On one issue, Xiao Zhenlei and the National Assembly have the same point of view, that is, to form a new government as soon as possible, this is because the remnants of the Beiyang Group still exist, for example, Zhang Xiluan, who is now serving as the Xuanfu envoy in the west of the three eastern provinces, the governor of Fengtian, and the governor of Jilin, is Yuan Shikai's person, and there are also troops commanded by the generals of the Beiyang Army in Suiyuan, Chahar, Rehe and other places, for example, He Zonglian, the first division of the Beiyang, led his troops to be stationed in Chahar, and Tian Zhongyu and others also led his troops to be stationed in Rehe and Suiyuan, These people are all big names of the Beiyang group, and now these people have no sign of showing their support and allegiance to the new government that is about to be formed.

Soon after the new testament was released, it was promulgated all over the world and implemented, no accident happened, the promulgation of the new covenant law was not opposed to anything, even some people in the most radical Kuomintang Party accepted it with silence, Xiao Zhenlei has been in this world for many years, and he has deeply understood the characteristics of this era.

The New Testament Law is still within the scope of bourgeois democracy, but it is relatively conservative, relatively close to the democratic model of Germany and Japan, borrowing from the spirit of the German and Japanese constitutions, giving the head of state great power and reducing the power of the National Assembly to a minimum.

After the release of the New Testament, the first issue is to determine the official system, and Xiao Zhenlei does not need to worry about who will disagree with this, because according to the spirit and regulations of the New Testament, the president has the right to determine the official system and appoint people? Government officials, such as state councilors and diplomatic ambassadors, do not have to go through the National Assembly. On the issue of determining the official system, Xiao Zhenlei thought about it for a long time. The matter of determining the bureaucracy is not trivial, once the bureaucracy of the new government is determined. And it is not easy to change it after forming a fixed system, just like the administrative reform that later generations said. If you want to carry out administrative reform, you will have to violate the interests of vested interest groups, and you will have to offend the tiger, and the tiger can watch the meat in its mouth be snatched away? That's your life-and-death struggle!

Before the official system was decided, Xiao Zhenlei also had to take into account many aspects of the problem, and try his best to ensure that the new official system would not be opposed by many people after the implementation of the new official system, among which the people who needed to be appeased were the constitutionalists, the Kuomintang, and other political forces, as well as the old and young people of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although they were no longer in office, they still had great influence in all walks of life. Especially in the economic and cultural spheres, and in both areas there are not many people with new education, and in this period it is still the culture of the old type of education, which is still the overwhelming majority, and these people also occupy a considerable part of the resources of society.

On October 10, Xiao Zhenlei convened a forum between the constitutionalists and the old and young remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and there were many people, three or four hundred people, and the venue of the meeting was the Liuguo Hotel. This is also Xiao Zhenlei's announcement of the pardon order immediately after arriving in Beijing. As a result of abandoning the investigation and accountability of the former Qing officials, there would not have been so many people at today's forum, and many people had only returned to live in China from the concessions in various places after hearing about the amnesty decree, because after all, the concessions were managed by foreign foreigners. It's always uncomfortable to live on someone else's turf.

In addition to these hosts and guests, many reporters also rushed over after receiving the news, and the entire conference hall was full of people. All around, reporters with huge cameras took pictures of the venue.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the meeting officially began.

This time, Xiao Zhenlei did not bring his wife here. The ladies also have their own things to do. After the time was up, Xiao Zhenlei appeared at the venue. With a round of applause, for the next nearly thirty seconds, the applause came like a tide.

Xiao Zhenlei walked to the position where the microphone was placed at the front desk and stood up, and after the applause stopped, the venue quieted down and said with a smile: "Judging from the applause just now, at least the princes here don't hate me, which makes me very happy, because if there is no problem between people, then they will definitely be able to find common ground and find topics." Today I did not bring a wife, in my opinion, women are sometimes very troublesome, especially when you marry multiple wives, once a foreign friend said to me, I really envy you Chinese, because your Chinese law can allow men to marry multiple wives, left and right, so unhappy! I said, when you don't have a woman, you think about women, and when you have a woman, you think about two, or even three, but when your women can get together to play mahjong, you know what troubles there are more women?????".

