It is difficult to speculate on this country with common sense, and the same is true of this nation, just as when they launched the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, people felt incredible, and if they launched a large-scale war against China here, it would certainly be incomprehensible.

In his view, they must have a thousand reasons for going to war, and they have seized a very rare God-given opportunity, and a strong sense of national and national crisis is forcing them to continue to take risks.

At the same time, they also have an absolutely sure hole card, that is, the navy of the Great Empire.

If the Chinese navy is a crocodile, then the Chinese navy is not even a turtle, which means that even if the navy is defeated again, China without a navy will still be helpless against them, because this is a fucking island country, and if the navy can't beat them, it will never be able to really defeat them.

…… After convening a regular joint military meeting of the General Staff of the Central Army and the Ministry of the Army, Song Biao was in a heavy mood, and he was eager to raze Yueben to the ground with a nuclear warhead now, but fortunately, he still had enough cards to play in his hand, so as not to directly issue a pair of jokers.

After the regular meeting, Song Biao asked everyone else to go back first and continue to actively prepare for the war, while he pondered silently in the office alone for a while, and then made a phone call to Zhang Kangren, the interim cabinet political axe, and asked Zhang Kangren to come over as quickly as possible.

Hearing the edict of the new emperor, Zhang Kangren longed to have four legs and eight hands, and rode all the way from the Ministry of Finance on horseback, panting before arriving at the office.

After a little tidying up, Zhang Kangren, accompanied by another first-class attendant military attache, Jiang Zuobin, hurriedly entered the office to meet Song Biao.

Seeing Song Biao, he bowed respectfully on the red carpet pavement and said, "Your Majesty! ”

In these days, no one in the new emperor's office is qualified to sit down, no matter who comes in to report on affairs, they have to stand and talk, anyway, if they don't let everyone kneel down, it will be very important to give you a small dignity of equality for all beings.

Song Biao was sorting out all kinds of military intelligence in his hands, and when he heard Zhang Kangren's voice, he said, "Sit down, I have a few things to ask you." ”

Zhang Kangren sighed in his heart, he always felt that Song Biao probably had important affairs to tell him to handle, maybe it was a tricky matter, as the Minister of Finance, he had lived a life like a pig and a dog in the past six months, busy from morning to night every day, and the pressure was extremely high, and there were a lot of gray hairs.

The guards brought Zhang Kangren a simple mahogany chair and invited him to sit down, only two steps away from Song Biao's desk, separated by three steps in between.

When Zhang Kangren sat down, Song Biao sorted out all the information in his hand, put it aside, and asked Zhang Kangren: "How is the matter of Zhongyuan?" ”

Zhang Kangren hurriedly replied: "Back to Your Majesty, everything is going very smoothly, and at present, 24 million Chinese silver yuan have been minted and printed, and the total amount of Chinese yuan bills issued is 60 million yuan. Although we have been secretly preparing for a long time before entering the customs, after all, it is done from scratch, and the central government's financial expenditure is still mainly based on issuing tickets at this stage. It is expected that from next year, this situation will be greatly alleviated, and the central bank will be able to officially operate. ”

Song Biao nodded slightly, if he didn't start a war with Yueben, such a work progress would still be commendable.

After the establishment of the empire, Song Biao did not continue to follow the financial policies of the three eastern provinces, but established the Central Imperial Bank as the central bank of China, and issued Chinese silver yuan at the same silver content rate of the Qing Dynasty silver yuan and the Kwantung silver yuan, and exchanged one silver yuan for one hundred new copper yuan, and the old copper yuan issued by the provinces was redeemed within two years.

Previously, the copper yuan issued by the provinces still belongs to the copper standard currency, just a machine-printed copper yuan to exchange for 10 yuan, although the provinces clearly regulate one hundred copper yuan for a Qing silver dollar, but this is only the official price, in fact, there is no yamen and money bank, bank so recklessly, due to the indiscriminate distribution of copper yuan in various provinces, the people basically need three hundred copper yuan to exchange for one silver dollar, which is also the main reason for the price surge in various places.

