"My lord, I'll just tell you what I think. Although Macau has always been China's territory, we cannot ignore the fact that Europeans have ruled Macao for many years. Although this is not recognized by the imperial court, although we can ignore it nominally, we have to pay attention to it concretely. After all, the Portuguese have been in Macao for hundreds of years, and although we have recovered this Macau, it is easy to take it back, but it is not so easy to establish a suitable rule. In particular, although the Chinese have a relatively low status here, they have to be influenced by the Portuguese, and their lives have been biased towards the Western way. So for more than 200 years, they have also lived according to Western habits. Moreover, the judiciary and various customs have also been westernized a lot, so we cannot ignore these things. Especially when we are ready to establish a rule in the future, we have to pay attention to this. If we don't handle it well, then maybe we will have internal problems. When the time comes, it will definitely not be appropriate to treat one's own people, so this is a problem! ”

Li Yuanhong was suddenly surprised: "Amazing, really amazing, the emperor said the same." ”

"Your Majesty, what did the emperor say?" Tian Yang asked.

Li Yuanhong said: "The emperor told us that Macao has been ruled by the Portuguese for many years, and it has not received the king's transformation for many years, so I am afraid that life is close to that of Westerners. So when we take over Macau, we have to take into account that the local people are already close to the Western way of life, and maybe even they will resist our traditional Chinese habits. If we rashly ask them to abandon the way they have lived for more than 200 years, it may cause great turmoil. At that time, I am afraid that we will really fall into a situation where we are not human inside and outside. It is the most troublesome thing that you can't kill them in the same way you treat foreign enemies, but you can completely ignore their demands. ”

"Oh? The emperor said the same thing? Awesome, really amazing, so insightful, no wonder you can build such a big world in just a few years! Tian Yang said.

In fact, Wang Guorui is just based on the experience of later generations, and he is actually only doing this based on the experience of later generations. This is because when the later generations recovered Hong Kong and Macao, they adopted the so-called strategy of one country, two systems, and such a strategy can actually conform to the interests of all parties and the interests of the local people. Although they did not recognize those treaties, they had to take seriously the fact that the local people had lived in the Westernized world for so many years, and it would be a lot of trouble to return hastily.

Therefore, this is to be despised in strategy, but it must also be valued in tactics. Because they are also the people of their own country, when the time comes, the conflict between two thinking, two cultures, and two values may cause great trouble. Even large-scale bloodshed is possible if it is not handled well, so they have to pay attention to this. In fact, the implementation of one country, two systems was also aimed at allowing them to better integrate into each other, avoid their problems, and ease the contradictions between the two sides.

So this is not something that ordinary people can understand, and ordinary people may not be able to know. Even people in this era do not necessarily understand this period, so only some very high-level people can understand it. If Wang Guorui hadn't traveled before, or even had the experience of developing information back then, he probably wouldn't have been able to effectively see these key points. Therefore, Wang Guorui thinks that he can make use of some of it, especially pay attention to some experience. This will definitely be of great benefit to them, and then it can be very convenient in the future.

"The emperor said, we are in Macau, and this is also a freezing three feet not a day's cold. If we want to turn it around, we have to take it slowly. The emperor said that special things can be treated specially, and they cannot be carried out absolutely one-size-fits-all. We intend to set up a special prefecture in Macao, and in principle, the governor of this special prefecture is not directly appointed by our imperial court, but is elected by the local people themselves, but it must be recognized by the central imperial court. And our central court will not completely let it go, but will temporarily overdo it here in the future. Over the next 20 years, we will gradually moderate and transition. In this Macau, except for a few important crimes in the criminal law, everything else can be dealt with according to local customs, but it cannot be contrary to our constitution. ”

"Also, we're going to be going to do it in 20 years. From those important criminal law changes, and then gradually will be changed, and then the local people will adapt. Then, after the transformation of the criminal law, the transition of the civil law will be gradually realized in the future, and it will take 20 years to carry out the transition, and I think this will allow the local people to return to our Chinese family, and will not cause conflicts because of different lifestyles. ”

Wang Guorui actually planned to follow the idea of the later Macao Special Administrative Region, and then set up a special state in this Macao, but this special state did not have the same high status as that of the later Macao. This special state is not the kind of special administrative region of later generations, which is highly autonomous and has great autonomy rights, even compared to the local federal states of some federal countries. In fact, the power of this Macao Special Prefecture is far from being comparable to that of the so-called Macao Special Administrative Region. Not only does the Macau Special Prefecture not have much autonomy, but it will also change gradually, from the criminal law to various methods.

