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Chapter 426

Politics of Internal Repair

The two major factions within the Imperial Chinese Navy, the Artillery Giant Doctrine and the Aircraft Carrier Battle Group Doctrine, were fiercely contesting, and the fundamental reason for this was the struggle for the dominant power of the navy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Tofu Novel

The new military reform of the Navy is only a symptom, and the new generation of naval junior officers, mainly post-70s, post-80s, and post-90s, are using the excuse that the aircraft carrier battle group dominates future naval warfare, in fact, they are challenging the older generation of officers born in the 50s and 60s, and then provoke a new reshuffle in the internal official system of the Navy.

The old Beiyang officers headed by Deng Shichang, Lin Taizeng, and Liu Buyun have reached the age of retirement, and the initiative of the Navy in the future will undoubtedly fall into the hands of the post-70s officers, and the handover of power is often the inheritance of faith, and the older generation of officials pay attention to the inheritance when selecting a new generation of leading officials. The top officials of the Admiralty, headed by Deng Shichang and Lin Taizeng, hoped that the heirs selected would continue to believe in the Giant Ship Cannon Doctrine, so they favored Lin Jianzhang and others, who were among the Young Zhuang faction's salaried giant ship cannon doctrine, to inherit their mantle. However, this will obviously make the other group of young Zhuang faction members who insist that the aircraft carrier battle group dominate the future naval war resist, and the aircraft carrier officers headed by Ye Zugui and Liu Guanxiong will naturally want to spy on the supreme power of the navy, so the fierce confrontation between the two sides is to compete for the dominance of the navy.

Since the supreme commander of the navy, land and air forces of the Chinese Empire is the emperor, and the navy, land and air forces are loyal to the imperial family, the supreme constitution of the Chinese Empire stipulates that no party force shall interfere in military command, which makes the military system of the Chinese Empire will not be influenced and controlled by politicians, ensuring the complete purity of the Chinese imperial army.

On the other hand, however, it also provided an excuse for the struggle for power within the military, and the officer corps headed by Lin Jianzhang and Li Dingxin accused Ye Zugui, Liu Guanxiong, and other aircraft carrier officers of having a partisan background, and filed a complaint with Emperor Wang Chenhao.

Wang Chenhao was very angry that in order to ensure the army's complete allegiance to the royal family, the military officers had a partisan background, and immediately ordered the Imperial Supreme Prosecutor's Office, the Homeland Security Agency, and the Central Intelligence Agency to intervene in the investigation.

After investigation, it was found that Ye Zugui and others had secret deals with some members of the ruling People's Livelihood Party in order to compete for the supreme leadership of the navy.

In the course of the national election of the Chinese Empire in the 15th year of Guanghua, the Minsheng Party once again won two-thirds of the seats in the National Assembly, becoming the largest party in the Imperial Congress, and once again qualified to govern.

In the general election of the Minsheng Party's cabinet, Zhao Bingjun, one of the candidates, in order to get more votes, joined forces with a group of domestic arms dealers, and in order to obtain the sponsorship funds of the arms dealers, Zhao Bingjun and his party supporters targeted the middle and high-level officials of the imperial side. Only by persuading the support of the high-ranking officials of the imperial government will it be possible to pass a large-scale military purchase budget through the alliance of politicians and the military, and only if the arms dealers obtain large-scale arms purchase orders from the government, they will generously pay for the sponsorship.

At the same time, the Minsheng Party headed by Zhang Feng has always focused on economic construction and regularly cut military spending, which has led to strong dissatisfaction from the imperial side. As a result, the emperor resented the People's Livelihood Party in power, and they tended to support other parties in the fourth general election. However, the Supreme Constitution of the Reich stipulates that the military must not have an affair with any political party, so the imperial party can only mentally support the candidacy of other parties.

Although the military does not dare to take a step beyond the thunder pool, there are times when faced with huge interests, there are always people who dare to defy the law.

Zhao Bingjun learned that the emperor was dissatisfied with the policies of Zhang Feng during his administration, so he took the initiative to contact the military officials, saying that if he could get the support of the military officials, once Zhao Bingjun was elected as the next cabinet premier, he would make every effort to promote the construction of the emperor and greatly increase the military budget.

