The setting sun is like blood, but in Yang Du's view by the Seine River, the sunset is as vigorous as the rising sun, and the rays that shine red on his face seem extremely warm on this clear winter day.

"Xizi is so energetic!" Looking at Yang Du's expression of enjoyment, Liang Qichao, who was in a long suit next to him, was a little envious and sighed. Her appearance came from her heart, and her environment changed with her heart. When they were in Tokyo, when the two were chatting, he was the one who enjoyed time, and Yang Du was just a poor student with revenge.

"Thinking of everything over the years, it's really... it's really..." Yang Du was fascinated by the sunset at this time, so he simply didn't look at Liang Qichao. He just thought about the journey of China in recent years. He felt that it was not easy, but it was difficult to describe what happened in recent years just by using it. This is not an exaggeration for a nation that once worried about the destruction of its country and its race.

"What's really?" Liang Qichao was obviously old, his face looked thin, his temples were even gray, but his eyes were bright, like a glass ball with light reflected in the darkness. "You should be thinking that Yang Jingcheng is amazing, right?"

"Yes!" Yang Du focused his attention, "The ancients said that he was immortal. He at least achieved 'making achievements' and 'making words'. As for whether he was 'creating virtue', I dare not say it, but just based on these two points, he is already a sage like Confucius!"

"Haha...haha..." Liang Qichao laughed before Yang Du finished speaking, "Yang Jingcheng is just a speculator, and sages will not speculate like this. Japan and Russia speculate about Russia, the United States and Germany during the 1911, and Britain and France during the European War. Now, looking at his behavior, it is clearly speculation about Germany and Russia. For him, his achievements are just a gamble. If you win the bet, then everything is easy to say. What if you lose it? Then what should you do?"

Upon hearing Liang Qichao's comments, Yang Du turned his head and looked at him silently, "Does Brother Zhuo hate him so much?"

"I don't hate him." Liang Qichao shook his head, "After all, he blamed himself for being arrogant and unable to see the situation at that time. I'm just saying that every time Yang Jingcheng succeeded, he was because he bet on the right situation. Using the right strategy, this was nothing more than just a strategist and smart in calculating. I was just thinking, what if he made a wrong judgment on one day?"

"Now the world war has been completed. The peace agreement is about to be signed; although China and the United States had a dispute in the previous month, they have made peace this month. There is no more serious trouble in the revision of the two countries. What else should we bet on in the future? What we have to do in the future is to build this country with the money earned from war." Yang Du said the word "construction" and was still a little uncomfortable. This is not a word in Mandarin, it is a Japanese word.

"Country? Haha..." This time, under Yang Du's gaze, Liang Qichao laughed for a long time, and then he said: "Xizi, I ask you, what is the thing that inherits the territory of the former Qing Dynasty and expands the territory?"

"Great China?" Yang Du was a little stunned. His eyes looked at Liang Qichao with a very strange look.

"What country is this?" Liang Qichao ignored his strangeness and continued to ask.

"That's..." At this time, Yang Dufang understood that Liang Qichao's question should be asking the attributes of this country. He paused slightly and said: "Although I wanted King Min to ascend the throne, Yang Cheng disagreed. Now... From a constitutional perspective, it can be said to be a republic. After all, all the power of the state belongs to the people, King Min is just a decoration. If the time comes, he is dispensable."

"Why does Yang Xing disagree with King Min ascending the throne?" Liang Qichao ignored Yang Du's other explanations and only stared at this sentence.

"This..." Yang Du was stunned when he heard this. After he came to Europe, he learned that Liang Qichao was also in France, so he visited several times. His original intention was the same as before, thinking that Liang Qichao's talent could not be less than himself and that he really could use it for the country. The two of them might be able to achieve something in their own hands, but relying on him alone, he could only make Yang Rui's senior aides. Although he trusted Liang Qichao, the rules of civil servants clearly stipulate that he could not disclose state secrets to outsiders. Yang Rui had a negative attitude towards the ascension of King Min, many people knew why, but only few people knew why. Although Yang Du was one of the people who knew it, such words were hard to say.

"I can guess one or two if you don't say it." Liang Qichao said again, "The new dynasty was first established, and the country's righteousness was not understood. But they could understand the division between China and the barbarians, the way of loyalty to the king, the family, and the ancestors, after thousands of years of domestic use. Without an emperor, the people would be like headless flies, confused and in a panic all day long; without an emperor, during the Sino-Japanese War, peasants and soldiers could not be mobilized so quickly, nor could they fight with the Japanese with flesh and blood, or even go to France. The soldiers I saw still felt that the emperor asked them to come and were fighting for the Emperor.

