"Extra, extra! President Chai personally led the army to recover Qingdao! ”

"Big news, the Jianghuai army regained Qingdao, annihilated 20,000 Japanese troops, and captured 40,000!"

“??? The Jianghuai army captured three thousand British prisoners! ”

"The 40,000 German troops in Qingdao surrendered with a white flag, and China won a complete victory!"

Before dawn, the newsboy began to shout in the street, and passers-by bought a newspaper to read even if they saved money for breakfast. Rickshaw drivers and street coolies crowded the roadside, begging those in long shirts to give them the latest battle reports on the front line. Intellectuals have become fragrant and sweet, no matter how shabby the cheongsam, even if it is just a primary school student, there will be people around them, and the literate and hyphenated people shake their heads and proudly read the news in the newspaper to the illiterate people around them. The people around listened to it with enthusiasm, and they couldn't wait to go to the front line in Shandong to kill a few foreign devils.

From Liangguang to Heilongjiang, from the Jiaodong Peninsula to Xinjiang Province and Mongolia, there are firecrackers everywhere in any poor and remote place, and the common people have painted their faces and sang and danced on the streets, they play dragon lanterns, dance lions, and row dry boats to celebrate the recovery of the Jiaoao concession.

This was the first time since the Opium War that China took the initiative to send troops to recover the territory it had lost.

There is an essential difference between the battle of Qingdao and the reconquest of Mongolia and the battle of Fengtian, when the Qing Dynasty has not yet fallen into the country, Mongolia did not make a split, and Fengtian himself has not yet moved, and the Jianghuai army's exit from Saibei only eliminated the attempts of the great powers and Mongolian princes to take advantage of the chaos of the Xinhai Revolution to get a vote. The Jiaodong Peninsula was forcibly leased by the Germans at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the recapture of Qingdao was to regain the lost territory, and it also defeated Britain, Germany, and the three countries of Yueben at one time, and captured more than 80,000 prisoners. Longkou, Qingdao, Weifang, and Jimo temporarily built prisoner of war camps, and every day a large number of people watched these foreign devil captives with red eyebrows and green eyes through the iron gate. The German prisoners of war hoisted the flag, ran, and played football from time to time, while the Indian Sikhs greeted the Chinese onlookers with hippie smiles, and the common people threw rotten eggs and rotten cabbage roots through the iron gates and walls.

The whole country was overjoyed by this unprecedented victory, and young students marched through the streets with red banners during the school and factory holidays, and everywhere they went, shops set off firecrackers and scattered sweets to welcome them, even if the roads were blocked, and passers-by smiled generously. The soldiers are even more vigorous, whether it is the Jianghuai Army or the soldiers of Beiyang, as long as they wear military uniforms on the streets, the common people will stuff eggs and candy into their pockets. Once the soldiers see someone wearing military uniforms on the street, no matter which faction they belong to, they will rush over to hug and celebrate, at this moment, there is no Beiyang Army, no Jianghuai Army, no local miscellaneous cards, they only have a common name: Zhong [***] people!

For the first time, the Beiyang Army and the local miscellaneous army felt the warm support from the people, and the owner of the tavern dragged the soldiers into the store, and the whole bowl of liquor was poured, and the soldiers drank it all in the cheers of the crowd. Before leaving, the boss did not forget to stuff the old wine that had not been opened into the altar into their arms, and these soldiers and ruffians with faces thicker than the city wall actually knew that they were blushing and insisted on giving money. And the shopkeeper pretended to be angry, saying that he would not accept any money.

An unprecedented victory made the status of the Chinese [***] people rise in the eyes of the people in an instant. It also makes the relationship between the military and the civilian is exceptionally harmonious.

The whole of China was immersed in the revelry that followed the victory.

