China in 1920 already had a deep Song imprint.

The emperor's personal thoughts and styles changed and influenced this ancient and reborn empire to a great extent, and the sublimation and sanctification of Xunzi in China was itself accompanied by the emperor's deification in the empire.

In short, the empire has an eight-character mantra - honoring the virtuous, respecting the law and loving the people.

Follow the etiquette, worship the sages, pay attention to the law, and love the people.

This was the foundation of the Song Chinese Empire, and it also changed the empire simply and reliably, giving birth to a new civilization of the new empire.

The influence of the Lushan Conference on the empire began to gradually appear after August 1920, Liang Qichao, Zhang Binglin, Cai Yuanpei, Chen Baochen, Yan Fu and a large number of celebrities were active advocates of Han religion, and all provinces and provinces of the empire began to build the Temple of Heaven Park and the Temple of Earth Park step by step.

In fact, Hanism is a new religion that has broken away from Confucianism and Taoism, but it lacks a clear religious worship of gods, and is a more primitive worship of heaven and earth and ancestor worship.

Nominally, Hanism is not a religion openly recognized by the empire, it is just a conventional title, and the whole system of worship is composed of three levels: worshipping heaven and earth, sacrificing sages, and sacrificing ancestors, which unites the entire country, nation, family, and individual through a blood relationship.

The Ministry of Religious Affairs is not responsible for Han religion, but is responsible for the Ministry of Culture and Education, and the state has set up a separate "Chinese Han Culture Committee" to coordinate these affairs, and it is expected that Liang Qichao and Zhang Binglin will be in charge of these affairs.

Most of the provinces in the country have their own national academies, and a master of Chinese studies from this province is elected to be responsible for serving as the dean, responsible for organizing research, improving and promoting Chinese culture, but in the direction of gradually turning from Confucius to Xunzi and Han Feizi, Chinese culture pays attention to the original and clear the source, and pushes "Persuasion", "Analects", and "Mencius" as the first three books, Xunzi's "Persuasion" is a compulsory subject for middle school students across the country, and the Chinese culture course for junior high school students must read Xunzi's "Persuasion" and other hundred chapters of Zhuzi in three years, and the Chinese culture course for high school students must be systematically studied The Analects", Mencius, and Sun Tzu, which are compulsory courses for college students, are the last three books.

In fact, the key to the real impact on the prosperity of Chinese culture is still in the civil service examination and the imperial examination, in the national public examination, the establishment of a separate subject assessment of Chinese culture, with "Persuasion", "Analects", "Mencius", "University", "Han Fei", "The Mean" six books as the scope of the examination.

One of Song Biao's greatest influences as an emperor was to promote the status of "Persuasion", and he strongly and thoroughly set "respecting the virtuous and the king, respecting the law and loving the people and tyranny" as the fundamental national policy of the country, and this national policy thinking is the source of the driving force for promoting the "Land Restriction Act" and the "Labor Protection Act".

On the one hand, it is to pursue Westernization, actively learn from the West, and absorb the advantages of Western thought, management, science and technology, and education, and on the other hand, it follows the benevolent government thought in classical Chinese studies, and pursues Xunzi's "valuing the law and loving the people" of both law and benevolence.

The significance of Song Biao's insistence on this is that otherwise, it is impossible for the empire to contend with the three kingdoms of the Soviet Union and Germany at the same time twenty years later, although it is the worst extreme situation, but as a country and a nation, we should always consider dealing with the worst extreme situation, only in this way can the country and the nation prosper forever.

The empire must not only be economically and technologically strong, not only militarily and diplomatically, but also incomparably strong in terms of internal ideology and culture, cohesion, and external influence.

On the other hand, the imprint of the Song Emperor began to appear in the second half of 1920 after the Lushan Conference, when after his explicit support for the Eastern Orthodox sects, the Imperial Prime Minister Tang Shaoyi took the lead in converting from a Christian to an Orthodox Christian, and the Imperial Ministry of Religion funded the construction of St. Mark's Basilica in Kyoto Prefecture.

The reason why the empire is so clearly in favor of Eastern orthodoxy is that both Catholicism and Protestantism strictly prohibit image worship, and this conflict with the emperor and Han religion is too strong for both sides to be able to do both, while Eastern orthodoxy allows image worship.

The Catholic papal control system was also unacceptable to the Empire, and the Imperial Ministry of Religion had to have the right to appoint its own diocesan patriarch, and although the Empire would not explicitly prohibit the Catholic Church, various repressive measures became extremely obvious after the Lushan Conference, and no more Catholic churches were allowed to be approved in various places.

