After nine months of turmoil, with the founding of China and the convening of the National Assembly, China seems to have regained its old order and become orderly, but anyone who knows the inside story knows that this country is just a different thing in the imperial power and the power of the association, and her various actions make it difficult to distinguish whether it is modern or retro; whether it is normal or rebellious; Whether it's Eastern or Western.

In this regard, the Beijing-Tianjin Times commented that Greater China is a hodgepodge of imperial power and civil constitutional government, and that 'it is a Western-style building with a Chinese-style roof', which is not aesthetically pleasing and impractical; while the Shuntian Times believes that the government has acted in such a way as to not respect the emperor and Confucius, and it is simply a fatherless and monarch, and the world is bound to be in chaos. Beijing News believes that this is the best choice in China's current situation, which respects tradition and preserves democracy, which can be regarded as the best of both worlds; The Lloyds of East Asia newspaper did not comment too much on the new government and the new prime minister, but gave the front page to William. Leo, the big title is Duke William. The focus of the pages was that the petition of the Confucian Church had failed, and China had been plunged into a long night, and there was a newspaper with some obscure verses written on it, indicating that in the long run, China would not be a country.

Noisy newspapers, bustling news, but even so, the city of Beijing is much more deserted than before. Without those princes and gentry, business in most places would not be good, not to mention the eight major alleys, those antique shops, restaurants, tobacco houses, teahouses, foreign goods stores, silver horns, and money shops, business has plummeted. Only the cloakshop is full of customers. is very busy, although this new dynasty does not have a fixed uniform, it can be from the prime minister to the small officials. The style of the clothes has returned to the former Ming Dynasty, and they are all Han costumes. The capital is not a treaty port, nor is it an important commercial town, and the 600,000 people who live here either eat public food or rely on public food, and the rest also have to deal with public food. Case. That can't always wear the horse coat of the former Qing Dynasty to see the official, so everyone remade the Han shirt.

The Manchu Dynasty collapsed the capital and bankrupted a luxury industry, and the new government had a Beijing protection order. That is, the palaces, city walls, ancient houses, archways, and things related to the former Ming Dynasty are all said to be cultural relics, and all these cultural relics must be routinely protected, and the idea of breaking the city and opening the way for the merchants in the city has been cut off. In addition, there are rumors that factories and mines are not allowed to be set up within a radius of 200 miles from the capital, which surprised many people. Compared with the Shanxi industrial base advertised last year. Why can't a factory be opened near the capital?

Regardless of these contradictions, the silver dollar unified specification case, the Mobil oil prospecting case, the Shaanxi oil mine case, and the rent reduction case that everyone concerned about in the next few days caused an uproar, and the circulation of several newspapers exceeded 10,000, and the prime minister's office and the parliament were blocked by many gentry and clear streams, saying that they wanted to seek justice, while the Kuomintang in the parliament made a big fuss as soon as they left the parliament, saying that the parliament was just a puppet of the revival association. It does not reflect the will of the people in the slightest, worships foreign countries, betrays the country, and robs the people's money.

Public opinion across the country was in turmoil. The gentry petitioned in front of the Daming Gate and shouted grievances, but the book list was handed over, but there was no reaction in the deep palace, fortunately, a few days later, the Prime Minister's Office said that it was going to hold a press conference, saying that it was to correct the public, which turned everyone's spearhead to the Prime Minister's Office.

"Actually, did we put these fires too fast?" On the morning of the press conference, ministers from several ministries gathered at the Prime Minister's Office. After discussing the business, Yu Huizu thought of the current public opinion and began to feel a little uneasy. He knew that Yang Rui's style of doing things was to never look back once he was identified, although this was good, but he could handle things too fiercely, but he would offend the gentry.