In fact, the results of the Jianghuai Army were far less great than the common people imagined. The Germans were simply disarmed by neutral countries in accordance with international practice, but where did the common people understand this? In the traditional consciousness of the Chinese, as long as the gun is surrendered, it is a surrender. As for the 3,000 Indian Sikh soldiers, although it was true that they surrendered, neither Chai Dongliang nor the British political axe took it seriously. Chai Dongliang's purpose was not to kill these 3,000 Sikh waste soldiers at all, it was a waste of food to lock them up, and the British also knew that it was impossible for the Chinese political axe to slaughter them all. The political and business circles of China and Britain had frequent exchanges, with fierce rhetoric during the day and staggered at night, endless telegrams from Weifang to London, bargaining over the details of the contract every day, and the Sikh soldiers in the prisoner of war camp were almost forgotten by the warring parties.

The common people do not know the real inside story, and even if they know, it will not affect their good mood, they only know that the Jiaoao concession land forcibly occupied by the Germans was recovered by the [***] team, and the once unscrupulous foreign devils were beaten to the ground, and more than 80,000 prisoners were captured. Isn't that enough?

Chai Dongliang's prestige is incomparable, far surpassing that of Sun Yat-sen in the Xinhai year and Yuan Shikai after the elimination of the Second Revolution. From the 800 Arhats in Congress to various civil associations, it is no longer possible to tolerate the word "generation" before his title of president. The industrial and commercial circles of Yanjing City rallied and marched, and the provincial governors, military envoys, and civil organizations were willing to demand that Chai Dongliang immediately take office as the official president.

In particular, the members of the National Assembly have raised their voices for convening the National Assembly to elect Chai Dongliang as the official president, and all walks of life have responded one after another, and the newspapers have repeatedly introduced Chai Dongliang's great achievements since he started the army in Wuhu.

"Bang, Bang"

It was pitch black outside the window, faintly able to see a little outline of the continuous mountains, only the sound of the wheels hitting the rails in the ears, Chai Dongliang was on the way back to Beijing from Weifang, the European-style carriage was beautifully decorated, this was after the Gengzi National Revolution, the Empress Dowager Cixi returned to Beijing on the way, Yuan Shikai gave a gift to Lafayette, and later it became a special carriage for the president of the Republic of China.

The war in Qingdao had come to an end, and the army was paralyzed by the epoch-making weapons of airplanes and tanks, and the defense line of Beiling Mountain, carefully constructed by General Akiyama Yoshiko, proved to be vulnerable, and the command structure of the army, including himself and Lieutenant General Akashi Motojiro, was wiped out by the Jianghuai Army. Akashi Genjiro swaggered on a chair at the command post, waiting for the soldiers of the Jianghuai Army to arrest him. As a result, the soldiers of the Jianghuai Army were stunned, and they couldn't figure out what this foul-smelling guy wanted to do.

When the news of the defeat of the Qingdao army reached Tokyo, Yama Prefecture Youpeng was almost frightened to death, and immediately ordered the navy to return to ship quickly and hid in Kure Harbor. If the navy is sunk by the Chinese Air Force a few more warships, the angry ronin will really cut off the heads of Yama Prefecture Aritomo and Terauchi Masatsuki!

It is said that Ben is a very strange people, on the one hand, it is absolute obedience, and on the other hand, once the mob is surging, even the army does not dare to stop it, and even the army will join the mob group. Don't look at the friends of Shan County, who can easily clean up the bigwigs in the political arena and obey them, for these mobs, he is really afraid of these guys who only have katanas in their hands.

It was only after the Chinese [***] team completely defeated the Yue army and recovered Qingdao that Britain and the United States came forward to mediate and choked the French Minister Glenn.

Chai Dongliang was half-lying on the golden bed in his pajamas, looking at the faint outline of the mountains outside the window in a daze. He also read the request of the congressman from the newspaper. The advantage of freedom of speech and freedom of the press is that as long as the ruler wants to understand the situation of the people, he will definitely understand the Tao. The so-called being deceived by the people below is just a pretext to fool the people.

However, Chai Dongliang really doesn't want to be an official president now.

He knew in his heart that the members of the National Assembly at this time were indeed supporting him from the bottom of their hearts, and that there were 460 members of the Kuomintang and more than 100 members of the Democratic Constitutional, adding up to nearly 600 people, occupying an absolute advantage. However, Chai Dongliang knows better that this kind of enthusiasm that sprouts on the spur of the moment cannot be sustained, and the purpose of the lawmakers who want to make themselves the official president is that they want to restore the old parliament as soon as possible.

