The Republic is so violent

Chapter 149: Born to be a monstrous evildoer who disrupts China (2)
It is said that there is a newspaper in Japan called "Asahi Daily". Since September 1914, this newspaper has begun to comprehensively report on the Japanese-German War in Qingdao.

The report said that the Xu flag does not move, the ship is quiet, and the vegetation in Shandong knows its majesty.Under the command of Lieutenant Inoue, the Japanese frigate transported the marines to Qingdao. Captains Yamamoto, Kishikawa, and Terada led their troops to board small boats and planned to land on the seashore at the southern end of Longkou.Unexpectedly, after the small boat entered the water, the sea water suddenly receded. Seeing that there was no way to land, the Japanese soldiers were furious, and abandoned the boat into the water like locusts. "Chao Daily" said: "My emperor's spiritual power is enough to illuminate the territory of Shandong, and there is no limit to happiness and sincerity."

The Japanese landed in Qingdao and fought a decisive battle with the German soldiers, but the Chinese side did not get the slightest news.When we were anxious, a businessman came from Jiaozhou and reported that the people of Qingdao were in a stable mood. The original words were that the residents of Qingdao were very calm, and they were ready to accept any changes.

The Japanese-German War officially kicked off in Qingdao, China.There is a "Continent News" in Shanghai. I don't know where to find a diary written by a German who participated in the war, which briefly describes the war.

At the beginning of the war, the Japanese captured Jimo with cavalry generals and scouts. This place was the place where Tian Dan set up a fire bull formation during the Warring States Period.Then the Japanese Air Force took off and went straight to the German camp in Qingdao. When they got there, they looked down and saw German soldiers practicing on the playground, throwing bombs no matter how many.The bombs fell in trickles, but they didn't land on the playground, and only blew up a corner of the German soldiers' dormitory.

The German soldiers were very angry and raised their guns to shoot into the air, and the Japanese plane flew away.

A few days later, the two sides officially exchanged fire.But the "Mainland Daily" stated that in fact, in this exchange of fire, the three families joined forces to beat up the German soldiers.

which three?
The Japanese are family, no doubt about it.The British also came. In fact, this was a small-scale conflict in China during the First World War. Without the British, this battle would not have been possible.And the third one is actually the Chinese soldiers. According to newspaper reports, the Chinese troops who participated in the war came from the Northeast, because these people just talk about what to do. They have a strong Northeast accent, so it is difficult to take them as Japanese.

These Chinese soldiers may be red beards hired by the Japanese from the Northeast, or they may not be. It is difficult to find out whether it is now, but they have already fought together.

According to reports, two Japanese warships launched an offensive from the sea, and a British warship shouted and cheered.The Japanese are playing for real, but the British are symbolic, saying that they are also participating in the war, so the Germans mainly focus on the Japanese side of the war, and the two sides fought happily.

After fighting for a few days, the two sides each raised a white flag and came out to search for the bodies of their vanguards who died in battle.Soldiers on both sides met on the battlefield and greeted each other affectionately: Hello, is there any smoke? Our side only has fire but no smoke... Both sides smoked, chatted, showed each other photos of their girlfriends, and then went back to the team.

Next came a report from Shanghai's "Shenzhen". The report said that the Japanese soldiers' military discipline was acceptable at the beginning, but as they fought, the group of red-bearded men with northeast accents began to make trouble.These people carried hundreds of small earthen cannons, and everyone wore short guns. They ran rampant, looted everywhere, and shot and killed people when they resisted.There are also legends that the Japanese guarded the gate of Jiaozhou County, only allowed to enter the city, not allowed to leave the city, the food in the city was cut off, and the people all starved to death.It was later discovered that the people did not all starve to death, but were ravaged too miserably.

All in all, Japan and Germany were at war in China, and both sides were extremely nervous.The Germans considered that there was only one way to deal with the Japanese, and that was to let China implement the imperial system.

The Japanese are also thinking: There is only one way to deal with the Germans, and that is—that is still—to allow China to implement an imperial system.

Then this thing is strange. The Germans think that China's imperial system is beneficial to Germany, while the Japanese believe that China's imperial system is beneficial to Japan.How is this considered?

05 The Secret of the Black Dragon Society
However, when World War I broke out, the Japanese invaded Qingdao and exchanged fire with the Germans.In Japan, the headquarters of the Black Dragon Association, chaired by the leader Uchida Ryohei, held a secret working meeting.After the meeting, the Black Dragon Society submitted the "Suggestions on Solving China" to the Japanese government, which stated:

We must take this opportunity to change the Chinese republic into a constitutional monarchy, and make it basically the same as our Japanese constitutional monarchy. This is the fundamental essence of reforming the Chinese government.

