Chapter 229: Satisfy your heart

During the past ten days, I still did a lot of things. I summoned Kong Lingyi, Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and others and made a lot of discussions on the development of Confucianism in the two directions. The control of the middle and lower levels of the people and the army must be completed with the Confucianism that develops towards religion and is combined with the situation governance system. This work seems to have been a little careless in the past, and some things should be carried out at the same level as national development.

The identity of the leader of the New Confucian Party must also slowly transition. As for the so-called one-party dictatorship issue, it is far from my time to consider. The so-called party parties, parties always represent a class. The New Confucian Party represents the current ruling class based on the royal family and management intellectuals. In the future, when the country develops and there are more classes participating in politics, new parties will naturally emerge, and there are no need for concerns about those one-party dictatorship. Just like the United States had only one mainland party at the beginning, but later the two factions representing agricultural and industrial interests gradually separated, and then it gradually became differentiated into two parties. After the glorious revolution in Britain, it was also a party dictatorship, and later it gradually turned into several major parties.

The so-called multi-party system is not created, but is gradually evolved from history. Parties are just the organizational representatives of various classes participating in politics at the most apparent level of politics. Just like in the future, the national system changes and the elite's line of governing the country will change, and there will naturally be political forces representing other classes. Then, other parties will naturally arise. At that time, one-party dictatorship will really cause problems. The reason is that if you, an elite party, dominates the dominant party, and do not give other parties and other classes a way out, they will naturally revolutionize your life. At this time, you must be enlightened in politics. Political evolution is like the evolution of mankind. Man-made multi-party competition is always just an artificial landscape and cannot bring any new ideas to the political life of this country.

The New Confucian Party is just a created party, and it is a tool I use to further gather the elite class, let alone other ones? My current governance direction is to strengthen the cohesion of this party to achieve the goal consistency of the entire ruling class to eliminate internal friction to the greatest extent. How can we create other virtual and explanatory parties to disperse the core ruling forces that are not united enough? This is a gradual transition. Any rapid advancement cannot be endured by this country. History has proved this with nearly a hundred years of hardship. Although the radical attitude is certainly worthy of appreciation, those who have succeeded in giving credit to the slogan, but once the heavy suffering caused by failure is to be borne by the entire nation, it is better to have fewer such people.

Following this idea, the construction of party committees in various places has also been put on the agenda. The five-year state bonds sold nearly 40 million pounds, which is equivalent to the fiscal revenue in the past two years. Therefore, on the one hand, we must exempt some of the provinces from all the money and grain. In recent years, the Jiangnan region, which has developed very fast in industry and commerce but has heavy taxes, has also reduced some taxes. It is correct that the country needs to use money recently, but it is also necessary to be appropriately gentle to the people. In addition to stabilizing the political situation, this is also a matter of people's desire.

The annual fiscal budget of the Ministry of Education and Chemical will increase an additional 10 million taels from next year. This money is extremely large and easy to attract attention. Especially when the country is exempted from money and food, Zhang Zhidong will probably be jealous if they get this money. It seems that I still have to do this explanation work. I also have to sound the alarm bell for Zhang Zhidong's little thoughts. However, the Ministry of Education and Chemical will strengthen the supervision of the way it takes, which will make the vertical system of the Qing government office work. It is worth it to train two teams with one sum of money.

With the overhaul of the Confucius Temple throughout the country, the country's unyielding attitude towards inheriting the culture that has been passed down for thousands of years, the new policy is to seek a strong country, rather than to break the stove and start over again. This approach can calm the hearts of many people. At least traditional intellectuals will be moved by the court's action, and the political pressure on me by the Qingliu School will be slightly reduced. The party departments at all levels of the New Confucian Party must also be built with this situation. Slowly increase power and establish a supervision and guiding role in the administrative system, so that a decentralization system of power checks and balances can be gradually formed at all levels. The administrative heads, the heads in charge of various new policies, and the vertical institutions of the party departments at all levels cooperate with the Qing government yamen, formed a dual balance system of administration and supervision. As for the subsequent changes, it will take until a mature constitution is formulated.

There is another advantage of this task, which is the group of consultants from the Social Research Institute who feels great in Liang Qichao. They can directly join the refining of Confucian classics and religiousize Confucianism. For old scholars like them, it is both an interest and a hard work, but after the matter is completed, they can gain what they are most passionate about - name.

People have desires, just as the desires of these people lie in fame, and more people lie in profit and power. Zaifeng became like this, and what he wanted was naturally power.