Yang Rui just closed his eyes when he heard this, and then opened his eyes after a while and said: "Hanzhang, if we don't hurry up to catch up, the gap with other countries will get bigger and bigger, and it is normal to be hated, and if you want to do something, you will offend people, what is there to be taboo about." ”

"I'm for what happens." Tao Chengzhang of the Ministry of Agriculture interjected, "These gentry are such virtuous, and now the rent reduction is just cutting meat, although they shout, but if the matter is a foregone conclusion, it will be forgotten if they make a fuss." The point is that everyone should be like this, and if there are exceptions, then they will be upset."

"Exception, what exception can there be?" Yang Rui said with a smile, "The members of the club are also treated equally, since the members are treated equally, what are the exceptions?" ”

"The main thing is that I'm afraid there will be some surprises on the church side." Tao Chengzhang said. "I'm afraid that there will be landlords who join the church, and once they join the church, it will be difficult to reduce the rent, and those missionaries are willing to do anything in order to be able to preach."

"If a landlord joins the church, the rent must also be reduced," Yang Rui looked at him, and then looked at Wu Xifen of the national tax and Zhang Chengyue of the Ministry of Civil Affairs: "Is the situation really lawless as long as you join the church?" ”

He asked, Wu Xifen said, "Prime Minister, as long as it is related to foreigners, it is not easy to deal with it, even if they arrest people, the missionaries will block them, or those people simply hide in the church, which will bring a lot of trouble to the tax system below." ”

Zhang Chengyue also said: "Other places are okay, Zhili and Shandong have the most religious people, as long as the traitors and criminals are in the sect, then there is a guarantee." After he finished speaking, he looked at Yang Rui glaring at him, and hurriedly said: "Now the Ministry of Civil Affairs is improving the personnel, and all violators will be arrested, whether they are religious or not, and whether the missionaries are protesting or not." ”

"Church schools, the school department has turned it into an alternative, and students from church schools in the national recruitment examination have to take the exam, then they must first take the equivalent academic ability test, and if they don't participate, they are not eligible to register." Cai Yuanpei also interjected, he was very annoyed by the unruly church school, which was simply an alternative in the education world.

A few people's words, from a distance, this topic is about to diverge, Yu Huizu hurriedly said: "The affairs of the church are not a big deal for a while, but it has been done, and now the government is advancing several things, and the public opinion aroused is not small, and if it goes on like this, it will be chaotic." ”

The affairs of the church are indeed very annoying, and the Gengzi Incident was caused by these missionaries who went to the countryside to preach and then provoked a reaction. If these foreigners want to build a church, they will build a church, why do they have to tear down the Jade Emperor Temple and then build a church? Could it be that in their eyes, believing in God is more wise than believing in the Emperor? It's inexplicable. This is simply the embodiment of the superiority of white people and no one in their eyes. But when he thought of the Crusades again, Yang Rui was relieved. This mission has always been closely related to guns, and if it were not for Confucianism in China for thousands of years, I am afraid that Christianity would have been everywhere long ago.

"Let's put the church business aside for now." Yang Rui set the tone and said, "Let's take care of this matter in ten years." I don't care about the school department, but the officials must pay close attention to it, don't let those religious believers come in to be officials, and don't let them know that they can't be officials because of their religious beliefs. Anyway, there are no such people in the government. ”

Yang Rui gave a restriction order to the disciples, and Chen Guangshou hurriedly said yes, and the scientific examination was about to be. The first officials will come out in two months, and he's busy with it.

After Yang Rui finished explaining Chen Guangshou, he looked at Yu Huizu again, "Hanzhang, don't worry." The people are looking forward to rent and interest reductions. Over the past six months, the peasant associations have penetrated into every county, and if we continue to implement these policies, they will never lead to a popular uprising, but at most a gentry uprising. If there were no peasant associations, then these gentry might still be able to make some trouble like the Sichuan Railway Company, but now that we have peasant associations, what else can they do to make trouble? It's going to make trouble. The Ministry of Civil Affairs will deal with it. ”

Yang Rui's answer was not what Yu Huizu expected, he hoped that everyone could value peace. Don't make any trouble, but now that Yang Rui is in the hands of the peasant association army, he is simply bullying the weak, so he has no choice but to be speechless.

