Liang Qi, who was in Shanghai, certainly did not know that he was the role of Yang Rui who was determined to sink the Mariana Trench to plant lotus roots, but more and more gentlemen refused him and made him understand his embarrassing situation more and more. After a few months, when Tang Hualong was gone, he regretted not being able to avoid the opportunity to meet with Yang Rui. After that, the only way he could do was to hold a free newspaper with Tang Juedun, Zhang Junli, Jiang Baili and others in Shanghai.

Compared with him leaving Shanghai a few years ago, the current news control should be said to be more relaxed, but the sales of the Free Press are becoming less and less satisfactory. In the end, the newspaper was suddenly in a blaze and had to go bankrupt and disband. He eventually left the political arena and became a professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. For current affairs, he just wrote comments and earned some royalties, so that the name Liang Rengong was still retained in the eyes of readers, but in fact, he and his magic pen were no longer important.

More and more gentry and landlords entered the Trinity Church, and the social atmosphere was becoming increasingly confined. There were fewer and fewer vernacular words and sentences in newspaper articles, and more and more rare words and sentences. Everything seemed to go before the Gengzi, or even before the self-reliance movement. And the world is becoming increasingly ancient. Even for international ports like Shanghai, fewer and fewer people wear suits and more and more people wear national clothes. Only at cocktail parties held by foreigners can the social atmosphere around the 1911.

To be honest, the change in social atmosphere is not only the credit of the Sany Cult, but the Chinese government also contributed to this. On the 27th day of the summer calendar of the 14th year of Shenwu, the Sany Cult was established as the state religion by the Seiya Academy; on the 26th day of the 14th year of Shenwu, the Clan Management Law passed the voting of the Seiya Academy; on the 3rd day of the 15th year of Shenwu, the land reform compensation proposal submitted by the Seiya Academy and the All-China Clan Federation was handed over to the Seiya Academy for discussion, and was voted and passed at the Seiya Academy in October of that year...

Just like an ordinary spectator, Liang Qi, who was in Fudan University in Shanghai, watched the stars on the stage perform as he had guessed. Such a vivid and envious feeling made him both envious and hate him. If he had not made a mistake back then, he could have been able to get along on this stage, but luck made people feel good. Now he can only be a spectator.

Not only a spectator, he is also a spectator who can only applaud. He cannot oppose the establishment of Sany religion as the national religion, because he is a Confucian scholar, and it is not bad to respect national studies; he cannot oppose the clan management law, because he himself is in the relationship between clan fellow townsmen. Once he opposes and does not mention anything else, he may not be able to return to Xinhui to worship his ancestors in this life; he cannot oppose the land reform compensation case, because this was what he advocated before, and it is precisely because of this that he did not really participate in the Yunnan rebellion, so he was exempted from prosecution.

Religion, clan, and land compensation. Once these three far-reaching bills were passed, some things that followed were natural: in July of the 15th year of Shenwu, because the revival would not want to use the property to compensate the landlords, Tianziha applied for liquidation and split with the state-owned company; in December, the most critical step in privatization was that the National Bank Reorganization Act was finally passed under the initiative of the Kuomintang, including the Kanto Bank, Qiaoshang Bank, Mongolia Bank, and Northwest Bank, and four other banks, including Kanto Bank, Qiaoshang Bank, Mongolia Bank, and Northwest Bank, to join 19 provincial banks in the Guanguan to use the cash of the state-owned company stocks and cash compensated by the Land Compensation Act, and the cash held by the major private banks to invest in the State Bank. The State Bank was reorganized into the only bank of private nature.

In December, the case of cancellation of agricultural tax, submitted by Tao Shouhe, the son of Tao Chengzhang, the late Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, was voted and passed in the judgment of the judgment. The agricultural tax that lasted for thousands of years finally left the stage of history. 400 million farmers across the country were happy. On New Year's Eve, not only did they thank the emperor's palaces in various counties, but also knelt down to the capital.

