Chapter 216 is the most solid foundation

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The bow of the ship cut through the water and slowly moved north at a speed of ten knots ().

The political entanglements at the beginning of 1913 began to gradually dissipate like a cold wind, but Yang Qiu, who was standing on the deck, still felt a chill (). It's an indescribable feeling, what is it like to be a person who once had countless halos to fall down in front of him?

Readily?

No, only uneasiness from within.

Murong Han and Gu Weijun walked to the side together: "President Li sent a telegram that Mr. Keqiang has resigned from all positions in the government and the Kuomintang and returned to Hong Kong to recuperate. Sun also asked President Li to tell you that he and Mrs. Da Yuexun will hold a new wedding in Hong Kong at the end of next month, and invite you to attend. Mr. Zhang Shizhao has been announced as the new chairman of the KMT in Shanghai, succeeding the two men. ”

"I saved a woman, but I ruined a faith." Yang Qiu turned his head, his eyes were a little sloppy: "Haoyu, Shaochuan (Gu Weijun's character is also Shaochuan), do you think I did something wrong?" ”

The two didn't understand how Yang Qiu could suddenly become sentimental, Gu Weijun shook his head: "During the tenure of John Adams, the second president of the United States, in the face of French blackmail and pro-French forces at home, he took the initiative to go to war without declaring war, and arrested a large number of pro-French rebels and threw them into prison without trial. Later, a reporter asked him why he did this, do you know how he answered? He asked himself: "He said, either I will become an American sinner or let the United States be truly independent, I have no choice." ”

"At the time, he was called a tyrant by many Americans, a warmonger, but now Americans call him an independent giant." Murong Han also knew this history, and said: "Actually, if you think about it the other way, vice president, if you are in a weak position, I am afraid that they will be more ruthless than you, just like they did with Mr. Song." ”

"Personally, I think that you are not destroying the faith, but helping the Kuomintang. Compared with us, they are too chaotic internally, and the gang-like management model can no longer adapt to the trend of the times, and in the eyes of Europe and the United States, they are not even comparable to the Indian parties. Gu Weijun walked to the side, holding the railing with both hands and looking faintly: "After this heavy blow, it is only a matter of time before the veterans of the Kuomintang fade, and there will definitely be a major adjustment internally, maybe they will hate you, but the resignation of the older generation will give birth to more new forces, and the voice suppressed by fanaticism will gradually become louder, maybe it will take a while, but I believe that if they can mature, they will still be the biggest opponent of the National Society." ”

"Doesn't Shaochuan think they're going to be in a state of collapse from now on?" Yang Qiu asked.

Gu Weijun shook his head very firmly: "Unless someone suppresses it, it won't!" And I'm convinced. ”

Yang Qiu was a little curious and asked, "Why?" ”

Gu Weijun said confidently: "I won't hide it from you, before returning to China, I considered the issue of the national system, and I also wrote a paper on it. It seems to me that when the soil of the emperor disappears, the seeds of the republic do not immediately emerge, because people have become accustomed to having a piece of heaven over their heads, not to say how good it is, but to the inertia of humanity itself. That's why Yuan Shikai was so sought after before, because the people were afraid in their hearts that freedom would break all the rules and trample on our traditions and culture, and they needed to find a strong person to fill the void. ”

Yang Qiu looked at him curiously, as a guest of later generations, he was very clear about these theories, but it was the first time he heard from the people of this era, and he was also a young man who had long accepted the idea of freedom in the United States, and asked curiously: "Isn't Shaochuan afraid of a dictatorship on this?" ”

"Afraid! So I think you can weaken the current so-called bigwigs of the KMT, but please keep the core and let them run it slowly, so that in ten or twenty years they will definitely come back, because people think! When the people are tired of strongman politics, even if they live a good life, they will think about whether it would be better if they chose another one, which is like eating dragon liver and phoenix brain every day, and one day it will be boring. ”

"I don't think there's anything wrong with dictatorship." Before Yang Qiu could continue to ask, Murong Han suddenly interjected: "We are a weak country and a poor country, with a large population and scarce arable land, and the country's resources have long ceased to be abundant after thousands of years of consumption. We have missed it, we have been reduced to semi-colonies, and even Tibet, Mongolia and Xinjiang dare to deliberately split, just because there are too many internal disputes and noises! We cannot expect that the European and American powers will have mercy, and Japan will not be willing to see a strong China, because Asia cannot accommodate two world powers! So I think we should learn from the Second Empire, speak with one voice, concentrate resources and forces to do something big, and use blood and steel to make a sky under the sun! ”

"Haoyu is extreme, I know you like Germany, and I also admit that the early centralization of power allowed the country to concentrate ()! Our generation can do this, and even the second generation can accept it, but what about the third generation? What about the fourth generation? It will end one day, and it is better to let go of it sooner rather than be miserable at that time. Besides, don't you think that will create more ** and social problems? It's like clearing the house, and in the end, even the military power is lost! Gu Weijun looked at his friend's gaze and continued: "It is true that a short period of time can promote the maximum increase in productivity, but what about the future? Lack of restraint resources will gradually concentrate in the hands of a small group of people, and the people will not enjoy good welfare? ”

Murong Han insisted on his own view and said: "Legislation can be enacted, as long as the whole country knows that the law is above everything and above power, then it can be solved." ”

"What about the one who drafted the law? Who will oversee the neutrality of the law? ”

Looking at the two young people who had a good personal relationship arguing with each other, Yang Qiu felt a lot more relaxed, his thoughts transcended national borders, these things they are talking about now have actually been discussed countless times in Europe, and as they both agree, at least for now, only one voice is needed, and no one can predict it in the future. So he smiled casually: "Go to work, you guys have discussed it too early, we haven't completed the reunification of the country yet." ”

As the two men said, the wake of the abrupt defection of the KMT at the top of the Provisional Diet triggered a violent upheaval in the middle and lower classes, with KMT newspapers and reporters questioning every day and countless people speculating about what happened that day. Due to the almost total annihilation of the Kuomintang in this round of political games, many ordinary people who had been absorbed by Song Jiaoren before, thinking that the party was like the White Lotus Sect and the Red Lantern Society, began to withdraw if they joined it.