The scale of the copper yuan issued indiscriminately by the provinces is too large, and the Central Imperial Bank cannot recognize this old account of the previous dynasty, so the copper yuan continues to be converted into the category of old copper coins, and the people set the price according to the market, and the newly printed copper yuan adopts the texture of brass to distinguish it.

Monetary policy is like that, and it will always be good for the political axe.

The Central Imperial Bank ate a large number of old copper coins and copper yuan, bought zinc in the international market, minted new brass yuan, and issued copper yuan and copper yuan coupons in large quantities within a limit that could maintain exchange.

Before Britain and Russia handed over the Chinese customs duties at the end of the year, the imperial financial expenditures were currently settled by minting and printing currency, and the financial base left by the Qing political axe was pitiful, and the property forcibly confiscated from the Manchu political axe and the Manchu magnates added up to only 20 million taels of silver, which was not enough at all.

Huge military spending is a serious problem.

If we want to go to war with Yueben, once the scale is expanded, it will definitely not be able to hold on without three or four hundred million taels of silver, after all, modern war is a military that burns money, and the Northeast New Army is equipped with a large number of machine guns and artillery, and on the surface the firepower is powerful and fierce, but the speed of burning money every minute is also more powerful.

If the new empire created by Song Biao were to go to war with Yuben in the Xinhai year, the military expenditure of this Xinhai War would far exceed that of the First Sino-Japanese War during the Qing Zheng Axe period, and the Zheng Axe of Song Biao must have calculated this account, and Song Biao's new empire had not yet established effective overall rule in China at this time, and the central financial source was an extremely painful problem.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, Song Biao happened to have such a military expenditure in his hands.

After Zhang Kangren briefly reported the situation of the Imperial Bank, Song Biao thought silently for a moment, and then asked Zhang Kangren: "So, what about the situation over there in Far Eastern Bank?" ”

Zhang Kangren thought for a while, and replied in a low and soft voice: "The Far Eastern Bank is obviously much more relaxed, and at present, the main source of the central government's financial bills is directly borrowed from the Far Eastern Bank. In terms of inventory, Far Eastern Bank now holds more than 70 million pounds of foreign currency, which can be exchanged for gold in the international market at any time to pay for the issuance of gold yuan. A few days ago, I had just asked Zhang Bishi that Nanyang Bank also had 14 million pounds in reserves, and he was willing to lend it to the Imperial Bank if the situation was urgent. ”

Song Biao took a box of Shengjing brand military supply iron cigarettes from the table, took out a straight black pipe inserted in the brass cigarette holder and lit it, and after a little thought, he and Zhang Kangren instructed: "You call Rong Kui and ask him to transfer all the remaining shares of Petroleos Mexicanos, as long as the price is right, pay immediately, and sell it to anyone is not a problem." Also, if you contact Mr. Connes, tell me that I have asked him to help me sell the Empire's national debt, which requires a long-term debt of at least ten million pounds, which can be secured by the coal taxes of the three eastern provinces. ”

Zhang Kangren nodded solemnly and said, "Weichen understands, then Weichen will go to handle this matter." ”

Song Biao bowed slightly, signaled Jiang Zuobin to send Zhang Kangren out of the office, and he wrote a telegram with a pen, asking the secretariat to send it to Zhang Bishi, asking Zhang Bishi to go to Nanyang to prepare.

Military spending is always as much as possible, and there is never a fear of too much, but not enough.

First, this year's tax revenues in various provinces have been reduced or exempted, and the excesses and miscellaneous taxes in various localities have been abolished; Second, both the central and local governments are still in a transitional stage, and comprehensive financial work has not yet been launched; Third, the empire has decided to adopt a new tax-sharing system, while Ouyang Xi has not yet determined a specific tax-sharing ratio with the provinces, and on this basis, the finances of the three eastern provinces, the largest tax source area, have not directly transferred funds to the central government, and now the method of borrowing from the central finance department and the finance department of the three eastern provinces has been temporarily adopted.

