After the Prime Minister's Office moved out of the Yin'an Palace, the entire mansion immediately quieted down, under the thick snow, and next summer, everywhere will be overgrown with weeds again. On the day of the Fengya's holiday, stepping on the cotton-thick snow, Yang Rui walked to the immortal tower in the sixth courtyard of the mansion. This is the place where Cen Chi recupes. Whenever there is a difficult matter, Cen Chi is his most reliable consulting object, after all, he only knows the future of the other world, but does not fully know the real past of the world. At this time, when the world is slipping down another path, he needs someone with enough knowledge and wisdom to guide him.

In the clean but full of medicinal smells in the bedroom, Cen Chi's spirit was surprisingly good, and after listening to Yang Rui's relay, he actually laughed, and his gray face finally became a little ruddy. "Uncle Zhang Mei is really a genius! He actually ...... such a way Ahem, you can figure it out!! Cen Chi said excitedly.

"Why did Mr. Ren say that? Isn't that the epithet of his madness? Yang Rui didn't agree with Zhang Taiyan's request at all, but it was a good thing to get Zhang Taiyan's support, and he had already succeeded Du Yaquan as one of the seven, so he wanted to ask Cen Chi to see what he Zhang Taiyan wanted to do.

"Actually, do you think this country can really leave state affairs to the people to decide?" Cen Chi said with a cough.

"Not at all!" Yang Rui replied immediately. "The people are too servile to be their own masters."

"Then do you think Japan can really leave state affairs to the people to decide?" Cen Chi asked again. He knew that Yang Rui hated Japan, and said, "It's okay to say Shanghai, can the people in Shanghai take care of their own affairs?" ”

Cen Chi avoided Japan, but Yang Rui didn't want to avoid it. According to his own reason, not emotion, he said calmly. "Japan can. Shanghai can too. So now in Shanghai, I agree with their autonomy. ”

"Then I have thought about it, why can Shanghai be autonomous? Why is Japan different from Japan? Cen Chi said again.

"Shanghai's autonomy originated from the Ministry of Industry. Her current city council is just an expansion of the original Ministry of Works, and I didn't interfere in anything. Some people preach that this is the enslavement of foreigners, and the Ministry of Rites also suppresses such words. The fundamental reason for Shanghai's autonomy lies in the previous system of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau. Yang Rui thought, "As for Japan...... She ......, "Thinking of Japan before the Meiji era, Yang Rui finally understood why Cen Chi admired it.

"You once said that Japan is the aftermath of China; During the revolution, Uncle Zhang also concluded that Japan was the empirical evidence of the loss of China and the existence of the four provinces. At that time, the Manchurians claimed to be the master of Beijing. The self-proclaimed Huaxia, but Uncle Zhang Mei counterattacked, and an article on the guest emperor said that the Manchus were barbarians, and the revolutionary party and Japan became the orthodox ...... of China."

Cen Chi said it too quickly, and he had to take a breath, and the past events he talked about were almost common sense in Yang Rui's opinion, but in the eyes of the Chinese people at that time. The revolutionary party and the Japanese Black Dragon Society are chaotic parties and barbarians. It was indeed Zhang Taiyan who reversed this cognition, knowing that the emperor above was a Tungusic and a guest emperor, and he was a Hannu; The Soviet report further spread this idea, and it was at this time that revolutionary parties and revolutionary organizations in the interior swarmed up.

“…… You said it. The West is about to fall, and we are cold to the bones. But in Japan, you say that he is young, why is that? All in all. It is nothing more than that Japan is a Chinese teenager, and we are the twilight of China; Let's take a closer look at the reason. It's nothing more than the Meiji and the Qin and Han dynasties of Japan. The year before last, you asked people to go to the history books to find the changes in the Chinese soldiers, so the Ministry of Rites wrote a story about the Chinese culture and the Chinese soldiers. The above conclusion is: before the pre-Qin, it was the countries that bullied the barbarians, and after the pre-Qin, it was the barbarians who bullied China.