Foreigners are still seeking profits more. Recently, China-Germany relations have been somewhat cooler. I am also using some profits to warm up this relationship. Krupp, an old friend, naturally cannot forget. Siemens and Zeiss, have also become new favorites. Among them, the relationship between Siemens and my country is considered complementary. Since Siemens, who I launched, obtained some patents on radio, I occasionally gave him some ideas on electrification, so the communication department of the Military Department he was responsible for was still smooth in cooperation with Siemens. With the combination of the two Simens, naturally opened a Siemens Beijing Company in China, which is one-third of the royal holdings, which specifically provides equipment and technical support for the communication and electrification of China's military and administrative departments, and makes a lot of profits.

Zeiss Company was purely introduced. When I had no way to start with the gun sight radar, the optical gun sight was naturally the only choice for artillery fire between the sea and the land. It was naturally a lot of money to introduce this company. In addition to signing an agreement that all gun sights were provided by the company within ten years, I also found a businessman to cooperate with the Royal Family and cooperated with him in Tianjin to establish a Zeiss China Company controlled by the German side. The first business was to replace the gun sights for the Royal Navy in a comprehensive manner. The Navy will not have any major wars in recent years.

In addition to the first two fearless-class battleships that will come in at the end of this year and the beginning of next year, after the second two ships arrive again at the end of next year, the navy will enter a period where there will be no new ships to be replenished for a long time. After a few years of leaping forward, the navy should also settle for a few years, but training must not be stopped. Use this period to change the navy's military system. It will be easier to establish a modern military service system on the navy that is already wandering in a foreign land. Then wait for the domestic transportation and postal and telecommunications system to gradually improve, and finally a national recruit system will be completely established.

All of these four fearless ships were built by the British. Due to the import of high-quality steel, it was extremely expensive to transport from Harvey Steel in Sheffield in northern England to the shipyard in China. Therefore, after two batches of four fearless ships negotiated again, only one was built in China. A while ago, this time, this was also a compromise.

The large flat-panel ships issued to the Lushun Shipyard have a large amount of steel used there, but this must be guaranteed. Even if the ship cannot be used for actual combat after it is built, it is also an exploration. My own shipbuilding industry must slowly catch up. Even if it is almost a blank piece of paper, the Hamburg Shipyard has the greatest help in this regard. Perhaps it is due to the idea of ​​almost the same number of shipbuilding plans hidden behind the German Emperor's naval plan. In the days when there are no orders, almost all the engineers of the Hamburg Shipyard in Vladivostok moved to Lushun and taught them step by step. This help has indeed touched me, so in private occasions, I asked the people below to give the people in the Hamburg Shipyard a little confidence openly and secretly, and there will definitely be business to take care of him in the future.

The Army and Navy are basically still going well now, and the results of the war have proved this. However, with the success of the airship, the requirements for the extensive procurement of airships in the army have become stronger and stronger. This thing has a low threshold and good practicality. It is indeed a temptation for the military that has tasted the sweetness. However, these requirements have been suppressed by me. In addition to the large-load transport airships required by the Logistics Department and a small number of reconnaissance airships, all other requirements have been rejected by me. In addition to the necessity I know, the recent progress of the Royal Institute in addition to the rapid progress of Mebach's cars, another project I have invested in has also begun to take off. The Wright brothers finally made a plane that could stay in the air for twenty minutes.

Of course, this is inseparable from Mebach's progress. Mebached's high-power engine gave the Wright brothers a better power, so their starting point was better than real history, and it was three years ahead of schedule. Before them, Mr. Markchin, who had a good bag, failed, and the aviation expert Langley failed, but the Wright brothers succeeded. Although it is still far from the plane in my concept, it can fly after all, so let's take it slowly.

All of this needs to be kept secret because Maybach's engine can be regarded as the most advanced engine in the world. Fortunately, he has become a Chinese nationality, and this talent will be a wealth of the country.

Good news also came from Jiangning. Although American John Holland's submarine cost a lot of money, the results were very good. Although it was still far from actual combat, it was just a good start.

The inventions of these foreigners also gave me a sudden inspiration. The Ministry of Education and Education is also responsible for the naturalization of foreigners. This has been exercised in the occupied areas and must be kept up at the same time in the country. There are not many things, but they are very effective.

Another is to establish its own patent protection system to stimulate the people's desire for invention. Chinese people are not much stupider than foreigners. What they lack is a trend to lead innovation. This is what I have to do. In the few days before Zaifeng returned to Beijing, I issued several imperial edicts in succession. One is to establish an invention department, temporarily held under the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and Zhang Zhidong directly served as the official. The other is to issue an edict, 100,000 silver dollars to solicit innovative inventions in various fields of the country's industry. This is a huge sum of money. In name, a prince's annual salary is only so much.

