Through the wooden door, listening to the footsteps of the people who came gradually went away, everyone in the room breathed a sigh of relief, I didn't want to wait for Jiang Baili to open the door, there were footsteps in the distance, the sound stopped as soon as it reached the door of the room, and after knocking on the door as usual, a voice said: "Is Brother Jiwu there?" ”

Hearing that he was looking for Tang Hualong, Jiang Baili looked back, only to see Tang Hualong listen carefully and say, "It seems to be my younger brother." ”

The person who came was indeed Tang Hualong's younger brother Tang Qianming, who was the chief of staff of Sa Zhenbing in the former Qing Dynasty, and he led the navy to support Wuchang after the Wuchang Uprising and Sa Zhenbing abandoned the ship and took over the fleet; Now, Sa Zhenbing, who doesn't want to be a second minister, goes home to recuperate, and he still stays in the navy, but he is not on the ship, and has basically become a civilian employee. This is not Tang Qianming alone, but also everyone's acquaintance, Hu Ruilin, the backbone of the Constitutional Protector Party earlier, but he is not an official position in any party now, only a Buddhist layman - Tai generally thinks that Buddhism is pure and has no troubles in the world.

Whether it's Liang Qichao or Tang Hualong, they haven't seen each other for eight or nine years, and after a few people were polite, Tang Hualong asked: "Zhuxin, how is the domestic situation?" How is this day going to change? ”

Although they haven't seen each other for many years, Tang Qianming still has contact with his eldest brother, and this time it was Tang Hualong who called him after arriving in Shanghai - he worked in the Navy Gaochang Temple - and came to the Licha Hotel. Hearing the eldest brother ask about the domestic situation so eagerly, he smiled bitterly and said: "Big brother, Ren Gong, I am only a small person in the navy, how can I know the domestic situation?" The only thing I know is that the Navy's shipbuilding program has been reduced on a large scale, with cruisers being reduced by four or six, destroyers by more than a dozen, and naval schools enrolling students by ...... this year. Oh. By the way, the salaries of officers and non-commissioned officers have been raised by forty percent. It is said that this is the whole army together......"

The Constitutional Protector Party is the national Constitutional Protector Party, and what Tang Hualong and Liang Qichao want to know is what is under the national vision. Hearing Tang Qianming say these things that had been reported a long time ago, Tang Hualong had to interrupt: "Zhuxin, didn't you say that the military system should be changed?" ”

"It's changing." Tang Qianming was a little stupid, "But it's just the Lu family building an army in the province." It's just that there are a lot of officers and soldiers in Zhejiang, Northeast China, and Shandong provinces, so these people are still retained, and when these people retire, the provincial army will be the real provincial army. The navy and air force have not changed much, but I heard that the provinces with money can also buy planes in the name of the army air force, and I think that only Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Liao provinces have this financial resources. Don't talk about a town in other provinces, I'm afraid that I don't even want to raise a brigade.

Today's army is not the new army of the previous dynasty, in the past, 1.5 million yuan a year could raise a town, but now a town people eat horses and chew, and they can't get down without 4 million, this is only infantry, I heard that the armored town costs 4 million yuan a year for training, and the whole year is calculated in a mess, at least 8 million. Nine armored divisions were seventy or eighty million ...... a year"

Seeing that his younger brother still couldn't get to the point, Tang Hualong smiled bitterly and had to let nature go, and only after he finally finished speaking, did he ask again: "Then what is the military budget set by the Inspectorate last year?" ”

"It was 240 million. But it's likely that there will be more than that. Tang Qianming glanced at his brother, and then at Liang Qichao and the others.

"So little?!" These people don't understand military affairs, but Jiang Baili does. "Japan's navy alone costs more than 200 million yen a year."

"You know it's Japan. There are many people and rudders. Tang Qianming said with a smile, "Our navy's military expenditure is only 70 million a year, excluding the construction of ships. Even if the salary is raised by 40%, it is still several times worse than theirs. In the past, there were still people who were worried that there would be too many ships to be built, and not so many people would open them, since the Japanese Navy was disarmed. Is it possible to ask someone from them to come and drive? But we can't afford to pay them. ”

"How has Brother Zihu been all these years?" Tang Qianming was only talking about military affairs, and Liang Qichao asked Hu Ruilin, who came with him, after he finished speaking.

