"This morning, the Xinhua Party, the largest party in the National Assembly, put forward the "Bill on Changing the National System to a Referendum." Because it is a particularly heavy bill, with the approval of Speaker of the National Assembly Zhou Ziqi Zhou, the National Assembly announced that it would convene an extraordinary plenary meeting of the National Assembly in Jinan in seven days to decide whether to put the bill to a referendum.

When the debris of firecrackers celebrating the great victory of the Sino-Japanese War had not yet been cleaned up, this report almost occupied the front page of the major newspapers on September 1, the 14th year of the Republic. The eyes of the world are once again focused on China, an ancient and young republic, and perhaps there will be no more such an era as the fifteenth year of the Republic.

Under the call of the largest party, and the joint efforts of the Democratic Alliance, the Association for the Promotion of Industry and Commerce, and the Chinese Youth Party, which also have a number of seats in the parliament, the bill was approved almost without any suspense. At the plenary meeting seven days later, the Xinhua Party's 63 percent of the seats were backed by several parties that had already agreed with the constitutional monarchy, and a number of revolutionary party legislators who were planning to quit because of the recent scandals of the revolutionary party also voted in favor. Therefore, the Revolutionary Party, the second largest party with 19% of the seats, only mustered together 16.5% of the votes against, and when the proposal was approved by the parliament with 81.3% of the votes in favor, Liao Lizhong, as the leader of the Revolutionary Party's parliament, sat on the seat and was speechless for a long time, until his wife, Ho Yuning, who was also a member of the parliament, gently pulled him up, and then left the parliament with the support of his wife.

For procedural reasons, the referendum will be held a month later, on October 1, the 14th year of the Republic, and the results of the referendum are expected to be counted between October 17 and 20. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs also invited observers from almost every major country in the world, with the exception of Japan and Red Russia, to monitor the referendum, and decided to introduce mobile spot checks and random photography in the voting count. Members of the provincial parliament will be randomly selected to other provinces to monitor the voting process and ensure the fairness of the referendum to the greatest extent.

Although the vote has not yet begun, in the eyes of Liao Lizhong's revolutionary party, the result is already a sure thing. Zhang Nanjiang, the little Zhuge of the last resort, really had no last resort, chose the best time, and used the discourse power of the news media in his hands to wantonly attack the revolutionary party and other political parties advocating the republic before putting it to the referendum, and in the process of exposing it, he also deliberately put these people's ideas on the republic system and their filthy deeds together to publicize it, creating the impression that the people who advocate the republic are just duplicitous and well-dressed hypocrites, so that the common people will associate these scum with the republican system in their minds. The mentality of the common people is very simple, these scum came to power because they became a republican republic, they do a lot of evil, they are full of evil, and they also actively advocate the republican system. The idea of this bad guy is naturally bad, and the republican system supported by so many bad guys is naturally inferior to the constitutional monarchy.

And the Xinhua Party has paid attention to its own image from the beginning, and is never soft on the ** elements, often expelled from the party and transferred to the judicial organs, this kind of righteous attitude has caused the Xinhua Party to lose some seats, Liao Lizhong's revolutionary party has not picked up cheap in it, but now it seems that these cheap are purely traps, and those parliamentarians who turn to the revolutionary party are often those revolutionary parties who are pulled out and let the masses criticize and criticize. The vast majority of the industrial and commercial people in the Xinhua Party are members of the Chamber of Commerce or prospective members who aspire to join, and these people are often keen on public welfare and pay attention to their own image under the influence of the Chamber of Commerce's benevolence and generosity (if the reputation is not good, they will be vetoed by the Chamber of Commerce, and there is no ability to take money to brush credit), which also makes the members of the Chamber of Commerce who participate in the Xinhua Party are often good gentry in society, and the other major components of the Xinhua Party are scientific and technical personnel, retired soldiers, and technical backbones or leaders among workers and peasants. These three groups of people were either trained by schools sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, or simply under the command of General Wu, and the rest were also the main ones who benefited from Wu Chenxuan's promotion and education and encouraged industrial and commercial policies, so the entire Xinhua Party was almost a gathering of China's advanced classes. In order to confront the Xinhua Party, the revolutionary party blindly expanded, and for a time the mud and sand fell, so it was not unusual for it to be caught with a sore foot.

However, the Xinhua Party's choice to use the scum of the revolutionary party to smear the republican system made Liao Lizhong unable to let go, which was also the root cause of his inability to live in peace with Zhang Nanjiang until his death. However, at this moment, the revolutionary party was completely defeated and almost in danger of falling apart, and Liao Lizhong was powerless to prevent the "restoration" of the monarchy.