Under the temptation of Zhao Bingjun, the emperor's members were moved. When they learned that if Zhang Feng formed a cabinet, he would continue to promote the rapid development of the country's economy and reduce military spending that affected economic development. This made the emperor very dissatisfied, so he tended to support Zhao Bingjun's election.

Most of the emperor's officials only mentally supported Zhao Bingjun, because they did not dare to violate the imperial constitution, and it was quite dangerous to collude with politicians. But there are always people who are bolder, including the members of the CV Party led by Ye Zugui. In order to compete for the military budget of the aircraft carrier battle group, they joined forces with Zhao Bingjun. Ye Zugui came forward to contact the major arms dealers in the empire and asked them to donate more funds to support Zhao Bingjun. Ye Zugui promised the arms dealers that as long as Zhao Bingjun was elected prime minister, the emperor would receive huge military support, and whichever arms dealer paid the most money would get the greatest compensation. And Zhao Bingjun also promised Ye Zugui that he opposed the Imperial Navy's spending huge money to build battleships, and would support Ye Zugui's military budget plan for the aircraft carrier battle group.

So under the leadership of Ye Zugui, the major arms giants of the empire donated a lot of banknotes to Zhao Bingjun to help Zhao Bingjun carry out propaganda and canvassing. In the end, Zhao Bingjun won a victory within the Minsheng Party and became the fourth prime minister of the Chinese Empire, and in March of the 16th year of Guanghua, he moved into the Imperial Prime Minister's Office and began to organize a responsible cabinet.

Before the new responsible cabinet was formally established, Zhao Bingjun passed the 16-year military budget of Guanghua submitted by the military, totaling 400 million dragon coins, in order to repay the support of the emperor's first fire merchants. Among them, half of the appropriation for the Imperial Navy is mainly focused on the aircraft carrier battle group plan submitted by Ye Zugui, and the additional allocation is to build six aircraft carrier battle groups, plus the original six aircraft carrier battle groups, twelve aircraft carrier battle groups will be built in two years, and eventually surpass the nine battleship battle groups of the BB Party and become the dominant force of the Imperial Navy.

Lin Jianzhang and others complained to the emperor Wang Chenhao, ostensibly to crack down on Ye Zu and other CV parties, but in fact, Lin Jianzhang and others had Deng Shichang and other naval veterans on their heads, and the Shaozhuang faction also wanted to overthrow these veterans so as to gain naval dominance. And Lin Jianzhang and the others knew in their hearts that none of these navy veterans had a clean ass, and once the fact that Ye Zugui had an affair with Zhao Bingjun was shaken out, these navy veterans would inevitably be investigated.

Lin Jianzhang and others gambled that the emperor Wang Chenhao would clean up these naval elders, but what they didn't expect was that Wang Chenhao was disgusted with the collusion between the military and politicians to a very large extent.

As a matter of fact, Wang Chenhao has long been preparing to clean up a number of officers within the military who have had affairs with major political parties in the country, and now he is taking advantage of this opportunity to rectify the officials of the three armed services.

For a long time, Wang Chenhao did not understand why after the founding of the country, all dynasties carried out large-scale rectification of the founding heroes. It wasn't until Wang Chenhao sat on the throne of the emperor and put himself in the position of the supreme leader of the country to think about the problem that he understood this truth.

Although the powerful ministers of the Qing Dynasty such as Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong, and Liu Kunyi have all passed away, there are still a lot of important figures in the former dynasty who were born before the first year of Guanghua, and these people have been deeply rooted in the feudal ideology of the previous dynasty, and although they have undergone a series of changes, there are still quite a lot of people who have the idea of being a warlord who stands on their own feet. These people will not make waves in Wang Chenhao's era, but they will secretly develop their own forces, and when Wang Chenhao's era passes, these forces will rise.

In order to peacefully take over the country's power, Wang Chenhao chose to compromise with the bureaucracy of the previous dynasty in order not to let the Chinese empire continue to suffer internal friction.

Because the 1900 revolution launched by Wang Chenhao avoided the civil war to the greatest extent, although it prevented the internal friction of the Chinese nation, there was no defeat in the history of the First Sino-Japanese War and Xinchou, so that the Chinese Empire maintained a strong national wealth when it was founded, coupled with Wang Chenhao's wise leadership, so that the Chinese Empire was able to recover its national strength in a short period of time and become a strong country.