"I'm tired and worried, and I've been very clean all these years. In the early years, few of those party members came to me. Hu Ruilin adjusted slowly, his voice was extremely gentle, and there was a smell of fireworks in the world.

"What about Master Y? I heard that because of the miracles, there are many believers in the country today. Liang Qichao said again.

"That's true. The world says that Master Y is the reincarnation of Nyolai, who is not immersed in water and fire, and the lower realm is to purify all sentient beings. Hu Ruilin said.

"Now that this monk has such a great influence, why hasn't the Revival Society suppressed it? On the contrary, they are happy to see it come to fruition, can it be said that Yang actually believes in Buddhism? Liang Qichao asked again, but after saying that, he thought of a murderous person who believed in Buddhism, and felt that it was a fantasy.

"That's ...... I don't know. Hu Ruilin's voice was a little unnatural, and Liang Qichao went to rest after chatting with them for a few words.

From Tang Qianming came in, Tang Hualong felt wrong, and when Liang Qichao went to the rest room, there were only three people left, and he said with some blame: "Zhuxin, are you hiding something from me?" ”

Tang Qianming can not be separated from the eldest brother today, at this time, seeing that the eldest brother blamed, and seeing that the door of the room was closed, he whispered: "Brother, don't blame!" The domestic situation is that the Revival Association is still covering the sky, and now the gentry in all provinces have been pulled over by them, and if Ren Gong wants to make something happen again, he will simply fall into the net. ”

"Is that so?" Tang Hualong looked at his younger brother suspiciously, very puzzled.

"Of course it is." Tang Qianming said. "Nowadays, there are rumors that the land that was collected at a land price of two or three percent in the past few years will be fully compensated in the next few years, and everyone is crazy! Zhang Jian, Tang Shouqian, Liang Jishan, and Zhou Zhaoyuan all voted for the Fuxing Society......"

Zhang Jian and Tang Shouqian don't forget it, but Liang Jishan and Zhou Zhaoyuan, one in Shanxi and one in Hubei, are both the leaders of the former Qing Consultative Bureau, and they are the backbone of the Constitutional Protection Party. Tang Hualong pinched a handful of sweat in his heart, and he shook his head and said, "How is it possible?" How can it be? We ......, Ren Gong and I just got off the plane, and Yang actually sent someone to send a ticket to invite Ren Gong to Beijing to meet, isn't this exactly what he wants to ......?"

Yang Jingcheng has been looking for people to meet across the country for the past six months, saying that he wants to listen to the world. Ren Gong is a great talent, so he naturally wants to invite him to Beijing for a meeting, but what does this have to do with the Constitutional Protection Party? Tang Qianming didn't speak, this time it was Hu Ruilin who answered. I think it should be that Yang Jingcheng has no idea how to set the national policy in the future, and he wants to ask the world.

Jiwu, if you didn't leave back then. Staying and going to Dali Temple for trial, this constitutional party can be revived today. But you were afraid that you would be imprisoned, and this time it was eight or nine years. The hearts of the people have long been scattered. Now that the Revival Society has obviously changed its direction and begun to unite the gentry in the provinces, not to mention that the provinces of the prefecture and county are very autonomous, doesn't this mean that they will give up power to the gentry? Not to mention whether the land price is compensated or not, the autonomy alone can make the gentry in the provinces smile. In my opinion, there is no hope for this Constitutional Protectorate. ”

Hu Ruilin is an honest man, after everyone fled Shanghai, he did not avoid it, did not go away, and Tang Hualong, who said this, was even more disappointed, he grabbed the last straw and said: "But land reform is what the revival will push hard." Now what compensation does he get, isn't that a slap in the face? Brother Ziwat, this is not child's play. ”

"Land reform is indeed pushed by the Reconstruction Association, but why can't he mention full compensation? The country didn't have money before, but now the country has money. Hu Ruilin said. Besides, judging from this matter at the moment, it should not be revived to mention it by itself, it is likely that the Trinity Sect will come forward to mention it, that is, Master Y will come forward to mention it. ”

"What!" I heard that it was Master Y. Tang Hualong shouted like a ghost, "How is this possible!!" ”

"How is this impossible?" Hu Ruilin was originally a layman, and he was half a Buddhist, so he naturally knew things that ordinary people didn't know. "Started at the beginning of this year. The gentry began to enter the Trinity Church on a large scale, and the Jade Emperor Temple, Buddhist Temple, and Taoist Temple were changing the Trinity Ancestral Hall, and this wind was from north to south. I'm afraid that it won't take a few years to scrape all over the country. Today, the most talked about case in Trinity is the case of land compensation: the government forcibly seizing people's wealth. Whatever the reasoning is, it is contrary to the Shari'ah. I don't think this year or next year, Master Y will definitely lead the believers to submit a petition to the Inspectorate. Demand that the government fully compensate the landlords for their losses in the past......"

