The matter of the project has basically come to an end, and then the executive committee proposed that the work of preparing a [provisional covenant] to formally determine the formation method and scope of authority and responsibility of the leadership team and administrative organs of the crossing group should also be restarted, because this is the most important matter related to the unity and stability within the crossing group, and it can no longer be delayed. Text ≈≥≥.≠

At the meeting, it was formally decided that Gu Ruipeng, minister of justice, would be the head of the drafting group, with a total of 16 members, 12 of whom were members of the Ministry of Justice, and most of them were lawyers in the old time and space.

Gu Ruipeng also expressed his gratitude to the Executive Committee for its trust in the Ministry of Justice on the spot, and also said that during this period of time, the Ministry of Justice has been engaged in the research work of compiling the [Provisional Covenant], and has achieved certain results, and guarantees that a preliminary draft will be produced within a week.

In fact, the Ministry of Justice is also one of the departments with the least sense of existence in the administrative department, since the establishment of the administrative department, it has only played a little role in Tianjin investment, and then it has been idle, and seeing that the past and their own disease is the same, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has gradually begun to get on the right track, and their own department is still deserted, there is nothing to do, although a temporary court has also been established, but so far only one case has been handled, Gu Ruipeng's heart is also very anxious, and finally the executive committee decided to prepare a [temporary law] In the first few days, everyone was full of enthusiasm and searched for information and wrote articles, but the Beijing campaign interrupted the process of compiling the [Provisional Covenant].

However, Gu Ruipeng still understands that the process of compiling the [Provisional Covenant] is only suspended, not permanent, and the future of the crossing group is to develop, in order to gather all the strength of these more than 6,000 traversers, it is necessary to formulate a relatively fair, protect personal interests, and ensure that everyone has the opportunity to be promoted, and at the same time, there must be an institution to regulate and deal with the internal contradictions of the traverser, and these are opportunities for the Ministry of Justice.

Of course, the so-called promotion opportunities here do not refer to the kind of ordinary people in the old time and space who have been promoted to the middle class, or to start a small and medium-sized business to become a so-called successful person, after all, as long as the group can be exhibited, every traverser, even if it is a soy sauce, can basically mix with the social status of the old time and space. What the traverser needs is a higher level of promotion space, able to stand at the pinnacle of power. Therefore, at this time, the Ministry of Justice must not sink down, and must make full preparations, so that when the preparation of the [Provisional Covenant] is restarted, it will not be busy.

So Gu Ruipeng repeatedly appeased and encouraged the staff of the Ministry of Justice, telling them that tomorrow would be better, and personally took the lead in compiling the draft of the [Provisional Covenant], and thanks to Gu Ruipeng's efforts to maintain, the Ministry of Justice did not cross, during this time all the personnel were patiently preparing the draft of the [Provisional Covenant], at this time two draft versions have been completed, and at the same time organize members to carefully study the laws of various countries in this era, including the [Great Qing Law].

Now that it is finally time for the preparation of the [Provisional Covenant] to restart, in fact, Gu Ruipeng can take out the prepared draft on the spot, but Gu Ruipeng also thought that if the draft is taken out in such a hurry, will others think that the Ministry of Justice is perfunctory, so it is better to be steady.

All work was decided to be arranged, and the meeting also entered the last agenda, that is, the reorganization plan of the army. The recruitment work in Shandong has not yet ended, because the first battle of Shanhaiguan also told the traversers that the imperialists will not die, and now is far from the time for the horses to release Nanshan, and now the cross-group has sufficient finances, and the first batch of weapons purchased from Zhang Zhidong has been put in place, and no matter what the result of the negotiation with the Qing court is, it will immediately expand in Shandong, so it is completely necessary and capable to maintain an army of considerable size now.

Of course, although the size of the army has expanded, the quality and quality must also be strengthened, although after the establishment of the People's Army, it has also won many battles, but all victories are dependent on the modern technology of the traverser, but the old book will always be eaten up one day, so improving its own quality is the key to construction. However, now that the war has already ended, and it can be determined that there will be no more war in a short period of time, and the building of the army can be postponed for a long time, the Executive Committee has also ordered the Central Military Commission to come up with a plan for army building as soon as possible.

The meeting lasted until about 5 p.m., and the next day the departments began their work in accordance with the matters decided at the meeting.

On the same day, the good news came that the German side agreed to the request of the crossing group, and the machinery and equipment needed by the crossing group, as well as the additional shipboard weapons, motives, accessories, and other items, were immediately shipped from Germany to China, and the cost of these machinery and equipment was to be paid in cash instead of as stipulated in the previous agreement between the two sides, and the cost of the prisoners was used to offset the ransom fee. At the same time, Germany also made a request to the crossing group, that is, after the successful negotiations in Shanghai, the cost of ransom the German prisoners would still be deducted from the machinery and equipment purchased by the crossing group from Germany.

