Chapter 35 The Establishment of the Constitution

"Constitutional Monarchy?" Sun Wen asked in surprise.

"That's right, it's the real monarch's constitution!"

"Compared with the British hypothetical constitutional system, the real monarchy constitution is undoubtedly more suitable for the East."

Chen Zhiping said affirmatively, "A few years ago, I traveled east to the Yueben Islands, and I said that Benben had implemented the constitutional system of the monarchy more than 20 years ago, and now the national strength has increased and the army is strong. The people of the country are civilized and united, and all countries are amazed at the changes that have taken place in the past few decades, and they have become almost a European country. ”

"There is also Prussia in Europe, since the Wilhelm royal family introduced the constitutional system, Prussia has defeated Denmark, Austria, France, but in a few decades has unified the German states and established a unified German Empire. Its country is said to have grown stronger, and now it has completely overwhelmed France, the former hegemon on the European continent. ”

In France, on the other hand, there are dozens of political parties, large and small, and every time a different party comes to power, the former party's program is often overthrown by it. Whenever there is a major event in the country, they often drag on each other's responsibilities and pass the buck. Over the centuries, its overseas colonies have shrunk one after another, and it has lost to Tsarist Russia, Austria, Britain, and Prussia in foreign wars. ”

Chen Zhiping smiled disdainfully, "Hehe, it's this contest with the Qing Kingdom, I'm afraid it's hard to figure out who loses and who wins." And that's not all, now France can't even keep its colonies in South America. A country that the small country of Guyana can toss, do you think we can learn its system. ”

"You're not right, didn't France conquer Europe under the command of Napoleon?" Sun Wen asked.

"That's right, Napoleon is remarkable," Chen Zhiping replied in surprise, "but he later became the emperor of France again." ”

Sun Wen was dumbfounded.

"The French were great in their quest for freedom, but they had exhausted the country for hundreds of years, lost their overseas interests, and ceded even the two provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. The Americans, on the other hand, are protected from interference by natural geography. ”

"Is the republic really so unbearable" Sun Wen muttered to himself, "No, no!" You haven't talked about the United States, but what about the United States? ”

Chen Zhiping looked at him the same, and then said, "The situation in the United States is slightly better than that of the French, and the threshold for party politics has been raised, so so far only two political parties take turns in power." The country is made up of multiple states, and the country's legislation and judicial power are completely determined by the respective states. Do you think such a system is suitable for us? ”

Sun Wen looked at the young man in front of him and was a little overwhelmed, what he had been pursuing for more than ten years was actually criticized in front of this student.

"Is it difficult to make this Manchurian court continue to sit firmly in the country, and enslave my 40,000 people," Sun Wen finally squeezed out a reason to refute in front of the young people.

As if he hadn't heard Sun Wen's words, Chen Zhiping continued to elaborate on his previous opinions, "China must not copy the systems of Europe and the United States. As far as China's national conditions are concerned, excessive freedom will inevitably lead to the division of the country! ”

"All in all, the most suitable system for China is the constitutional system of the monarchy."

Turning his head to look at Sun Wen, who was a little confused, Chen Zhiping said with a smile, "As for the Manchu court issue you mentioned, I can treat you as a pure nationalist. I'm actually the same as you at this point, and I've never said that I want Emperor Guangxu of the Qing State to be the monarch of this system! ”

Hearing this, Sun Wen suddenly woke up.

Looking at Chen Zhiping, who was sipping a drink on the other side, Sun Wen asked astringently, "What do you want to say?" ”

Chen Zhiping raised his head, looked at Sun Wen and said word by word, "What do you think, let the Führer be the new monarch of this country." ”

Although it is a question sentence, when it is spoken, it is completely in the tone of an affirmative sentence......

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In July, Chen Zeyu, as the head of state and supreme commander of the army, presided over and formulated the first constitution of Seris, the Constitution of the Republic of China, which was adopted by the Supreme House of Commons of Seris on the same day.

