Although the fighting was still raging on the Nanjing front, the Northern Expeditionary Army had no intention of transferring the 11th Division to assist in the war: the main problem restraining the Northern Expeditionary Army now was the problem of supply, the roads and shipping could not keep up with the advance of the huge army, and the order to prohibit plundering in the area greatly increased the pressure on logistics. Of course, this pressure will continue to decrease over time, but before it is reduced, the 11th Division will go to Nanjing to make trouble for the Northern Expeditionary Army, which means that more troops will have to eat.

After Yu Shenhe retreated to the north, he thwarted the attacks of the Ming army several times by virtue of the geographical advantages of the Yangtze River, and now the two divisions of Huguang have admitted that they are helpless against the Shun army in the north of Huguang, and they hope that the newly formed 11th Division will go to Huguang to participate in the battle. However, this was not the main battlefield, and most of the Ming generals' eyes were focused on Nanjing, and the political significance of the city was not at all comparable to that of Huguang. Therefore, when the Jiangxi Governor's Office said that it was no longer able to do so, the Northern Expeditionary Army Command said without thinking that Jiangxi should give priority to supporting the Nanjing battlefield, and if the transportation capacity was insufficient, there was no need to consider increasing troops to Huguang.

The third party, the Jiangxi Qing Yuan, did not want the 11th Division to leave prematurely, and the Governor's Office and the Qing Yuan were now familiarizing themselves with the control and management of the army through this division. Moreover, neither Jiangxi nor other provinces are as interested in a rapid attack on the territory of the Shun army as they were at the beginning. The victory of the army is still good news for them, but the army's refusal to hand over the administration of the territory to the Legation has greatly diminished the joy of this victory, and they fear that these reclaimed territories will become a base of hostility to the Legion. Anyway, Li Shun has no possibility of attacking Fujian and Jiangxi, so it is not bad for the army to advance slower, and it will save some military expenses by consuming less materials and buying more time for the Qingyuan.

On the side of the two sides of the wrestling, Qi Guogong sat on the high referee's seat, he had no interest in ordering the military to hand over the recovered territory, on the contrary, he wrote a batch of private messages similar to "You do things, I can rest assured" to Huang Naiming, Zhao Slowxiong, Jin Qiude and others. Despite the worst-case scenario, Huang Shi hoped that the conversation would ultimately be limited to moving He Feihu. Although the boiled frog was falsified by He Feihu's father decades ago, when the military still had the political and military power to cause violent upheaval, Huang Shi did not intend to pour boiling water on people to intensify the conflict, but pondered how to slowly continue to eliminate the military's ability to resist.

Ten days after the army management work, Ren Hongcheng suddenly asked He Feihu: "The current division is equivalent to the previous battalion, right?" ”

"Yes." Huangshi reformed the battalion structure, and Xu Ping's battalion and wing structure were developed from this basis, while the southern division was a further evolution of Xu Ping's battalion.

"And the battalion generally has a name of its own? Two words, right? ”

"This is the tradition of the Duke of Qi, and the north is because he was learned by General Xu." He Feihu nodded and said, "It's usually two words." ”

"Have you thought about the name of the 11th Division, General He?" Ren Hongcheng asked.

"I shouldn't be responsible for this, right?" He Feihu shook his head and said, the naming right has always belonged to the owner of the battalion, just like the name of the shop and caravan belongs to the owner, He Feihu's first thought was Huangshi, but then after a little thought, he came back to his senses and asked Ren Hongcheng: "What name does the Qing Yuan plan to give to the Eleventh Division?" ”

Although they usually claim to use the Qingyuan, and the doctors also feel that there is a noble Qingyuan with identity and face, but in the past, Qi Guogong gave another name to the Qingyuan: "Parliament" seems to be more modest and more close to the people, and now it is also widely circulated. Ren Hongcheng told He Feihu: "The Qing Yuan thinks that the 11th Division sounds very good if it is called the 'Parliament' Division, but the Qing Yuan plans to ask the officers and soldiers of the 11th Division in advance. ”

"The last general couldn't agree more." He Feihu felt that this was not important, and this was the right of course of the owner.

"General He and the officers and soldiers of the 11th Division should discuss it, if everyone has no objection and apply to the Qing Yuan, the Qing Yuan will approve it as soon as possible."

At this time, the six provincial secretaries and courts were all vying to exclude representatives from Quanzhou, and at this moment, the senior military generals were on the front line in Nanjing, and the Duke of Qi convened a conference called "Constitution-making" to establish the State Secretaries' Yuan and create a set of constitutions that would go hand in hand with the whole country. Qi Guogong gave this constitution a nickname called "Provisional Law." ", implying that it would replace the Great Ming Law during the war. In addition to the gang of people in the Nanming Qing Yuan, Li Shun, the scholars of the Jiangnan Guangfu District, and the southern army generally believed that this was the preparatory work of Qi Guogong to step up the seizure of power, and was making psychological and public opinion preparations for the usurpation of the throne.