Since Tang Shaoyi, the empress, Ouyang Geng, and Zhang Kangren, who have always belonged to the new sect, have also become Orthodox Christians one after another, and invited patriarchs from the Greek Orthodox Church to get rid of Western sects with the Orthodox Church -- Tang Shaoyi was forced by the empress to take the lead in expressing his position, because this matter has been related to the issue of the struggle between imperial power and divine power, although it is said that the modern state trend of thought is becoming popular, and the competition between the imperial power and the divine right has begun to weaken, but in the world, the imperial power itself is gradually weakened by the modern state trend of thought. Naturally, the imperial family was determined to maintain the supremacy of imperial power at all costs, and first trampled the secular theocracy of religion under its feet.

The simultaneous development of Han religion and Orthodoxy is actually a leading policy in the future religious field of the empire, and the various sects of Buddhism have also received more support, but the number of monks has begun to be limited in specific policies, and the special status of Tibetan Buddhism in the territory of the empire also determines its value, but in terms of specific real power, the emperor has the final right to confirm the reincarnation of the living Buddha.

Another great influence of the Song brand on the empire is also reflected in the pursuit of the revival of the national martial spirit, Taizu, Xingyi, Taiji, and Baji were officially identified as the four great arts, requiring primary, middle, and high schools to be specially established as a special national arts education in the physical education curriculum, based on Taizu boxing, and gradually learning Xingyi boxing, Taiji, and Baji learning is not in the mandatory requirement category, it is an elective subject, and the traditional teacher system has been abolished at a large level, and the head coach system has been adopted, and the provinces have set up national art schools.

Within the scope of the imperial political axe, and within the scope of affordable funds, the simplest national art education and military training education for junior and senior high school students are undoubtedly the easiest to produce the revival of martial arts, and the provinces in the north with conditions can add riding and archery subjects to compulsory education on their own.

In order to enhance the martial arts education against the surname, the empire also promoted wrestler Bo as a universal mass sport, and in turn absorbed some modern advances in Jiu-Jitsu, and re-established its own Jiu-Jitsu, and even Song Biao actively participated in this kind of Jiu-Jitsu sports, because there are many differences between the rules and the Jiu-Jitsu Sport, absorbing some principles of classical Roman wrestling, so it is also called Chinese Judo and classical Judo.

With the resumption and gradual promotion of this movement, Song Biao considered popularizing jiu-jitsu into junior high school education, exercising students' sense of confrontation from an early age, and not being afraid of strong enemies and confrontation.

1920 year.

The seemingly calm Emperor Song Biao has been under some kind of calm and huge pressure, because only he understands how many crises are hidden behind the glory and prosperity of the empire at this time.

Warrior.

Warrior.

Martial again.

Recovery.

Recovery.

Again.

Progressive.

Progressive.

Progress again.

Nowadays.

Nowadays.

Remodern.

The more emphasis is placed on learning from the West and emulating science, the more emphasis must be placed on the Han cultural revolution that restored the Spring and Autumn Period and reverted to the Qin and Han dynasties.

History has proven time and again that no matter how strong a national strength is, it is also false, and only a strong nation can defeat all enemies.

If the empire wants to maintain its current territory, to ensure the prosperity of the next few centuries, and to safeguard the survival interests of the nation, the empire can only be more clearly engraved on the brand of the Song family, become a modern Han nationality, become a strong Han nationality with roots and thoughts, and only then can the empire have a future to speak of, in order to defeat the most powerful enemies, and even defeat several of the most powerful enemies at the same time, in order to be able to Phoenix Panni in the most difficult and harsh environment.

After the Lushan Conference, the candidate for the next prime minister was finalized, and Song Biao couldn't wait to devote himself to the promotion of Hanism and classical judo, personally presided over the Temple of Heaven sacrifice, and participated in the first national classical judo competition held in the Temple of Heaven Park.

That's what a man is supposed to do.

……

The emperor also participated in the first National Classical Judo Competition in October, which made many players shudder, for fear of meeting the emperor, not afraid of not being able to beat, but afraid of beating.

In principle, Song Biao did not want to add a new cabinet body, nor did he set up the State General Administration of Sports, but reorganized the Ministry of Culture and Education into the Ministry of Culture, Education and Sports, and continued to be under the control of the Minister of Culture and Education, so as to grasp the sports work with the central axis of culture and education.

