Yang Rui only asked about military affairs before eating, and did not do any ideological work, but as soon as Qi Qingyuan saw him and Liu Boyuan coming together, he understood what was going on. Sure enough, after everyone else withdrew after the meal, Yang Rui asked, "Qingyuan, have you been wronged in the past few years?" ”

Yang Rui's straightforwardness made Qi Qingyuan a little nervous, and he forced a smile: "There is no grievance." For the success of the revolution, Qingyuan is willing to endure no matter how much hardship he endures. ”

Yang Rui saw that he was avoiding the question, and looked at him for a while before saying: "There is no victory without sacrifice, this kind of sacrifice is not only the sacrifice of everyone, but also the sacrifice of individuals." It's best if you don't have grievances, and if you have grievances, you have to endure them for me. Now is the revolution, not sitting in a row and dividing the fruits. I know very well what you have done and what you have sacrificed, but in many cases, for the sake of the overall situation, you must not engage in egalitarianism, let alone individualism. We still have to look ahead, look at the sky. A lot of things, I feel wronged at the moment, but look at the long term, in terms of the country and the nation, this is a trivial matter, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has been more than 200 years, so many rebels, how many people can finally succeed? If the revolution is not successful, what is the use of high position and great power? Hong Xiuquan has become an emperor, and in the end, he is not dead and the country is destroyed.

Even if the revolution succeeds in the future, he will be crowned prime minister, but from the perspective of human history, it is just a small piece of text in the history books, that is, to be an emperor, that is, for decades, what does this mean? We are revolutionizing because we have a kind of love in the bottom of our hearts for this country and this nation, and this kind of love makes us fight hard and let us die without regrets. If it was really for himself, then why did he come to this deep mountain and old forest? Now that Guangxu is in power, isn't it good to pull the pole and surrender? ”

I'm afraid that my favorite student won't be able to think about it for a while because of job problems. Yang Rui said seriously, he actually didn't pay any attention to persuasion skills, he was surprised that Qi Qingyuan could be jealous of Lei Yizhen, isn't he just an army? In the future, if the revolution succeeds, give him a group army and see what he is still struggling with.

Yang Rui and Qi Qingyuan went back after talking, and at night, Qi Qingyuan stood outside the military tent and watched the torches in Yang Rui's team gradually drift away. Thinking more about what he said just now, he said to himself: "You have selfishness, why can't I be selfish?" ”

The Revival Association was founded by Yang Rui. The Fuxing Army was also founded by Yang Rui, and his decisions were all right, so Yang Rui's authority was flourishing. Although Qi Qingyuan had a complaint in his heart just now, he didn't dare to say it. Now it's just a matter of waiting for Yang Rui to leave. He dared to talk to himself. But only he could hear his voice. At this time, Pan Chengye, who had just come over next to him, asked, "Qingyuan, Mr. is here, what did he say?" "He was the commander of the three regiments, in the battle of Fengtian, he resisted the enemy on the periphery, but he had great merit, and in the end he only fished out a regiment commander, and he began to have some opinions. He thinks that he is much stronger than Li Liezu, who was born in the factory protection team. But Li Liezu is the brigade commander, he is the regiment commander.

"What else can be said? It's nothing more than those words. Qi Qingyuan shook his head and said. At the same time, Liu Boyuan was even more taboo in his heart. He dared to assert that he had an opinion on Lei Yizhen, and he must have sued Yang Rui.

Pan Chengye usually chatted with Qi Qingyuan, but when he heard that Yang Rui suddenly came to Qi Qingyuan's tent to eat, he hurried over. Now that Yang Rui has very little time in the army, it is extremely difficult to see him. "Is the gentleman leaving again?" Pan asked.

"Probably. There are more things to do inside the customs than outside the customs gates. Now the customs outside the border has become the former South Africa, don't you see the non-commissioned officer schools all moved here? Qi Qingyuan looked at Pan Chengye and smiled.

"Yes! I am...... Now that the state is the governor of the military government, if it continues like this, it will become a military commander. "Pan Chengye is talking about Lin Wenqian, the head of the Sixth Regiment.