This is the same as why Japan is self-governing. The reason why Japan is young is because it has just ended feudalism, and the masculinity of the aristocratic samurai is still there; In our country, after the Qin and Han dynasties, the yang energy gradually declined, the majesty of the Sui and Tang dynasties benefited from the afterglow of the Xianbei warriors, and in the Song Dynasty, it completely turned to femininity, and finally to the former Qing ......, look at the self-determined Guangxu Emperor to know, the root is a woman.

It has become a country with the party and the country with the party, which is unprecedented and unique. However, this can only stabilize the existing territory of China, and once the revival is removed, then this Greater China country will be torn apart. In today's world, except for Persia and the four East Asian countries, there are no monarchies. ”

Speaking of this, Cen Chi suddenly changed his tone and asked: "How many of the victories between China and Japan and China and Russia were flukes?" ”

"Almost all of it was a fluke with Russia." Yang Rui nodded and replied. "The odds of winning against Japan are much greater, but it is impossible to win so cleanly without luck, and if you fight the Americans again, you will have to interfere."

"Huaxia, whose bones are cold, thought that if you want to rebuild your vitality, you can only wait for the next reincarnation, but Uncle Zhang Mei has found another way, taking retreat as advance, returning from old to young, and then feudalism, which is really unexpected!" Cen Chi said excitedly. "This is not only in line with the revival society's propaganda on the quintessence of the country, but also in line with the thoughts of the world's scholars and scholars for thousands of years......

"Won't the country fall apart?" Yang Rui was a little puzzled by his excitement. Zhang Taiyan's request is very simple, that is, to re-feudalize, but this is Yang Rui's subconscious opposition.

"As long as it is implemented well, it will not fall apart." Cen Chi said, "And Uncle Zhang Mei doesn't care about the government of this country, what he cares about is how to preserve the quintessence of the country and civilization!" If feudalism can be practiced again, then the obedient people who are unable to govern themselves can gradually be transformed under the constraints of the feudal lord samurai, instead of being as obedient as they are now. Feudalism is the foreshadowing of autonomy, and autonomy is the foreshadowing of the republic, of course, what he Zhang Meishu wants is only the quintessence of the country, not the republic, but the slave people are indeed unable to understand the ...... of the sons of the pre-Qin Dynasty."

Cen Chi immediately pointed out Zhang Taiyan's purpose, and then began to praise one after another, Yang Rui said distressedly: "Mr. Ren, it won't take long for the central government to become an ornament, and the provinces are not provinces, and the feudal countries will only do their own thing, maybe today the Chu State and the Wei State will shoot in Nanyang, and tomorrow the Qi State and the Yan State will fire artillery in the Bohai Sea." I will not be obsessed with the power of the central government, I will say what will happen when the Americans come to call? ”

The year before last, Yang Rui returned to China after participating in the Paris Peace Conference and returned to China through the Viceroy of Beiting, because he trusted Yang Zengxin and was afraid of the power of the Muslim Church, Yang Rui finally approved Yang Zengxin's report on his return to the land in Beiting. Beards, ringing horses, bandits, prisoners. There were also a small number of Restoration officers and soldiers, who began the great turf grabs according to the established rules. When they occupied a certain amount of land, they were canonized as Tusi by the Governor's Palace. Tusi inherited from generation to generation and ruled the place forever, although there was almost no tax. However, when the Beiting Governor's Mansion fought or trained, these Tusi had to send a certain number of native soldiers according to the land, population, and wealth.

Under this management model, the entire Beiting has become a land of the jungle, the strong survive, the weak are eliminated, although Tusi himself is the landlord, but he alone can fight is not enough, his brothers, his subordinates, will be allocated to a certain land or market town. If you remove the 'incorrect' things of 'occupying the mountain as the king' and 'bandit bullies', everything that happened in Beiting is actually a feudalism. Under the inducement of Yang Zengxin, feudalism was quickly transformed into autonomy.

This kind of Tusi group is far more powerful than the Kannai Peasant Association, and in the competition with the Kazakh natives, even without the assistance of the Renaissance Army, the Tusi are often at an advantage, changing the status quo of the previous situation of immigrants needing the protection of the Renaissance Army.

