politics?! ”

"That's right! How can there be no women in politics?! A woman said. All the women said that the amazing momentum only scared the guy who wanted to come in and pour tea, and when he saw that he wanted to leave, a woman on the outermost edge stopped him, and he had to lower his head and come back to pour the tea before leaving. Tonghexuan is a famous teahouse in the capital, and the female dependents are generally not accepted if they do not wear men's clothes, but these women are the family members of the new dynasty and the upstarts, and the shopkeeper has to let them fool around.

"But it turned out to be him......" Cheng Ying saw so many people surrounding him, like Chen Chufen and others who had contributed to the revolution, and was about to say that Yang Rui was not prejudiced against women, but now that the relationship between the two is like this, he can't say it anymore. Gentlemen, all the gentlemen of the Revival Society are not old antiques, and there have never been rules that discriminate against women in the association, for example, Bai Ru, the teacher who taught me marksmanship, is also a woman, she is already a major officer, and as long as the men have a lower rank than her, they have to salute her, so it can be said that as long as you are capable, there is no limit to promotion.

There are no women in the Provisional Diet now, but how many are there in the Provisional Diet? When the Diet was convened, there were as many as 500 members, so how could there be no women among them? Mr. Qiu Jin had shed blood for the revolution, and it was very early to participate in the revolution, and she studied politics in the UK, so it was impossible for her not to participate in politics. Now that you have elected me as the president, I think that this president is still done by Mr. Qiu, and she is the most suitable. She was in Hangzhou a few days ago, but I have news that she will arrive in the capital early tomorrow morning, how about we all let her be the president of the council at that time? ”

It took a lot of effort, Cheng Ying only pushed the matter of the president to Qiu Jin's side, and while everyone else was discussing, she pulled Chen Chufen to find a corner and asked, "What's going on with this women's revival meeting, many of them are female students." ”

"What else could it be." Chen Chufen leaned into Cheng Ying's ear and said, "Now that the Provisional Congress is convened, all kinds of meetings and parties have come out, and everyone wants to get a piece of the pie in the new dynasty, so rich and noble, this is old; And then there are those female students you mentioned, most of them are family members, and after learning a new school and seeing someone climbing a high branch, they also want to show their heads, and want to meet a few important members of the revival association, so that they can marry and become the wives of official families. ”

Chen Chufen ran a women's newspaper, and after Su reported the case, she fled to Tokyo with her father Chen Fan, and the world was cold and the people were cold and warm to see it very clearly, and she only made Cheng Ying's good impression of the women's revival meeting plummet, "If they want to participate in politics, why don't they apply to join the revival association, don't you know the current form?" ”

"Now the Renaissance Association doesn't accept members, and it is said that they only hold peasant associations in the countryside." Chen Chufen said, "You're not ......" Chen Chufen was stunned when she said this, and then regretted it for a while. She knows about Cheng Ying and Yang Rui as a friend and reporter, but she doesn't want to accidentally stab it now.

"I'm just a torii now, just standing there as an ornament." Cheng Ying sighed, her only sustenance now is her son. (To be continued......)