I heard that the emperor was also going to participate in this classical judo competition organized by the Ministry of Culture and Education, and he was originally distressed because the next cabinet might not have his own affairs, but at this time he felt that hope was coming, and he was forced to do a persuasion, afraid of hurting the emperor's dragon body, and when Song Biao rejected his proposal, he wanted to engage in a set of active escort policies, and did not hesitate to change the rules to protect the emperor.

Therefore, Liang Qichao is not suitable to continue to serve as a cabinet minister.

The way of thinking is too old.

In fact, Liang Qichao doesn't have to worry at all, Song Biao has not undergone formal training all year round after all, although he did half a month of assault training before the competition, the effect was really not good, and he was eliminated by a quasi-professional master in the third round.

When he got off the field and asked, he found out that it was Hu Qi, the wrestler who performed at the Temple of Heaven in Yanjing, which made Song Biao a little speechless, but he estimated that it was arranged by Liang Qichao, and wouldn't it be the best escort to let the emperor quit in advance?

Fortunately, the effect is there, the whole country is actively reporting on the incident, and more than 200,000 people in Laoyanjing City came to watch the game.

Song Biao has always felt that the level is not bad, but he finally fell past Jiang Zuobin, and there is no reason not to enter the semi-finals, but it is not a disappointment, but he is still very happy that the big thing has been done.

Although he was eliminated, Song Biao was still very interested in staying in the park to watch the game, and he really wanted to promote this as a men's sport with a national surname.

At the end of the third round of the day, it was already more than five o'clock in the afternoon, and Song Biao specially met with Hu Qi, who had fallen on his own, and gave him the Benxi saber he usually brought with him as encouragement, and then left the park by car.

After getting into the car, Zhang Futian, who accompanied him, smiled and said: "Your Majesty, your skills are really not as good as in the past, you have to practice hard." ”

Song Biao thought about it and said ruthlessly: "Insist on running five kilometers of cross-country every day." ”

Zhang Futian said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the five-kilometer cross-country talk is really going back a long way." ”

Song Biao continued to say ruthlessly: "Then you just look at it." ”

Zhang Futian still laughed, continued to look back at the road ahead, and waited for several other cars to be on the road before letting the guards drive to follow the central position, in fact, he didn't want the emperor to participate in this kind of competition in person than Liang Qichao, because there were too many people, and the security work was really difficult, so he found Hu Qi, a quasi-professional player, and specially arranged for special training for a month.

Anyway, the black pot was carried by Liang Qichao.

As long as the emperor does not participate, even if he comes to watch the competition every day, the guard office and the secret service must breathe a sigh of relief.

The rank of first-class guard officer is between colonel and lieutenant colonel according to seniority, Colonel Zhang Futian is directly responsible for leading the work of the secret service and concurrently serves as the chief of the internal guard, Lieutenant Colonel Jiang Zuobin is responsible for coordinating and cooperating with the work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Secretariat, Lieutenant Colonel Han Chunlin is responsible for coordinating the work of the Central Military Department, and the newly promoted Colonel Zhang Jun is directly responsible for leading the work of the Central Secret Bureau.

Fortunately, the queen is not very interested in this kind of thing, today accompanied by the Minister of Religion went to visit the construction of St. Mark's Basilica, the concubine is pregnant again, the second child, and it is not suitable to participate in this kind of public event for the time being, so that the pressure on the Secret Service is reduced a lot, if the royal family comes to participate, the Secret Service is called nervous, hundreds of thousands of mass occasions, in case there is an assassin is really difficult to say, and now there are many White Russians and Russian communists who hate the emperor.

Because they participated in the classical judo competition at the Temple of Heaven during the day, the original arrangement of an early meeting with the new prime minister was postponed to the evening.

At this time, Ouyang Geng had passed the party vote of the China Liberation Party and officially became the third prime minister, but his official appointment will not be until November, and the foreign affairs work at this time will be handled by Liang Dunyan, and Ouyang Geng will work in the Cabinet Preparation Office, responsible for selecting the next cabinet list.

Song Biao returned to the Central Palace, and had a royal meal with his family in the evening, and then went to the imperial study to meet Ouyang Geng, and Ouyang Geng was already waiting here.

The emperor and the cabinet of the empire are actually an alliance of two directions, the cabinet is responsible for modernization and learning from the West, except for a certain period, usually wear suits, while the emperor has to wear Ming clothes most of the time, that is, the glory of the dragon chapter dress, as a symbol of classical recovery.

Each side has its own responsibilities to jointly promote the progress and development of the empire.

After dinner, Song Biao changed into a white blue dragon pattern dress and walked into the imperial study, Ouyang Geng was wearing a black suit, after hearing the guard's announcement, he couldn't wait to stand up and bow down.

