Chapter 442: The Jiangbei Military Government is established
"Boom!"
"Whoa......
Luo Yinxian was the first to stand up and applaud excitedly, and then other military figures also applauded, and the enlightened people of the civil gentry such as Xu Dinglin, Shen Yunpei, Sha Yuanbing, Gu Yanqing and others also stood up and applauded, and the rest of the government officials also stood up and applauded after seeing this, and even some people who did not welcome the restoration had to stand up and applaud to support the recovery of Jiangbei. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Qi Gu, the prefect of Yangzhou, jumped up and stood on the table, shouting loudly regardless of the image: "Long live Jiangbei!" Long live the Restoration! Long live Yun Shuai! Someone driven, and the rest of the people immediately shouted long live, and the conference hall enthusiastically responded to the glory of Jiangbei's recovery.
Gu Yanqing not only said with tears in his eyes: "Jiangbei is finally recovered, finally recovered, it's not easy, it's really not easy......" The rest of the people hurriedly comforted, Qi Ji smiled and said: "Mr. Gu, Jiangbei is recovered, you should be happy, why cry?" ”
Gu Yanqing's housekeeper immediately said: "Our master is happy, do you know it, our master is ...... in order to support the recovery" He realized something and hurriedly stopped his mouth. But everyone heard from his words that the Gu family was not an honest family, and his family supported the revolutionary party. If it was the previous state, someone must have privately reported the Gu family's rebellion, but now that everyone has become a revolutionary party, it doesn't matter who denounces whom.
Gu Yanqing said: "The imperial court is corrupt, and we are looking for a way for China's rise, what is wrong." Now my generation is full of revolutionary apostles, but I don't know how this court reacts? ”
"Then what is the reaction, the imperial court will definitely go south with a large army." Someone said.
Shen Yunpei suddenly thought of something, and said in shock: "If the army goes south, then the construction of the railway has to be stopped?" ”
My friend Xu Dinglin sighed: "How can you not stop, I'm afraid that not only will the railway be stopped, but Haizhou will inevitably be war." ”
"That's how it should be." Shen Yunpei said anxiously.
Only then did Houlin, the new salt transport envoy, say slowly: "So, this recovery must be good?" "He is a banner man, so he naturally doesn't want to recover, but the general trend of recovery is inevitable, and Houlin also knows that it is irresistible. Houlin was not the kind of banner man who was loyal to the imperial court, and he also supported reforms, hoping that the imperial family would cede power to the virtuous. At that time, many banner people also supported reform, and there were even many revolutionaries who supported them, but if they were to oppose the Qing Dynasty, it would indeed be difficult for strongmen. Houlin was extremely scared, he spent a lot of money to buy the position of salt envoy, but he didn't expect that his ass would not be hot for a year, and Jiangbei would recover, and he didn't know what fate he would end up with. If this group of people were like the revolutionaries in Hangzhou who took revenge and slaughtered the Manchurians, their own lives would not be guaranteed.
Everyone glanced at him, laughed in unison, and ignored him—who would deal with a dying man—and Houlin's face was even more defeated, and his heart was beating a drum, not knowing what to do. While everyone was discussing the future of Jiangbei, Houlin suddenly had an idea, thinking that the revolutionary party was nothing more than to overthrow the Manchu government, not to slaughter the Manchus, and if he helped Wang Yongan to persuade the Manchu government to surrender power to the revolutionary military government, wouldn't it be a great achievement? And he persuaded him to surrender, and in his own capacity, he gave enough sincerity to cooperate with the north, so Houlin summed it up and gave advice to Wang Yongan later.
"Now I announce the second decision!" After Wang Yongan got up, he said loudly, and everyone stretched out their ears, and couldn't help poking their heads out and listening carefully. Now is the critical moment of recovery, and every decision of Wang Yongan will affect everyone's life and death, and everyone has to be cautious.
Wang Yongan said: "From now on, the Jiangbei Military Government will be established, and the Jiangbei Military Government is committed to overthrowing the corrupt Qing government, establishing a new order of the new Chinese government, eradicating corruption, reforming and innovating, and taking all responsibilities for the rise of China and the welfare of the people." The Jiangbei Military Government promised that the Jiangbei region and the areas under the jurisdiction of the Jiangbei Military Government would recognize personal property, and the government would not expropriate land from the common people and gentry in any name other than road construction. The Jiangbei Military Government protects all the gentry in the Jiangbei region who recognize and support the military government, including the Han Chinese, Manchus, Hui and other ethnic groups living in Jiangbei, as well as foreigners living and working in the Jiangbei area. The Jiangbei region recognizes religious equality, freedom of religion, non-interference in religious activities, and welcomes Catholicism and Christianity to preach in the Jiangbei region. At the same time, from now on, the Jiangbei region will exempt the Qianqing government from all forced labor taxes, reformulate the tax rate, and ban the Jiangbei region's procedures for concurrently paying taxes. ”
The issuance of these administrative orders made everyone present stunned and overwhelmed, and even the shock brought to them by Jiangbei's recovery has not disappeared, and Jiangbei's administrative orders have been issued one by one, making them mistakenly think that the Jiangbei Military Government has been established for a long time, and even has a complete and clear administrative concept.
Then Wang Yongan threw out a bombshell news, saying: "The Jiangbei Military Government will reorganize the yamen of the former Qing government, form military governments in various places, and now begin to form a four-level government, the first level of government is the Jiangbei Military Government, and the second level of government is the regional government, which is the government of northern Anhui, central Anhui, northern Jiangsu, central Jiangsu and Jiangdu, the third level is the county government, and the fourth level is the township government. ”
Everyone is half-aware of the government structure in the Western world, but they are very familiar with the traditional Chinese government structure, that is, the yamen, and there are four levels of yamen in China, namely the imperial palace, the governor's palace, the provincial yamen, and the county yamen.
However, since ancient times, the imperial power in China has not been lower than that of the county, which means that the county level is not under the administration of the imperial court, but can only be managed by the local gentry themselves, and if there is an ethnic dispute, it must also be resolved by themselves. But from Wang Yongan's words today, it can be seen that according to the current government structure, the power of the government will be under the jurisdiction of the township level, so that the control of the central government, that is, Yangzhou, over Jiangbei will be greatly increased, and the rights of the gentry will be reduced, unless they are officials of the revolutionary military government.
More and more people began to realize that Wang Yongan wanted to further pull the gentry and even the lower level of the people into his camp, and only when the gentry joined Wang Yongan's forces, Jiangbei was thoroughly controlled by Wang Yongan.
"Good strategy." Shen Yunpei said in a low voice.
"But in fact, it is imperative to reform the yamen step by step," Xu Dinglin fell into the memories of the past, when he was young, he was also a young talent who was determined to reform and support the Qing Dynasty, but it was a pity that the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty wanted to carry out reforms, it was too difficult, he couldn't help but shook his head and smiled bitterly and said: "In the past, the Queen Mother Lafayette also wanted to reform the yamen institutions and extend the imperial power to the township level, but unfortunately after the Battle of Gengzi, the Qing Dynasty had no money." When the Great Qing Kingdom began to have a little money, this Lafayette ascended to heaven again. ”
"Even if there is money sometimes, it has long been greedy for that group of nobles." Shen Yunpei said angrily.
Xu Dinglin also had to admit that the nobles of the Aixinjueluo family were unscrupulous in corruption, if they stretched out their hands back then, how could the Beiyang Naval Division be defeated, alas, there is no regret medicine in this world.