Yang Jingcheng is not only good at speculation, but also very good at lying people. More than ten years ago, he tricked a group of students to Africa and Liaodong. Later, he deceived the gentry and said he wanted to establish a constitution. At that time, I thought it was true. There was such a team with hundreds of people fighting bloody battles with Russia in the Northeast. If we really wanted to support the constitution, it was completely different from Yuan Shikai. He was our own team and had the same spirit as the gentry. In fact, it was not. He was playing a fake constitution. If Cixi had not died and Emperor Guangxu came back, he would not know how those who supported him died.

This person is actually exactly the same as Sun Wen, and that is, he uses any means to seek his purpose. Since he is such a person, it is easy to understand that he will not let King Min ascend the throne. For the country and the people, Yang Jingcheng did not want this country to return to the state of empire, so even if he advocated the illusion of the emperor, he would not want him to ascend the throne; for the party and for personal gain, the emperor's ascendance would only make Revival lose the opportunity to dominate the party. After all, one day, the parties will use the people's loyalty to the emperor, either through elections or coups, to drive Revival down.

If the emperor does not ascends the throne, there is no possibility of this. Because when Yang Jingcheng is alive, he will change his course. No, he has changed his course now. The emperor is just for illiterate mud legs. For scholars, newspapers and schools controlled by the Revival Society, they have long stopped taking King Min seriously. I think thirty years later, King Min is just a king, and he has no value to the Revival Society." Liang Qichao shook his head when he said this, "No, it is not that it has no value to the Han people, but it is still valuable to the Mongols, Tibetans, and others. The move of the Lifanyuan is extremely important."

"Haha..., this is what I asked for advice." Yang Du put this credit in his name without any modesty. "I have always believed that if we want to rule the Mongolians, Tibetans, returning people, and even Manchus outside the pass, it would be completely invalid to rely on the twelve divisions under the Prime Minister's Office. The reason why the Qing Dynasty could last for more than two hundred years was entirely due to the Lifan Academy. Once the Lifan Academy strategy failed, it would be equivalent to the failure of the Manchu-Mongolian alliance. The Manchu rule was also declared to be a failure. Without the Mongols, he would eventually retreat from the pass. This was just like the rise of the Hunan Army and the Huai Army, and Senggelinqin would die. At this time, the Manchus could no longer rely on the Mongols.

The current situation is undoubtedly the Manchus. But the difference is that we don’t need the Mongols to fight us. We just need them to guard the border, and Tibetans and people are the same. They cannot order them with the resolution of the Jiyiyuan. These places can only rely on the emperor’s majesty, take the Lifan Academy as the center, and follow the previous routines. It can be said that in the eyes of the Mongols, the Jiyiyuan is something they cannot understand, but the emperor is something they are familiar with. Many of them do not believe in the Jiyiyuan, but they believe in the emperor very much. Because only the emperor can confer him as king, and he can effectively rule over his subordinates. Once it becomes the Jiyiyuan, it is simply a joke!"

While Yang Du was still proud of his own setting, Liang Qichao had already shook his head. After he finished speaking, he said: "This is the empire's routine, but the question is, what if one day, the Mongolians, or Tibetans, ask the Jiyi Academy to overthrow the nobles, whether it is Mongolia or Tibet, or adopt democratic politics in the pass, what should I do?"

"This is the internal affairs and national customs of all ethnic groups. The Scripture Academy cannot participate and will not participate. You see, the members of the Mongolian and Tibetan returned now have become officials of the Lifan Academy, just spending money to support them, and no longer have the meaning of elected people." Yang Du said. "In fact, these members of the parliament elected at the time were all nobles of all ethnic groups. This is not as elected as those in the pass."

"Haha. Yes. You want both the benefits of the empire, such as the Lifan Academy, and the benefits of the republic, such as the Jiyi Academy. No wonder you dare not say that this is a republic or an empire. You can only say it is a general saying that it is a Greater China. Because it is embarrassing to recognize the empire. If you recognize the republic, you will be embarrassed. This trick is obviously your Yang Xizi's plan." Liang Qichao said.

"Haha..." Yang Du laughed out loud, and said proudly, "Those who know me are brother Zhuoru! For the emperor, the emperor only had the appeal at the beginning of the founding of the country, but the emperor would eventually become a republic; it would be better to keep it as it is outside the pass, so there is still an emperor. How about it, this is not worse than the invention of the Chinese nation when you were?"

Yang Du's pride was not seen by Liang Qichao. He had no intention of envy or discouragement at all. He shook his head and kept shaking his head. "Xizi, I have been to Europe for many years and have worked hard to get to the point of being the same as I am today. Everything I recognized before now seems to be wrong. Your trick of Great China really can't be played for long, just like the things that I am Chinese nation can't hold on for many years.