At the Constituent Assembly, the Jiangxi Prefecture triumphantly informed the other provinces that all the 11th Divisions in Jiangxi had been named "Parliamentary Divisions."

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Li Yunrui was sent to the front line by Huangshi to be responsible for the handling of all military information, and when he resigned, Li Yunrui took this opportunity to put forward some views on democracy to Huangshi: "It is very good for the country to love the people like a son......

"But some people are really stupid," Huang Shi preemptively agreed, without waiting for Li Yunrui to finish speaking: "Since ancient times, kings and scholars have ruled the world together, because only scholars can understand the law and understand morality and shame. Foolish people, foolish women, illiterate and uninformed, it is a waste to give them rights. ”

"What Gong Qi has seen is extremely true." Li Yunrui was quite happy in his heart, in the past few years, he was a little worried that Huangshi was confused, but he didn't expect the other party to summarize better than him, although Li Yunrui often revealed this meaning, but he was far from refining his ideas like Huangshi.

"After my careful consideration, democratic centralism is the most suitable thing for the specific situation of the DPRK...... The so-called democracy is similar to the king and the scholars sharing the world, but in fact, there are far more than scholars and scholars who have this insight, but also generals and military officers, and it is too remote to speak only with Confucianism. All the people who can co-govern with the imperial court must be included, this is democracy, as for those who are vulgar and unliterate, they must be concentrated ......" Huang Shi did not hesitate to introduce the theory of meritocracy to Li Yunrui as his own thoughts, one of the great advantages of the traverser is that many theories are ready-made, and the ancients saw that you raised the theory to such a height, and must believe that this is what you really believe - otherwise you would not have bothered to summarize it with such painstaking efforts.

Although the wording has been changed, Huangshi strictly follows that theory to divide all Chinese into two ethnic groups: the elite group and the big livestock group, the elite group rules the country and educates the big animal group, and selects the educated big animals to be included in the ruling group, criticizing and discussing the government of the DPRK are the exclusive rights of the elite group, and the big animal group only needs to work hard and complain, and when the whole people are elites, we can consider democracy for the whole people, but whether a person is a big animal or an elite is determined by the elite group. Huangshi had to admit that the co-rule of the world between the king and the scholars was indeed very marketable in China, and one court did this, and then it became corrupt and the country perished, and the next dynasty repeated, and then the next dynasty continued to repeat, and the notorious Kuomintang three-step theory of military administration, discipline administration, and constitutional government and the theory of co-governance between kings and scholars were actually a change of soup but not a change of medicine. However, no matter how many times the country has been lost, the elite group still rules the country in this way, and quite a few people sincerely believe that the big animal group is indeed stupid enough to be regarded as a human being.

Sending off his happy brother-in-law, Huang Shi continued to write a personal letter to Dr. Miao, in which he suggested that Dr. Miao put forward a concept at the Constituent Assembly: the inalienable right of the people to supervise and comment on the affairs of the court—the origin of all the rights of the House of Secretaries.

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Winter exacerbated the difficulties of transportation and military operations, the Shun army in Nanjing was still resisting stubbornly, after the Ming army captured Suzhou Prefecture, the Shun army on the eastern front stopped the further advance of the Ming army with the help of the climate, the reserves of the Anqing Shun army on the western front were quite sufficient, and the siege of only two months did not have much impact on the defenders, and the enemy army in the city was still active, and the besieging troops must strictly prevent them from coming out to sabotage and sneak attack.

There was no news on the military side, and far away in Jiangxi, where the parliamentary division was stationed, He Feihu and Ren Hongcheng could only pay attention to the progress of the Constituent Assembly. Of course, there are absolute reasons for this meeting to attach importance to it, at present the provinces are all self-raising troops, and the rich provinces are not very willing to cooperate with the poor provinces to form division-level units and regard the divisions they have formed as the property of the province. After the establishment of the House of Secretaries of State, there will be an election of the first assistant and a unified military department - Qi Guogong plans to change the name of this ministry to the Ministry of National Defense, and it is conceivable that the disputes and frictions within the army will be reduced to a certain extent. He Feihu knew that thousands or even tens of thousands of volunteers in Fujian and Guangdong had completed their training, but the two provinces did not mix these troops into a single division, but were busy training more new recruits -- the governments of the two provinces planned to establish their own units.