Yang Rui still had some affection for Yu Huizu's reply, but at the press conference in the afternoon, his words were extremely sharp. When the reporter asked whether the rent reduction bill was robbing the rich to help the poor and robbing the people's wealth, Yang Rui said very sternly: "The National Taxation Bureau is an agency that robs the rich and helps the poor, and an important function of the government's work is to rob the rich and help the poor." As for the plundering of people's money, the government does not take anyone's money, the government is only responsible for collecting taxes. As for the rent reduction, it was only a government intervention in the transactions between landlords and tenants to reduce the rent to a reasonable level.

In fact, according to my original intention, then the cultivated land of the whole country should be completely nationalized, what is nationalization, that is, the sale of cultivated land is prohibited, all cultivated land is nationalized free of charge, and then the land is divided according to the population, whether you were a displaced person or a big landlord before, anyway, there are a few people in the family, then divide a few acres of land, so that there will not be so many protests and dissatisfaction, the landlords are too busy with farm work in the field, and they run for three meals a day every day. How can I take the time to come to the government to complain. ”

Yang Rui's words were disdainful, as soon as he said that the land was free of charge, the reporters and gentry below were exclaimed, and as soon as his words fell, the reporter of Ta Kung Pao stood up and said: "Your Excellency, such a confiscation of the country's land, where is the justice?" ”

"Where is the axiom?" Yang Rui asked rhetorically, "I'm afraid that this axiom is just a talisman for the gentry, right?" The government only talks about the law and only recognizes the bills of the National Assembly. If you are dissatisfied, you can appeal to Dali Temple to find the rent reduction unconstitutional, or persuade the members of Congress to revoke the rent reduction case. As for the confiscation of the nation's land, if the rent reduction is not carried out smoothly, then it is best to nationalize the country's cultivated land, so that there will not be so many disputes, and then all the land deeds will be abolished, and the cultivated land will be everyone's, and it will be divided equally. ”

Seeing that Yang Rui always brought the Congress out to speak, a reporter immediately asked, "Your Excellency, the Congress is full of illiterate farmers, may I ask what is the use of such a Congress other than blind voting?" Isn't the rent reduction just a matter of their wishes? ”

"Nine out of nine people in the country are illiterate, so why is it strange that there are illiterate members in Congress? Aren't you a citizen of Greater China if you can't read? And those who are literate and pay the national tax? In the report given to me by the IRS, before the inheritance tax, personal income tax, and land appreciation tax were levied, these literate gentry did not pay much tax. Yang Rui looked at the reporters and gentry in the field, and said very boringly, as soon as he read the tax name here, those gentry only felt that something was wrong.

"To tell the truth, this Diet is the Diet of the Croppers, and the current Cabinet is also the Cabinet of the Croppers, so there is no doubt that the government's policies will be completely tilted in favor of the Croppers without violating the Constitution. As for the two million gentry in the country, they had two choices: one was to devote themselves to industrial and commercial industry, which the government supported; And then keep it as it is, keep dreaming, what dreams? Dream of ruling the world together with the imperial power and the gentry. I would like to advise you that it is time to wake up. From the beginning of the revolution, it was time to wake up to the dream of the imperial gentry ruling the world together. ”

At the press conference in the afternoon, Yang Rui's sharp words pierced the eardrums of the gentry and old men. He seemed to be speaking another language that was not in touch with the world, which only made these people sweat coldly, and they couldn't help themselves. Delegates here. It has been completely decided that the gentry rule of the past is gone.

On the same day that the National Assembly passed the Guò Shaanxi Oil Mine case, Wu Yangzeng and Zhang Hongzhao were sentenced to three years in prison for ignorance, and Zhang Hongzhao was sentenced to 20 years in prison under the law of secrecy because he knew and deliberately did so. The verdict coincided with the National Assembly Tongguò Shaanxi oil mine case. It also aroused many protests, but fortunately this was a trial in the capital, if it was changed to Huzhou. That Dali Temple is going to be demolished.

