Chapter 841: A traitor for one day, a ghost for life (medium)
Wang Guorui looked at these people and snorted coldly: "Since you help the Japanese to do things, then don't blame me for being unkind." Send them to the court, and dispose of them according to the law! ”
Hearing this, those traitors also felt their faces turn blue, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed.
"Your Majesty, we are also forced!" "Your Majesty, we are also forced, we are also forced!" "If we hadn't been threatened by the Japanese, and we helped them do things during the Puppet Qing Dynasty, we wouldn't have been like this!" "Yes! Your Majesty, we are also here to overthrow the pseudo-Qing! When we help the Japanese to do things, we also help overthrow the pseudo-Qing Dynasty! ”……
These traitors, one by one, actually said that they helped the Japanese at that time, hoping to help overthrow the Manchus. They thought that they might be able to survive by doing so, because Wang Guorui did not recognize the Manchus as the legitimate Chinese government and dynasty, which made them seem to have found a reason to help the Japanese in order to overthrow the puppet Qing dynasty. They seem to think that in this way, they can also get a reason for "political correctness". Because they thought that Wang Guorui did not recognize the Manchus, it meant that they could be exonerated for it.
However, Wang Guorui sneered and said, "Okay, you still have such an excuse? I tell you, go and talk to the Han people who have died, and see if they are willing to forgive you. ”
Wang Guorui obviously doesn't take this reason seriously, what kind of broken reason is this, helping the Japanese to fight the Manchu Qing Dynasty, not only innocent but also meritorious? Bullshit reason! Although Wang Guorui does not admit in the history books that the so-called Manchu Qing is the legitimate government of China, in fact this is just a political means, just a so-called political means, a political means of repaying debts and a means of improving the nature of justice for himself. In fact, no matter how bad the Manchu Qing is, it has ruled China for more than 200 years, and it is impossible to ignore the past in these 200 years. In fact, even if Wang Guorui plays tricks. But in fact, it is only political, and the people will not approve of it.
In the people, it is still believed that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was actually a dynasty in China, even if Wang Guorui did not reward those who resisted foreign invasion during the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and built martyrs' cemeteries for them as appropriate? In fact, this is nothing more than a political measure, not to mention that the people do not recognize it. Even Wang Guorui actually regarded the Manchu Qing Dynasty as a historical dynasty. It is impossible to ignore the past casually for more than 200 years, so even if the name of a dynasty is destroyed, it is actually a dynasty.
And the Manchu Qing in this era in the hearts of the vast majority of Chinese is actually a legitimate government, so help the Japanese to fight the Manchu Qing? This reason has to be said to be really ridiculous, even Wang Guorui can't get over it! Don't look at the many people who scold the Manchus, but if foreigners come to fight the Manchus, the vast majority of people still support the Manchu government in their hearts. No matter how angry the later generations were, no matter how much they resented the Manchus, they were on the position of the Manchus and foreigners going to war. However, the vast majority of them supported the Manchu side, and they were all inclined to sympathize with the Manchu side, even Wang Guorui was no exception.
But these guys are really good, they actually think that helping the Japanese to fight the Manchus is to overthrow the Manchu regime? This reason is also ridiculous.
"Okay, do you want to help the Japanese defeat the Manchus, and then let the Japanese enter China?" Wang Guorui asked.
"Your Majesty, we are also ......"
"Alright. Don't say it, take them to the court. I think the evidence is solid, and there will be nothing more to say. Wang Guorui said very politely.
Looking at these traitors, they also feel disgusted. These traitors betrayed their motherland, betrayed their compatriots, and used the blood of their compatriots to stain their heads red to earn money. But now they have all been abandoned by foreign devils. After the motherland became strong, they could no longer claim to be Chinese with peace of mind, because the wealth and official hats they had earned by selling the blood of their compatriots had disappeared. But they were unable to gain forgiveness from their relatives, friends, and compatriots again.
"There are people who are alive, but they are dead. Some died. But he was still alive. Wang Guorui finally said.
Hu Ling, who was next to him, immediately said with a sycophant: "Your Majesty, this is incisive!" ”
"Yes! In a hundred years of life, how can there be immortality? Sima Qian also said that death is heavier than Mount Tai and life is lighter than feathers. In this way, they are alive and dead. However, in order to make a living, they slandered those martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country and the nation, so I have no possibility of bypassing them! Wang Guorui said.
Although Wang Guorui did not recognize the Manchu regime, he also gave certain preferential treatment to the soldiers who sacrificed to protect the interests of the country and the nation in the Manchu era, even not only the martyrs of the Han nationality, as long as they died on the battlefield of foreign wars, even including the Manchu people. But these guys actually said that they helped the Japanese attack the Manchus, which was overthrowing the Manchus, this reason is really ridiculous, and they really took Wang Guorui as a fool. What's more, if Wang Guorui released them, wouldn't he be scolding those martyrs who resisted foreign enemies in the Manchu era? So these guys must die, and they must not be released, otherwise those martyrs who sacrificed in the Manchu era will not have to come to Wang Guorui to ask for their lives!
