Cai Yuanpei means to run his own school, that is, 19 million taels for running a primary school, so that more than 2.1 million primary school students can be trained, while Yang Rui means outsourcing, according to the registration information in the household register, the students who pass the guò graduation examination will be issued a junior primary school graduation certificate, and the school where the student attends will go to the county government to receive the education fee subsidy by virtue of the previous enthronement information and the student's graduation certificate.

In this way, the welfare of teachers can be ignored, more than 200,000 county-level teachers can be abolished, and the nearly 10 million administrative expenses paid for them can be used for education, and at the same time, because of the savings in teacher training, school buildings, stationery, school uniforms, and even the school system, the cost of education per student can be reduced to about seven taels, so that the number of graduates can be doubled to four million per year. These four million are only those who have passed the graduation exam, and if you count those who did not pass the guò graduation exam, the number of primary school students is estimated to be close to five million.

According to the truth, Yang Rui's plan was influenced by the industrialization of education in later generations, but his direction was the opposite, he only wanted to industrialize primary school education, and above middle school is compulsory, in addition to increasing the number of primary school students as much as possible, you can also use the old teachers of the private school (of course, they must increase mathematics education), in addition, the school will be miniaturized, graduating fifteen students every year, husband and wife, father and son primary school can earn one hundred taels, which is obviously very cost-effective in rural areas.

The benefits of marketization are obvious, but there are two disadvantages in Cai Yuanpei's view, one is because it involves returns, and stupid students will not have schools. If the family is not well-off, then the opportunity to get an education will be lost forever, which is not fair; The second is also because it involves returns. The relationship between teachers and students will become a purely monetary relationship, which is obviously contrary to the way of teachers.

In addition to the differences between the two on the marketization of junior primary education, Cai Yuanpei also has opinions on the current teaching materials, believing that there are too many ancient texts in the book, from primary school to university, Chinese textbooks are all ancient texts, but this point has nothing to do with Yang Rui. There are other departments in the school department, which are subject to the ideological and cultural restrictions of the Ministry of Rites, textbooks, newspapers, and books. Including the radio network under construction, it will be monitored by the Ministry of Rites, and Zhang Taiyan and Wang Xiaolin have obviously become cultural czars.

In the period before the establishment of the provisional government, more and more information on all aspects of the state was gathered into Yang Rui's hands. The more comprehensive the information, the more in-depth the understanding. His face became more and more gloomy, so that on the ninth day of the eighth month, he remained the same.

"Look at you, your brows are furrowed so tightly, how will you meet people later?" Han Xianfeng was helping Yang Rui sort out her official robe, and while she was helping to tie her belt, she complained, "There will be a lot of foreign reporters later." ”

"Hmm." Yang Rui turned a deaf ear to Han Xianfeng's words. By this time, the joy of the success of the revolution and the victory over Japan had vanished. Now he only thinks about really governing the country well, and he estimates that his life will be shortened by ten years.

"Do you hear that? My Great Prime Minister. Han Xianfeng helped him tie his belt, and then saw that there was no one around, and gently kissed the corner of his lips.

"Hmm." Yang Rui responded again, and then went out. He will attend the inauguration ceremony in a sedan chair today, and the inauguration ceremony of the interim prime minister is scheduled to be held in Tianjie under Chengtianmen (Tiananmen Square).

Come out of Damucang Hutong, turn to West Chang'an Street, and then go from West Chang'an Street to Qipan Street in the north of Zhengyangmen, enter Daming Gate, pass through the Thousand Steps Corridor, and this will arrive at the Heavenly Street under Chengtian Gate. The whole journey was seven miles, and it took the sedan chair driver half an hour to carry Yang Rui outside the Daming Gate, where he would get off the sedan chair, and he would have to go the rest of the way by himself.

The autumn sky in Beijing is high and cloudy, and the newly renovated Daming Gate is unusually quaint. When Yang Rui got out of the sedan chair, the camera that had been waiting outside the Daming Gate flashed on, but the reporters were stopped by the soldiers around him, and he didn't hear their words clearly. He got off the sedan chair here, but the other sedan chair also arrived, Shen Jiaben, who was dressed in filial piety clothes, appeared, and under the frequent flashing of magnesium lights, the words of the reporters in the distance were even louder, especially those foreign reporters, it was difficult for them to understand why Shen Jiaben was wearing it like this.

