In the distance, it was already raining heavily over the fields and woods. Rain clouds bring moist air. Occasionally, lightning pierced the gray clouds, accompanied by rolling thunder, and the Chan's garden was illuminated by the lightning and thunder from time to time. The study of the main house of Chen's Garden once again ushered in its owner.

It was raining and thundering outside the study, but there was silence inside the study, and when the occasional thunder rang out, the windows of the study even made a slight shaking noise.

Smoking a cigarette, Chen Moran occasionally thought of the little girl who danced with him at the banquet, and he still thought it was interesting, so that some smiles appeared on his face from time to time.

Maybe this is an accident in this time and space, I never know when, I will accidentally meet a historical celebrity, but I don't know, in this era when history has changed, is it possible for the three Song sisters to be interspersed with modern Chinese history like in history?

No more!

When Chen Moran occasionally smiled when he thought about his "coincidental encounters" with those historical celebrities, Qin Yuliu, who was sitting in front of him, saw the smile on his husband's face, and the young and even somewhat immature face also showed a smile, but the young man who was the secretary general of the Liberation Association at the age of twenty-four was secretly happy for another thing at this time.

"Sir, the Voyage has departed! ”

As the "old man" of the Restoration Society, Qin Yuliu is more inclined to be in power as Mr., which is reasonable, after all, it is Mr. who leads everyone to the road of national recovery, but on the other hand, it is because of this title that he seems close to the government.

"Huh?"

Listening to Qin Yuliu's words, Chen Moran was stunned for a moment, and then immediately understood why he deliberately said this.

"Nian Xuan, do you think that Sun Yat-sen and they will be fine?"

Looking at the smile on Qin Yuliu's face, Chen Moran sighed helplessly, the people in the Restoration Society are really too young and have not gone through any political experience, although young people make it easy to arouse, as long as they give an order, they will do it without asking about it, but young people are always young people, and it is a little too simple to think about things.

"The purpose of letting Sun Yat-sen go abroad for investigation has been achieved, but don't forget that there are other groups in China now!"

"Sir, do you mean Zhang Yang and the two?"

Qin Yuliu asked rhetorically in surprise, if it is a group, in the current country, I am afraid that in addition to the Liberation Society, there is only Sun Yat-sen's Xingzhong Society, and there is also the "Constitutional Association" that has recently emerged, which is a newly established political party group established by Yang Du and Zhang Jian and other constitutionalist figures, and Sun Yat-sen, who advocated a republic, the Constitutional Association advocated a constitutional monarchy, and the constitutional monarchy in their mouths was to practice hypocrisy and implement parliamentary politics.

And Chen Moran didn't nod or shake his head, if you say what is your most successful place? I am afraid that I have brainwashed these young people in the Restoration Society, and I have successfully convinced them that they are abiding by the will of the people and taking the will of the people as the highest criterion, and because of this, it is not convenient to say many things directly, even Qin Yuliu, who is regarded as a close confidant.

However, although it is inconvenient to show his thoughts in front of them, he can express his meaning in front of another group of people, that is, in front of Zhang Zhidong and Yuan Shikai, especially Yuan Shikai, sometimes it is more convenient for him to use his scheming, and he only needs to say a little bit by himself, he can ponder for a long time, and finally understand his meaning.

"Sir, from Yuliu's point of view, the constitutionalism advocated by Yang Du and others is even worse than that of the revolutionary party!"

Qin Yuliu suddenly said that in the past few days, he had been looking for an opportunity to speak to Mr.

"Oh!"

Chen Moran, who was originally leaning on the back of the chair, leaned forward slightly, but he was curious about Qin Yuliu's words.

"Sir, the reason why Sun Yat-sen was excluded on the grounds of overseas investigation was to prevent political turmoil due to the chaos of the national debate, and Yang Du's advocacy of constitutionalism was intended to seek power, Yang Du was an opportunist, and his heart was not as good as Sun Wen and others, in the eyes of these people, political turmoil was definitely not his concern, and what he wanted to do was just a conspiracy."

Gently lowering his head, his opinion on this point is the same as his own, as long as he thinks that Yang Du is on Yuan Shikai's side, using "persuading his wife to divorce", and running to London to talk about things with his wife, Chen Moran feels a little uncomfortable in his heart, Yang Du is just an opportunist.

"If the Constituent Assembly can support it, it will use the name of the Diet to restrain the Cabinet, so as to achieve ulterior motives, and if the Diet drags down the decision of the Cabinet, even if the Constitution intends to strengthen the country, I am afraid that it will be in vain in the end!"

In recent months, because he is not in office in the ruling axe, Qin Yuliu has more time to study the pros and cons of the political system of various countries, since Yang Du advocated his "constitutional monarchy", he felt that Yang Du, like the revolutionary party, eventually slid China into French-style political chaos, which is acceptable for the political chaos of the great powers like France, but what about China? Not in China.

"The most important thing for China to govern, whether it is an imperial system or a republic, is to establish a strong central power, so as to achieve the national unity advocated in the "tariff incident" when governing the "tariff incident"."

