A few days later, a special team arrived in Mukden.

There were still several miles away from the city wall, several simple buses slowly stopped with the screeching sound of brakes, the thick chimney laboriously spewed out the last few puffs of black smoke, the vibrating body calmed down, the dusty folding door creaked inward, the driver bit half of the cigarette and turned back from the cab, and shouted indistinctly: "Fengtian has arrived, please get off the bus!" ”

The passengers who were bumped along the way raised their heads one after another, raised their eyes while sighing, and were stunned to see that the city wall was still far away, and reprimanded unhappily: "Nonsense! Is this there to the station? It's clearly the side of the road, and keep moving forward! ”

The gossip shouted in his face, and the driver with a blank face disdainfully "hissed": "My car will stop here, hurry up and talk less nonsense, don't delay the next trip!" ”

The sturdy man in the co-pilot pulled open his arms, showed his furry chest and the dagger pinned to his waist, and sneered: "You'd better cooperate obediently to save some unpleasantness." Now that there is a shortage of soldiers outside the pass, no one can guarantee what will happen. Hey, hey, hey, don't you think that's the reason? ”

Although he didn't make any further moves, the threat was overflowing.

Such a bad service attitude caused dissatisfaction among the passengers, and a young man wearing a gray suit made in Tianjin jumped down, covered his mouth with a white handkerchief and reprimanded: "How can you be like this?!" It is said that under the rule of the revolutionary army, the government is harmonious, and there is no traitor and criminal, if you want me to see, you are clearly the black car that slaughters people! When I arrived in Mukden City. Be sure to file a complaint with the security officer! ”

More passengers who were terrified of the brutal escort jumped down. Two feet away from the body. gathered in a heap, only to turn around and scold.

The driver rolled down the window and leaned out halfway, grinning and showing yellow teeth, and said with a smile: "You can rest!" Mingda Ming'er told you, even if you find a security officer, it will be for nothing! This is the rules outside the customs, and the revolutionary army is busy with business, who is so idle to take care of our broken business? Isn't it just for you to take a few extra steps? Take a look at this hypocrisy, the truth enjoys the first-class service, why did you save the travel expenses and get into our car? ”

Unceremonious reply. A group of passengers who were dressed neatly dressed but had wolf faces were red-faced. However, they are all Sven people, and they disdain to compete with such a bastard on their lips, so they have to wave their sleeves angrily and step back.

In the end, it was still the leader among the passengers, and he raised his hand to stop the noise and greeted: "Forget it, let's still do business, we don't have to make noise with such people, it's just a few miles to the left, and the right to relax your legs and feet is enough." ”

Most of the passengers let out various emphatic hums and left one after another. A few people stood still. One of them was not tall, but he stood tall like an old pine tree. It shows a high-spirited temperament that is very different from others.

This person is Tan Sitong, who is the leader of the Republican Party.

After more than a year of ups and downs in the sea and the baptism of politics, his original simple and impulsive bookishness has been washed away, adding a firmness and calmness. The still bright eyes reveal infinite wisdom, and the sight is heartbreaking.

He glanced faintly at a few black cars that obviously did not comply with the operating regulations, and whispered to Congdao: "It seems that it will take time for the order outside the customs to get on the right track." I can't complain that Mr. Yang has always refused to be greedy for merit, which is much more difficult to govern than to capture. ”

In addition to the guards, most of the entourage were young and important members of the party, and they agreed when they heard this: "What Brother Fusheng said is extremely true. China has been suffering for a long time, and countless sediments have risen with the pace of conquest, and these flies and dogs cannot be cleaned up in three days or two. This is where we come into play, and this is the time to work hard. ”

Several people agreed.

Tan Sitong watched several black cars slowly restart with black smoke, drove to the temporary station in the distance, and raised his hand with a decisive and powerful wave: "Let's go, let's go into the city." ”

The congregation followed closely behind with suitcases and walked quickly towards the majestic city wall.

While walking, Tan Sitong cheered up, paying attention to the buildings and people that began to appear on the side of the road, and carefully figuring out the differences in the rumors.

