It is remembered that when Tang Shaoyi and British Minister to China Zhu Erdian were in the conference room of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for an exchange of letters and signing a ceremony on the issue of the Songbi Gongxi, another ceremony was also being held at the same time in the Capitol not far from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, although the Minister General of Foreign Affairs was missing. However, since the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs was present in place of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, from a legal point of view. The cabinet members were all present. Moreover, more than 1,000 members of the National Assembly were also present. Even the "decrepit parliamentarians" who were impaired by their old age ordered themselves to be carried to the Capitol, and all wanted to see this historic moment with their own eyes.

Today, in this Capitol, there will be a very special ceremony, and once the ceremony is carried out, then, at the end of the ceremony, the Congress will transfer all its powers to the president, after which the Congress will lose its legislative and executive oversight powers, and will become a pure state advisory body.

This ceremony is actually a presidential ceremony. It is the beginning of the political era, no matter from which point of view, is an event of historical significance, in the thousands of years of history of this ancient oriental country, there is no similar event from the curtain more eye-catching, perhaps the ancient emperor's enthronement ceremony is somewhat similar, but if you look at it from the legal level, the power of the president is not inherited by the previous president, but from the authorization of the Congress.

The National Assembly oversees the administration of the government and the president on behalf of the people, but for now, the National Assembly will abandon this. power, and transfer all power to the president. Similar events have occurred in the recent history of the West, but in the Eastern world. It's really the first time I've been born.

Although many people are following this event. However, compared with the concession transfer ceremony, the presidential ceremony was much more low-key, which can be seen from the number of reporters on the scene, all the reporters combined, only 20, and all of them were Chinese reporters, not a single foreign journalist, not a single foreign envoy.

In the words of President Zhao Da, this is an internal affair, and there is no need for foreigners to worry about it, as long as the Chinese people themselves understand, and it is precisely because of this that the "foreigner propaganda group" that Yang Du painstakingly prepared did not come in handy at all.

Despite this, Yang Du is still very happy today, because he is the ceremonial officer of this presidential ceremony, and he has full authority to preside over the presidential shaving ceremony, as for the others, they can only stand aside and listen, even Huang Xing, Yang Wangpeng, the republican veterans, and the republican heroes can only stay aside to watch him Yang perform.

The times create heroes, and now, it is also his turn to carry the flag at the forefront of this great era.

"Can the President object to Congress delegating all supreme legislative powers to the President?"

"Nope."

"Can the President object to the Congress's delegation of full power to supervise the executive branch of the government?"

"Nope."

"Can the President object to Congress's delegation of full power over the final interpretation of the Constitution to the President?"

"Nope."

"Congress delegates all foreign affairs powers to the president, and the president has any objection to this?"

"Nope."

"Can the President object to the Congress's delegation of the power to declare a state of emergency to the President?"

"Nope."

Yang Du asked, and Zhao Bei replied. Although the whole Q&A process is very boring. And it seems to smell like a fart off your pants, but this is the procedure, even the president can only implement this procedure step by step, after all, this is the dignity of Congress. It must be respected.

Others may think that Zhao Bei is very excited now, but in fact, Zhao Bei's mood is very calm now, he has been planning for a long time for politics, just like a person who has been preparing for an exam for a long time, once he goes to the examination room. Seeing that the exam questions are so simple, naturally you won't be nervous. There won't be any big mood swings either. Of course, there is no need to be nervous, what is there to be nervous about? Congress has long since been tamed, and the constitutionalist representatives in Congress have recognized the reality. As for the powerful people in the local area, they are even more silent now, so what is there to worry about?

Through the victory of this war against Japan, Zhao Bei got almost everything he wanted, and the most important of them was the unmatched prestige, whether it was the center or the locality, they had already worshiped him, and now at this time, who would dare to obstruct it? Who has the strength to thwart?

It must be admitted that not everyone agrees with the presidential administration, including Mr. Zhang, the leader of the United Front, but these people are unlikely to make any waves at all, at best they will only create some contradictory public opinion, and they will be immediately drowned out by more public opinion, and will not cause even the slightest disturbance in society.

