Why some people scolded the imperial court is not entirely because the imperial court did not do anything in this disaster relief. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the original history, it was Cixi who was in power, and in a good conscience, they were still very concerned about disaster relief, not necessarily out of concern for the people, but for fear of provoking a popular uprising, but the organization of the Qing court was too poor, and four million people were only affected by the disaster, and they could not be saved, and finally more than 200,000 people starved to death.

Now there is a railway company and the organizational ability of the rich and strong party that Yang Chao has cultivated in recent years, but it was saved by Yang Chao, and the imperial court is still harshly criticized, but it is just harsh, after all, Yang Chao also represents the imperial court, so it is an anti-imperial court newspaper complaining.

However, at the end of September, the Qing court did something that was difficult for people to accept, "Japan sued with floods, and sent 600,000 stones of rice and grain to the provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, and Hubei to help them." This time China was hit by a disaster, and the Japanese were not spared, and Japan had a large-scale disaster last year, and last year the Qing court "awarded 100,000 yuan to help Japan with disaster relief", but last year it did not arouse special opposition, after all, it was only giving money, but this year it directly gave rice, and it was rice from the Liangjiang area, and the Liangjiang was suffering from the disaster.

This move made Yang Chao, who kept purchasing food from abroad, feel a little angry, when can China's leaders really care about the lives of the people, for the sake of the leader's face, send the people's life-sustaining food abroad again and again, even if it is propaganda to repay debts, but in order to repay debts, starve their own people to death, can really be done by a "person"?

If it weren't for power, this kind of shameless government, no matter how good you advertised, would have been overthrown by the people a long time ago, because you deprived the people of the minimum right to live as a 'person', you can deprive them of their political rights, and even deprive them of their reproductive rights, but you can't deprive them of their right to live, when a person's right to live is deprived, he takes up arms, then it is not a rebellion. There is complete legitimacy to that.

The hearts of the common people are bright, so the abuse and sarcasm in the newspaper made the court feel unacceptable for a while, especially Kang Liang and the others. They had just stood on the stage, and they thought that relieving Japan was a means to show their international image, but they didn't expect to be subjected to such great hardship, and Yang Chao's limelight had already surpassed them. threatened them.

So they made a decision!

In October, when the number of victims rose to 5 million, the relief effort came to an end.

A person can eat and drink at least 30 copper coins a day, 1,500 copper coins are worth one tael of silver, and 5 million people are 100,000 taels of silver a day, and after a month, it is actually only 3 million taels.

Three million taels of silver a month, the imperial court is not unaffordable, but they don't have Yang Chao's ability to organize and mobilize, so when everything is on the right track. The emperor suddenly sent a decree: Yang Chao was transferred to Beijing and promoted to associate minister.

Obviously, Kangliang Group, and even Zaifeng himself, feel that it is really uneasy to put Yang Chao in the place.

Moreover, Kang Liang's position is now stable, except for a prime minister Zhang Zhidong, who can be said to control most of the government.

Although there are only two people at the Shangshu level, Kang Liang has placed a large number of officials at the level of squire in the six departments.

In addition, they also attracted a large number of officials who were interested in reform, and I have to say that of course they failed in the reform, but they gained appeal. Ascending to the top can be described as a cluster of responders.

Kang Liang's ability to come to power was itself the influence of Yang Chao, in the original history, even if Cixi died. They are still in exile, and Zaifeng still doesn't need them when he becomes the regent, that's because although Cixi is dead, she is still in power for nearly ten years after the Eight-Nation Alliance, and has cultivated countless henchmen. Zaifeng also did not dare to use the criminal minister Kang Liang condemned by Cixi.

However, due to Yang Chao's reasons, Cixi and Guangxu died violently, and Zaifeng came to power under the compromise of the Westernists and the diehards, so he didn't have to worry about Cixi's problems at all, and a large group of Eight Banners dignitaries who had encouraged Cixi to go to war with the Eight-Nation Alliance either died with Cixi, or in the later liquidation, Zhang Zhidong and others took it drastically under the coercion of foreigners.

Therefore, Zaifeng will not have much scruples about Cixi's old policy, but is often worried about the dictatorship of the Westernists, and the ideas of the diehards are really unacceptable to the new generation of Eight Banners like Zaifeng, so he has to use the new school figures, Kang Liang is actually his last resort outside the Westernists.

With Zaifeng's support behind him, since he was in power for a year, Kangliang Group's position has stabilized and attracted enough allies, so the demand for Yang Chao is not high.

In the past, Yang Chao was allowed to stay in Shandong, that was to let Yang Chao master the army and resist the pressure of the Westernists, Kang Liang was afraid that before their position was not stable, they would be calculated by the Westernists who held the military power, the Westernists were very honest for more than a year, and all the battles were within a reasonable range, and the Beiyang army of the Westernists was also scattered outside the Guan, and there was only one town of new army in Zhili, while the Eight Banners New Army in the hands of the imperial court had four towns, no matter how you looked at it, you had the advantage.

In the past year or so, in Shandong, they have introduced foreign capital and built railways, and the most important thing is to cultivate party henchmen.

Whether it was for precautions or for precautions, Kang Liang and the emperor both felt that it was inappropriate to put Yang Chao in a place, and the power was too great.

