When Yang Rui came out of the Forbidden City, he only felt that Zhu Kuansu's matter was over. Forty years later, he was seventy-five years old, and it didn't matter if there was an emperor. Thinking of this, the majestic palace behind him was no longer a pressure on him, and the relationship between the emperor and the state, the imperial power and the revival society was thus determined.

Yang Rui was easy to get things done for a while, but when this article 'The emperor is the symbol of the Great China State, but the sovereignty of the Great China State belongs to all the people, and the emperor's behavior on state affairs must be established and recognized by the cabinet, and the cabinet should bear its responsibility', when it was made public on the second day, it caused the displeasure of both people.

In order to maintain the inheritance of Confucianism, the emperor is supreme in their hearts, but now Article 1 of the constitution says that national sovereignty does not belong to the emperor but to the people, which only makes them unhappy, but because of the status of the former ministers, they can only complain in the newspaper; The other kind of people are the Republican Party such as Sun Wen, such a passage in the constitution only makes them half happy and half annoyed, they like to see the sovereignty in the people, but the sovereignty in the people has an emperor symbol, and they can't understand what the truth is. Because their influence in Beijing is very small, such people also only complain in the newspapers and cannot take any substantive action.

As for the Beijing Legation, other countries did not react much, only Japan and France deprecated and praised, and the Beijing newspaper of the Japanese accused Zhanì of making a lot of nonsense, saying that the revival society was only for a moment's selfishness, and it was simply a big rebellion to manipulate the emperor's majesty; And the Frenchman's Sino-French News. The revival will find an excellent point of convergence between history and the future, tradition and modernity, which will be the best template for the transition from an imperial state to a democratic state, that is, the emperor is spiritual. Democracy is realistic.

When Huang Xing, who couldn't read French, saw Yang Rui on this day, the first question was why he wanted to keep the emperor since it was democratic?

In Yang Rui's mind, Huang Xing is obviously a fool who has followed Sun Wen wholeheartedly for so many years. and single-mindedly launched so many uprisings in Liangguang, during which he never summarized and rarely thought, these are the specific expressions of stupidity. So he didn't explain it at all, and just pushed the issue to the extraordinary Congress: it was all a good thing for the parliamentarians, and he didn't want to be like that.

What Yang Rui said was indeed the truth, but Huang Xing felt that he was lying. The meeting was almost interrupted here. Fortunately, Yang Du played a round on the side. The conversation turned around again. But what he said after that was not interesting, Song Jiaoren had already begun to reorganize the alliance, and it was no longer necessary to win over Huang Xing in Yang Rui's opinion.

After Huang Xing left, Yang Rui, who felt that everything was settled, began to do what he began to do was to build a new government, among which, there were officials of eleven ministries under the Prime Minister's Office to be appointed, and the affairs of the navy on the army side had to be resolved. Then there is the Tingwei Mansion, and the officials of the three departments of the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the Inspectorate must also be appointed. Finally, there are the officials of the National Security Bureau and the National Taxation Bureau, which have been transformed into special departments, to be appointed, and the governors of the 25 provinces and territories in the country must also be appointed.

In total, there are more than 40 officials of first-level departments to be examined and selected, and these more than 40 people are the backbone of the state and the pillars of the government, and each and every one of them must be repeatedly examined and carefully examined. Yang Rui dominates the overall situation, and Chen Guangshou is really responsible for the selection of government department personnel. The 12 ministries under the Prime Minister's Office, and the other 11 ministries Yang Rui were all handed over, but only the Ministry of Officials was retained for his own management, and the people employed were not military cadets, not management trainees, not members of the peasant association, all of them were part-time workers and students.

In the next eight years, Tianzihao became bigger and bigger, and more and more child laborers were recruited, and the best of them were all carefully cultivated, and they went not only to the army, but also to the human resources department. These people have no problem in loyalty, but they still have little experience in the world, although professional, it will take some time to really take charge of themselves.

