Yang Shuoming noticed that among the servants who came and went, several young maids were all beautiful beauties without exception, and the feeling of being imprisoned by Yuan Shikai couldn't help but be stronger.

After a while, Yuan Shikai sent someone to send a special gift, one set for each of the men's suits and military uniforms, one for the women's Hanfu, one for the mink, one for the fox fur, one for the purple lamb fur, four pieces of jade, and four colors of exquisite food and snacks, all of which are very valuable.

"How does he know the size of my clothes?" Huang Yunzhi took the mink fur and put it on her body, came to the mirror and turned around, "It's not bad at all." ”

"His means in this area are unmatched." Yang Shuoming stretched out his hand and stroked the imitation Han Valley pattern green jade bi given to him by Yuan Shikai, and said, "Otherwise, I won't be able to sit firmly in the position of this big president." ”

"What does he mean, do you want us to live here for a long time in the future?" Huang Yunzhi took off the mink fur on her body, carefully folded it back to its original shape, and asked softly.

"What's so bad about that?" Yang Shuoming smiled slightly, pulled her over, and sat down on the edge of the bed.

"What are you doing...... Let people see ......" Seeing Yang Shuoming's hand hit his chest again, Huang Yunzhi blushed and said a little shyly.

"Come on...... Yang Shuoming winked at her, and then a look of lust immediately appeared on his face, Huang Yunzhi understood a little, couldn't help but smile, his body was weak, and he stretched out his arms to hug him.

Zhongnanhai, Jurentang.

"As I expected." Yuan Shikai put down the report in his hand with a smile and said, "This person must have a little weakness." He let out a long sigh of relief, "No matter whether you are both civil and military, you have great ability, as long as you are lustful, it is still easy to do." ”

"After all, he is a young man, his blood is strong, and he is like a beautiful flower, so he can't indulge in the gentle countryside." Liang Shiyi also said with a smile.

"You've talked to them as a couple, what do you think? Skinny? Yuan Shikai turned to Yang Du and asked.

"Both husband and wife are extraordinary, they themselves are deeply hidden, and their wives are very knowledgeable, and they are by no means ordinary small family jasper." Yang Du pondered for a moment and said, "I still need to contact them a few more times to find out." ”

"It's not easy to get your Yang Huizi's approval." Yuan Shikai's eldest son, Yuan Keding, saw Yang Du's cautious wording, and said with a smile.

"Anyway, if he covets beauty, things will be easy." Yuan Shikai said with a smile.

"There's something strange about this." Chen Yan, who had not spoken, said suddenly.

"Oh? Tell me about it? Yangtian? Yuan Shikai's eyebrows raised, and he turned his head to look at Chen Yan and asked.

"Lustful fear may not be. It is a young couple's sweet relationship, like glue, and it will not be declared silver during the day as soon as they enter the new house. Chen Yan said, "This person has set up an industry in western Jiangxi for more than a year, and it has achieved fruitful results, especially in salt mines and medicine, and the benefits are very rich." Nowadays, all the families with a little wealth have three wives and four concubines, if this person is lustful and becomes a surname, even if it is not a group of wives and concubines, it must be widely accommodated, but this time he came to Beijing, in addition to his wife, there are only a few maids and servants, and there are few young people, which shows that he is not a womanizer. ”

"Makes sense." Yuan Shikai listened to Chen Eun's words and nodded.

First, it may be a young husband and wife after all, they have been separated for a long time, and they are easy to be emotional when they are alone, so they have disregarded etiquette and law; Then there is the fact that they know that they will be watched, so they are deliberately acting. Chen Yan continued, "If it is the second case, it means that this person's city government is very deep, and his ambition is not small. ”

"Whether it's acting or not, you have to observe for a while to know." Yuan Shikai thought for a while and said to Yang Du, "In a few days, he will go to the United States with the diplomatic mission, or he will work hard again and talk to him more." ”

"Okay." Yang Du nodded and agreed, "I'll visit tomorrow." ”

"North Cai and South Yang are all the best among people, and it is not easy to ambush!" Yuan Shikai sat down on the chair, his eyes touched the report on the table again, and he couldn't help but sigh.