Song Biao actually has another sum of money in his hand, that is, the silver assets recovered by the Secret Service in the pursuit of rubber stock fraudsters, and a total of 18.33 million taels of silver has been recovered.

In fact, there are not too many big problems on Song Biao's side, if it is like the Russo-Russian War, the military expenditure of both sides is more than 200 million pounds, then it will really bring a lot of trouble to Song Biao.

In fact, there are many disputed areas in the territory of Korea and Northeast China, and the biggest problem is the issue of the islands that the DPRK has raised unwarrantedly, whether during or before the rule of Korea, the Kingdom of Korea has always been very bold in the issue of China's theft of territory, and it completely lacks the kind of respect for the suzerains and the great powers.

In other words, China has not been treated with the respect it deserves, and even a small country like North Korea does not take China seriously at all.

Now, with the support of Yuben, and even under the control of Yuben, taking advantage of the period when the main force of the Northeast Army is moving south, the DPRK has put forward all kinds of issues in the territorial dispute to be resolved, and the Chinese Provisional Cabinet has adopted a strategy of delaying as much as it can, and is not in a hurry to negotiate with the DPRK.

In the past few years, lacking control over the northern part of Korea, he has organized a military force in North Korea called the "Rebel Army", which is ostensibly a patriotic armed force formed spontaneously by the Korean people, but in fact is a masterpiece of his full support.

Even with such an armed force, because of its limited scale, it was never easy to challenge the military authority of the Northeast Army in the past few years, until September 1910, with the support of Yueben, the Korean rebels began to frantically provoke the three major military reclamation bureaus of Dandong, Hunjiang, and Yanji, and the disputed territory between the two sides expanded dramatically to more than a dozen.

In addition to the two issues of Changbaeksan and Jajima, which have been constantly raised by the DPRK, more than 10 Jiangdao islands on the Yalu River have also become disputed territories, and the current problem is that with the stroke of a pen in the hands of General Yi Byung-mu, the leader of the Korean rebels, this place has become the territory of the Korean Empire, and the Korean rebels have not hesitated to sacrifice everything to fight for the dignity and interests of the country.

Even during the Xinhai Revolution, North Korea had never been so crazy, and the reason for such madness at this time was entirely due to the hysteria and madness of the Yue army, and there was a reason for the madness of Yue Ben, Song Biao could understand this very well, if he was Yue himself, he would also be crazy.

The core problem now is that it is not to say that at the same time as China's rejuvenation, it can also be developed, these two points are very conflicting, once China's tea and raw silk continue to be exported on a large scale, it will be a fatal blow to the first and fourth largest export industries, and it is impossible for a rejuvenated China to accept this status quo.

This battle will be fought sooner or later, and it is better to fight it later than to fight it early.

To put it simply, Yuben's strategy is to take advantage of your chaos, ask for your life, and fight a battle with all your might, and you Chinese will never be able to turn over.

…… It was inevitable that the newly established Chinese Empire and the "large" Empire would be actively preparing for war, with the rapid transfer of troops on one side and the rapid return of the Northeast Army on the other, and the main forces of both sides reconverging in the Far East.

The haze of the great war once again shrouded the northeast, and in the face of a major war and the rapid deployment of both sides, both the war deployment of Ben and China were constantly adjusting each other, and each competed with each other in a way that was most beneficial to their own countries.

Song Biao must unify the domestic consensus as soon as possible, even if it is acceptable to recognize the special autonomy of the two Guangzhous and Yunnan and Guizhou.