He Feihu found that Ren Hongcheng didn't seem to have much hostility towards Xu Ping, and later learned that he had a cousin who was the prefect of Guidi, and after the fall of Guide, Ren Hongcheng's cousin was captured and Xu Ping did not abuse him, and later released him because he did not find any bad deeds, but it was the Ming Court who did not commit suicide because Ren Zhifu did not commit suicide and became Renge in addition to his fame. It's just that it didn't take long for those high-ranking officials in the DPRK and China who dismissed Ren Hongcheng's cousin's fame to throw themselves to Li Shun, Ren Hongcheng felt that the Ming Court was even more hateful than Xu Ping: "General Xu has no henchmen, and he doesn't have a good relationship with everyone, but it's a pity that he is our enemy, otherwise the Qing Yuan actually admires him." ”

But since it is an enemy, then Xu Ping is a threat that needs to be guarded against, and soon after determining the name of the 11th Division, Ren Hongcheng asked He Feihu again: "Does Duke Qi still have a rule, that is, once the military flag is lost, this battalion will be disbanded - the current division will be disbanded?" ”

"Yes, the loss of the flag means that this unit is annihilated." He Feihu also has some experience now, and when Ren Hongcheng comes to see him with this kind of expression, most of them are shouldering some mission of the Qing Academy.

"Sure enough," Ren Hongcheng nodded: "The Qing Yuan has decided that the division flag of the council division should be kept in the Jiangxi Qing Yuan, and the council division will give a copy when it goes out, so that we will not worry about facing General Xu." ”

"What? Why? He Feihu couldn't understand why a copied military flag could strengthen the Qingyuan's confidence in fighting Xu Ping.

"In the event that the Council Division is defeated, the military flag will not be lost," Ren Hongcheng explained, "The Qing Yuan will never allow the Council Division to be wiped out!" ”

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Some legislators feel that the name of the 11th Division is not good enough, and how can the division with the name of "parliament" be ranked 11th? Therefore, it is clear that it is a Constituent Assembly, but some people have proposed that the military system should be reformed, and that the 15,000 divisions should be added with a few hundred or even thousands of men as appropriate, and then this new division should be called the new so-and-so division, and the parliamentary division should naturally become the new first division. This initiative probably touched the competitive string in the hearts of many legislators, and many people immediately echoed it. When the military issue was about to be discussed at the Constituent Assembly, the motion was suppressed by the leaders of the Kuomintang, the Labor Party, and the Donglin Party.

The Constituent Assembly went quite smoothly, and today Ren Hongcheng brought good news to He Feihu with a smile: "The outline of the constitution has been discussed, and although the official secretary of state and cabinet have not yet been elected, the provincial governments and courts have agreed to twist everyone's volunteers into a rope, Fujian and Guangdong will send 5,000 and 7,000 volunteers to Jiangxi respectively, and Guangxi will also send 2,000, and they will form the 12th Division here, and the five provincial secretaries' courts will all allocate funds for the military expenses of this division." ”

"In order to celebrate the smooth progress of the Constituent Assembly, the doctors at the meeting voted for me to convey a request to General He," Ren Hongcheng believes that most of the people participating in the Constituent Assembly will be the first batch of doctors of the State Council, that is, the superior body of the future provincial Secretaries Yuan: "General He, guess what?" ”

After getting along with Ren Hongcheng for a period of time, He Feihu felt that his understanding of the Qing Yuan was improving dramatically, and he replied after a little thought: "Do you want to name the Twelfth Division as the Constitutional Division?" ”

"General He is mighty!" Ren Hongcheng was taken aback, although he jokingly asked He Feihu to guess by himself, but he didn't expect He Feihu to really guess.

Looking at Ren Hongcheng's expression, He Feihu felt that the other party had more orders to explain, and after a while, he suddenly woke up: "The military flag of the Twelfth Division should also be kept by the Qing Yuan, right?" The Constitution will never be allowed to be extinguished. ”

"General He," Ren Hongcheng was amazed and appreciative of the other party's political sense: "According to the order of the Qing Yuan, I cannot discuss party issues with the general in any public place, and I cannot discuss the issue of involving active military personnel in politics. But now I want to have a private conversation with General He, and I want to talk about General He's departure from the army. ”

"I'll do my job." He Feihu misunderstood that the other party's so-called non-soldier meant that he was dismissed.

"Times are different, now being a soldier is not a lifelong thing, has General He ever thought that he would be able to enter politics after the war in the future?" Ren Hongcheng asked, "Be a doctor, a governor, or even a chief assistant?" If General He has such a wish, you can consider our Donglin Party, and the Contempt Party will definitely support it. ”

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