But on the other hand, without the civil war, a large number of feudal remnants left over from the former Qing dynasty turned into a bourgeoisie, and their traditional feudal ideas determined that they could not become the real bourgeoisie, and with the rapid development of the Chinese Empire, these feudal forces became an obstacle to the development of the empire.

In particular, the high degree of democracy in the Chinese Empire made the upsurge of party formation in the empire all the rage. According to the statistics of the Chinese Empire at the beginning of the 16th year of Guanghua, in the 16 years from the 1900 Revolution to Guanghua, there were as many as 920 political organizations such as "party" and "hui" in the country. In the political operation of the imperial political parties, the most important political parties were the Minsheng Party and the Democratic Party, which were transformed from Wang Chenhao's Beiyang clique, the Civil Rights Party, which was mainly composed of the reformers of the former royalist Kang Youwei era, the Republican Party transformed from the Sun-Wen League, and the various parties formed by the local gentry in various provinces to participate in local elections in order to safeguard local interests. At the beginning of the empire, the establishment, disappearance, and dispersion of various political parties were very frequent, and it was almost overwhelming. At the time of the establishment of the Chinese Empire, because the People's Livelihood Party was in the limelight, it had a tendency to dominate the political situation, which led to the joint confrontation of other parties and groups.

In Guanghua 6, the Republican and Civil Rights parties merged to form the Progressive Party to counter the dominance of the Minsheng Party and the Democratic Party, and at the same time, the Minsheng Party and the Democratic Party began to compete with each other for power. The party politics of the Chinese Empire then entered the second stage, that is, the stage of polarization and confrontation.

Although party politics, as the content of bourgeois democratic politics in the West, was advocated and propagated for more than a decade in the late Qing Dynasty, a considerable number of politicians had an extremely superficial understanding of party politics in the West and did not have enough understanding of the essence of the party system.

Therefore, party politics was deformed and incomplete in the early days of the Chinese Empire. At the same time, the mainstream of Chinese culture at that time was still the traditional small peasant culture, and the concept of human rule failed to change to the concept of the legal system, although the Chinese Empire implemented a political system of five provinces and nine ministries that combined the advantages of the two systems of constitutional monarchy and separation of powers, but in the hearts of the people of the empire, Wang Chenhao's influence was huge, resulting in the concept of imperial system not only not weakened, but strengthened, which also led to the modern democratic republican concept is very weak, and all political parties do not know what a real political party is in order to compete for central and local power.

At the beginning of the Chinese Empire, the activities of political parties were limited to the National Assembly and local provincial assemblies. Under the guidance of Wang Chenhao, the Minsheng Party and the Democratic Party have a fairly clear program, but because Wang Chenhao's influence is too great, the highest goal of the Minsheng Party and the Democratic Party is to organize a cabinet, and it is a responsible cabinet responsible to the emperor.

At the local level, the provincial assemblies are mostly partisans, but they have no guidance and lack a far-sighted political program, so they are divorced from the class and the people, and even think that the lower strata of the Chinese Empire are ignorant and backward and of low quality, and neither the reformers nor the old guards can use the lower strata of the people as a borrowed force, and the activities of political parties become the activities of a small number of upper-class people. This situation could easily breed local militarism and become an obstacle to the political development of the Chinese Empire in the future. Although after more than 10 years of development, various political parties have undergone changes in their thinking, only a few political parties have been upgraded, and the majority of political parties are still stuck in traditional thinking and have not made progress.

But this is not the aspect that worries Wang Chenhao the most, Wang Chenhao is most worried about the feudal relics forces affecting the future political development of the empire, although the war was not used to eliminate these feudal relics, but Wang Chenhao hopes to eliminate these feudal relics when the overall situation is controlled.

Since these feudal remnants infiltrated the central and local councils of the Chinese Empire from the very beginning, they were still very well-connected and influential, which led to a series of problems for the various political parties in the Chinese Empire.

