The three representatives of the People's Party are the same as last three. Yan Fu, Feng Xu, Shang Yuan. All three had been officials from the Manchu Qing dynasty, and most newspapers devoted columns to the three about their history. Yan Fu and Feng Xu can say that the two have long been stable big figures in the world. However, Shang Yuan used to be a little-known small person, but now he is the secretary of the Huaihai Provincial Party Committee of the People's Party.

The Shang family is also a local clan in Shangqiu, and there are people who are officials in the local area and in the imperial court. The last time Yuan Shikai had just seized the center, the situation was unclear. This time, except for a few guys who couldn't see the situation clearly, the officials knew that the end of the Manchu Qing was imminent. Shang Yuan's father asked the servants to go to the People's Party residence and sent Shang Yuan a few clothes and five hundred taels of silver. This can be regarded as a direct manifestation of the current situation, you know, the two have not had any contact for five years.

"I can make a fortune by having a meeting." Shang Yuan said with a smile. After a few years of revolution in the People's Party, from Chen Ke to grassroots party members, no one has made a fortune from the revolution. Moreover, the People's Party is initially implementing a system of making the assets of cadres public, and cadres at and above the level of county magistrates and secretaries of the county party committee must disclose their families. For example, Chen Ke's family is the leader in the base area, and the 5,000 taels of silver given by his father-in-law, He Ruming, made Chen Ke's family the richest man in the People's Party. But no one will gossip, Chen Ke himself made great contributions to the revolution, not only the creation and command, but also in terms of money, all the money earned by Chen Ke at home and abroad was used in the party's cause. This is the real start-up capital of the BJP. And Yan Fu's family, who came with him, is the second richest because of some acres of land and real estate in other places. Shang Yuan has now received the money given by his father, and there is a great possibility of surpassing Yan Fu.

These high-ranking cadres of the People's Party are not sensitive to money, and they always have millions of dollars in their hands, and their backgrounds are quite high. If you really want to make money reasonably, it's completely easy. Shang Yuan's joke, everyone just listens to it.

"Do you think Article 1 of the Constitution will be discussed first?" Feng Xu asked. Article 1 of the Constitution defines the state system, without which everything that follows cannot be continued. The only thing the BJP delegates wanted to be sure of was this.

"I think Yuan Shikai won't be confused, other provinces ......, our troops are also ready." Yan replied. Chen Ke made it clear that this time the People's Party would send troops out of whichever province dared to openly declare its support for the continued existence of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The reason was that they supported the Manchus. Although this decision has not been made public, I think the provinces should understand it a little.

"But as soon as the Manchus fall, will China really be peaceful?" Feng Xu couldn't help but ask.

Yan Fu and Shang Yuan glanced at each other, and they both showed a very helpless smile. Yan Fu replied: "Wen Qing is peace-loving, and his peace-loving way seems to be unacceptable to others. ”

Feng Xu was not a high-ranking cadre of the People's Party, so he naturally had no way of knowing about the plans of the People's Party. However, just by watching Chen Ke kill Cixi and Guangxu with "This Life of Cixi", Feng Xu thoroughly understood the extreme correctness of the sentence "Since ancient times, heroes have no good class". Such a young man can build a system, train troops to fight, and even manipulate people's minds. How powerful the dark side of him was, Feng Xu didn't want to discuss it anymore.

For Feng Xu, who is 70 years old this year, it no longer matters whether it is peaceful or not. China's situation will never end here, and even if the People's Party has no other ideas, Beiyang will not let China go on like this. Where exactly Chen Ke wants to take China, and what is at the end of that road, this is what Feng Xu wants to see.

The first formal National Assembly was convened on April 28, 1911, and from the 26th, the entire city of Beijing was placed under martial law. Yuan Shikai gave Beiyang an order that before the final result of Article 1 of the constitution came out, martial law must be carried out. This is also a last resort precautionary measure, Article 1 of the Constitution is too involved, and Yuan Shikai cannot make any mistakes.

Yang Du's personality is relatively straightforward, and he is very clear about the current situation. Yuan Shikai wants to easily promote the situation, it is really easy, but Yuan Shikai does not want to leave a rebellious reputation, so the voting must be done beautifully. Yang Du was responsible for going to the provinces to listen to the situation. But Yang Du's teacher, Wang Minyun, prevented Yang Du from doing so.