According to the Presidential Election Act, the acting president automatically becomes the official president after three years, without the need for congressional recognition. However, if you want to make a regular change early, you must vote for it by Congress.

At present, Chai Dongliang follows the constitution of Yuan Shikai, and the president has the right to declare war, which does not need the approval of the Congress, and he, the acting president, also has this power. Once the formal parliament is established, no matter how brain-dead the 800 Arhats are, they will not agree to continue to use the constitution formulated by Yuan Shikai. And Chai Dongliang had already made up his mind that he would definitely participate in the war in the later stage of World War I, and if the Congress did not approve it at that time, what should he do?

Coercing the Congress by force and forcibly passing the bill to enter the war by violent means? Or will it be silenced at the behest of Congress?

These two choices, no matter which one they are, are unacceptable to Chai Dongliang!

It is easy to fight foreign enemies, but it is the most difficult to deal with the complicated political situation at home! It's not that there is no easy way, at this moment, with Chai Dongliang's prestige and power, you don't have to do it yourself if you want to deal with anyone, you just need to hint, and someone will naturally clean them up. If the potential political forces of all parties and the media who dare to speak the truth are cleaned up, only those who sing praises will be left in the future, and the current people are relatively ignorant and very easy to fool. Even if Chai Dongliang says that salt is sour and vinegar is salty, there will be shameless literati who will round the field for him and explain why salt is sour and vinegar is a reasonable surname.

After the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were suddenly more people who dared to speak the truth, and that was because the newspapers were all built in the concession, and the Qing court was beyond the reach of the whip, and they dared to openly criticize the court by relying on the protection of foreigners' privileges. However, as long as Chai Dongliang said hello to the ministers of various countries, he could soon recover the concessions of various countries through negotiations.

The resumption of the concession and the abolition of consular jurisdiction are not as difficult as later generations imagined, and most of the foreign devils come to China to do business, since they are businessmen, of course, they need to have more contact with the outside world, so there will be more business opportunities. It was only because of the Qing Dynasty and the shogunate era that the laws were too arbitrary and terrifying, and the oriental criminal laws such as standing in cages, playing boards, connecting the nine clans, and cutting with a thousand knives completely frightened them, that they demanded that they must have a separate place of residence, and at the same time only accept the punishment of their own consuls and their own laws.

It is not without precedent to settle the issue of concessions and consular jurisdiction through negotiations, and in the first nine years, after the reform of the legal system, the issue of the "residence areas" of the great powers in Yueben was quickly resolved through negotiations, and all the concessions were recovered, and the process was very smooth.

The concession where the merchant lives is different from the military port forcibly leased by the state, there is no military and strategic significance, it is only a means of protection for the people, when the host country can protect the safety of foreign nationals, there is no need to exist, and the privilege of consular jurisdiction to interfere with the justice of the host country is a kind of harm to both sides, it is easy to trigger hostility in the host country, arouse national hatred, and cause great damage to commercial behavior. Britain and the United States have been urging the Qing Dynasty to carry out legal reforms, not because of how kind they are. Britain and the United States were originally based on industry and commerce, and they knew too well that the existence of consular jurisdiction would not only protect the safety of their own merchants, but also cause artificial commercial losses.

Once the legal reform of the host country is effective, the foreign powers will follow the boat and abolish consular jurisdiction and show goodwill to the host country.

If, through the means of legal reform, Chai Dongliang abolishes the consular jurisdiction and then recovers the concession, his popularity will be further enhanced and he will win a greater degree of support from the people. Chai Dongliang also knows this, but the people don't understand, they will only think that the president is capable. The Chinese are accustomed to attributing all their achievements to the rulers, rather than understanding the rules of the world.

In the later stages of World War I, China sent troops to Europe to attack the war after making enough war money, and the ideal result was, of course, to replace the British Empire as the hegemon of the seven oceans, at least to get hold of Southeast Asia, and then pocket all the German colonies in the Pacific. After doing all this, Chai Dongliang can really take what he wants, and no one in China will have the slightest doubt about his words.