When the reporter asked about the matter, Yang Rui just thought that the punishment was too light, especially the one that was intentional, and it was a blessing not to be shot. He solemnly said that the government would ask Dali Temple to retry the case. We must not tolerate the adulterers, and the government will never be satisfied if they do not shoot Zhang Hongzhao. As soon as he said this, the Zhang Hongzhao people who rushed to the capital from Huzhou stood up and scolded in vain, but it was a Huzhou dialect, and everyone present did not understand what he was saying, and then the few who scolded were invited out.

After this incident, Yang Rui's arrogance was completely well known to reporters from major newspapers. In the follow-up questions, some of them became more excited. Yang Rui only disdained this by accusing the government of approving Mobil to host the Shaanxi oil mine as a traitor, and warned them that it was Congress that approved Mobil to host the country, and that it was nonsense to accuse Congress of betraying the country.

The two-hour press conference ended in a complete noise, the gentry who had opinions on the rent reduction case, and the gentry who had opinions on disrespecting Confucius had already despaired of solving their own problems, Yang Rui did not know what morality was at all, what justice was, and his weapons were two, one was a puppet Congress, and the other was hundreds of thousands of troops and tens of millions of peasant union members across the country. Even if someone uses the gang to restrain him, he will push it all away, and he doesn't treat it as a dish at all. Such a character is simply invulnerable.

The gentry were desperate, but the reporters were overjoyed, there were so many things in the press conference, they had to write when they went back, and the newspaper would definitely sell well as soon as it came out. Of course, there are also some newspapers that do not pay attention to economic benefits, such as the Beijing Daily, and Ta Kung Pao relies on the support of the French, and the family has a big business, and it does not care about sales.

A few days later, Qingdao.

Looking at the headlines of the new Ta Kung Pao, Chen Qimei just sighed and said: "It seems that the actor has been harmed." ”

The group is Zhang Hongzhao, Chen Qimei found someone to ask for help as a fellow villager, Zhang Hongzhao happened to hear about the Shaanxi oil mine at that time, so he got these news out, I thought that public opinion could bring down the provisional government, who would have thought that Yang Rui was extremely thick-skinned, and he didn't eat this set at all, not only did he not get off the stage, but also locked people in.

"Ince, what then?" Zhu Zhixin asked. "Although Yan Qun is not a comrade, he was imprisoned for the revolution. Couldn't the students and those who stayed abroad start petitioning again? ”

Zhu Zhixin didn't know much about the situation, and Cheng Jiaqi next to him said: "The surnamed Yang would rather not have the Mining Division, and he would not be subject to the intercession of those people, he said that he set the rules first, and if the rules are not set, the matter will be done in vain." He also said that it would not be a big problem for the Mining Division to be built after ten years, anyway, the mine would not run if it was buried underground, and he said that the Ministry of Science could completely cancel the mining major, and as long as he studied mining abroad, he would no longer be sent, and he would simply cut off the vitality of the mining industry.

Zhixin, Yang Jingcheng is a madman, there is no benevolence, righteousness and morality in his head, three outlines and five constants, he now has soldiers and people in his hands, he can do whatever he wants, and he is a little more dictatorial than the emperor. If such a person wants to fight him, it is completely useless to deal with the Manchus according to the same method. If he stays in the prime minister's position for a long time, the foundation will be deeper. Hey......"

Speaking of this, Cheng Jiaqi just shook his head vigorously, if it weren't for the Three People's Principles in his heart, he would have to quit the alliance and be a teacher honestly. The Revival Society and the Manchu Qing were not of the same nature at all, the Manchus were completely floating on top, relying on the Han gentry to help them govern the world, and once the people in power were not skillful, it would be easy to collapse if they lost their balance; Now looking back at the controversy between the Alliance and the Renaissance Society, Cheng Jiatao feels very inspired, the power of the Revival Society is among the people, and if you want to overthrow the Renaissance government, you must remove his influence among the people. This is easy to say, but it is impossible to do, especially now that the revival will reduce rents and donate, so that the people at the bottom have great trust in it.

