After Wang Hengyue put down the rebellion in Tibet Province, due to the withdrawal of troops in the middle of the road, the problem of Tibet Province was further complicated!

The so-called Sino-British-Tibetan tripartite conference was held in Shimla, India, and at the beginning of the meeting, the British instigated Lunchen Shazha to put forward such unreasonable demands as "the establishment of the West [***] and the Tibetan Province cannot recognize the Sino-British Treaty of 1906", "The scope of Tibetan Province includes the part of Xinjiang Province south of the Kunlun Mountains and Anding Pagoda, all of Qinghai, the western part of Gansu and Sichuan, Dajian Furnace, and Adun Zi in northwestern Yunnan", "Chinese officials and Chinese soldiers are not allowed to enter Tibet, and Chinese businessmen must have passports issued by the Tibetan Provincial Government Axe to enter Tibet."

After the central representative refuted and put forward such conditions as "stipulating that Tibet Province is an entire part of China's territory" and that "China can send Tibetan governors to Lhasa," British representative McMahon and adviser Burr went so far as to coax and coerce Lenchen Shazha to make private deals, draw a pledge on the map drawn by McMahon on the map demarcating India and Tibetan Province, create the so-called McMahon Line, and assign to British India more than 90,000 square kilometers of land that had always been under the jurisdiction of China's Tibetan Province. The British did not dare to make this dirty deal public for many years, and Lenchen Shazha did not dare to officially report it to the 13th [***] Lama, and the Tibetan authorities did not approve this illegal territorial deal.

After playing with this set of conspiracy, the British representative again appeared as a mediator and proposed a so-called "compromise plan" at the meeting, dividing the entire Tibetan region into Inner Tibet and Outer Tibet, with Outer Tibet including Ali, Weizang, and most of the Kham areas, and the rest of the Inner Tibetan areas being Inner Tibet, in which China enjoys a certain amount of sovereignty, and Outer Tibet exercises autonomy, and China has only nominal "suzerainty." Under the intimidation and threats of the British deputies, the Chinese delegate Chen Yifan drew a line on the draft treaty after explaining that it was only initialed and required the approval of the Chinese political axe before it could be formally signed, but the people from all walks of life throughout the country strongly opposed the draft treaty, and Yuan Shikai did not dare to ratify the treaty, and the Chinese representative did not sign the official text of the treaty and declared that China would never recognize this treaty.

For this reason, the so-called Simla Treaty, although signed by representatives of the British and Tibetan provinces, had no legal effect. Even the British political axe has not officially announced this treaty!

After the failure of Britain's aggressive plot at the Simla Conference, Britain instigated the local authorities in Tibetan Province to expand their armaments and provide Tibetan Province with new weapons and equipment!

"Sichuan is very close to the Tibetan province, and sooner or later there will be a head-on conflict with the British." When he learned of this situation, Wang Hengyue said expressionlessly.

Jiang Baili's expression was equally grim: "Yes, it's not just a conflict, if the situation reaches the point where it can't be contained, some small-scale wars will even break out, but after all, my country has been lagging behind for too long."

"If you want to blame it, blame the court with braids."

Wang Hengyue sneered disdainfully: "During the Sino-British Opium War, a military general who was a relative of the emperor came up with a plan to defeat the Western barbarians. He suggested hanging firecrackers on the monkey's back and throwing the monkey onto the deck of the British [***] ship moored on the shore. After this plan was approved, nineteen monkeys were taken to the Chinese headquarters in cages, but no one could be found who dared to throw monkeys within the range of the British [***] ship. Chief of Staff, ridiculous or pathetic? ”

"It's ridiculous and pathetic." When Jiang Baili said this, he looked very heavy: "We are too far behind, but when we want to catch up, we just take a detour." The so-called 'self-improvement' movement of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The term itself comes from the Confucian classics, and the 'enlightened men' used it to protect Chinese civilization by transplanting Western machinery. At this point, China's leaders were ready to go beyond the purely military realm to include railways, steamship routes, machine shops, and applied sciences. The idea, however, was that China should gain the West's superiority in weapons and machinery, while still maintaining China's Confucian moral supremacy. This self-improvement movement is doomed to failure because the basic assumptions on which it is based are absurd. Westernization cannot be an incomplete process, either copied or rejected altogether. Western science cannot be used to maintain Confucian civilization, on the contrary, it will inevitably weaken it. ”

"The Chief of Staff's words are to the point." Wang Hengyue nodded slightly: "The fallacy of partial modernization is clear to China's conservative scholars, who make up the vast majority of China's ruling class and can effectively stop attempts to modernize China's economy, just as they did earlier attempts to modernize the military." ”

Speaking of this, Wang Hengyue suddenly changed his words: "Chief of Staff, do you know why Sun Yat-sen failed and why Yuan Shikai succeeded?" ”

Jiang Baili didn't answer, and Wang Hengyue said in a trance:

"Quite simply, Sun Yat-sen was mainly supported by Chinese businessmen and laundry workers overseas. Domestically, only a handful of students and businessmen were influenced by his ideas, while the general population remained ignorant and apathetic. When the revolution came, it was partly a matter for the landed gentry and business circles in some provinces, who opposed the Manchu regime's belated efforts to nationalize the railroad construction. These local leaders instigated strikes and riots, ostensibly on the grounds that nationalization would lead to foreign control, but in reality feared that nationalization would preclude their profits. The revolutionaries took advantage of this discontent and did effective work among the students and soldiers.