Some opponents swore that Zhao Bei was a "one-man national thief" for his own selfish interests. But this doesn't change anything, the so-called times create heroes, history has advanced to this point, not to go that way, but to this side. Zhao Bei must make what he thinks is necessary and the right choice at this critical time, maybe the path he chooses is not the best, but it is the safest. Both for the state and for him personally.

Zhao Bei considers himself not a saint. The reason why he made this choice is that there are indeed selfish desires that play a role in it, but at the same time, he insists that his selfish desires can bring more benefits to the country and achieve a win-win situation, because he is a historical traveler, and he can "foresee the future" and grasp the future, which means that he has grasped the right path to the country's prosperity.

It is also under the guidance of this mentality. Zhao Bei resolutely poisoned this road of scraping politics. As for when this path will go. He has no bottom in his heart now, although he did promise that the government will last for twenty years. And at the end of today's presidential ceremony. He will also solemnly sign a deed document pledging to restore the full powers of Congress after the end of his term of office.

But the changes in history are too great, and Zhao Bei can't fully foresee what will happen in the future. Maybe the world's Great Depression will still explode in more than ten years, maybe the smoke of World War II will still drift to China, maybe the Cold War will still explode, maybe the third industrial revolution will also come on time, maybe the independence movement of the colonies will still be surging, maybe the United States will still lead the world" but all these "maybes" add up, maybe not as good as one, the "butterfly effect" is more powerful, because of Zhao Bei's intervention in history, maybe the trajectory of history will be completely different from what Zhao Bei is familiar with, Maybe the first shots of World War II were not fired by Japan and Germany, or maybe it was not the United States that would lead the world in the future.

In the face of these "maybes", even as a time-traveler of history, Zhao Bei did not dare to guarantee that history would definitely unfold according to his will. As a result, the future political road may not be smooth. But one thing is for sure. Zhao Bei would never turn around and take another path because this road was not easy to follow, because he knew that other roads might be more Kanke, even if there was no history to refer to

With this calm and complicated mood, Zhao Bei pressed his hand on the constitution and answered Yang Du's question expressionlessly.

As a veteran of the League and one of the earliest activists who advocated the republican system, Huang Xing's mood is now more complicated than Zhao Bei's, but he can't be as calm as Zhao Bei, because everything in front of him is not what he wants to see, and in his heart, he is very disapproving of the presidential government.

But what if you don't approve of it? Is it possible to raise troops to rebel? Mr. Sun of the Alliance, who had this intention, but he had no strength at all, and it was a bit naïve to expect to rebel against the army, and the current national defense force was completely different from the Manchurian New Army and the Beiyang Army in those years. Not only is the system strict, but the military salaries are also fully liberalized, the war against Japan has been completely victorious, and the officers and men are in high spirits, and they are looking forward to the president leading them from one victory to another more brilliant victory. Where would they oppose the president they adored for the sake of an empty ideal? If you can't raise troops to rebel, then what about using the means of congressional struggle? I am afraid that it is also delusional, in the face of a military strongman, any form of congressional struggle is futile, and can only further prompt the military strongman to take more presumptuous military actions, as Yuan Shikai at that time is proof.

Is there a difference between Zhao Bei and Yuan Shikai? Huang Xing believes that there is a difference, and this difference is mainly reflected in the understanding of political ideas, in Yuan Shikai's political ideas, there are only old-style officialdom ideas, and there are no new ideas, but here in Zhao Bei. However, there is a very new political concept, which attaches importance not only to individual interests, but also to national interests and national interests, and that is why it is precisely because of this. Zhao Bei was able to unite a large group of people and all walks of life, thus paving the way for his administration.

But what does this change? To surrender the future and destiny of a country entirely to a military strongman is to take a risk.

