Chapter 246: Independence

Tang Ning thought that Guo Songtao had done a good job, so all the affairs of the Qing Dynasty were handed over to Lao Guo, and even after all the governors of the Qing Dynasty were elected, a national prime minister election was finally held, and Tang Ning didn't pay much attention to it, this old Guo would naturally deal with it. Until Linfield, who was concerned about his homeland, told him that the election results were out, guess who?

Downing could have been the first in the world to know the results through the vote counting system developed by GuòIBM, but he didn't, and he wanted to read the news from the front page of the Guò Daqing News like all Qing citizens. Hearing Linfield say this, seeing her strange expression, Tangning felt a little bad.

He took the printed version of the "Daqing News" in her hand and saw the three big characters "Li Hongzhang". Tang Ning still didn't take it to heart, and said lightly: "Master Li......"

He thinks that although Master Li's character is not good, his political talent is still outstanding. That's a pretty good result. Lin Feilin is a character who has a certain political perception who "invented" the legal drama, she said: "Guo Songtao was in a hurry, and tried his best to persuade Prince Gong to hand over all the military and political power to the democratically elected prime minister, and abolished the Military Aircraft Department, and the consequences were ...... It can be very strict. ”

As soon as she finished speaking, Tang Ning had already seen the three words "Hu Guangyong" in the article, and this guy who almost became a wanted criminal resurfaced in a grand manner after the election results came out, and became one of Li Hongzhang's most important aides, and it seemed that he could become the most important cabinet member after the reform -- the Minister of Finance. Naturally, in some of the six ministries or something, Guo Songtao has been drastically changed, and the Minister of Finance is almost the original household department.

Tang Ning knew that Guo Songtao was a radical figure, but he really didn't expect him to dare to hand over military power, including the commander of the most important Shenji Battalion, Tang Ning couldn't help but sigh: "Lao Guo really wants to reform, China really has a Washington, but it's hard to say whether this result is good or not......"

Without Tang Ning's nod, of course, it would be impossible to hand over the control of the Shenji Battalion, and in order to fulfill China's Washington idealism, Tang Ning agreed to Lao Guo's radical request. The Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces, who was hiding in the Old Summer Palace, will exercise imperial power for the last time and hand over all the power to the prime minister, who does not even have the two words "Prime Minister" after it.

This was not the first time Downing had done such a thing, and Mazzini's republican ideas even led him to resign from the glamorous title of Emperor of Italy. This time Tang Ning withdrew more completely from the government of the Qing Dynasty, and in Italy he now had the privilege of owning a private army.

The strictest thing may be that Guo Songtao did not separate the "capital power" and "citizen power" into the upper house and the lower house in accordance with Tang Ning's ideal to achieve balance, but let the power of the lower house be so large that it cannot be checked and balanced, and the upper house is useless.

Lao Guo himself completely withdrew from the political stage, and he put Zeng Guofan, Prince Gong, Jing Shou and other former military ministers into the House of Lords, which may be the only counterweight to the democratically elected prime minister. The election of the House of Commons was held at the same time, and Zeng Jize, who was only 25 years old, lived up to Downing's expectations and actually achieved the position of leader www.biquge.info of the majority party.

At this point, there was no point in controlling the imperial family again, Tang Ning instructed the 9-year-old little emperor and the guards around the queen mother and the "master" to make it clear that they were free and could hire their own guards, and when the guards hired by the queen mother arrived, these people who had "protected" them for a long time would leave.

Empress Dowager Cixi was a capable person, and soon she hired her own guards, and after those hateful old guards left, she symbolically slipped around Beijing under the protection of her own people, indicating that she was really free, however, the power has been completely lost, at this time, even if it is worth exposing the conspiracy of a foreign power? With the spread of freedom of speech in the Qing Dynasty, Cixi knew that the Windsor Consortium was behind the coup d'état, and the only thing she couldn't understand was why the Windsor Consortium would hand over power to the democratically elected prime minister.

According to the old practice, when the new head of state took office, the commanders of those frontier corps had to return to Beijing to appeal for their posts, including Shi Dakai in the Kazakh region, Li Xiucheng in the Mongolian region, and Zuo Zongtang in Heilongjiang.

The new official took office with three fires, and you will know how Master Li ascended to the throne after watching the good drama behind, of course, it is to promote nationalism and carry forward the traditions of the Chinese nation, of course, the Gregorian calendar or something has to be changed back, and return to the lunar era again, and even bring back the tradition of the emperor's year name, 1865 is about to end, then forget it, from 1866 onwards, it is counted as the "first year of the Great Rule", which means the great rule of the world, and the Tongzhi Emperor in history has become the "Great Governance Emperor". The Spring Festival of the Gregorian calendar was only implemented for a while, and then it was abolished.

In order to help Hu Qingyutang wash the floor, the ongoing nationwide drug testing operation was quietly terminated, which is the most troublesome thing for Guo Songtao, but he thinks that this sacrifice is worth it, who made him choose the path of true democracy? Democracy is never necessarily better than **, it depends on who is there to operate.