It was under such circumstances, through Song Jiaoren's efforts, that Song Biao and Mr. Sun Yat-sen officially met in Tongzhou before New Year's Day in 1911, and the time for the two sides to meet was agreed on December 25, 1910. Sun Yat-sen insisted on his principles, but could not recognize China's imperial system, and he refused to accept some of the courtesy demands that Cai Yuanpei had made when he had arranged the talks, but even so, Song Biao agreed to meet.

That afternoon, Song Biao set aside three hours to talk with Mr. Sun.

Song Jiaoren accompanied Sun Yat-sen to come over, and after Song Jiaoren established the Chinese Mingzhuo Party, the contradictions between the two of them have become public, but at least they can be regarded as old acquaintances who have had a lot of contacts, and it is also a more reasonable arrangement for Song Jiaoren to introduce Sun Yat-sen and Song Biao to meet.

Prior to this, Song Biao had already sent his special envoy Cai Yuanpeihe to hold talks in Guangzhou twice, and after Sun Yat-sen arrived in Tongzhou in the morning, he also held a meeting with Tang Shaoyi, the interim cabinet premier, so Sun Yat-sen really did not have much to discuss with Song Biao this time, and the meeting between the two was more of a symbolic meaning representing the success of the revolution.

In order to avoid some unnecessary arguments, Song Biao chose to meet Sun Yat-sen in the meeting room, and only after Song Jiaoren and Sun Yat-sen had arrived first, he went to the meeting room accompanied by Jiang Zuobin, the military attache of the first class.

The General Headquarters of the Central Army of the Empire is located in Xihaizi Park in Tongzhou, formerly known as the tower garden of the Yamen of the Ministry of Households, that is, the recuperation place of the officials of the Yamen of the Ministry of Household Vacation, its name comes from the thousand-year-old tower in the park to burn the Buddha Relic Pagoda, the tower was built in the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, has a history of 1200 years, since the Tang Dynasty, the royal dynasties have been rebuilt, especially the project of the Yuan and Qing dynasties is the most huge, after the rebuilding of Kangxi 35 years in the Qing Dynasty, the tower is 56 meters high, and there are 2232 copper bells on the thirteen-story tower, When the breeze blows, it has a pleasant sound.

Song Biao himself likes to go to the tower very much, and the living room he often goes to is set up in the Linyuan Xuan on the south side of the relics pagoda, which is also a typical double-storey building of the traditional water pavilion platform, and was renamed "Guangfu Pavilion" at this time.

When Song Biao arrived at the Guangfu Pavilion, Song Jiaoren and Sun Yat-sen were waiting quietly in the reception room, and when they saw Song Biao, Song Jiaoren couldn't wait to get up to see, since he recognized Song Biao as the emperor of the empire and also recognized the constitutional monarchy, he still had to bow formally.

Sun Yat-sen looked at Song Biao in front of him silently, and his mood may be very complicated.

Song Biao didn't mind Sun Yat-sen's "rudeness", and walked over to shake hands with Song Jiaoren very much, and then shook hands with Sun Yat-sen, and after a few polite words, he invited them upstairs to the small reception room upstairs for a talk.

The Pavilion has been renovated, and the corridor on the second floor has been installed with a closed glass screen, so that you can enjoy the scenery of the West Sea without hindrance even in such a cold season.

Sitting down in the living room on the second floor, waiting for the two waitresses to serve tea and snacks, Song Biao continued to invite Song Jiaoren and Sun Yat-sen to tea, until the waitresses closed the door, and only the three of them and Jiang Zuobin were left in the room, Song Biaocai and Sun Yat-sen said: "In the process of overthrowing the Manchu rule, Mr. Sun worked hard and made great achievements, and he can be called the first person to launch a revolutionary call, which I admire very much. I have read through and been inspired by Mr. Sun's advocacy of Sanming and the spirit of local autonomy, and I am very happy to be able to overcome many difficulties and meet you formally today. There are many differences between the Liberation Revolution and the Republican Revolution, but I don't think these differences are really important, in the general direction, our goal is still the same, we all want to abolish all kinds of unequal shackles imposed on our nation by the West, we all want to build a rich and strong China, rejuvenate a great Chinese nation, and we all want to let the people enjoy basic political rights, a prosperous life, and universal people's education. Our differences seem small and insignificant compared to our goals. Therefore, I am meeting you at this time precisely because I want to work together to build a common great ideal. ”

Hearing this, Sun Yat-sen seemed very silent.

