Chapter 170: Wang Fengying and Liang Qichao
Since Yuan Shikai declared that the Preparatory Committee "can be regarded as a scholar's research, and if it does not disturb society, there is no need to interfere", "according to the principle of freedom of speech, the government . There is no way for the government to interfere". The argument against the Preparatory Security Council,** of course, is also "impossible to interfere with".
After all, it was the beginning of the founding of the Republic of China, and it was a rare period of ideological activity in this country, whether it was in favor of the republic or against the republic, whether it was in favor of the restoration of the imperial system or against the restoration of the imperial system, all of them could speak out and be seen in the newspapers.
When the Preparatory Security Council advocated opposing the republic and restoring the imperial system, there were also a large number of voices and articles to resist and refute it.
Wang Fengying has a letter "Letter to the Preparation of the Security Council and Yang Du on the National Style", which was recited for a while.
Wang Fengying, whose name is Zhicheng, is called Quantai, was born in Suzhou Yuanhe Wang family, and his father is Wang Liangjun.
In his early years, he studied at Nanjing Academy in Jiangyin, where he studied under the great Confucian Huang Yizhou.
In the 11th year of Guangxu (1885), he was elected as the Yiyouke Bagong. In the seventeenth year of Guangxu (1891), he went to Japan with his brother Wang Fengzao.
In the twentieth year of Guangxu (1894), he returned to China and distributed Hubei as the prefect. From the twenty-third year of Guangxu (1897), he served as the chief copywriter of Zhang Zhidong, the then governor of Huguang.
In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900), he served as a foreign copywriter. He also served as the self-improvement school founded by Zhang Zhidong (the predecessor of Wuhan University) and the Hubei Agricultural School. Since then, he has served as the prefect of Changde, Wuchang and Changsha.
He and his brothers Wang Fengchi, Wang Fengzao, and Wang Fengliang were all prefects in the late Qing Dynasty, and were sometimes known as "one family of four prefects".
After the establishment of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai asked him to serve as a senior adviser. In the third year of the Republic of China (1914), he served as a member of the Higher Civil Service Screening Committee.
He took a clear stand against Yuan Shikai's proclamation as emperor.
Wang Fengying's "Letter to the Preparation of the Security Council and Yang Du's Treatise on the National Style" is excerpted as follows:
"Reading the newspaper, my public initiated the Preparatory Security Council, and declared that in view of the ease of disturbance in the European and American republics, and the lack of self-government capacity of the Chinese people, and knowing full well that the republican form of government is absolutely not applicable to China, because of the initiation of the conference, I hope to work with the wise people in the country to plan for long-term peace and stability, and then to study whether the imperial system in our country is applicable to the present day and whether it is beneficial and harmless.
Vision, excellence and perseverance, admirable. However, as far as the present situation is concerned, it is absolutely impossible to change the national system in order to shake the national line, and its reason is so obvious that the deacon dares to make it clear: since the new "Covenant Law" was revised last year, the presidential system has been adopted, and unlimited sovereignty has been given to the presidents, and all the provisions of the old "Covenant Law" that are sufficient to enlarge the elbow of the president and make the administration inflexible can be removed, and there shall be no room for conflict; It is the word republic in China today, and only the false name of the national system remains, and in fact it has been used to the extreme of an example of enlightened autocracy.
In today's new "Covenant Law", the president has the right to rule over the vast desert, although the constitutional monarchies of all countries in the world are rare and unmatched, and Tan Europeanized people are not suspected of overkill? Since the implementation of this system, the prestige of the central government has become more and more prosperous, the political progress has been more favorable, and the finances have gradually been unified.
The outcome of your deliberations will be to apply the enlightened tyranny of the new Covenant. Now that the president has done it, there is nothing wrong with the world, so why bother the monarch? If you are worried that the power of the president is too heavy, and you want to set up a cabinet to deal with the Congress, so that the head of state is irresponsible? Then there is a precedent for France, so why bother the monarch? However, the present is in favor of a constitutional monarchy, and those who regard the republic as a danger are only a matter of succession.
Gu Xin's "Covenant Law" has set the presidential term of office for ten years, and can be re-elected, and there is no doubt that the current president will be a lifelong president, and the successor president will use the example of Yao to recommend Shun and Shun to recommend Yu, and the current president will recommend the virtuous and self-represented, and he will choose talents and allow Fu to be hopeful; The Tibetan name stone room, then there is nothing to do, the publication is temporary, the movement is out of reach, the parliamentary election, limited to these three people, then the outsider hope is self-defeating.