People with Confucian education can rarely afford to look down on businessmen, the status of businessmen who have risen rapidly has been rapidly degraded, the right to bear guns has been implemented in some provinces where elected governors have been elected, Li Hongzhang is in favor of banning guns, and has the support of the majority of parliaments accustomed to traditional ways of rule, the prime minister's bill is likely to be passed by the lower house, and the constitution stipulates that as long as the two-thirds majority of the lower house is passed, the upper house has no veto power at all.

The Qing Dynasty originally also implemented a tax rebate policy for the employment rate of primary education students, and this tax rebate was not abolished, but the Ministry of Education of Li Hongzhang's cabinet proposed a bill to change the subjects, and the original textbooks designated by Tang Ning himself were replaced with a super classic global brief history in the eyes of the Japanese, and Chinese studies were replaced, and the content of Chinese studies was each counted as a credit, and almost only learning Chinese studies was considered to be a secondary education, this thing made Tang Ning shake his head, and the spirit of Li Daren's "Westernization Movement" was really not complete.

Li Hongzhang's spirit of Westernization is of course strong, but he resorted to this trick in order to curry favor with Confucianism in the general election, which was not his original intention at all. So far, Guo Songtao still supports the democratically elected prime minister in principle, but he began to worry that changing this policy formulated by Tang Ning himself would anger the real former head of the Qing Dynasty, but fortunately, Tang Ning still did not react to this, and the little queen of Linfield was so angry that she smashed her glass.

In order to suppress the original king of public opinion in the Qing Dynasty, the Daqing Shimbun, Li Hongzhang's cabinet immediately issued a ban on abolishing the official status of the Daqing Shimbun government newspaper, but often first published the state's policy of emphasizing the state in the Ta Kung Pao run by Hu Guangyong. Daqing Royal Radio was also ordered to change its name, not to be called Daqing, Royal and the like, and after receiving such a notice, Tangning instructed to change the name to "Chinese Broadcasting". After Li Hongzhang heard this name, he suddenly felt frightened and stopped the large-scale "national **" action slightly.

Originally, the factory of the Siberian artery was to be located in Beijing, but now in view of the hostility of the democratic Qing Dynasty to the Windsor consortium, Downing decided to move the Beijing factory to Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, which is also preparing to build a major artery to Alaska. The news was published in The Telegraph, which was a strong warning to the Daishichen government and a super positive for the Japanese people.

Upon receiving the news of the founding of New China and the unpleasant incident with the Windsor consortium, the Russian tsar immediately became happy and warmly telegraphed to Li Hongzhang, saying, "As influential powers in Eurasia, the two countries should unite and work together to maintain order on the mainland." If we look at the territory of Qing and Russia together on the world map, we will find unprecedented strength, confident in overcoming any difficulties and confronting any enemy. ”

In order to maintain his own **, Li Hongzhang ambiguously responded to Alexander II as "completely agreeing with the views of His Majesty the Tsar", but Master Li is not a fool, just ambiguous, and has no practical action, to test the reaction of Windsor imperialism.

The New York Times excitedly said: "China and Russia have touched the tiger's whiskers of the Windsor Empire, and the world pattern will become unpredictable." ”

The Krupp Company found a big buyer for the new artillery it had developed, and the Shenji Battalion had no support from the East India Company and had to find a new arms supplier. Li Hongzhang apparently thought further, hoping that Krupp would provide the technology, and that Master Li would build his own arsenal in Tianjin, calling it the "Zhili Manufacturing Bureau".

Because the Zhili Manufacturing Bureau was nominally a state-owned enterprise, but it was the cronyism of the leaders appointed by Hu Guangyong and Li Hongzhang, the leader of the Progressive Party, Zeng Jize, severely criticized the government's policy of nationalizing the chemical industry, saying that Li Hongzhang did not understand Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. (http://.)。

It doesn't matter if he doesn't understand, Li Hongzhang is simply a person who pretends not to understand the votes of the Qingliu Party, which sneers at the "invisible hand market", and his "Ta Kung Pao" even retorted: "Even Mr. Downing Windsor created the rich and powerful State of Israel, which is famous for its nationalization, I am afraid that Adam Smith is not the embodiment of justice and truth, right?" ”

The "Times" founded by Zeng Jize responded: "Do you still know that Israel is rich and powerful? It's good to know, prosperity depends on attracting entrepreneurs to invest and create a good investment environment for them, ****** is now doing the opposite. The nature of Israel's prosperity ****** simply mistaken, not because of the state, but because of the Windsor consortium. ”

"Ta Kung Pao" replied: "Our Qing Dynasty not only needs prosperity and strength, but also needs national dignity, and the politics of our country cannot be manipulated by foreigners." ”

The two factions were bitter and happy with each other, and Downing was very relieved that the tradition of free speech had been preserved.

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