He was actually a very hard man, a very persistent person, he was very tired to persist until now, and finally overthrew the Manchu Qing, but the result was completely different from what he expected, the country's army and political axe became in the hands of Song Biao, and Song Biao also became the new emperor.

There are three things that he could not accept: first, although the revolution was successful, all his previous promises were in vain; Second, the League will gain nothing; Third, he feared that the presence of the emperor would continue to prevent China from becoming a free and equal country, which was what he was fighting for.

Even though Song Biao said something very beautiful, Sun Yat-sen was still a little indifferent, he felt that he should be happy, but he also felt pain and loss, and he was lost because his comrades were constantly leaving him and turning into the arms of the Restoration Society.

Even Huang Xing drifted away from him in these days, intending to accept Song Jiaoren's invitation to join the Mingzhuo Party and participate in the Congress.

Participation in Congress is good, but Sun Yat-sen is angry at the way and at the cost of this betrayal of the liberal revolution.

Sun Yat-sen originally had a lot of very fierce and passionate words to complain about at the beginning, and even made all preparations for being arrested and detained by Song Biao, but after listening to Song Biao's beautiful words, he really didn't know how to say it.

Seeing that Sun Yat-sen didn't speak, Song Jiaoren was anxious, looking at Sun Yat-sen but didn't know how to remind him.

Song Biao was not in a hurry, it was like a game of chess between him and Sun, the other party didn't know how to deal with it and always had to think about it for a while, he seemed very calm and drank black tea, and continued to wait for Sun Yat-sen's answer.

Waiting for Song Biao to put the teacup down, Sun Yat-sen suddenly said: "I think that the republican revolution that the Chinese people say is wrong, and what our League adheres to is not only the real republican system, but also a purer spirit of freedom and equality." ”

Song Biao quickly replied: "Absolute freedom and equality do not exist, just as some people are born into rich families, some people are born into poor families, some people are born smart, and some people are born ugly. The equality I understand is the equality of everyone before the law, and the freedom I understand is the freedom guaranteed by the law. The key is who makes the law, and I think that in the future, it should be the people who make the law, and even now, it should be the National Assembly that makes the law. But I have a question, can the voters in our provinces really represent the collective will and interests of all Chinese? Obviously not, it will take time to gradually increase the number of voters, I just came back from Sichuan Province, there are only 4,000 legal voters in Sichuan Province now, and in the next congressional election, we think there should be 10,000, then 40,000, then 400,000, 1 million, 4 million, and finally 48 million all Sichuan people. It definitely takes a process. Since the electorate is not representative of the people of the whole country, we should first ensure that the parliamentarians are representative of the people, or at least our nation. ”

Sun Yat-sen could only admit: "What you said is really good. ”

Song Biao said: "I remember that you used to advocate the county as an autonomous unit, but after the overthrow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, why did you start to advocate the province as an autonomous unit?" ”

Sun Yat-sen didn't know how to answer.

Song Biao continued: "It's not impossible to take the province as a unit of autonomy, what about Inner Mongolia, what about Outer Mongolia, what about Xinjiang Province, what about Tibet Province, Gansu, Ningxia, and Guangxi? Taking the county as a unit, if the county requires reading ability, the prefectural and provincial levels at least have a way to deal with it, so as not to cause a war of national reunification and not give foreign intervention an opportunity. If the provincial councils of Gansu, Ningxia, and Xinjiang provinces decide to read the power, what should they do and directly send the central army to suppress it? What about foreign countries taking advantage of the opportunity to intervene on a large scale? Is it true that only the provinces in which our Han nationality has an absolute numerical advantage belong to China, and nothing else is needed? ”