Hesitating Qin Yuliu expressed his opinion, at the beginning of the recovery of the provinces, along with the establishment of the governor's axe also aimed at obtaining the support of the local gentry, as the secretary general of the Restoration Society, Qin Yuliu was fortunate to see some chaos in the provincial advisory bureau, such as when Hunan was on the verge of heavy military pressure, the people in the advisory bureau actually talked about the need to negotiate peace with the Manchu Qing, and then later when the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River were recovered, there were also people in the advisory bureau who proposed to divide the river with the Manchu Qing and rule.

In short, everyone has a big forest, but fortunately, the Advisory Bureau is now consultative and indecided, otherwise I am afraid that the recovery plan will be delayed by those "local elites".

For them, whether they are revolutionaries or constitutionalists, they first consider the gain or loss of their own power, not the people in the Restoration Society, who think and think, as Mr. taught: "The old is the restoration, and the present is the rise!" "The Liberation Society will abandon prejudices and only want the heart of the country to be strong, how can it be compared with such careerists or speculators!"

Qin Yuliu's steady words really surprised Chen Moran a little, but he still didn't show his attitude, just listened quietly.

On the one hand, the people only know the emperor, but not the republic, and on the other hand, the common people go with the little gentry, and the little gentry go with the big gentry, and the gentry of the whole country are almost inclined to the imperial system, and the state system is almost a foregone conclusion. However, if the imperial system is implemented, it must be constitutional, but how to implement this constitutionalism is a question that has to be considered now...... Well! For the time being, the domestic groups can be divided into royalist and republican factions, and even in the Liberation Society, they are also divided into royalist and republican factions, and although everyone has decided to respect the choice of the people, it is a matter of time before the Liberation Society splits......

When Qin Yuliu's face showed some melancholy looks, Chen Moran was also gloomy, which was not one of the reasons why he did not fully support the Restoration Society.

"Compared with the republicans, the royalists are the most powerful, almost all the gentry are royalists, and the royalists are divided into several tribes, such as Zhang Zhizheng and others are one faction, Liang Qichao is another faction, and now Yang Du is more of a faction, and he will inevitably tilt between each other, which is bound to create an opportunity for the republican faction, if so, I am afraid that the political arena will be unstable at that time, and the internal turmoil will continue, dragging down the national affairs!"

"Nian Xuan, what you are worried about is not what I am worried about."

Stretching his waist, Chen Moran sighed helplessly, and then took a heavy puff of cigarette.

"Governance, the only way to solve the problem, is to centralize power and reduce the power of parliament!"

Chen Moran, who was originally smoking a cigarette and drinking tea, suddenly became focused, he looked at Qin Yuliu, and finally suppressed the anxiety hidden in his heart, and asked lightly.

"Nian Xuan, is this what you mean, or what everyone means!"

Although the question was unclear, Qin Yuliu still heard what Mr. asked.

"That's what everybody means!"

The rain was falling outside the window, and after hearing this answer, I slowly stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the heavy rain outside the window.

"Hey!"

Chen Moran, who originally seemed to have a full stomach to say, finally sighed, but disappeared. And when he sighed, his mind came to mind before Shanghai, the secret conversation with Zhang Zhidong, it was time!

At this time, a flash reflected the study, followed by a thunderclap, the night was destined to be no longer peaceful, the sky was bright, the autumn rain was still tight and slow on the sky, gray, foggy tide, like covered with a thick layer of barrier, the slightest autumn rain, as if leaking from the barrier, silently down, inexplicably down, persistently underground.

The whole city of Shanghai finally got rid of the night and entered the fog and rain again. In this misty fog and rain, the Industrial Bank Building on the banks of the Huangpu River is still majestic under the reflection of the pillars of green and orange searchlights, and the spires of the towering and majestic industrial buildings reach the sky, drawing on the glitz of Gothic churches and baroque castles and introducing the industrial buildings of Chinese architectural style, and since the day of completion, it has become a landmark building in Shanghai together with the Huangpu Building.

The Industrial Bank Building is not only the headquarters of the Industrial Bank, but also the headquarters of the Industrial Company, and it is also a high-end hotel open to the public, with as many as 204 rooms, including 10 suites and 55 luxury customers.

Outside the window, it is rain and fog, indoors, but the lights are melting, in the guest room on the eighth floor of the industrial hotel, in order to eliminate the uneasiness in his heart, Yang Du asked for a few small dishes from the hotel in the study, and Zhang Zhongduan drank while chatting and talking.

Zhang Zhongduan, who came to Shanghai with Yang Du, naturally knew his hard work, and admired him very much in his heart for what he had done recently.

"This is a person, sometimes we don't have to drill the horns, when faced with the facts that cannot be changed, we should all learn to adapt, for example! These dog days are the seasons we don't want to spend; This harsh winter and cold day is also a season that we don't want to spend it, but because we are tired of the heat and harsh winter, we refuse! Can't, can't refuse, because we can't refuse at all, so what if we can't refuse? Only to get used to it......"

Zhang Zhongduan listened intently, he knew the reason why Yang Du said this, only because today, the representative of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce rejected Yang Du's request to speak at the Shanghai Consulting Bureau.