When Song Biao entered the imperial study and sat down, Ouyang Geng straightened up and bowed his head again, still unable to sit down, waiting for the emperor's orders.

Follow the etiquette system.

If an empire wants to have rules, it must have all kinds of rules of etiquette.

Song Biao glanced at him, and then ordered, "Sit down." ”

Ouyang Geng paused cautiously slightly, and then sat down again and handed over the two plans in his hand to the emperor, one of which was the cabinet list he had drawn up, and the other was the third five-year plan he expected.

Song Biao took the two reports and put them on the side case to look through, there is not much of a problem with the cabinet list, the empire is now increasingly abundant, and some people who don't want to stay can be kicked out directly, Liang Shiyi is out, Cao Rulin will continue to be retained, and let's see the situation.

Yuan Shikai, Xu Shichang, and Liang Qichao also left the scope of the cabinet after all.

Now that the Liberation Party is the dominant party, there is no need to govern in coalition with foreign parties at all, but for the sake of political stability, Ouyang Geng still drew up 1/4 of the list of cabinet ministers of foreign parties, Song Jiaoren was transferred to the Minister of Justice, Yang Zhaolin was transferred to the Minister of Land and Resources, Cai Yuanpei was transferred to the Minister of Culture and Education, the Minister of Foreign Affairs was Liang Dunyan, the Minister of Communications was Tang Guoan, the Chief of Customs and the Minister of Police have changed, but Ouyang Geng intends to downgrade the Ministry of Police to the General Police Department.

The cabinet has been partially reduced compared with the past, many departments have been merged by Ouyang Geng, agriculture and water conservancy have been merged into one ministry, the General Administration of Posts and Telegraphs has been abolished, and all related businesses have been withdrawn from the state.

Regarding this matter, Song Biao also agreed, but Yuan Jinkai was a little unhappy, he was originally a police minister at the ministerial level, but now he has become the chief of police and a deputy minister, he is naturally a little unhappy, but he still accepts such a reform.

Basically, Song Biao and Ouyang Geng had discussed things before returning to Yanjing, Song Biao had nothing special to add, and he roughly looked at the cabinet list on one side, and was generally very satisfied, so he put it together and continued to look at the newly submitted "Third Five-Year Plan Pre-planning Proposal".

The achievements of the First and Second Five-Year Plan are too high, and it is very difficult to break through now, and the development of the empire in industry and industry is more right-wing liberal ideology, and the new Third Five-Year Plan of the empire is generally based on support and funding, and there is no further plan for large investment.

One of the key points of the Third Five-Year Plan is electrification, which is the place where the progress has been relatively slow in the past ten years, the Third Five-Year Plan, the Fourth Five-Year Plan are to promote the electrification of cities, and then consider promoting the electrification of towns and villages, and some provinces with economic strength can promote the electrification of towns and towns in the Third Five-Year Plan.

Generally speaking, Ouyang Geng's Third Five-Year Plan can be summed up in one sentence, that is, to vigorously promote the electric power and the second industrial revolution, deepen industrial development, improve the level of education, strengthen agricultural migration and the development of Xinjiang provinces, improve the level of industrial science and technology and technology, give preferential treatment and protection to workers and peasants, and shrink financial privileges.

This session of the Central Political Axe is basically going to do these things.

Song Biao looked at it roughly, thought for a moment before reminding Ouyang Geng: "The work plan in the field of culture and religion should be strengthened, the development of economy and science and technology is very important, and cultural development is also important. The strength of the nation must be strong, and the spirit must also be strong, and your planning in this area is very insufficient. In addition, the matter of shrinking financial rights is postponed a little, there are too many work plans, they are all big things, don't lose the focus, this political axe must do a good job in the shrinkage of financial rights, but it will have to wait for four or five years to do it, why, because you have to forcibly acquire over-limit land through bank loans and state debts, and you need money. ”

Ouyang Geng said: "Ouyang Xi and I have carefully calculated, if the financial power is contracted in advance, the bank's overflow right can be banned, the central bank's financial power can be expanded, with the current total central reserves to calculate, we are now facing not a lack of domestic funds, but a large overflow of funds." ”

Song Biao sighed.

He only made a general opinion, and the specific policy aspects still need to be balanced by their cabinet, and if a mistake is a mistake, if it is right, it is right, and he only does things with hindsight.