It is one thing not to recognize the Manchu regime, but their martyrs who died in foreign wars must still be recognized. Even those people can be qualified to be biography separately in the "Qing Zhan Shilu", and they will not be compiled as traitor biography.
"Your Majesty, what happens next? During the First Sino-Japanese War, there were also many people who were traitors to the Japanese, and now we have no evidence at all! It is difficult for us to find out, especially in Shandong and Liaodong at that time, we have no evidence at all! This kind of thing is not very clear to the Japanese, so we can't investigate it at all. This evidence of the past has almost been destroyed, and it is difficult for us to find suitable evidence. Hu Ling said.
Wang Guorui also nodded, and there was no way to find out these evidences. Not to mention this era, many cases have been unsolved since the year of the criminal officer of the Great Song Dynasty! Even more than 100 years later, there are more cases that cannot be identified. In this day and age, it's really not that easy to investigate a person. The police are unable to connect to the Internet, their communication capabilities are very poor, and often the investigation is also a visit, which consumes countless manpower and material resources, and in the end the gains outweigh the losses. The traitors who worked for the Japanese back then did not have much evidence to find at all. If it is really allowed to investigate, then I am afraid that all the financial funds of the whole country will be used to investigate, and it may not be able to find out clearly.
However, Wang Guorui said: "Immediately ask Jun Jixian to have someone draft an edict that will last forever, and then send it to the parliament for deliberation, and the edict on the indefinite investigation of traitors who betray the interests of the country and the nation, even if it is amnesty and ****, it cannot be pardoned." ”
According to the bill related to the edict of the emperor of the Yanhuang Empire, this edict is actually classified. The emperor's edicts of the Yanhuang Empire were all set up for a limited time. The short one is a one-time edict, after which it will be invalidated. And there are also long-term edicts, and these periods range from one year, two years, three years, five years, ten years, and so on. And the longest is the edict that exists forever, that is, as long as Wang Guorui's empire still exists for one day, it will inevitably continue to be executed.
Wang Guorui is learning from the lessons of the past, and whenever the system was rotten in those dynasties in the past, there were many reformers who hoped to reform and then save the country. But often at this time, there is always a group of vested interests who choose to oppose it. And the biggest excuse for those who oppose it is that this is the order of the previous emperor, as the emperor of later generations, cannot be changed. In ancient times, under the supreme imperial power, the emperor's orders were all according to his words, so every time an edict was issued, it would be listed as an important later policy reference, and future generations could not change it.
And this is what makes many emperors and reformers who are willing to reform also have a headache, this is fatal! Once it changes, it is not filial piety, and it is a denial of the ancestors, so that once the emperor is deducted from the name of unfilial piety, the throne will be unstable.
Therefore, Wang Guorui also deliberately left the provisions of the edict on the age limit, once the time limit is reached, it will be naturally invalidated, so as to avoid leaving a loophole for those politicians and reformers who want to save the empire later. Wang Guorui knows that in fact, many reformers also hope to save the country, and in the end, they can still protect the interests of the imperial family. Wang Guorui saw farther than those ancients, and he knew that even the system he set up now would always decay one day. There is no system in this world that is forever incorruptible, and once the system is not as productive and technological as possible, reform becomes inevitable. Wang Guorui doesn't want to leave the so-called resistance to his descendants, so that in the end, it is his descendants who will suffer. If it is not reformed, the empire will eventually perish in decay, as has been the case with so many dynasties.
Therefore, Wang Guorui does not want to leave a reason for the opposition of vested interests in future generations because of his edict, anyway, if it can be reformed in time, the worst result will be that the emperor will lose the throne or power, but at least he can still save his life. But if a revolution breaks out, then maybe all the royal families will end up guillotined. Even if the royal family of his descendants loses the power of the throne, it is better than losing his life! Therefore, when it is time to reform, it is necessary to reform, and do not leave a loophole for future generations.
Of course, this long-term edict is not so easy to promulgate. All edicts that are more than 20 years old must be voted on by the members of the full parliament. A 20-year edict can only be passed with the consent of more than half of the councillors, and a 50-year edict must be approved by 70 percent of the people. If it is permanent, it must be approved by more than 85%.
Of course, Wang Guorui adheres to the principle of leaving a line in everything, and also stipulates that even if it is a permanent edict, with the consent of 100% of the parliamentarians, it can be cancelled instead of being abolished, rather than completely irrevocable. (To be continued.) )