Chapter 121: Time of Peace (4)
After the Wuchang Uprising, the provinces became independent one after another, the Republic of China began, and the attempt to create a political system officially opened to the stage, and China's political life appeared an unprecedented new atmosphere. This new atmosphere has aroused great political enthusiasm among the people, and has also prompted various political divisions and combinations to express and safeguard the interests of their own strata and interest groups, and political parties have emerged in large numbers. In the more than a year after the Wuchang Uprising, with the convening of the Provisional Senate, the establishment of the Nanjing Provisional Government, and the subsequent election of the first National Assembly, there was an upsurge of party building in China. For a time, the myriad of parties, groups, and political manifestations were dazzling, and a new look unique in history appeared on China's political scene.
The biggest difference between Chinese and British is that British always talk about the weather first when they meet, and the first thing we Chinese say is to eat? Therefore, the title of foodie is well deserved by our descendants of Yan and Huang.
But after all, such a question is still too cheesy, at least people who think they have status will not ask such a question. Recently, the popular way to ask is: "Dare to ask your party is XX?" Are you in the party now? ”
Well, what is this, party members have become synonymous with identity.
In the early years of the Republic of China, the foundation of many political parties was very unsolid, they were divided and merged, and they were born and disappeared, and the political parties and their activities were chaotic and complex, and the cross-party nature was serious, and the content of the party program was empty, the meaning was vague, and it was similar to each other. Moreover, the political parties in the early years of the Republic of China still had the characteristics of loose organization, detachment from the people, and lax party discipline. At that time, all political parties did not pay attention to the building of organizational discipline and were seriously detached from the people, and even from the classes and strata they represented. Most political parties have no grassroots organizations and have little contact with the lower classes. Even the major parties have focused their activities on the upper echelons of society, concentrating on high-ranking officials, celebrities and politicians, and busy with joint battles in Congress. To a certain extent, the so-called political party activities in the early Republic of China were actually the activities of a small number of party leaders. In the political arena of the early Republic of China, the League, which had been fighting for the establishment of a republican form of government for more than a decade and had long been illegal, became an open political party and occupied the center of political power in the Republic of China with the founding of the Republic of China. In the Nanjing Provisional Government, the League was the ruling party, and the majority of the members of the Senate and the Provisional President were members of the League. The "Federation of the Republic of China", which split from the League, united with some people of the constitutional monarchists and reorganized to form the "United League"; The Constitutional Friends Association of the former Senior Government Yuan was reorganized into the "Symposium on the Construction of the Republic" and the "Republican Unification**"; Some of the people of Wuchang Shouyi and the constitutionalists formed the "People's Society". These parties were quite active in the political arena of the time, and they held some seats in the ministries of the central government, or in the Senate, or in the local ** institutions and governments, but in general they were mainly contested by the two major political shilis, the revolutionaries (the League) and the constitutionalists.
Specifically, it can be divided into three major factions. First, the League headed by Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing, and Song Jiaoren, a radical political party belonging to the Kuomintang system, represented the middle and lower strata of the Chinese national bourgeoisie at that time, and most of its members were revolutionaries in the late Qing Dynasty, but there were also a small number of constitutionalists and old bureaucrats and politicians. However, according to the history textbooks, they actively promoted and maintained the bourgeois republican system, emphasized civil rights, opposed zhuanzhi, and openly advertised the purpose of "consolidating the republic and practicing civilian politics", becoming the most progressive Shili in China at that time.
The other faction was a conservative party of the progressive party system headed by Liang Qichao, Tang Hualong, Li Yuanhong, and Sun Wu, representing the upper strata of the Chinese national bourgeoisie at that time, mainly the original constitutionalist faction, whose members included some old bureaucrats, landlords and gentry, and a small number of revolutionary parties, who had economic strength, supported the republican system, emphasized national power, and strongly advocated moderation.
There was also a political faction in the political arena of the early Republic of China, that is, the old bureaucracy of the Beiyang warlords headed by Yuan Shikai. Also according to the history textbooks, this faction of politics has political, economic, and military advantages, and vainly attempts to establish zhuanzhi** rule, and adopts various means to undermine the republican system and party politics, which is the biggest obstacle on the road.
In fact, according to Wang Zhenyu's efforts in combination with his own efforts in the past year in power, the above progress is reactionary, **ah, **ah, all nonsense. All political slogans and political propositions are put forward for a single purpose, to seize power, nothing more.