He still asked Ouyang Geng, "Are you sure?" ”

Ouyang Geng said: "Sure, although the empire has maintained a loose monetary policy, but for the time being, the monetary aggregate is still increasing too fast, and it is easy to form a financial crisis. However, this requires the support of the Far Eastern Bank and the China International Commercial Bank, which is obviously not supported by Rong Xingqiao. ”

Song Biao said: "It doesn't matter, it's not a problem on his side, the ban on the right to increase spill will always have an impact on the Far East, but it is still the first principle to obey the political axe and the laws of the central government." ”

Ouyang Geng breathed a sigh of relief, he had not said this before, and when the emperor supported him as prime minister, he decided to take the risk of putting it forward in the plan to test the emperor's attitude, if the emperor objected, he would not do it for the time being.

Seeing that the emperor agreed, Ouyang Geng got to the point and said: "Now the problem is that Chancellor of the Exchequer Zhang Kangren does not agree with such a financial policy, I have already talked with him several times, if he still disagrees, I have considered arranging for someone else to take the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer." ”

Hearing this, Song Biao knew that Ouyang Geng wanted to arrange Ouyang Xi to be the Minister of Finance.

It's not that it's impossible.

There is no problem with competence.

Song Biao still objected: "There is no need for the time being, I will talk to Zhang Kangren." In fact, during the First World War, the total amount of currency issued by various countries was still very staggering, and the monetary reserve ratio of Britain and France was seriously insufficient. When the international economic situation is favorable to us, it is not appropriate to blindly pursue the growth of production capacity and investment, and we should seek more growth sustained by science and technology, education, technology and innovation. These years have been a transitional period, and the central government's financial policy should adapt to the changes in this transitional period. To put it simply, the current empire does not need to pursue speed, but to pursue quality and stability. ”

Ouyang Geng's heart became more and more happy, and praised: "The emperor is sage." ”

Song Biao didn't plan to say anything more, overall, he felt that Ouyang Geng was still a more suitable candidate for prime minister at this stage.

With the end of the war, a large amount of money flooded the international capital market, especially the large influx of the US market, which led to the rapid expansion of industrial capacity and the stock market bubble, and finally the global economic crisis and the Great Depression because of the gold standard crisis of the British pound.

From now on, the empire will indeed have to prepare for such a great depression.

At this stage, the empire should take the opportunity to get rid of the huge growth that relies on the inflow of foreign capital, and should pursue a development policy of domestic demand and financial literacy, and avoid the impact of the Great Depression, which is also the direction that the current cabinet needs to work towards.

After the end of World War I, the empire's GDP in 1919 reached 47.7 billion yuan, an increase of 2.43 times compared with 1913, and the United States' GDP also increased from $39.1 billion in 1913 to $67.3 billion in 1919.

Although there has been no change in the gold content of the Chinese dollar and the US dollar, both have adopted a temporary policy of restricting the exchange of gold, which is also the main reason why the currencies of the two countries can be issued on a large scale.

Compared with the over-issuance of currencies by Britain and France, China and the United States are certainly much better, and these are the three major beneficiary countries of the First World War, and the gold reserves, international creditor's rights, and economic aggregates of the three countries have all increased by a relatively large margin during the war, especially in the capital, their industrial exports have increased by 30 times, and the gross national product has also increased to a scale of 5.7 billion to 6 billion yuan.

The gold content of the US dollar is 1.50463 grams of pure gold, while the gold content of the medium circle is 0.7535 grams, and the currency value ratio of the two is 1.99685:1, which can basically be equivalent to 1 US dollar to 2 Chinese yuan.

In other words, the total GDP of the United States is 2.82 times that of China, but the population of the United States is 105 million, while the Chinese population is 450 million, and the per capita output value is 12 times.

The gap is space, and this is true for China and the United States, as well as for China.

Song Biao believed that as long as the peasants of the empire could own more land on average, the grain production capacity increased, the newly occupied land was reclaimed, the agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry in the mountainous, hilly and steppe areas developed, the fishery industry developed, and the aquaculture industry also developed, the development of agriculture alone could further push the total output value and total tax revenue of the empire to a higher stage.

Because China now not only has more land to cultivate, but also has an abundant labor force, what is lacking is to better transfer the labor force to the areas that need to be developed, as long as the political axe does a good job in this regard, actively promotes the development of agriculture, and makes the peasants rich first, the empire's economy will have a great future.

Therefore, the empire does not need to be in a hurry, but more importantly, it must be stable, and steadily and gradually narrow the gap between the rich and the poor, which is the driving force behind the empire's cultivation of a vast domestic demand market and the empire's long-term development.

(To be continued)