In the past two days, the people of Yanjing City have been panicking.

In the days following the coup d'état, the streets and alleys were filled with teams of Qing army buglers armed with knives patrolling, arresting the Restoration, seizing shops and shops, and arresting and imprisoning some unrelated people, who God knows who they offended.

However, since yesterday afternoon, the inside and outside of Yanjing City have been replaced by Beiyang Army soldiers with loaded guns. The common people did not know what was going on, and they hid in their homes and did not dare to come out.

On 17 June, after fighting against Wang Chenhao's Beiyang Army for a night, the Imperial Forest Army of the Forbidden City finally relented and opened the city gate under the threat of machine guns and artillery of the Beiyang Army.

Wang Chenhao led his troops into the Forbidden City, besieged Cixi's Kunning Palace, and rescued Guangxu.

The military admonition operation lasted immediately for two days and one night, and there was no bloodshed, which was due to Wang Chenhao's strong military strength, so that the Qing Zheng axe could not take the strength to resist Wang Chenhao's military admonition action.

Cixi wanted to die or live in Kunning Palace, scolding Guangxu for being unfilial, Wang Chenhao for being disloyal, and Ronglu and Yuan Shikai were all rice buckets. This Guangxu can't twist the word filial piety, and the strong public opinion does not allow him to abolish Cixi, despite the military coup, Guangxu still can't put Cixi to death, at most he imprisons Cixi like Cixi imprisoned him.

Cixi was imprisoned in the Summer Palace, Guangxu ordered her to concentrate on worshiping the Buddha and not leave the Buddha Fragrance Pavilion for half a step, and Cixi, who ruled China for nearly half a century, was locked up, and she could only spend the rest of her life in the Buddha Fragrance Pavilion.

After the coup d'état, Guangxu was reborn and could continue to be his emperor. Guangxu finally overthrew Cixi, but he did not take back the rights that should belong to him. To Guangxu's sorrow, not only did he not get more rights, but he also lost the imperial power he had before the coup.

This result was unexpected by Guangxu. The overthrow of Cixi did not bring Guangxu any joy, but made Wang Chenhao the prime minister of the cabinet, the de facto ruler of China.

Wang Chenhao served Guangxu's secret edict to Qin Wang, Guangxu originally wanted not to recognize the secret edict, and repeatedly shirked the establishment of the cabinet, he did not want Wang Chenhao to become the prime minister of the cabinet.

However, Wang Chenhao had already prepared, he had long expected that Guangxu would not admit the account, so at the time of the coup, he sent a telegram to the whole country, and announced Guangxu's secret edict to the people of the world, and even the ministers and consuls of various countries in China also announced one by one, and the whole world knew that Guangxu promised Wang Chenhao to form a cabinet in order not to be abolished.

Although the great powers did not want to see a strong China, the vast majority of the Qing Empire still practiced a feudal and self-sufficient economic model, and the goods of the great powers could not be sold in China at all. In the past, Britain, France and other countries believed that by opening the door to China by force, they could break China's feudal economy and open up the Chinese market, but after they launched the two Opium Wars, they realized that force was impossible, and the strength of China's anti-foreign powers was extremely huge. However, after the two Qing wars, the Qing Russian War and the Qing Western War, China's power expanded rapidly, and the great powers had to adjust their strategies toward China.

Under these circumstances, the great powers of various countries expected China to carry out the reform of the law, and only through the reform of the law with the axe of the Qing government could the original feudal economy be broken. The great powers did not want China to become a powerful capitalist economy, but for the time being, the Qing Empire was still a large agricultural country, and it would take a long time to reach the industrial and economic level of the great powers by taking the path of capitalist economic development, so in terms of immediate interests, the Qing Empire could not impact the economies of the great powers, so the great powers strongly supported the reform of the Qing Empire.

As far as the people are concerned, the common people support the reform and reform. In particular, the people of Zhili Province have benefited from the construction of the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Industrial Base. Originally, only one Chengren was engaged in industrial production, but now this proportion has risen sharply to Sichengren is engaged in industrial production and industrial derivative industries, and the primary, secondary and tertiary industries have brought rich income to the people of Zhili Province and become the richest province in the country. The tremendous achievements of the reform of Zhili Province are obvious to all, and its influence soon spread throughout the country, and was expected and longed for by the people.

The provincial governors were opposed to the reforms, as Guangxu's reforms had cost them a lot. Now that Cixi failed to launch a coup d'état, the situation in the court has changed, and Wang Chenhao has entered the central government, the governors of the provinces have suddenly become nervous.