"I don't want to, I don't want to. The more I think about it, the more annoyed I become, so I'd better submit my resignation as soon as possible, go back to the south to recuperate, and live a few more years to see where Zhao Zhenhua can take this country? Is it a promise to keep. ”

Huang Xing sighed helplessly, raised his hand to support the top hat on his head, turned his head to look, and saw several people walking in from the entrance of the auditorium, because that person was Tang Shaoyi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

"Tang Shaochuan is still here. Able to be the chief of foreign affairs under a military and political strongman. It's more or less one, and it's understandable that he changed his mind. ”

Seeing Tang Shaoyi nodding at himself, Huang Xing also nodded, which was a polite return gift, but he was still a little apologetic in his heart, seeing Tang Shaoyi, he remembered the deceased Song Jiaoren, he felt that he was sorry for Song Jiaoren, if he could have restrained Zhao Bei's power more, maybe the current situation would not be like this, but then again, if Zhao Bei's power is restricted too much, it is difficult to say whether there can be a victory in this war against Japan, because Huang Xing knows. There were many people who opposed the president's war against Japan at the beginning, and if the National Assembly had held power, perhaps there would not have been this Sino-Japanese war at all, and then Tang Shaoyi, the foreign minister, would not be so glamorous now.

Just when Tang Shaoyi arrived at the auditorium and Huang Xing was thinking wildly, the last step of the presidential ceremony officially began, as long as the president signed the contract document drafted by the chairman of the Senate of the National Assembly, Li Yuanhong, the president of the government, the real beginning of the presidential era.

Zhao Bei was not ambiguous, picked up the pen handed over by the speaker of the National Assembly, quickly signed his name on the contract document, and then handed the pen to Li Yuanhong, this document, not only the president should sign, Li Yuanhong, Tang Hualong, Huang Xing, Yang Wangpeng, Tang Shaoyi, Wu Zhenhan, Wang Zhanyuan, Lu Yongxiang, and many important government officials and congressmen will also attach their signatures to this contract document as witnesses to supervise the president's return to the Congress.

"This document will be the beginning of the spirit of the social contract in our country and the cultivation of the spirit of the national contract. Let's start with this document. It is a document of historic significance, which Congress will keep forever. ”

Tang Shaoyi signed his name on the document one last time, then picked it up, raised it high, turned to face the more than 1,000 congressmen in the auditorium, and praised the importance of the document.

Then there was a moment of silence, and then applause rang out, everyone was applauding, Huang Xing was no exception, but there was no expression on his face.

"I wonder what Xiong Weigen thinks now?" Huang Xing pondered in his heart.

Just as Huang Xing was pondering Xiong Chengji's thoughts, at the port of Dagu in Tianjin, an ocean-going passenger ship flying the Swedish flag was slowly leaving the dock. Heading to the open sea, there was a person standing on the starboard side of the back deck of the ship, it was Xiong Chengji, the volunteer hero of the "Wushen Revolution".

"Farewell, my motherland, go now. I don't know when I'll be back, but maybe the day I come back, you'll be even better. I hope so, I hope Zhao Zhenhua will do what he says. And, hopefully, he will always be right, because the state cannot afford his mistakes. ”

With nostalgia and guilt for the motherland, Xiong Chengji finally left, leaving this with a group of followers. The country, although the League would invite him to Nanyang, and Huang Xing also suggested that he go to Nanyang. But Xiong Chengji finally chose to go to South America. And before leaving, he deliberately brought a bag of soil from Anqing and Wuhan, as for why he brought this soil, he himself can't say the reason, but one thing is clear, this time to go to the country, his mood is extremely low, and there is only one person who came to the port to see him off, Tan Renfeng.

Looking at the passenger ship moving away, Tan Renfeng, who was standing on the trestle, sighed, in this situation, all he could do was sigh.

"Twenty years in power" I don't know at that time. Am I, an old man, still alive in the world? Back then, I sat down with Song Yuchu and Zhao Zhenhua in Changsha and talked about it, in the past, everyone was full of longing for constitutionalism, but now. Song Yuchu has passed away, Zhao Zhenhua is in power, and the world is inevitably too unpredictable. Perhaps, this is what Zhao Zhenhua often said, "Ji Ge can't catch up with the changes." bar.

With a hint of stunnedness, Tan Renfeng walked down the trestle bridge with his hands behind his back, and a gust of wind blew his white hair a little messy, making him look even more haggard.

Strange times, the future is uncertain, where to go?

Although he was a little lonely, Tan Renfeng quickly cheered up and strode out of the port, he knew that no matter this, what the country's political system was. As a citizen, we have the responsibility and obligation to strive for the strength and prosperity of the country, no matter what the situation is, no matter what the result is, as long as we have struggled, then there is no regret, after all, this is a new era. Yi Xunshu is sunned and concave is not the same body clam