The next day, Yang Du came to Yang Shuoming's house again to visit, the housekeeper took Yang Du to the living room, and then went to report to Yang Shuoming that a maid came to pour Yang Du tea, Yang Du looked around the living room, his eyes fell on a thing in the corner, and he couldn't help but be stunned there.

Among the many antiques, jade and other furnishings, there is a model of a large warship.

Yang Du involuntarily paced in front of the model of the warship and looked at the model carefully.

He vaguely remembered that among the gifts Yuan Shikai gave to Yang Shuoming, there seemed to be no such thing.

This model of this warship is stout and simple, with red and black waterlines, with a pointed angle of attack at the bow, a black circular turret at the bow and stern, and two twin round turrets diagonally in the middle of the hull, and between the two long masts, not only are there beautiful sails, but also a small yellow dragon flag.

Looking at the model of this warship, Yang Du somehow gave birth to a sense of déjà vu.

It may be that the small Yellow Dragon Flag touched Yang Du's heart, and he couldn't help but sigh.

As the writer of the Qing Axe Constitutional Report, his heart was full of bitterness when he thought of the new policy at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

"I'm sorry to keep you waiting." Yang Shuoming's laughter sounded behind Yang Du, interrupting Yang Du's thoughts, Yang Du turned around and saw Yang Shuoming, who was dressed in casual Hanfu, walking briskly towards him.

"Uchiko knows that I like ships, and this ship model was bought for me by her on the street yesterday in the Liuli Factory." Yang Shuoming saw that Yang Du was looking at his ship model, and said with a smile.

"Madame's eyesight is very good, I think this ship should have been around for some time, and the style is also very old, not the same as the current warship." Yang Du said, "It should be an old thing." ”

"What Huizi said is right, this is the 'Dingyuan' ironclad ship of the Beiyang Navy back then." Yang Shuoming pointed to a small copper dragon pattern nameplate on the ship model and said, "It should be the old collection of the Qing Palace, but somehow, it was lost to the Liuli Factory." ”

"I said why it looks so familiar." Yang Du listened to Yang Shuoming's words, and couldn't help but sigh again, "It's a pity that this giant ship has been wiped out......

"If you look at the battle record alone, this time the victory in the naval battle of Caofeidian in Tianjin is enough to offset the loss of the first year of the First Sino-Japanese War." Yang Shuoming said, "I have read reports on the achievements of Caofeidian's victory, and the four capital ships of the Chinese army that were destroyed were all 10,000-ton ships. But even with such a record, it is still difficult to reverse the situation in which the enemy is strong and we are weak. ”

"Yes! Therefore, the foundation of a strong country is not only these. Yang Du looked at Yang Shuoming and said pointedly.

Yang Shuoming smiled slightly and invited Yang Du to sit down on the chair.

"Yesterday, what Huizi said, Neizi has been convinced." Yang Shuoming said with a smile, "I'm at home, and I always can't talk about her." ”

"It is actually very difficult for women to be reasonable with women." Yang Du laughed, "But fortunately, Mrs. Zun is still more reasonable." ”

"Her views, influenced by the current media, are sometimes inevitably extreme, just like her perception of the former Qing Dynasty, which is not without bias." Yang Shuoming smiled and led the topic to the aspect that Yang Du was interested in, "In fact, the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty has a lot of remarkable, not as portrayed by some boring literati, it is pitch black and useless. ”

"China can have today's situation, in fact, the New Deal at the end of the Qing Dynasty has made a lot of efforts." Yang Du nodded, "It's a pity that the ignorant Xiao Xiao in the Manchu magnates has ruined this good situation for his own selfishness." ”

"What Huizi means is that if the Manchu Qing can succeed in implementing the constitution, it will be a different situation now." Yang Shuoming looked at Yang Du, shook his head, and said, "But in fact, it is impossible for the Manchu constitution to succeed. ”

"Oh? Why did Hanzhi say this? Listening to Yang Shuoming's words, Yang Du's body couldn't help but straighten up, and his face was full of concentration.