The Shen family itself appeared in filial piety clothes, and Yang Rui already knew about it, or rather, this was his permission. Loyal ministers do not matter to the two masters, Shen Jiaben promised to serve as the court lieutenant of the new dynasty, but in exempting him from Zhu Kuansu saluting (kneeling has long been abolished), he still has many requirements, that is, only accept the appointment of the Congress, only be responsible for the Congress, do not wear the official uniform of the new dynasty, wear the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty, etc., most of these conditions Yang Rui agreed, but resolutely disagreed with the matter of wearing the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty, and the final result of the discussion was that everyone took a step back, the Shen family did not wear the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty, but also did not wear the official uniform of the new dynasty, on the day of inauguration, He will appear in a filial piety suit.

When others did not agree to filial piety to appear at the inauguration ceremony, Yang Rui agreed. It is impossible for the Renaissance Society to run the country without appointing Manchu officials, and under the normal circumstances, they have concerns about coming out to be officials, but fortunately there is also a way of appointing them in the Congress, which allows them to avoid moral accusations.

"Lord Shen." Yang Rui, who was dressed in a Ming-style red official robe, smiled reluctantly and arched his hand at Shen Jiaben.

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister." Shen Jiaben, who was dressed in sackcloth, replied that this was the first time he had met Yang Rui.

"Please." Yang Rui said politely.

"Your Excellency, please do so." Shen Jiaben was also polite.

After the two of them finished their polite moves, Yang Rui walked in front of Shen Jiaben with his head held high, walked through the thousand-step corridor in the autumn afternoon sun, and walked to the Chengtian Gate.

The members of the Revival Society, the members of the Provisional National Assembly, the generals of the Renaissance Army, and the representatives of the foreign legations, they only saw two people, one gray and one red, one old and one young, walking steadily, and immediately applauded, and in the midst of the applause, the military band on the Huabiao side of the south bank of the Jinshui River [Note] played the Yellow River, the national anthem originally set by the Provisional Congress.

When Yang Rui walked to the Heavenly Street, Sheng Shudong in the Forbidden City was holding the edict out of the Fengtian Hall (Taihe Palace), and handed the edict to Zhang Taiyan, who was waiting outside the palace. At this time, Yang Rui happened to arrive at the Jinshui River, and Zhang Taiyan walked to the top of the city tower. When he saw the people who were saluting below, he cleared his throat and opened the decree and read it aloud:

"Fengtian carries King Min. The system said: In the past, my emperor's ancestor Yellow Emperor, Zhao made Zhongxia, and there were nine deaths. Tang Yu succeeded, the three kings worked hard, the culture was courteous, the only step in the universe, and the glorious annals. more than 4,000 years; However, the west wind is gradually moving eastward, the country's strength is declining, and there are several wars. In order to avoid the mistakes of the past and revive China, Lone specially ordered to convene the Congress. The referendum is. In order to seek the unity of all the people, the breath is common. Today, the National Assembly decided to appoint Yang Rui as the interim prime minister of Greater China, organize the government, manage state affairs, and keep in mind the danger of the country. Each is patriotic and respectful. The innovation map is stronger than the one. ”

After Zhang Taiyan finished reading it with emotion, the holy decree was tied to the dragon head pole and put down by the eunuch from the city tower. When Yang Rui received this colorful holy decree, the applause around him was even more enthusiastic than just now; After Yang Rui's deed, Yang Du, the speaker of the Provisional Congress next to him, read out the appointment of Shen Jiaben by the Provisional Congress in public, and at the same time issued him a letter of appointment and dismissal from the Congress.

After another burst of dazzling spotlight, Yang Rui began his inaugural speech: "Many years ago, I dreamed of such a day, but when it really came to such a day, I felt very sad. The success of the revolution was poured out with countless blood and lives, including the Revival Society, the League, other revolutionary organizations, the Qing Army, the innocent people, and the sacrifices of tens of millions of people forged this country, and when this country is handed over to me today, I only feel that it is extremely heavy.

