In the lobby of the Yamen of the Left-behind Division of the former Liaoguo Tokyo Road in Liaoyang Prefecture, it was full of veterans who rushed from Tianjin.

Originally, Wu Haogu planned to discuss with a group of scholars and Confucians, and then return to Tianjin to convene the Senate Political Consultative Conference when he had a rough draft of the republican constitution.

But where are the veterans and wealthy businessmen in Tianjin willing to wait with peace of mind? Many of them are also suspicious of Wu Haogu's career. Some people don't believe that Wu Haogu will really engage in "the world for the public", and they have been discussing and persuading them these days. Others oscillated between Youzhou and the Great Song Dynasty, on the one hand, they felt that Wu Haogu could achieve great things; On the one hand, there is no way to cut off the relationship with the Great Song Dynasty, which is very contradictory.

But a while ago, I heard that Wu Haogu was going to discuss the republican form of government with the world's great Confucian celebrities in Liaoyang Mansion, and the elders who stayed in Tianjin and the heads of a group of wealthy merchant families couldn't sit still, and everyone suddenly felt that the republic should have their share!

Although Wu Haogu had to discuss it with the elders after discussing it with a group of sour Confucians, everyone was still not at ease. Therefore, he pestered a few scholar-type senators in the Senate who were invited to Liaoyang Mansion, that is, Murong Wangwei, Lu Haowen, Lu Benzhong, Su Yu, Su Guo and others, and proposed to let them lead the team and move the entire Senate to Liaoyang Mansion.

I don't know what to do with Confucianism first, and the elders later. Let's have a meeting together!

As a result, the empty Yamen of the former Liaoguo Tokyo Road Left-behind Division has now become the temporary residence of the Senate in Liaoyang.

The patriarchs who were born in wealthy businessmen, or those who have the support of wealthy businessmen behind them, are now a little unable to sit still. Although they are important investors in this joint-stock republic, they have been investing all the way from the angel round to now they are about to be "listed". But they are businessmen after all...... Shinong industry and commerce, industry and commerce are the end!

Therefore, their group of wealthy businessmen and elders are now the most worried.

Of course, the wealthy businessmen in Tianjin are not all fat pigs waiting to be slaughtered. Many of them also have military backgrounds!

The foundation of the Republican Army was knights and soldiers, but the foundation of the navy was maritime commerce. In the Lushun Naval Academy, all the children of maritime merchants are born. The sailors of the navy are also all mercenaries, most of whom are merchant sailors.

Even the naval fleet itself had to make money by sea to supplement military expenses - the "Truth" class battleships were actually a kind of armed merchant ships for both military and civilian purposes.

This class of battleships adopted a configuration of one gun deck and three cargo decks, which could carry a large amount of cargo.

In addition, since the "Truth" class eliminated the oarsmen and only used three-masted cotton hard sails, it greatly saved manpower. This makes the Truth Class only require a small number of sailors to operate. And with artillery as the main weapon, it is also possible to save combatants.

Therefore, the endurance of the truth class is also very strong, which is very suitable for long-distance running.

Moreover, the firepower of the truth level is not a joke. Pirate ships without artillery simply did not dare to provoke them. Therefore, the Truth class can also make a cameo appearance as an "escort ship" and follow the activities of the brigade of merchant ships. Not only can you make money by transporting goods yourself, but you can also collect some protection fees from merchant ships.

This arrangement has further strengthened the close ties between the maritime and the navy. As a result, the Youzhou Navy gradually became a "bourgeois army". Just when Wu Haogu convened the world's great Confucians to discuss the country's affairs, Mi Youren took six "Truth Class" and Ji Yi to Annan to grab concessions and collect protective grain - if there were no bourgeois thugs, Wu Haogu's republic would have to starve!

But even with the support of 16 "truth-class" (four more at the beginning of the year), the bourgeois veterans of Tianjin are still a little weak-minded.

China's traditional thinking of valuing agriculture over commerce since ancient times cannot be reversed in a short period of time.

"I said, you have to think about the source of drinking water! In the final analysis, the situation opened by the ruling government was not established on the basis of the Jiehe Commercial Market...... Now that the country is about to be founded, you can't kick us away, right? ”

That being said, the capitalists present were so weak that they always felt that they should be kicked!

"Pull it down! The ranking of Shinong Industry and Commerce is not unreasonable...... There are many farmers in the world!

How many hukou are there in Tianjin now? It's not 30,000. Among them, there are tens of thousands of citizens, including naval officers and Yuntai bachelors who settled in Tianjin. How many knight households and government soldiers are there? After the battle in Liaodong, how can the number of soldiers and knights increase to 100,000? ”

There are tens of millions of acres of land in eastern Liaodong that can be divided, and they will all be divided. But it does not mean that it is the citizen household who receives the land - the citizen is now a "civil lord" and has to pay for it with military merit or taxes.

Therefore, soldiers who do not have enough military merit can also get land, but they will not be given citizenship. The soldiers and cavalrymen who did not have citizenship (they could not be called knights without citizenship) had to pay rent for their land. Of course, they did not have the right to vote, and their children did not have the opportunity to receive education for free.

