At night, the Xinguo Mansion on the side of Di'anmen is lit up, and the dark and endless falling snowflakes fall in front of it, and they are illuminated by the dazzling lights everywhere, as if they have some crystal clear brilliance. Xu Huafeng, who received Yang Rui's call, had no intention of eating, only looking at an idle book in the study, I don't know why, he always felt that tonight was like that night nineteen years ago - that night, Yang Rui, who had just returned to China, went straight to his house to persuade himself to join the revival society and participate in the revolution; And tonight, Yang Rui also came to be a lobbyist, convincing himself to change his position, from revolutionary to non-revolutionary, from a member of the Revival Association to a believer in the state of the state - history is like a reincarnation, turning back after 19 years.

After learning the whole thing, Xu Huafeng thought that all the inducements were to blame Qiu Jin, a woman who knew about it and didn't report it, if it weren't for her selfish thoughts, Yang Rui would never have suddenly pulled everyone to Tonghua for a meeting; And Cai Yuanpei, as long as Yang Rui is not imprisoned, he can't do those things that are angry with people, and the hundreds of thousands of people who died in chaos should be said to be killed by Qiu Jin's selfishness and Cai Yuanpei's imagination.

But what I never expected was that after Yang Rui came back from Shandong, he seemed to be a different person, judging from his performance in recent days, what he originally supported completely became what he opposed; What was originally close suddenly became estranged from him. Xu Huafeng couldn't understand why, according to his assumption, Qiu Jin not only had to quit the Standing Committee like now, but even should be expelled from the meeting; And Xu Guantian of the peasant association, although he made mistakes, should not lose his standing committee qualifications.

He didn't understand what Yang Rui was going to do and where the country should go in the future. As for what civilization and pre-Qin advocated by Zhang Taiyan, he didn't understand it, and he didn't need to understand it. The only thing he understands is that the only reason why foreigners can fight in and show off their might is that their cannon barrels are thicker. Civilization cannot be eaten. You can't even be a gunner. At the beginning of the pre-Qin and Zhou dynasties, the nobles were divided, which was just the dream fantasy of some literati. In this world where guns are king, these things will be annihilated by strong enemies in minutes like the Lu State that performs Zhou rituals......

"Master, the prime minister is here......" Xu Huafeng stared at the book without turning a page at all, and only after the housekeeper reported it, he let out a slight sigh.

"Please come to the study." Xu Huafeng said, and then closed the book gently.

"It's coming......" As soon as Yang Rui appeared at the door, Xu Huafeng just stood up and said hello, and then motioned for tea.

"I wish the third brother a good taste." Yang Rui, who approached, smiled. He had apparently seen the title of the book on his desk - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

"Hehe, it's just an idle book." Xu Huafeng noticed Yang Rui's address to himself, which was a cordial gesture between the two, but he didn't care, he just asked lightly: "I heard that the constitution will be voted on in a few days?" ”

"Yes, in a few days, the government will be closed." Yang Rui obviously understands that this is his side attack, and constitutional revision is a fundamental change in national policy, and it is the first few things to pave the way like the reform of the military system. After he agreed, he didn't want to go around in circles, so he said directly: "I wish the third brother." Originally, I wanted to discuss a lot of things with you, but they were all undecided before......"

"So, today is decided?" Xu Huafeng took a sip of hot tea, he was used to Yang Rui's straight to the point.

"Hmm. It's set. Yang Rui also drank tea, but the tea was so hot that he almost vomited. After swallowing a sip of boiling tea. He endured the discomfort and said: "The mixed element bomb project that Cui Pingchen is responsible for has made progress recently, so ......"

"Hey!" When Xu Huafeng received the laboratory from Wang Jitong in his early years. I knew about the mixed element bomb project, and I also learned about the progress of the project last month - the chemical separation laboratory led by Dr. Liude and Hou Zhiben, a Minhou who has always relied on Yang Rui, actually successfully extracted a few micrograms of the ninety-fourth element plutonium. This is tantamount to opening the door to hybrid technology.

"Actually, the whole country won't bet on the mixed yuan bullet like a bargaining chip, right? This is no child's play! What if it fails?! Xu Huafeng looked at Yang Rui with a wry smile on his face. Although the revival will be able to have today, he believes that it is an unnecessary risk when there is another way.

"It's not going to fail." Yang Rui said firmly, "It's almost time, it's not a thing against the sky." ”

The previous sentence Xu Huafeng understood, but the latter sentence was Yang Rui's self-talk. Before Hahn's discovery of radioactive material and the discovery of a neutron source to bombard uranium nuclei, the entire scientific community was paving the way for atomic fission. It took only seven years from the discovery of nuclear fission to the explosion of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima. However, China's situation is that in 1905 it knew the principle of nuclear fission and the path of developing the atomic bomb, and all it has done in the past 18 years has been personnel and technical preparations, and on this basis, it will take another 12 years to build the atomic bomb, and the whole 30 years is really not a short time, it is almost the same.