"Ince, hey, ......" Cheng Jiaqi said, "we still have to think of a new revolutionary strategy." The revolution will not succeed if it is based on the old methods alone. Besides, the revival society itself is a revolutionary party, and now it is sitting in the world, and what we are going to do, they don't have to think about it. Isn't that the case with the Navy, where money was spent and people went, but what was the result? We know everything we do, and they are playing us like monkeys.

The same is true of Yuan Shikai's matter, which was originally foolproof, but the woman was questioned for three days and three nights without trial, and she told the matter without paying attention. Now it's not only the revival that will hate us, but also those people in Beiyang who hate us, and we have also removed Yuan Shikai, the biggest obstacle for Yang Jingcheng......"

Cheng Jiaqi muttered, only said that the people in the room were very upset, if it weren't for the fact that he was the one who pulled the line in Qingdao this time, Chen Qimei wanted to drive him out. Just waited for him to speak for a while, and Zhu Zhixin, who couldn't help it, said: "Yunsun, if you don't say a few words, you will die?" Everyone is also figuring out how to deal with the Revival Society, and who can guarantee that what they do is foolproof? You should tell us about the situation of those people, what are their plans, how much power they have, how much money they have? ”

"Yes, Yunsun, this Yang Jingcheng is still a traitor to the government in the final analysis, and now he sells so many oil mines to the United States, and maybe he will sell a few more railways after a while, and now the most important thing for us is to raise enough silver taels, and then find an opportunity to launch a rebellion, since those Manchus also want to restore, although the goal is different, but the path is always the same." Wang Zhaoming also accosted beside him.

The purpose of the people's visit to Qingdao this time was to contact the Manchu people who wanted to restore the Sectarian Party. Cheng Jiatachi is the most familiar in the capital, and he is the leader of this matter, and the reason why he wants to go to Qingdao is to keep it secret, the territory of the Germans in Qingdao City, after all, the Germans were friendly with the Manchu princes before, although it was a change of dynasty, but the past favor is still there.

"Don't expect too much. These people are just crazy about wanting to restore, but they don't have much in their hands at all. The family wealth was basically confiscated by the Fuxing Society, and in the end, it was a five-year suffrage, but it was life-saving money, not to mention that it was not enough to use it for revolution, even if it was not enough to live at home, and now only a few people in their homes had not collected all the antiques, and these things were still worth some money, so I thought about making a fuss with this. Cheng Jiaqi said.

"Is it Su Wang Shanqi?" Chen Qimei's eyes were aimed at him, and she asked indifferently.

"It's not Shanqi." Cheng Jiaqi shook his head, "It's Prince Gong Pu Wei." He wants to be the emperor and wants to go crazy, as long as we promise to push him to be the emperor, then it can be done. ”

"Just Pu Wei alone? There must be someone else. Liangbi isn't it? Chen Qimei said.

"Yes, there are others, but Liangbi is not." Cheng Jiaqi said: "Among the Manchurians, there is also the former governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Shengyun, he was arrested by the Revival Association in Xi'an last year, imprisoned for a few months and released without charge, as soon as he went home and ran to the capital, there was nothing left in the capital, and he was instigated by Fu Wei, and the new hatred and old hatred added up and decided to rebel. In addition to the two of them, Zhirui's full people are also watching, as long as they do something together, these people will also come in. This time they took the initiative to contact us, because we killed Yuan Shikai, and they wanted to spend money for us to kill Yang Jingcheng as well. ”

Speaking of killing Yang Jingcheng, Cheng Jiaqi smiled bitterly, and he continued: "Then there are those old masters who respect Confucius without a door, such as Kang Youwei of the Restoration, Lao Naixuan, the master of Duanfang, Chen Huanzhang of the Confucian Church, etc., as for whether the Confucian Mansion is implicated, I don't know, but now that the rent is reduced, the Confucian Mansion is no exception, and they have no good impression of the revival meeting." If these people are respectful of Confucius, as long as we promise to respect Confucius in the future, then things will be easy to do. (To be continued......)