At this point, the privatization performance started with Shenwu Thirteenth, and the following year, Shenwu 16th year was the year of the Jiyi Academy. At this time, 400 million farmers realized that with the cancellation of the agricultural tax, the original right of suffrage also disappeared (in the future, they may have cancelled agricultural tax hidden in fertilizers and all other necessities of life, but that was a very accidental thing in the future). According to statistics from the IRS, the number of voters in this election was the least in the founding of the country, with only more than 6.3 million. In addition to landlords and factory owners with industries, there were also some senior workers, civil servants, officers, and some self-cultivated farmers and handicraftsmen who had to pay personal income tax.

The voters with voting rights have dropped from 80 million to the previous fraction, which makes the previous canvassing method of going deep into the countryside completely useless. ╞┝╞┞Oct.┝═. [(.[o?m Voters who really have voting rights can be found in the county town, and even if they don’t live in the county town, they can still pass messages through the business gentry in the county town. This is the north, in the southeastern provinces, if you want to get votes, you must make good friends with the clans of each county, because most of the votes in the county are controlled by the clan. If you talk well with the clan leader, you only need a meal and the election will be completely done. If you want to give speeches and small gifts like before, you will have no gains except attracting a bunch of spectators without voting rights.

Liang Qi, who had been watching all this coldly, did nothing but write an article. Although he also paid personal income tax, Shanghai was just a guest place to him. Even if someone suggested that he run for the election, he smiled and said that the top figures in Shanghai admired his knowledge, but he was an outsider after all. How could those Shanghai people, Ningbo people vote for him?

Liang Qi, a former big man, is very clear about his current situation, but Song Jiaoren, the leader of the Kuomintang, who is still a big man, is a little amused by his current situation.

First, the country seems to have returned to his youth when he was studying. In order to promote the good-man government at Yanjing University in Beijing, the whole country is regressing and falling into terrible barbarism. Although it does not fully agree with the views of Hu Shi and others, for Song Jiaoren who has been abroad, the current transformation is indeed a bit difficult to adapt to;

Secondly, in recent years, he felt that he was a puppet of Yang Jingcheng and others. Of course, if he was not a puppet, he would not have any impact on the overall situation. With the control of the Revival Society on the skeptics, any bill could be passed smoothly as long as it is not unconstitutional. The only mysterious thing is the case of the reorganization of the State Bank, which involves Huayuan's exercise, but if the reorganization case is not agreed, under the gold nugget standard, major provincial banks can use cash to empty all the gold in the State Bank. Once the gold is lost, Huayuan will be worthless, which will cause economic shocks. At that time, the representatives of the Revival Society can stabilize the market as an excuse to propose the merger of the State Bank and private banks, which is also equivalent to the reorganization of the State Bank.

These are at the rational level. Another reason is that the sponsors of the Kuomintang over the years are all people in the banking industry. Song Jiaoren can guarantee that he is innocent, but he cannot guarantee that others are innocent. The restructuring of the state banking industry is what people in the banking industry most look forward to. Once they oppose, no one can guarantee what will happen.

Cooperation can become the fourth prime minister of China; if he does not cooperate, the Kuomintang will inevitably split and withdraw from politics from now on. Such multiple-choice questions will be done by fools, but after making the "correct choice", Song Jiaoren increasingly seems to have emptied the entire country. Even if he becomes the prime minister, his authority is limited and his actions are limited. Is this really the result he wants?

In December of the 16th year of Shenwu, Song Jiaoren, who was at Huguang Guild Hall in Hufangqiao, Beijing, was stuck in his election speech. He was increasingly trying to tear up this official article. According to the previous agreement, no matter how many seats the Kuomintang occupies in the Scripture Academy this time, the Prime Minister was his.

"Sir, the Prime Minister called and said there was something important to invite you to go for a discussion." Tan Yihong, the eldest son of the deceased Tan Renfeng, knocked on the door and came in to report that he is now Song Jiaoren's full-time secretary.

"Did you say something?" Song Jiaoren asked with a cigarette. As Yang Rui's term is about to end, the two of them have more and more negotiations on government affairs. Many of them are instructing him, and they should not be moved lightly, which is really annoying.

"It's said it's in government affairs." Tan Yihong replied. "The location is at the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, and it's said it's a family dinner tonight. Please take your wife to the appointment on time."

"Okay, I understand. Please tell me the family that you don't need to cook dinner." Song Jiaoren said, and after instructing him, he said again: "Remember to say it's a family dinner, you don't have to change into any luxurious clothes."