Taken by the strong strength in Wang Chenhao's hands, the governors of the provinces are still in the wait-and-see stage for Wang Chenhao's formation of a cabinet, they dare not openly offend Wang Chenhao, but just wait and see what the impact of Wang Chenhao's formation of a cabinet on their interests will be before making plans.

Guangxu originally thought that he was not in a hurry to set up a cabinet on the grounds of the failure of the reform reform, but the local governors all chose to remain silent first, and after Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao returned to China, they united with Tan Si and the other reformers to fully support the establishment of a cabinet, forcing Guangxu to make concessions.

On 20 June, Guangxu officially issued an edict, announcing the implementation of a constitutional monarchy, appointing Wang Chenhao as prime minister of the cabinet, and organizing the cabinet to continue to carry out reform and reform matters.

Guangxu asked Wang Chenhao to continue to reform the law, but he actually planned to let Wang Chenhao fight with the governors of the provinces to obstruct the change. At this time, Guangxu no longer had the intention of changing the law, but was bent on making trouble for Wang Chenhao, and it was best to let Wang Chenhao give up the post of prime minister.

Wang Chenhao naturally would not fall for Guangxu. After the edict was issued, Wang Chenhao immediately transferred Wang Shizhen and other key personnel of the small imperial court institutions directly under the governor's mansion to Yanjing.

Wang Chenhao was not in a hurry to offend the governors of the provinces, but first carried out reforms in the central government, and the original responsible cabinet system proposed by Kang Youwei and others was vetoed by Wang Chenhao. The responsible cabinet is still responsible to the emperor, and Guangxu tried to control the power through the responsible cabinet, which Wang Chenhao never allowed.

Because Wang Chenhao held the military and political power of Gyeonggi Zhili, Kang Youwei and others could not influence Wang Chenhao's decision, and could only watch Guangxu become a veritable emperor without power.

After discussing with his subordinates, Wang Chenhao decided to build China's own state system with modern significance on the basis of the three-province and six-ministry system in China's previous dynasties, and with reference to the relevant national constitutions under the separation of powers system in the United States and the constitutional monarchy in the United Kingdom.

The three-province and six-ministry system was a well-organized central bureaucratic system in ancient Chinese feudal society. It was established in the Sui Dynasty, and since then until the end of the Qing Dynasty, the six-part system has basically remained unchanged; For the three-province system, Shangshu Province was formed in the Eastern Han Dynasty (then known as Shangshutai); The Zhongshu Province and the Menxia Province were formed during the Three Kingdoms with the aim of dividing and limiting the power of the Shangshu Province. In the process of development, the organizational form and power evolved, and it was not until the Sui Dynasty that it was neatly organized into three provinces and six ministries, which were mainly responsible for the formulation, review and implementation of central decrees and policies. The rulers of different periods made some adjustments and additions that were conducive to strengthening the centralization of power.

Wang Chenhao believes that the political system of the West is generally based on the evolution of the political system of ancient China, so there is no need to copy the Western political system. However, a large part of the Western political system is advanced and meets the current political needs of China, so this part of the system is introduced. On the whole, we should build a political system with Chinese characteristics in line with the idea of taking the essence and discarding the dross.

On the basis of the system of three provinces and six ministries, Wang Chenhao proposed the system of five provinces and nine ministries, five provinces and nine ministries, which means the respect of the ninety-five provinces and symbolizes the highest rights of the state. The five provinces are the Ministry of Legislation, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Administration, the Ministry of Supervision and the Ministry of Clean Government. It stipulates that legislative power shall vest in the Reichstag, which is nominated and elected by the Senate and the House of Deputies. Executive power is vested in the Prime Minister; Judicial power is vested in the Supreme Court and subordinate courts as may be established and established by Congress from time to time. The power of supervision belongs to the legitimate citizens of the empire, and the Supreme People's Procuratorate exercises supervision over the five provinces of the empire to prevent the corruption of power. The Ministry of Integrity, with the Imperial Office of Integrity as the main authority of power, supervises, fights corruption, and advocates integrity among Imperial officials, which is a supplement to and restrains the power of the Ministry of Supervision, and prevents the corruption of the power of the Ministry of Integrity itself. Among the five provinces, the legislative, judicial, and administrative provinces are the main organs exercising state functions, and the three check and balance each other. The supervision province and the clean government province are the supervision and inspection of the other three provinces, and at the same time, the supervision province and the clean government province supervise each other, so as not to corrupt and degenerate, that is, to achieve the function of the east factory in the early Ming Dynasty, and to prevent the phenomenon of corruption like the east factory in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