"When the Gengzi country changed, the Qing court mishandled it, first supported the boxers to fight against foreign countries, and promoted the xenophobic situation of foreign exclusivity, and when the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded and was unable to resist, it abandoned the boxers to flatter the foreigners, and the covenant of Xin Chou was established, and the country's income was used for reparations, and the people's hearts were lost, and the legal surname of its ruling position and the sacred surname of the dynasty were reduced to the minimum, which was called 'the court of foreigners', which is a clear proof." Yang Shuoming said, "Such a dynasty has completely lost the support of the people, no matter how effective the implementation of the new policy is, the people have lost trust, and it is only a matter of time before it collapses completely." ”

After listening to Yang Shuoming's explanation, Yang Du's face turned slightly pale, and he nodded with some effort and didn't say anything.

"After the fall of the former Qing dynasty, the most favorable situation for China should be to replace it with a dynasty established by the native Han Chinese and implement the constitution," Yang Shuoming said. Unfortunately, with the chaos at the time, it was difficult for such a situation to occur. ”

"The republic is a big mistake for China!" Yang Du sighed.

"The reason why this is so is due to the evolutionary view of history, which makes the people think that it is a historical necessity that a republic is superior to an imperial system." Yang Shuoming said, "And the harm caused by the theory of evolution at that time, the Chinese people themselves were not aware of it at all. The Chinese people only knew that the republic was superior to the imperial system, but in fact, if a dynasty of Han monarchs had been established at that time and the constitutional reform of the late Qing Dynasty had been continued, China would have really been in a different situation. ”

"What Han Zhi said won my heart." Yang Du looked happy and stroked his palms and said.

At this time, Yang Shuoming did not say this to cater to Yang Du's point of view, such a view was gradually formed by him who loves history after years of reading and thinking.

The revolutionaries at that time pinned their hopes on overthrowing the Qing Dynasty and establishing a republic like France and the United States to revitalize China. But the facts gave them a blow in the face, and the revolution brought the Chinese a world-class system, but this system did not have the same system as Harry. Porter's magic wand, like that, brought immediate change to China. Far from becoming rich and powerful, China has fallen into great chaos. At that time, many people of insight knew very well in their hearts that an ancient country with 2,000 years of imperial tradition and ideology suddenly implemented the most advanced open-boiled republican system, and learned from the United States, which had the most advanced and complete republican system in the world. However, the Chinese people who are in a hurry to achieve success are unwilling to see the newly established evolutionary view of history ruthlessly bankrupt on themselves, and they are unwilling to admit that they are actually different from Westerners, and there is no way to copy the "best system" in China as it is. Because in this case, it is tantamount to admitting the inferiority of one's own nation. As a result, the Chinese people can only blame the chaos on the incompleteness of the reform and the incompleteness of the revolution. Therefore, we have no choice but to make more radical moves in the direction of progress, revolution, and revolution, from institutional change to cultural and ethical change (and even class revolution), "not seeking the best, but seeking the most expensive", turning the entire Chinese society upside down, completely tearing down the original social structure, cultural traditions, and even ideological consciousness, and building a new world that no one can understand.

Until nearly a hundred years later, Chinese still suffer from this "novelty", what is not the most suitable, only the latest, the most expensive, the most fashionable.

Another terrible fact is that the Chinese at that time had no way back and could not retreat to a system more suitable for themselves. Of course, it is necessary to establish a representative open cooking system, but in a country like China, which has ancient feudal traditions and ideologies, an emperor is still needed to make a transition. It's a pity that the emperor in the past was a Manchu, a foreign race riding on the head of the Han people, and he also carried the original sin of slaughtering the Han people. Therefore, the constitutional monarchy of the Qing Dynasty was not possible at all (and the conservative Manchu elite was not willing to realize it). And to establish a local Han dynasty, and there is no suitable candidate, not only can not be done by Yan Shenggong, a descendant of Confucius, who does not have real power, and the emperor's grandson of the Ming Dynasty, but even Yuan Shikai, a military strongman with real power, cannot do it. Why can't anyone be the emperor? The reason is simple: China is already a "republic", and people can only move forward in the "advanced system" of the republic, unless they find a "more advanced" system.

