Note: Brother Happydai, who is now studying in the United States, wrote the draft of the Imperial Constitution of 1896 for this book, and wrote several short fanshi based on the setting of this book, interested readers can read it, and I would like to express my deep gratitude to Brother Happydai for his help.

Original title: The Iron Blood Empire supplements three "color battles"

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For the reforms of the Gongwu faction that began in the 17th year of Guangxu, some such as the "33 Act" and the success of Wanling Gege's agricultural and animal husbandry breeding, which was praised by the peasants as "contemporary Guanyin", especially Ma Feng, as the "great mentor" of imperial science and technology, established the national industrial system through Niu Jin's implementation of "standardized production" and "total quality management system", which laid the foundation for the arrival of China's "miracle era".

Others, such as the reform of the currency system, the implementation of the national law and the establishment of the education system, can be regarded as achieving phased results after some efforts; However, some of them were originally well-intentioned, but they had unintended counterproductive effects, such as the judicial system becoming a fortress of the old school, and the hastily established China People's Party (KMT) in its early days.

The internal affairs of the Gongwu faction are not monolithic, not to mention that the "republican faction" within the martial arts system often attacks the mainstream; In the early internal struggle between the "public and military" because the central court was controlled by the samurai, and the local government was controlled, the strength of the two sides was close, and the struggle was more intense than the joint struggle against the old school with a declining force in the eighteenth year, until the royal sister married (the daughter of Prince Alcohol, Guangxu's half-brother Wanling Gege and the minister of science and technology Ma Feng registered their marriage in the Imperial Ministry of Civil Affairs in the 29th year of Guangxu, and according to Wanling Gege's religious beliefs, A Christian wedding was held in the Imperial Christian General Association, a joint venture between China and the United States. Early the next morning, the two of them went into official business and became China's first "dual-income cadre family", which was rumored to be a good story. It was only then that the friction between the "public and the military" subsided dramatically. This stage is known as the "Controversy of Colors".

The first internal strife of the Gongwu faction occurred shortly after the "Guangxu Braiding Incident" in the 18th year of Guangxu, initiated by Prince Alcohol, the leader of the "Gongjia line", and the cause was the arrangement of the new and old Kejinshi.

After the promulgation of the "New Science Order" in the seventeenth year of Guangxu, it was stipulated that the seventeenth year of July was opened, and then changed to open the department in July every year, the old and new scientific examinations were parallel, and the old department no longer had a file of "Jinshi and the first", "Jinshi origin" and "Jinshi origin" are collectively referred to as Jinshi, and the university graduation qualification of the new school is the same; In addition, it is stipulated that the senior high school graduation qualifications of Juzi and Xinxue are the same, and the junior high school graduation qualifications of Xiucai and Xinxue are the same, which is called "equivalent education". For students who have obtained university graduation qualifications or higher and wish to become officials immediately, except for ministers and vice-ministers who are drafted by the cabinet and appointed by the emperor, other personnel must participate in a separate official examination held at the Wenhua Hall according to the different departments they declare, and the name of the "palace examination" will be continued. Liu Yun hopes to minimize the shock (at the conspiracy meeting, Zhong Xiahuo once said that the old roots of the feudal system of the "33 Reform" have been moved, and it would be good if this imperial examination system was abolished directly; But Wen Yi is more supportive, saying that literati are different from bullies, and it will be ugly if public opinion is not good. ）

Because the empire stipulated that graduates of unofficial universities must pass the certification of the Imperial Education Administration, the graduates of the universities established by the empire will appear in the 20th year of Guangxu, when the new subjects will obviously be cheaper than the old ones, and the imperial examination in the 17th to 19th years of Guangxu is called the "old three subjects". Many young students found that although there were many subjects to study at university, they were passable and not so hard, so it was relatively easy to graduate, and they all entered the university to accept new studies, and all that was left was to try again, even so, it was much more difficult for them to take the new hall examination than the current new students who were certified by the Imperial Education Agency. Therefore, for the new and old Kejinshi, Prince Alcohol advocated that they should be "compassionate and generous", while Liu Yun made it clear that "those who do not know the country should not be used generously". The two sides are at loggerheads. The last is the emperor Weng Tonggong, who basically reconciles Liu Yun's point of view.