In accordance with the principle of checks and balances among the five powers, the Constitution also stipulates that the National Assembly has the power to request the Prime Minister to set out his policy for deliberation, to ratify treaties concluded by the Prime Minister with foreign countries, to recommend and approve the appointment of the Prime Minister to his subordinate administrative officers, to remove the Prime Minister through impeachment, to recommend and approve the Prime Minister's appointment of judges to the Supreme Court of the Federal Federation, to declare and punish treason, to impeach and try Supreme Court judges, and to impeach officials of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Independent Commission Against Corruption; The Prime Minister has limited veto power over bills passed by Parliament, and the Deputy Prime Minister is also the President of the Senate, and the Prime Minister also has the power to amnesty, nominate and appoint Supreme Court judges; Judges of the Supreme Court, Supreme Public Prosecutors, and ICAC judges serve as trial panels when the Prime Minister is on trial for impeachment. In addition, according to custom, the Supreme Court has the power to interpret laws and declare laws enacted by Congress unconstitutional and void.

The nine ministries are the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Industry.

Most of the departments had similar functions to those of the European and American powers, and only a few departments incorporated the ideas of Wang Chenhao's time. For example, the term Ministry of National Defense was proposed for the first time to unify the army, navy, and air force to manage the building of the armed forces throughout the country, such as the recruitment, establishment, equipment, training, military scientific research, and ranks and salaries of military personnel. The work of the Ministry of National Defense shall be handled by the General Staff Headquarters, the General Logistics Department, and the General Armament Department. The Ministry of National Defense is not responsible for commanding and commanding the armed forces of the whole country, and all activities involving foreign military exchanges are generally conducted in the name of the Ministry of National Defense, and specific military operations are carried out by the General Staff Headquarters. The Ministry of the Interior is also stronger than the departments of other powers, including several major departments, such as the Civil Affairs Administration, the Police Administration, the Gendarmerie Administration, the Garrison Administration, and other departments.

In terms of appointments, Wang Chenhao promoted the former heads of various departments of the Governor's Office to the ministers of the various ministries under the jurisdiction of His Excellency in the empire. Zhou Fu was appointed Minister of Justice, and Wu Tingfang was his deputy. Li Hongzhang was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Tang Shaoyi was appointed Vice Minister. The Minister of Education is Cai Yuanpei, Minister of Commerce and Trade Zhang Jian, Minister of the Interior Zhang Feng, Minister of Finance Song Hanzhang, Minister of Communications Zhan Tianyou, Minister of National Defense Wang Shizhen, Cabinet Secretary-General Ruan Zhongshu, Deputy Secretary-General Yang Shixiang, etc., but all the appointments of people from key state departments are Wang Chenhao's descendants.

The appointment of people from the central government aroused protests from a considerable number of former officials of the Qing court, but they could only protest, and they did not dare to make any out-of-the-ordinary actions in front of Wang Chenhao's giant ship cannons. Wang Chenhao specially appointed Prince Qing Yixuan as the deputy minister of the cabinet, giving Yixuan enough face and leaving the children of the banner people with nothing to say. Yi Xuan did nothing, and the deputy minister was just an ornament. However, Wang Chenhao bribed Yixuan with a lot of money, and took advantage of Yixuan's status in the clan and the imperial court to use Yixuan to prevaricate the children of the banner people from all sides in the capital. For Yixuan, having milk is a mother, knowing that Wang Chenhao used him as a gunman, he didn't care, but willingly did things for Wang Chenhao.

Under the control of Wang Chenhao's armed forces, after more than ten days of rectification, Wang Chenhao established the centralization of the empire and the division of administrative functions and powers of various departments in Yanjing, and after the completion of the formation of the imperial cabinet, it marked the completion of the reform of the central government of the Qing Empire.

Wang Chenhao's series of actions in Yanjing City, the governors of the provinces all saw it, they were taken by Wang Chenhao's force, and did not dare to raise objections to Wang Chenhao's central reform bill, but there were policies and countermeasures, and the governors of the provinces were ready to disobey the yang and the yin.

Wang Chenhao knew too well the mentality of these late Qing officials, and he was not in a hurry. If the new policy is implemented in various places now, the effect will not be much better, but it will provoke the local governors to counteract. The force in Wang Chenhao's hands can extinguish the resistance of any province, but once an armed conflict breaks out, the result is difficult to predict. Wang Chenhao did not dare to guarantee that the governors of the provinces would not take risks for their own interests, and Wang Chenhao did not want China's national strength to be consumed because of this.