Wang Minyun is a famous scholar in Hunan, born in the thirteenth year of Daoguang (1833), a young orphan, raised by his uncle. Since childhood, he has been dull but studious, and he is free to "learn what he has learned, and he will not recite or eat; Those who recite it at night shall not be relieved or sleep. "Scriptures, histories, and hundreds of schools of thought are not recited. Note, note, copy, school, there are fixed classes on the day. "9-year-old Nowen. Slightly longer, out of Changsha Chengnan Academy. Sex is high, not profit-making. Under the strong recommendation and mediation of Yang Du, this old gentleman is now appointed as the director of the National University Library of China. Yuan Shikai knew Wang Minyun's character, and the problem that the National Library was now encountering was that some bastard literati stole books from the books collected in Beiyang in order to be vassal. They really don't want to make money, it's just the idea of the literati "acting alone". Wang Minyun has a great reputation, old qualifications, and high seniority, and with him in charge, he can quite suppress the situation.

The director of the National Library of China, this is an important position among the literati. Although Wang Minyun knew how much of a role his disciple Yang Du had played, he had never had any personal contact with Yang Du. Knowing that Yang Du worked as a spy and lobbyist, Wang Minyun finally came forward.

"Tiger Zen, you idiot! What's the use of you now going to listen to lobbying? Wang Minyun asked when he saw Yang Du's head. Although he is a scholar, if he does not have a deep understanding of the world, Wang Minyun will never be able to deal with those book thieves.

was criticized by the teacher like this, but Yang Du failed to understand the key, "Teacher, this kind of thing has to be done at the same time." ”

"There is Yuan Gong inside, and Chen Ke outside, which hero are you charging?" Wang Minyun was almost desperate for his own stupid apprentice, "The provinces either listen to Yuan Gong, or they are afraid that Chen Ke will start a war, and the plan now is just who speaks first." There will be a rule on who speaks first, and it's not something you can avoid if you want to. You don't want to be this jumping clown. ”

was blamed by the teacher, and Yang Du suddenly realized. Under the guidance of the teacher, he continued to visit those who should have visited, but when he did, he listened to the representatives of the provinces and did not say anything himself. The representatives of the provinces are all elites, as long as Yang Du goes to visit, everyone knows that there is no need to talk so much useless.

At nine o'clock in the morning of April 28, the first official parliament of the Manchu Qing Dynasty officially convened. Having learned the lessons of the last Congress, the BJP delegates were delayed until after the parliamentary deputies bowed. Yuan Shikai did not talk nonsense, and immediately after he took the stage, he said that the representatives of the provinces need to vote on what kind of government should be implemented in China. The voting was conducted by secret ballot, with the delegates first writing down the content of the national system, and the meeting recorded all the various national sports in public, and then voting on the top five national sports models to select and elect three. Then vote on the final state system.

The legislators had thought that Yuan Shikai would let everyone choose between a republic and a constitutional monarchy under the inter-provincial autonomy system. I didn't expect Yuan Shikai to make this look quite democratic. Many deputies' perceptions of Yuan Shikai immediately changed considerably.

The representatives of the People's Party glanced at each other, Feng Xu frowned slightly, he didn't expect things to develop to this point at all. Shang Yuan nodded slightly. Chen Ke once said, "The leadership of the BJP has only his own vote at the meeting, but the only privilege that can be called is that they can largely decide what to discuss and what not to discuss." ”

The discussion model proposed by Yuan Shikai seems complicated, but it is actually quite simple. Except for the fact that the first round of votes requires all 500 votes to be read, which takes a long time, it is very fast from the start of the second vote.

The first round of votes was really joyful, and the parliamentarians under the Beiyang banner were basically asked to support the presidential system under the autonomy of the provinces. However, this option only requires a top-five finish in the first round.

"Absolute monarchy!"

"The President's words and deeds are regarded as a republic of laws that must be enforced."

"The provinces are fully autonomous, and matters are a republic in which parliament deliberates."

"Split the seal."