Why do the Japanese want China's political system to be the same as Japan's?If it's the same, what good will it do them?

This answer was not written in the "Suggestions on Solving China", but in the "Memorandum of the Black Dragon Society".Internal name:
We should cause the Chinese revolutionaries, the socialists and other frustrated elements to cause a commotion throughout the country.The whole country will be in chaos, and the Yuan government will collapse as a result.At that time, we will choose one of the most powerful and famous people among the [-] million Chinese people, and help him form a new government and unify the whole of China... Now is the most appropriate time for us to instigate the Chinese revolutionaries and frustrated elements to revolt .The reason these people are currently unable to take active action is because they do not have sufficient funds.If the imperial government can take advantage of this fact, give them loans, and instigate them to rise up at the same time, great commotion and chaos will surely spread throughout China.We can come out and intervene and adjust the relationship easily... We should accommodate the Chinese Revolutionary Party, the Royalist Party and other figures who are dissatisfied with the Chinese government to disturb the whole of China.The whole country was disturbed, and the result was the overthrow of the Yuan government.

It turned out to be the case.

The Japanese actually don't care what kind of political system China is. They only think about how to kill Yuan Shikai and overthrow Yuan Shikai's regime.

So, why did the Japanese insist on overthrowing Yuan Shikai?Did Yuan Shikai recruit them, or did he provoke them?
This has to be traced back, that is, the child has no mother, and it is a long story.As early as when Yuan Shikai joined the army as a young man and wrote swords in North Korea, he became the most troublesome figure for the Japanese.In fact, Yuan Shikai isolated the Japanese soldiers on the Korean peninsula for 12 years with his own power.The Japanese admit that if Yuan Shikai hadn't added chaos, the Sino-Japanese War would have been advanced by 12 years, and Japan would not have faced so many troubles in dealing with China.

Therefore, the Japanese dispatched [-] Japanese soldiers and nine cannons aimed at Yuan Shikai, which drove Yuan Shikai out of North Korea.

After the Sino-Japanese War of [-]-[-], the Japanese navy wiped out Beiyang, and China completely lost its maritime defense power.But Yuan Shikai didn't expect Yuan Shikai to run out again. He trained troops at a small station and became China's first modern military force. This made the Japanese gnash their teeth, but there was nothing they could do.

Not long after, the Revolution of [-] broke out, and Yuan Shikai entered the power center.He knows Japan better than anyone else, and he knows that Japan has the heart to annex China, so he implemented a foreign policy that is pro-British and American and far away from Japan, which made the Japanese even more suffocated.

In order to get rid of Yuan Shikai's government, Japan's Mitsui Company Senge personally stepped in, appointed Cen Chunxuan as the generalissimo, assembled the anti-Yuan forces in the south, and instigated a vigorous war in China, but in the end, the war did not make any sense. , but fell to the truth.

Therefore, the Japanese Black Dragon Association considered and tried to find a way to fool China into implementing the imperial system.Once Yuan Shikai took the road of the system of God, then the Chinese war instigated by Senge would be justified.This one.Second, if Yuan Shikai's imperial system is successfully implemented, it proves that Yuan Shikai does have the power to manipulate China, and the Japanese will rest their minds. In the future, they will have a good relationship with Yuan Shikai in a down-to-earth manner, at least to avoid Japan's future disasters.

There is also a third factor. If Yuan Shikai proclaims himself emperor, the reactionary forces will inevitably rise, and China will probably fall into chaos. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Japan may be able to make another profit.

Encouraging Yuan Shikai to proclaim himself emperor, Japan has a lot of benefits but no harm, so why not do it?

So the Japanese government and even the underworld all took action to strongly demand that China change its political system.

Both Germany and Japan demanded that Yuan Shikai become emperor, which inevitably made Yuan Shikai wonder: what do these two guys want to do?

When he was confused, the British Minister Zhu Erdian came to Yuan Shikai to set up a battle.

06Contracted imperial project
Speaking of the British Minister Zhu Erdian, he and Yuan Shikai are life and death friends.In the early years, Yuan Shikai was besieged by Japanese soldiers in North Korea. The reason why he was able to escape smoothly was because of Zhu Erdian's help. Therefore, Zhu Erdian was very influential in Yuan Shikai's presidential palace.Hearing that he was coming, Lao Yuan rushed to greet him.

Zhu Erdian sat down and said, "Old Yuan, let me mention someone to you, Tang Shaoyi, do you still have any memory?"

Yuan Shikai: Look at what you said, how can I not remember Xiao Tang?In the early years in North Korea, he was my life and death comrade in arms. The two of us held two guns and fought against tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers. We had a good life in one word: exciting!Later, Xiao Tang served as our northern negotiator, negotiating with southern representatives, and in the end, he even got himself the first prime minister of the Republic of China.But it didn't take long before he quit and fled back to his hometown to become the county magistrate.Old Zhu, why did you suddenly mention him?
Zhu Erdian burst into tears suddenly: Old Yuan, your China is all ruined by Xiao Tang, a careless child, everything is ruined!