"Sir, the Ministry of Finance is now determined to be Mr. Hanzhang, he is the main one, Ji Zuchang is the deputy, and then there is the president of the National Bank, Zhang Xingjian will be in charge, and Xie Taofu will be the deputy, but the currency reform will be about to be changed, Xie Taofu's father is the chief director of the Shanghai Money Industry Association after all, and it is better for him to be abroad during the currency reform." Chen Guangshou introduced the appointment of the household ministry at the beginning, which is the most important of all the ministries, and the key to the country's stability so quickly is because there will be money for revival.

"This Ji Zuchang can be regarded as having survived," Yang Rui held a large stack of resumes, looking at Ji Zuchang, "When he applied for the accounting of MSG Factory, he didn't expect that there would be today." ”

Yang Rui suddenly sighed Ji Zuchang, Chen Guangshou did not answer, and after a while, Yang Rui said, "The Ministry of Finance is appointed like this, they are all old people of the Revival Association, and this team itself is operating, and now it is just enlarged." However, currency reform is the top priority of the Ministry of Finance. After all, once the two yuan are abolished, they will not only be unable to import Yingyang, but also unable to import raw silver, and the loss will be huge; The money industry association will also resist, all kinds of silver dollars, silver two exchange rights are in their hands, once the two are abolished and changed to yuan, they can't charge fees, not to mention, they can't manipulate the exchange rate of all kinds of silver money, we are cutting off people's money, this hatred is also great...... The axes of the Axe Gang over there in Shanghai are about to be sharpened. ”

The final battlefield of the currency reform is in the Shanghai Concession, and Yang Rui said that the axe should be sharpened, which only made Chen Guangshou smile. He saw Yang Rui read the resumes of several people, and then said, "Mr. Taiyan is set by the Ministry of Rites, and Wang Xiaolin is the deputy, and this match was set earlier; The Ministry of Industry is Mr. Huafeng, which is also set; The Ministry of Civil Affairs is Zhang Yingge (Zhang Chengyue), who will be mainly responsible for patrolling the country, and Li Guangyi of Yizhou will be the deputy; the Ministry of Commerce, Mr. Du Qiufan (Yaquan) and Mr. Zhang Si; Diplomacy is now in charge of Mr. Chong'an, and among the original diplomatic personnel, there are two of the most outstanding after the investigation, one is Lu Zhengxiang, who is now the Russian minister, and the other is Shi Zhaoji, who was previously Zuo Cheng of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was supposed to serve as the minister of the United States. ”

When Chen Guangshou talked about Lu Zhengxiang and Shi Zhaoji, Yang Rui happened to turn to their resumes. One is a native of Shanghai, graduated from the Cantonese dialect school, and followed Xu Jingcheng, a famous diplomat, but was killed in Gengzi. Step by step; The other is a native of Suzhou, graduated from St. John's in Shanghai, and has a doctorate from Cornell University, so it's no wonder that he will be sent to the United States as a minister, but this is not the person Yang Rui wants.

"Zhang Yi hasn't looked for a good job yet?" Yang Rui put the thick resume aside, took out a cigarette and lit it.

"Consuls and embassy personnel in the country have all looked aside. There is no one we need," Chen Guangshou knew who Yang Rui was looking for, but there was no such person in China. "However, the MIA recommended two people, one was an Englishman, called Halford. John. Mackinder. The other was a German colonel. It's called Carl. Haushofer, who had spent a lot of time in Japan. Both are geographers, and they believe that the geographical situation determines the situation of the country, and Haushofer's articles are relatively rare, but Mackinder published a paper in 04 called the geographical pivot of history," Chen Guangshou said that he took out the paper from the text and said. Unlike Mahan's theory of sea power, Mackinder proposed land power and the theory of the heartland zone in his paper. He believes that in the center of Eurasia is the heart of the world, and whoever controls it here can control the whole world. ”

Chen Guangshou's introduction made Yang Rui, who was about to read the paper, a little distracted, he remembered that later generations seemed to have heard such a sentence, that is, whoever controls the world island will control the world. Could it be that this doctrine has been in vogue since then? In his impression, geographical determinism may not be correct, but most people who discuss why Germany lost in the two world wars will say that Germany's geographical location is too tragic, and when discussing the reason why the United States dominates the world, it must not be omitted to mention that the geographical location of the United States is too superior, and even mention that Qin Shi Huang unified the world, it will also talk about the geographical location of Qin.