The North Court is vibrant, but the North Court Governor's Mansion and the Ministry of Rites strictly seal everything that happens in this land, but Zhang Taiyan is an adult after all, he not only carefully reads everything that happened in the North Garden. I also went to the North Courtyard to investigate. It is because I want to replicate the Beiniwa model to the 19 provinces of Kannai and the Northeast. Didn't you Yang Rui say that the bones of Huaxia were cold, then I will say goodbye to the old man and return to the road I came from, until I walked to the Shang and Zhou eras before the pre-Qin period. Moreover, this approach is completely in line with the ideology of the Revival Society, which originally admired the pre-Qin period. despise Empress Qin; It is also in line with the ideology of the whole country under the imperial power, and it is the practice of the royal family to divide the feuds, and it is the favorite of the literati.

But this is not in line with the national strategy pursued by Yang Rui. With Yang Rui's cognition. He believed that once it was divided, the central government would lack authority. Many research projects and many economic plans will be affected by this; This is only in the short term, and in the long term the country may fall into disintegration. Of course, there is a high probability that it will be transformed into a federation like the Soviet Union.

"It's a fallacy! The former Qing Dynasty started from the Hongyang Rebellion, and it took forty or fifty years to have the southeast mutual insurance due to the Gengzi Change, but the southeast mutual insurance, like the northwest and southwest, I am afraid that they will not be able to stand on their own without a hundred years. If you guess correctly, Uncle Zhang's division is different from Zhou Tianzi's division, which is nothing more than another expression of the autonomy of the provinces......" Cen Chi said.

"No, this is by no means provincial autonomy." Yang Rui corrected, "Maybe it's autonomy, but it's definitely autonomy within the scope of provinces, Uncle Mei is referring to the Warring States Period, he said that it is necessary to use 'mountains and rivers as the boundary', which is obviously to return to the borders of various countries during the Warring States Period." He should be divided like this in order to avoid war, think about it, if it is not bounded by the Huai River, what if the north and the south fight? ”

"He's got it all figured out?" Cen Chi's voice rose again, "It seems that Uncle Zhang Mei is really scheming." The mountains and rivers are the boundaries, which are indeed better than the existing borders of the provinces. You don't think this is a secession, do you? ”

"When I first heard it, I thought it was, so I sternly refused." Yang Rui was irritable and wanted to smoke, but thinking that Cen Chi was seriously ill, the hand that reached into his pocket pulled out again. "Now that I have heard Mr. Ren say it, I know that this division is actually just a local autonomy in the skin of the quintessence of the country, so I feel a little better."

"Under the imperial power, there are too many obedient people. You don't give rights to these people, and you don't give rights to them. Land reform has stabilized them for the time being, but that alone is not enough. Over the years, you have not acted in the interests of your own self, nor in the interests of the Revival Society, nor in the interests of the current government.

What you think about is more about the nation and the civilization. Looking at it this way, there is no disagreement between you and Uncle Zhang Mei. He is for the future of China, and you are for the future of China. If there's any difference, it's that he cares about internal affairs, and you care about foreign affairs. Even if there is a contradiction, it is only a contradiction between the two. Cen Chi said.

When Cen Chi said this, Yang Rui felt that this seemed to be the case, he was worried that Beiting was just a branch of Huaxia, and Zhang Taiyan was worried about Guannei, which was the root of Huaxia, since Beiting could be rerouted to the soil, why couldn't Guannei be like this. It's just that......

"Mr. Ren, this kind of autonomy of provinces and autonomous regions under the cloak of feudalism will inevitably weaken the authority of the central government, and it will be extremely unfavorable if it really encounters an invasion by foreign enemies or initiates a foreign war." Yang Rui said.

"Are you worried about Russia or the United States?" Cen Chi asked. He asked, and then continued. "The Russian concern is the North Court; The United States prefers Taiwan. The former is known all over the world as important as Beiting Oil. The importance of the Persian Railway in the Western Regions is also known to the world. When the shares of these two companies were listed last year, the extent to which the Chinese people grabbed them will not forget, right? Everyone who knows how important the North Garden is as long as they can read the newspaper knows it. It is not only a kerosene drum in our country, but also an important road to Europe, with the Jinghan Railway as the central axis, and the export of goods from half of China in the west depends on this railway.