"Look at you, you're going to make mistakes again. The revolution is for the country and the nation, not for your promotion. Besides, you only see the state marrow, don't you want to think about Bu Cen? He was ...... by the Manchu Qing Dynasty" Qi Qingyuan looked like a political commissar, and wanted to make fun of him as an official fan, but when he thought of Zhong Mei's sacrifice, his heart became heavy again. Yes, the revolution is indeed for the country and the nation, but is it for the country or for the sake of one's own family?

"I'm not here to get promoted, I just want to have more soldiers under my command. There are only a few thousand people in one regiment, and it's boring! "Pan Chengye has seen the big scenes, during the Russo-Japanese War, which battle was not tens of thousands of people. With the thousands of people under his command, he just felt that it was not enough to see.

"Yes. You apply to go to the agricultural reclamation, and tens of thousands of peasant soldiers can be brought with you. After Qi Qingyuan was confused in his heart, he became full of spirit, as if he had never been confused.

When Qi Qingyuan and Pan Chengye were talking, Yang Rui sat on his horse and walked towards the military headquarters. It was already early autumn, and the moonlight was very cold, and the woods were extremely cold, and the cold only penetrated into the clothes. During the journey, he couldn't help but look at the full moon hanging in the sky, and remembered the woman who returned to Shanghai in anger. is still very conflicted about her, for the sake of the revolution, he shouldn't look for such a woman, even if he does, many things can't be known to her, because women are different from men, once they are moved, they can't keep them secret. Maybe you can brainwash her, but what's the use of that? What he wanted: if the revolution was a job, then this woman would be a home after work, where he could not think about work. In other words, this woman must be a simple, woman who doesn't understand revolution and only understands life, no matter what Yang Rui does outside and what he will become in the future, in her opinion, it is just a man coming home from work, and then it is oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and chicken feathers are trivial.

Yang Rui didn't know what other men thought, but he just expected such a family and such a woman. In the past, Cheng Ying was such a woman, but now, she is not, her life seems to have begun to burn only for the revolution, and most importantly, she does not know much about the revolution, she does not understand what the revolution is, the revolution in her opinion is to seek happiness for 40,000 people, incomparably sacred and beautiful, but in fact, the revolution is to reverse the heaven and the earth, the bottom of the society in the past, those criminals, displaced people, and people on the margins of society have become the powerful in the future, and the powerful have become the bottom of the society. As for most of the grass people in the middle, they are still the grass people at the bottom in the end, even if the situation improves. It's just that the grass grows more lushly.

A revolutionary who is full of longing for the revolution, but who also carries many goodness and virtues in his own right, ends up with sacrifice, and in many cases it is a worthless sacrifice. This is worthless. This is not to say that what they are doing is worthless, but that the revolution itself is worthless, and even if the revolution succeeds, it will still be a society that needs to be revolutionized again. If they live to the end, there will be a new state that is no different from the previous one, in the essence of the rule, and there will always be some people who are powerful. This is true at birth, while others are always powerless, no matter how talented they are. It doesn't matter if it's a hundred years from now Or two hundred years later, whether it is China or the United States, this will be the case.

Except for some people around Sun Wen. Most of today's revolutionaries fail to see this. Of course. Yang Rui also hopes that they will be like this, because in this way the revolution will have cannon fodder. He and Sun Wen are now the same and different, not to mention the same places, the difference is that he cherishes cannon fodder more, and the steps of the revolution are also practical and step-by-step. In addition to this, the most important thing is. He understood that the logic of history is that power is centralized first and then democracy, and the more ruthless he is in centralizing power. Then the sooner democracy will be realized in the future, and the material wealth created at the time of centralization will be the ideological motivation for the future democratic appeal. In fact, this just confirms Kant's contradiction of the two laws, and it is also the original intention of Lao Tzu's 'movement of the opposite way'. Yang Rui knew this, but only he knew.

A kind woman, a beautiful revolution, if her vision is shattered, then, will she go crazy? When Yang Rui thought of this, the residence had already arrived, the lights in the house were lit, Liu Boyuan, who got off the horse first, took a telegram and left, Yang Rui knew that there was already some trouble when he looked at him, but it should be not a big trouble, and he solved it himself.

"Is there any news from Shanghai?" Yang Rui drank half a cup of tea in the room and asked Chen Guangshou who came in.