At the suggestion of Wang Shizhen, Ruan Zhongshu, Yang Shixiang, Zhou Fu, Zhang Feng and others, Wang Chenhao chose to temporarily pacify the governors and officials of the provinces, and then divide them and adopt various breaking tactics.

Wang Chenhao first announced to the world, declaring that China's state system was based on the "Imperial Constitution", and that the Qing government of the Chinese Empire was a centralized and locally autonomous federal state and political axe. Chapters 10 and 11 of the Imperial Constitution set out the central and local systems, and the Constitution enumerated the exclusive competence of the State and the provinces and counties, and provided that all matters relating to the State and all affairs of the provinces and counties were to be dealt with by the provinces and counties. In accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, the localities shall adopt provincial and county autonomy, and the local autonomy of Mongolian and Tibetan provinces shall be determined by law.

The imperial government adopted a federal system, centralization, decentralization, central supervision over the localities, and local autonomy.

Wang Chenhao took advantage of the autonomy of the provinces and gave them full autonomy, which greatly stimulated the governors of the provinces. Wang Chenhao not only did not seize their rights, but gave them greater autonomy, and the governors of the provinces had heard of the power of the governor of the United States, and they were simply local emperors, so they raised their hands to support Wang Chenhao's political reform.

As a result, the various reform decrees of the central government were successfully reached at the local level and were meticulously implemented. Soon, local councils were established in each province to implement the central government's plan for reforming the political system. Seats in the local Chamber of Deputies are distributed according to the local population, with one member of the House of Representatives elected out of every ten people, and two or three members of the Imperial House of Representatives elected from each province to exercise state power.

Wang Chenhao's first step of political reform was successfully completed, and after successfully pacifying the provincial officials, he immediately turned his guns on the other eight and five frontier generals of the Nine Governors. Since the provinces were autonomous, the first local governors were to be the current governors of the provinces, and the governors and generals of the precincts were eliminated.

Wang Chenhao then transferred the eight governors and the five generals back to Yanjing and organized them to serve as members of the Senate, which was actually a secret surrender, seizing their power and separating them from the localities. The previous local governors had long been dissatisfied with the pressure of the governor on their heads, but now that Wang Chenhao had promoted their rights and transferred the governors and generals at their heads, they immediately applauded.

In this way, Wang Chenhao's tactics of dividing and disintegrating local officials were successful.

Then, Wang Chenhao began to work on the second plan. In the name of reorganizing the whole [***] team, he incorporated all the local units of the New Army, the Eight Banners, the Green Battalion, the Training Army, and the People's League in various provinces, and then went to other provinces for reorganization.

For example, the Hubei New Army was ordered to be transferred to Shandong and reorganized on the spot in Jinan Prefecture, Shandong, and the main posts were all held by officers from the Beiyang Army, while the original officers were sent to the Beiyang Army Military Academy for further study, and were brainwashed until they were absolutely obedient to Wang Chenhao's orders, and then assigned to the troops according to their ability and loyalty.

After the Hubei New Army was transferred, it came to change the guard in the ninth town of the Beiyang Army in Shandong. The Ninth Town entered Hubei, quickly took control of all strategic areas in Hubei, and laid down and reorganized the Eight Banners, the Green Battalion, the Train Army, and the local militia groups on the spot. The Eight Banners were the weakest in combat power and were directly eliminated. The green battalion and regimental training have slightly better combat effectiveness, and they have been reorganized into local public security police forces, garrison duty units, or national guards, or construction corps, engaged in the construction of military logistics projects, and helped local governments build bridges, buildings, roads, dams, and other dual-use projects for military and civilian purposes.

As for the local militias, Wang Chenhao resolutely banned them, and announced that they would prohibit the non-governmental organizations from organizing armed forces on their own, and that the work of suppressing bandits would be carried out by the local national guard and police forces.

In this way, Wang Chenhao changed the Beiyang Army through the opportunity of changing defense affairs, and controlled the military affairs of various provinces in less than three months.

After Wang Chenhao completed the second step of the plan, he successfully avoided the crisis of civil war and controlled the provinces without bloodshed. And the provincial officials did not understand Wang Chenhao's true purpose until this time, they were divided and disintegrated by Wang Chenhao, and were broken by each other, and as a result, it was impossible to unite again, so they could only obediently obey Wang Chenhao's orders.

Fortunately, Wang Chenhao is not in a hurry to take away the power in their hands, and the officials in the provinces still have the value of use, Wang Chenhao hopes to indirectly control the provinces through them, and wait until the reform penetrates into the people and forms a certain foundation, then Wang Chenhao will consider the question of whether these officials will stay or not.

(To be continued)