Yang Rui's speech stopped after a while, Yu Zixun only listened to the ups and downs of his heart, and when he was about to fight with the foreigners, he turned his head and saw Wang Jitong who was silent beside him, knowing that he was persuaded by Yang Rui again, his words always felt so powerful, that people had to fall into it and agree from the bottom of their hearts.

"If it's Saint-Martin, who's Bolívar?" Wang Jitong thought about what Xie Jintai said, and thought that if South America was corresponded to China, then who would be Bolívar.

At first, everyone thought about whether it was Sun Wen, but when they thought that Sun Wen was more westernized than Yang Rui, they denied it in their hearts. They didn't know, but Yang Rui knew it, after all, history had proved it, he looked at the puzzled people and smiled: "If you want to talk about the Chinese bolivar, it must be Yuan Shikai." ”

"Yuan Shikai?!" Everyone was stunned. And Zhang Taiyan said: "Hmm." Except for Yuan Shikai, I'm afraid there is no one else. Before he stepped down, he was an active advocate of the constitutional opening of the National Assembly, and now although he is ambushing, his connections in the political and military circles are broad, that is, among the Manchurians, those Manchus in Yixuan Natong are all oriented to him. I just don't know, how will the British praise him at that time? I'm afraid that before he left Henan, the whole country will be recovered. ”

Zhang Taiyan said easily, but Xu Huafeng said: "It's not so simple, Yuan Shikai's biggest influence is still in the gentry." Once the gentry make a noise and the newspapers trumpet it, then his popularity will be extremely high, and he has many staff members and more talents, and he will be regarded as a great force after the founding of the country, and it is estimated that he will be the only force that can compete with us. To him, be sure to guard against it. ”

Yuan Shikai and Yang Rui have no ill feelings towards him. The revolutionary party is not a moral saint, and private morality is not within the scope of politics. However, he has four and a half towns of Beiyang Army in his hands, which is very taboo for him. But in the future, he will be in power. His four and a half towns are also well digested. Yang Rui thought of this and said: "Chong'an, you said that the British will definitely not support us, and France, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands will not support us, so who can support us in the current international situation?" ”

Yang Rui didn't talk about Yuan Shikai, but changed the topic back. Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Xie Jintai closed his eyes and then opened them. said indifferently: "It can only be Germany and the United States." ”

As soon as he said this, Zhang Taiyan said: "If the United States doesn't say it, the German emperor has gone back on his word and has no faith." How can such a country make friends? And then there is the current situation in Europe that Germany and Austria are isolated, and once we are pro-German, then Britain is not ......"

"Germany still has to win over you," Zhang Taiyan said halfway through. was interrupted by Xie Jintai. "It is precisely because of the hostility between Britain and Germany that we have to keep our past grudges and curry favor with Germany. Britain's weakness was commerce along the Yangtze River, and then the position of East Asian countries in the event of the imminent outbreak of the European War. If we support Germany, then the German Far East Fleet can cut off their trade with the colonies in East or Central Asia. This is also the fundamental reason why Britain wants to win over Japan after the peace talks with Russia, and they want to use the Japanese fleet against the German Far East Fleet.

Our pro-German attitude is only an attitude, not that we really want to form an alliance with Germany. This is just a countermeasure against the UK. After the founding of the country, Britain supported Yuan Shikai to oppose us, so we had to get close to Germany and the United States to counteract. But the United States and Germany are different. Germany was only a countermeasure before the war, and the United States ...... It is even said that in the event of a war in Europe, war money must be made, and when I think about it carefully, only the United States can do this. Between China and Japan, Britain, France, and Russia will choose Japanese goods over Chinese goods, unless we really have an advantage in our goods. Rather than selling to the Japanese and then transferring to Europe, it is better to sell to the Americans and then transfer to Europe, which is a long-distance and close attack.

