Like yesterday morning in the Jinyiwei class room, Xiang Xiaoqiang was also woken up by the sound of birds this morning. But yesterday he was woken up by chirping sparrows, and today he was woken up by thrushes and larks with graceful and noble cries.

The "Ming Constitution" held in Xiaoqiang's arms slid to the ground. He picked it up and patted the ashes, thinking back to some of the chapters he had briefly flipped through before going to bed last night.

This constitution is written vertically in traditional Chinese, and it looks very dizzy, and he mainly picks out the articles related to the emperor to read.

There are a few that are very impressive, and I still remember them overnight:

…… The Son of Heaven is the symbol of the Ming Empire and the symbol of the Ming people as a whole. The Son of Heaven is sacrosanct......

…… The hereditary succession of the Son of Heaven shall be inherited by the lawful descendants of the Son of Heaven......

…… When the Son of Heaven died, the throne was inherited by his legitimate descendants in the order of eldest and youngest, male and female......

…… If the eldest daughter of the emperor has reached the age of 18 and the Son of Heaven has not yet given birth to a prince, the eldest daughter of the emperor shall be appointed as the prince......

…… If the new Son of Heaven is a woman, the prince born to the Empress must have the national surname, that is, "Zhu" as the surname......

…… If the Son of Heaven has no heirs, the throne shall pass to the lawful descendants of the Son of Heaven in order of succession from his parents and grandparents......

Thinking of this, Xiang Xiaoqiang understood why "Miss Zhu" could also inherit the throne. Presumably, in the Ming Dynasty, there were more women and fewer men, and the incense was often cut off, and the royal family was no exception, and it was a last resort to allow the princess to inherit the throne.

Although Zhu Yourong's own surname is Zhu, her husband will definitely have a foreign surname in the future. Then, according to the constitution, a prince is elected from among her children, who is also surnamed Zhu, and the other children follow their father's surname according to normal practice.

That is to say, since the generation of Empress Changping three hundred years ago, the blood of the Zhu Ming royal family has been impure, and Empress Changping married Zheng Chenggong, who can be said to be from her next generation, is actually a descendant of the Zheng family. The surname Zhu is just a façade to ensure that the Zhu Ming Dynasty is nominally incense.

The Zheng family of Nanming has been able to live for nearly three hundred years, so it is.

There is also Xiang Xiaoqiang who is more concerned about the status of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He is now barely able to climb the emperor, and it can be said that the emperor's power directly affects his status. Which of those protagonists of novels is not a big celebrity who has climbed to the emperor and become a big celebrity above ten thousand people under one person?

This constitution gave him the impression that the power of the current Ming emperor was between the traditional feudal imperial power and the constitutional monarchy of Europe, roughly equivalent to the status of the German emperor before World War I and the emperor of Japan before the end of World War II. It should be the legendary "dualistic constitutionalism". Or rather, less power.

For example, the constitution stipulates that the emperor is the supreme commander of the armed forces of the whole country. However, the mobilization of troops in peacetime must be approved by the Cabinet Government.

The Son of Heaven has the right to declare war, end war, and conclude treaties with foreign countries.

The Son of Heaven has the power to travel on behalf of the state.

The Son of Heaven has the power of amnesty.

In times of emergency, the Son of Heaven had the power to dissolve, appoint cabinets, intervene directly in the affairs of the state, and command the army directly beyond the government.

This is the key to whether the Son of Heaven has real power.

It can be said that in normal times, the Great Tomorrow is an honest constitutional monarch, but in the "extraordinary period", he can be transformed into a centralized monarch with unlimited power.

But in this "extraordinary period", there are a lot of explanations below, and Xiang Xiaoqiang remembers that there are wars, national divisions, large-scale turmoil and so on.

There is another rule, which is very Chinese: even in peacetime, the Son of Heaven can directly give the government a holy decree, and the government must obey it in principle. Unless the government deems this decree to be harmful to the state, it may withhold the decree for the time being and return it with a reason. Then the lawsuit was fought.

The minister returned the holy decree, which is very traditional in the Ming Dynasty.

The rest, such as the Son of Heaven having various privileges, owning and inheriting the Forbidden City, and all the treasures contained therein, owning and inheriting the royal gardens and cemeteries, owning and inheriting large tracts of land and various properties, etc., also showed the high status of the royal family.

However, the Son of Heaven no longer has the right to kill and take away his subjects at will.

This article indicates that the great emperor is no longer the feudal monarch of the past, but the constitutional monarch of the capitalist country.

Xiang Xiaoqiang felt an empty sense of loss: In this way, I am afraid that I will not be able to be Wei Xiaobao. Unless...... It's an "extraordinary time".

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A thunderbolt flashed in Xiang Xiaoqiang's mind, and he suddenly had a bright light in his head, and understood why the cabinet ministers were unwilling to rescue by force, and why Marquis Zheng was so enthusiastic about rescue by force.

It is because of the possibility of triggering war and bringing the country into an "extraordinary period" because of the possibility of rescuing by force.

In extraordinary times, the imperial family will return to power, control the country, control the army, and as for the cabinet government, whether it is removed or replaced, it is also a matter of the emperor's words.