Yuan Shikai: You wait until you cry old Zhu, where did you start talking about it?No matter what Xiao Tang does, he has worked hard for the Republic of China. How can he say that China has been destroyed in his hands?
Zhu Erdian said: Old Yuan, let me ask you, what kind of political system has your China practiced for thousands of years?
Yuan Shikai replied: The imperial power is autocratic!
Zhu Erdian said: Let me ask you again, old Yuan, why are so many countries in the world embarking on the road of scientific democracy, but you China is the only one that clings to imperial autocracy and refuses to let go?

Yuan Shikai replied: This, this, Lao Zhu, why do you think so?
why?Because you Chinese people have strong thinking about imperial power!Zhu Erdian jumped up against the table and said loudly: What is imperial power thinking?The thinking of imperial power is not to want to be the emperor. No matter how stupid the Chinese are, they also know that there is only one emperor, and the rest are all grassroots under the emperor's rule.Therefore, there are not too many people who have the intention of being an emperor.But not wanting to be an emperor does not mean that he does not have imperial thinking. On the contrary, many people who have never thought about being emperor have been used to thinking with imperial thinking throughout their lives.So what exactly is imperial thinking?To put it bluntly, the thinking of imperial power is to be infinitely demanding on others and infinitely tolerant of oneself.Do you think the emperor is like this?With unlimited power, but no responsibilities?And the emergence of the emperor is precisely because of the people's thinking characteristics of being infinitely demanding on others and infinitely tolerant of themselves.Lao Yuan, do you think this is the truth?
Yuan Shikai: Old Zhu, what do you mean by all this?

What do you mean?Zhu Erdian became angry: Don't you understand what it means?What I mean is too simple, that is, in a country where the thinking of imperial power is overflowing, it is not suitable for a democratic republic.You want to be democratic with him, but he doesn't want to be democratic with you; you want to be republican with him, but he doesn't want to be republican with you.What do you mean by your democratic law?What kind of republic law?
Yuan Shikai: Old Zhu, you have never said this before.

Zhu Erdian: No wonder I didn't say that!Since the Revolution of [-], you Chinese have been obsessed with democracy and the republic, and using this as a slogan, you overthrew the kind-hearted Qing government.They provoked you and provoked you, and you overthrow them?Okay, okay, you say that the overthrow of the Qing government is for democracy and for the republic.But let me ask you, Lao Yuan, do you know what democracy is?Do you know how much a catty is for the Republic?please!You Chinese were just using "democratic republic" as a slogan at that time. The purpose was nothing more than to vent your depression under the suppression of imperial power, and you did not seriously think rationally.Did I say this wrong?

Yuan Shikai: Hey, I said Lao Zhu, why didn't you talk about this when the North and the South were negotiating?

Zhu Erdian: Pooh!At that time, I said it no less than eight hundred times.Every day when I see Xiao Tang Tang Shaoyi, I have to tell him: Xiao Tang, you have to listen to me, you are right to listen to me.We Brits are the most aboveboard, we value the rules of the social game, and we don't play tricks.If I tell you that China is not suitable for a democratic republic, then it is definitely not suitable.So what is China suitable for?A constitutional monarchy of course!If an emperor is placed on the dragon chair, you Chinese people will be happy, satisfied, and happy; without an emperor, the Chinese will be in pain and cause trouble for nothing, and this is not pleasing to the eye. It's not comfortable to watch that, if he insists on making a mess, he won't be finished if he doesn't make a fuss!

Yuan Shikai: Old Zhu, did you really tell Xiao Tang?Then why is he still...

Zhu Erdian: Yes, I said it over and over again, and I said it and said it, and at the end, guess what?In the end, Xiao Tang went to negotiate with others on behalf of you in the north.I thought he would definitely insist on a constitutional monarchy, but I didn't expect that when he went out, his head would get hot, and he would stop thinking immediately.When I met Wu Tingfang, the southern representative, he immediately said that a democratic republic is the unanimous wish of our northern people.Wu Tingfang cried when she heard it, and said, is there a mistake?We are the southern militia army, the revolutionary army, and we haven't talked about a democratic republic yet, but your representative from the north started to shout.What else do you want us to say in the south?There is nothing more to say.

Yuan Shikai was silent when he heard this.Zhu Erdian stood up and chanted loudly:
The European war has won and lost points for many years, and family education has changed its policy.

Sure enough, I know current affairs today, and I don't like English but German.