Although he knew the trend of history and knew that Yuan Shikai would eventually turn his face against the revolutionary party in front of power, and that Mr. Zhongshan, the father of the country, would suffer a big loss, Wang Zhenyu could not do anything about it. He knows very well what kind of person he is, just a small Xiangxi town guard, and even Song Jiaoren, who is trying to pull people into the party, is not willing to spend his time on himself. This is the most haode assessment of his current influence on this era, where to actively participate in politics, it is better to bend down and manage his own one-third of an acre of land.
Therefore, Wang Zhenyu did not meet with Zhang Xueji, the persuasion envoy sent by Song Jiaoren, but entrusted Tian Yingzhao and Yang Wangui to entertain him, and naturally declined the request to join the Kuomintang. Just kidding, who has nothing to do to find a dad for themselves to play with, now I recognize you as a father, this year is the second revolution, I still have to be unlucky with you?
Wang Zhenyu knew that his large-scale development of Xiangxi would not be effective until at least two years later, and before that, no matter whether Yuan Shikai was very evil or not, it would be inappropriate to take the liberty of offending.
However, Wang Zhenyu became interested in political parties, and in the final analysis, it was a matter of legal system. Wang Zhenyu hopes to turn his army into a party army through the means of a political party, so that no matter who orders the dismissal of his post as a town guard, the army will still be his own. Moreover, the effect of controlling the army through ideology is greater than the system building of the army itself, and more importantly, if you do not have a clear political program, why do you let these young people work for you?
But how is this party organized? What kind of party should you form a party?
Wang Zhenyu doesn't want the political party he created to become a new Beiyang warlord, above the country and the nation, and then leave a disaster to future generations, and he will be pointed at and scolded by others. Therefore, this party should not be too small and strong, and it should be relatively loose. But it can't be like the political parties in the United States, which are completely electoral structures that don't meet their current needs for world domination.
After thinking about it, Wang Zhenyu didn't come up with anything famous, Zuihou patted his head, it doesn't matter what type he is, let's put it up first.
The organizational structure is very simple, and it is easy for oneself from later generations to copy a reasonable organization:
He became the chairman of the party, and then set up a Central Executive Committee below, as the highest organ of power of the whole party, and set up a Central Standing Committee to be responsible for daily affairs, and set up several departments such as the Organization Department and the Propaganda Department to be responsible for party affairs. Then set up a military committee, and several backbone members of the army will come in, and this military and political government must also be separated within the party, otherwise if you don't want to play in the future, you can end up. Lest someone use the current framework to engage in **, a handsome man like Wang Zhenyu, it is enough for China to have one.
The matter of forming a party cannot be rushed, and it must be taken in several steps:
The first step is to greet Yang Wangui and Xu Yuanquan, and express his thoughts indirectly, whether he can understand it is one thing, whether he accepts it or not is the key to the problem.
The second step is to organize a preparatory group, and since it is to form a party, it must have a political program and rules and regulations, which cannot be produced in a sentence or two.
The third step is to take the political department of the current Xiangxi Army School as the team, and through a period of time, build this shelf first.
At the same time, for the scope of party affairs, Wang Zhenyu also made a control assumption:
First, it does not involve the judicial system;
Second, focus on the implementation of the military system, including the establishment of party representatives and the development of youth league members;
Third, Party organizations are not set up in the government system, and Party organizations in the education system are not included in the administrative scope.
Fourth, Party organizations should set up reference intelligence departments in their branches in various localities, and set up county party departments and city party offices. The priority is to contact the localities, publicize policies, and recruit party members; Do not interfere directly in local civil affairs.
It's not an easy job, it's a big job.
Wang Zhenyu thought about it for a long time and asked Zhu Cihan to invite Liu Xing, Zhou Wei and Chen Shao to come over. I can use it to do this work at the moment, and I think about it, and these are the only three of them......
In the conference room on the third floor of the administrative building of the town guard's embassy, the four men had already had a meeting all night. Everyone's face was filled with excitement, as if they were doing something very meaningful.
Many years later, Zhou Hui, who had retired to his home, recalled his past with his children and said: "Don't listen to others say that I am a wise general, a lucky general, I have done a meaningful thing in my life, that is, I participated in the formation of this National Socialist Party." Don't look at this party now, but if you don't have this party, there will be no China today......"
Chen Shao also wrote in his diary: "All along, my biggest dream is to abandon my pen and become a general in all directions, but today, this dream has been stifled by the handsome hand." I knew that in fact, he had always regarded me as a civil official, and although the significance of forming a party was very significant, if I had a choice, I hoped that the person in charge of implementing it would not be me. ”
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