Seeing Long Qian's serious expression, everyone sat up straight.

"On the train from Wuchang to Beijing, I have always thought about the past, the situation in Mengshanzhai, the training and conquest over the years, and the brothers who died in battle. In ten years, we have gone from a small team of bandits who were chased and killed like lost dogs to the present, which is not easy. Now that everyone has entered Beijing and lived in the Royal Palace, the food is like the two heavens that we used to train in Mengshan and establish a base in Zhengjiazhuang. The house we live in now was once the courtyard of the Manchu royal family, where they played leisurely, where did the original owner go? Why did they lose the country and become the object of slaughter? I don't know if you've thought about it, but I did. The ancients regarded the change of dynasty as the mandate of heaven, but in fact, what is the mandate of heaven? Whoever does a good job is the winner, and whoever does not do well is the loser, it's as simple as that. Who wants to fail? The Manchus, the Beiyang, and the Kuomintang Party, which was about to end, no one wanted to fail. But will we fail? Will we be kicked out of Beijing? Yes! The occupation of the big cities by the Mengshan army is a severe test, and it is even more severe for us to become rulers from rebels. If we don't turn this corner, we're doomed! I'm not trying to scare everyone, there are so many lessons! What to do? Since everyone is unwilling to fail and lose the country that we have worked so hard to build, everyone must do what I ask. ”

Long Qian paused for a few minutes, staring at the roof with a solemn expression.

"First, we must not embrace the idea of coveting comfort. The battle is not over yet. The enemy has not yet been destroyed, and if we don't realize this, defeat is not far off. I am very glad that the generals of the Northern Military Region did not express their fear and dissatisfaction with the Northern Expedition just now. In addition to the Northern Army, the troops of the Northwest Military Region should advance to the northwest, cross the Gobi Desert, occupy Xinjiang, and occupy the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains; The troops of the Southwest Military Region have to fight all the way to Tibet! The task is daunting. Therefore, please be sure to maintain the strength of fighting the world and maintain the spirit of hard work. Don't be greedy for enjoyment. That would be too unproductive...... You must know that Lu Dao," Long Qian raised his voice, "We are not fighting the world to enter Beijing to be the emperor and prince, but to create a great era. An era that will make us famous in history! All unfair systems and phenomena that we once hated must be swept away. We must build an iron bucket for our children and grandchildren. A fair, just, civilized, rich and strong country, some people may think that I am just a dream, when we built an army in Mengshan. What I told you, boasting about Haikou, many people thought it was a dream at the time, but we really realized it today! We have occupied Beijing, we have overthrown the Manchus, our troops are marching to the southwest and southeast, and the banner of the Mengshan Army is about to be planted all over the country! Why can't we create a new world world? Let me tell you, I have a lot of ideas, to be realized step by step, we need to vigorously develop the economy, develop industry, agriculture, commerce and education, build more roads and railways, build more and more beautiful houses; not only to feed the people and have clothes to wear, but also to make them eat well and dress well; so that children can go to school without spending money; More hospitals, especially rural hospitals, should be built so that all those who are sick can be treated; Let the elderly have social institutions to manage them, and by the time they are 60 years old, they can receive pensions from government-designated institutions without having to look at their children's faces. In addition, we must build a strong army, a national defense force ten times and a hundred times stronger than the Mengshan army, and build an army that will make any country in the world tremble when it hears the name of the Chinese national defense force! I know that you will all agree with all this, but to achieve all this, we need to struggle, to work hard, to pay! Instead of thinking that you have achieved fame and trying to enjoy it! If you can keep up with my steps, we will walk together, and if you can't keep up, you will be ruthlessly eliminated! I'm not going to stop and wait for him. What to do? In addition to maintaining the current momentum, you should step up your study and study hard, because study will enable you to realize your own shortcomings and gaps, so as to enhance your momentum to catch up, just as the various units competed with each other when we were training troops. Please remember what I said.

"The second is to have the heart of a winner. Generals, gentlemen, we have seized power, whether foreign governments recognize it or not, from now on, the affairs of China will be decided by Mengshan Army! I'm afraid they already know this very well. The losers who have opposed us at home, the Manchu magnates, the civil and military of the Beiyang Army, the Kuomintang who are surviving in the southeast, and the local tyrants and Tusi in the southwest and northwest, as long as they are not blind in their eyes and deaf in their ears, they have to admit this. In this case, what should we do if many of our former enemies will switch to our side? Accept them or reject them? I think that as long as a person is not too confused, he will choose to accept them. Just like the Beiyang generals who followed Shi Junshengyuan into Beijing together, just like Song Jiaoren, Sun Wu and others of the Kuomintang who followed me from Wuchang to Beijing. In the future, more people will vote for us, and I believe that even the Manchu elites will have someone who understands the current affairs and cooperates with us. My attitude is that we, as victors, should open our minds to the vast sea, accept them, and give them certain errands to do according to their abilities, so that they can join us in building our new nation, and should not adopt a policy of hostility and discrimination, drawing a line based on their origins. China is so big, there are 2,000 counties alone, and if each county sends a county magistrate, we need 2,000 people. There must be a state capital and a province above the county, how many officials are needed? It can't just be the people of the Mengshan Army who are in power, right? The army is our foundation, and all of you here are the core of our regime. How can those who do not accept the old regime do it? Moreover, we have to admit that there are many things that we don't understand, such as managing a county, and I don't think anyone here can do it well. Let's think about it, Zhou Xuexi, Zhang Lianfen and others, who have made great contributions to us in Shandong, were not with us in the first place. Therefore, we must have a big mind, how big a mind, and how much we can achieve. Please remember this sentence. In the subsequent work, pay attention to uniting the later colleagues and transforming them, rather than being transformed by them. The Mengshan Army has a glorious tradition, enforcing discipline, being arduous and simple, and having the courage to sacrifice, and these traditions should be carried forward, and we should learn from their advantages rather than imitate their shortcomings. I remind everyone that from now on, a war to consolidate our new regime has begun. We want to go back to Mengshan with a nostalgic mentality. There to commemorate the years of our struggle, and to build a monument there to commemorate our sacrificed comrades-in-arms, instead of being driven off the stage and running back to Mengshan to cry their noses!