Therefore, those ministers would rather watch the people who kidnap them from the sticky pole than rescue them. Rather than have suffered a heavy blow to the morale of the submarine forces as a result, they would rather come to the rescue. Even the slightest possibility of entering an "extraordinary period", they are not willing to take risks.

Needless to say, Marquis Zheng definitely hopes to be rescued by force. He doesn't care about whether he can save it, he cares about whether things can get bigger. He definitely hoped that the assault team would fight hard after it passed, preferably by blowing up the railroad in Beijing-Tianjin, washing the train in blood, and preferably killing 14 Gege.

In that case, the Ming and Qing dynasties may fight, his niece will return to power, and he, as the empress's closest person, will become a big relative of the government and the opposition, and become Yang Guozhong's number one person.

It can be seen that Dongchang also hopes to be rescued by force. As long as they enter the "extraordinary period", they will only be responsible to the emperor, and their power will expand indefinitely, and they will become the "East Factory" that talked about the tiger's color change in the past......

As for what the war will bring to the country and the people, they don't care. They only care about what they get.

Perhaps, they believed that the Qing Dynasty would not be able to defeat it. They are too superstitious about the so-called "Yangtze River Defense Line". Xiang Xiaoqiang listened to Qiuqiu with a proud tone and briefly introduced, this is a permanent defense belt built along the south bank of the Yangtze River, composed of all-steel lifting turrets, bunkers, underground warehouses, passages, machine gun positions, mines, mines, barbed wire, was operated by the Ming Dynasty for decades and countless money, known as impregnable. It is said that France is building a Maginot Line, and often sends people to visit and study.

But Xiang Xiaoqiang knows that these good feelings, what is solid, are the products of the First World War planted in people's minds. Nowadays, people are too superstitious about such things as defense lines. Based on the experience of the First World War, they believed that machine guns and barbed wire were insurmountable. What's more, there is a river so wide in front of the defense line......

As for the empress Zhu Yourong, Xiang Xiaoqiang had already seen it last night, she was a pampered girl who had never held much power, and even people like him Xiang Xiaoqiang could easily influence her.

Xiang Xiaoqiang clearly felt that there was a big problem with this constitution of the Ming Dynasty. It's like hanging a fish between two gluttonous cats, so that none of them has the heart to catch mice. These two gluttonous cats, one is a cabinet minister, and the other is a royal family. The question now is not how to benefit the country, but how to seize power, or how to retain it.

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Xiang Xiaoqiang rolled over on the bed a few times and got dressed. He pushed open the circular window, and the cold and damp air outside. A canna in front of the window turned white.

Oh, it's snowing.

There was a girl's laughter faintly in the distance, Xiang Xiaoqiang couldn't hear it clearly, and his vision was blocked by the canna, so he simply opened the door and paced on the corridor. The maid at the door saw him come out and hurriedly put on toiletries.

He was still very unaccustomed to being served, so he hurriedly thanked him and brought him in. Although the house is Chinese-style, it is still like a Western-style suite, with a washroom embedded in it. Inside, there is a Western-style wash basin, bathtub and flush toilet.

Xiang Xiaoqiang saw that what was sent was not the tooth powder he imagined, but a set of toothpaste and toothbrushes. That being said, there was already toothpaste at this time. The toothpaste appears to be imported, and the intricate patterns on the tubes are all in English.

Xiang Xiaoqiang tried to spell the English trademark, and found that he actually pronounced "Crest"! Sweat! I can't imagine that the brand that is in the future generations of experts leading children to do experiments on TV all day long has it now!

But the taste is okay, not as bad as expected.

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After washing, he walked out of the door and onto the promenade to admire the garden in the snow. The snow in Nanjing in winter is very thin, with only a white layer. But the garden after the snow is covered in silver, and the jade trees and flowers still have a taste.

Xiang Xiaoqiang walked along the winding promenade, admiring the garden after the snow while following the laughter. After a few steps, you can always see a big man in a black coat and a top hat, looming behind the bamboo bushes or Taihu Lake stones. Each of them carried a small one-meter-long case like a violin case, and they didn't know what it contained.

Turning around a clump of plums, a pond comes into view. The surface of the water was covered with a thin layer of ice, and the snow particles were fluffy and sticking to it. A small stone bridge with twists and turns across the pond. In the open space under the rockery on the opposite bank, Zhu Yourong and Zheng Yuxuan were playing with a few puppies. It was six identical German dachshunds, with yellow, black and shiny coats, small short legs, big ears, cheerful and lively, and a cute look.

The two girls were squatting on the ground, Zheng Yuxuan was holding a puppy, and Zhu Yourong was dressing the puppy.

Three of the remaining five puppies were already dressed, and they were wagging their tails around them vigorously. The puppy in his arms kept sticking out his tongue and adding to the faces of the two girls, making them laugh coquettishly.

The two maids next to him stood with fur furs and hand stoves. In the pavilion on the rockery, a condescending figure in black was vaguely seen.

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Xiang Xiaoqiang shook his head and smiled secretly: The two girls are really crazy. Just as he was about to cross the bridge to say hello, a big man in black appeared in front of him, blocked the bridge, and said awe-inspiringly:

"Mr. Xiang, do you have something to see Your Majesty?"