July is on fire, and August is not young.

In the season when the weather is getting cooler, the major events in the north and south have come to fruition. As Hsieh Tsai judged, it was certain that a strike with the participation of the Third International would shed blood. On the second day of the strike, there were fatalities due to clashes between the strike team and the police - no one could say who fired the gun first - and the British ambassador to China explained that it was because someone in the procession fired at the police first, and the police fired back; On the other hand, the front pages of many domestic newspapers marked in big black letters that this was evidence of the imperialists' oppression of the Chinese and their disregard for human life.

Everyone in the Forbidden City knows very well what is going on, but there is always something to say in the event of a human life, so Xie Zhangtai condemned the British authorities in Hong Kong at a press conference, but after condemning the British authorities in Hong Kong, he expressed his dissatisfaction with the behavior and organization of the strikers. In his words, this is a strike organized by 'foreign anti-China forces', whose political goals and means of strike are being investigated by the Greater China government.

Xie Zhangtai's later statement was immediately refuted by some reporters at the press conference, and the most fierce opposition was that Zhou Piaoping, a reporter from Beijing, directly denounced Xie Zhangtai as unpatriotic, and defended the British imperialism without speaking out for the Chinese, and should immediately resign and apologize.

The elders of the Revival Society are by no means vain, Xie Zhangtai ran a newspaper in Hong Kong before joining the Renaissance Society, and he is not the kind of straw bag who can't speak without taking off his manuscript. After listening to Zhou Piaoping's accusations, he immediately took out the evidence provided by Zhang Chengyue of the State Security Bureau—a roster of many workers who drew a roster of money and photos of several workers receiving money, and began to question who provided the daily wages to the striking workers after the exhibition. Who runs the workers' night school and the workers' cultural workshop? Is it the work of the so-called world working class, or is it some cabal that fears chaos in the world?

Xie Zhangtai questioned Zhou Piaoping like this, and he was naturally speechless. Xie Jintai took advantage of the situation to make a statement. The Chinese in Hong Kong have adopted a legal and peaceful way to fight for their rights and interests, and the government has given some support, but because of the support and instigation of some conspirators, they have resorted to bloodshed. This is a kind of selfish act of kidnapping the entire people: if the government does not support it, it will say that the government does not love the people and does not make decisions for the people. It is a traitorous government; If the government supports it, the organizers behind the strike will put forward unrealistic demands for the resumption of work, and eventually make the matter bigger and bigger, with the result that the goal is to make China and Britain hostile and even at war.

In the end, he came to a conclusion: the government absolutely does not support Sino-foreign conflicts in which 'foreign anti-China forces' intervene, and at the same time, the government will continue to collect evidence to expose the conspiracy of 'foreign anti-China forces'. If one of the Chinese violates the law, then the Ministry of Civil Affairs will issue a wanted warrant to arrest these people who are plotting against the law.

The evidence and statements provided by Xie Jintai at the press conference clearly turned domestic public opinion around. But this had no effect on the strike in Hong Kong. The striking workers were already mostly illiterate, and they had been 'organised' so that even if there were honest workers who did not want to strike, the pickets of workers with sticks would 'educate' them and let them know the power of the proletariat. Xie Zhangtai's speech was naturally interpreted out of context by Du Wen and others as a traitor, and thus hated by the workers. The incompetence of the British authorities in Hong Kong made the strike last for 58 days before it finally ended.

Of course, the British authorities in Hong Kong, who were well aware of the position of the Beijing government and supported by other shipping companies, did not accede to any demands from the strikers, and they increased their police presence in Hong Kong because of the support of the five countries (China, Japan, France, the United States and North Korea). Arrests began for the organizers and agitators behind the scenes. After the strike ended, at the initiative of Xie Jintai, representatives of China, Japan, Britain, France, the United States, the Netherlands, and the DPRK and Thailand gathered in Beijing to strike in Hong Kong against the manipulation of foreign forces. The framework and methods for resolving similar incidents in the future were discussed, and through the efforts of all parties, the representatives of various countries reached a consensus. Formation of a series of treatment provisions.