Of course, the reason for such changes is actually because the international situation is different. At that time, in later generations, China's national strength did not have much capital. Although it is possible to recover these Hong Kong and Macao, it cannot have too much strength to transform those Hong Kong and Macao, so some compromises must be made. Moreover, when the local Chinese in Hong Kong and Macao have also increased a lot, because since the Second World War, the control of the colonies by various countries has been much worse, so that the local indigenous "natives" have also begun to rise, and the suzerainty of the colonies has to let some local "natives" join the management in the real sense. Even in the later period, the status of the people of the so-called colonies was almost not much different from the citizens of the suzerain, and the suzerains did not dare to bully those colonies casually.

Under such an international situation, the local "natives" have begun to rise, and they have enough strength and foundation to join in the management. Therefore, the Chinese government at that time had to compromise with the local powerful faction to a certain extent in order to maintain stability. However, World War II had not yet broken out in this time and space, and the power of the colonial overlords had not declined much, and they would not allow the Chinese to participate in the management in the true sense. So their legislators are nothing, and no one has much meaning at all.

However, because of this, the local Chinese faction does not have much strength to resist the central government, as long as the power of those foreign colonists is defeated, those local Chinese can only choose to obey. Without too many powerful Chinese factions, it is impossible for them to have the strength to stand up to the central government. If those indigenous powerhouses rise, then this is the biggest headache for the central government. You can't use violence against such people, and you can't treat them with violence like you do with foreign enemies, so you have to make compromises. This later so-called special administrative region and the promise of 50 years of unchanged talent are in fact nothing less than a compromise with the local local powers.

However, this time and space are different, and the international situation does not allow those local powerful factions to grow, so naturally they cannot achieve development, so they are powerless to resist the central government. So it's easy to clean them up, Wang Guorui doesn't plan to implement it according to the so-called "one country, two systems" of the time, he plans to gradually transform the local area. They do not have the same exalted status as later generations, but only at the state level, and their political status is compared with that of the so-called special administrative regions. Because this Macau and Hong Kong in this era are not enough for Wang Guorui to pay so much attention to, their economic level and various political factors are not too big.

Not so in later generations, as Chinese mainland's economic strength and strength in all aspects have also improved, Hong Kong's status has been replaced by cities such as Shanghai and Shenzhen. The gap in their status is gradually narrowing, and the strategic center will not "spoil" them so much. Only the greater the gap between the two sides, will the more benefits will be spit out. Now that Hong Kong and Macao do not have such strong strength, it is naturally impossible for them to attach so much importance to them.

Tian Yang took the initiative to say: "But if you want to do this, you must choose a suitable person, so that you can not delay the general trend of the imperial court, and let this Macao return in the simplest way." And this person must be loyal enough to the court, and will not be a lackey of those local Portuguese. Only in this way can we ensure loyalty to the imperial court, recognition of us Chinese, and have a lot of prestige in the hearts of the local people, so that we can be competent for such duties. However, such a person is not easy to find! It is not easy to let anyone be the governor of the first Macao Special Prefecture. ”

Li Yuanhong took the initiative to smile and said, "Isn't that far away in the sky, close in front of you?" ”

"You mean me?" Tian Yang was surprised.

Li Yuanhong patted him on the shoulder and said, "That's right, it's you." You've done a lot of good things over the years, so who else can you have? You are a good person and you should be rewarded. If a good person is not rewarded, then what hope is there in this world? (To be continued.) )