279: Our Chinese Empire
January 1, 1904. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
For the people in China, this is just an ordinary day, the people get up early in the morning as usual, or work at home, or go to the city to find a temporary job to do, there are also many people who have a purpose, they have been hired by enterprises in various places, become regular workers there, and go to work on time and on time every day.
The people are already relatively satisfied with this kind of life, and it would be great if there were more factories and more people could work in the factories.
Although the number of factories is not large now, the people are not disappointed, because a year ago, they did not have even a single factory in the county.
And it is said that they will build several new factories here this year, and they will need at least a few thousand people.
There is hope in these days, there is food at home, even if there is really no food, the government still has a relief point there every day to receive food, what is there to ask for on such a day?
Compared with previous years, they feel that they are living a human life now, and even to put it mildly, in the old days, even pigs were better off than them.
The army is still busy, coming from the south to the north, going back and forth in all regions of the country, they are not in a panic, passing by one city after another in an orderly manner, except when they need supplies, they will send a team of soldiers into the city to receive supplies, and at other times, the army will not enter the city.
Even if they pass through the countryside, the army will not disturb the people at will.
Compared with the Qing army in previous years, the people have accepted the Han army from the bottom of their hearts, where to find such a good army?
Of course, there are 400 million people in the country, and the Han army is more than 1.5 million, and on average, one out of every 300 people is a soldier.
The foreigners were still busy, receiving information from all over the country, and a large number of Han troops came out of the barracks. Some barracks are easier to find, while others are in the mountains, and it is difficult to find them without a local guide.
But now, with the reorganization of the Han army, they need to be transferred to the new defense area to garrison, and they need to leave their camps, so the Han army, which originally felt that there was not much, suddenly sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the roads were full of Han troops, densely packed.
And the great powers are also gathering this information, and they are judging whether the data released by Wang Sirui is true or not.
It's just that, looking at the current information, most people have basically believed that this is true.
Compared with the quiet or busy from all walks of life, today's capital, on the surface, still looks as usual, the work should be worked, and the stalls should be set up.
It's just that within the government, it's a busy mess.
Although a lot of work has been done in the early stage, and there are only two tasks to be done today, they still feel that the time is not enough, and even the whole person is a little excited and doesn't know what to do?
At 7:50, Wang Shizhen walked out of Wang Sirui's office, holding the declaration on the founding of the country that Wang Sirui had just signed.
According to the process, after Wang Sirui signed it, Wang Shizhen should personally take this declaration to the telegraph room and report it to the whole world in clear code.
But halfway through, Wang Shizhen quietly turned a corner, then took off the first page of the electricity, took out a new page from his arms and stuffed it in.
The telegram consisted of two pages, the first page was about 300 words, the second page was about 200 words, and at the back of the second page was Wang Sirui's signature.
In fact, this power-on was prepared by Wang Shizhen and others who stayed up all night last night, and what they had to do was not just to replace the power-on content, they also had to link the two pages of power-on content together flawlessly.
That's right, Wang Shizhen and others are doing what many people have done in history, just like Li Shimin became the emperor.
Isn't Wang Sirui undecided? That's good, since Wang Sirui can't make up his mind by himself, then let them help him make up his mind, as for the future, I'll talk about it later.
Even if Wang Sirui gets angry, how far can he go? You can't cut them down, can you? At best, they should be deported and sent home, but so what? It doesn't matter, they are the heroes of this country, and even if they go home, they can still live a good life.
Besides, do you really think that the past three years of high-level life have been in vain? Each of them has a lot of power. To put it mildly, even after returning home, their decisions can still affect the consideration of some departments.
However, Wang Shizhen and others helped Wang Sirui make a decision so smartly, aren't they afraid that Wang Sirui will be angry?
Of course they are afraid, but they care more about themselves.
Wang Sirui is not even thirty years old now, and he is still very young, but what about them? The youngest is also in his forties, and one by one must have been buried long before Wang Sirui entered the ground.