Culture, resources, and geography are all long-term decisive factors for the development of a country, but resources can be purchased and culture can be improved, but the geographical location cannot be changed except for the expansion of territory. China in later generations is locked in the island chain, just because Taiwan is no longer in its hands, and in this life, it can't be so miserable.

Without thinking about the German, Yang Rui asked directly, "How is Mackinder?" If we invite him to China, will he come? ”

Chen Guangshou didn't understand any of these things, but when he saw that Yang Rui was distracted, he wanted to invite this person, so he said, "Sir, this military intelligence bureau has not yet evaluated, they have only sent McKinder's brief information now, and then there is this paper, what his impression of China is, it is not yet known." What we can be sure of now is that his thesis is not well received in England, and that he is fifty-five years old, having studied at Christ's College, Oxford, and is a member of the Royal Geographical Society. ”

"Then let the Military Intelligence Bureau immediately follow up and investigate this McKind's political tendencies and impressions of China, but don't attract attention." Yang Rui decided that if he wanted to get this Mackinder to China, geopolitics still mattered, and China would refer to geopolitics in the future with whom it would ally and who it would turn its face with.

Chen Guangshou wrote down the matter, and then began to introduce candidates from other ministries, "On the Ministry of Agriculture, Tao Huanqing is interested, but if he wants to be the Minister of Agriculture, then the IRS will have to choose someone else." ”

Chen Guangshou felt that Yang Rui seemed to be a little special to Qiu Jin, Tao Chengzhang, and Xu Xilin, Qiu Jin was a female streamer and did not contribute much to the revolution, but asked to be arranged to the ministry, Tao Chengzhang had already described, but he was still arranged in an important position, which made him a little puzzled, but this puzzle was only in his heart, many people under Yang Rui's orders, many things have such characteristics.

"He's going to the Ministry of Agriculture, so let him go." Yang Rui thought of Tao Chengzhang and thought of him living in a coal bunker, "Didn't he say before that the biggest wish in his life is to let the people of the world have enough to eat, then let him go to the Ministry of Agriculture." Besides, this person can endure hardships, and he can stand sleeping in the open, but it may not be possible to change to someone else. ”

"Sir, if Tao Huanqing is positive, then the deputy is elected Chen Zhenxian, he is a doctor of agronomy from the University of California, USA, the major should be not bad, and the age is nearly forty, he is a stable person, he has been a supervisor in Fengtian Farm a few years ago, and he also has practical experience." Chen Guangshou saw that Yang Rui agreed to Tao Chengzhang's invitation, so he had to push a doctor up, so that there would be a complement.

"Embezzlement?" Yang Rui looked at this person's resume, and the first question was to ask this. "How's it going?"

"There were some Manchu officials, but they were not heavy. But I can't tell if it's because I didn't have a chance to take it, or because I don't want to take it. Chen Guangshou said, "Practice is only the experience of the superintendent of the Fengtian farm." We talked to the people in the farm, and they said that this person did not belong to the kind of people who sat in a sedan chair and watched from the side, and that among the Manchu officials, it was considered pragmatic. ”

"Then let's settle down first, none of these people are from the Revival Society, and they haven't dealt with each other. When you come in with them, you have to make it clear to them that there is a probationary period for appointment and dismissal. If you are not qualified during the probation period, that is, you will be unconditionally reformed, and you will not be able to get over it at that time. Yang Rui added.

"Sir. I understand. Chen Guangshou nodded, and he continued to introduce the following, "There is some trouble in the medical department, and now there are Chinese medicine and Western medicine in China. The one Mr. mentioned earlier was Wu Liande, who eradicated the plague in the Northeast the year before last. It is Western medicine, if he is the head of the Ministry of Medicine, then maybe the dispute between Chinese and Western medicine will come out again, and this Wu Liande is still for overseas Chinese, and he speaks in English, if he proposes to abolish Chinese medicine, it will cause even more controversy. ”