Since the revolutionary army marched north, the daily war reports have been continuously transmitted to all parts of the country, and the rapid progress and decisive attack have made people from all walks of life stunned, thinking that Yang Hao is deliberately putting false news to fool people. Nothing else, outside the pass is the foundation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, not only guarded by heavy troops, but also a large number of Manchus to hold the city. As long as they go out and fight to the death, they are afraid that every time the revolutionary army takes a step forward, they will have to leave behind a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

But as a result, countless people's jaws and glasses were dropped, whether it was Shanhaiguan or Liaoyang Jinzhou, they were conquered without much effort. Not only did the defenders have no fighting spirit, but the Manchurian ministers and civilian soldiers who were pinned on high hopes also did not have the fighting spirit to defend the ancestors' mausoleum, and they even more exaggerated surrendered without spending a single shot!

It is said that when the news of the fall of Fengtian reached the Forbidden City, Emperor Guangxu, who had been ill for many days, immediately vomited blood, was carried to the Taimiao Temple and wept bitterly, shouting sorry for his ancestor Yunyun.

The Empress Dowager Cixi, who regained the government, was also tormented by the bad news of three shocks a day, and it is said that she can no longer see things. The Manchurian nobles and ministers in the capital were in a mess, and many of them had already fled with their packed luggage and fled to Shanxi and other places outside the mouth.

People were panicked, rumors were spreading, and the capital was that the Yang family's army would march westward in a few days and take the Qing Dynasty.

Tan Si and others had already known these results, and their focus was not on how Yang Hao fought the war, but on the post-war policy and further operation outside the Guan. I couldn't wait to come to Mukden by car, but I wanted to witness with my own eyes how this wild land for hundreds of years should be depicted as a paradise on earth in Yang Hao's propaganda.

The bus I took when I came here was a long-distance bus that had been opened since a few years ago. As the first batch of heavy oil steam-powered vehicles assembled by Tianjin Automobile Factory, it was set early before it was produced. And the car owners who can get the operation outside the customs are inevitably high-ranking officials and nobles in the Qing court. Only their means of reaching the sky can be unimpeded outside the gates. It's just that Tan Sitong didn't expect that the revolutionary army had already seized the ruling power of Shengjing Fengtian. They can still continue to operate arrogantly. It seems that the situation outside the border is much more complicated than expected.

Today. Yang Hao's intention to occupy the Northeast and the strategy to be implemented have been widely disseminated throughout the country through the newspapers, and people of insight can understand it thoroughly. Many people are also aware that what is happening here is very likely to serve as a model for the implementation of governance across the country in the future. The disposition of the banner people, the disposition of the landlords and bureaucrats, the policy of developing new land, and the more complex relocation plan. will affect more people across the country.

Tan Si and others are interested in seeking a seat in the new government and leading their party to gain the right to speak, so they naturally refuse to let go of the good opportunity to understand the grassroots. Being able to get hands-on with the most important innovation matters will give them more leverage in the future.

As he walked, he found that there was no damage to the residential buildings on the outskirts of the city, except for a few remnants of fortifications that had not been thoroughly cleaned up. The residents of the villages and towns near the roadside did not see much fear of the changes after the war, and many of them actually set up stalls and took advantage of the increase in the number of people to start a business today.

Tan Sitong couldn't help but nod secretly. It seems that the credibility of the revolutionary army is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it can still be convinced even outside the border where the government is chaotic. That's it. No one in the country can compete with him.

Of course, there are still changes, looking around, you can see that some of the walls along the street have been painted, and more are painted with various slogans, and on the electric poles erected on the streets, the cable broadcast loudspeakers have been hung up first, and the signals from Fengtian or Tianjin are transmitted to the local people in real time.

Quite a number of young volunteers, who had already cut their hair short and changed into Western-style clothes, wore ribbons and held a large number of leaflets in their hands, and loudly preached policies and recruited people on the streets, clearly building up the ruling forces at the grassroots level.