That is the case, from the founding of the country to the war in Europe, our relationship with the United States is extremely important. So I want to ......" Speaking of this, Xie Jintai glanced at Yang Rui and others, and said calmly: "So I think we must help Roosevelt win the next election and make him the president of the United States." Only then will the situation be able to go according to our plan. ”

Hearing that Xie Jintai actually wanted to praise Roosevelt as president, Yu Zixun, a semi-democrat, gasped and exclaimed: "This thing is ...... This thing, this thing is not so easy to do. The United States has a system of universal suffrage, tens of millions of votes, and the entire public opinion has to be manipulated...... How is this possible! Again, again, in case of failure, not to mention the money, the next president will be jealous of us. ”

Yang Rui had long supported Roosevelt's campaign for president, but the situation was not urgent before, but now, it is still necessary to make clear what the foreign policy is.

"Then we'll bet on both sides, the company on the American side supports Roosevelt, and the domestic side supports his opponent." Yang Rui looked at Yu Zixun and said: "The president is actually the archway, although he has the opportunity to monopolize power for four years, but it still depends on the face of the master." Roosevelt was a Republican, and he would run for the Democratic Party, the former capitalists, we can let them build railroads and factories, and the latter ......" he paused here and said with great difficulty: "The issue of overseas Chinese is the focus of their attention, and it is really necessary, we will have to compromise with them on the Chinese Exclusion Act, and do some kind of support...... Of course, it's better not to get to that point, if that's the case, the overseas Chinese in the United States will be cold. Anyway, after the founding of the country, the United States will be certain, and the price that should be paid must be paid, and there is no way to save it. ”

The others did not know the support of overseas Chinese for the revolution, but Yu Zixun did know it, "It turned out that the interests of overseas Chinese could not be moved, and the Chinese exclusion bill could not be supported. ”

What Yu Zixun said was righteousness, but Yang Rui did not refute it, as long as the overseas Chinese did not affect the sale of the founding bonds, they would still sell it when they wanted to sell it. Politics is both a compromise and a trade-off, both domestic and foreign, naturally taking the domestic and abandoning the foreign. However, this matter will not be understood for a while.

The meeting of the Seventh Standing Committee ended quickly, and the originally happy atmosphere was made extremely dignified by the diplomatic form that Xie Zhangtai said. Although Yang Rui knew that the British were not so easy to deal with, he thought of the fate of South America. I still have lingering palpitations, if China becomes like that, it will be the Republic of China in the future. But the British are also doing it in common sense. In other words, when China liberated India, it was also to break India into several parts, and then let them fall into civil strife and could not extricate themselves.

European countries do not support ...... Since he doesn't support it, then he wants to kill Yuan Shikai? However, it seems that Yuan Shikai will not live to be sixty-eight, he died in 1916 in history, if the British really supported him. Wouldn't it be better if he died in 16 years? There was no need to worry about them finding others before, and then they could deal with the leaderless Beiyang system. You can even send them to the battlefield in the war against Japan...... Yang Rui would not be stupid to send the Beiyang Army to the battlefield town by town, that was the most inferior trick. In order to prevent the Beiyang generals from making a reputation, the troops fighting against Japan must be their own, but the soldiers at the bottom can be drawn from those towns in Beiyang. Wait until all those junior non-commissioned officers are dead. The Beiyang Army is basically abolished, and the most important thing is that it is transferred, and all the reputations are revival associations, and they have nothing to do with Beiyang.

In the hot weather of Hong Kong, even if the house Xie Jintai found was very cool, the yard was still hot in the afternoon, and it was only when the watermelon was eaten on the roof of the building in the evening that the hot wind outside blew a little cooler. In the evening, when everyone was chatting. Zhang Taiyan asked: "This three-public twelve-part system, is it the idea of that talent?" ”

"Three public and twelve ministries?" Yang Rui said with a smile. "Isn't it just modeled after the German and Japanese governments? Germany had a general staff, and Japan had a headquarters of the high command, both of which were independent of the administrative sphere and were only under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor. However, in China, it is just called Taiwei Mansion under a different name. ”

Yang Rui joked, but Zhang Taiyan didn't think so, he said: "I understand this truth, but how can you take out the three metric system, this must not be what you think." ”

"Uncle Mei, then you say, it's not what I think, so who else can think about it?" Yang Rui ninja smiled and couldn't help but ask Zhang Taiyan.