The law is conscientious and beautiful, but if the head of the republic changes frequently, and the disadvantages of election chaos have been swept away, what danger is there yet? If we are still worried about the easy competition of these three people, it is not as good as having a definite name in the world, and whether we know whether to compete or not is a relationship of morality, a relationship of non-law, and if there is no morality, how can the legal system be enough to be idle? Rivalry in the stolen family is even worse than the election.
However, the public loves the president very much, and the gentleman loves people with virtue and does not listen to them with appeasement; Today, at the beginning of his tenure, the President swore an oath of obedience and repeatedly declared that he would never resurrect the imperial system.
In the past, Lao Nai Xuansheng advocated restoration, and the world was in an uproar, and the masses rose up to refute it, thinking that it was a great crime to rebel against the Republic of China. Today, the president reinstated the ban, and then there will be no forgiveness for the imperialists! With the current president as the head of the Republic of China, he loves the people's entrustment and swears to preserve this national body forever for the Republic of China.
To your declaration, but to study the body of the country, without discussing the name of the Lord, when the original intention is to seek succession, the dagger is not surprised, and do not know that the doctrine of the calamity, sometimes even more than the flood! At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the theory of racial revolution was so popular that it swept the world.
The Xinhai Wuchang Attack did not have any success or strength, and the world collapsed, and the racial views and revolutionary theories were deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
And the establishment of the Republic of China, the revolution has been successful, and those who use this to make chaos are still repeatedly rising, not regretting death, and the poisonous afterburns have not stopped.
Now that the foundation of the country is settled, the people's hearts are coarse, and under the democratic form of government, the opposition to the constitutional monarchy is ignored, and the president of the present day has expressed that he will never be the emperor, and the old theory of the program has been reduced.
The correct name of Tianze is undecided, so that the discussion is gradually stained in the hearts of the people, not only the members of the sect and the party, fortunately, the heart is revived, and the people who will not be reckless, everyone has a destiny, let it be seen by itself, try to ask the grass Ze to investigate, to ensure that there is no false claim to the fate, to confuse the public and cause chaos?
The generals are handsome, and there is no one who waits and sees, and waits for the time to move? Summoning chaos and quick trouble, who is the best order? The so-called danger in my heart, I dare not tell it! It is not foolish to think that the new "Covenant Law" is the most appropriate to create a special case of enlightened and autocratic presidential rule in today's China.
The Constitution of the Republic of China is said to be a one-step rule, and nothing is easier. If the public must be said to be the monarchy, you can avoid the fierce competition of non-points, then please take the history of the Jin Dynasty and the history of the six dynasties and the five dynasties, and study it in detail! Worried words, I don't know what to choose, fortunately forgive!
At that time, people often said that his words could kill people like sharp blades, and his articles were indeed heart-wrenching and never tired of reading.
His article "The So-called Problem of the National System" dealt a blow to the Preparatory Security Association and Emperor Yuan Cheng, which was comparable to the battle for the protection of the country led by Cai Yi.
The original text is also very long, and the same excerpt is as follows:
Autumn frost abdominal disease, a bed and ten years, feeling the people, all thoughts are discouraged, and outside the house is very noisy, and the national body problems are heard. If he is disgusted with politics and talks like a contemptible, will he have more arguments? Although, there is nothing to be said about it, but it is a chapter.
Before I write this, there are two meanings that should be told to readers: first, when we know that the contemptible people are not as intoxicated with the republican as the newcomers, so they do not have a preference for the republic, but not for other national bodies, and the contemptible people have held a long-cherished theory for ten years, which can be used as a contrast with today's theory;
Second, when the contemptible people are not like the elders of the conformist family to fight for the dynasty, Shouyang fern rose, Lu Lian Donghai, this individual because of their status and seek so the way to deal with themselves, if you look at the cause of the country's honor and danger, then the rise and fall of a surname, how can there be a choice, first distinguish these two meanings, in order to read my text, you can be unsheltered and in the right hoof.
In the past, I often marked a righteous word to tell the public, saying that I was a political commentator of the Constitutional Party, and only asked about the form of government, not about the state system. It is not for political commentators to ask, especially not for political commentators.
There is no absolute goodness in the husband's country, but only the fact that has been established is the root of its existence, and it wants to rely on academic theory as the master slave, and the artificial trade-off in the meantime, rather than the world's absolute delusion? Delusion alone is not enough for a deep illness;
However, if the national body coerces a view of love and hatred, and artificially creates facts in order to correspond to its love and hatred, then the scourge will be in the country, and there will be no time! Therefore, the theory of contempt for the equality of life, no matter what kind of national system, is not opposed, but under the current national system, and thinking of advocating other national systems with words, it is always opposed!