For example, there is a great deal of arbitrariness in the admission of party members by political parties. Party leaders are far more concerned about the number of members than the quality of their members. The second is that party members are seriously cross-party, and joining the party is a major choice of political beliefs in life, and there should be a sense of recognition from the bottom of one's heart with the political party one you choose. But in the early days of the Chinese Empire, politicians saw party membership as a tool for power and profit. Moreover, the party platform has become an empty signboard, and the party identity is very weak. Political parties compete to propagate their own political platforms, but their content is much the same, and their platforms are only tools for political party contention. Also, there is a lack of a political base. Political parties were originally a tool to connect state institutions and citizens, but at the beginning of the founding of the Chinese Empire, the people did not know how to express their personal political opinions, let alone the spokesperson of the political party for their own interests. In the end, the lack of necessary ideological education and discipline restraint for party members eventually led to a considerable number of party members abusing their power and engaging in irregularities for personal gain.

After 20 years of development, now that the Chinese Empire is politically stable, economically prosperous, and militarily powerful, Wang Chenhao has established the political, economic, and military forces that are completely loyal to him, and the personality cult of the imperial people to Wang Chenhao has reached the point of serving the gods, so the time is ripe to completely eliminate the remnants of the feudal legacy of this country.

Therefore, at the suggestion of Yang Shixiang, Zhang Peilun, and other imperial think tanks, Wang Chenhao decided to carry out a major rectification of the government and the opposition in the Chinese Empire.

On April 5, the 16th year of Guanghua, the Supreme People's Procuratorate of the Chinese Empire, the Independent Commission Against Corruption, and the National Police Agency conducted a joint investigation into Premier Zhao Bingjun and Ye Zugui of the Navy.

This was the first time since the founding of the Chinese Empire that a prime minister and a high-ranking military lieutenant general were prosecuted, and it immediately aroused a strong reaction throughout the country.

The major media of the empire have followed up and reported that the Chinese imperial prosecutor's courage to prosecute the imperial prime minister and the struggle for power shows that the democratic process of the Chinese empire has made great achievements, and the people of the empire are happy to support the actions of the imperial supreme prosecutor. Only when even the high-ranking officials of the empire are under the supervision of the supervisory organs will the people of the empire feel fairness and happiness in life.

As Wang Chenhao was highly concerned about this time, the Homeland Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency were also dispatched to help the police and the supervisory authorities collect evidence. Not only did they grasp the evidence of Zhao Bingjun's secret dealings with Ye Zugui, but they also involved Deng Shichang, Lin Taizeng and other naval masterminds of the Admiralty and a large number of naval generals, Zhao Bingjun and more than a dozen senior officials within the Minsheng Party, and even found out a large number of congressional and local legislators from the Democratic Party, the People's Rights Party, the Republican Party, the Liberal Party, and other opposition parties.

In fact, Tan Sitong, president of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, has long been concerned about some veteran-level members of the National Assembly, but there has never been enough evidence to bring them down. The Imperial Procuratorate and his colleagues in the Independent Commission Against Corruption are committed to building the Chinese Empire into a politically clear, highly democratic and liberal country, so in the past ten years, Tan Si and others have mobilized more than 50,000 determined inspectors to investigate and collect evidence throughout the country, collecting a large amount of evidence.

When Wang Chenhao ordered an investigation, Tan Si and others quickly took out the results of the investigation over the years and hit the enemy's vital point in one fell swoop.

On May 2, the 16th year of Guanghua, as various investigation results surfaced one after another. The Imperial Diet initiated the first impeachment process for a prime minister since the founding of the People's Republic of China, impeaching Zhao Bingjun.

On 5 May, the National Assembly voted 8,459 to 3,891 to approve the impeachment of the fourth prime minister, Zhao Bingjun, who was removed from his post as premier.

The next day, Wang Chenhao issued a decree to formally remove Zhao Bingjun from his post as prime minister and allow the Supreme Procuratorate to arrest Zhao Bingjun.

At the same time, Ye Zugui and other admirals suspected of trading with Zhao Bingjun were also dismissed and charged with 13 counts by the Imperial Court and the Supreme Procuratorate. Even 12 arms companies in the Chinese Empire that supported Zhao Bingjun's campaign have been prosecuted and will face nine counts of bribery of imperial officials and obstruction of justice.