The Hong Kong strike was supposed to be the beginning of the opening of the Eastern Front by the Bolsheviks after the defeat of Poland, but it did not work out. On the contrary, the Western Pacific countries cooperated closely with the subversive activities of the Third International. This had to be said to be the defeat of Zinoviev, the president of the Third International, which was seized by Trotsky, who was at this time being attacked by Zinoyevich, Stalin, Bukharin, and others, who was totally opposed to the boy-like subversiveness of the strike. He believed that only a real attack could defeat the weakening bourgeois government.

It is just that the great Comrade Li Ning has not yet gone to see Max at this time, and no matter how much Trotsky hopes for the world revolution, he will not be recognized by Comrade Li Ning, and what Russia really wants at this time is to recuperate, without industry, without electrification, not to mention the world revolution, and it is also an extremely difficult thing to defend Red Russia, the fortress of the Bolsheviks.

At the beginning, Cai Yuanpei insisted that he was trying to seize power to replace the current prime minister and impose a dictatorship, and he deliberately blamed the autocracy and undemocracy of the Renaissance Society for the ultimate reason for his actions. Therefore, his chaotic remarks immediately aroused countless verbal cannons and Westernized elements to abuse and accuse the Fuxing Society system, as if it was not Cai Yuanpei who killed the people but the Fuxing Society.

In the curses and condemnations of the mouthpieces, the evidence submitted by the prosecutor gradually debunked Cai Yuanpei's lies. Faced with the prosecutor's question of 'why didn't he join forces with Qi Qingyuan's corruption group to coup the coup', Cai Yuanpei hesitated, arguing that he could not believe that Qi Qingyuan had really detained Yang Rui, but the testimony of his secretary Xu Baohuang completely reversed the situation - as a member of the brotherhood, it was difficult for him to lie to the judge, and when the prosecution provoked his guilt and guilt for the Great Purge, the truth kept coming out of his mouth, and he was the first to prove that Cai Yuanpei killed people in order to achieve a democratic republic.

In addition to Xu Baohuang, there is more evidence that Cai Yuanpei's coup can basically be explained as an idealist's art show. Bloody and brutal, it was meant to make the people aware of the dangers of a dictatorship, and the best way to do that was to create a massacre.

Of course, no amount of evidence appears to be falsified by the ruling party by the rhetorical and Westernizers, who are frequently suspected of colluding with the revival of the traditionally independent judiciary. But in the last court argument in August, in order to alleviate his father's guilt, Cai Wuji submitted two letters from Cai Yuanpei to put an end to all this: in the last letter (the one that Cai Wuji gave to his wife after his death). While comforting his wife, Cai Yuanpei frankly admitted that everything he did was for the realization of a democratic republic for the country he loved.

The letter is unopened. The effect of the reading in court was tantamount to a 12-magnitude earthquake, and the mouth cannon party and Westernizers immediately shook inside and out. One by one, they retreated in confusion and hid in an unknown place. The next day, the Imperial Daily published the letter in its entirety under the headline "Democracy Kills the Whole Family"; at the same time, the article once again advocated the superiority of the imperial system, holding that the only person who can bring happiness and stability to the people is the emperor's long live the emperor, and that the "democratic republic" can only kill people except killing. Although the headline and article "Democracy Kills the Whole Family" are eye-catching, the more significant news than the article is that Cai Yuanpei committed suicide in prison that night at the age of 55.

Although Cai Yuanpei's death was unexpected, it was expected by everyone. Even if the Senate agreed to pardon him, he would not be able to continue living. The reason why he can still stand on trial is that he hopes that he can complete the first kick in the door, but he finally failed because of his original negligence, and since he could not succeed, he devoted himself to benevolence, and he left very resolutely that night.

William. Leo, Yu Huizu, Cai Yuanpei, three of the eight founding princes have gone, and one is still sick and his life hangs by a thread. If this prince really goes, the whole country will really be in a daze. On the day when Cai Yuanpei was learned of his suicide, the people of Beijing spontaneously went to the temple to pray for the prime minister; The next day, the people who had suddenly woken up from the 'Democratic Republic Killing the Whole Family' also spontaneously prayed for the prime minister's blessing.

Incense at home and abroad was booming for a while. But Yang Rui's illness is still the same, it has not improved or worsened, and it will gradually turn cold in September. He's finally getting better. By this time, his daughter had already been born, and Yang's nameless injuries had healed – only to be permanently disabled. And the strike, Cai Yuanpei has long gone, for him. It seems like a new world.