The respite is still undecided, and the second proposal to change the national system has resumed. What is the truth about the cause of this discussion? I didn't dare to know. On the face of it, it began with a conversation by Dr. Goodnow, an American doctor.
Did Koo ever make such a claim, and what is the meaning of his claim? I don't dare to know it well (Gu Shi and a reporter from an English newspaper said that he did not taste any opinions).
If the main points of Gu's treatise are abstract comparisons of the gains and losses of the republican monarchs, if the national system must be adapted to the national conditions, and if the mistakes of Central America, South America, Mexico, and Portugal are cited in the past, all these meanings are extremely ordinary in nature, and not very deep and subtle, why is it that politicians in the country are like forests, bachelors are like crucian carp, and they are not aware of such shallow theoretical facts for a few years, and so far they have neglected to take it seriously from the mouth of a foreigner? I'm really confused!
If this meaning is not invented by foreign doctors? Not to mention the rest, that is, if the contemptible person is not knowledgeable and ignorant, he does not catch the ancient doctor, but the doctor is now so great that it can be said that he has inadvertently shared his teeth and wisdom with my ten-year-old theory, and it is particularly penetrating and incisive, and it is not as good as one-tenth of my ear!
Is it inappropriate to discuss the interests of the republic? However, there is a time for discussion. When the Xinhai Revolution first started, it was the most appropriate time to discuss, and after that, it was no longer the time to discuss. (When the Hukou Rebellion followed, the official president did not take office, and the countries did not recognize the republic, there may still be room for discussion, but it is only that).
At that time, the public is all at peace? At that time, the world's scholars compared the theories of the gains and losses of the national system, and there was not a single book for reference? At that time, would the United States and Mexico all be peaceful and happy, and there would be no tragic situation, so as to learn from the turtle? At that time, the clumsy and foolish people who were as contemptible as others, in order to be bound overseas, worried about the discomfort of the republic, wrote on Tengshu, and the tears were dry and bloody (there is no manuscript in my life book, and there is no evidence now, and the dignitaries at that time, whoever gets my book, should know it.) At that time, I had a poem: It is easy to report Chu Zhi, and it is afraid of Wu Ji.
Youyun: I can touch it, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to recover. Youyun: Let the imperial residence be its place, and the ancient precepts can be discussed. The rest have number theories and send them to the group newspaper also).
And the heroes who know the current affairs, they take the promotion of the republic as their thing, say that the republic is the extreme track of public security, and that the republic is inherent in Chinese history. Alack! The world's heavy weapons are also, but they can be static and immovable, how can they try to repeat and discard like a game of chess, saying that I am buried by myself, and it is expected that I will be self-defeating? If the husband makes the republic and sincerity enough to destroy the country, it must be known that when the public is elated to advocate the republic and promote the republic, that is, when China is trapped in a catastrophe, there is a proverb: 'If there is today, why bother in the beginning'?
What is the geometric life of creating a big sin, but it is not enough, and forbearance will benefit it? The establishment of the republic of husbands, once upon a time? And those who seek to overthrow the republic take the initiative of the republican fathers, and they do not know the current affairs, and they are still slightly nostalgic for the republic, and they are those who oppose the republic in the past. The strange things in the world are more than yes, and the world is sad, and there is nothing more than yes!
Today's commentators say: 'It is a republic and autocracy, and a monarch is constitutional.' 'Constitutional and non-constitutional, the term of government is also; Republican and non-republican are also the terms of the national system.
In the past, we only asked about the form of government, not the national system, so we thought that the political system could be constitutional, and whether the national system was a monarch or a republic, there was no one; The form of government rather than the constitution is not the case, whether the state is a monarch or a republic.
The state system and the political system are completely incompatible, and it is said that if you want to change the political system, you must change the national system as a means, and the world would rather have this theory!
Gore is a constitutional state in the world, and the changes in its national system may be endless!
The former commentator said that a monarch can never establish a constitution, but only a republic can establish a constitution; (When I was arguing with the revolutionary party before, the other party held this argument.)
Today, it is also said that a republic can never be constitutional, but a monarch can make a constitution, and I sincerely do not know what kind of theory it is based on to complete itself! I would like to ask you to first determine with the commentators the boundaries of the constitution, and then to see whether the essence of the argument can be established.