"If it fails, it will be the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species!" Xu Huafeng didn't think about Yang Rui's self-talk, he only had one impulse; After he said that, he accused again: "You are gambling!" Once you lose, you will never recover. Besides, even if we build a hybrid bomb, it won't take long for the United States and Russia to build it, so how can you be sure that there won't be a hybrid bomb war when the time comes? ”

I have to admit that what Xu Huafeng said is not unreasonable, which is also one of the hidden worries in Yang Rui's heart. The role of the atomic bomb is deterrence, but without World War II, the United States and Russia may not recognize nuclear blackmail. To a large extent, the Soviet Union was extremely restrained in its subsequent actions because there were too many people killed in World War II; And the United States, since European industry and Japanese industry have been destroyed, and Europe has become its own handmaiden, the whole world except for the Soviet-occupied areas - whether these barren places can afford American goods is still a question - is all its own market, there is really no need to fight another nuclear war, and it is his best choice to tacitly divide the British and French colonies with the Soviet Union.

The communists were made of special materials and had no fear of death; And the Puritans in the United States, since they were able to play a kamikaze attack before Japan in World War II, should not doubt their courage to fight a nuclear war. What kind of people are the most terrible, and those who have faith are the most terrible! It is extremely unfortunate that China, including the Islamic world, is surrounded by these three types of people.

"I wish the third brother, I decided to do this because I think there is still hope for this country." Yang Rui said frankly: "If it's really hopeless. In fact, it is better to solve it, and first use the army to crush the thorns in various places. This can not only kill dissidents, but also make a windfall; Then a strong bureaucratic organization was used to reorganize the people, who had been scattered into sand. The so-called concentration of forces to do great things; Then it is to develop the economy, and come to a prosperous era of Shenwu and Yongle. But in the end? The state will inevitably follow the path of previous dynasties – the state will decay with the corruption of its rulers, and then wait for the next revolution......

No! There will be no more revolutions, just a series of disruptions. When the country is in decline and facing revolution, the foreigners and the Japanese will never let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and the coastal areas will become the client states of the United States and Japan, and the principle of the Northwest Central will become Lanzhoustan, Xi'anstan, and Zhengzhoustan.

Let's let this country grow some grass and trees! Abolish the bureaucracy that penetrates into every village and only exploits only repression, and make room for those who are in the thick of the world. I know they're not good people either, maybe even worse than bureaucrats. Maybe there will be some disgusting ** power, but no matter how hateful it is, it is only for people with foreign surnames, and the clan and sect can live better. When the scattered masses are either all dead or united, the whole country is organized. This kind of organization is from the bottom up, not like the bureaucracy from the top down, and it only holds the country higher and higher, not lower and lower.

Only when such an organization exists and such an organization is strong can there be hope for the country. At that time, the state will only be the vest on the body of these organizations, even if the vest is broken. As long as these organizations exist, we will not exterminate the species......"

Yang Rui wanted to reason with Xu Huafeng, but he was refuted by Xu Huafeng before he started: "It's done, I understand what you said." But do we really have time to get there? ”

"If you don't have time, then find a way to squeeze out time!" Yang Rui's words are categorical. "I wish the third brother, imagine the future! If revival will revive only one dynasty, then after the fall of that dynasty. What is the point of everything we do and the previous dynasties?! And I'm pretty sure that we're going to be the last dynasty in China. Although she doesn't have a dynasty sign, she is! There will be no new dynasty after this dynasty. At that time, China no longer existed, and there would be no more China, and the people would either convert to Islam or Christianity......

Hehe, maybe everyone will be proud of speaking English at that time, college students who can't speak foreign will not be able to graduate at all, and they usually look rustic if they don't mix a few foreign languages; Even if they are children, they start teaching ABCD when they are babbling, and their parents' biggest expectation for them is to immigrate to the United States when they grow up, and then piggyback on themselves, because they always feel that the moon in a foreign country is rounder than China, they hate this country, they will write articles, and swear that they will never be Chinese again in the next life!

Can they be blamed? No! Because it's our generation that messes things up and doesn't get off to a good start. The bureaucracy we have built has caused them injustice, our rule has left them with only the country but not their home, and our repression and attacks have made them scattered, unable to trust each other, let alone unite. When the bureaucracy is completely rotten and can no longer be rebuilt, the country is finished, and the nation is finished.