"The third is to value the career and despise the money. Take credit lightly. Respect for legal discipline. Everyone is a veteran of the Mengshan Army. He was the founding father. As long as you don't make mistakes, no one dares to despise you. However, don't sleep on your laurels. I can't help but talk about how Lao Tzu fought the world in the past, and it was too unambitious to do that. Don't eat the old book, make new contributions. If I don't do a good job, you people here will unceremoniously point it out, and say that what you Long Qian told us on October 7, 1909 was a fart and a bragging. The new country that I am going to build is a country with a rule of law, and I am ready to make great efforts to establish a sound legal system. I know that we have read a lot of books over the years, and there is a group of people in history called Legalism, which I think is more powerful than Confucianism, which advocates moral preaching. No matter who it is, no one who breaks the law, including me. The army won the battle by relying on harsh military methods, and those who bravely charged and killed the enemy were rewarded, and those who retreated were shot! The same is true of the state, those who abide by the law and discipline will benefit, and those who violate the law will be severely punished. But, brethren, as long as we don't break the law, others don't have the guts. The key to whether a company has combat effectiveness or not is the company commander, whether a regiment is doing well or not, the role of the regiment commander is crucial, and whether a country is doing well or not depends on the work style of the person in charge of the highest authority. Everyone is a big man with a lot of power, and you listen to me respectfully here, but when you go to your territory, you are the boss, and you are the emperor of the soil. All of you here, those with low positions are also division commanders, and a division, with a minimum of 20,000 people and a large number of 30,000 or 40,000 people, must obey your orders, and their power is not small. However, you must remember that above you, there is still the headquarters, there is also military law, and there are also the systems and laws of the country, and you must not violate them. Forgive me, if you break the rules, it will be difficult for the offender to deal with it in the future. I don't forgive you, it's ruined our feelings, a dilemma. But I'll make it clear to you, I don't care who it is, whether it's Lu Shan, Ning Shijun, including Mr. Chen, whoever dares to break the rules, I won't forgive anyone! Tears to cut the horse, too! I hope that we can start and finish well, and when we are old, these old brothers can still get together happily, remember our struggles, proudly count our achievements, and talk about family life like brothers.

"The last point is self-discipline and being supervised. Now there is no one to supervise me, for example, today, I don't have this meeting, I sleep with my wife in my arms or take my wife and children to visit the scenery, I don't see that no one dares to care about me. I'm going to build a few more beautiful houses in this place, and I'm afraid no one will object. But it won't work! This must not be done! Cixi has been in power for nearly 50 years, so she doesn't want to supervise, what is the result? She's just died, less than a year ago, how's that going? The country is lost! Whether her descendants and her family can survive depends on our mood. The story is brutal and I don't want it to fall on us. The country I want to build is a country with a sound supervision system, and if we want to establish a congress, the congress is the highest organ of power, and the congress will supervise me, the president, and I will report to the congress. Don't think it's ridiculous, it's a joke. The United States has only been established for more than 100 years, and now it is the number one power, and the richness of the United States is unimaginable. And what about us? It has been thousands of years since the founding of the country, dynasties have changed, emperors have been exchanged, and the country is still poor. Our country's annual steel output is not as much as a day! For what? I think the difference in political systems is a key factor, not that we Chinese are stupid and lazy. There is a German philosopher Hegel who said that China has no history, and some are just simple repetitions. This always makes me break out in a cold sweat. Let's think about it, how strong was the Ming army that Zhu Yuanzhang raised an army to resist the Yuan and defeated the Mongols? Two hundred years later, it was beaten by seventy or eighty thousand Eight Banner soldiers, how brave and invincible was the Eight Banners when they entered the customs, and what did it become after two hundred years? Will the Mengshan army also follow their path? Never! Let's not simply repeat it, we need to build a new system. Completely change the cyclical law of history, so that the Chinese nation can truly rejuvenate.