Because the people really want to make the decision, what does the land of Mongolian and Tibetan Buddhism have to do with ordinary people? The common people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang see that the tax they pay will be imported thousands of miles away, and they will definitely not want to see their descendants going to the Western Regions to fight. What is a republic? The power of the republic comes from the people, and its power is entirely in the people. It is not like the empire's monarchy, and the power is granted by heaven. Whether it is the prime minister or the president, they are all elected by the people with property.

When power comes from the people rather than the heavens, the difference between the Mongolians, Tibetans and Han people is extremely important. Inserting some Mongolians in the Jiyi Academy is undoubtedly to reveal the secrets of the Han people to the Meng people. In the eyes of the Meng people, because we have few people, we have to look at the faces of the Han people. This is your Han people bullying us Meng people. Now the Revival Association can still control the Jiyi Academy and make those members obey the orders like puppets. After that, one day, the Meng people and the Han people will start a quarrel.

If it is not my race, their hearts will be different. This has been said in ancient times. If Yang Jingcheng could not kill all the Mongolian people, Tibetans, return people within a few years, and turn the entire pass into the Han world, then this republic would not be established, and these aliens would leave sooner or later. But if he retained these aliens, the Revival Society would need to force the Revival Society to tolerate these people. Since the Revival Society had the power to force the Revival Society, this violated the principle that power comes from the people, because the Revival Society's will was above the Revival Society.

If it was like the Russian Bolsheviks that "all power belongs to the Soviets", all this makes sense, but the problem is that the Kuomintang appears as an opposition party rather than a rebel party, which makes no sense. The country still retains Mongolian and Tibetan returning nobles outside the pass, just like an empire, and within the pass, it looks like a republic, but the real power is only in the Revival Society, not the representatives of the Revival Society. From the present perspective, the Revival Society is at most in power until after Yang Jingcheng's death. What if the Revival Society opposes the Revival Society at that time?

The national system has its own advantages and disadvantages. You cannot take the benefits of the empire, but you can live up to the price of the empire or the price of the republic. You have never been so pleased with things like this. The current situation can be maintained entirely by Yang Jingcheng, one round after another, and one round of speculation. He has money to expand his territory in the west, and immigrate to the Western Regions and even the rivers. But after the money is used up, the voters in Jiangsu and Zhejiang asked, why did our son go to the west to eat sand, and why did the money I paid be thrown thousands of miles away? What should I say?"

"Is Zhuo Ru so pessimistic?" Liang Qichao said his concern in Yang Du's heart, so he asked.

"Yes, I wasn't very worried before, I just thought that Revival would be clever. But now it seems that this is nothing and it's in chaos!" Liang Qichao said, "This whole is a mixed empire. Outside the pass, King Min is respected as the emperor and ruled by the Lifan Academy; and within the pass, the Revival Society is respected as the emperor, the Jiyi Academy and the Presidential Office ruled. But the Kuomintang was introduced. Pretending to be a republic, sooner or later, the Kuomintang will turn the pass into a real republic. Once the pass becomes a republic, the empire outside the pass cannot be maintained. It's like you can't light a lamp in a dark room. Once the Han people illuminate, it will naturally illuminate the Mongolians, Tibetans, and return people.

After all, it depends on Yang Jingcheng and what those people are going to do in the Revival Society. But no matter what they are going to do, it is extremely unstable. You either have all empires and King Min ascended the throne; or it is a republic, a republic of Han people. The Mongolian people have a republic of Mongolian people, and then whether it is an alliance or a federal or a whole, the country may be able to last longer."

"Maybe it last longer?" Yang Du smiled. "Actually, according to my opinion, it is best to build an empire and then implement a constitutional monarchy. This country will be really not easy forever."

"Eternal not easy? Haha..." Liang Qichao laughed again. With the last ray of rays of rays of rays of rays of rays of rays of rays of rays of rays of rays of rays of tears, Yang Du saw that he burst into tears. "Sizi. You are really the imperial teacher! The empire that is truly difficult forever can only be empires like Japan, Britain, Germany or other small European countries. Imperial powers are absolutely impossible for ever. Ottomans, Austro-Hungary, they are shaky and rely on external support, and the struggle between countries can barely maintain it. Persia, Tsarist Russia and even the Qing Dynasty cannot make any constitutional monarchy.

What is constitutional monarchy? This is just a process of the transformation of the empire into a republic. In order not to refuse the royal family, power is transferred from the emperor to the parliament bit by bit; even the parliament has a noble first and then to the proprietor. That is, constitutional monarchy is actually the end of the imperial system and the predecessor of the republic. In addition to the rights that belong to the emperor, other powers come from the lower-level proprietors or taxpayers.