Shanghai is equal to half of China, at least economically and financially, even if we put aside the 3,952 enterprises in Shanghai that have been put into operation or are under construction, there are 67 banks and two stock exchanges in Shanghai alone, which is the largest Chinese economy.

It is also the concerted efforts of the Shanghai banking community that the "Industrial Ocean" has replaced the circulation status of Eagle Ocean in East China, South China and Central China in less than five months, and it is also the concerted efforts of the Shanghai Banking Sector to crack down on the issuance of foreign bank notes through the way that banks refuse to accept foreign banknotes, thus creating an opportunity for the further circulation of industrial bonds.

Yang Du took out an "industrial ocean" from his pocket, the industrial building in front of the new industrial ocean was shining silver under the illumination, this industrial ocean, is a Shanghai gentry today's "donation", this kind of "generosity" is afraid of more or mocking the Constitutional Association's inadequacy.

"A gentleman is not greedy for money, but if he does it with the constitution, but he has to get financial help, my constitutional association, if he wants to do it with the whole country, he must borrow the financial resources of the gentry, if he does not have financial resources to help, the constitutional association will not be able to win the future!"

Staring at the industry on the table, Yang Du only felt a trace of shame, now that he has resigned from the Ministry of Justice, he has gone all out to the Constituent Convention, the British party not only did not win the favor of the ruling party, but made the ruling party feel bad more than the loss. After returning to Nanjing, Yang Du looked around, but he was painfully surprised to find that even Liang Shiyi, who had fallen with him, had already sat in the position of commissioner of the Ministry of Finance when he went to the UK, and he still sat on the cold bench of the Ministry of Justice when he went to the UK.

With the national situation decided, the voice of the domestic referendum has become more and more popular, Yang Du, who has always been sensitive to politics, naturally sniffed out the direction of the wind, and he happens to be a die-hard supporter of the idea of a constitutional monarchy. Compared with the imperial system and the republic, Yang Du never thought that the republic was a good system, and in his eyes, the most suitable path for China was still a constitutional monarchy.

When the Ministry of Justice was reprimanded for leaving his post without authorization, he decisively chose to resign, and with the prestige brought by the Constitutional, he made friends with people from all walks of life to negotiate the constitution, and established the Constitutional Association headed by Zhang Jian, and Yang Du also got what he wanted - the secretary general of the Constitutional Association.

In the past few days, as the secretary general of the Constituent Association, when he gave a speech in various advisory bureaus, he was praised by the gentry, which really calmed Yang Du's originally depressed mood, and even gave birth to the feeling of a bright village. He said that when he came to Shanghai, he was full of confidence that in Shanghai, at least 500,000 yuan could be raised, plus the 200,000 yuan raised before, he could give lectures on constitutionalism in consulting bureaus across the country, encourage the business gentry to join the Constitutional Association, and thus use the Constitutional Association to preside over the future Council.

When he first arrived in Shanghai, the welcome of the Shanghai gentry gave Yang Du hope, but on the same day, Zhang Zhidong, who was far away in Nanjing, knocked him on the head in the Guangfu Bao, Zhang Zhidong, the adviser to the ruling axe and the adviser of the Guangfu Society, openly supported the constitution in the newspaper, and said that "the Guangfu Society said yesterday that the responsibility of the Guangfu Society has been completed, and now it should be the responsibility of the country!" Greet victory with change -- China's victory", and at the same time, it also proposed that "the ruling axe has a decree, and the old system should be followed in five years, and the new law should be enacted in five years, and then it should be prepared in five years, and the constitution will be established in ten years, and the constitution will be successful after ten years."

Immediately afterwards, the provincial governors successively telegraphed in support of the adviser's proposal of "Victory with Change - China's Victory!" Even the most politically insensitive people, even if they are constitutional, it is the Liberation Association that plays the main role, and eight of the ten provincial governors in the country are from the Liberation Society, although they are young but they are not in power.

And Zhang Zhidong's proposal in the newspaper that "the transition to the old system in five years, the establishment of the judiciary, and then the preparation in five years, the constitution, and the success in ten years" was not only supported by those provincial governors, but also by the gentry in various places, the constitution is determined, and the local councils and bureaus are changed to provincial, municipal and county councils", then it is certainly true.

For a time, the whole country said that "the old man really has the knowledge of old and serious, which is beyond our reach", and the people who met the horse all stood up, together with Liang Qichao and others, also called "what the counselor said, it is really a steady move", and then took the book as an example, saying that the Meiji four years of the founding of the country and the reform of the law, the Meiji 23 years before the constitution was implemented, 19 years to succeed, and China has a regular ten years, which is not easy.

It is precisely because of this that there was the Shanghai Consultative Bureau's refusal of Yang Du to speak to the Advisory Bureau, and the subsequent coldness of the gentry, for those merchants, they at least need to wait until the situation is manifest before they can give support, and now there are a few people who want to take the silver to float.

"But here in Shanghai, ......"

"It's just a bunch of intellectuals!"

Staring at the silver dollar on the table, Yang Du said angrily.

After a long silence, he uttered another astonishing remark.

"They want to drag on for ten years, how can I let them get their wish!"

(To be continued)