This is easier said than done. For what? Because the rulers are corrupted and degenerate, why did the descendants of Nurhachi Emperor Taiji become like this? The Mengshan army raised troops, and they only had one first town with very poor combat effectiveness in their hands? Handed over your fate to Yuan Shikai? Will Yuan Shikai really work for the Manchus? Let me tell you, if Lao Yuan defeats us, the Manchus will be doomed! Therefore, we should always think about this story that we have personally experienced, and think about what success we have achieved. Why did the enemy fail. How can we avoid failure?

"How do you avoid failure? I think it's supervision, it's rules. The significance of the establishment of the military law supervision system by the Mengshan Army is enormous, and the merits of Cao Minzhong and others are also enormous. If there was no military justice supervision system, the Mengshan Army would be a bandit army. There will not be today's success. In the future, we will vigorously improve the supervision system. Everyone in this room needs to get used to being supervised. Do what you do. There are many reasons for the fall of dynasties in history, but the key point is that the leadership is corrupt and greedy for money. If you are greedy for enjoyment, the country will naturally be finished. Money is a good thing, and no one doesn't like money, and so do I. But, brothers, in fact, we are not short of money, we have accumulated shares, although the money has not been sent to you, Huayuan, ZTE dividends are recorded. In the next step, we will improve the salary system, and I will pay everyone enough salary, because your work is worthy of this salary. I will also award you medals and bonuses, and I will also stipulate in the system that a generous pension will be reserved for the veterans who have shed blood and sweat for the establishment of our new nation. I dare to promise, as long as you don't come nonsense, don't go to begging for a little wife, go to the Bada Hutong, smoke opium, gamble, just dress better, eat better, and make the life of your parents, wives and children more beautiful, there is no problem, your money will not be spent! I just want my children and grandchildren to live a carefree life, and there is no big problem. In the next step, you all have to bear a very important burden and become a prince, I can't stand you, but the military law system is here, and the supervision system can watch you. If you just spend your salary shares blindly, it's not a problem, at most it's unstable in the backyard, if you have a bad idea, the idea of military spending and government funding, sooner or later you will be exposed! When the time comes, our affection will be gone, and the honor that we have worked hard to build up for half of our lives will be gone, so why bother?! We just want to establish a set of systems and rules, and the new country we are building is to establish such an atmosphere, and when you become an official, you don't want to enjoy it, and you don't want to think about being special. The feudal dynasty is not a doctor, we are a doctor in the criminal college! What ordinary people can do, but what officials can't! This starts with me, and I will do whatever you are asked to do. If you can't do it, step down, get out!

"Okay, today I will take this opportunity to tell you what I have kept in my heart. Since ancient times, it is easy to fight the country, but it is difficult to defend the country. It is even more difficult to defend the country on the basis of a depressed and poor country like ours. When we first saw the dawn of New China, I poured a few scoops of cold water on everyone, and also calmed down for myself, so as not to be carried away by victory. The mistakes made by the rulers of the past cannot be repeated! For example, the huge West Garden we occupy now, I hate it very much, there are countless dilapidated houses in Beijing, and there are many beggars living on the streets, and the country has to pay tens of millions of taels of silver to the foreign powers every year for war reparations, but the bastards of the Manchu Qing Dynasty occupy such a large garden only for their own enjoyment, and there is no reason to die! I will never work or live here in the future. When the conditions are met, we will move out of the city and turn it into a park where everyone can visit and rest. Humility can rejuvenate the country, Yiyu can die, let us fight the world this momentum, this simple and clean style forever, we can create more brilliant achievements than the world, our children and grandchildren will always remember us with reverence. Instead of being spurned by posterity! ”

Fang Shengyuan was the first to applaud. Hong Yuecheng's face was flushed with excitement, and he stood up and said loudly, "The handsome man is prepared for danger in times of peace and has a far-sighted vision, which is really a blessing for all the people!" ”

"Please rest assured, we must keep in mind the words of the marshal and do what the marshal asks." Lu Shan and Ning Shijun said in unison.

Chen Chao generally does not applaud Long Qian's speech. But he also applauded today. He noticed that Long Qian said that he did not please his little wife, and combined with the fact that Long Qian did not bring that Miss Xu into Beijing, he was very pleased. The coach takes the lead in setting an example, and the possibility of Hu coming down is very small. Familiar with history books, he has sighed countless times about the joys and sorrows of the change of dynasty, and Long Qian maintains such a calm mind at this time, which makes him feel the excitement of a new era.

Ouyang Zhong was in charge of recording, he learned a shorthand method that only he could understand, and he noticed that Long Qian, who had always used brothers to refer to his subordinates, today he used more generals and gentlemen to address everyone, and he only used the title of "brothers" twice during the period, and Ouyang Zhong did not understand the deep meaning during the period. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Ouyang Zhong, who had been working by Long Qian's side, properly preserved the minutes of his meetings at that time, which became a precious historical document.

After the meeting, Fang Shengyuan and Cao Minzhong believed that Long Qian's speech was extremely important, and after consulting Long Qian, they sorted out the speech and issued it to the whole army, asking officers at and above the regimental level to study it seriously. (To be continued......)