The problem is that as long as there are voters, there will be nations, and as long as there are nations, there will be foreign races. A country that is tens of thousands of miles wide, the differences between the Guangdong and the Shandong people will be greater than those between the French and Spain, and the closeness between the Sichuan and the Wu people will not be closer than those between the Saxons and the Germans. If they really want to follow the will of the people, the country they imagine will not be much larger than that of Japan. This is the final result of the Republic, so I say that this country can never be elected, cannot be democratic, and can only be an empire.

That is to say, if the territory of this country is from the river in Central Asia to the coast of the Bohai Sea, from the wind and snow in Siberia to the coconut trees on Hainan Island, it can only be a monarch, or a Soviet like the Bolsheviks in Russia. Once this monarch is shaken, the country will collapse and shatter into small pieces of republics like Europe and constitutional monarchy.

If the Allies win this World War, then such a vast empire may still exist. But now the Democratic country has won, and US President Wilson proposed national self-determination, and such an empire will eventually collapse. Xizi, I have been wondering why Europe is a small country that is divided, while China is a unified empire. Looking to the bottom of it, they are still not Qin Shihuang!"

Liang Qichao said a lot, but Yang Du only realized what he meant, that is, if **, the Chinese national system could still be maintained longer, if democracy or constitutionalism, then Yang actually became a country that would split after his death. As a Greater Chineseist, Yang Du could not accept this. He looked at Liang Qichao in confusion and said, "Brother Zhuo Ru, you are not a spy from foreigners, right?"

"Haha!" Liang Qichao shook his head, "If I were a spy from foreigners, I would definitely not tell you the loopholes in the national system. The people who came from the old dynasty were naturally thinking of the stone Yanrang and the horse Tianshan Mountains. But the times are different. Before the rise of the West, we may be given two hundred years. At that time, there was such a Yang Jingcheng, and everything could be reversed. But now, it is too late. The West is better than the East. People who are confused think of it as a strong ship and a powerful cannon. People who understand it are technological politics. Only when Yang Jingcheng is such a genius knows that they are better in culture.

Given two hundred years to Yang Jingcheng, and with the right opportunity, he might be able to bring about the tricks he and Zhang Taiyan to the death and then fight against the Anglo-Saxons on the sea to determine the future pattern of the world. And now, not to mention that the whole world is determined to be Westerners, even the internal disputes have been settled. The dispute between Britain and Germany is not only a dispute between national interests, but also a dispute between democracy, but a dispute between German culture and Greek and Hebrew culture. This is also the reason why the German emperor said when mobilizing his army, "Prussian Germanic path of justice, freedom, decency, morality, and the Jews and Anglo-Saxon worship of the golden path".

Although Yang Jingcheng made a lot of money, this behavior was as ridiculous as the enemy's civil strife and our army helped him to wipe out. The Germans were very dissatisfied in this battle. Many French newspapers said that they would fight again in twenty years, but this did not harm the overall situation. The world pattern was determined by this. No matter how talented Yang Jingcheng was, could he reverse this situation?”

"Has Zhuo Ru reached such a conclusion in Europe for a few years?" Yang Du felt a little unbelievable when he heard Liang Qichao's words.

"Yes, I have really realized it completely in the past few years." Liang Qichao said: "The world I see is that not only the West won, but the Anglo-Saxons won. It is indeed the English won, and it represents the Germanic warrior culture that suffered a fatal blow. Even if there is another battle in twenty years, it will not hurt the overall situation. The dispute between the great powers is likely to evolve into the world of British and American governance. In that case, what else can Yang Jingcheng use to maintain his Revival Empire?

China is located in East Asia, with the Mongolian Plateau in the north, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the west, and the coast in the southeast. Only one channel leads to the outside world through small Western countries such as Loulan, and the disaster of genocide is mostly shepherds from the grassland. Under such a unified pattern, China is the center of the world and the emperor can maintain it for the day of that day. Now this world is no longer a world recognized by our ancestors. This is the reciprocity of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The era of dominance among the nations is about to end. What can you, a China that has long died? Yes, Yang Jingcheng is right, the West has declined, but what about the East? Apart from seeing some vitality in Japan, where is there any vitality?

Empress Qin Shi, we are all refugees. Zhang Binglin often criticized Confucianism. When could he criticize a group of Legalists? When did those dynasties have the final say? It was simply a political system that seemed to be Confucianism, but in essence, it was a Legalist political system. Confucianism fooled the people, but what else would the Legalists do except intimidate and massacre?"

"Zhuo Ru means that China can only be a republic, and it cannot be a republic for a short time to maintain the entire empire without division. But even if we are determined to pay the price of division, we cannot republic even if we want to republic?" Yang Du said.
Chapter completed!