Sun Yat-sen hurriedly replied: "As long as we implement the policy of national peace and reciprocity, follow the example of the United States, build a common nation, reunite all ethnic groups, and make the people rich, such a thing will never happen." ”

Song Biao immediately scolded: ", do you do this kind of thing when you are president?" Do you pin all the security of the country's borders on your wishful thinking? Politicians, like military personnel, must always take the worst-case scenario into account and choose the safest path. If that's what you say, why does Ireland require reading? Why did Norway ask for a study from the Danish coalition, and why did Finland also need to read a book? The first taboo of politicians is naivety and assumptions, China has a long history, and the naivety of a politician leads to the division and decline of the country, so that it is not uncommon to become a national sinner. The United States is the United States, China is China, and the situation is very different. I think that China should now prioritize learning from Germany, and we will do whatever Germany does, which is the safest and simplest strategy. If Germany falls behind, we can change the goal of learning from it, and if Germany continues to prosper, we will also prosper. ”

What he said was hard to hear, but he has always been such a direct person, even if he still admires an idealist like Sun Yat-sen and his long-term persistence, but people are not sages, everyone is at fault, and such a big mistake must be scolded.

Sun Yat-sen was embarrassed and dissatisfied, and felt that Song Biao's words were quibbles, but he couldn't refute them.

Song Biao then added: "Mr. Sun, I have always been a straightforward person, so please forgive me for being rude and frivolous. Here it is necessary for me to say something less polite, and if I am not right, I hope you don't mind. In my opinion, you are a great revolutionary, and this is the case now, and it will be the case in the future, but you are not a skilled politician, and many of the truths you say are right, just as we have concluded from our investigation and study abroad, they are the general trend of world development, but you still lack the experience of governing a country, especially in a country as complex as China, it is dozens of times more difficult for the Chinese premier to be the president than the United States. An inactive American president can only be regarded as a mediocre president, and an inactive Chinese prime minister is simply a national sinner, because the difficulties and dangers faced by the Chinese are very enormous. We are a country of 430 million people, and our total arable land is not as large as that of the United States, which has a population of 70 million. Populations will continue to grow, and fifty years from now, when we have a billion people, we will not be able to feed at least 300 million people. Ireland has a population of 10 million, and after the Great Famine, 3 million people fled to the United States, and 50 years later, when we have a Great Famine, and 300 million people are going to flee abroad, which country abroad can accommodate so many people, and are they willing to accept it? What would you do if you were the premier of China at that time, or the president of China as you wish? Let 300 million people sit in the country and starve to death? Sichuan has a population of 48 million, equivalent to 5/8 of the population of the United States, and 83 million acres of arable land is only equivalent to 5% of the total arable land area of the United States. Fifty years later, Sichuan', I only know that as the emperor of your alliance will not recognize, almost every day of my week in Sichuan was in a state of sleepless nights, trembling in fear and walking on thin ice. ”

Speaking of this, Song Biao did not intend to let go of this idealist, and continued to comment: "The situation in Guangdong should not be much better than Sichuan, the situation in Shanxi will only be worse, and Henan, Fujian, Shaanxi, Shandong, and Hebei are all the same problems." Human life is at stake, and our task now is not only to engage in open cooking and freedom, but as a political axe, whether we can feed the population and whether we can make the Chinese live with dignity is a tricky matter. That's why I say you're not a very good politician, you don't understand China's difficulties at all, and even if you say you do, you can't understand the crises behind these problems. In the same way, I am not the one who can solve this problem, and what I can do is to find people who can solve these problems and appoint them to form a cabinet to govern the country, and what I want to do is to help the political axe deal with the divisions in various places, avoid military crises in the country, unify the military forces in various places, and unite the outside world. The reason why I want to be an emperor is precisely because in a country like China, there are too many people who want to be emperors, even if he is not an emperor, he also wants to be an emperor of the soil, but as long as I become an emperor, before my death, no other Chinese can dare to think about the dream of an emperor, and there is not even a chance to be an emperor of the soil, and this is the reality of China at this time. We will continue to learn about Germany in its entirety, but unlike Germany, Germany is a matter of meat and bread, and we are a matter of life and death. ”

Song Biao is not the kind of speech master, he rarely gives speeches in public, but once he speaks, he can refute everyone without saying anything and be ashamed, because it is always easy to hit others.

