Subtitle of this chapter: A History of the Beiyang Warlords in the Ancient Roman Style

Master Ho Lian Ho is quoting the famous Alexis of the 19th century? Morality? Alexis-de-Tocqueville (July 29, 1805 – April 16, 1859) was a French historian and sociologist. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Written in the 19th century, "On Democracy in the United States" was often quoted from the later generations of the United States, many of which are considered to be insights that were ahead of their time.

His retort goes like this: Friend, it's a blue world. The Iraqi people are not bitter, and there is a Saddam Hussein hanging from the shelf. The Libyan masses are not tired, and they killed a Gaddafi in the gutter. Democracy is less oppressive than feudalism.

"Big, Master Ball, Search for the Original English Version of "On Democracy in America" ......"

"What, you have a higher French original? A horse, you don't say it earlier, otherwise I will practice my little tongue in the past few days. But I can make do with one sentence......"

"Remember, memory indoctrination...... Come on! ”

"But ......" Yuan Yanqian lowered his head again and said: "Tocqueville also said that those who think that universal suffrage can guarantee that people can make the best choice are completely fanciful......

This time it wasn't so uncomfortable. People are really cheap bones, and they get used to it when they poke and poke.

So Yuan Yanqian quickly raised his head this time and said: "He also said that there is nothing more difficult to resist than a government that calls the shots in the name of the people......

"He Jun!" He pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray and said very solemnly: "Since we have spoken of Tocqueville, please do not forget this sentence." ”

Master Yuan turned his head abruptly, staring at He Lian with blazing eyes and said, "Sashi Sava thin stockings...... (It's not that I'm lazy, you can't read French anyway, you can't read it, you can't hear it, just imagine the murmur in your throat when you wipe the chrysanthemum with velvet.) ）”

In the end, Yuan Yan cleared his throat and said word by word in Chinese: "Those who ask for anything other than freedom......

"Doomed!"

"Born!!"

"Slave !!"

"Those who demand anything other than freedom are destined to be slaves!"

There are some words in the world that sound handsome and full of style, and a sentence can end a debate.

The moment Yuan Hongjian read this sentence for the first time in college, his body trembled irrepressibly, as if he could only stand up and look up to the sky and howl to express his excitement of "dying at night......

But at this time, his mobile phone rang, it turned out that his mother called him to go home for dinner on the weekend, he wanted to be free so he didn't want to go home for dinner on the weekend, his mother said that he could be free, but he didn't give the living expenses next month, he ...... Destined to be born a slave.

It is better to eat the grass of freedom than the grain of democracy. Those who don't believe in our liberalism are fools and slaves! What kind of democracy can you engage in if you don't understand freedom?

He Lian's eyes were confused, and he muttered: "Are you destined to be born a slave......

Yuan Yanqian was happy in her heart, and now it is "advisable to chase after the poor man and wash him into a new freedom." "Great opportunity.

He settled down and said solemnly: "He Jun, you should know that after Xinhai, warlords from all over the country will rise one after another. The Yuan family stole the country, and Hong Xian abolished the constitution. The government and the court are not in harmony, the feudal towns are divided, the Beiyang is infighting, and the Zhiwan is fighting......

The southern princes, the autonomous provinces, called democracy, were actually shogunate. Courage to fight privately, and the remnants of the people will succeed. ”

What Master Yuan said in this passage is the general history of the Republic of China in the past nine years (since the international situation has been sorted out a little, then the domestic situation has also been roughly sorted out.) Because in 1920 there were key events in China and abroad. ）。

In 1916, the dictator of the empire for life, Gaius Julius Caesar Yuan, the real President Yuan, abolished the Senate and the Republic system and established himself as Emperor Seris, although he was not assassinated by the senators, but within three months, he was under the finger of all the people, and he died of urine (urine collapse because he couldn't urinate, referred to as urine collapse).

In 1917, Caesar Yuan's first lieutenant, Gaius Octavian-Turinus Duan, used the Tungusic barbarian army to briefly restore the Qingzhishui dynasty ruled by Cleopatra-Aisin Jueluo-Longyu, thereby expelling the imperial dictator Marcus? Emilius Lebida Lai. After this, Marco Anthony Feng, another of Kaiser Yuan's second lieutenants, entered the imperial capital and succeeded him as dictator, where he died of illness at the end of 1919. Duan, Li, and Feng are known as the top three.

In the month of Julius (July) this year, Oscar von Rochenthal Cao and Wolfgang Midamaia Wu, together with Ed Stark Zhang, the "King of the North", played against Xu Shaofu Jiro Shuzheng, known as the "First Wise General of Anhui", in Guyan and the capital of Zhongshan Kingdom, also known as "the state of rich people everywhere". Even if Xiao Xu, the fourth place, the right horse's head, and the young assistant of the Zhibu shook off three beloved little fans, they were still defeated by the "Later Three" coalition forces.

This "bitter battle" that lasted for three days and three nights (senior officers had to stay up all night playing mahjong in person, how could it not be hard?) After that, one of the former triumvirate, the chief tribune, Octavian-Duan, learned that Xiao Xu, the most important subordinate, had been defeated, and hit his head against the wall, shouting: Give me back my legion!

This was followed by a brief period of joint government between the Imperial and Northern Regions, and was also known as the honeymoon of the lone wolf and the double dog. It is also worth mentioning that in 1919 the Mayan month (May) took place a civic movement that would have a profound impact on later generations, and from then on, the ghost of the Gracchus brothers (the leaders of the populist sect in the late Roman period) began to hover over Seris.

Look, as long as you change a few names, the political mess, and the military infighting in Beiyang, which is even less worth mentioning, can be instantly full.

It's chaotic enough in the north, it's really not as chaotic as in the south. Unless Yuan Yanqian writes a book of "Loyal Water Margin" or "Donglin Point General", he can catch all the main characters. In fact, anyway, as long as you know that the people on the rivers and lakes call it "revolution and timely rain, girl and old lover." Sun Cannon, who is known as the "Iron Fist Invincible", will return to Guangzhou this year.

However, for the three people in the house, the south side is all chaotic parties, and Beijing is Zhengshuo. These three are proper contemporary Beiyang fans.

Xu Zhimo's wife and brother Zhang Junmai are high-ranking officials in Beiyang, needless to say. He Lian was obviously a native of Hunan, and after returning to China in 1926, he went to Nankai University in Tianjin (probably because of the monthly salary of 180 oceans offered by Nankai). And Yuan Yanqian's father, Yuan Hongji's great-grandfather, that is my upright and upright person, and he can't even look down on the usurpers in Beiyang, can he still like the chaotic party in the south? Ge Sun is going to come out of the west.

Yuan Yanqian stepped forward to look directly at the future principal of Nankai, and said earnestly: "At this time of national crisis, our generation of scholars must not detach themselves from practice and talk about democracy. ”

"Only when we, the liberals, unite and guide the country on the broad road of capitalist liberalization, can we give new vitality to the 5,000-year-old Oriental country and regain happiness and well-being for 40,000,000 industrious people."

"The road to freedom is tortuous, China's future is bright, and our generation should encourage it!"

The two stretched out their hands at the same time, clasping each other tightly, their hearts surging.

I don't know what Master He thinks, anyway, Master Yuan felt that his kung fu in participating in the speech contest was not in vain, and he knew that he could say that it was better to do Amway.