"This ...... Is it the Yang Huizi I saw last time? There are very few people around Yang Rui, and the students at Nanyang College are not very knowledgeable, and most of them are soldiers, so Zhang Taiyan guessed it.

"Hmm. It was indeed him. He also wrote an article on the doctrine of gold and ironism, which I think makes a lot of sense. He said that if you want to make a rich country, you must pay attention to business, and if you want to make a country strong, you must train the army. If you have money and a gun, you can save your rights and not be bullied......" Yang Rui wanted Zhang Taiyan to introduce the article on Jin Tieism, although there was praise in his words, but in fact, he was dissatisfied in his heart, not dissatisfied with the article, but dissatisfied with people.

Yang Du's article is right, and it is well written, but this is only a qualitative analysis, not a quantitative analysis, although there are suggestions in it, but there are no steps, such as encouraging businessmen, reducing gold, and so on. Chinese literati are all fond of exalting words and pointing out the country, and what they say is the Tao, but in practice, they are blind. Yang Rui feels that China needs two kinds of talents now, and he needs one kind of talent.

The first of these two kinds of talents that China needs is a diplomat or a columnist, a great man like Bismarck, who knows the international situation well and can enable China to reduce the interference of the great powers in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China and gain more support from the great powers. There is no such person in the Chinese, who have Bismarck's wrist and heart, do not understand Europe and the United States at all, and those who understand Europe and the United States rarely have flexible wrists and old spiciness. For example, Wu Tingfang, Tang Shaoyi and others, the former is simply a stupid cow who can only shout loudly, in the words of Morrison paraphrasing the consuls of various countries; The latter, although he talks about civilization, has no sense of civility in handling things, and because he studied in the United States, he has an American-style tough style, which is simply the material for diplomacy.

These two people can't do it, the other old ones can only be officials, fooling up and down, and the younger ones don't have enough experience, and if they really want to get to a big occasion, not only will they not be able to hold their breath, but it is estimated that even the internal and external situations will not be able to see clearly. Yang Rui doesn't mind a white-skinned person being China's vice minister or foreign minister, but the premise is that this person has the ability and understanding of China, and at the same time has professional ethics and will not eat inside and out. According to the analysis of the Military Intelligence Bureau, if the former is to be satisfied, it should be found among the ministers and consuls of various countries in China, and the latter is to be satisfied, then it only needs to rely on human resources and secret agents.

In addition to diplomats, China needs a large number of doers in various fields, these will be ministers and directors of the 12 ministries of the government, and these people need to be professional, understand the various knowledge of the fields under their jurisdiction, and preferably have management experience. These people can be found in the original Manchu bureaucracy and in the various departments of the Revival Society. There are still a lot of qualifications. For example, Sheng Xuanhuai and others, if you don't want to be private, you are still basically qualified to be a Shangshu of the Ministry of Commerce.

These are the talents that China wants. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the forces of all parties were staggered, one after another, how to become a political tumbler, that is the responsibility of these people. Although Yang Du is good, he is too young, and he has a way of doing things. But it's not delicate, and it seems to be too reckless, and I haven't explored any way. I came directly so rashly, although I had the courage, but the staff wanted to be feminine and tactful, and it was still inappropriate for him to do this.

From Yang Du, I thought of the talent gap of the Revival Society. Yang Rui just felt that there was no one in the entrainment. One man will prosper the country. Losing one person and losing the state is such a reality for China, which has no talent accumulation.

"Actually, is our Chinese prime minister also like foreigners, with a limit on the number of years?" Zhang Taiyan didn't understand that Yang Rui was lamenting that there was no one in China, and suddenly asked about the prime minister's term of office.