"Then Master Y is not a monk?" Tang Hualong had only heard Master Y before, and now he knew that there was a Trinity Sect when he listened carefully. "What kind of sect is this Trinity, is it also Buddhism?"

"Trinity Religion is the Ming Jiajing period of the Min Lin Zhaoen created, so far has been 374 years, its teaching fusion Buddhism, Buddhism and Taoism three long, to the interpretation of the main. At the Buddha meeting on the eighth day of the eighth lunar month last year, Master Y suddenly went crazy, and then sat on the 7749th day of the pass, only to know that his previous life was the reincarnation of Lin Zhaoen 300 years ago, and he also knew that in this life he was in accordance with the decree of the Buddha to enter the Buddha, and then to relieve the ordinary sentient beings, so that the king of Mingmin, the re-sacrifice of the forest saint, the great revival of the Trinity ......"

What sounded extremely bizarre to Tang Hualong was said by Hu Ruilin. After listening to it with trepidation, he said: "This means that most of the former members of the Constitutional Protector Party have joined... Went to this Trinity Church? ”

"Exactly." Hu Ruilin said. "In the past, most of the scholars were shocking and far away from ghosts and gods, and most of them did not believe in Buddhism, even if Master Y was famous all over the world, he only respected and stayed away; Now Master Y has changed to Trinity, and the scholars have all joined Trinity. ”

"Then the Revival will watch them pile up sand into towers? Don't interfere in any way? Tang Hualong said again, feeling that there must be a conspiracy in it.

"I heard that Yang Jingcheng also entered the Trinity Sect!" Hu Ruilin's words made Tang Hualong almost collapse, and at this point, he knew that the Constitutional Protector Party was completely finished. What do you say to enter the Suspect's Institute, I am afraid that these people can only hide in a certain alley in Shanghai Beach to run a newspaper, then Yang Du called himself back and really didn't know what kind of heart Ande!

When Hu Ruilin in Shanghai said that Yang Jingcheng had also entered the Trinity Sect, Yang Rui, who had been hiding here for several months, was suffering in the Zhongguangguan Mansion in the capital. At this time, he knew what it was like to be cocooned and self-bound, and the matter between himself and Lu Xiaoman was full of wind and rain and was known to the whole country, but according to the existing laws and moral constraints, there were few things he could do: proposing relatives and marrying concubines, which was not allowed by law; **Outer room, moral precepts do not allow.

The reason why this is so is obviously because of some aristocracy, so as to trap himself to death. This had to remind him of the good things he had before - he could not only represent the people with full powers, but also manipulate the people's wives and daughters at will, and the people would be grateful to themselves after doing it; If someone doesn't have a long-term eye to oppose men and women messing around, a hat of feudal autocracy and hindering personal freedom can be buttoned up, and they can be scared on the spot! But now, virtue, reputation, and precepts, these few articles alone make him shrink his hands and feet, and he is really self-inflicted, cocooned, and self-defeating......

"It can be done, things can't be delayed." Looking at Yang Rui with a sad face, Zhong Guangguan didn't know why he wanted to laugh so much. Since he met Yang Rui, he has found that he doesn't quite understand Yang Rui's logic in the matter of men and women, sometimes he is pure-hearted and has few desires, and sometimes he is lustful. This time he got along with a woman, which was both unexpected and reasonable.

"What if you don't put it off?" Yang Rui is still not happy. "Is it abnormal for a man to have three wives and four concubines?"

"Huh. It turned out that it was normal to have three wives and four concubines. You can't steal it. Zhong Guangguan was laughing.

Hearing Zhong Guangguan laughing, Yang Rui became more and more depressed. He shouted a few words, and the more he shouted, the more angry he felt. No matter how you can be called the father of the nation, even if you are not the father of the country, you are the pioneer of the revolution, but what about women! What about women?! Including that dog day spy, I've only played three of them, what a loss!! This is not as good as the corrupt officials of later generations - which one is not a couple of mistresses!