In Guangdong, a small-scale revolutionary uprising was suppressed, but an accidental explosion at a bomb factory in Hankow led to a mutiny in nearby troops. Despite the lack of coordination, the revolutionary movement quickly spread throughout the country. At this time, Sun Yat-sen, who was in the United States, immediately returned to China and became the provisional president of the Republic of China! ”

He paused there for a moment, and continued:

Clearly, this movement to overthrow Manchu rule embodied much more than the revolutionary leadership provided by Sun Yat-sen. Thus, even though Sun Yat-sen was the nominal leader, he failed to control the whole country. The actual power was in the hands of Yuan Shikai, who commanded the most combat-ready army in China. Sun Yat-sen could only give up the presidency to Yuan Shikai; The latter, for their part, agreed to work with the National Assembly and the Responsible Cabinet. However, this arrangement did not really solve the fundamental question of what kind of form of government to replace the overthrown Manchu regime. Yuan Shikai greatly admired the Western military technology and management methods, but did not approve of the Western political system, including the system of supervising the executive branch by the people's representatives. This, he argues, is contrary to Chinese tradition and undoubtedly contrary to his personal ambitions."

Jiang Baili listened very carefully, this was the first time that Wang Hengyue revealed his heart and said what he thought in front of others.

He listened carefully to what Wang Hengyue said:

"Sun Yat-sen established a new political party, the Kuomintang. Yuan Shikai founded the Progressive Party to organize his followers. In the election of the National Assembly, the KMT won a majority of seats. But this setback did not limit Yuan Shikai too much, because he had the support of the army, the bureaucracy, and foreign powers. In fact, the final contest focused on the aftermath of the big loans; The money was borrowed by Yuan Shikai from the Great Powers. Aware that Yuan Shih-kai might use some of the money to strengthen his grip on the political axe, the Kuomintang leaders warned other countries that the Chinese constitution stipulates that all kinds of loans must be approved by the National Assembly; Since Congress will never approve this particular loan, it will not be protected by law. But the great powers preferred to support the scholar Yuan Shikai, just as they had supported the Manchu dynasty in their earlier years. As a result, Yuan Shikai was given the money, and as the Kuomintang feared, he used the money to strengthen his position. His measures at this time included the assassination of one of the leading leaders of the Kuomintang; These measures led to an armed uprising of the Kuomintang. But the uprising was not yet mature, and was easily suppressed by Yuan Shikai. ”

Speaking of this, he said intentionally or unintentionally: "The great powers support a talent reader, a talent reader with a strong army, not a political party that has no soldiers and no guns in its hands and can only talk about empty words, why?" ”

Jiang Baili fell into deep thought, why? Only those who have a strong military force can realize the ambition in their hearts, and whether this ambition is beneficial to China or not, it can be carried out unimpeded!

And those "politicians" who have no soldiers and no guns in their hands, they can only talk about it forever, they can only dream forever, and everything they envision can never be implemented!

Yuan Shikai succeeded, Sun Yat-sen failed.

So, what is this Heng Shuai going to do?

Wang Hengyue said softly:

"We sculpt an idol of a man out of wood or clay and call it a god. Place it in a beautiful temple and let it sit in a splendid shrine; The people adored it and thought it was incredibly powerful. But if a madman pushes it down, tramples it under his feet, and throws it into a filthy pond, if someone finds it and picks it up and puts it in its sacred place, then you will find that its charm has been lost. Yuan Shikai is now a god, and many people are willing to worship him, but one day he falls, then all he gets is a curse. The only way for people to be worshiped forever is not to put God in temples, but to put God in the hearts of all people! ”

Jiang Baili's heart moved.

Wang Hengyue said slowly:

"It's ridiculous that China has established an imitation of the American republican form of government. That republican form of government was a great failure because it had no roots in Chinese history, traditions, political experiences, institutions, surnames, beliefs, ideas, or habits. It is foreign, empty, attached to China. It is quickly removed over time. It does not represent political thought, just a caricature of political thought, a caricature of a crude, naïve, schoolboy. This republican form of government ended tragically and failed miserably. But it was not the republican form of government that failed, but the efforts of a generation. ”

Today's Wang Hengyue completely surprised Jiang Baili: "What about you, what is your ideal?" ”

Wang Hengyue was silent for a while, and said: "I don't know, maybe I want to build a strong country, a country that is really suitable for China, but I am dreaming now, a very beautiful white dream!" ”

Jiang Baili was also silent and said, "But all ideals are first built on the white dream!" ”

(To be continued)