Sun Wen said that he would first serve the military government, then train the government, and finally the constitutional. If he really follows this model exactly, his constitutionalism will not be better than we are now, it will only be worse. Because the military government will definitely cut off some local people who can support the constitution, this is actually no different from the late Ming Dynasty Emperor Taiji's practice of wantonly searching and killing Confucian students in Liaodong. Why kill? Because these people lived, the Manchus could not control the countryside, and if they could not control the countryside, they would not be able to establish effective rule, and even if they did, it would be superficial; Moreover, these students often rely on their own prestige to unite a group of people against him, and without Confucian students who can unite the people, the people will be scattered, and the people will be given what they want from the full-term people or other rulers.

We now organize and go deep into the countryside, but this is only an iron shackle, and when this rusty shackle is easily broken by the aliens, it does not need much more effort, as long as all the famous people in the countryside are shot, the people will bow down to them and pay tribute; If you put on a show a little and say that you will never raise taxes, or that you are the representative of the most advanced civilization, then the literati will immediately rush to praise them and wash their butts like the ** of the Eight Hutongs. Zhu Third Brother, do you think such a country is really what we want to build? ”

After Yang Rui finished speaking, he looked directly at the contemplative Xu Huafeng, and when he saw that he didn't answer, he said again: "What the Revival Society wants is by no means a great dynasty that is ruined by gold and jade. The Revival wants fearless people who dare to resist tyranny and the invading army! The aristocracy is not the oppressor and exploiter of this country, they are those former Ming Confucian students in Liaodong who were killed and executed by Huang Taiji! Fiefdoms are not even secessionist regimes. It is just a refuge for people who have nowhere to run under the bureaucracy and are chased by inter-provincial patrol police! I wish the third brother, you are right. Time is running out. Since we are too late, then the people after will not even have a chance to be too late......"

Yang Rui kept talking, and Xu Huafeng listened quietly. When he finally said that he was too tired to drink tea, Xu Huafeng finally opened his mouth, and he asked, "Why didn't you say that before?" ”

"Before......" Yang Rui shook his head, he couldn't say that he only used to use this as a strategy game. According to the rules, he will squeeze the last ounce of strength out of the country in order to get the most out of it. As for whether he can hold on to the results after getting the results, that's not something he has to care about. Because by then the game was over. A hundred years later, the bureaucratic decay and the empire collapsed, what does this have to do with him, he is happy, no matter how much the flood is raging after death.

"It used to be before." Yang Rui repeated, "But in Wendeng's green gauze tent, although Nameless has been naughty since he was a child, I am reluctant to let him die; There are also two sons in the family, who are still twins, who were exchanged for Xianfeng's life. I am even more reluctant to let them die; There is also the one in Cheng Ying's belly, everyone says it's a girl, and I like my daughter the most. Think of these people, and think of my grandchildren's grandchildren's grandchildren's granddaughters' granddaughters. If the bureaucracy had decayed to the point of revolution or invasion by foreign enemies, and they had hid in the green gauze tent like me, would you have hated me?

The answer that comes to mind is no. Because the current policy does not change. They didn't realize that the reason why they hid in the green gauze tent was that their grandfather's grandfather used the bureaucratic system to turn the people of the whole country into obedient people. For Shunmin. Whoever is the emperor is the same, anyway, they all pay taxes, anyway, they are represented. They even feel that it is an extremely terrible thing to have no bureaucrats, because without bureaucrats there would be no court, and without the court, the world would be in chaos, and they didn't know that it was those officials who made it impossible for them to have strongmen around them who could protect them. They are, and so are our children and grandchildren, and it's ridiculous and ironic! ”

"Hey!" Xu Huafeng frowned, and said with difficulty after a while: "According to the methods of Uncle Zhang Mei's people, although this country will not become the scattered sand you said, it is still a pile of rubble." What can this pile of broken stones do? It's not as strong as reinforced concrete. Our generation can only make this country into reinforced concrete, and the life span is not long, but it is better than a pile of broken stones.

How long will it take to fuse the broken stones into large stones, or turn them into granite like the West? Also, don't talk about the south, there are really few big clans in the north, and there are many places with a village surname or something, what about those who can't be condensed into broken stones? Watching them be stoned to death? If this is the case, maybe the country will have a full-scale civil strife, and foreign countries will also take the opportunity to intervene. ”

"Those who have ancestral halls enter the clan; If you don't have an ancestral hall, like you said, you will enter the religion, and if you don't rely on either end, then you will be killed. The sand is the obedient people, and even if there are thousands of obedient people, they are only the negative assets of this nation. Their role will only be the same as the Weihai Huayong Battalion that flew the British flag and carried the British gun into the capital during the Gengzi Incident, and the same as the Green Battalion under the Manchurian flag in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, what is there to pity! Yang Rui said disdainfully.

"But you can't guarantee that the stones won't surrender." Xu Huafeng insisted. "They may descend faster, such as the gentry of North China and the gentry of Jiangnan in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties."

"That's right." Yang Rui nodded, he was not afraid of Xu Huafeng's rebuttal, he was afraid that he would not speak. "Then let me ask the third brother Zhu, who is also a Jiangnan gentry, why did they fight against the Taiping Army?"