"Shanghai ......" Chen Guangshou didn't know what Yang Rui wanted to ask, but he recalled the telegrams from the communications office and said: "There is nothing special in Shanghai, that is, the congress in the capital passed a bill today." With that, a telegram came.

In September last year, Guangxu began to decree the opening of the National Assembly, because there was no foundation before, so it took a lot of effort to open the National Assembly, first the provincial assemblies were opened in the provinces, and the Consultative Bureau was originally to be opened to the level of county and state capitals, but in order to prevent the revolutionary party, in the end only the provincial assemblies were opened, and the following parliaments were not open for the time being. Because of the division of southern Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu, there were 23 provincial councils, but the councillors of Jiangsu proposed the merger of the north and the south, and eventually there were 22 provincial councils.

The National Assembly was convened on the occasion of Guangxu's birthday in August this year, when double happiness was approaching and the whole country was celebrated, and many newspapers declared: "I have stood up from now on, and the people will be rich and the country will be strong." The first thing to do is to discuss the constitution and then the other laws. In the beginning, there were contradictions between the 100 elected members and the 100 elected members, but when articles 288 and 89 of the new Criminal Law were discussed, the originally clearly divided camp was chaotic, and the members of the King James Congress were in contradiction with each other, and the elected members of the People's Congress were also angry with each other. This article states whether and how the crime of adultery without a husband should be included in the law. The crime of adultery without a husband is actually whether there is a crime before marriage. The difference in ideas led to a heated debate among the 200 Members, and the room was filled with a great deal of noise, and then the five-hour debate ended with 191 Members cast a vote in attendance, with 115 votes for the unconvicted spouse (blank vote) and 76 votes for the opposition (blue vote). The opponents were not convinced, and after soliciting everywhere, the vote was held the next day, and in the end, the supporters narrowly won by three votes.

As soon as this happened, the original camp of the King James and the elected camp was thrown into disarray, and the National Gazette called the conservatives who supported the conviction the White Vote Party, and the new party that opposed the conviction the Blue Vote Party. The White Vote Party has Lao Naixuan, Xu Dinglin, and Yu Banghua as the backbone, and the Blue Vote Party has Wang Rongbao, 6 Zongyu, Lei Fen, and Ji Zhongyin as the backbone. At present, the two factions are preparing to form a party, and they both believe that in a civilized and constitutional country, there will be two major political parties, each with its own banner, opposing each other, and this will be beneficial to the country's politics. In addition to the emergence of the blue and white parties, there are now three heroes of the Congress in Beijing, namely Yi Zongkui, Yang Du, and Lei Fen [Note 1], these three people speak the most in the Congress, especially Yi Zongkui, who has spoken more than 100 times, and is a representative of the radical faction, and is nicknamed Li Kui in the Water Margin.

The change in the National Assembly is actually extremely unfavorable to the Renaissance Society, the previous idea was to stir up contradictions between the elected and the King James members, but now for the crime of 'adultery without a husband', the boundary between the elected and the King James has disappeared and blurred, and it has become you have me, I have you. But the concept is different. There will always be a choice of different sides. Although there are people in the Congress, the Revival Society cannot reverse this situation.

Chen Guangshou's telegram to Yang Rui is certainly not a boring thing like 'no husband and adultery', there are two things on it. The first is Sheng Xuanhuai's railway loan case, and the other is the financial case. The former was proposed by Sheng Xuanhuai before the opening of the National Assembly, and the content was nothing more than because most private railway companies only opened companies and only raised funds, and did not build roads, so he wanted to borrow foreign money to build railways. The idea is good, but the resistance is great, and the railway private office was approved by Guangxu before. And there is such a good example of the Tonghua Railway Company, which has built more than 1,000 kilometers of railways inside and outside the Guan, so after the opening of the National Assembly. Sheng Xuanhuai's railway loan case was rejected by lawmakers. The gentry sitting there, such as Sichuan, Hunan, Zhejiang, and Guangdong, all have shares in the railway companies, so they naturally take the interest on the loans of the railway companies' capital. Once the railroad was built. Not only do you have to add your share capital, but you don't have to take interest, how can you agree to this? So as soon as he mentioned this bill, it was rejected. It was not surprising that Sheng Xuanhuai was not allowed to do anything about the railway, but now he has no choice about it.

