Chapter 27: The Invisible Hand

Whoever sees juggling and throwing a ball may see fate. Those balls that rise and fall for a while, just like people are in the palm of fate.

The ball in the hands of the juggler may be the fate of the people, and in the dark, the fate of everyone may be in the hands of the invisible juggler.

For the vast majority of people, their ball of destiny is held by invisible hands, Danshi is in China, and for some, their destiny is held by a pair of visible hands.

"I can't do it, but I can't do it"

When the outside world set off a storm of cabinet collapse due to the unconstitutionality of the cabinet, in the face of the silence of the outside world about the Democratic Party, Liang Qichao, as the prime minister of the Democratic Party, once replied to the news reporter.

Not doing anything is by no means doing nothing, and if you can't, it is to consider national affairs first

seems to be full of reasons, but in fact, no one knows that the reason why this turmoil is intensifying is that Liang Qichao's invisible hands are fueling the troubles behind, but on the other side, Liang Qichao still shows his humble and gentlemanly style, but in fact, political competition has always been a pool of ink, no matter who falls into it, don't want to keep your innocence.

In political struggles, conspiracy almost coexists with it, no one blames the other side for the conspiracy, all the loser needs to do is reflect on his own defeat, while the winner is on guard against the attacks of others.

The autumn of the ninth year of the empire was destined to be difficult to calm down, and the 23 provinces of the country either demanded the resignation of the cabinet or demanded an explanation for the declaration of war, and more than 3 million young people across the country marched and demonstrated to demand the resignation of the cabinet.

First of all, the National Assembly passed a resolution agreeing to admit "German East Africa" as a "dependency of the Chinese Empire" and "German New Guinea" as a "South Pacific dependency of the Chinese Empire", and at the same time appointing a governor-general, on the other hand, the army and navy expansion order was also approved by the House of Commons, the army was expanded from 106 divisions to 212 divisions, and the navy built a new capital ship of 300,000 tons.

"Let the outside public opinion surge, and we only face to seriously seek government"

As the prime minister of the cabinet, Yuan Shikai once told reporters that after the turmoil became more and more intense, the Chinese people were more accustomed to paying attention to the attitude of the royal family, and now it is early autumn, which is the time when the royal family is taking refuge in the Purple Mountain, which avoids the royal involvement.

"Liang Qichao, Yang Du ......"

Talking about the names of these people, Chen Moran's brows narrowed slightly, although in the eyes of the outside world, it seemed that he, the emperor, had kicked everything to the cabinet and the Congress, but in fact, he had always maintained a high degree of attention to this matter.

Although Yijing made up his mind from the beginning to let Yuan Shikai be the scapegoat, when the turmoil appeared, people hesitated.

"Your Majesty, the parliaments of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Hubei, Hebei, Fujian, Liaoning, Guangdong, Hunan, and Jiangxi have passed a resolution calling for the resignation of the cabinet general ......"

When Zha Zhiqing reported, he deliberately added.

"These provinces are the provinces where the Democratic Party and the Constitutionalist Party have an absolute majority."

The distribution of political power in the provinces of China is very delicate, and the Democratic Party and the Constitutionalist Party have the advantage, and the most important feature of these regions is the development of the industrial and commercial economy, and in fact they are the most direct beneficiaries of the imperial economic policy, and the reason why the local gentry support the Democratic Party is that it is not in their interests to control the economy in the empire.

The provinces where the royalists are dominant are relatively conservative provinces, and industry and commerce are relatively backward, but this makes the local gentry support the royalists, because they want the government-led industrial projects to fall into the province, so as to promote the development of the province's industrial economy, which is in stark contrast to the provinces with developed industry and commerce, those provinces with developed industry and commerce, prefer that the government-led industrial projects are better away from them, so they want the Democratic Party or the Constitutionalist Party to control the provincial council, so that when the government plans the project, The Provincial House of Representatives came forward to boycott government industrial projects in order to gain more autonomy.

"Your Majesty, this time, it can be seen as a counteroffensive by the people against the government"

Zha Zhiqing used a very serious word.

"Counteroffensive"

The corners of his lips jumped slightly, and Chen Moran's heart was filled with a trace of waves, in fact, he had been waiting for this day.

"If Zhende is opposed by citizens, it would be really good, at least for China, this is also a kind of progress",

In the past nine years, China has urbanized at an unprecedented pace, with cities based on military and industrial and mining industries developing significantly, four major industrial zones along the Yangtze River, Liaoha, Jintang and Zhujiang rivers taking shape, and satellite cities beginning to form in the surrounding areas of the metropolises.