"I don't think I've thought about it yet. The term of the National Assembly is five years, and the term of office of the prime minister is five years. Yang Rui replied casually. However, I understood what Zhang Taiyan meant in my heart.

In fact, after getting the three-metric system, Tingwei obviously wanted to hand it over to Wang Jitong. It was only a law enforcement department, only the power of law enforcement, the power of legislation and the power of drafting laws were in the Prime Minister's Office, and the police were also under the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and there was only one inspectorate over there, which had the least power; The Taiwei side holds the military power of the whole country, this is Yang Rui's own land, once he is not the prime minister, he can also be the Tai Lieutenant, the administrative power can be handed over, but the military power will never be handed over. This is actually what Yang Rui learned from later generations, the chairman of the Zhongyang Military Committee, is not something that can be given lightly, pinched in his hand, and bullied whoever he wants.

In view of this, Zhang Taiyan knew that Yang Rui would not engage in the lifelong prime minister system, which means that the seven thirty-four-year-old Standing Committee members of the Revival Association now, as long as their luck is not too bad, they can all have the opportunity to be prime ministers. China's prime minister, one person under ten thousand people, is still very majestic. In fact, this is also Yang Du's calculation, the prime minister is just a name, which attracts various bigwigs in the association to fight, but in fact, the military power and regime are separated, and then the prime minister's mansion has made twelve ministries, which has basically put the prime minister in the air. But there are still people who eat this set, and Zhang Taiyan is one of them.

"Uncle Mei, Prime Minister, I'm not worried, we can all take turns here." Yang Rui raised his voice and said this very loudly, only to stop everyone talking on the rooftop. "I'm just worried about diplomacy right now! Brother Chong'an has complained several times that it is not easy to do, he is not afraid of hardship, but he is afraid that he will not be able to do it well. So I wondered if we could invite a foreigner to come over and be our diplomatic adviser, and then let him be the foreign minister or something if he did a good job. What do you think? ”

"Invite a foreigner to be the foreign minister? I raise my hands in favor of this. "The first person to speak was Xie Jintai, he was not from a professional background, diplomacy was only to pull relations and run business, and finally invited a consultant to know how to carry out the work. The more he ran around, the more he knew that this job was not something that ordinary people could do, and he had long wanted to mention Yang Rui's replacement, but he didn't expect Yang Rui to not only think of replacing people, but also thinking about changing foreigners, and his thinking could be described as advanced.

"Now the world is like the Warring States, and there are many prime ministers of various countries who are from other countries during the Warring States period. I think if the candidate is good, it will be fine. Zhang Taiyan said. seems to be reciprocating, Yang Rui just said that the prime minister can sit in turns, and he thinks that diplomacy can invite foreigners to do it.

"It's okay to invite foreigners, but what if the people invited are not satisfied?" Yu Zixun asked, he would be happy to see a foreigner become foreign minister.

"Yes, and how can you be sure if this foreigner has kung fu in his hands?" Xu Huafeng, who doesn't like to speak, also said, "Many of the foreign technicians who come to China are liars who can't get along in their home country and don't have much effort. Those who have kung fu do not need to come to China, they will find good errands in their own country. ”

"Yes. There are still a lot of foreigners who have their names in vain, and we are all laymen in diplomacy, so we are afraid that we will not know the goods. Zhong Guanguan also said. He also met a lot of liars in Europe, and he fell for a lot.