Once this place is in trouble, who dares not to save it? Representatives of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Hubei, Mongolia, and these places will clamoring for troops to be recovered. Of course, the Shunmin would not have such an idea, and for them, they would not care where the kerosene was used or how the local products sold went to the sea. If the center does not order. They won't go to the North Court to fight the Russians. ”

It seems that Cen Chi agrees with Zhang Taiyan's suggestion very much, and he still helps him say good things here. After he interjected, he said: "The people of Beiting know that it is extremely important, let alone Taiwan, who in the southeastern coastal provinces does not know that Taiwan is the anchor of the sea, and Taiwan is determined by the southeast, if the United States invades Taiwan and blocks trade, then the whole country will be boiling, and it will be certain when troops are sent to war." When the Zhengyangmen Tower was burned that year, the country was already boiling. Responding to the war is not a problem. Do you want to send troops to fight any country? ”

"You don't have to send troops, just defend it." Yang Rui said. Speaking of this, he still couldn't forget Nanyang, and said: "But it is necessary to make the Nanyang colony independent by appropriate means." If the United States does attack, and Britain and France also intervene. If we really win, we can solve it by the way; If the United States does not invade, Britain and France do not intervene. That's a different story. But these places will gradually become independent after twenty years. ”

"The side of the couch does not allow others to sleep soundly." When Cen Chi heard that Yang Rui said that the United States would not attack, he immediately shook his head. After Yang Rui finished speaking, he came to such a sentence. "Japan is the Britain of Asia, and we are France, which occupies all of Europe. If you really want to worry about foreign wars. Then it is necessary to transform the Europeans occupied by France into Germany through the kind of partition that Uncle Zhang Mei said. Although our foundation is not as good as that of Europe, the vast majority of our hundreds of millions of people are Han Chinese, and as long as we can truly organize ourselves, we cannot underestimate our powerlessness. ”

"Hehe......" Yang Rui, who had been standing for a long time, suddenly sat down, and his heart was very relaxed when the question was explained, he heard Cen Chi talk about the real organization, and couldn't help but smile and asked: "What does Mr. Ren mean is that the peasant association is not an organization now?" ”

"Certainly not an organization." Cen Chi shook his head affirmatively, and he said, "To be exact, this is just an institution, just the central government, and just branches of the Fuxing Society established in various places. Because it is an institution, the people below can pretend to be the authority of the emperor and the authority of the central government. Actually, can you really bear it, just sweep away the peasant association in 20 years? ”

"Yes." Yang Rui nodded, he had seen an article in the China Women's Daily saying that the peasants should not be easily mobilized, because once they were launched, it would be difficult to end up, which in his opinion was not a problem at all. "Although I didn't deliberately ask the peasant union cadres to do this, I still acquiesced in their behavior, and when these people were so corrupt that they lost all popular support, it would be a natural thing to purge the peasant unions."

"What about revival? At that time, the representative seat of the Inspectorate will be ......," Cen Chixiao asked.

"Ten years from now, 600 million people. In terms of tax payment, even if the personal income tax threshold is lowered, the number of taxpayers who really have the right to vote after the abolition of the agricultural tax will not exceed 10 million, and most of these people are landlords, senior workers, traders, etc. Yang Rui smiled: "The British banker Rothschild once said that as long as I can control the currency issuance power of a country, I don't care who makes the law." Banks control these people who pay personal income tax, and naturally they control the votes. This is much more powerful than those in the Kuomintang who just shouted about revitalizing industry. ”

Seeing Yang Rui talking eloquently, Cen Chi kept nodding: "It seems that Cheng really figured it out." You must know that people are born different, and if there is no good opportunity, then it will be ...... after all."