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In the third cabinet, although Zhang Taiyan was appointed vice premier, he still served as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites. After the purge of the First Five-Year Congress, Deng Shi, Huang Jie, Wang Xiaolin and others, who were actually in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of Rites, were killed on suspicion of the National Quintessence Party, and those who preached the National Quintessence only remained in various university halls. Zhang Taiyan wanted to cry without tears, when he reorganized, he wanted his proud disciple Huang Kan to take up the post of secretary of the Ministry of Rites, but Huang Kan was afraid of soldiers, and after that extremely terrifying night, this person avoided the government, officers and soldiers.

He didn't take office, and Zhang Taiyan, who was looking for him, finally found Wang Guowei. At this time, Wang Guowei had a lot of academic achievements under the nourishment of the special allowance that he began to enjoy in Dingge, where would he want to do anything about the Ministry of Rites, he was too late to do research, but after all, he had asked Zhang Taiyan for the restoration of the Zongshe Party before, and it was a good way to say that after Zhang Taiyan swallowed flies and generally agreed to him to take office in a Manchu official uniform, Wang Guowei finally agreed to take up a post in the Ministry of Rites.

I think that the Lord Tingwei Shen Jiaben also wore sackcloth to take office, and when Wu Tingfang took office, although the officials of Tingwei Mansion did not wear sackcloth, the style of clothes was changed to Chinese-style robes, although it was not exactly the same as the official uniform of the former Ming Dynasty, but it was also similar. But now there is a Manchu Shangshu wearing a Manchu official uniform, wearing a pearl on his chest, and entering and leaving the Forbidden City every day, which really makes Beijing and outside the capital criticized.

Although it is criticized, but after all, this is the integrity of the old school, no matter what the main emperor and the guest emperor, everyone only has the monarch and the minister in their hearts, and there is no host and guest. Wang Guowei thinks that wearing a Chinese official uniform is a second minister, and he has always been dressed in white and has big braids, so he cannot prove his innocence unless he is wearing a Manchu official uniform, and now this kind of behavior is considered to be a Manchu official hired by the Great China government, and the official's allegiance is still to the former Qing Emperor Guangxu. Although this kind of nerd behavior is childish, no one laughs at it, let alone laughs, which is much better than those literati who sharpen their heads and scold the former dynasty Guangxu to cater to the present.

After the limping Yang Wuming finished reading Ta Kung Pao's comments on the new Ministry of Rites Manchu Shangshu Wang Guowei, Yang Rui, who was pale, suddenly smiled. If it were someone else, he would definitely be selling his reputation and reputation, but Wang Guowei was different, he really couldn't think of any other explanation other than Yuzhong. This nerd who sank himself when the Northern Expedition was about to end, and predicted early on that 'those who start with the republic will end with communism', he suddenly wanted to see it.

"Nameless, you go and help me invite Mr. Jing'an to the house, just say... Let's take a look at the garden in the house. Thinking of a famous assertion, Yang Rui really wanted to see what other high opinions Wang Guowei had in his mind about governing the country, but it was difficult to say that it was for this reason, so he had to invite him under the pretext of enjoying the garden. After he said that, he suddenly remembered that his son was now unable to move, and changed his words gloomily: "You better let it be useless to invite." ”

"Father, I can go!" Yang Wuming is now a cripple. But the more crippled he was, the stronger his self-esteem became, and he didn't believe in anything he couldn't do. Yang Rui said his younger brother. He stubbornly stood up.

Yang Rui didn't object to his reaction, and he couldn't get up and pat him on the shoulder to comfort him. I had to nod and say, "Hmm! You go. ”

The father's praise was extremely important to Yang Wuming at this time, Yang Rui nodded here, and he went out 'quickly', only flying with his door curtain, Cheng Ying was holding his little daughter over, and Yang Rui complained again when he saw this scene.

Yang Rui asked for it, but Wang Guowei couldn't refuse. From the time the Fuxing Army entered the city, he was under Yang Rui's special care, and he didn't know it at first. After a long time in the future, especially when he entered the Academy of Sciences, it was clear who was protecting not only himself, but also his colleagues.

On this day, Wang Guowei, who was dressed in Manchu official uniform, had just returned home, and his wife pulled him into the house and told him about the prime minister's invitation to the garden. Although the woman knew that the prime minister had always taken care of her husband, she still asked uneasily: "Jing'an, what is the prime minister looking for you?" You can go change your clothes tomorrow...... and ...... with your braids."