"Well, that's a thing." Yang Rui said. He knew that Chinese medicine was behind the times. It's just that it still has something desirable. "Since Wu Liande has been made the head of the medical department, let's find another person to be in charge of traditional Chinese medicine. In terms of resource division, there are many Western doctors and few traditional Chinese medicines, and there are those who are in the middle of the country, and they must be well rectified, and they should not treat the dead and not pay for their lives. ”

"Understood, sir." Chen Guangshou wrote, "There are two candidates for the Ministry of Transportation, one is Mr. Chen Yixi, and the other is Sheng Xuanhuai. After comprehensive consideration, Mr. Chen will be the positive and Sheng Xuanhuai will be the deputy. ”

"No way!" Yang Rui interrupted, "Mr. Chen can only build railways, the Ministry of Transportation is in charge of national logistics, railways, shipping, highways, air transportation, postal services, and telegraphs are all under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Transportation. It is still correct to take him, but the rules and regulations of the department, the decentralization of supervision must be improved, and the Ministry of Transportation will become the Sheng Family Gang in a few years. ”

"But sir, the matter of the iron works last time and the railway mortgage loans in various provinces have made Sheng Xuanhuai's reputation very bad, and such an appointment will only ......" Sheng Xuanhuai is the best among the Manchu bureaucrats in terms of ability, which Chen Guangshou knows, but this person's reputation is too stinky.

"What is fame? Sheng Xuanhuai mortgaged the railway to borrow money, and gave those bastard gentry a hundred years to repair, and those trunk railways could not be repaired. Now he has a bad reputation, that is because Sheng Xuanhuai has cut off the gentry's financial route, and the newspapers everywhere are all controlled by the gentry, so naturally he has a bad reputation. "Yang Rui is still very pleasing to the eye when he looks at Sheng Xuanhuai, and he thinks that what he does is more reliable than others." The matter of the iron factory, although he was selfish, but who did not have a dead heart, the iron factory was in the hands of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it was better to control it in the hands of Sheng Xuanhuai. You don't care about anything else, if there is no better candidate, you will be prosperous. ”

Yang Rui insisted on using Sheng Xuanhuai regardless of his reputation, Chen Guangshou had to write it down first, and then Yang Rui said, "The first thing he has to do when he takes office is to take back the postal rights of the whole country to me." Historically, treaties have not said that China's postal rights should be ceded. Sheng Xuanhuai has a good relationship with foreigners, and this matter belongs to him. ”

Seeing that the reason why Yang Rui used Sheng Xuanhuai was actually this, Chen Guangshou smiled secretly in his heart, only turned the page, and then said. "The Faculty is mainly composed of those from the Chinese Education Association, and according to the agreement, Mr. Xiao Min is the minister and Mr. Jiang Zhuzhuang (Wei Qiao) is the deputy. The minister of the Ministry of Land has not yet been decided, but the candidates for each department have been decided, Kuang Rongguang is in charge of mining, Wu Tongju is in charge of water conservancy, and Pei Yili, an American, is in charge of forestry. ”

"Kuang Rongguang is from Xinning?" Yang Rui flipped through his resume, "Or a young child in the United States?" ”

"Yes. He is over 50 years old, majoring in geology and mining at Lafayette College in the United States, but he did not graduate because the Qing court recalled foreign students halfway, but he is the first batch of geology and mining engineers in China, and his decades of experience are still unique. There is also a person named Wu Yangzeng, who is also a young child studying abroad, studying at the School of Mining and Metallurgy of Columbia University, and later returned to China without graduating. Among the two, it seems that Kwong Rongguang has more experience and more achievements. Chen Guangshou said.

"Minerals are extremely important, once the news is leaked, under the current situation, if the foreigners take it, we will not be able to take it back." Yang Rui emphasized, "What I care about in the Mining Department is not academic experience, but ethics. You and the Yuanshi side will investigate again, if this person is credible, there is no problem in choosing him. Then the Minister of Land, I remember saying before that I could let Pei Yili do it, why are you giving me a person who is undecided now? ”

"Sir, this Pei Yili has been investigated and can be qualified for this position, but he is a foreigner, and he is also a missionary, considering these two identities, I am worried that the appointment of him will cause more controversy than Sheng Xuanhuai at that time." Chen Guangshou said.