However, the revolutionary party was not inactive, Liao Lizhong and Hu Zhantang, who had already returned to China (Wu Chenxuan asked the parliament to grant him an amnesty, which had already erased his record of treason and defection to the enemy, and besides, the Hu house on the outskirts of Tokyo had also been bombed, and Hu Zhantang, who could not even afford to support his wife and children in Japan, and a group of revolutionary party veterans no longer had the protection of the state, so they had to return to China with a shy face. The main firepower was put on sniping at the Xinhua Party's proposal for a "dual constitutional monarchy" and insisting on a parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

The dual constitutional monarchy here refers to the premise of a constitutional monarchy, the monarch has more power than the parliament, all major laws must be signed by it, and often have the right to appoint the prime minister and members of the upper house. Of course, Wu Chenxuan disdains to engage in those tricks to help Luan, if he wants to be an emperor with divine power, he relies on the equipment of the base, and it is definitely a matter of holding a handle to make a few genuine miracles.

The dualist monarchy originated in modern European modernization, and from the perspective of government, there were two formally contradictory directions at the same time, that is, the establishment of the centralized system of the nation-state, and the confirmation of relatively liberal and democratic private property. However, in the European countries that began to modernize later, in order to expand the power of the government and to absorb people with different ideas in the society, in order to strengthen their operation at the government level, some monarchies formed constitutions and established parliaments at the same time of unity and independence, but the opposite of the "virtual monarchy republic" is the "virtual parliament" system.

It is generally believed that the dual monarchy is based on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th century, but matured in the First French Empire during the Napoleonic era, and was the product of Napoleon's desire to maintain the democratic achievements of the French Revolution when Napoleon was emperor due to the needs of war. However, under this system, the rights of the monarch are too strong, and if the democratic ideology is still very immature in China, it will really evolve into a feudal corpse.

Moreover, in practice, dualist monarchies, because they cannot take into account the struggle for power between the monarchy and parliament at the same time, often fall victim to armed revolutions or coups d'état by third parties, such as the kingdoms of Japan and Italy during World War II or later Iran, and are considered to be systems with unclear powers and responsibilities. So although Wu Chenxuan didn't make a statement (it's not suitable to make a statement.) It's hard to jump out and say that the dualist system is forgotten, the strange trouble of hard work, that parliamentary monarchy weighs two catties, oh, it's just a copy. Wu Chenxuan is also a particular person no matter what he says, but he still has to talk about face).

Parliamentary constitutional monarchy, abbreviated as parliamentary monarchy. Its main characteristics are: the parliament is not only the highest legislative organ of the country, but also the highest organ of state power, and the head of government elected by the parliament organizes the government and is the real center of state power. The monarch is a symbolic head of state, and his duties are mostly ceremonial. Parliament holds legislative power, and the Cabinet is formed by the majority leader of the lower house of parliament, who is the prime minister. The Cabinet holds executive power, is supervised by the Parliament, and is accountable to the Parliament. The monarch has no real power and performs ceremonial duties.

The Cabinet is elected by and accountable to the Parliament. Britain was the first country to have a parliamentary monarchy. After the Second World War, in addition to the United Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, Sweden, Monaco, Andorra, Norway, Japan, Thailand, Denmark, Malaysia, Cambodia and other countries adopted this form of government. It has become the only choice for the vast majority of constitutional monarchies, which also shows that this system is more suitable for the development of contemporary society.

In the end, the revolutionary party readily agreed to support the implementation of parliamentary monarchy reform, and the unanimity of the two parties, coupled with the promotion of the top 10 parties in several parliaments, and the small parties such as the Republican Party and the Civic Party, which were still opposing the referendum, were almost marginalized, and their voices became inaudible.

On 19 October, the results of China's referendum, which attracted worldwide attention, were announced, and the transformation of China's political system into a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary monarchy became the choice of the vast majority of Chinese citizens. The National Assembly decided to formally end the republican form of government on November 1, the 14th year of the Republic, and announced that the country would be renamed the "Chinese Democratic Empire". The purpose of adding the word democracy is to declare that China is practicing a democratic system of constitutional monarchy, and is by no means a restoration of feudal dictatorship.

Earlier on the same day, Li Yuanlong, the third and fifth president of the Republic of China, who had been re-elected for two consecutive terms, announced his resignation from the presidency and appointed Xu Shichang as the caretaker premier of the cabinet to temporarily act as head of state during the transitional period of the change of state system.

In the process of moving from theocracy to democratization in the modern state, there are almost only two options: a republic and a constitutional monarchy. After 14 years of republican system, China officially entered a constitutional monarchy under the democratic vote of the citizens of the whole country. This was a sensational world news event at the time, but after decades or hundreds of years, when people look at this event from a historical perspective, they will be amazed that it already contains the opportunity to determine the direction of the world in the past hundred years.