As Mr. Sun, Huang Keqiang, Tan Renfeng and others have fled to their homes, and the veteran layer of the Kuomintang has begun to fade, a large number of miscellaneous people have withdrawn, but some young people have been drawn out and gradually become a new force.

However, in this ** adjustment, the Kuomintang also suffered heavy losses, and those lawmakers who were grassy saw that the decline of the Kuomintang was inevitable, and they withdrew and joined the Kuomintang Socialist Party, and Yan Xishan and other real power factions announced for the first time that they would withdraw and switch to the arms of the Kuomintang Society, even in the war. Since Yang Qiu formulated strict and meticulous organizational regulations and drafts in accordance with the modern model of later generations at the beginning of the establishment of the Kuomintang, had his own goals and programs, and attached great importance to young people and technology, in the rural areas, because of the implementation of the policy of benefiting farmers after taking power, his influence spread to every corner of the country, and in just a few months, the Kuomintang suddenly achieved the goal of controlling eighty percent of the seats in the National Assembly.

For Yang Qiu, this number means that he has done what both Yuan Shikai and Song Jiaoren wanted to do, but did not accomplish, to consolidate his position with party affiliation, and to avoid the constraints of the parliamentary system to the greatest extent.

After careful consideration, he finally accepted Gu Weijun's suggestion and did not move the remaining 20% of the seats, although competition and suppression still existed, but the scale and intensity were considered to be artificially suppressed a lot. As for the remaining two parties, it will be a long road for them to regain 31 percent of the seats when the media is extremely underdeveloped, and the people only look at who has benefited them and who has led them out of poverty.

But after all, it leaves the seeds for the future.

On March 20, Yang Qiu, who had returned to Wuchang, sent letters to Zhang Jizhi and Zhang Shizhao, respectively, proposing the idea of a three-party system and suggesting that the National Assembly immediately draw up a draft and pass it into legislation.

This legislation surprised the two, because in just a dozen days, most of the parliamentarians who belonged to them switched to the National Society, so that they were all ready to be annexed or slowly die, but now with this law, it means that as long as the Republic of China exists, there will only be at most three parties participating in the competition for ruling power in the future. The Kuomintang and the Republican Party will become the main structure of the country for a long time to come, just like the two-party system in the United States, where the struggle is nothing more than the ruling power.

This is an absolutely unfair party protection bill, because in this way, if the other parties want to get the right to run, they must squeeze out one of them, but the problem is that these three have a strong foundation, needless to say, the rise of the National Socialist Party is short, but the management model is advanced, the organization is tight, the development path of the combination of elites and civilians, the strong support of the industrial and commercial system, and the financial transfusion of a large number of national business families born later, so that it is destined to be a monopoly in the next few decades.

Although the Kuomintang was defeated, its influence is still not small, and the elite has become down-to-earth, and even Yang Qiu knows that they will slowly recover one day, while the conservative Republican Party is all Jiangnan gentry, although these people have a vague concept of party affiliation, but they have a lot of influence in the southeast, so the other parties in the country will either gain strong support overnight and squeeze out any of the three, or they will be permanently blocked out of the ruling circle ().

Is it still necessary for a party that will not be able to take power for the rest of its life? Therefore, many newspapers and liberal commentators believe that this is a regression of the republic, accusing the three parties of taking advantage of the first hand to suppress the weak, but the three are not fools, and this kind of draft is undoubtedly their protection, so the three parties that have completed the control of all seats in the provisional parliament passed the draft and formally enacted the law as soon as possible.

The impact of a series of political earthquakes and transactions in just half a month is far-reaching, and it can even be said that it has laid a solid foundation for the future of the Republic of China, and in this series of operations, not only the country, but even the whole world has seen that the young man in the Far East is skilled and even surpasses the times, which has greatly changed the world's view of the political construction of the Far East like a child's play.

The famous New York Times even used the words "great change" to describe this dizzying string of political changes, and even the harsh and arrogant British government believed that Yang Qiu had achieved the goal of controlling the government and parliament while using despicable conspiracies and means to defeat political opponents, and at the same time laid a solid political foundation for the country.

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PS: This paragraph of politics has finally been written, and I know that many people don't like this paragraph, but in that era, only by completely suppressing all the strongmen and passing the three-party legislation in a high-pressure mode could the foundation of the republic be truly laid, and it would not affect the need for dictatorship in the early days. Because from a historical point of view, I can't imagine that the KMT can bypass politics and build the country smoothly with the existence of the KMT, and this is a solution to the Republic of China that is more in line with Confucianism in Hippo's mind than a complete dictatorship that uses force to kill them all. So whether it is a conspiracy, despicable, or even shameless, Yang Qiu must do it.

Of course, this is just the personal opinion of the hippopotamus......

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