"What's wrong with the foreigners, what's wrong with the missionaries?" Yang Rui said indifferently, "What I want is his identity as the Presbyterian Church in the United States, in the past ten years since the founding of the country, we want to be close to the United States, and the Presbyterian Church is the most influential church in the United States, and it would be better to find him to be the minister of the Leng Yamen." As for the foreign religion, now is not the time to clean up, let's talk about this later. If you don't have any other concerns, the matter will be settled. ”

"Understood!" Chen Guangshou wrote it down, and then began to introduce the Tingwei Mansion, he said: "According to the previous investigation, the judicial side is more suitable, that is, there are only two people, one is Shen Jiaben, and then Wu Tingfang, the judicial reform of the Qing court in the last few years is led by them, especially Shen Jiaben, who has revised the criminal law and civil law, etc., and has a very high reputation. However, the problem now is that there are two factions of justice, one is the Rite Sect, and the other is the Shen Jiaben Sect. These two factions had already fought before, and if Shen Jiaben was appointed now, the dispute would not be small. ”

Chen Guangshou watched as he spoke, he knew that Yang Rui would definitely choose Shen Jiaben, and hurriedly said before he spoke: "Sir, during this time, the students have talked with many people, and they have also read many people's reports. The European and American legal systems are governed by the rule of law, and the Chinese legal system is actually governed by the rule of law, but because of the emphasis on ethics, the legal provisions have been added to the ten evils, which is a little different from what I thought before. ”

Yang Rui also heard for the first time that Confucianism also governs the country according to law, and said with a smile, "Aren't you stunned by Lao Naixuan's legalists?" ”

"It's not Lao Naixuan, it's Gu Tangsheng (Hongming), some of his insights still sound reasonable to students." Chen Guangshou also said with a smile, "If you choose the Jurisprudence School, then the Shen family is the most suitable, and Wu Tingfang has too many old habits." ”

"Well, Shen Jiaben, I agree." Yang Rui nodded, "But what about the Criminal Department, Dali Temple and the Inspectorate, how to determine the candidates?" When I was involved in the design of this country before, I thought of everything, but the judges didn't think of it, and now in this situation, I am afraid that there are not enough qualified judges. ”

Yang Rui said that when he designed this country, he only made Chen Guangshou admire for a while, and he planned it many years ago to this day, which has to make people sigh. "Sir, the Qing court held several judicial examinations in the past few years, and I have counted that there are more than 1,300 people who have passed the judicial examination, and 500 of them are new graduates.

"No way!" Yang Rui said, "The judge can't be compensated by emergency training, so let's let the county party committee of each county find someone to try on behalf of the judge, even if there is a wrongful and unjust case, it will be a matter of a few years." If judges are not trained well, the bad ones are not years, but decades. Is it enough to allocate more than the state capital now? ”

"Above the house?" Chen Guangshou thought silently, "I'm afraid it's not enough, it's impossible to have one judge in one government, and now I can only satisfy the Tao." ”

"Okay, let's talk about it. If there is chaos under the road, it will be chaotic for a few years. Yang Rui said. What about the candidates? The Shen family was originally the court captain, the Criminal Department, the Dali Temple, and the Inspectorate, who was in charge of these three departments? ”

"The person selected by the Criminal Department is Xu Shiying, although he has no judicial education, but he has a high evaluation in the industry, not only a capable official, but also a judicial expert. The candidates for the Inspectorate have not yet been decided, and it will take two days to select them, but according to the meaning of the last time, this department will be controlled by us. Now I'm worried that the justices of Dali Temple are not our people, if these people really don't listen to us, then ......" Chen Guangshou worried, the constitution clearly stipulates judicial independence, and the power to interpret the law is also in Dali Temple.

"According to the constitution, the supreme justice of Dali Temple was nominated by the cabinet and finally appointed by Zhu Kuansu." Yang Rui smiled and said about the matter of Dali Temple, "If the judge who is not on our side, we will not nominate it, and there is a system of inspection every ten years, if you don't listen to our judge, he will step down after ten years." (To be continued......)