In fact, not only Yang Chao, all the local governors have too much power, and they all have financial power, political power and even military power, and it is not inappropriate to regard these governors as a small country.

After Kangliang Group entered the court, it was in the purpose of winning over the local government, and at the beginning, it also greatly transferred the tax revenue to the local government, which enhanced the local financial strength in disguise, and the local governor was stronger than before.

Therefore, restricting local power and returning power to the imperial court, the Kangliang group is very compatible with the imperial family, and Kangliang has also begun to prepare, and the way they choose is constitutional.

The Westernists also tossed the constitution for several years and sent inspectors, but in the end they could not reach an agreement with the imperial forces, and it has been delayed until now, after the Kangliang group came to power, they also used the banner of constitutionalism, and overturned the preparations made by the Westernists, because it was the constitution of the Westernists, not their political achievements.

Kang Liang reopened the stove and opened it again, and also sent an inspection team to inspect it, and the last time they went out as an airship, they had this mission, these are all shows, and the constitutional stripes of the Westernists have come out, which is nothing more than copying the Japanese Constitution.

Looking at the whole world, that is, the Japanese Constitutional Emperor has the greatest power, and everyone believes that China and Japan have the same language and similar national conditions, which is the most worthy of reference.

But even with this Japanese constitution, the imperial family was not very satisfied, and the Kangliang group also had a conflict because of this.

"If you want to make a constitution, you need to reshuffle your cabinet and prepare for it!"

The Kangliang clique has recently been pushing for a cabinet reshuffle, and it is obvious that they are still dissatisfied with the fact that power has been divided among the Westernists in Jang Zhidong, or even faintly more powerful than them, and they want to squeeze out these people through the cabinet reshuffle.

Chaoyi has been discussed several times, and the parliament has discussed many times, but it is difficult to unify opinions, and the parliament is an empty shelf, in fact, it is the mouthpiece of the local governor.

In fact, what everyone disagrees with is not the reorganization of the cabinet, but who enters the cabinet, Zaifeng and Kang Youwei have drawn a line for the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and created a cabinet dominated by the imperial family, with Prince Qing Yixuan as the prime minister, Kang Youwei and Yang Chao as the assistant ministers, and there are ten ministries under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Degree Branch, the Ministry of the Army, the Ministry of Navy, the Ministry of Law, the Ministry of Agriculture and Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, and the Ministry of Administration, with Liang Qichao, Shiduo, Pu Lun, Zai Ze, Zai Tao, Zai Xun, Shaochang, Zai Zhen, Sheng Xuanhuai, and Shou Qi serving as ministers of each ministry.

What's wrong with this list?

Even too many royal families are not a problem, the problem is that there is no place for Zhang Zhidong!

Where did Zhang Zhidong go?

Kang Youwei was trying to persuade Zhang Zhidong to give up the prime minister, and he fooled Zhang Zhidong to let him become the speaker of the parliament, telling Zhang Zhidong that the speaker of the parliament abroad is the fourth in command in addition to the monarch and the vice premier.

Although Zhang Zhidong is not as cunning as Li Hongzhang and not as insidious as Yuan Shikai, he is not a stupid person, how can Kang Baohuang fool him, he is a good cabinet premier, and he has a lot of power, how can he give up.

Don't say that Zhang Zhidong didn't agree, Liang Qichao didn't agree.

Although Liang Qichao is Kang Youwei's proud disciple, he has his own opinions, and he has serious differences with Kang Youwei on this issue.

Liang Qichao insisted on the idea of 'protecting China and not protecting the Qing Dynasty' that Kang Youwei once mentioned, and playing with Guangxu back then was to weaken the power of the imperial family and make the four people equal, especially to cancel the Manchurian power and let the flag and Han become one, but who knew that Kang Youwei went to Europe and became a staunch supporter of imperial power after he came back.

After Kang Youwei inspected the political history and culture of Germany and France, he wrote an article "The Evolution of French Creation", arguing that France and Germany were created at the same time, and the strength and weakness were differently formed, which was mainly determined by whether the monarch's power could be concentrated, Kang Youwei believed that the reason why Germany defeated France to be so strong was because the German emperor had great power, and France either did not have an emperor, or the emperor's power was not enough. During the Napoleonic period, the French beat the Germans very badly.

Based on history, Kang Youwei determined that the imperial state would be more powerful if it was able to gather China's strength.

Therefore, Kang Youwei supported the imperial power more and more.

The reason why Liang Qichao was dissatisfied with the drafting of this cabinet list was not only that the vast majority of them were from the imperial family and clans, but also the emperor's procedure for adjudicating the list.

Taking Japan as an example, Liang Qichao believes that after Ito Hirobumi presided over the constitution, there has not been a single member of the imperial family in Japan who has entered the cabinet for more than 20 years, and Liang Qichao believes that allowing the imperial family to enter the cabinet is not in line with the spirit of constitutionalism, and the imperial family should avoid suspicion.

At the same time, Liang Qichao believes that the emperor does not have the power to adjudicate the cabinet, and does not have the ability to appoint and dissolve the cabinet, and the emperor is just a symbol.

Obviously, Kang Liang acted on the principled issue of real monarchy and virtual monarchy, and there were opinions that were difficult to compromise, and no one could convince anyone, and internal discord was also one of the reasons why Kang Liang's constitution could not be promulgated for a long time. (To be continued.) )