Isn't it necessary for the so-called constitutionalists to have supervisory organs and executive organs to confront each other, and the exercise of political power is often subject to certain restrictions? Isn't the so-called constitutional monarchy based on the absolute responsibility of the monarch as the greatest principle and the establishment of a responsible cabinet as a necessary condition?
To determine this simple constitutional theory, it is necessary to assume one fact as the basis of the argument: I would like to ask the commentator who is the ideal monarch of the future? In other words, is he the president of the current university? Or is it outside of the current president, and don't smoke the Dan cave to get it? (Today's president refuses to be imperial, and has repeatedly declared resoluteness, but now it is only assumed that the crime of disrespect is to be debated, and I am willing to accept it).
If you don't ask for someone else, where will you put the current president? The president has been doing his best for a long time, and he who is self-conscious, is he unwilling to quickly release this heavy burden and take care of Lin Quan? Let me ask the people of the whole country, can we allow the president to be at ease? However, it will put the president under the hypocrisy, and organize the responsible cabinet.
At present, the president puts the country first and is willing to surrender to his heart, and with the life of the whole country, when the parliament is responsible, what is the danger? Therefore, it is not true that in addition to the current president, do not seek a monarch, but say that a constitutional monarchy can be realized.
For example, if it is said that President Dai is the monarch, the president of China will not admit it at first, but for the sake of the country's centennial plan, the president is willing to sacrifice everything to favor the people's popularity, and what our people demand from the president, how can we hope that he will be a monarch without responsibility? The husband is not responsible for the monarch, Europeans and Americans often compare the fat ears of the recipients, and the ears of beautiful and noble ornaments!
In today's desperate situation in China, is it appropriate for such an important person to invest in such an idle place? It is said that the president may be an irresponsible monarch, and whether the responsible cabinet can be established and whether it can be applied is still a question.
It is not that the President cannot allow the responsible cabinet to live under him, but I do not see that the people in the country who are capable of this ability and prestige are enough to take on the responsibility of the Führer.
Cover today's difficulties, if it is not my president, who can take care of it? Choosing one person to be responsible for acting as the president is not enough to talk about his talents, and he can't do it now.
In the past, the cabinet system was changed to the presidential system, which was adapted to the requirements of the times, and the medicine for the abolition of the situation, how can the current situation in the next year or two be very different from the previous one, and the national system can be changed as soon as the national system is changed? Non-heroic deceptive words, that is, scholars' broad arguments! Therefore, it is assumed that the current president is willing to be the monarch, and the constitutional monarchy can be realized, and this theory cannot be established.
However, if we regard constitutionalism as the talisman of the theory of national system, unless there is another explanation for the word constitutionalism, then I dare not say it.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, he insisted on claiming to be constitutional, and he asked whether the commentator could admit it? And I want to ask what kind of coupon the commentators dare to guarantee that after the change of the national system, the constitution can be implemented without obstacles? If not, it is still a pure monarchy, not a constitutional monarchy. If it is not a constitutional monarchy, it is an absolute monarchy, and there is nothing to say about it. It is a good plan not to bear the republic's republic, but to replace it with an absolute monarchy, which is really unsolvable. Now under the republic, and the temporary autocracy, there are all kinds of unavoidable reasons, and the slander of the people can still be forgiven by the whole world;
Now, as the commentators have planned, if we want to exchange the constitution and the monarchy for what we say, then when the state system is reformed, it is inevitable that the people will be declared to the people by implementing the constitution, and after the declaration, if the so-called unavoidable reasons still exist, and for the sake of the requirements of the times at that time, we have to continue to practice autocracy, I am afraid that the people of the world will no longer be the head of state!
The name of the constitution is the name of the constitution and the fact that the insider is not constitutional, the reason why the Qing Dynasty collapsed before! The poem says: 'Yin Jian is not far away, in the world after the summer' commentators read it!
I have said a few words, but there are one or two more meanings that should be the public advice: the public advocates the monarchy, and who is the future monarch in his heart, and he can't help but say it for the public, if he wants to ask for the president of the present? Now that the president is resting on his shoulders, the twilight of the Chinese country is in the twilight, and with the wisdom of justice, how can he not see this? Seeing this, it is still this conspiracy, and it is better to have a deep hatred and hatred for the country, and it is necessary to kill it quickly, and these 40,000 people should be punished together!
