Chapter 286 How Long Can It Last
Li Zhongmian happily entered the small tea room and sat down. The maid immediately brought him the best Longjing tea of that year. Kuang Sisi smiled and said, "Brother Yulin brought me Shifeng Mountain Tea. Mr. Li, please try it."
The old man was drinking Longjing tea from Lin'an. A trace of homesickness went down his throat along with the tea. He couldn't help feeling sad and burst into tears.
Kuang Sisi didn't understand what he meant, and asked Mr. Li in confusion: What's wrong with that?
Li Zhongmian wiped away his tears and said that he felt uncomfortable thinking about the emperor's suffering and Lin'an's dire straits.
He told Kuang Sisi that he had talked to Brother Yulin. The brother said that he had discussed it with the little princess and would marry the little princess when the situation stabilized.
Kuang Sisi frowned and said that the northern barbarians are always thinking about going south to rob our Song territory. When will the situation be stabilized?
Li Zhongmian told her very happily that Yulin was going to establish a republic, and would soon move to Jinguan City to be the imperial capital, and set up six ministers of state as democratic councils. General Cao and Lord Ding both supported it.
Kuang Sisi was pleasantly surprised that her daughter was really going to be the queen.
She asked calmly: What? Is my brother going to ascend the throne and become emperor?
Yulin is talking about a republic, but how to build a republic?
Li Zhongmian said with a smile that a republic means that all the citizens take charge of state affairs, and the officials in the court discuss and decide on them together, and there is no emperor.
Kuang Sisi smiled calmly and said: These are important affairs of the court, and as a woman, I don't understand them. I just hope Feiyan can get married soon and put my mind at ease.
In her heart, she was thinking: What's the matter with the republic? Yulin must be covering up and cleverly planning to ascend to the throne and become the emperor. Yulin's contribution was so great that he should be the emperor. As long as Yulin became the emperor, her daughter Feiyan would be the legitimate queen, and she would naturally be the empress dowager.
Seeing that Kuang Sisi seemed to be in a trance, Li Zhongmian called out to her, "Madam, don't worry. Yulin said that the republic would be established in two years at most, and he would agree on a date for the wedding with the little princess."
Kuang Sisi finally woke up and thought, what? I have to wait another two years?
In two years, when a man and a woman sleep, the baby will come out of the woman's belly and run around. How can ?
She thanked Li Zhongmian with a smile for seeing her off, and began to think again about how to make her daughter's marriage a smooth and quick one.
The next day, Zhao Yulin went to the government office to discuss matters.
Princess Ding took the lead in discussing personnel matters, and took the lead in discussing the appointment of Ma Ling, the Transport Envoy, and Hua Yue, the Chief Censor.
No one objected to this personnel arrangement that had already been carefully discussed by the top management. After Lord Ding read the document, he approved it, and everyone applauded and congratulated him.
Then, the old man dismissed eight prefects and county magistrates who were inactive and nominated and appointed ten prefects, prefects and county magistrates, including Ma Libao, the prefect of Kangning.
Neither Zhao Yulin nor Lao Cao objected. Lao Cao said that officials in the future must be strictly supervised and must not take office to harm the people and destroy the peace that the Shenwei Army had bought with their blood.
Ding Gong said with a smile, "Yes, yes, yes. The Zhizhisi should also set up a Ministry of Personnel to specialize in the reform of personnel administration. How to do it? Please ask Commander Zhao to explain in detail."
Zhao Yulin smiled and looked at Zhao Feiyan who was taking notes. He began to speak. He said that he had said it many times before that Sichuan and Shu should establish a republic. From now on, there will be no emperor or official.
He proposed here that we in Sichuan and Shu confirm that Princess Nanzheng Zhao Feiyan is the only princess among the people at present.
Everyone was stunned and didn't know what it meant.
Zhao Yulin said that China has practiced monarchy for thousands of years, and even though the royal court is gone now, it cannot erase the contributions of the feudal emperors who worked hard for the country.
Now only Princess Feiyan remains in Sichuan, so we will name her Princess Baihua so that future generations will remember that our Song Dynasty had such a beautiful and kind princess.
Everyone immediately started discussing it heatedly. Li Zhongmian and Ding Gong both nodded in agreement with tears in their eyes, praising Zhao Yulin's approach which was so popular.
However, Zhao Feiyan stood up nervously and declined.
Li Zhongmian and Ding Gong happily asked her to take over, praising Zhao Feiyan for doing academic work that was laying the foundation for the country and doing practical things for the people.
Zhao Feiyan looked at the gentlemen with a blushing face and thanked them excitedly.
Zhao Yulin continued, saying that we will implement a republic in the future. Our Sichuan republican system of governance is a democratic centralist republican system.
Democratic centralism means both democracy and centralization. It is neither unrestrained democracy nor autocratic centralization.
You have all felt it recently, but it is still very imperfect. This system has infinite advantages, and we must continue to improve it and move forward unswervingly.
Then, Zhao Yulin announced the founding of the New Song Republic, which inherited all the territory and rights of the Song Dynasty, abolished all unequal treaties signed with other countries, and called on the sons and daughters of China to unite and fight against all barbaric enemies to maintain national stability and unity.
As soon as these words were spoken, all the gentlemen looked at him solemnly, and the meeting room suddenly became sacred and solemn.
He proposed the establishment of a temporary central government council for the new Song Dynasty, which would handle the country's daily affairs.
The State Council has one director, Ding Gong, and six deputy directors, Cao Youwen, Li Zhongmian, Zhao Yanna, Zhao Yulin, Zhao Feiyan, and Hua Yue. The above seven people divide the work and coordinate and manage national affairs.