In China in another time and space, the extent to which the cult of personality can reach and how much power and glory it can give to the ruler has been fully verified, but the consequences of the ensuing destruction of the surname have also been more fully explained.

Shortcuts are often dead ends!

Chai Dongliang understood a little from this world, in another time and space, Yuan Shikai claimed that the emperor was ruined, which was originally a false proposition. The root cause of the defeat of the old Yuan Emperor was that he did not have any of the three major elements proposed by Goodnow to transform the pseudo-republic into a constitutional monarchy, and he did not have the support of the great powers, nor did he have absolute authority, let alone the support of the whole country. Liang Qichao said that he did not have any of the two prerequisites. What's even worse is that Yuan Shikai overestimated his ability to control the Beiyang faction, and also underestimated the insidiousness of the Beiyang generals.

The purpose of these guys to proclaim Yuan Shikai as emperor is to see Lao Yuan's jokes, and then use Yuan Shikai's claim that he is emperor and destroy the republican system as an excuse to send troops against Yuan. If Yuan Shikai is not the emperor, how can Duan Qirui have the opportunity to rebuild the republic?

Before Yuan Shikai was exiled by the Qing court to Huanshui for fishing, his control over the Beiyang Army was extremely strict, and it can be said that he was like a finger. Three years later, when the Xinhai Revolution was gradually out of control, after he became the president, the generals of the towns in Beiyang became the governors and military envoys of the provinces, and after they mastered the local financial power, the feudal towns became more serious.

It's a pity that Lao Yuan still thinks that this is his Beiyang back then, and he was played by his subordinates without knowing it.

Yuan Shikai failed to claim the emperor, not the whole country opposed it at all, but the Beiyang generals and the Kuomintang saw the weakness of the old Yuan and took the opportunity to make trouble, even if Yuan Shikai did not claim the emperor, but in accordance with the provisions of the "Presidential Election Law", he elected his son Yuan Keding to succeed him as president, they would also attack him en masse, even if Yuan Shikai did not even recommend his own son, no matter who he designated as his successor, others would provoke a civil war. Yuan Shikai recommended Xu Shichang, can Duan Qirui agree? If Duan Qirui is promoted, can Cao Kun agree?

Chai Dongliang has lived in this world for a long time, and he has also seen many things, how many points do the Chinese people know about the difference between the president and the emperor? Will they care if the one sitting in Yanjing City is the emperor or the president? The emperor of the Qing Dynasty lived in Zhongnanhai, and didn't President Yuan Da of the Republic of China still live in Zhongnanhai? The Qing Dynasty has a senior administrative yuan, didn't Yuan Shikai also have a senior administrative yuan? The only difference is that the Qing Dynasty's Senior Administration Yuan was for the regent Zaifeng, and Yuan Shikai's Senior Administration Yuan sang praises for him.

Compared with the end of the Qing Dynasty, what is the progress of Yuan Shikai's Beiyang?

It is nothing more than that the Qing court entered the Central Plains by a foreign race, and for many years lost power and humiliated the country, and completely lost the legitimate surname of the rule. If the Qing Dynasty was a Han Chinese regime, would it be so easy to be overthrown? When Sun Wen was in the book, the four big characters of "full of revolution" were sacrificed, and Liang Qichao's big pen like a rafter was difficult to resist, and the articles written by a few little hairy children made Liang Dacai's head unable to lift up.

What kind of reasoning do you talk about, "full of rows" is the biggest truth! Just like the Amitofu recited by the monk, if you ask what it means, just follow the recitation.

Chai Dongliang knew in his heart that Yuan Shikai's failure planted the seeds from the day he bought the old Beiyang generals with money through Yang Shiqi's hands in his hometown of Zhangde, and when Yuan Shikai had kidney stones but refused to undergo surgery, and finally caused uremia, the division of Beiyang was a foregone conclusion.

As long as there are warlords, civil war is inevitable, and it has nothing to do with Yuan Shikai becoming emperor, nor does it have anything to do with the republican monarchy, but only with interests.

It is a pity that later historians unanimously believe that it was Yuan Shikai who went perverse and risked the world's disapproval to claim the emperor, which led to the failure. Therefore, to be the emperor is to turn back the wheel of history, and to be the emperor is to be a villain!