Tan Sitong immediately said to Cong Humane: "The speed at which the grassroots work of the military government is advancing is beyond imagination. If our party wants to win the approval of the people, it needs to keep up with it closely, and it cannot just stay on it. ”

Taught by people. They also discovered that the role of those volunteers was even greater than they imagined! Tong guò learned that these people include students from Beiyang University, scholars from Beijing and Tianjin who failed in the imperial examination, and many people from all over the country, who have come here to accumulate experience after a short period of training, with textbooks and textbooks, so as to compete for the posts of grassroots cadres in the future.

These people are generally in the prime of life, mostly between seventeen and eighteen to thirty years old, and generally have a complete basic education, at least they are also from Xiucai, and there are a large number of lifters. And without exception, they are all the kind of real materials who rely on their own intelligence and diligence to fight their way out of the encirclement of thousands of troops, but they have not been able to pass the guò capital meeting, and they are not lacking in talent and knowledge at all.

Such people have accumulated thousands of people all over the country, and they have been trained to do business, and they are not much worse than the hundreds of people in Jinshi and Di. And they do not have the arrogance and complacency of the old men, they are willing to calm down and do things in a down-to-earth manner, but in the new dynasty and new government, they have a brighter future than those people.

The military government allows on-the-job training, and you can get a university diploma while engaging in politics, so you can't do such a good thing for a fool!

Tan Si and others can imagine that as long as this group of people is trained and becomes grassroots cadres and officials, they will be able to become role models for similar groups of people across the country. When the time comes, most of the scholars who are waiting on the sidelines will naturally flock to support the junta in large numbers.

The Social Democratic Party, headed by Yan Fu, which is closer to Yang Hao, has included this large number of talented people in its pocket, and it does not have to work hard to gain most of the grassroots influence. When the time comes, they will definitely become the majority in the decision-making seats of the new government, and they will hold the power.

"You can't let your opponent attack the city so lightly, you will definitely suffer if you always float on it."

In the Republican Party headed by Tan Sitong, most of them are old-school landlords and gentry and new-generation industrial and commercial owners, and in Yang Hao's article, they are a traditional force representing the interests of the progressive bourgeoisie. Most of them have deep roots and extensive connections at the top, and have directly or indirectly become vested interests and accomplices of the old closed rule.

Although in Yang Hao's theory of class struggle, they are not the part that is to be revolutionized and struggled, they are undoubtedly much weaker than the thorough and broad proletariat, and many of the ideas and conventions they agree with are to be changed and innovated. If you continue to stubbornly stick to the old and do not want to forge ahead, the end will be conceivably not good.

In other words, it is the same change of dynasty as in the past. They may be able to get together and force the government to compromise. After all, they are all gentry groups. It is the indispensable backbone of imperial rule. It is an unavoidable link between the upper and lower levels.

But in Yang Hao's new policy, it is clear that their value has been infinitely weakened. With the steady implementation of national literacy and enlightenment education, and the follow-up of broadcasting equipment, the government can bypass them and directly transmit the ideology and spirit to everyone at the bottom. In the future situation of "reading and literacy for all", the biggest reliance of the existing gentry has been flattened in one fell swoop.

The terrible thing is that Yang Hao is young, and he has inexhaustible money to support the advancement of this cause, and he has the strongest army in the world. If you want to interfere and stop it, you can't do it. For the sake of the present, the only way to win the hearts and minds of the people is to try our best to stabilize the existence of our own stratum and safeguard the interests of our own strata.

Tan Si and others should be glad that they were not like those local tyrants and inferior gentry in southwest Lu and other places, they were completely revolutionized, and the culprits who confiscated their homes and property and killed the people with great anger, and the result was terrible!

Collecting information along the way, after more than half an hour, Tan Si and his party finally arrived at the city gate. It was found that more openings were being dug on both sides, apparently to prepare for the increasing number of public traffic in the future. They couldn't help but shake their heads and exclaim: "The junta really thinks about everything. Even these subsections have a plan! ”

The hearts of the people are getting heavier and heavier, so many details have been considered, and the room left for them to do things is getting smaller and smaller.