"Yes, sir." As Song Jiaoren's secretary, Tan Yihong certainly understood what Song Jiaoren was worried about was the same as most people in this era. Song Jiaoren's wife was also a vulgar woman who had never seen much of the world, and was four years older than him. Fortunately, her wife never complained about his strange actions and gave birth to a son, so her marriage has been stable for decades and she had no idea of ​​taking a concubine. But this was the past. As the leader of the Kuomintang after the founding of the country, his wife Fang Kuaijie was a little out of the box, so every time she went out to socialize and feast, Song Jiaoren had to give me some advice.

When the lights first started, Song Jiaoren, who was driving a Volkswagen, went to the Yang Mansion to have a banquet. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Yang Wuming limping. He smiled and greeted Song Jiaoren, and then guided him to drive the car to the parking lot. Yang Rui's three sons and one daughter, in Song Jiaoren's opinion, this eldest son is the most sensible and decent. Although he looks more like Cheng Xu and is not so tough, he looks more handsome. It's a pity that he is lame, otherwise the four most beautiful men in China might be on the list.

Parked the car carefully. Song Jiaoren looked at the busy crowd and trucks in the parking lot and asked curiously: "Nephew, is this?"

"Oh..." Seeing that Song Jiaoren was curious about the moving team, Yang Wuming smiled and said, "Mr. Dunchu doesn't know that his father doesn't want to be involved in politics after this term, so he no longer lives in the Duke's Mansion. Some things have to be moved to Tonghua early."

"Oh, that's it." Song Jiaoren was prepared for Yang Rui's withdrawal from politics, but he was a little uncomfortable with him and seemed to have an indescribable feeling of being empty. With Yang Rui here, he, the next Prime Minister, cannot be casually used to it, but Yang Rui is not here. Once something major happens, there is a real backbone in the capital.

After crossing several floors of doors, Song Jiaoren heard Yang Rui's hearty laughter. He bowed under the street lights and said loudly: "Rui has not been far away, don't blame him for the first time."

"There, there." Song Jiaoren was kind-hearted, and Sister Fang Kuai beside him also gave him a standard blessing, not embarrassing him.

"The first person who escaped is extremely punctual." Two more voices said, "This is Xie Zhangtai from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Vice Premier Zhang Taiyan.

"The Prime Minister's dinner must be on time." Song Jiaoren smiled and bowed to them again.

"Okay, it's winter, so don't be polite, go in and say it." Yang Rui, as a landlord, said.

In some old banquet halls, the hot pot on the dining table was already steaming hot. In addition, the air conditioner was installed in the hall. Even if Song Jiaoren took off his coat, he felt hot all over. After three rounds of wine, he took off two close-fitting clothes. He savored the glass of Chinese wine and said, "Is this the wine in Maotai Town?"

Yang Rui was drinking rice wine this time, and Song Jiaoren was a guest, so of course he drank good wine. Before he could speak, Zhang Taiyan, who was greedy for the cup, smiled and said, "It's Maotai. If Dunchu likes it, I will be drunk today."

"I dare not, it would be too rude if I really get drunk." Song Jiaoren smiled with a blushing face, then looked at Yang Rui and asked, "Brother Jingcheng called to invite him today. I can't get drunk now."

Song Jiaoren spoke Yang Rui just smiled, and he felt that he had eaten and drunk enough, so he put down his glass and said seriously: "In a few days, the results of the election of the Jiyi Academy will come out; the end of the year will be the Prime Minister's election; I will retire before the beginning of spring and Qingming Festival. I will first go to the first cup of the first day of the lunar calendar. I am afraid it will be more than twenty years since I met you..."

"Twenty-two years." Song Jiaoren recalled the first meeting between the two in Tokyo. He sighed a little.

"Yes, twenty-two years. In the past twenty-two years, the first year of the dying period will support me and the Fuxing period. What is rare is that Ming Daquan is willing to give in. Only when our two parties work together can we achieve the achievements of China today. No matter what, I will respect the first cup of the dying period." Yang Rui wanted to respect Song Jiaoren, Xie Zhang Tai and Zhang Taiyan also wanted to raise their glasses to honor each other, and the table suddenly became lively again.