In fact, the so-called "more advanced" system has brought disasters to the Chinese that the current Chinese simply cannot imagine.

If people of this era go back more than 50 years and look at that unprecedented catastrophe in Chinese history, I believe that all people will change their views.

At that time, China was caught in such a dilemma.

History, here is really helpless.

Yang Shuoming knew that he had been testing himself since he saw Yang Du.

After the unexpected victory in this war against the invasion of Yuben, Yuan Shikai, who has always had an emperor complex in his heart, was carried away by the victory and wanted to try the trick of "the president becomes the emperor", and Yang Du also saw the hope of realizing his political ideals at this time, so he repeatedly probed his mouth to himself, the hero who recovered Qingdao.

Although Yang Shuoming vaguely expressed to Yang Du that he actually agreed with his views, Yang Shuoming explained to Yang Du that China has no way back now, but Yang Du did not listen.

At this time, Yang Du didn't know that when he and Yang Shuoming were having a good conversation, another meeting was also going on secretly in another place.

"He, Yang Huizi, really thinks of himself as a Wolong."

In the Accord of a restaurant, several people sat around a sumptuous feast and were drinking happily.

"Don't say that...... Yang Huizi may have his own ideas......" A man in a suit and leather shoes who looked very elegant coughed lightly and said in a hoarse voice.

"To this day, Songpa still values the love of the year, hehe." The person sitting opposite him said, "Yes, you Cai Songpo has to be the chief of staff, and he is the joint sponsor of Yang Du and Chen Eun, but don't forget, you are a great hero in defeating the Japanese Invaders, this chief of staff, you are well-deserved, unlike him Chen Eun, who became the deputy chief of staff without firing a shot." ”

"I heard that he Yang Huizi personally went to the train station yesterday to pick up the man surnamed Yang, and settled him in a mansion. The meaning of this envelope is too obvious, right? ”

"It is said that the man surnamed Yang came with his wife, his wife is a great beauty, I heard that Lao Yuan also gave him a bunch of beauties, if it is not as good as his wife, it will be given away in vain."

Hearing this, someone burst out laughing.

"The person sent by Lao Yuan must be one in a hundred, and his appearance should be stronger than that little phoenix in Songpo, but I don't know if he can have half of the little phoenix's spiritual aura."

"When you say this, Matsupa is so upset."

"I heard that Shandong's campaign plan was actually formulated by this surnamed Yang, and it is incredible that he, as a small town guard, can surpass many Beiyang generals and let so many people obey him."

"I heard that the 20,000 Jiangxi troops he brought were extremely elite, and the guns were all new, and the officers and soldiers were all one of ten, and they repeatedly hit the Yue army, so the Beiyang gang listened to his command."

"This is why Lao Yuan is so desperate to win him over."

"Do you think these rumors are credible? Songpa? ”

"I believe it." Cai Ye wiped his lips with a silk scarf and nodded, "Actually, the battle of Chengde also has his share of credit." ”

What do you mean by that? Songpa? ”

"At that time, our army was about to run out of ammunition, and the rear could not be helped, and he expected this situation in advance, so he specially sent people to set off ahead of schedule and brought me guns, ammunition and artillery, and our army was able to defeat the Japanese army." "He also sent someone to send me two planes. ”

"He's in Shandong, and he actually knows the battle situation on your side, it's amazing." Someone laughed as if they weren't quite convinced.

"Actually...... I should also go and meet him......" Cai Yi forced a cough and hissed, "This favor...... I'm afraid I won't be able to do it for a while......"

"Songpo, you have an inconvenient throat, so it's better to talk less." Liang Qichao, who had not spoken, looked at Cai Ye and said worriedly.

Cai Yi smiled and waved his hand, indicating that it was okay.

"The plane he gave me is even better than the foreigner's, so if you have time, you might as well go to my place." Cai Ye said.

(To be continued)