"Quack ??????" The applause rang out, and the momentum was getting louder and louder, everyone was deeply sympathetic to Xiao Zhenlei's words, and they all laughed and drummed heartily, even the extremely conservative old people did not say that Xiao Zhenlei's words were unethical, after all, there are some big men here, who doesn't have a few wives and concubines in the family?

There was an old man sitting at a table in the audience while applauding and smiling at the old man next to him: "This kid surnamed Xiao is really not ordinary!" ”

The old man next to him sighed: "This is the charm of personality, no wonder he can come this far at a young age."

After the applause stopped, Xiao Zhenlei continued: "Speaking of women, I encountered an incident a few days ago, a group of women came to me, they claimed to be feminist activists, and they said to me, as the president of the new government that is about to be formed, you should contribute to the formulation of laws to protect women, and let the Legislative Council enact a monogamous marriage law, so that women will no longer be discriminated against. Because they say that many Western countries have been monogamous for a long time, and in the last hundred years, the status of women in Western countries has improved substantially.

Regarding the improvement of women's social status and let them get the respect they deserve, I agree with this, because with the development of modern industry, especially the development of light industries such as handicrafts, the social importance of women will be highlighted, and the social status of women in the family will be improved, which is inevitable and inevitable in history, but when it comes to monogamy, I did not immediately express my position, after all, our national conditions in China are different from those of Western powers, and our system of polygamy has existed for thousands of years. Is it said that you can change it? This requires a process, mandatory regulations are not advisable, I think there can be no restrictions, there is no restriction on how many wives there are, even if you introduce laws to restrict, will the rich and dignitaries not raise a few women outside? And it can also create a bad social climate. I mean to advocate monogamy, but not to oppose or discourage polygamy, as long as he has the conditions, the ability, and the ability to support them! ”

"Well, well said!" Someone shouted loudly, and applause erupted again.

Xiao Zhenlei pressed his hand and stopped the applause, "Regarding the issue of women, I will stop here, the princes here do not have to worry that the new government will introduce new laws to forcibly break up the ladies in your family, please rest assured." The second point I would like to make is the issue of culture.

Some time ago, the old and new forces of culture launched a big war in newspapers, magazines and other news media, the representatives of the emerging culture who have received foreign cultural education believe that culture should always be innovative, with the development of the times, the new culture will inevitably replace the old culture, the eight strands of beautiful rhetoric, neat and neat, but the article is done well, but not through practice, now it is the Republic of China, the country needs capable and pragmatic talents, in favor of replacing classical Chinese with vernacular, because vernacular is easy to understand, as long as literate people can understand. The old literati representatives believed that there was no question of right or wrong in culture, let alone the problem of decay, which was the case two thousand years ago and is still the case today, and the reason why the country is at this point is not that there is a problem with the culture passed down from the ancestors, but that future generations will not use it.

For the views of the representatives of the new culture, I oppose part of it, agree with part, culture does need innovation, in many areas can be used vernacular instead of classical Chinese, after all, there are not many literate people in our country, if the vernacular is used in many aspects, it is helpful for children's literacy, for the spread of culture, the implementation of government decrees, the promulgation and implementation of laws are of great benefit, but if it is said that the culture left by the ancestors is completely abandoned, this point I do not agree with, looking at the world's great powers, No country is based on the culture of other countries to become a strong country, no matter which country the great powers, they have their own national culture, many people who have studied abroad come back and complain that they want to introduce the culture of Western countries to replace our old culture, but we don't know that this is exactly the trick of the great powers, if we don't have our own culture, then China is still China?

If it is really a strange skill, why can the great powers use this knowledge to make strong ships and cannons to open the door of the Qing Dynasty, and beat our former Celestial Empire to the ground to find teeth and pay compensation? Former German Chancellor Bismarck once said something that I admired, he said, 'Truth is only within the range of artillery', what do you mean? This means that only within the range of your cannon can be hit, others will reason with you, and where your cannon can't hit, others will not reason with you, what does this mean? It shows the importance of force for a country, and the old-school cultural people say that the strange and ingenious skills can make more powerful warships and more powerful artillery, these things are the direct embodiment of a country's armed forces, without them as a guarantee, even if your cultural people's mouths are worn out, people still won't reason with you, do you think cultural people can really be like Zhuge Liang can scold others to death with a mouth? Even if cultural people have this ability, others will shoot you without waiting for you to speak! (To be continued......) R1292