The acceleration of urbanization has not only changed the appearance of the countryside, but also given birth to a new regional culture: agricultural land has become residential land; Shopping streets appeared where neighborhoods were concentrated; Salary earners, mainly large corporations and bank employees, are introduced, and office workers in suits and leather shoes and briefcases travel between office buildings in the city center and elegant homes in the suburbs by subway and bus. The expansion of the new middle layer has given birth to a "middle-class consciousness", and the middle-class lifestyle has become a trend: the income level of male office workers has increased enough for their wives to become full-time housewives and raise children at home.

Where there is the middle class, there are middle-class interesting publications customized for middle-class readers: gentlemen's magazines, juvenile magazines, girls' magazines, and women's magazines have sprung up in bookstores on the streets of the metropolis; With the popularity of popular books that sold for only one yuan, the establishment of the Chinese standard for modern publishing, the entry of the publishing industry into mass consumption, and the circulation of millions of copies of major national newspapers and weekly magazines, China during this period had become a veritable mass media society.

It can be said that China's social structure has undergone fundamental changes at this time.

Generally speaking, democracy requires the following two basic conditions: full economic development brings about class pluralism and modern citizenship. This is because the modern democratic system appeared after the emergence of industry, and the development of industrial civilization is moving forward together, in the agrarian society, the corresponding social system can only be **, and the corresponding system in the corresponding industrial society is democracy. Only through the development of industry, the provision of more jobs for the transfer of people from the countryside, and the increase of the domestic consumer market, the reduction of the population in agriculture, and the increase in the proportion of workers in modern times, can the backbone of democratic politics be created: the middle class.

China's middle class is fragile, and in fact the current wave is driven not so much by the awakening of the middle class as by politically ambitious parties and businessmen who resist the controlled planned economy, rather than by the political awakening of the awakened middle class.

The democratic and constitutional parties are not satisfied with the current stamp tools, they are eager for more political power, the businessmen are not satisfied with the constraints of the controlled planned economy, they hope that the new party will completely end the control of the economy, and the workers in the middle class are also dissatisfied with the government's bias towards enterprises, and they also hope that the government and the parliament will change in order to protect their own interests and apply the political ideas they are familiar with.

Just as Zha Zhiqing said, all this now is a counteroffensive from the people, and the people's counteroffensive against the government is waiting for the counteroffensive from the people, isn't this exactly what he expected?

I hope for the awakening of folk consciousness, but when all this happens, why? Will there be a trace of bitterness in your heart?

"Can they represent citizens?"

Thinking about this question, Chen Moran frowned slightly, why did this question sound so awkward?

"Your Majesty, there is no doubt that now that the time has come for China to make a choice, the era of the Chin Ming Cabinet must end"

Guan Mingtang, who was sitting next to him, said something at the right time.

The Cabinet of Ministers is a characteristic of China, and perhaps China has a constitution, a House of Nobles, and a House of Commons, but the House of Commons only has the right to return the appointment of officials below the provincial governor, that is, to refuse to approve the appointment of this candidate. The members of the Cabinet, however, are appointed directly by His Majesty, and the Cabinet is appointed by His Majesty, which is completely separate from the Diet, although nominally the Cabinet is established in the Diet, and perhaps the Diet approves it, and in fact they cannot but approve it.

"Won't it be too fast?"

Asking rhetorically, Chen Moran sighed lightly in his heart.

"Of course, the end of the Khin Cabinet is by no means now"

Guan Mingtang replied truthfully, in fact, in the cabinet, perhaps only he has been mentioning the shortcomings of the Qinming Cabinet many times in front of His Majesty, in his opinion, between the Qinming Cabinet and the Congress, it was originally a joke, and this is the reason why outsiders call China one of the three major ** empires.

"It's a time of war, so we must promote the unity of the monarch and the people, otherwise the country will fall into chaos."

"Your Majesty, now that the tide of strikes is intensifying, the workers are very dissatisfied with the government's biased approach to enterprises."

It was a soft reminder that the attention to the workers was a task that His Majesty had given to the Investigation Bureau a few years earlier, after the first strike, but it was limited to attention, and although the Investigation Bureau had established a file on the organizers of the strike, His Majesty seemed to have no intention of cracking down on them.

silent

Facing their reminder, Chen Moran closed his eyes, held the town stone on the table with his hand, and the whole person fell into silence completely, this time it was different from the hunger strike in front of the palace, that time it was just a student's recklessness, but this time it was the combined force of the three forces, if it .......

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