If these measures are carried out, all you have to wait for is the harvest.

Of course, my political focus is still on Zaifeng's affairs. The Manchu and Han men who pretended to behave in front of me took off their official clothes and were imprisoned in prison in less than two days. This shows that these people are still humble and will not shed tears without seeing the coffin. The report sent by Liu Guangdi was nothing new, but I was shocked by the explanation of a series of lists of opposition to the party. It was indeed as my judgment that the merger of the stubborn Manchu and Mongolian forces with the Qing sect, and the factional strugglers in the enlightened faction formed a large group that shocked me in scale.

Obviously, with Zhang Zhidong as the chief minister of the cabinet, the Kaiming faction has gradually faded out of this political group with little prospects. From Liao Shouheng's interrogation records, it can be seen that this time he should have attended their joint meeting for the last time, but by chance, the monk stole dog meat for his whole life, and when he ate the last time before he died, he happened to be caught by the Bodhisattva. The confessions of others also confirmed this.

I'm afraid he didn't dare to tell the truth to me, and he was also lucky. The handling of these people must be directly handed over to Zhang Zhidong. As for the relatives, the clan mansion will temporarily send someone to watch at home thinking about his mistakes and orders. Now is not the time for a big killing.

In addition to the enlightened faction's dissatisfaction with Li Hongzhang, I plan to kill a group of the other two teams, but I still need to wait for it now, because the leader Zaifeng has not yet fallen.

Of course, Zaifeng knew about this shocking uproar in the capital. On the third day after I returned from the automobile factory, news came from Jinan Prefecture, Shandong that it was the Qin army to be renamed the prince. Prince Chun Zaifeng was seriously ill and could not afford to be ill in Jinan. He submitted a confession to his serious crime, and also asked to return to Beijing after he was cured.

His illness came very coincidentally. After reading his memorial, I couldn't help but laugh. I didn't reply to him and treated him coldly for a day. The next day, the people from Prince Chun's mansion, who had not appeared for a long time, finally came to the palace. What made me smile knowingly was that what they were looking for was indeed Ning Fei Youlan's way.

After all the plans in my mind were settled, I naturally became calm and calm. After hearing Kou Lian say that there was a guest from Prince Chun’s Mansion in the inner palace, I smiled and waved my hand to let him lead the way. I went to Chengqian Palace leisurely.

There is no queen mother in the palace. Theoretically speaking, the queen is the lord of the six palaces. If Longyu's Yunke was not available, Youlan, who was in the position of concubine, would not be qualified to recruit guests to the palace. I heard Kou Lian say that Longyu, an honest man, was still angry, and he sighed in his heart that this child is really not talented and too honest. I don't believe that she has the scheming to frame people.

But there is nothing to worry about this. No one is going to plot against Longyu, and she is not a queen. She must have talent in this industry.

When I entered Chengqian Palace, I heard the sobs of a woman and the comfort of Youlan from afar. I thought it was the female family in the Prince Chun Mansion. After walking in, I hurriedly greeted her, but I walked in with a smile. Youlan changed her face and greeted her, and said with a smile: "I respectfully invite the sage."

"Well, I bow my heart--" He responded with a smile, and let Youlan serve me to sit on the chair. A maid next to me had already come up with tea. I took it up and took a sip, covered the bowl, looked at Prince Lao Chun's side of the concubine kneeling in the room, Zaifeng's biological mother Liu Jia, and Zaifeng's wife Lan Yu, sighed and said, "You all get up, they are all family, they are so boring. Get up, get up and talk."

The two of them laughed awkwardly. At this time, maybe it was Youlan's first order that someone brought the third son of the emperor who was only three years old, which was considered to break the awkward atmosphere. After teasing the child for a while, the two of them had no words to say, and their expressions could not be concealed. Youlan also winked at me frequently.

I laughed in my heart, and felt a little bored in my heart. I coughed gently, waved my hand and asked someone to take the prince down, and said, "You come to the palace, I know it's for Zaifeng's business. It's not necessary. It's my younger brother. I'm going to use him very much. He is young and has been bewitched by traitors. Don't worry, I don't have to rectify him. Well, I heard that he is sick in Jinan. I have to send the imperial doctor to see the doctor, and there will be a good deed. He is not in good health and has a good rest. Don't have any ideas. I am a fool who doesn't talk about brotherly ties. You guys often come to the palace to walk around. You still want to be bored. It's a good thing to come and go around more. Even among the people, it's said that if you don't have sex for three years, you're not a kiss."