After reading the poem, Zhu Erdian turned around abruptly: Yuan Shikai, this is you Chinese literati. The poem I wrote recently said that after your eldest son Yuan Keding came back from Germany, your whole family changed to German clothes, spoke German, and grew German beards. Also eat German food.Thanks to you guys who can swallow it, German food is the most tasteless.And I also heard that the Germans intend to contract your Chinese imperial project.Now, as an old friend for many years, I would like to give you a solemn warning: Your Chinese imperial project must never be contracted to Germany, but must be contracted to us, Britain.Our imperial projects in the UK are the most concerned about quality, three guarantees for quality, and after-sales service. If you don’t believe me, just look at it.

After hearing Zhu Erdian's words, Yuan Shikai burst into tears.

He said: Your grandma, this imperial system has not yet been established, and the contractors have already quarreled. Does this make people calm down?

07 Minutes of Secret Meeting
Next, Zhu Erdian and Yuan Shikai continued to set up a battle, and called Cai Tinggan, Yuan Shikai's English secretary, and asked him to record it on the spot.

After processing and embellishing this record, it was distributed in secret to leading cadres above the county regiment level, and leaders at all levels were required to study it carefully and understand it carefully.Today, this secret document has become a big porcelain bowl for historians to eat, and it is necessary to bring it up for everyone to see.

The meeting minutes are as follows:

Zhu Erdian: Hello, President. You are in good health. It's a pleasure to meet you.

Yuan Shikai: Hello, old friend. I have always been in good health. How is your minister?
Zhu Erdian: Well, quite well, good health is a blessing.President Yuan, I heard that the issue of your country's state system can be resolved in the near future, and it will be changed to a constitutional monarchy. Is it true?

Yuan Shikai: Yes, local military and political chiefs reacted strongly, either in person or by telegram, saying that a non-constitutional monarchy would not be able to consolidate the foundation of the country and maintain the overall situation.In particular, everyone has seen that the republic of Mexico has led to national turmoil, and they all believe that a forced republic is not a permanent strategy.I personally think that it is not the time to implement a constitutional monarchy now!

Zhu Erdian: If there is no civil strife in China, it can be implemented at any time, because this is China's internal affairs and foreign countries cannot interfere.

Yuan Shikai: In terms of civil strife, we can guarantee that there will be no problems. I am more assured that even if there are some minor problems, they will not affect the overall situation.My biggest concern is the diplomatic aspect.

Zhu Erdian: The UK welcomes this matter very much.The responsibility you are taking on now is really too great. The president will leave in the future, and no one can take on your responsibility. The republic that your country is currently practicing is a political system that does not exist in the world. It is neither a republic nor an autocracy. Non-constitutional monarchy, this kind of special political system, may not be able to last for too long. It is better to implement a constitutional monarchy system as early as possible.Therefore, Britain not only welcomes it, but has absolutely no intention of opposing it; and not only Britain welcomes it, but all the countries in the British alliance also welcome it.

Yuan Shikai: Thank you, Mr. Minister, for your country's support for me.What I am most worried about is Japan, which is next door to the east, and I don't know what it will do recently.Public security is guaranteed in all provinces, but it is hard to predict the three eastern provinces and Mongolia.There are many Japanese people there, and there are frequent conflicts. If any Japanese are killed, no matter the reason, they will take the opportunity to make trouble. What I am worried about is here.

Zhu Erdian: I haven't heard that Japan has the slightest intention to oppose it, or take advantage of the opportunity to harm China.

Yuan Shikai: Shigenobu Okuma once told my ambassador to Japan that President Yuan should rest assured to do the constitutional monarchy. Japan is willing to provide all assistance.From this point of view, Japan seems to no longer practice the "fisherman's policy" on the surface.

Zhu Erdian: Since Okuma said that, he wanted to express his kindness.

Yuan Shikai: I still have something to ask. That is, when I became the official president, I swore to maintain the republic. If it becomes a constitutional monarchy, wouldn’t it be a discredit to the world?
Zhu Erdian: This is also easy to solve.When the republic was voted on and you were elected president, you must of course swear to support the republic.Now the people have decided to establish a constitutional monarchy, and electing you as the emperor of the empire is another matter of public opinion, and it has nothing to do with credit.

Yuan Shikai: If it is a constitutional monarchy, it is better to invite Emperor Xuantong.

Zhu Erdian: Re-electing a Manchu as emperor will be rejected by all countries.If the President is willing to take on this important task in accordance with public opinion, the UK will welcome it.President, you have a high reputation in the UK.

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The minutes of the meeting showed in black and white that the British government supported China's transition to a constitutional monarchy and supported Yuan Shikai's appointment as emperor.

The Germans, Japanese, and British are all together, and the only thing left is the Americans.

(End of this chapter)