In the Qinzheng Hall of the Forbidden City, Wang Chenhao held a separate meeting of the imperial think tank before convening the imperial palace to discuss countermeasures with Ruan Zhongshu, Yang Shixiang, Zhang Peilun and other think tanks.

Yang Shixiang said: "Your Majesty, judging from the current situation, the time has come for the imperial political reshuffle, and the imperial supervisory organs have a lot of evidence, as long as Your Majesty gives an order, the old forces left over from the previous dynasty will be eliminated in one fell swoop." ”

Wang Chenhao nodded and said, "The old feudal forces of the previous dynasty must be eliminated, because they have brought instability to the imperial politics. However, it is also necessary to control the scope and not expand it, because it will not affect the construction of the country. ”

Ruan Zhongshu replied: "Your Majesty can rest assured of this. Only about a quarter of the congressmen opposed the impeachment of Zhao Bingjun in this congression, and most of these opposition legislators were stubborn feudal thinkers born in the 50s and 60s, and they accounted for more than half of the targets to be eliminated, so the whole action was completely under control. ”

Zhang Peilun, whose health was deteriorating, coughed a few times and said, "Your Majesty, although with your influence, you can eliminate these people at one time. But I still suggest that it be better to get rid of these feudal diehards step by step, one by one. ”

Yang Shixiang agreed: "I think so too. After the founding of the country, all dynasties and dynasties inevitably went through such a stage, and it would be best if they could be as benevolent as Zhao Kuangyin released the military power with a glass of wine. After all, these feudal remnants also had merit when the empire was just established. ”

Wang Chenhao thought about it and felt that it made sense, so he nodded and said: "Since this is the case, then let the Security Bureau privately hand over the information they have to those who are to be cleared, if they can take the initiative to resign and retire, don't pursue it." ”

Zhang Peilun and Yang Shixiang hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is wise! ”

Ruan Zhongshu moved his mouth, but in the end he did not object.

As a result, the Homeland Security Agency and the CIA, in accordance with Wang Chenhao's intentions, successively found those who were listed as influencing the political stability of the empire to talk to and persuade them to retire voluntarily.

Although many officials of the former dynasty scolded Wang Chenhao for being shameless behind their backs, and kicked them away after using them, Wang Chenhao was still merciful and did not use extreme measures to deal with them. Although these people are not willing to lose their rights, they are fortunate to be able to keep their family wealth and family safe, and to be able to enjoy their old age in peace. Since this rectification campaign was eventually resolved peacefully, there was no hatred that could never be dissolved. Therefore, the hatred for Wang Chenhao only stayed on their generation of dismissed people, and did not continue to the next generation.

Compared with the cruel treatment of heroes in previous dynasties, Wang Chenhao solved this problem through a legal method without bloodshed, which can be said to have been benevolent and righteous.

Beginning in May of the 16th year of Guanghua, with the continuous expansion of Ye Zugui's case, a large-scale rectification action was set off in the entire land of China, which was later called the Rectification Movement, which was intended to completely eliminate the possibility of creating obstacles to the future political development of the Chinese Empire by the feudal remnants and make the politics of the Chinese Empire clearer. Only when the country is politically clear can it truly take off.

This rectification campaign began in May and lasted for half a year. The first is the reshuffle of the navy, the three elders of the imperial navy, Deng Shichang, Lin Taizeng and Liu Buyun, were awarded the first class admiral of the navy and retired, and the successor to the minister of the navy was Lin Jianzhang, the minister of the naval command department Du Xigui, and the chief of staff of the naval staff Zhao Sheng. At the same time, more than 100 post-50s and post-60s Admiralty and fleet officials were retired, and they were all post-70s, post-80s and post-90s young Zhuang officers, and the Imperial Chinese Navy was able to change its blood.

However, the leading force in the Navy is still the Navy BB Party, which believes in the doctrine of giant ships and cannons, and the Navy CV Party has been suppressed by public opinion because of the Ye Zugui incident and has failed to become the leading force.

Although the emperor Wang Chenhao understood that in ten or twenty years, aircraft carriers would become the dominant force at sea, at this moment, aircraft carriers could not completely replace the dominant position of battleships, so Wang Chenhao did not stop it.