After the railway incident, there was the financial case. In 19o6 the country's fiscal revenue was 180,000,000 taels, but what about expenditures. It is 190 million taels, plus the deficit after Gengzi. The fiscal deficit was nearly 40 million taels [Note 2]. According to the cabinet plan, not to mention anything else, the cost of the six seas and two armies increased by 15 million taels compared with the previous year, of which 10 million taels were used for the expansion of the new army, except for the two towns of the Praetorian Guard, the others were used for the Manchurian and Mongolian new army, and the new armies in other provinces were not organized and trained for the time being; The other 500 taels will be used for the navy, which is a seven-year plan for the navy proposed by the new Navy Minister Zaixun, which plans to invest 50 million taels in seven years to rebuild the navy, of which 35 million taels will be from the state budget, 5 million taels per year; The other fifteen million taels were deducted from the inner court, two million taels per year.

The budget for 19o8 was 230 million taels, 40 million taels more than in O6, and the more money had to be collected. In addition to tax increases, another is to carry out currency reform.

In the 4th year of the year, the American Jingqi built China from the silver standard to the gold exchange standard, but Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, strongly opposed it, the reason was that the currency was changed to foreigners, which was a conspiracy of foreigners to control the finances of the Qing Dynasty, and the second was to deliberately pretend to be puzzled by the gold exchange standard, and asked whether the gold and silver price comparison position of 1:32 could be maintained. One of the biggest mysteries is that once the national currency is reformed, the mints all over the country will be taken over by the degree branch, and the annual profit of 18 million taels [Note: 3] copper dollars will be completely lost. At the same time, if the currency reform is carried out, many of the benefits brought by bad rules will be lost, such as the collection of land taxes, the people generally pay copper money, according to the current price, 1,400 Wen is equal to one tael, but when the county officials collect taxes, it is forced to set 2,800 Wen for one tael, plus the usual fire consumption, for the officials of all over the country, this is a huge benefit, so the Jingqi currency reform was abandoned by Cixi because of the collective opposition of the local government.

Cixi gave up, but Guangxu did not admit defeat, the current plan and the previous silver standard for gold exchange standard is different, it is still holding the silver standard, but it is no longer Zhang Zhidong strongly advocated a silver dollar of one or two, but will mint seven coins and two cents of silver dollars, and at the same time prohibit the provinces from minting without authorization, only the Tianjin Mint, Hubei, Jiangsu branch has the right to mint' The silver coins of the Great Qing Dynasty'; and the copper dollar, although it was strictly forbidden to be indiscriminately minted in the year O5, but now the more and more proliferated, therefore, the right to mint the copper dollar was also withdrawn to the central government, and was minted by the Tianjin Mint and the branches of Hubei and Jiangsu; Finally, there is paper money, the degree branch strictly ordered the provincial official and commercial banks not to be allowed to banknote, and those who have been carried out should be gradually recycled, and provide a certain amount of reserves, in case of verification at any time.

The whole financial case, in addition to raising taxes, is to compete with local governors and money banks for the right to mint coinage. The lawmakers had no opinion on the tax increase, but there was a lot of opinion on the revocation of the coinage rights by the central government, but after the rejection of the railway loan bill, the financial bill was finally approved by 104 votes to 96 votes.

After reading the telegram, Yang Rui asked Chen Guangshou, "Is there a call from Xingjian, and what is the reaction of those Qianzhuang banks in Shanghai?" ”

Chen Guangshou had long understood that the same kind of telegram should be put together, and when he saw it, he shook his head and said, "There is no telegram from Shanghai. ”

"That's a piece of the past. It's impossible for the Shanghai side to be unresponsive. Yang Rui said.

Chen Guangshou finished the telegram, but the Shanghai side did not call back, and in the afternoon of the next day. Zhang Kun in Shanghai replied with a telegram. On the telegram, he said that when the news of the unified currency system reached Shanghai. Many banks have reacted, but not violently, these banks are not actually banknotes, but only banknotes. This kind of banker ticket is actually a tool to communicate with Huayang, and if the money for imported foreign goods is insufficient, the banker will use the banker's ticket, and the foreigner will release the goods when he sees the banker's ticket. After the Chinese merchants shipped their goods to the mainland to sell their goods, they exchanged the loans for money banks; Exporters want to sell goods to foreigners, and after receiving the check, they go to the money bank to exchange huàn for a banker's ticket, with which they can be obtained in other places. In the final analysis, this kind of banker bill is actually the discount bill of the bank in the future.