When Cen Chi was a staff member for Cen Chunxuan back then, although he made a plan to let Cen Chunxuan kill officials to please the people, after all, he still thought that people were high and low, and his thinking was completely in line with Zhang Taiyan's separation, but Yang Rui still didn't like this statement, and only said: "It's not that people are born different, but under external pressure, we have to sacrifice some people in exchange for the future of all." The British Empire was weakening, and these thirty years were the time when Qin lost its deer, and if it lost, it would forever lose the opportunity to sit on an equal footing with Europe and the United States. ”

When Yang Rui said this, he wanted Cen Chi to help plan how Zhang Taiyan's feudal autonomy should begin, and how to coordinate internal and external affairs so that there would be no contradictions, but thinking that Cen Chi was still sick, he endured this request. For a patient to think about such a grand plan, it will be very detrimental to the condition if he tries his best. He suddenly stood up and said, "Mr. Ren, let's stop here today, I'll come to see you another day, you have a good rest!" ”

Cen Chi saw Yang Rui say goodbye, he stared for a moment and said: "Actually, there is one more thing I have to say, that is, it is inappropriate for the National Security Bureau to always be in the hands of Qiu Jin." Since Cai Xiaomin asked you to hand it over on the grounds that the National Security Bureau would monitor everyone for justice, but it is not necessary to hand it all over, why can't you and Qiu Jin preside over the National Security Bureau together, or simply she is the supervisor and you are the presiding? ”

"This thing ......" Yang Rui smiled bitterly, "because everyone is afraid of me!" I'm afraid that I'll turn this country into my own private property, I'm afraid that I'll never be in the position of prime minister, and I'm afraid I'll ....... Hehe, now that I have a vice premier, I feel less pressure, don't worry about this matter, if you can unite with Uncle Mei, this matter will eventually turn around. ”

As soon as the word 'afraid of me' came out, Cen Chi smiled. In fact, as Yang Rui's colleague, there is indeed a lot of pressure, a leader like a god, never makes mistakes, and does everything perfectly, this fear is difficult for those who want to participate in leadership; And what he will do next is unpredictable, if he uses God's judgment to set a trap for everyone, then no one can escape.

Cai Yuanpei thought that because Yang Rui was in charge of the intelligence department, he wanted to take down the intelligence bureau at first, but he didn't succeed, and in the end he had to pry the security bureau away on the grounds of the Standing Committee's own safety. But he also knew that the security bureau wouldn't fall into his hands after prying it off, so he gave it to Qiu Jin, a woman that everyone could trust.

"Mr. Ren should take care of his illness. This winter is snowing, and next year will be a good year. Yang Rui said with a smile, and then left. However, as soon as he came out of the immortal tower, his face became gloomy again. If Zhang Taiyan's policy of dividing the feudal system is just a foreshadowing of local autonomy, he will approve of it, as long as it does not hinder his foreign plans, but what he said about students studying in the United States is an extremely important matter.

Although he has not yet obtained the specific number of officials, but based on his impression, there are at least more than 5,000 students studying in the United States, and it is likely to be close to 10,000.

Entering the Forbidden City from the mansion, Yang Rui did not go directly to Zhang Taiyan, but sat in the Wenyuan Pavilion and waited for Zhang Shi of the Intelligence Bureau, who had ordered him to thoroughly investigate the situation of the students studying in the United States a few days ago, and today is the time to submit a briefing. Rejecting all official duties and guests, Yang Rui, who was waiting for Zhang Shi, stared at the clock several times, and when a cup of tea was delivered, he suddenly found that Li Zilong didn't know where he went. The person who came up with the tea was a woman, he knew the woman, not only in this world, but also in future generations, this person is Lu Xiaoman.

"My lord, Secretary Li had a bad ......stomach yesterday," Lu Xiaoman said softly, she had just come back to work for two days, and her face was very pale. Seeing that Yang Rui saw that she was strange, she couldn't help but explain.

"Oh......" Seeing that it was her, Yang Rui suddenly forgot about Li Zilong, he was looking at the woman in front of him curiously at this time, this is one of the so-called four beauties of the Republic of China? He had this question on his mind. Because he only looked at the woman's eyebrows, eyes, nose and lips, he didn't notice that Lu Xiaoman's face was getting redder and redder.

"My lord......" Lu Xiaoman's body seemed to be pulled by Yang Rui's gaze, and he didn't know how to retreat at all, and he didn't want to retreat.

"Why kill yourself?" After admiring Yang Rui, one of the four beauties of the Republic of China, said lightly. In the past, I only looked at the silhouette of the body and skin, and I thought that this woman was extremely graceful and lovely, but today I only feel average when I look at it again. Maybe people in this era think she is beautiful, but if you put her a hundred years later, she will never be called a beauty by the public. (To be continued.) )