"Because ......" Xu Huafeng was suddenly asked, and when he paused, Yang Rui took the opportunity to say first, "Because the Manchu Qing Dynasty, like the former Ming Dynasty, the imperial power did not go to the countryside." For these broken stones, the emperor does the same thing, anyway, they all have to pay taxes, and they are all obedient to the people. But what if the Manchus wanted to go deep into the countryside like the Taiping Army?

In fact, this is just like what you just said, they are just broken stones, the countryside is their base, no matter how they kneel and worship to the above, they are still masters when they return to their own one-third of an acre, and they will never allow other forces to interfere in this place, this is the consensus of the gentry in the whole world, and this is also the ultimate reason why they resolutely opposed the peasant association from the beginning.

Broken stones can only look at the countryside, then the big stones can see the prefectures and counties, and the larger stones can be seen in a province. And although the organization established by these people is crude, they are all relatives, the same year, the same clan or something, but in any case, this is better than the bureaucracy. To use an analogy, if the bureaucracy is a rusty iron shackle, then they are living bushes. In the beginning, the shackles triumphed, but the more time passed, the shackles became more and more decaying, and the bushes grew higher and higher and eventually became primeval forests, and by that time, the results were obvious.

Under the iron shackles, except for the sand and bed bugs, the primeval forest is full of jackals, tigers and leopards, and any one released is not something that bed bugs can resist. Look at the Manchu Qing Dynasty, if it weren't for buying foreigners' warships and guns and learning the skills of foreigners, not to mention Portugal and the Netherlands, she wouldn't be able to beat Luxembourg.

I wish the third brother, our generation can not only build reinforced concrete. Since you also know that reinforced concrete doesn't last long, why not take a gamble? Win, weeds become shrubs, shrubs become forests, and China takes on a new look; If it fails, it will be similar to those scraps in the concrete laboratory, it is nothing more than a hundred and eighty years of advance of the end, and what is there to regret. ”

As soon as Yang Rui finished speaking, the table bell rang, and when he listened carefully, it was actually twelve, he rubbed his head and said: "I wish the third brother, now that everyone is united, it's up to you, take a gamble, right?" ”

"Hehe......" From seven o'clock in the evening to twelve o'clock in the evening, Yang Rui spoke for four hours, and he was like a cousin in the concession casino in the Governor's District of Beiting, never stopping to persuade people to bet. Xu Huafeng couldn't help but shake his head, and then finally said: "It's done, you say, or what should I do?" ”

Xu Huafeng's sentence was like a heavenly sound, Yang Rui just wanted to say that his stomach growled, and he smiled bitterly: "Let's serve a bowl of noodles first." ”

"Haha......" Xu Huafeng laughed even more when he heard this, he came back after going out to give instructions but saw that Yang Rui had drunk all the tea, and was still chewing the tea hard, he sat down and said, "Actually, why do I believe what I believe every time you say something?" ”

"Because you're a good person." Yang Rui smiled. After twenty years of getting along, he understands very well that Xu Huafeng is a good-looking person, as long as he gives enough face, and then stalks and gives some steps down, he is good at talking after all.

"So what's next?" Xu Huafeng also drank all the tea, he didn't eat at night, and now he is hungry. "Even if we all work together, will Song Dunchu's side agree?"

"He's got an arrangement, he'll agree. Now there is a plan, and there are two industrial adjustments, one is the layout, and the other is the scale. The layout is roughly adjusted as follows: first, to establish a complete industrial system with Liaodong as the center; The second is to build a complete industrial system with Chengkun, Baocheng and Baoxi, which are the main arteries from south to north and their branches. This industrial system is centered on the two iron and steel plants of Baotou and Panzhihua, and the two oil fields of northern Shaanxi and Yumen. The third is the shipbuilding industry system of coastal ports and from Wuhan to Shanghai in the east.

The above is the layout, since the scale of investment to be reduced, then the industrial construction from Kunming to Baotou will naturally lag behind, and the shipbuilding system along the coastal rivers cannot be established as planned, but the western railway network will still be built within the specified time; Those industrial and mining industries will first do preliminary exploration planning and design, and when the time comes, they will work hard and build them in five years. ”

Yang Rui said it very simply, one, two, three will be done, but Xu Huafeng's brows are deeply wrinkled, thinking that Yang Rui has put the defense line in Kunming, Sichuan, Shaanxi, he was surprised: "Actually, the situation is really that bad?" ”

"Of course it won't be that bad, but we'll just be in case." Yang Rui said seriously. "Cutting the heavy industry that doesn't make much money to invest in the more profitable light industry will naturally reduce the war potential, if the mixed element bomb really can't be scared, then there must be a follow-up move, otherwise how can you feel at ease?" (To be continued.) )