I was already kind and the two women gradually felt relieved when they heard it. After seeing me, Liu Jia pulled her wife to kneel down and thanked her for her kindness, and stood up and said, "The emperor, the emperor, this time such a big thing happened, I was so scared that I was so lucky for me. The emperor was so kind to the emperor. I wanted to tell the emperor that Zaifeng was deceived and that the emperor was so wise that I had nothing else to say except thanking her. The emperor——" As he said that his eyes were red, he said hatefully: "It was all caused by that fox charm."

After saying this, my wife Lan Yu kept sobbing. I looked at them for a while and nodded, "Well, I, the emperor brother, have a responsibility. Prince Chunxian is gone first. Zaifeng was promoted to the prince at a young age. He has less experience. I also gave him errands. The errands are doing well. He is young and his ears are weak. Oh, I feel uncomfortable when this happens. By the way, that Yang family,

Now it's the clan mansion watching, right?" Seeing them nodding, he continued, "You go and take them back to the mansion to take care of them. When Zaifeng comes back, he will say it's my will. No one in the mansion these days, right?" Looking at their faces, they knew that life was not very good these days. He nodded and said, "Don't say that Zaifeng is still the prince, my younger brother, even ordinary relatives and noble clans, can't just let those mischiefs behave like this!"

He turned to look at Youlan and sighed, "You Ning Lord said it well yesterday. I am afraid that I have been a little bit weak to the relatives and nobles of the royal family over the years. I think about it and have to be assured that some things must be done by my own family. Like Zaifeng, I will immediately let him take over the several errands left by Prince Gongzhong. Well, the other idle relatives of the royal family and relatives of the Tian family must use them, and the family will be prosperous. This time I will teach me a lesson."

The three of them were all happy and said thank you. I stood up and stroked my hands and said, "Okay, that's all for this matter today. You Lan can also tell your grandfather's mansion to prepare. You can return to Ning in a few days. I'll let you be the first batch-" As I said that, I looked at her smiling face, and went out with a smile.

This is a signal that I gave them the rain. The next day, I asked someone to find Zaiying. Zaiying had not been out for activities because of the system. She looked much calmer than in the past. Of course, he knew about the recent events, but it was not easy to speak due to his identity. I smiled and asked him to sit down. I felt relieved and said, "You are afraid you know about Zaifeng, and I won't say much. Now that he is sick in Jinan, I am also worried about it, but I also know that he is afraid that he is too ill. I will send an imperial doctor tomorrow. I want you to work hard, it's considered a love-taking situation. I will give me some good care.

He advised him to come back, and I never have the intention of fighting and killing him. You have to be a good talk for me in this section. When I come back, you still have to do diplomatic responsibilities for me. If you are not here, I can't be busy. Recently, Li Zhongtang returned home while sick. On the side of the foreigners, you may have to use more snacks. My Qing Dynasty did not establish governments for people, nor did I abolish governments because of people. This is to be made clear to foreigners. Moreover, Li Hongzhang plans to use it for two years, so you can do more for me. Prince Gongzhong is really the pillar of my Qing Dynasty. When he goes, I feel a little busy and need you brothers to help me."

When I heard about his father, Zaiying quickly stood up and stood up solemnly, took over the task I arranged and thanked me.

"Well, there is something to discuss with you-" I waved his hand and asked him to sit down and said, "Prince Gongzhong's errands are the office of the Internal Affairs Office, the Zongren Mansion, the Yudian Hall, the Banners Office, and the Far East Co., Ltd." I said as I turned my fingers, and looked at Zai Ying and said, "Is that right? He is no longer here, you have to take some errands. I have given Zai Yan to carry it first. What about you, besides diplomatic matters, take the Yudian Hall and the Far East Co., Ltd. The old man has a heavy burden on his shoulders. Now he is no longer here. Who will help me carry his burden if you brothers don't help me carry it?"

"I am going to receive the order, please rest assured. I am going to do my job for the emperor-" Zai Ying thanked me, and raised her head and said hesitantly: "Your Majesty, is it the servant who went to see Zaifeng alone? Is it better for Zai to go there?"

I waved my hand and shook my head and said, "No, Zai Bing still won't go anymore. I think it's better for you to go. I told Zai Feng to be safe and take care of his illness and return to Beijing earlier. His mistake was nothing in my eyes. He would still have great use. Okay, there's nothing to do today. You can go back and prepare early—"
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