According to the statistics of the ruling government's military room and the General Military Machinery Department, there are only tens of thousands of government soldiers and cavalry households who have obtained citizenship among the soldiers in Liaodong, plus the original government soldiers and knights who have citizenship in Youzhou (these government soldiers and knights in Youzhou belong to the republican Yuan, so they all have citizenship), the total number is about 100,000.

"It's just these military households and knight households. We can also pull in the sea to balance. There are also more than 20,000 people in the navy, and all those who are republicans should also be granted citizenship, so that they will not lose too much. But how many scholars and scholars are there in the world?

Whether it is a republic or an emperor, if you want to dominate the world, you can't do without the support of scholars! Let's wake up laughing if we can keep a share of the Senate. Don't be empty! ”

The merchant elders were talking with sad faces, and the faces of the heroes and elders around them were not good-looking. Most of them were representatives of high-ranking knightly families.

The so-called "high-ranking knight families" are actually some knight families that do not have a state or county jurisdiction and do not have a wealthy business background, but the patriarch or someone in the clan serves as a senior general in the republican army. Of course, the patriarchs and dignitaries in the clan who served in the army could not serve as senators, but those who were elected as senators were also people who represented the interests of this group of high-ranking knight families.

Counting up, they can be regarded as the hearts of Wu Haogu. Therefore, they all hope that Wu Haogu can be called the emperor, so that they will not lose their titles. With the position of marquis, wealth can also be passed on.

But Wu Haogu wants the world to be public! What does that mean? Isn't it the emperor? So how do the people below become marquis? How can wealth be passed down from generation to generation?

Thinking that the wealth that was won with great difficulty might not be passed on, these people also began to complain.

“…… You Tianjin wealthy businessmen have calculated it, and it is enough to keep the positions of some patriarchs and not let the bullying of officials. Who of you doesn't have millions? Are you afraid that there is no wealth? We have a headache! It seems that they are all the founding heroes! But the ruling party refuses to be in the right position? What shall we do? ”

"Not really! The republican army is not as good as the Song army, there is a lot of oil and water of all kinds, we are really Qingshui Yamen here! The system is strict, and there is nothing to catch except for the spoils of war. If there is no more hero, wouldn't it be in vain? ”

"Yes! Why shouldn't the ruler be the emperor? ”

"How good it is for him to be the emperor! He is going to be the emperor, and our family can at least have a marquis ......"

"Or ...... Let's persuade us! ”

I don't know who it is, but my brain is quite active, and I actually thought of persuasion!

"yes!" An elder slapped his thigh, "Aren't we able to elect the ruling party and make that law?" Then just hold a meeting and elect the ruling party to be the emperor! ”

"Can the emperor also be elected?"

"I didn't say I couldn't! If we don't choose others, we just choose the ruling power to be the emperor, what's not to do? ”

"That's right! How many of us are here? Who is for it and who is against it? See if it's enough? ”

"yes, who's against it? Is there anyone against it? ”

"No, we all support ......"

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The elders who ran to Liaoyang Mansion talked to themselves When the emperor was elected, Wu Haogu temporarily left Liaoyang Mansion and went to Lushun Mansion to welcome the Southern Confucianism who came by boat.

It is now the summer of the third year of Zhenghe, that is, the year 1113 of the Western calendar. "The Theory of Heavenly Principles" and "The Theory of Positivism" have been disseminated for more than ten years. It has been a full five years since Ji Yi brought back the Xizhe classics.

Don't think that the impact of Western studies on Confucianism in this era is not as good as that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in later generations, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has a perfect system of science, which can resist the impact of Western studies to a certain extent.

Even in the turbulent era at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were still great Confucians who could shout the rhetoric of "middle school is the body, and Western learning is for use...... Although this great Confucian at the end of the Qing Dynasty doesn't seem to know what a body is and what is use!

But in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was simply not a single science that became stubbornly conservative to defend against Western philosophers.

At this time, Confucianism was in an era of exploration and search for "tools" and "world views".

The worldview based on the theory of heavenly principles, coupled with the philosophical tools of positivism, rationality, and analysis (logic), is a treasure for some Confucians who want to find a breakthrough for Confucianism to fight against Buddhism and Taoism! It's too late to take the initiative to absorb, what kind of resistance to talk about?

Even the Daojun Emperor, the head of the sect, used this set of things to improve Taoism and launched the Tao Te Sect, which was quite logically perfect.

By the way, the reason for the improvement of Confucianism and the emergence of science in the Northern Song Dynasty was to counter the ideas of Buddhism and Taoism.

However, Confucianism has never been provided with the philosophical tools that can "study things for reason" and "learn from things" (Confucianism is not without the idea of exploring nature, but there is no way). Therefore, we can only retreat to the next best thing and learn from Buddhism and Taoism, so the line of "three religions in one" will appear.

It is precisely based on this historical background of actively seeking breakthroughs that the development of "Western learning from the East" in this time and space has been extremely smooth.

Although the vast majority of scholars still oppose the Theory of Reason, the Theory of Reason, the Theory of Positivism, and the Theory of Analysis. But these opponents are only opposing for the sake of opposition, and there is no reason at all.

Therefore, at present, it can still be called a great Confucian, and only the four schools of Confucianism, such as rationalism, positivism, Tianlijiao and science, are invited by Wu Haogu.

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