After talking about the reaction of the Shanghai money industry, the next thing is the impact on the Kwantung Bank, Zhang Kun believes that the biggest impact is that the management right of the Northeast Guanyin may be taken back by the imperial court. Because the degree branch will definitely accept the official silver number of the provinces. Then use the banknotes of the Daqing Bank to replace the banknotes of the previous bank, and the original banknotes of the Kanto Bank, because the head office is in the concession, will not be forced to recycle the banknotes, and many of the banknotes of the Kanto Bank are less than one or two banknotes, and now the copper dollar is depreciated, this kind of banknotes that can be exchanged for huàn and have a stable currency system are still very popular with the people. Its current scope lies entirely in the scope of the branch, and the wider the branch. then the larger the line range of the banknote.

Zhang Kun's telegram was very long, and in addition to discussing how to deal with the countermeasures after the Northeast Guanyin was taken over by the Du Branch, there was also a new plan, that is, to expand the range of banknotes, so as to squeeze the living space of the copper dollar, so as to increase the depreciation of the copper dollar. The end result of this will be to lower the actual trading value of the already indiscriminate copper dollar.

Finance has always been an important area to attack a country, especially the Manchu Qing Dynasty now has no knowledge of modern finance, which is indeed a good way to cause social unrest, but Yang Rui's thinking is not like this. He was actually waiting for the rubber stock in 191o, which was a good time to hit the entire Chinese finance, and now, the run on the copper dollar alone could not achieve much effect, and the key was to see how the Manchu Qingdu branch treated the new financial system: whether it could suppress the governors in various places, and the collection of coinage rights was a key point, and when the coinage rights were collected, whether it would be indiscriminate was another point. With the development of the New Deal, the formation and training of the new army, there will be more and more places that need money, and he does not believe that the Manchus can bear to keep the printing press.

After Yang Rui read Zhang Kun's reply, another telegram from Chen Guangshou was handed over, and he said, "Sir, this is an encrypted telegram, which has just been turned out." ”

"Where did it come from?" Yang Rui was a little curious, thinking that it was from the United States.

"It's still Zhang Kun's in Shanghai." Chen Guangshou said, after he handed over the telegram, he closed the door and went out.

Yang Rui said that it was Zhang Kun's again, and he was very curious about what important things he had, but he couldn't let go of the telegram when he saw it. The telegram said something extremely secretive, that is, the question of the deposits of the Manchu imperial family. In fact, this is also what he talked about yesterday in a chat with a senior class of HSBC, which is estimated by the foreign banking industry that the Manchu royal family had a property of more than 900 pounds before Gengzi, and today, the Manchu royal family should have more than 10 million pounds of property. [4] The unit used in the telegram was the pound sterling, and if converted into silver, it was multiplied by seven to become more than 70 million taels, or even 100 million taels of silver. Where and how did the money come from, Zhang Kun did not say in the telegram, and at the same time, Zhang Kun did not say where the money is now. He probably only heard the wind.

Did the Manchus have this money? Yang Rui believes that it is possible, and any dictatorship must have private accounts, and a small treasury is naturally not a problem. But how can we understand the specific situation and get this money? (To be continued......)

ps:1: In history, the three heroes of the Congress should be Yi Zongkui, Luo Jie, and Lei Fen, but history has changed, Yang Du should be a member of Congress because of the prestige of recovering the sovereignty of the Guangdong-Han Railway, and his insight should be the three heroes of the Congress, and Yi Zongkui and Roger are both from Hunan, and Yang Du was selected, so it is estimated that only one of the two was elected.

2: The fiscal revenue in 19o6 is estimated, with reference to the fiscal revenue in O3 is 1o49.2 million, and the fiscal revenue in O8 is 234.82 million, and the fiscal deficit in 19o3 is 30 million, which is estimated here to be 38 million taels.

3:“net-netch,31-march,19o5,p.637.

4: The figure is not apocryphal, and is taken from the Epistles of Morrisian, vol. 1, p765

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