Our Time: Unswerving until Death

Chapter 43 Two birds with one stone

The tide of history has finally rushed to this ancient land with 2000 years of accumulated cultural heritage. The last time, it was the night four years ago, a gunshot from the top of Wuchang City, towards the Republic with an unstoppable momentum, rushing to the Republic of China. Dispersed the decadent Qing Dynasty.

Overnight, the flag on the top of the city was changed, the braids were cut off, and there was no more war. Everyone shouted the republic and thought that the republic was good, but if you caught someone and asked him what the republic was, he would answer in the end. not come up.

It was like blowing a gust of incomprehensible wind, blowing in a daze, and blowing away in a daze.

This time, after a lapse of three years, the tide of Jun Xian swept over again.

Opening up the meaning, referring to Dongyi and Yingguo, the premise of the constitution of the monarch is that there must be a monarch. If this "jun" is designated as the one in the Forbidden City, it is turning back the wheel of history and will be washed into the garbage dump by the torrent of history .

Then we can neither turn back the wheel of history, but also want a monarch constitution, so we can only force a new monarch.

I secretly thought, in this world, besides Lao Yuan, who else is there?
Of course, Lao Yuan's officialdom has been ups and downs for decades, and his mouth has always been very strict. He will not easily reveal his true thoughts. All he has to do is pretend not to know and let the sensible people below handle it. "Public opinion" coerced the superiors, and they had to come up with a trick of three requests and three resignations. By the way, they pretended to say: "It's not what I want, but China's Ankang has to do so."

As for the "sensible" people, there are mainly two parties, one is Yang Chengzan, and the other is Mr. Yuan.

Yang Chengzan is a person with ideals, ambitions, and talents. He is a disciple of Wang Kaiyun. He is good at the art of emperors and is dedicated to saving the country. : "My lord is a constitutional monarch, and I will succeed in my affairs. I hope that you will help me; you will call for national reform, and you will succeed. You should give up your ideas and help you. Work hard on state affairs, and today, don't interfere with each other."

According to Yang Chengzan's observation, Lao Yuan is a very promising imperial star, so the two coincided with each other, and it was against this background that the "Preparation Council" came into being. Mr. Yan Fu, who had the ambition to save the country, also handed over an olive branch at the right time.

When Yang Chengzan was working hard to "create an emperor", Mr. Yuan was not idle. He cared more than anyone else. Just imagine, if his old man became the emperor, according to the hereditary rules, Mr. Yuan would be the crown prince without hesitation. , can you not care?

For this reason, after hard thinking and meditation, Mr. Yuan made a long-term plan of "take two breaths and follow two steps".

Mr. Yuan knew that the old man liked to read "Suntian Times", so he paid for the printing by himself. The layout was imitated from the real "Suntian Times" and a copy of "Shuntian Times" was published. Only one copy was allowed in each issue. All of them were articles pro-restoration written by master Yuan who hired gunmen to spend huge sums of money.

Lao Yuan was really delighted to see it, and he had to take time to look at it every day.

Secondly, Prince Yuan imitated Yang Chengzan's "Six Gentlemen of Treasure An", and brought in seven people including Minister of Communications Liang Shiyi to form an "emperor-making" organization known as the "Seven Evils".

At that time, people collectively called the "seven fierce men" and the "six gentlemen of Chou'an" the "Thirteen Taibao".

With the full cooperation of the "Thirteen Taibao", the "Emperor Building" movement is in full swing. Unexpectedly, at the critical moment, someone secretly punched him hard from behind.

This punch came at the wrong time, and unexpectedly, it was not from the domestic opposition, but from Dongyi Kingdom.

Isn't it incredible?

The situation visible to the naked eye is that when Lao Yuan became the emperor, the north and the south must fight a big battle. A Huaxia who fights every day, a Huaxia who is not united, and a Huaxia who has no intention of developing, is in line with Dongyi's vision, and there is no reason to object of.

However, Dongyi Kingdom objected and made a move.

In fact, with regard to the matter of Lao Yuan becoming the emperor, Dongyi's domestic part was divided into two parties. One party agreed and planned to secretly support the South.

The other party believes that Lao Yuan is a "very dangerous" person, with skills, ability, prestige, and military power. If Lao Yuan really becomes the emperor and implements the monarch constitution, it is possible to actually unify China. This is Dongyi. The country absolutely does not want to see it.

The Dongyi people's fear of Lao Yuan was not groundless, but caused by Lao Yuan's punches and kicks.

When Lao Yuan was young, he stayed in the court for twelve years. He was witty, brave, courageous, resolute and resolute, and successfully smashed Dongyi's plot against the court.

At the Pingjin small station, Lao Yuan trained China's first modern army, and his commanding generals are like clouds, Lao Duan, Lao Feng, Xu Shichang, etc. are all heroes of the moment.

Moreover, when Lao Yuan was young, he was an out-and-out practical, innovative, and fanatical monarchist.

In [-], Lao Yuan, then governor of Zhili and minister of Beiyang, joined forces with Zhang Zhidong, governor of Huguang, and other local officials to ask the imperial court to stop the imperial examinations, promote Western-style schools, cultivate Western-style talents, and actively promote education construction. , established many primary schools, junior high schools, universities, Lu Provincial University was established by Lao Yuan, and it still exists today.

In the same year, Lao Yuan strongly recommended Zhan Tianyou to independently build China's first railway, the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway.

Lao Yuan established the first women's university in China - Pingjin Women's College.

The following year, Lao Yuan contacted a large number of people and began to strongly recommend the constitutional monarchy, which was agreed by the old lady. Unfortunately, the innovation was too great, and too many people were involved in the cake. In the end, he only got a verbal promise to suspend the constitutional monarchy for nine years. .

In [-], the old lady went west, and within less than a hundred days, Lao Yuan wrote to Junxian again. If Zhang Zhidong hadn't interceded, she would have almost died, and Lao Yuan was so frightened that she ran to Pingjin overnight.

The above only lists some of the results of Lao Yuan’s innovations, but it is enough to show that when he was young, Lao Yuan was indeed an ambitious, ideal, and practical person. After the "National Four", Lao Yuan designated May [-]th as a national humiliation On the same day, he said in an internal speech: "If you keep a low profile for ten years, you can break your wrist with Dongyi."

Over the years, Dongyi people have always listed Lao Yuan as a key observation object, and even Lao Yuan's adviser and spy chief Rihachiro Sakanishi discovered that Lao Yuan was a complete anti-Japanese faction in his bones.

Therefore, after weighing the two, the Dongyi people still decided not to support Lao Yuan as the emperor, and, taking advantage of the Western powers fighting each other and having no time for him to pay attention to the East, they were ready to take advantage of the opportunity again, which was a trick that killed two birds with one stone.

(End of this chapter)