"Out of the way!" Wang Guowei said lightly. He's a nerd, but his mind is like a searchlight—about what hits. You can always find problems where others can't see them, and of course, the world beyond the pillar of light is pitch black for them. Before the prime minister recovered from his illness, he invited himself to admire the garden, so that he could probably guess a thing or two. Compared to what is being talked about. Court clothes, hair braids or something, it's really secondary.

When the prime minister invited him, Wang Guowei only groaned slightly and regarded it as nothing. That night he played cards in his study as usual, and went to bed at ten o'clock after his wife helped him comb his braids. The next afternoon. After briefly handling the official business, he went directly to the Zhenguo Mansion.

Yang Rui thought that Wang Guowei would come after work, who would have thought that he would be absent from work in the afternoon. I really don't know how his attendance department handles it. He was still thinking about this detail here, Cheng Ying saw that a guest came to the door, and immediately asked Yang Wuming to go to the living room to greet him first, and he served the man to get out of bed and dress.

Standing on the ground in his coat again, Yang Rui only felt that his brain was spinning for a while, and finally he barely stood firm by holding the woman's shoulder, and he couldn't help sighing, "It's really old." ”

"What are you old, your illness is not completely cured." The woman was pulled by him, and she couldn't help but hide her mouth and laugh.

Yang Rui didn't care about the woman's laughter, and only asked, "He came in a Manchu official uniform?" ”

It was Cheng Ying who went out to greet her before, and when she saw Yang Rui asking, she said, "Yes, I also dragged a white braid." I think he's a pretty honest person, so don't scare people. ”

"I'm scaring him?" Yang Rui shook his head helplessly, he thought that Wang Guowei would give him a face, go home and change into his usual clothes, put the damn disgusting braid on the plate, and come again, he didn't want him to come so straight. He looked at the woman who was girdling his belt and said sarcastically, "Where am I going to scare him, he's here to scare me." ”

In the living room, Yang Wuming was serving tea to Wang Guowei's cigarettes, and before the cigarette was halfway burned, Yang Rui came out. Wang Guowei, who was dressed in Manchu official robes, was not only dull in his opinion, but also extremely ugly. Anyway, it was a guest from afar, Yang Rui arched his hand when he stood up and saluted, and the two sides were polite.

didn't make any moves, Yang Rui said bluntly: "Mr. Jing'an, to borrow a sentence from Li Zhongtang, today is a great change that has not been seen in three thousand years, and since it is a great change in three thousand years, it is natural to seek three thousand years of blessings for Dawn, but it is just ......"

Yang Rui said that he suddenly remembered the peasant association that almost killed himself and his son, as well as the so-called grassroots organization, and couldn't help laughing, "It's just that from the current point of view, the revival association is basically a failure." This failure is not that China cannot become a world power, but that it is basically the same as all dynasties, and it is nothing more than replacing the world with the world. Although there was prosperity during the period, there would be no essential difference between that prosperity and the so-called Kangqian prosperity and Kaiyuan prosperity, and the prosperity was followed by recession.

Although this is a dynastic routine, it is very likely that it will not happen in the future, and more often than not, the whole country will be broken into a few pieces, and eventually become a vassal of a world power, such as Belgium and the Netherlands to Britain, Mexico, Panama and the United States. I don't think anyone wants to see that. Here, I would like to ask Mr. Jing'an, what is the best way to break this situation? ”

Although he had long known what Yang Rui would ask, as soon as he opened his mouth, he went straight to the topic, and Wang Guowei was still a little unaccustomed to it. Although he is not used to it, he can't use some prevarication to be vague. Hearing that Yang Rui said the word "ask for advice", he hurriedly said: "I will never dare to ask for advice." It's just that the changes of 3,000 years can be broken by non-national maintenance alone, and it is unreliable......"

Wang Guowei thought as he spoke, swallowing slowly, seeing that he still had some concerns, Yang Rui said again: "What I am talking about today is not the matter of the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, this is just something that is counted in a hundred years, and it is not within the scope of our discussion." We only talk about things that are more than a thousand years old, and it doesn't matter if we say something wrong. If you are not used to it, then if the former Qing Dynasty is still there, and you will clear the millennium for you, how should this country be governed so that it will not become the likes of Mexico? ”

"This ......" Since it came to this, Wang Guowei, who was holding his glasses, had to say bluntly, "This should be the end." ”

"Well, please elaborate." Yang Rui's heart tightened when he heard this, and he couldn't help asking.