It is the sorrow of all that more than 4,000 years of civilization and a country of 40,000 people cannot reform itself but needs to be reformed through the guò revolution! But if the revolution succeeds, will it be able to reverse the fortunes of the country? No matter how optimistic I am, I would say that if there were no sacrifices ten or even a hundred times greater than those of the revolution, the fortunes of the country would still be irreversible. In the past, we had obvious enemies, but now, we ourselves are our own enemies. Is it possible to overcome yourself? Is it possible to dedicate yourself? This is the most important thing for the revival of the nation!

The teacher teaches one more student, the peasant collects one more bucket of grain, the worker makes one more goods, the merchant makes one more deal, the judge has a little more justice, the gentry do one more good deed, the soldier kills one more enemy, and the thousands of people do small things, but the collection of thousands of small things is a big thing, and this is where the concrete place of overcoming oneself and dedicating oneself lies in the hope of rejuvenating the nation.

We have been a great nation for thousands of years, and what sustains this great nation is our industrious people and the eternally proud and unyielding civilization. But I know that many people don't have enough to eat now, I know that many people don't have enough to wear, and I also know that half of them don't live to be twenty-five years old, and I know even more that our civilization has become ossified, and many people are no longer proud of it, and they insult it, abandon it, and even destroy it.

But I believe that one qiē will change eventually. In the future, each of us will be fed, everyone will be clothed, everyone will be able to live in old age and enjoy their old age in peace, and our civilization will eventually be revived in our hands like this country, and everyone will understand it, cherish it, and believe in it, so that the cultural inheritance that has been passed down from generation to generation for more than 4,000 years will ...... forever."

Yang Rui's hearty voice not only echoed in the heavenly streets, but also resounded throughout the capital through the radio in Guò, and even in Tianjin, which is connected by wired telephones, and Fengtian, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuchang, Guangzhou and other places connected by high-power radio stations, there is also his voice of sad hope. Because I knew that this revolutionary leader did not speak Chinese, and many of the listeners were rickshaw pullers, dock coolies, and shopkeepers, when it was said on the radio, 'Everyone can eat enough, everyone can be warm, everyone can live in old age and enjoy their old age,' only made everyone's eyes moist. If it weren't for their livelihood, no one would want to leave their homeland, and that's what they came out for.

And when Yang Rui's speech was conveyed to the distance, Zhu Erdian of the eastern suburbs of Minxiang listened to Yang Rui talk about our civilization, and couldn't help but shake his head vigorously, he had long known that this tough scoundrel was an extremely dangerous figure, and now listening to his inaugural speech, he understood more and more that the danger of this person was ten times more than he expected, but because of the inertia of historical thinking and the tense situation in Europe, London still believed that a unified China was in the interests of Great Britain, and such a result would only make the situation in the Far East more and more uncontrollable.

Zhu Erdian shook his head, Sun Wen, who was in the same teahouse as Huang Xing, was eager to turn off the broadcast, especially when he heard 'Our civilization...... They insult it and abandon it'......, there is even more such impulse, Yang Rui and him are like a pair of enemies, regardless of the persuasion of Qiu Jin, Zhang Shizhao and others, the contradiction between the two is still irreconcilable.

Sun Wen didn't like to listen to the paragraph, but Yuan Shikai liked it very much. He is an old-school figure, and he sees and uses a lot of new students. But no matter what diploma these people have, what countries they have been to, and what knowledge they have, he always feels that these people are too eager for quick success and capricious, and they are not as comfortable as those old people to use, Yang Rui is also a conservative, which is very much in line with him.

The inaugural speech on the ninth day of the eighth lunar month spread to the whole country along the airwaves. Yang Rui's speech was cordial and infectious, while Shen Jiaben's words were elegant but a little boring, just like their clothes that day. One was as hot as fire, the other as dark as ash, the content of their speeches, and the photos of the two standing together. Soon the guò newspaper spread throughout the country.

The day after the inauguration. Yang Rui announced the list of provisional cabinets and ministers of various ministries, and the appointment of missionaries and Sheng Xuanhuai caused an uproar as expected, especially Sheng Xuanhuai, a criminal minister who was greedy for state-owned assets and betrayed the country's rights and interests.