"Hmm!" There was already a roar from below.

The tellers chanted aloud the various political structures advocated by the parliamentarians, and what many had thought was a one-sided situation did not occur at all. And the clerk honestly wrote these things out with chalk on a large blackboard. Since there was too much content to propose, one blackboard was not enough, so another one was moved in. When the vote reached the 400th vote, the second blackboard was not enough, and the third blackboard was moved in.

The legislators of the provinces outside Beiyang were dumbfounded, but they were forced to fill in the presidential system under the autonomy of the provinces honestly. Looking at the situation in front of them, in fact, what can they do if they are just scribbling? Since you can't change the overall situation, it's better to express your heart directly.

However, some forms of government are extremely excessive, such as the head of state, members of the National Assembly, and all the officials must be from Sichuan, and after the voter frowns and reads it out, all the members of the National Assembly frown and look at the Sichuan representatives.

The Sichuan parliamentary group also looked at each other, this joke is too big, and it can even be said that this is already an extremely excessive joke. The anxious Sichuan parliamentarian had already stood up and shouted: "Ge Laozi, this is definitely not written by our Sichuan parliamentarians. The vote is by secret ballot, who knows who wrote it? That turtle son wrote this, and he stood up as a hero. Don't slack the pendulum belt here! ”

Naturally, no one would stand up and admit that they had done it, and there was a low laugh in the room. This irritated the Sichuan parliamentarian even more, and he scolded a few more times in Sichuan. So the police appeared on the edge of the venue. In the last Diet, because the parliamentarians wanted to make trouble, the police in charge of order had forcibly intervened to suppress it. Everyone remembers this vividly. Seeing that the police had the intention of making a move again, the Sichuan congressman next to him hurriedly dragged the anxious representative back to his seat.

Some of the old and respected people in the parliament have frowned, although they don't like Yuan Shikai's dictatorship, but they don't have much of a good impression of the council, and it is too much to play such a prank.

After a morning of voting, the top five polities were chosen. Maintain the current presidential system under the autonomy of the provinces, the constitutional monarchy, and the monarchy, which are among the best in the three forms of government. The inter-provincial republican parliamentary system is followed by the parliamentary system of the whole people. Unreliable options are eliminated.

"I didn't expect it to be serious." Feng Xu was surprised by this first congressional election. The basic tone has already been set, Feng Xu thought it was just a formality, but now it seems that the parliamentarians still really want to make serious speeches on national affairs. Chaos is certainly one of the situations, and order is the mainstream of the situation.

"Looks like we don't have to fight. Nobody wants to fight. Yan Fu also said.

"It is internal factors that determine the victory or defeat of the struggle." Shang Yuan has a view that is too much of a People's Party. In fact, the outcome of this struggle has already been decided, and the only thing that needs to be determined now is the question of the interests of the various forces in this great change, and "the parliament is not so much a place to discuss issues as a place to share the spoils." ”

Yan Fu and Feng Xu listened to Shang Yuan's evaluation, they just shook their heads and smiled bitterly. For the two of them, a strange feeling suddenly arose in their hearts that the People's Party was fighting for the day when the Manchu Qing Dynasty was completely overthrown, but this day really came, but it made people feel an inexplicable melancholy. But a few hundred people walked around like a family, and everything was decided. Behind this, the struggle of more than 100,000 People's Party members and the army, and the efforts of tens of millions of people in the base areas. I didn't see any sign of it. What's the point of such a thing? The more they thought about it, the more they felt a kind of melancholy. As a result, they didn't even want to talk anymore.

At lunchtime, the representatives of the provinces seemed to be infected by Yan Fu and Feng Xu's emotions, they were not as enthusiastic as last time, and everyone was silent. Many people have a look of gain and loss on their faces. After all, until now, everyone's life has been spent under the rule of the Manchus. Once the Manchu Qing Dynasty falls, what kind of future awaits everyone? No one could have imagined it.

Voting in the afternoon was even more rapid, with two rounds of voting ending from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. In the end, the result of the long-established "presidential system under the autonomy of the provinces" became a completely new national system. The parliamentarians personally marked the fate of the Manchu Qing with their own hands.