However, Wang Chenhao did not want to suppress the fighting spirit of the Navy CV Party, so on the issue of the Ye Zugui incident, Wang Chenhao kept Liu Guanxiong and let Ye Zugui take full responsibility, and appointed Zhao Sheng, the representative of the CV Party, as the Chief of Staff of the Navy, and Liu Guanxiong as the deputy commander of the Pacific Fleet and the commander of the aircraft carrier battle group, which can be regarded as balancing the rights between the BB Party and the CV Party.

After the major change of leadership and command of the Navy, together with the Army, a large number of post-50s and post-60s officials were dismissed and retired, or returned to their hometowns, or changed to other careers. However, the army is a descendant unit led by Wang Chenhao, and Xiang Feng Guozhang, Duan Qirui, Liang Huadian, and others are not yet of retirement age, so there is basically no change in the top level of the army, and the biggest change is the commander and logistics personnel of the local military district. At the beginning, in order to control the localities as soon as possible, Wang Chenhao retained the commanders of the new army in the towns of the former dynasty and continued to serve in these local military regions, and many people had already been promoted to commanders of the military regions, and this time they were all dismissed.

As far as the air force is concerned, the air force of the Chinese Empire is not affected by the feudal relics of the previous dynasty, from the top to the bottom, from the combat unit to the logistics support force, all of them are all progressive young people, so there is no need to exchange blood. But a group of Air Force officials close to politicians were dismissed.

The navy, land, and air force were the first targets of Wang Chenhao's rectification, and it was necessary to ensure that they were kept away from politics, and no one was allowed to join any party or organization, and the soldiers had only one belief, that is, to be loyal to the royal family and defend the country, and not to ask or participate in other matters. Wang Chenhao still needed a dictatorship at this time, so he demanded that the army must be absolutely loyal to him. Of course, he also understood that the separation of the military and the government would lead to very serious consequences, so from the very beginning, Wang Chenhao strictly separated the military and the government, so that they could not get along with each other for old age.

The reorganization of the National Guard and the police force is the most extensive, because the National Guard and the police force were reorganized from the former DPRK troops from the very beginning, and a large number of officers are former DPRK officers; although after more than 10 years, most of the original officers and soldiers have retired, but there are still a considerable number of former DPRK officers who hold important posts, so they are also the targets of the rectification movement, and most of them can be awarded decorations and retire from the stage, and a small number of officials who collude with the criminal syndicate and know the law and break the law are handed over to the supervisory organs for handling.

The largest of them was the Imperial Diet and the provincial assemblies. Zhao Bingjun's case caused the Minsheng Party to be greatly criticized by the people, and after Zhao Bingjun was impeached, Zhao Bingjun's cabinet resigned en masse. At the same time, Zhang Feng responded to Wang Chenhao's order and carried out a major reshuffle within the Minsheng Party, many of the old forces of the former dynasty who served as members of the National Assembly and the provincial parliament were persuaded to retire, and unqualified party members were dismissed.

The internal reshuffle of the Minsheng Party reduced the number of members of the Minsheng Party from 10 million to 5.8 million, and at the same time, its seats in the Imperial Diet became the second largest party.

The first major party was replaced by Tang Shaoyi's Democratic Party, so Wang Chenhao appointed Tang Shaoyi to re-establish a responsible cabinet, and Tang Shaoyi served as the fifth prime minister of the Chinese Empire, but his term of office was only 19 years in Guanghua, and in the sixth national election in the 20th year of Guanghua, he had to be re-elected. In other words, this time Tang Shaoyi and his Democratic Party cabinet were only used to wipe the ass of Zhao Bingjun's Minsheng Party cabinet.

In mid-June, Tang Shaoyi set up a responsible cabinet formed by the Democratic Party, which became the first time in the 16 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China that the Democratic Party was in power, ending the era of the Minsheng Party unifying the imperial cabinet and the National Assembly, and thus opening the era of party rotation in power, and the democratic process of the Chinese Empire was able to take a big step forward.

Similarly, Tang Shaoyi's Democratic Party is also the focus of this rectification campaign, but the public opinion of the people has been attracted by the Minsheng Party, and the internal reshuffle of the Democratic Party has not been exposed, and everything is being carried out in secret. In the end, the Democratic Party became the largest party in Congress, with its membership falling from 8.2 million to 6.55 million.