After entering the city, everyone found that there were a large number of black-clad policemen along the street to divert traffic, and the left and right sides were separated, which greatly improved the efficiency of the originally congested streets.

Like most cities of this era, the streets were narrow and congested, the houses on both sides hated to cover the sky with signs, and the goods and tools were piled up at the door, no matter how wide the road was, you could barely let a horse-drawn carriage pass. In addition, there is no one to manage it, and the people and carriages are crowded together, saying that it is the peak of popularity one after another, but in fact, most of them are chaotic.

What was now presented to them was a clean and tidy interface, none of them occupied the road, and the flow of people was separated by a temporary steel pipe railing, each of which did not interfere, and it was obvious that in just a few days, the revolutionary army had completely controlled the situation.

Therefore, there was no other sigh, Tan Si and the others walked all the way to Fengtian Palace City, which they cared about the most, and were stunned to find that the Qing Imperial Palace, which was supposed to be heavily guarded, was now blocked by thousands of people! As far as the eye could see, there were crowds of human heads, and under the maintenance of the guards, they formed a number of long lines with no end in sight, and slowly moved inside.

Thanks to the special passes they had made in advance, they entered through the side door and found that part of the main building in the palace had been opened, and a large number of original eunuchs and new guards were under the care of them, allowing the tourists who came in batches to step into the forbidden palace hall that could only be entered by the royal family and ministers, and visit and admire the most sacred and mysterious one in their hearts at will!

Seeing a civilian, who was obviously from the grassroots, wearing new clothes that he was usually reluctant to wear, he stepped over the threshold with trepidation and trepidation, and soon after he was driven out with excitement on his face, as if he was about to roar on the spot, everyone stared in shock and exclaimed: "They...... Did you really open the palace to the common people to visit and come at will?! ”

Yang Hao didn't brag nonsense, he really did it!

Tan Sitong's face was half excited, half gloomy and sighed: "From now on, there is no mystery to the imperial power, and it will no longer work to expect some false lies to deceive the people's awe and trust!" ”

The inner part of the Imperial Palace, where anyone can go in and take a look, the imperial throne where anyone can take a group photo, and the carved fence and jade that anyone can touch, mean the complete decline of imperial power. It can be expected that from now on, as long as the common people have two dollars in their pockets, they can go here or the capital to visit and visit, and go back to brag to their fellow villagers. That is not just Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's arrogant ambition of "the prince and the prince will have a kind of Xiangning", but the real divinely power of heaven is knocked into the dust!

Yang Hao, who created this qiē, is not only to be praised on the altar, but he will surely become the leader of the great cause of the ages and be praised forever!

After taking a rough tour of several palace courtyards and taking photos, Tan Si and the others walked out dizzily, unable to say anything for a while. The shock of this qiē is more thrilling than the countless deafening words they have seen written by Yang Hao! The kind of monumental tablet that has stood in their hearts for countless years has completely collapsed, and the heavy blow of the outlook on life and world view formed since the enlightenment of reading has made them feel delirious and at a loss.

It can be imagined what kind of storm will be set off and how much impact it will have when the picture of the flow of people becomes a photo sent to the north and south of the river.

The forbidden places of the imperial palace can be visited, and the important places of government offices in various places can be more open? The mysterious old officials have no respect at all, they may really want to become the "servants of the people" as Yang Hao said, and they can no longer be high up to the people and driven like slaves.

This is the revolution, this is the real revolution! An era when imperial power is no longer noble, officials are no longer mysterious, people are no longer humble and ignorant, and everyone can look at the great contemporaries of the world!

Tan Sitong suddenly remembered the unfinished "Book of Datong" written by Kang Youwei, compared to the so-called Datong ideal that was full of absurdity and had no possibility of realization, the Qiqi he saw in front of him was more down-to-earth, more credible and feasible.

After returning to the hotel full of contemplation, and after spending a few days of observing and discussing the fullest, Tan Si and the others got up and hurried to Tieling in the north. There, they saw another epic spectacle! (To be continued......)