Weng Tongyi is from a family of eunuchs for generations. His grandfather Weng Xianfeng was a man of the Qianlong Dynasty, and the official was a scholar and politician in Haizhou; His father, Weng Xincun, was a Jinshi of the Daoguang Dynasty, successively served as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Industry, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, a scholar of Tirenge University, and an important minister of the Daoguang and Xianfeng dynasties. Weng Tongyi himself was the champion of Xianfeng for six years, successively served as the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Households, co-organized the university scholar, twice entered the military aircraft, and also served as the minister of the supervision of the military affairs department, and concurrently served as the prime minister's minister of national affairs, and was the master of the two emperors of Tongzhi and Guangxu. As an old bureaucrat, of course, he had a deep affection for the imperial examination system. And before the "braid removal incident", he himself was the leader of the old school, and he had just cut his braids and turned the corner. Therefore, as the prime minister of the cabinet, Liu Yunwen couldn't help but change slightly when he spoke. I don't want him to say: "Those who know enough to know the changes in the world can take heaven and earth to adjust yin and yang, refer to the ancient and modern appropriateness, and not be confined by things, and govern the world and govern the body." He also humbly said: "Although the minister is familiar with Chinese studies, he has not been able to do Japanese affairs, regardless of the West." The matter of the new deal, dare not be hasty. Therefore, "Exercise the power of the people who are able to do it." ”

Guangxu decreed, "The new department will be promoted to all departments, and the old department will be promoted to Hanlin", which can be regarded as having its own place. Because "Hanlin" became an academic institution in the nature of the "Academy of Social Sciences" after the New Deal, Liu Yun and his faction were satisfied with the result.

One of the "internal fires" of the Cabinet Department was the establishment of a nineteen-year medical system. After defeating the opposition of the old school of "working the people and losing money", Niu Jin advocated the establishment of a pharmaceutical factory and the operation of the medical system as a profitable industry, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Mo Ning certainly supported it. But Tian Zhenghong argues that the poor cannot afford to pay for medicine, and that the medical system is the welfare of the rich. Ma Feng said that there can be two types of drugs, subsidized and better, non-subsidized, but Tian Zhenghong still believes that human life is more important than money. This time Emperor Guangxu was more experienced, smiled slightly, and suggested establishing a unit dedicated to helping the people, and many officials of the Ministry of Sub-planning whispered when they heard this: "Medical insurance!" ”

When Liu Yun and Wen Yi walked together, Liu Yun asked Wen Yi: "What do you think of the emperor?" ”

Wen Yi looked at Liu Yun for a long time, and then turned his head in the darkest: "The days are still very long." ”

In the "color dispute", the main controversy within the Gongwu faction is between "Gong" and "Wu", but for specific issues, the two sides of the debate between different issues are not necessarily strong barriers. However, the emperor took advantage of the contradictions within the Gongwu faction to balance the situation, which gradually had an impact on the government and seemed to become less dispensable.

There are endless disputes in the administration, and even more so in the legislation. Not to mention the opposition of the old faction and local forces to the cabinet, even the opinions of the Chinese Democratic Party, the Chinese Democratic Party, which was established in January of the 18th year of Guangxu, were not unified, the constitutional work could not be carried out, and even the legitimacy of the existence of the Senate itself was questionable. However, the chaos of the empire is not really as serious as it appears.

At that time, the coastal and southern provinces were controlled by the Gongwu faction, while the inland areas in the north, such as the three northeastern provinces, Mongolia, Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, and Shanxi, were controlled by the old faction. Only in the northeast region, after the implementation of the "Nationality Law", the banner lord of Shengjing, the prince, secretly contacted the Japanese, seeking the division of the northeast and establishing a new monarch. Although after being cracked by the sub-planning department, Guangxu circled the blue-inlaid banner master, but the situation in the northeast is still turbulent. As a result, the conspiracy meeting in the 19th year of Guangxu finally abandoned the illusion of "a strip of water" and the wishful thinking of "development to ensure peace and promote development through peace", and determined that "Japan's heart will not die." It formulated the strategy of "showing what it can't and showing what it can't" and "gathering momentum in a thousand days, and making a move in one day", tightly sealing off the actions of military preparations, and at the same time deliberately spreading chaos and giving Japan room for full illusions, so as to rewrite the outcome of history in one fell swoop, and let iron and blood sacrifice the flag for China's rise.