If you want to ask the president today? Today's presidential enthronement oath words, the upper part is to tell the emperor and the queen of heaven, and the lower part is the life of the Chinese and foreign countries, which is really heard of by all! Over the years, the floating discussion has gradually risen, and the president has occasionally heard of it, and the righteousness is in the form of color, saying that no matter how persecutive, he will not win the ambition in the end, which is often heard by all the people who calmly look at the pilgrimage, that is, the contemptible people are also vividly heard;
And Admiral Feng Huafu also recounted the words he had received, saying that a number of rafters had been prepared in England, and if the people did not see each other, they would be on the other land. Let's talk about it.
Then the determination of the president can be seen by all, and the public is not heard? It is an unwarranted discussion of this extraordinary move, in case the incident is coercive, causing our president to angrily violate his preface, and I don't know how to do it well. And if it is not, it will be the belly of a villain, the heart of a gentleman, and the private president often talks about it, which is not his original intention, but as Confucius said, "give up what you want, and you will do it", my aunt tried it, and knew that it would not be me;
If the letter is so, then why will the public regard our president as a human being? Break your word and get fat, and the husband is cheap! If we think of this, how can the crimes of insulting the personality of the president be counted? This is also suitable for 40,000 people.
Again, did the public read the Covenant? Have you ever read the Provisional Criminal Law? Have you read the Law on Associations and Assemblies? Have you ever read the Newspaper Law? Have you ever read the President's decrees on punishment for disrupting the state system in the past year? Did the public know that citizens should have a duty to abide by the Constitution and laws?
It is openly under the circumstance of calling on the masses to incite revolution (anyone who seeks to change the state system is called revolution, the general meaning of this political science), the law enforcers are afraid of their proximity, do not change who is what, and the public is good day and day rampant, there is no fear of renewal, I dare not know what the future of the public will be, and the current discipline has been completely destroyed by the public!
If it is said that there is no discipline and you can serve the country, what can I say? If not, then please wait for me to come! And I am more willing to be a public and a solution: the public advocates this proposal, it does not want to rely on empty words, it must hope that the advocates can be implemented, and in other words, I hope that the ideal monarchy will be built for a time, and the foundation will be eternal and spread endlessly.
What is the way of this foundation, so that it can be forever and passed on to infinity? It must be ordered by state organs, and the government and the opposition will abide by the law as ordered.
Now, at the beginning of the founding of the country, and the first false way to commit illegal acts as assets, such as those who want to marry women, pick other people's boudoirs, in order to fornicate, but to seek success, and the discipline can not be touched, then after they are my women, what words do they have to blame for their unchastity?
Now under the republic, and it is said that it is possible to openly assemble and form associations in order to overthrow the republic, then it is easy for others to openly assemble and form associations under the monarchy in order to overthrow the monarchy, so that there will be other wise men to suggest other doctrines, and there will be other groups wishing to carry out other activities, and I don't know what to do?
The poem says: "There is no need to teach to knead the wood, such as painting and attaching." "Seeking a country for the sake of this, its unwisdom is not even greater! Mencius said: "A gentleman starts a business and is sustainable."
The edict of the unsuccessful is not even more foreboding! The former Ganjin was promoted to the "General Theory of the Jin Dynasty", which deduced the cause of the original Sima family's funeral, and sighed that it was the foundation of the plant, which was different from the three generations. Tao Yuanming's poem also said: 'If you don't plant the plateau, why regret it today?' 'Woohoo! I look at the things of today, and the hidden worries are infinite!
After I wrote this article, I got the so-called Preparatory Committee to send Yang Du's "Treatise on the Salvation of the Monarchy and the Constitution", and when I read it, I saw that there were several words in it: 'Those who establish the constitution, the country has a certain legal system, and neither the head of state nor the people can act outside the law, the sage cannot exceed the Han law and do good, and the unscrupulous cannot exceed the law and become evil. ’
I deeply sigh that it is in the essence of the constitution, and I can explain it in one word, but I want to ask the director of the Yang family to prepare for the security meeting, for the action within the law? Or is it an extralegal action?
The sages of the Yang family may also be confident that they will not exceed the law and think evil, but they will not exceed the law and think that they will be good! Alack! Those who speak of the monarchy and constitution, and if they act like this, the so-called monarch and constitution can be imagined! And the future of Junxian can also be imagined!
Liang Qichao is such a wise person, can't you see that the chief director of this restoration drama is Yuan Shikai? In the article, Yuan Shikai was given so many high hats, which was nothing more than a trick to play this thief who stole the country, and it was nothing more than skillfully using Yuan Shikai's spear to attack Yuan Shikai's shield.