After this round of wine was finished, Yang Rui looked at Song Jiaoren with a flushed face and mentioned the important matter, and said, "I only have three things to worry about when I take over. One is diplomacy, the second is internal affairs, and the third is economy.

Diplomats actually say that China has two strong neighbors, one is the northwest Soviet Union and the other is the southeastern United States. As for Britain and France, they are just the rulers of the preservation. As long as we don’t move them, they are afraid of us and worry that we are not too late, so as long as they are impartial. The Soviet Union is different from the United States, and the Soviet Union is extremely expanding. I wish the whole world would become red. Fortunately, their new General Secretary Stalin is a stable and conservative person, and now he is engaged in electrification construction. As long as we don’t provoke him, he will not move us. In the past few years, as long as the Soviet Union implements the five-year plan, as long as it does not deliberately stimulate them, everyone will still be in peace.

With the Soviet Union like this, the United States in the southeast has always been worried that we will steal the Philippines from Japan. The anti-Chinese atmosphere in China, especially California is extremely serious. Since the anti-Chinese incident in the 13th year of Shenwu, we and Japan have strictly controlled the review of visas to the United States, and smuggling is also suppressing, so now the number of overseas Chinese in the United States is less than 80,000, and it will be further reduced. If the two countries really have disputes over overseas Chinese students, it is not impossible to withdraw them all."

"This..." Song Jiaoren also knew that after the United States' anti-China epidemic, the number of overseas Chinese in the United States dropped sharply. In the last two terms, the Republican Party has been in power. In order to alleviate employment pressure, the immigration quota has been controlled extremely severely. He didn't expect that Yang Rui wanted to withdraw all overseas Chinese in the United States. "Is Japan the same attitude? If the United States evacuates overseas Chinese, what should we do if Canada and the entire Americas are there?"

"Bismarck once said that the alliance relationship between countries is the relationship between riders and animals. Between China and Japan, we must be riders, and they are animals. We would rather evacuate overseas Chinese than avoid conflicts with the United States, so of course they should do this instead of the other way around." Yang Rui said domineeringly. He was actually a little worried that Song Jiaoren did not know how to control the Japanese. Fortunately, China is not the presidential system, and the Academy of Scholars can reject his inappropriate policies at any time. "The evacuation of overseas Chinese is only implemented without any means. If countries such as Mexico and Brazil also want to do the same, then try the power of our shells."

"But what if the United States also intervenes in it?" America is an American America, Song Jiaoren has to ask.

"Then you have to fire the fire!" Yang Rui no longer gave in this time. "The evacuation of overseas Chinese is only aimed at the United States. If other American countries massacre overseas Chinese, the navy must fire the fire, otherwise the entire American countries will exclude overseas Chinese. If we completely give in to the United States, then overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and other places will be no longer protected, and there are millions of people here."

After Yang Rui said that, he saw Song Jiaoren pondering and said again: "The safety of overseas Chinese affects diplomacy, especially relations with the United States. The national strength of the United States is not something we can resist. China and Japan doubled together, which is still much worse than that of the United States. Therefore, no matter how much government investment is needed to reduce taxes, the industry is still inferior to the United States. If war really starts, it is nothing more than whether the United States has 100 warships to deal with twenty or thirty warships. Not to mention thirty, what can even be forty? It still loses after the battle.

The best and only way for the United States is to avoid it. When we have done it decades later, we can speak loudly. It is unwise to go to the other party to force us now. After the first seclusion, we will be angry with many Americans. We must not act irritated because of small losses. Once the war begins, we will definitely not win. Look, there are so many people who died in the anti-Chinese case in the 13th year of Shenwu. "

Yang Rui said that Song Jiaoren nodded frequently. Although China and Japan are calling for the wind and rain in Asia, they may not be much weaker to Britain and France. But they are still not enough to look at the United States. If the economic data is not compared, the United States has 45 million tons of steel production, while even if China expands every year, it is only 9 million tons. In addition, Japan is only a little over 10 million. Fighting war is to fight industry, and only one-fifth of the industrial level of the United States is really impossible to fight.