Scolding to scolding. Some other things announced on the same day made the gentry scold after two sentences, and they did not have time to scold, which were actually various drafts thrown out by the provisional government for comments. Among them, there are the draft for comments of the Ministry of Officials on the appointment and dismissal of officials through the examination, the draft for the consultation of the Ministry of Education on the thorough marketization of junior and primary education, the draft for the Ministry of Household Literature's currency reform, the Ministry of Agriculture's draft for the consultation on land reform and land state-ownership, the Ministry of Commerce's draft for the effective incentive of industry and commerce, the Ministry of Civil Affairs' draft for reasonable disaster relief, the Ministry of Medicine's consultation on the establishment of a social medical system, the Ministry of Land's draft for the consultation on afforestation, and the draft for the protection of mineral resources......

Twelve departments have published a number of drafts in the newspaper for comments, so much information only makes people dazzled, Yang Jingcheng, who has not heard a voice for more than two months, threw out so many things as soon as he took office, and everyone read the newspaper until midnight to read the information above them. On the second day after reading these messages, the newspapers began to publish draft laws and regulations: the draft constitution of the Great China State, the draft election law of the Great China State, the draft legislation law of the Great China State, the draft law on the protection of the royal family of the Great China State, the draft Organic Law of the Cabinet of the Great China Cabinet, the draft national security law of the Great China State, the draft national defense law of the Great China State, the draft anti-national secession law of the Great China State, the draft of the National Flag Law of the Great China State, the draft law of the Great China nationality law, the draft martial law law of the Great China State, and the draft law of the Great China Drug Treatment Law......

Every day there are new things from the government in the newspapers, Chinese are dazzled, foreigners are confused, and Japanese Foreign Minister Yasuya Uchida, who is negotiating with Yang Jingcheng's government, holds a thick newspaper and says to Hikoyoshi Ijiin, "Shina is really starting to be different, I really don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing?" ”

"Yang Jingcheng is a hard-line nationalist, he is now very close to the people of the United States, and he has a very close relationship with the Lu State for a long time, and with him, the interests of the empire in Manchuria will be greatly damaged." Ijiin Hikoyoshi said that he, like Zhu Erdian, became more and more aware of what kind of person Yang Jingcheng was, even though he was so low-key.

"Yijiyuan-kun, you can't just look at the interests of Manchuria, Manchuria is important, but the market in Kannai is also important." Yasuya Uchida said that the negotiations with the Renaissance Society were difficult from the beginning, and Japan asked China to release the prisoners of war before talking, while China wanted Japan to withdraw its troops and then talk, and if Britain and the United States did not want the two sides to fight again, they were afraid that the negotiations would collapse at the beginning.

"Your Excellency, once Yang Jingcheng has a solid foundation, then not only Guannai, but also Manchuria, the empire will also be lost, but Manchuria is exchanged for jade by countless imperial soldiers." Hikoyoshi yelled.

"The war in Manchuria could no longer be carried on, and the intelligence report of the Second General Staff Department was that there were more than 200,000 well-trained Revival troops in Manchuria, which were not inferior to the soldiers of the empire, and that the Americans were constantly importing arms into Manchuria through the port of Andong and the Tonghua Railway. Even the allies are now advising us to cease the war, otherwise we will be diplomatically isolated? The Revival Society did not fail to recognize our vested interests in Manchuria. Yasuya Uchida said.

"Impossible, this must be made up by those cowards, Yang Jingcheng has more than 200,000 troops in Manchuria, why not use it to attack Beijing?" Hikoyoshi retorted.

Looking at Hikoyoshi Ijiin's excited Lian, Yasuya Uchida said very calmly, "The news is accurate. As for why, I don't know, maybe Yang Jingcheng knew that we would send troops to Manchuria during the revolution, and these soldiers were specially prepared for us. ”

"Impossible! Absolutely not! Hikoyoshi shook his head vigorously and said, "I don't believe it." ”

"If you don't believe it. So why are there so many revival troops in Manchuria? Why did the revolution happen precisely at a time when there was another dispute in Europe? Why was the Revival Society able to take control of the whole country so quickly? Yasuya Uchida asked rhetorically, "Looking at it continuously, everything Yang Jingcheng does seems to be unpredictable." Beijing though occupied by him. But Beijing's troops have always been insufficient, but he would rather that Beijing's troops are not enough than move Manchuria's troops, and he is just guarding against our troops in Manchuria. ”