Coupled with Wang Sirui's prestige in the army, this also lays the foundation that no matter how they make trouble, the country will always be under Wang Sirui's control.
Of course, they didn't want to make trouble, they just wanted to make the country strong enough to compete with the great powers. In this way, they will go down in history.
After all, everyone wants Heshen's life, but no one wants to carry that kind of infamy, so it's better to leave a good reputation and be looked up to by future generations.
After changing the power, Wang Shizhen took the new power and walked to the telegraph room not far away.
There are now two different telegraphs, the latest wireless telegraphy and the old wired telegraphy. Wireless telegraphy was mainly used to communicate with the army and various provinces, while cable telegraphy was used to communicate with foreigners.
The telegram was not tampered with much, only a few sentences, the name of the country was Zhonghua, changed to the Chinese Empire, and the new emperor Sirui will officially ascend the throne on the second day of the second month of February.
Don't underestimate this sentence, it is precisely this sentence that completely determines that the new country will continue to adopt the imperial system.
And the advantage of the imperial system is that they can basically be knighted.
In later generations, Wang Sirui had a characteristic as a person, and it was precisely because of this characteristic that Wang Sirui became the favorite person of the officers and soldiers of the whole company.
Wang Sirui will never stop the soldiers from having any superfluous ideas, as long as you can train seriously and complete the specified tasks, then you can be very casual in private, even if it is a recruit who has just left the company, it is no problem to run to Wang Sirui and go directly to his pocket to get a cigarette.
But if you can't complete the task, it will be miserable.
Therefore, in this life, in terms of governing the army, Wang Sirui still continues the style of his previous life, which is elastic and tight, and will not make people feel that his military career will be very tormenting.
Throughout the country, after receiving this telegram, the government immediately ordered people to copy several copies by hand and post them in various places, and sent officials to various villages to publicize the news.
On the military side, it was relatively calm, but after learning the news of the establishment of the Chinese Empire, the morale of the soldiers in the army, which was already high and passionate, was even more than three points.
Especially those old troops, it can be said that this country is completely defeated by those more than 600,000 old troops.
Therefore, when meeting those reserves that had just been reorganized into regular troops, the soldiers of those units also raised their proud heads one by one, and the soldiers who had turned into regular troops could only look at those old units with envy.
In fact, what can they do now besides envy? Only by exerting enough strength to fight the next battle that may take place, and also letting those old troops see that the troops they have just converted into regular troops are not made of mud.
"The great leader Wang Sirui officially announced today that the great Chinese Empire has been officially established! The new emperor will hold an enthronement ceremony on the second day of the second month of February...... "A team of officials riding war horses, striking the gong in their hands, loudly announcing that every time they pass through a village, they must shout loudly around the village several times before going to the next village."
If you encounter people or pedestrians on the way, you will continue to shout.
"Alas, there is another war, and it is our people who will suffer in the end......" An old man with gray hair sighed and shook his head helplessly, this news did not seem to be good news for him.
This old man used to be a general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but his official position was not high, and on the eve of the fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he came here incognito, and took root here, wanting to live the rest of his life in peace and stability.
But who knows, now that half of his body has been buried in the ground, he will encounter this kind of thing again.
"Old man Qiu, you are wrong about this, the war must be fought, but it is not the people who suffer. Now that the Han army has occupied all of the land except Liangguang, the Qing court is about to collapse, and the war will only take place in Liangguang. The official stopped with interest and explained to Old Man Qiu.
Few people know about the origin of Old Man Qiu, and the old people in the village only know that Old Man Qiu has come here when they were very young.
These people also treat Mr. Qiu as their elders, and Mr. Qiu has no wife and no children, and in the early years, he made a will, and when he was old, he gave dozens of acres of land in his hands to the village, which was cultivated by everyone, and after the harvest, the whole village divided the grain equally according to the head.
This official is also from their village, and he knows more about it than the villagers on weekdays, so he explained patiently.
"How can it be so easy? The foreigners will definitely intervene. Old Man Qiu sighed and continued.
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