He said that Mr. Sun Yat-sen was so discouraged and painful that Sun Yat-sen had to admit that all this he said was true.

Sun Yat-sen's visit to negotiate with Song Biao this time is nothing more than two things, the first is that the formulation of the provisional constitution must have the participation of the League, and it is an important participation; The second is that the two provinces demand autonomy and guarantee the right of autonomy of the provinces in the constitution, and the provinces can formulate the constitutions of the provinces, so that the provinces can remain as free as possible and move closer to the federal system.

But at this moment, Sun Yat-sen couldn't say a word.

He felt that if he could make such a request under such circumstances, he would be a complete shameless man and a sinner of the nation.

This is a moral death that he cannot bear.

Song Jiaoren sat next to him, his mood was also very complicated, and he couldn't agree with all this that Song Biao said, because these are very realistic things.

Based on Song Jiaoren's understanding of Sun Yat-sen, he knew that the talks might have failed, and Sun Yat-sen could not continue to strive for any form of special preferential treatment for the two Guangzhous, nor could he fight for it again.

Thinking of this, Song Jiaoren persuaded Sun Yat-sen and said: "Xin, what China needs most now is not division and controversy, but stability and reunification. The people have been poor for too long, exploited and enslaved by the Manchus for too long, as a nation, we have stood up again, and now we should make great strides to continue to catch up with the world powers, whether it is to learn from the United States or Germany, as long as we can make China rich and strong, and let the people no longer starve, that is a good road. Huang Xing and I have discussed this many times, if we do not talk about the dedication and sacrifice of the comrades of the League, the current situation is actually very beneficial to China and the people, and we should now turn the road of revolution to the simultaneous advancement of the Mingzhuo Revolution and the Liberation Revolution, promote Mingzhuo and freedom, and promote the rejuvenation of the nation and the development of the country. That's why we decided to establish the Ming Cook Party, participate in the National Assembly, and participate in the formulation of the Imperial Constitution. ”

Sun Yat-sen sighed: "Yes, what you said is very right, I admit that some of my previous insistences were too worried, and too careless, ignoring the most difficult problems we have now. ”

Speaking of this, he solemnly stood up and bowed to Song Biao, and continued: "Now, on behalf of the comrades of the League, I formally recognize the founding of the Chinese Empire. ”

Song Biao was still very happy, as long as Sun Yat-sen recognized the authority of the empire to rule the whole country, those small warlords in Liangguang and Southwest China lost their political foundation and were truly reduced to small armed forces, rather than republican revolutionary armed forces from a high position.

With such a foundation, it is impossible to overstate how to fight those small armed forces in the future.

Song Biao also stood up and shook hands with Mr. Sun, and said, "It's a good thing that we can reach a consensus on this, but this is just the beginning, we still have a lot of things to discuss." ”

Immediately, after Song Jiaoren also got up, Song Biao shook hands with him again.

Even if Mr. Sun recognized the authority of the empire, there must still be a lot of controversy between the two sides over the formulation of the provisional constitution, and this controversy is the difference between realism and idealism, that is, the difference between the ruling and the opposition.

On the afternoon of that day, Song Biao, Song Jiaoren, and Sun Yat-sen talked for a great deal of time on such issues as the provisional constitution, the politics of the two provinces, and the revolutionary army, and so on, and the talks between the three of them lasted for four hours, and the relatively big difference was the issue of the military armament and the political axe being loyal to the emperor, and both Song Jiaoren and Sun Yat-sen put forward a lot of preconditions for countermeasures, and the two sides also had great disputes over the validity of the provisional constitution.