After Uchida finished speaking, Hikoyoshi didn't ask any more questions, things are indeed very strange, the revival society left such a large army in Manchuria, and its purpose was by no means to occupy Manchuria alone. Hikoyoshi Ijiin did not speak. Kotaro Munakata next to him said, "Gentlemen, the war with the Revival Society should indeed stop, even if we win. The Empire's interests in Manchuria could not be expanded much, but in this case, the relations between Japan and China, which had been painstakingly managed for more than a decade, would be ruined. ”

After the First Sino-Japanese War, under the operation of Japan, China not only did not hate Japan, but also quickly became pro-Japanese. Especially in previous years. Many international students went to Japan to study, and the friendship between China and Japan, the same language and the same kind shouted louder than the sky. This situation reached its peak during the Russo-Japanese War, when many Chinese, including the Chinese army, were secretly helping Japan defeat Russia. However, after the Russo-Japanese War, because the Japanese occupation policy was more plundering the local area than the Russian army, China's anti-Japanese rhetoric began to rise, especially the Manchurian incident, and the whole Chinese began to resentful of Japan, even if the revival society did not stir up trouble in the Yangtze River. The boycott of Japanese goods initiated by the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce has also caused Japan heavy losses.

"Zong Fang-kun. You have always known about China, but now that Yang Jingcheng's cabinet has been established, what do you think of them? What is the bottom line of this negotiation? Yasuya Uchida asked.

"Your Excellency, the Yang Jingcheng government is ten times more dangerous than the Qing government." Kotaro Munakata asserted, "After all, the Qing government is a foreign race, the legal system is not correct, once the foreign war is lost, then its dominance over the country will decline, and the government may be overthrown by the Han people at any time, this is its dead end, we can be like a broken bamboo in the first Sino-Japanese period, the Qing army does not fight to the death, the fundamental reason lies in this."

And Yang Jingcheng's government is not, he has a dual legal system, one is that the Revival Society itself overthrew the Manchus, and the other is that Zhu Yuanzhang of the former Ming Dynasty expelled Meng Yuan. As a result, the Juridical Manchus demanded reparations as soon as they fought the war, because they were afraid that the country would lose its rule after it was destroyed; On the contrary, the more the war is fought, the more the people rally around the government, and the more troops there are, which is the ultimate reason why we lost the war. Your Excellency, this is the will of the people, and even if all the blood of Japan is shed, it will not be able to defeat China! ”

Kotaro Munakata is known as Shina Street, and his judgment only made Ijiin Hikoyoshi very dissatisfied, but thinking of the revival meeting in the past few months, as well as the reactions of the people in various places, he had to collapse again when he wanted to refute it.

Yang Rui didn't know that Kotaro Munakata had such a high evaluation of himself, he only knew that he didn't want to be Zhang Moumou's second, even if the revival army died and he committed suicide in defeat, the war would continue. Now that Japan has come to peace talks, the first premise of the revival meeting is that all the new Japanese troops will withdraw from China, but Japan's conditions are also very harsh, and the revival will apologize as soon as it comes up, and both sides are very tough, if it is not for the mediation between Britain and the United States, I am afraid that the first round of negotiations will be yellow.

After patiently listening to Japan's request, Yang Rui found that his request was unexpected, one is to apologize, the second is to compensate for military expenses, the third is to compensate for the loss of the South Manchurian Railway, the fourth is to agree to the expansion of the Anfeng Railway, and obtain the Benxi Coal Mine Iron Mine, etc., and finally there is an unexpected one that Japan also requires China to have a constitutional monarchy.

After Yang Rui listened to the conditions of the Japanese and endured his anger, Xie Jintai also threw out the conditions on the Chinese side, one is to apologize, the second is to compensate for military expenses, the third is to compensate for the property lost by Mukden City because of the war, and the fourth is to thoroughly investigate the South Manchurian railway bombing case. These conditions had the meaning of competing with the Japanese, and they also made the Japanese representatives participating in the peace talks extremely angry, but just as China looked at the face of the Americans, Japan also looked at the face of the British, and did not withdraw from the competition at that time, but after the first round of talks, the next round of negotiations between the two sides was far away. (To be continued......)

PS: Note: Jinshui River is outside Chengtianmen (Tiananmen), there are 7 collapsed bridges on the river, called Waijinshui Bridge, and there is a pair of Huabiao in the north and south of the bridge.