As the third largest party in the National Assembly, the Progressive Party, jointly organized by Kang Youwei and Sun Wen, did not escape the rectification movement. The Supreme People's Procuratorate of the Chinese Empire confirmed that 3 million Progressives also colluded with the imperial side. Since the Progressive Party was not a descendant of Wang Chenhao, that is, it was not a party split from the old Beiyang clique, the imperial government was more strict in its rectification. Of the four million Progressives, only 1.9 million remained. Moreover, the party program and constitution of the Progressive Party formulated by Kang Youwei and Sun Wen had to be revised, and all rules and regulations must conform to the imperial constitution and laws, and at the same time, they must not conflict with the ideology of the imperial ruling party, and must believe in the basic ideas of bourgeois democracy, civil rights, and people's livelihood. Because if the ideology is different, then it is not far from a civil war.

Similarly, all other political parties in China have been purged, and 820 political parties and organizations have been banned, and all those who have different beliefs from the two major parties of the Chinese Empire, democracy and people's livelihood, have been banned. The specter over Europe, in particular, showed signs that it was slowly infiltrating the Chinese Empire.

After the completion of the rectification movement in the bureaucratic political system of the whole country, it also quickly hit the people. The main manifestation is that Confucianism, which is dominated by the feudal remnants, does not conform to the current political form of the Chinese Empire, because the Chinese Empire is now a great power, an imperialist, a colonialist, or more directly an aggressor of constant external expansion, so Confucianism is an obstacle. Of course, Confucianism was only limited in scale and not outlawed, because it was part of Chinese culture after all, and at the same time, the Chinese Empire also needed to use Confucianism at the right time, so that it could achieve peace with the left hand and war with the right hand.

At the same time, the biggest impact of the rectification movement was to break down folk superstitions, and all superstitious ideas and rituals were listed as illegal and resolutely banned. In particular, the ethnic minorities in remote mountainous areas are the source of feudal power and must be completely eradicated. At the same time, in some areas, family rules and national laws have become two standards, and even clan rules are greater than laws, and they have all been swept away in this rectification movement. In some areas, families even clashed with local police and law enforcement officers, and in the border areas of Yunnan, some families even exchanged fire with the National Guard, but they were forcibly abolished. Clan rules can only be used if they do not conflict with the Empire's constitution and laws.

In the economic sphere, it was the empire's arms giants who ignited the rectification. With the exception of a few arms companies whose heads were prosecuted by the Chinese Imperial Supervisory Authority, most of the arms companies were fined and suspended for rectification. Among them, the arms companies under the name of the royal family, such as Beiyang Ordnance Heavy Industry, Shanghai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry, Royal Shipbuilding Heavy Industry, etc., were fined up to 5 million dragon coins, these industries are Wang Chenhao's, but for the sake of justice, the royal enterprise was fined 200%, so that other companies that were fined did not dare to speak up, and even did not protest above, and they all obediently admitted.

After half a year of rectification, the Chinese Empire completely eliminated the remnants of feudalism, cleared the obstacles for the future political development of the Chinese Empire, and became an important milestone in building the Chinese Empire into a prosperous, strong, democratic, and civilized country.

But the fly in the ointment is that in the marriage system, because the Chinese Emperor Wang Chenhao has eight concubines and a large group of harem maids, Wang Chenhao wanted to yell and ask for national monogamy, but he didn't have that confidence, and finally shelved this issue and left the task to the next generation to solve.

Similarly, the Chinese Empire did not ban brothels because Wang Chenhao believed that the ban could not be stopped at all, and the harm of secret prostitution was far more serious than that of open operation. In this rectification campaign, in order to crack down on the abduction of women and children by illegal brothels, the various supervisory organs and police organs of the empire carried out a large-scale joint operation codenamed "human rights" in order to make meritorious contributions, eliminated more than a dozen criminal gangs, and arrested a large number of traffickers who abducted women and children.

Empress Li Youyi was so angry that she personally called the Supreme People's Court and the National Police Department to demand severe punishment for these traffickers.