In the early days, Seris houses at all levels had certain rights, but in the final analysis, these were all things that Chen Zeyu was willing to throw out. You can ask for what you are willing to give you, and you can't get what you don't want to give you. To put it mildly, the House of Commons today is completely a tool in the hands of someone else.

Chen Zeyu didn't have the idea of immediately making a republican system, or that sentence, the most suitable is the best.

For the early revival of the Chinese nation, Chen Zeyu has already made up his mind to "read talents" once. Even others didn't think there was anything wrong with what he did, and now it's still very early for the Chinese to cook it.

Chen Zeyu didn't know that he was a prophecy today, and a few years later, he was really "played" by his subordinates in a yellow robe. And because of his own military command ability, which frightened the whole of Europe, he himself was called "His Majesty Napoleon of the East" in Western textbooks until centuries later......

After the establishment of the Seris Republic, it took some time for Chen Zeyu to reorganize the organization within the former Huameng.

With his uncle Chen Yanyu as the party leader, Chen Zeyu re-established a political party called the Minsheng Party.

For the time being, Chen Zeyu's move is completely redundant, and most of the members of the People's Livelihood Party at this time are serving in the nascent Republic of China. The party as a whole has only gathered the like-minded people of the past in terms of personnel to prepare for future political reforms.

Soon after, Chen Zeyu formed his own cabinet, which consisted of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Ministry of Security.

The post of secretary of state for the political axe of the republic will be held by Liang Cheng, who is in charge of affairs, and the post of minister of finance will be directly assigned by Chen Zeyu to Rong Yu, who has just returned from the United States, and the post of minister of defense will be taken over by Yang Yu, who has been handling the armed affairs of the Chinese League.

As one of the first students to study abroad in the early days, Yang Yu may have less of a keen sense of smell of blood on the battlefield than several of his classmates. But compared with them, Yang Yu's ability to coordinate military affairs and deal with complex things is higher than them. With his old age and corresponding military professional ability, Chen Zeyu is still relieved to hand over the Ministry of Defense to him.

No matter how strong Chen Zeyu is, he is only one person after all, and what he has to do now is to put the talented people in this young republic where they should be.

After that, Chen Zeyu made Zhang Kangren, Li Enfu, Ouyang Geng, Tang Yuanzhan, Huang Zhongliang, Kang Gengling, Zhong Wenyao, Liang Dunyan, and Cao Jiaxiang officially appointed the heads of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Public Security.

In the end, the Minister of State Security is still Li Xiaoming, who has been responsible for coordinating intelligence in Nanyang, as the two Li brothers who have been following him since the beginning, Chen Zeyu and the two of them have already become brothers who can trust each other in life and death, and the Ministry of Security, which is responsible for the intelligence of the entire Seris Republic, will be handed over to Ah Ming, Chen Zeyu can be absolutely at ease.

In addition, Chen Zeyu also set up the Republic's own General Administration of Customs, which was directly read out and temporarily served by Vice Minister of Commerce Wu Hongliang.

Among the several cabinet ministers, some are old friends of Chen Zeyu who have known him for many years, and some are students from the Qing Dynasty who have been recruited from the mainland by the intelligence department.

In addition to the high-ranking officials of the central political axe, Chen Zeyu also organized a number of political axe teams for the first time in the Republic of China to study abroad.

Since the Western world has been powerful in this world for centuries, there must be a reason for this.

Although Chen Zeyu is confident that the current military strength of the Republic is enough to protect itself, the corresponding heavy industry has already laid the foundation.

But he never had the luxury of hoping to be able to copy the road to becoming a strong country in another time and space by himself, and send expeditions to countries around the world with two purposes. The first is to establish embassies and consulates in various countries and establish mutual diplomatic exchanges with them. The second is learning, as I did more than 20 years ago, the best way for a backward group to catch up with the pioneers is to learn.

Whether industrially or economically, Chen Zeyu's republic still needs to learn from the West.

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