"If there is no change, after this dynasty, the situation should be as the adults said, and the world will disintegrate into a vassal of the countries of the world, and there will be no possibility of easing the changes." Wang Guowei was very uneasy, so he kept holding his glasses, "I remember that the adult once said in the book that civilization began with barbarian tribes, then large and small city-states, then kingdoms, and finally republics, but the final outcome was empire.

Today's Western European civilization is the rebirth of the barbarians after the fall of the Roman Empire, and it is still in the kingdom period; In the East, our country has long been an empire. Only Japan, which abolished the feudal domain and set up counties in the Meiji period, is like the abolition of the Qin Dynasty and the establishment of counties and counties, dominating the world, which is the prime of civilization; North Korea still retains the spirit of the Song and Ming dynasties, just like the end of the prime of life and the beginning of the twilight years. Adults who have traveled in China and abroad, and who have studied heaven and man, should know that people are born, old, sick and die, and that civilization has also risen and fallen, so why bother seeking revival? It's ...... to go with the flow."

"No way!" Yang Rui shook his head resolutely. Although he copied the book, he didn't just copy it, he could basically memorize what was said in the book, for fear of being accused of saying that the book was not written by him at all. That being the case, of course, he has an answer to whether China can be rejuvenated, and it is precisely because of the answer that he is unwilling to face that sad result.

"Mr. Jing'an, if your child is sick, will you let it be reincarnated as a human being, or will you try your best to seek medical advice and medicine in order to heal him?" Yang Rui made an analogy after making a decisive decision. "I want to love calves, everyone has it. I don't want to see how revival will be, nor do I want what will happen to Greater China, I just think about whether some people, some poems, books, rituals, music, and written classics can be passed down forever. I don't think it's wishful thinking, since Mr. will never forget the former Qing capital, how can he give up this thousands of years of civilization? ”

Wang Guowei originally sought truth from facts, and had a word for revival, but now listening to Yang Rui using children as a metaphor, he finally said frankly after pondering: "Premier Taiyan acted against history, and the decision to divide the seal may be the solution." However, this can only be done outside the customs, not inside the customs. ”

"Oh." Wang Guowei's agreement with the division of the seal Yang Rui knew a few months ago, but at this time, he heard him say that the division is not feasible in the Guannei, so he asked again: "Why can't it be done in the Guannei?" ”

"Your Excellency, do you know this... What are the differences between the provinces in this shocking change in Beijing? Wang Guowei asked, and then replied, "The most tragic ones are the five provinces of Henan, Shandong, Zhili, Shaanxi, and Gansu, followed by the four provinces of Shanxi, Sichuan, and Yunnan, and the five provinces of Lianghu, Jiangsu, Anhui, and Jiangxi, and the lightest ones are the five provinces of Zhejiang, Guangzhou, Fujian, and Taiwan."

Guangzhou, Fujian, Zhejiang, Taiwan and other places, the countryside ancestral halls are dense, and they have always been xenophobic, and they violate the imperial court decrees, which is equivalent to the effect of tribal separation; In Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi and other places, there were no clans, and only the landlords and gentry remained in the county, but after the land reform, the gentry declined and the peasant associations were rampant, so the order was executed as quickly as possible and took the opportunity to make profits.

Those who do not have ancestral halls have no clans, those who have no clans have no rudeness, those who have no rudeness have no humility, those who have no respect and humility have no education, those who have no education have no morality, and those who have no morality cannot be entrusted with the hope of revival. It is also said that the people of the tribe, although they drink blood and are arrogant and ignorant, most of them are simple and honest, upright and bold; The people of the city-state, though coarse and ignorant, are still savage, but they are always fearful of heaven and earth, and difficult to bewitch; Although the people of the kingdom have gradually become sophisticated and luxurious, they can keep their promises and honor their culture; Only the people of the empire, although red tape, benevolence and morality, are despicable, vicious and cunning. Such subjects can only coerce, not educate.

The land outside the customs is mostly tribal people, and if you implement the policy of separation, you will succeed; And there is hope in the dense ancestral halls of Guannai, but most of them must be strictly controlled and ...... by extensive education" (to be continued. )