Everyone immediately started to discuss in a low voice. Some people felt that Hua Yue's official rank, grade and experience were all low, and he belonged to the "three low" category of people. It was too bad for him to enter the Central Government Affairs Council.
Later, Lao Cao loudly asked if the gentlemen had any different opinions.
Hua Yue stood up trembling and declined, saying that he was uneducated and of low rank and was absolutely not qualified for the job.
Zhao Yulin immediately denied it, saying that he was upright and talented. If he hadn't done anything great before, it was because he hadn't put Mr. Hua in the right position. In a word, let's do it first.
Seeing his firm attitude, the gentlemen in the room all shook their heads silently, with no objection.
Mr. Ding looked at Zhao Yulin and Zhao Feiyan hesitantly and said that Yulin should be the director. He believed that Zhao Yulin had made great contributions and should be the director, but he was old and frail and could not do it.
Zhao Yulin immediately said that Mr. Ding had made great contributions in governing Sichuan for many years and was highly respected. If no one else was suitable to be the first director, right?
The crowd started to discuss noisily again, and everyone said, "Yes, yes, yes."
Zhao Yulin shouted: Please raise your hands if you agree with this arrangement, and soon the whole audience was filled with right hands.
He then shouted: Please raise your hands if you object, but there is no one here.
Zhao Yulin shouted again: "Please raise your hands if you abstain from voting." There was not even one. He loudly announced that the election of national officials had been passed unanimously.
Thunderous applause immediately broke out in the meeting room.
In this way, the first republican reform conference in Sichuan came to a successful conclusion.
Mr. Ding smiled and suggested that the elected director and deputy director stand up and bow to everyone in the conference room. The republican conference is about discussing and doing things for the people together. Please, everyone.
Zhao Yulin was very happy that Mr. Ding understood so quickly. He pulled Zhao Feiyan up and followed Mr. Ding in bowing deeply with their heads down. The audience then burst into applause again.
Mr. Ding was in a very happy mood and invited everyone to go to the restaurant for a drink and a gathering.
The gentlemen came to the restaurant behind the government office in high spirits and toasted each other to celebrate.
In the afternoon, Zhao Yulin asked Zhang Xiangyang to arrange for the Chengdu Weekly to find Lord Ding to write a report. He wanted the people of Sichuan to know as soon as possible: Chengdu had been founded as a country, Chengdu had implemented a democratic republic, and Lord Ding was the first ruler.
Soon, the breaking news of the founding of the New Song Republic appeared in major newspapers in Sichuan and Shu. Not only did the people of Sichuan and Shu see it, but people in Jiangdong, Jiangbei and the Mongolian steppes also knew about it.
The people of Sichuan and Shu took their newspapers and ran around telling each other: We have also established a country, and it is called the New Song Republic.
This country openly declares that it serves the people. Look at the promises made by Lord Ding and Commander Zhao, they both want us to have enough food to eat and to have a safe home. This is much better than the Song Dynasty in the past.
Newspapers from Sichuan and Shu flowed down the river and were first delivered to the small court in Lin'an and the son of the envoy, Shi.
Emperor Zhao Bing was furious when he saw the newspaper and tore it to pieces. He then sneered and said, "Humph, Zhao Qier has established a country, so let him establish it. I want to see how long this country can last."
Shi's son was still at home taking care of his grandson. When he saw the article about Sichuan's founding of a country published in the Chengdu Weekly, in which Sichuan was about to take up the banner and recover lost territory, he felt that his chance had come.
Zhao Bing must be very busy these days with training the new army, laying off incompetent officials and tightening financial constraints.
Now that Zhao Qi'er has established a country in Sichuan and Shu and wants to abolish all unequal alliances, it will definitely cause .
Those loyal and righteous people who are dedicated to serving the country and recovering the homeland will surely come out to express their opinions and take action.
This gave him the opportunity to overthrow Zhao Bing and establish a new emperor.
Ever since the false emperor Zhao Bing came back and left Shi's son aside, he had been thinking about overthrowing Zhao Bing. However, he was a spineless man who only surrendered and advocated peace, and the loyal and righteous people who dared to take action looked down on him.
Now that Sichuan and Shu have issued written orders, he can just make a fuss about this matter, review his mistakes, summon his loyal soldiers, and look for an opportunity to kill Zhao Bing and re-establish an obedient emperor.
The next day, Mr. Ding sent someone to invite Zhao Yulin to inspect the construction of Caotang Academy. When he arrived at the government office, he found Zhao Feiyan already standing at the door.
The three of them came to the construction site of the academy. Mr. Wu introduced the construction of the academy. According to Professor Zhang's suggestion, Master Liu Yuru from Yibin was specially hired as the director.
Zhao Yulin greeted Liu Yuru with a smile. This expert at the craftsman level of a great country was full of admiration for Zhao Yulin. Many of Yibin's advanced architectural concepts were taught to him by Zhao Yulin and put into practice.
The most prominent feature is the laying of pipes for unified sewage discharge and the construction of three-level septic tanks to use the biogas principle to treat sewage from toilets, thus changing the problem of dirty and smelly dry toilets in the past. The new academy also uses the latest construction technology.
The old master asked someone to bring three rattan safety helmets and asked them to put them on, and then he continued to explain the whole process.
Zhao Yulin listened carefully. The scale of the academy was still smaller than what Zhao Yulin had expected. It only had the College of Arts, the College of Engineering, the College of Medicine, and the College of Music. In addition, except for the College of Arts, which could accommodate 400 students per grade, the total number of students in other colleges was less than 150,000.