"So I'm going to say start with the consultants." Yang Rui was a little happy to see that everyone did not speak out against this, "The Military Intelligence Bureau is thinking of some ways to contact those foreign consuls more and see what they think of those diplomat colleagues in China." We don't know about diplomacy, but the foreigners themselves know the inside story. Diplomats from countries who have not been in China are not included in the selection. ”

When Yang Rui said this, everyone laughed, and Xu Huafeng said: "Actually, you are going to poach people from the consulates of various countries?" ”

"It's to dig people, but you still have to look at it before you dig. Foreigners are different from us, they have been established for many years, and promotion is based on seniority, and there are always some consuls who have the ability and are not willing; Besides, diplomats are not generals, and they don't need to kill their own people, so for them, there is no pressure to switch to the Chinese side as officials. The key is to give them the right power and reward, then naturally someone will come. Yang Rui said that he was confident that he had a way to choose such a character, but whether the foreign consul in China was talented or not, then he didn't know.

"I think Morrison is good." Wang Ji, who did not express his position, said the same thing. "In Europe, I read the Times, and his article was basically on the side of China, and he was completely opposed to the British Far East strategy for what the Japanese were doing in the Northeast, and this person was reliable. His vision is also very unique, and he has been in China for many years, so it is still very good to let him come. ”

"This person is not suitable." Yang Rui said: "He is a journalist, a Christian believer, and he has a fair heart and a benevolent mind, and such a person is not suitable for diplomacy." In fact, diplomacy is to bully the big and oppress the small, and to deceive and deceive, but it is clean and polite. Those British consuls were all in this way, civilized in appearance and polite in manners, but their actions were extremely inferior. and Zhang Yi of the Warring States period is also like this, coaxing King Chu Huai to cut six hundred miles of land, and when the matter is dragged over, it will become six miles. ”

Yang Rui said that the British were nothing, but when it came to Zhang Yi, everyone laughed, everyone was very interested, and they were discussing diplomatic candidates all night, making it so lively, and when they dispersed in the evening, they were still unsatisfied.

Not long after Yang Rui returned to the room, Wang Jitong, who didn't talk much before, came to him, and he had a lot of things to discuss with Yang Rui.

"It turned out that the plan for the founding of the country and the discussions that had been discussed for several years did not seem to have changed." Wang Jitong said that he was talking about Zhu Kuanji.

"Well, that's right. A lot of things don't need to change. Yang Rui understood what he meant and replied.

"But when will China come out?" Wang Jitong asked. He knows very well what Yang Rui's choice is, but he is now worried that with the government so constructed, Yang Rui has too much power in his hands, and more importantly, how to take power in the future.

"I'll come out before I die." Yang Rui looked at his eyes and said very calmly. "Xiao Xu, I won't go crazy or take any detours, China's current situation needs a strong government."

"I understand!" Wang Jitong sat down suddenly, "But with a government built like this, your power is greater than that of the emperor." The imperial power only reached the county, but now the peasant association has been established to the village. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, you will not fail to establish a rural government, will you? ”

Yang Rui was calm, Wang Jitong was also calm, and Yang Rui was not angry at all at his words. "Xiao Xu, even if I am the emperor, I am also an unhonored person, and I will not pass on the throne to my son. Before I die, I will be restored to formality. ”

"But what if there is no recovery?" Wang Jitong suddenly stood up again, "When the time comes, you can easily hand over the power, so can the people waiting for your successor below be willing for the emperor to understand this?" When the time comes, you are not alone, but a whole group of people, and if you can't guarantee their interests, your decision will be useless. ”

What Wang Jitong said was not unreasonable, Yang Rui retreated and asked, "Then what is your opinion?" ”

"Zhu Kuansu can be like what we said before, just an ornament, China will have only one royal family in the future, and there will be no emperor, and the Taiwei Mansion can also be established, and you can grasp military power for a lifetime, but the one-party system cannot be implemented. Once implemented, there is no end to it. With the merit of rebuilding the country, what are we afraid of? As long as we are alive, then as long as we are Chinese, it is impossible not to elect us as leaders. When the country is rich and strong, then we should also retire. That is to say, the one-party system is useless while we are alive, but when we die, it will allow future members to take advantage of this system to suppress public opinion and manipulate public opinion. This is simply a thousand years of legacy! Wang Ji said that he finally found the key point of Yang Rui's strategy for building the country. (To be continued......)