Chai Dongliang had no doubts about the IQ of the Shi family, but he just felt that their bones were a little softer. Could it be that they really don't understand the reason for Yuan Shikai's failure?

Compared with Yuan Shikai's proclamation of the emperor, Sun Wen's "second revolution" can really be regarded as a perverse act that defies the condemnation of the world, an unprovoked war has eroded the five southeastern provinces, hundreds of thousands of military and civilian casualties, and countless displaced people, and which official historian has criticized Sun Wen?

The "second revolution" was about to fail, Sun Wen, Huang Xing, Bai Wenwei, and Wang Jingwei ??? All the bigwigs ran cleanly, and they didn't even do anything to order the soldiers to break through, leaving these hot-blooded young people who were instigated by them to fend for themselves. What is the difference between this and when Cixi escaped from the capital in the year of Gengzi and sealed the nine gates, so that the people of Yanjing fell into a desperate situation with no escape, and were slaughtered by the Eight-Nation Alliance? Which historian has criticized the frenzied actions of these Kuomintang bigwigs? Do these soldiers who are bent on creating a new republic deserve to die?

If it weren't for the little man He Haiming risking his life to enter the besieged city of Nanjing, and stabilized the army's heart through iron-blooded wrists, if it weren't for the reinforcements of the Jianghuai army entering the city, the tragedy of Zhang Xun's slaughter of Nanjing City would be inevitable!

In another time and space, the official media repeatedly publicized the Nanjing Massacre, but how many people in the whole country knew about Zhang Xun's Nanjing Massacre? Could it be that the tens of thousands of Nanjing people killed by Zhang Xun are just cold statistics?

To put it bluntly, it's just that the party is the same and the party is different, and the historian sat on the side of the emperor, the general and the victor, and threw away the spirit of the literati and the conscience of the historian. It seems that those innocent victims are all ants, and it is not a pity to die!

Chai Dongliang is just a fart in the 21st century, and he can't get rid of the thinking of a fart people, but he has always been proud, as a fart people, he has the thinking mode of a superior, that is the real sadness.

"Report, Mr. Gu Weijun asks to see!" The guards shouted outside the carriage.

"Let him in!" Chai Dongliang got up from the bed and sat on the sofa.

"President, Jiujiang Emergency!"

"What's wrong?"

"The people of Tianjin stormed the French Concession and fought with the Concession Patrol House!"

Chai Dongliang smiled faintly: "That's it?" Hit and exercise! ”

Gu Weijun's face turned pale: "The French patrol killed two people and injured five people, and the French consul in Tianjin came forward to stop it and was killed by the mob!" ”

Chai Dongliang jumped up from the sofa: "Won't it?" It's so lively! ”

"And that's not all! The French Legation in Yanjing was also stormed, and some people shot at the Legation, but fortunately no one was injured, and Minister Glenn probably knew about it, and I guess he is also on his way back to Beijing now! President, the stakes are high, you have to make a quick decision! ”

According to international law, the legation is an overseas territory, and an attack on the embassy is equivalent to an attack on the mainland! Don't look at the French Legation built in the eastern suburbs of Yanjing, but according to international law, it is considered French territory!

Killed the consul and shot at the legation? These guys are really good!

Chai Dongliang smiled bitterly: "I have a fart solution?" Murder pays off debts??? Oh yes, why did they storm the concession? ”

"They said they wanted to defend the country's sovereignty and take back the concessions??? President, this matter must not be taken lightly, you must make a quick decision! ”

Chai Dongliang sighed: "Let the Tianjin and Yanjing police stations maintain law and order first, and then return to Yanjing??? It's really not hilarious! ”

Dividing line

Author's note: Recently, there have been frequent school bus accidents, and in the final analysis, the privileged class has not paid attention to the survival of the people at all.

China in 2011 is indeed inferior to China in 1914, and if you read this book carefully, you should know that even Chai Dongliang's motorcade had to let the school bus pass first. Therefore, in the plane where Chai Dongliang lives, there will be no school bus accidents, and there will not be so many innocent and tragic deaths!

(To be continued)