It turned out that on the one hand, Germany hoped to obtain the technology promised by the crossing group as soon as possible, and on the other hand, it was also to use this batch of machinery and equipment to make a profit first; moreover, in the future, the German prisoners still used machinery and equipment to deduct money, so that although they could not make money, they could sell more German-made industrial products, seize the market in Shandong, and squeeze the commercial interests of other countries in Shandong.

In addition, the crossing group needs to purchase more machinery and equipment than this, and will definitely purchase a large number of machinery and equipment in the short term, so as to establish its own industrial system as soon as possible, anyway, this batch of German prisoners is in their own hands, and sooner or later they will make a fortune from Germany, so this is also a win-win result for each to take what they need.

Next, an agreement was reached with the French side to purchase another 5oo sets of textile machinery, this time with the crossing group is still Mrs. Josephine, and several other projects are being negotiated with various countries. The consuls of various countries in Shanghai were also very happy when they learned about it, and of course everyone liked the matter of making money, and it also showed that overseas Chinese were not an uncooperative object.

However, on the third day, Li Sanjie sent a long telegram to Tianjin to report to the Executive Committee that in recent days, there has been a public opinion attack in Shanghai that is completely aimed at overseas Chinese, and the brunt of this is still the newspaper, but it is no longer the kind of tabloid newspaper that was last time, but several big newspapers founded by foreigners, and the content is also much richer; in addition to continuing to search for rules and classics, and once again making it clear that overseas Chinese are not descendants of China; in fact, they are harboring evil intentions in disguise as Chinese descendants in China this time, with the intention of destroying China's clothing and culture, and destroying the country and species, do not respect the sages, do not worship the ancestors, but practice foreign rites, use foreign customs, wear Western clothes, etc.;

Some people have listed all kinds of disrespectful remarks to the imperial court since the return of overseas Chinese, showing that overseas Chinese are bullying the emperor and are really chaotic ministers and thieves, and some of these remarks listed are indeed said by the traverser in public, in fact, although the traverser has said some words accusing the Chun court in public, but in fact they are still relatively restrained, and they can be covered up by blunt words or blunt words, after all, it is indeed the shortcomings of the Qing court, but most of the remarks are fabricated, and the fabricated parts are indeed disobedient words, but the truth and falsehood are mixed, making it difficult to distinguish;

Others accuse overseas Chinese of using the guise of defending China, but actually occupy territory for themselves and grab the population, not to really expel foreigners, but to use foreigners to hold self-respect, to blackmail the imperial court, otherwise after the overseas Chinese captured Tianjin and Qingdao, they did not expel foreigners, but on the contrary, they also did business with foreigners, and this time they also planned to negotiate with foreigners, betray national interests, and also went to great lengths to list several such as ceding land, compensating silver, and so on;

Some people even reversed black and white, saying that the Russian army's southward advance was introduced by overseas Chinese, saying that the original intention of overseas Chinese was to cooperate with the Russian army and seize Beijing, but it was only because the Qing army in Shanhaiguan fought hard to the death that the Russian army repelled the Russian army, and the overseas Chinese saw that the Russian army was defeated and retreated, and the plan to cooperate with the outside failed, so they came out to lead the army.

After Qin Zheng returned to Tianjin, he also told Xia Bohai, Xiao Jianjun and others about the topic of Shanghai tabloids copying overseas Chinese, and everyone didn't care too much about it at that time, just as a joke, after all, everyone came from modern society, and it was commonplace to do this kind of brainless spraying and even making things up nonsense, at that time Xiao Jianjun also said that if this person is in modern society, he must be an Internet V.

However, after receiving Li Sanjie's call, it immediately aroused everyone's vigilance, because from Li Sanjie's report, it is obvious that someone is manipulating public opinion behind the scenes, and the spearhead is directly aimed at the crossing group, and what kind of person is planning and manipulating behind the scenes, this answer is almost self-evident, although China's newspaper industry is not yet up to in this era, but after all, newspapers are the most effective means of disseminating news and leading public opinion.

Now the main basis of the traverser is to play the banner of the descendants of China, to gain the Chinese sense of identity of this era to gain a foothold, and the other party is obviously aimed at this point, to divide and divide, this means can not be described as ingenious, and whether it is intentions or goals, it can not be said that it is not sinister, which cannot but attract the attention of Xia Bohai, Qin Zheng and others.