Seeing that Song Jiaoren understood his meaning and knew that he was not a slutty person like William II, Yang Rui felt a little relieved. He said again: "From Northeast Asia, North Korea is the most important; from East Asia, Japan is the most important; from Asia, Persia is the most important; from the world, the Soviet Union is the most important. Our diplomatic focus is in this sentence. If Dunchuzhen encounters diplomatic problems, you can find the answers from here."

'In view of Northeast Asia, North Korea is the most important; in view of East Asia, Japan is the most important; in view of Asia, Persia is the most important; in view of the world, the Soviet Union is the most important.' Song Jiaoren silently recited what Yang Rui said. After remembering it, he said, "I became a brother, so what should we look at?"

Although I told you the trick, the key is how to position yourself. Seeing Song Jiaoren ask, Xie Zhangtai said, "Dunchu, it's hard to answer the questions you asked. If you really want to tell them, it won't be clear in one night. It's just a framework. When you take over the Prime Minister's Office, you will have an explanation, but the explanation is an explanation. You must adapt to the situation in the future."

"Chong'an is right." Yang Rui took over, "Diplomatic affairs require both principles and change. It depends on how Dunchu weighs the trade-offs.

What is mentioned above is diplomacy. Next is internal affairs. The internal affairs have basically been straightened out now. The county government and provincial levels have begun to implement autonomy. In fact, Uncle Mei wanted to divide the fiefdom outside the pass, but the resistance inside the pass was strong and he had to get it outside the pass. And to be honest, this is not a feudal at all. This is just a similar to the Ottoman Timal system, which also originated from the European military fief system.

This kind of military fiefdom system also existed during the Zhou Dynasty. As the saying goes, feudal system, patriarchal system, well-field system, and fiefdom system are the foundation of the Zhou Dynasty's political system. In my opinion, this is no different from local autonomy. It is nothing more than that under autonomy, the county magistrate takes turns to serve as a patriarch, and the fiefdom system is hereditary. In fact, this is mainly to comfort the heroes. Although they are to remove the grind and kill the donkey, they still have to grind and grind now. No one will do the things that come after killing the donkey."

Whether it is a fief or a fief, Song Jiaoren smiled and said nothing about this. This involved the entire military merit group. Even if he wanted to move, he could not move. Moreover, most of the people who were in the Congress were from the Revival Society. Fortunately, Yang Rui only passed by this, and the next thing he talked about was the economy.

"According to the report of the Business Intelligence Agency in the past two years, the world economy is not optimistic and is likely to collapse in the last one or two years." Yang Rui exclaimed from the beginning. "There are two sources of the crisis. The first is the US economy that expanded during the European War. In order not to cause strikes, Americans have been stimulating the economy, but no matter how much they stimulate, they are bubbles. If they are bubbles, there will be a day of explosion. This day will not be long before it will arrive;

The second is Europe, Britain, France, Italy and Germany. All these four countries owed the United States money. Germany owed Britain, France and Italy, and Britain, France and Italy owed the United States. It is said that the money plus interest has already reached 40 to 50 billion US dollars. The European economy is still accustomed to now, and the fundamental reason is that the United States is constantly exporting US dollars, which makes the economy barely circulate. Once the United States withdraws funds, the economy of Europe, especially Germany, will stop.

At that time, the entire world economy will be hard. Whoever has a big bubble will fall hard. Although we export a lot of European and American goods, our competitiveness is not bad. Moreover, the Soviet Union has five-year plans, and most of the contracts are signed with us. In addition, our domestic demand is strong, agricultural taxes are reduced, roads are repaired, grain and cotton are increasing every year, and the people are rich, so the impact of the crisis will be, but it will not be very serious."

"What should the government do?" Song Jiaoren had known about the prediction of the economic crisis, but he did not expect it to be during his term of office.

"The government can do very little, but in fact, the most important thing is to encourage market confidence. What is most afraid of is that when the economic crisis comes, no one dares to spend money. The more they don't spend money, the more depressed the market will be. In the end, everyone is afraid to spend money." Yang Rui said. "Encourage market confidence internally; externally, the Ministry of Commerce is now starting to sign new trade treaties with various countries, and the provisions in it have fully taken into account the economic crisis. So I believe that when countries around the world raise tariffs, we will trade with Asian countries, South America, China and the United States, and European countries, basically based on the principle of reciprocity.
Chapter completed!