"Don't shout." Zhong Guangguan restrained his smile, "You better go home and admit your mistake to Cheng Ying, I'll help you find someone to go to Lu's house to talk about, this matter is still private." ”

"That's not going to work!" Yang Rui objected. "My rule for women is not to move, not to move. If you move, no one else will be allowed to move again. I've already moved that woman, so what if it's private? Do you want to disgust me when you see her marry another man in the future? I can't stand it! ”

"But there's no other way now!" Zhong Guangguan understood his thoughts, strongmen have always been like this, "The marriage law stipulates monogamy, if you can marry a few years ago, it would be fine, but now the time to marry a concubine is too early, you are unmarried and ......, and if you catch it, it is a ready-made crime of weathering." It doesn't matter how many women you have. We don't care, but if you go to jail for a few years for the crime of decency, then what?! When the time comes, the Kuomintang side, the mouth cannon party, this... That's a lot of money! ”

"There's always a way." Yang Rui originally stood up. Now it's a butt to sit down. He suddenly complained to himself: "I was really blind to get Qiu Xuanqing to the Standing Committee, how could things be like this without her!" ”

Zhong Guangguan didn't know what Yang Rui was complaining about Qiu Jin, he thought he was complaining about the aristocracy. only said: "If you don't let Xuanqing enter the Standing Committee, it is rare to let Zixun enter the Standing Committee?" Is the country going to become a democratic republic? ”

"You!" Yang Rui glared at Zhong Guangguan angrily, he obviously didn't mean that. Just now complaining that Qiu Jin was just targeting monogamy, he said with some anger: "Unless I die." Otherwise, this country will not think about democracy! After he finished speaking, he still felt that he could not express his hatred for democracy and freedom, and gritted his teeth again and said: "Even if the country becomes the Soviet Union, it must not become the United States!" What the hell! Those penny cannons will one day catch them all, and then sink them all into the Mariana Trench to plant sea roots! ”

"Actually, you ......" pulled out Yang Rui's killing intent, Zhong Guangguan was very inexplicable, he had to remind: "We have the law, aren't you sabotaging the rule of law like this?" ”

"What if there is a law?" Yang Rui's heart is full of evil, "The law also needs to be revised, and when the time comes, it will naturally be that someone will stand up and pay for one life, or one life for dozens of lives, which is completely within the scope of the law." How does this undermine the rule of law? Is it true that there can be no murderers in the rule of law? It's more! ”

Yang Rui is more and more outrageous, Zhong Guangguan really couldn't listen to it anymore, he had to say: "Okay, okay, I won't force you to go home." Don't say such things, it's really not good to spread it. ”

"Nothing bad, how happy do you see those bastards now?" Yang Rui was hysterical, and he couldn't figure out how to talk about these things. "Democracy, freedom, republicanism, the whole family dozens! Before I die, I must chop them up one by one and feed them to the dogs, so that future generations can be clean for decades! ”

"It's ......" Zhong Guangguan really couldn't stand it, he pointed at Yang Rui and stopped talking, so that he could dissipate his anger. Seeing Yang Rui finish smoking two cigarettes in the cold field, he asked tentatively: "The Democratic Republic is so bad?" ”

"A democratic republic is suicide, and it is a knife to the palace!" Yang Rui was extremely sure, "Those who advocate this kind of thinking catch one and shoot one, and catch one and kill another." The reason why I want to hide from you now is precisely because I don't want to do anything harmful to the democratic republic! Originally, it was enough to represent the people, and they only deserved to be represented. It's good now, what kind of aristocracy, okay, the people can't be represented, and they can't tie themselves up tightly, and they can't play with a woman. I know it's for the good of the country, for the nation, for everyone, for myself, but ......, it's a bag!

…… If this country wants to survive, there can only be two choices, one is the previous set, the government controls the villages, the militia patrols the households, controls everywhere, and ignores the people at all times, so that the country has strength. But some people say that this will not work, because the peasant union cadres have caused great harm to the people, and the officials and soldiers are corrupt and smuggled, and it will not be long before they will become the same as the Manchu Qing Dynasty, completely rotten from top to bottom.