In the eyes of imperial officials, the queen has always been a representative of the gentle and virtuous women of the empire, and she has never seen the queen angry, so after receiving Li Youyi's roaring phone call, the Supreme Court of the empire sentenced these traffickers to a heavy sentence, and more than 2,000 people were sentenced to death alone, and the rest were basically sentenced to hundreds of years in prison, and the lowest was more than 50 years. Since then, when the Imperial Police arrest prisoners, they have not been able to talk about human rights only to traffickers, and traffickers account for more than half of the prisoners who have been shot and killed in law enforcement. As a result, the number of human traffickers who committed crimes in the territory of the Chinese Empire decreased dramatically in the future, and eventually became the country where human traffickers in the world were the most afraid to attack.

The queen's call to the Supreme People's Court and the National Police Agency was completely angry, and she did not think about interfering with judicial justice. But soon, Tan Sitong, president of the Supervision Yuan, reported the matter to Wang Chenhao. In order to deal with the aftermath of the queen, Wang Chenhao proposed to revise the punishment standards for human traffickers. The members of the Reich Congress did not have a good impression of human traffickers, so in the end, the National Assembly revised the punishment standards for human traffickers, and all cases of human trafficking were punished three times more heavily.

Until many years later, the women and children of the Chinese Empire were most grateful to Empress Li Youyi, because one of her phone calls made human traffickers dare not easily commit crimes in the Chinese Empire, bringing a great sense of security to the women and children of the Chinese Empire.

In short, the rectification movement launched by Wang Chenhao in the 16th year of Guanghua made the Chinese Empire a great political success and cleared the political obstacles for the comprehensive and rapid growth of the Chinese Empire in the future. At the same time, after the rectification movement, the people of the empire have more trust in the supervisory organs of the imperial government, the degree of honesty and dedication of officials has been greatly improved, and the number of corrupt officials and other officials has also decreased significantly, making the Chinese empire the most honest government in the world in the future.

Just when Wang Chenhao was busy rectifying the empire, great changes also occurred on the European battlefield.

First of all, after the Fourth Battle of the Somme, the tank became the only way to break through the stalemate, and both the Entente and the Central Powers worked on the large-scale development of the tank.

As the Allies suffered heavy losses in the Fourth Battle of the Somme, the Allies were able to quickly replenish their forces as the U.S. Army continued to move into the European theater. So, the Entente went to war to plan revenge.

On July 20, 1916, after a long period of preparation, the headquarters of the Entente drew up a plan for the Battle of Amiens. The main objective was to clear the Amiens salient of the German forces and eliminate their threat to Amiens and the Paris-Amiens railway.

On the 52-kilometer-wide breakthrough section of Brash and Morancourt, the British 4th Army, the French 1st Army, and the 1st Army of the American Expeditionary Force were concentrated, with a total of 28 infantry divisions, 5 cavalry divisions, 5,684 artillery pieces, 1,520 tanks and about 2,000 aircraft.

The German army in front of the British, French, and American forces was the German 2nd Army, with a total of 17 infantry divisions, 2,840 artillery pieces, 1,200 combat vehicles, and 1,106 aircraft.

From July 23 to August 7, large-scale air battles broke out between the two sides. At this time, the Luftwaffe was already financially constrained by Germany, and the shortage of funds caused the Luftwaffe to begin to reduce the number of combat aircraft in the Luftwaffe, and the daily consumption was greater than the production.

Although it is inferior to the British, French, and American combined air forces in terms of quantity, in terms of fighter quality, the Luftwaffe is in a leading position with the original Cat Demon fighters of the Chinese Empire.

In the large-scale air battle that lasted for half a month, the German army lost 820 planes, and the British, French, and American air forces lost 1,303 planes. Despite the heavy losses of the British, French, and American air forces, the Luftwaffe, which eventually outnumbered Amiens, seized air supremacy in the area on August 7.

On August 8, the British, French, and American forces did not carry out artillery fire preparations in advance, that is, while the artillery positions were firing, a large number of tanks were sent to attack the German positions by surprise.

A second super-massive tank battle broke out between the two sides. Again, the Germans were inferior to the Entente in the number of tanks, but the Germans were superior in the quality of their tanks. By the end of the day, the Germans had lost 703 tanks and the Entente had lost 902 tanks, and tactically the Germans had won, but strategically, the Germans were no longer able to protect the salient.

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