Sun Yat-sen also had a new idea, that is, the patrol army was directly and completely under the jurisdiction of the provinces, and not under the control of the emperor.

Song Biao patiently sat here and refuted them one by one, rejecting their opinions, and the Imperial Congress will be officially convened in April, and the provisional constitution has actually been drafted, waiting for the National Assembly to be formally adopted.

Song Jiaoren and Sun Yat-sen have already read the draft of the provisional constitution, and they must have a lot of opinions, and on small issues, Song Biao does not make representations, which is not his job, but on major issues, he must refute them one by one to ensure the passage of this constitution.

The two sides talked for an afternoon, and the big differences gradually disappeared, not that there were none, but that Song Jiaoren and Sun Yat-sen had no way to refute Song Biao.

The country is in such a critical situation now, Song Biao must not lose control of the country, once the power is restricted, there are still a bunch of restrictions that pull him back, and in the end it will only be the ruin of the country and the family.

In this regard, he and Yuan Shikai are completely different.

Compared with Yuan Shikai at the time of the Beiyang political axe, Song Biao's strength in his hands was much more powerful, and the alliance was much weaker, and it was impossible to really effectively contain him.

In the following days, accompanied by Song Jiaoren, Sun Yat-sen continued to meet and talk with other ministers of the cabinet, especially with Wang Chonghui and others, who were mainly responsible for drafting the provisional constitution, and the two sides further negotiated many terms.

It was not until January 2, 1911 that Song Biao and Sun Yat-sen reached a basic consensus on the "First Provisional Constitution of the Chinese Empire", and the two sides also published a joint declaration of the Liberation Society and the League in the "Central Daily", putting forward the four slogans of political unification, rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, building a modern constitutional state, and protecting the people's rights and people's livelihood.

Although the two men signed a joint declaration at the same time, after the issuance of this declaration, China is destined to completely enter the era of "Song Aurora", and all real power and prestige will fall into the hands of Song Biao.

After the signing of the declaration, Sun Yat-sen resigned from the post of chairman of the League, and Song Jiaoren served as the chairman, and the entire League was reorganized into the Chinese Mingzhuo Party, with the implementation of the Chinese Mingzhuo Freedom Revolution as the new political goal.

In the first session of the National Assembly, the Liberation Council occupied at least half of the seats, and the Liberation Society's allies, the Reform and Progress Association, the New Politics and Strong Power Council, and the Constituent Assembly, also occupied a large number of seats, which was unfavorable to the Chinese Ming Cook Party, which joined later.

It was in this kind of political contest that the Liberation Revolution eventually surpassed the Republican Revolution and became the victor of this era, and gradually won the recognition of the majority of Chinese intellectuals, squires, celebrities, politicians, and various local forces in terms of ideology, theory, and policy, and became the mainstream of China's idea of a strong country.

After a bumpy ride, the torrent of history was finally rerouted, completely leading China to another direction of strongman politics.

When the people of the country shouted long live the revolution, long live the emperor, and long live the Chinese nation, the people separated by a river could no longer hold back the deep fear in their hearts, and when the civil war was gradually coming to an end, when the Chinese were ready to actively devote themselves to the rebuilding of the new empire, a real war finally arrived.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, Song Biao realized that this day would come sooner or later than Yu Ben.

Many generals of the Northeast Army and many colleagues of the Liberation Society wondered why Song Biao had saved up for so long in the matter of overthrowing the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and where could he spend so much money, and the facts will now prove that to be neighbors with a beast nation like Yuben must always be ready to go to war with these beasts.

Always do a good job, every moment must be done, and a moment of negligence can lead to a century-old tragedy for the whole country.

Come on, real war!

The Chinese love peace, but are never afraid of war.

(To be continued)