Good! Then let's change the set. On the other hand, starting from the rural clan religion, its power should be controlled all the way to the Inspectorate, and even to the Prime Minister's Office, the Taiwei Mansion, and the Tingwei Mansion. This is also possible, although it is not as easy as before, and it must take years to develop a control system, but now? Those who refute the original set say that this is superstition, backwardness, or something, and that the final result is that China will become India, which is really ......

Those people are just thinking anyway, and if they are not like their own father, the United States, they are evil, and if they do not advocate freedom and democracy, they are heretics, and if they are backward, they must be overthrown. I don't know at all that no matter what form of government the state adopts, it must first unite everyone, and that the bureaucracy is a coercive and rapid unity; Religious clans are spontaneous and highly elastic unity, and both methods can unite more than 500 million people in the country, although the latter method is less effective, but since we do not plan to open up territory and seize any more colonies, it is still more than enough to defend it.

A woman can't play, am I not a victim? Yang Rui's anger dissipated most of the anger in his heart at this time, and he began to simply complain to Zhong Guangguan about the current situation, "Brother Xian, don't force me to go home, you help me find a way." ”

"I can't help it." Yang Rui Zhong Guangguan has been listening to this for a few months, and he is very helpless, "Unless the marriage law is changed." But if you really want to change the marriage law for the sake of you as a woman, isn't this a child's play with the Court of Doubts and the Law? There's really no way around this, unless you divorce Cheng Ying. But ...... divorce, are you really willing? ”

"Of course not." Yang Rui shook his head, Cheng Ying is not ugly, and other men will not be disgusted with him in the future after getting married. Besides, the two also gave birth to two children, who will the divorced children belong to?

"Then send that Lu Mei away." The problem came back again, Zhong Guangguan said, "It's really not a way to drag it down, if you don't go home, what kind of system will you hide here with me every day?" ”

"That won't do! My rule for women is that if they don't move, they won't move, and if they do, they won't allow others to move again. Yang Rui repeated again, and his head was already starting to feel a little dizzy.

"What then?" Zhong Guangguan asked again.

"I don't know, but I'll always think of a way." Yang Rui stroked his forehead, he was already weak.

"Don't talk about that." Yang Rui was dizzy, Zhong Guangguan was also dizzy, and he turned to say: "I heard that Sun Wen died in Germany?" ”

"Hmm. It seems to be. Yang Rui didn't care, "I originally watched him revolutionize for so many years, and wanted to give him a step down, since he didn't appreciate it by holding on to his face, and drank Chinese medicine to despise Huaxia, then forget it, just bury it in Germany." ”

"And what about the people below him?" Zhong Guangguan said, "Will it disperse?" ”

"I don't know, maybe I will, maybe I won't." Yang Rui said. "But these people, including those who are anarchic, are no longer people we should be wary of. Not surprisingly, Soviet Russia would be taken over by Stalin, and his favorite thing to do was to shoot the Bolsheviks who betrayed other countries. After Japan made friends with us, it just sent Sun Wenli out of the country, but Stalin would not do this, either by shooting him or by having an air crash, he would not be soft anyway. ”

"What about Liang Qichao's people?" Zhong Guangguan asked this person rarely. "The Constitutional Protectorate also had some influence in Paris."

"Liang Qichao has returned to Shanghai." Yang Rui said, "As soon as he comes back, I will ask people to invite him, although this person's position is erratic, but he knows everything a little fur, and there will still be some benefits from chatting." ”

"You're back?" Zhong Guangguan was a little surprised.

"Some of them have looked for Yang Du, and Yang Du, who is not afraid of chaos in the world, suggested that they come back." Yang Rui smiled: "But when they come back, they will find that they can't catch a single hair, so let's continue to run their newspaper." ”

"But their Liberty newspaper also advocates freedom and democracy?" Zhong Guang said.

"After that, we will sink into the trench together, or we can feed the dogs." Yang Rui said. "In fact, according to their system, it is really harmful. A country's political system must conform to the country's traditions, so that the power is not distorted, and the upper and lower classes are not divided and not divergent. Installing Ford's engine and body on the Audi chassis resulted in a car that could not be driven at all after it was finished, and the parts fell down as soon as it was opened, and the car would fall apart if it was faster. Of course, these Westernized elements can't see it, and they don't care, anyway, as long as they are different from the American daddy, they are backward and heretical. (To be continued.) )