Yuan Shikai walked onto the podium with a cold expression, this was the result he wanted, but when this day really came, this hero also felt a lot of pressure. "Ladies and gentlemen, since the parliament has made a decision, I should enter the palace overnight and convey this matter to the Queen Mother and the Emperor. From now on, Congress is temporarily suspended for three days. Wait for news from the palace. ”

After Yuan Shikai finished speaking, no one in the council spoke. The change of fate overwhelmed everyone. Some people are dazed, some people are afraid, some people look left and right, wanting to see something from others. But everyone was a little overwhelmed.

Until the three representatives of the People's Party got up with a grim face, walked out of the parliament hall without saying a word, and listened to their footsteps go farther and farther. Suddenly, some of the councillors began to cry. It was a parliamentarian who was "loyal" to the Manchus, and someone took the lead, and the cry immediately rang out, which was a wail to the Manchus, and even the mourners personally pronounced the demise of the Manchus.

Yuan Shikai's final forced palace was completely a form of walking. The Manchu royal family had long since lost the slightest bit of power. Yuan Shikai only signed the preferential treatment conditions in the name of the deputy prime minister of the cabinet, and this preferential treatment condition has three contents.

The first item "On the Conditions for Preferential Treatment of the Qing Emperor after His Resignation", a total of 8 paragraphs: (1) The Qing Emperor's title still exists, and the Republic of China treats foreign monarchs with the courtesy; (2) The Qing Emperor's annual use of 4 million taels was allocated by the government of the Republic of China; (3) The Qing Emperor temporarily lived in the palace and moved to the Summer Palace in the future, and the guards were retained as usual; (4) The mausoleum of the Qing Emperor's temple will be enshrined forever, and the government of the Republic of China will set up guards to protect it at its discretion; (5) If the Guangxu Mausoleum is properly repaired, the government of the Republic of China will pay practical funds; (6) The deacons in the palace may be retained as usual, but no eunuchs shall be recruited; (7) The private property of the Qing Emperor was specially protected by the government of the Republic of China; (8) The original Praetorian Guard was established by the War Department of the Republic of China, and the amount and salary were still the same.

The second "Conditions for the Treatment of the Qing Imperial Family" consists of 4 articles: (1) the princes and princes shall remain the same; (2) the royal family has the same rights as the people; (3) Integrated protection of private property of the royal family; (4) The Imperial Family shall be exempt from military service.

The third item is "Conditions for the Treatment of Manchu and Mongolian Hui Tibetan Ethnic Groups". A total of 7 articles: (1) equality with the Han Chinese; (2) protect their private property; (3) The prince and the prince are still the same; (4) The government of the Republic of China raised livelihoods for the princes who were living in difficulty; (5) Raise the livelihood of the Eight Banners first, and before the plan is made, its salary is still supported; (6) Restrictions on business and residence in the past shall be removed, and all states and counties shall be allowed to naturalize freely; (7) Listen to their freedom to profess their original religion.

Since the Opium War, the end of the Qing Dynasty, which has been talked about a lot, has really arrived. April 28, 1911, was the last day of the Qing Dynasty.

Empress Dowager Longyu and 5-year-old Emperor Xuantong Puyi issued an edict of abdication in the Qianqing Palace. Yuan Shikai, who most directly buried the Qing Dynasty, was reluctant to attend the funeral, and Foreign Minister Hu Weide attended for him.

Hu Weide led 13 cabinet ministers in a row. When Longyu, whose face was like ashes, came out with the ignorant Xuantong Emperor Xiao Puyi, the ministers did not bow down, but bowed three times to Longyu and Puyi together. This was said in advance, and the Queen Mother, who would become a commoner in a few minutes, did not want to continue her former majesty, even for the last time.

And Yuan Shikai also played a trick, he signed the preferential conditions in the name of the deputy prime minister of the Manchu cabinet, but the preferential conditions must be approved by the National Assembly before they can take effect. This is a very vicious skill, but the Empress Dowager Yulong listened to Yuan Shikai's promise that the preferential treatment conditions must be passed. As a result, without any legal protection, the Manchu came to an end.

On May 1, 1911, Yuan Shikai's braids were cut off from the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.