Chapter 27 Invisible Hands

Whoever sees juggling and throwing the ball may see fate. Those balls that rise and fall for a while, just like people in the palm of the hand of fate.

The ball in the hands of the juggler may be the fate of people, and the fate of everyone in the dark may be controlled by the hands of the invisible jugglers.

For the vast majority of people, their ball of fate is controlled by invisible hands, but in China, for some people, their fate is controlled by a pair of tangible hands.

"You can't do it, but you can't do it!"

When the outside world set off a collapse storm because the cabinet was unconstitutional, in the face of the silence of the Mingzhu Party, Liang Qichao, as the Prime Minister of the Mingzhu Party, once answered the news reporter in this way.

If you don't do it, you will never do nothing. If you can't, you should consider state affairs first!

It seems to be full of reasons, but in fact, no one knows that the reason why this disturbance is getting worse and worse is that it is Liang Qichao's invisible hands that push the flames behind, but on the other side, Liang Qichao still shows his modest gentlemanly style, but in fact, political competition has always been a pool of ink, no matter who Don't want to be innocent even if you fall into it.

In political struggle, conspiracy almost coexists with it. No one will blame the other party's conspiracy. What the loser needs to do is to reflect on his own failure, while the winner is on guard against the attacks of others.

The autumn of the nine years of the empire is doomed to be difficult to calm down. Twenty-three provinces across the country either require the resignation of the cabinet, or ask the cabinet to explain the declaration of war. More than three million young people across the country marched and demanded the resignation of the cabinet. In this disturbance, the cabinet is still working, diplomatically and domestically. The disturbance has covered up the major adjustments made by the cabinet in its internal affairs policy.

Despite the intensification of the storm, China's operation does not seem to have been affected in any way. First, the Congress passed a resolution agreeing to accept "German East Africa" as the "East African Depende of the Chinese Empire", "German New Guinea" as the "South Pacific Depende of the Chinese Empire", and appoint a governor. On the other hand, land The naval expansion order was also approved by the House of Commons. The army was expanded from 106 divisions to 212 divisions, and the navy built 300,000 tons of new capital ships. It can be said that the storm seems to have no impact on the cabinet.

"The public opinion of the outside world is surging, and we are only serious about politics!"

As a prime minister, Yuan Shikai once told the news reporter that after the storm became more and more intense, the Chinese people were more used to paying attention to the royal family's attitude. Now it is the early autumn, which is the time for the royal family to escape the heat in Zijin Mountain, which prevents the royal family from getting involved.

"Liang Qichao, Yang Du..."

He said the names of these people, and Chen Moran frowned slightly. Although in the eyes of the outside world, he, the emperor, seemed to have kicked everything to the cabinet and the parliament, but in fact, he has always maintained a high degree of attention to this matter.

Although he had made up his mind to let Yuan Shikai be the scapegoat from the beginning, when the storm really appeared, people hesitated.

"Your Majesty, the parliaments of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Hubei, Hebei, Fujian, Liaoning, Guangdong, Hunan and Jiangxi have passed the decision and asked the resignation of the cabinet..."

When Zha Zhiqing reported, he specially added a sentence.

"These provinces are the provinces with the absolute advantage of the Mingzhu Party and the Constitutional Party!"

The distribution of political power in various provinces of China is very delicate. The Mingzhu Party and the Constitutional Party are dominant. The biggest feature of these regions is the developed industrial and commercial economy. In fact, they are the most direct beneficiaries of the imperial economic policy, and the reason why the local gentry supports the Mingzhu Party is that the imperial control of the economy is not in their interests. .

However, the provinces dominated by the Royalist Party are relatively conservative provinces, and industry and commerce are relatively backward, but this makes local gentry support the Royalist Party, because they prefer to promote the industrial development of the province's industrial economy, which is in sharp contrast to the provinces with developed by industrial industry and industry. Those provinces with developed industrial and commercial industry hope that the political axe-led industrial projects should be far away from them, so they hope that the Mingzhu Party or the Constitutional Party will control the provincial parliament, so that when the political axe plans projects, the provincial council will come forward to resist the political axe industrial projects to strive for more autonomy.

"Your Majesty, this time, it can be seen as a civil counterattack against the political axe!"

Zha Zhiqing used a very serious word.

"Flash!"

The corners of his lips jumped slightly, and there was a wave in Chen Moran's heart. In fact, he had been waiting for this day.

"If it's really the opposition of citizens, it's really good! At least for China, this is also a kind of progress!"

In the past nine years, China has achieved unprecedented rapid urbanization, and cities based on military, industry and mining have made great progress. The four major industrial zones along the river, Liaoha, Jintang and the Pearl River have taken shape, and the surrounding areas of the metropolis have begun to form satellite cities.

The acceleration of urbanization has not only changed the appearance of the countryside, but also spawned a new regional culture: agricultural land has become residential land; shopping streets have appeared in places where communities are concentrated; the salary class, mainly large companies and bank employees, and office workers with suits and leather shoes and briefcases take the subway and public car every day. The car shuttles between the office building in the city center and the elegant house in a single-family house on the outskirts of the city. The expansion of the new middle layer has given birth to the "middle-class consciousness", and the middle-class lifestyle has become popular: the income level of male office workers has increased, which is enough for the wife to become a full-time housewife and take good husband and children at home.

If there is a middle class, there are middle-class interesting publications customized for middle-class readers: gentlemen' magazines, juvenile magazines, girls' magazines, and women's magazines springing up in bookstores on the streets of the metropolis; a popular edition of a book that sells only one yuan is popular, and the pocket library is a Chinese standard for modern publishing. As it began to be finalized, the publishing industry entered mass consumption, and with the circulation of millions of national newspapers and weekly magazines, China has become a veritable mass media society during this period.

It can be said that the social structure of China has undergone a fundamental change at this time.

From the point of view of later generations, China has begun to show the opportunity to establish Mingzhu politics. Generally speaking, Mingzhu requires the following two basic conditions: full economic development brings the diversity of class power and modern citizenship. This is because the modern Mingzhuan system appeared after the industrial revolution and went forward with the development of industrial civilization. In the farming society, the corresponding social system can only be [***], and the corresponding system in the corresponding industrial society is Mingzhu. Only through the development of industry, providing more jobs for the transfer of the population in rural areas, increasing the domestic consumer market, reducing the population in agriculture, and increasing the proportion of modern workers, can we produce the backbone needed for politics: the middle class.

But China's middle class is fragile. In fact, this trend is not so much the awakening of the middle class as jointly promoted by political parties with political ambitions and businessmen who resist the controlled planned economy, rather than the political awakening of the awakened middle class. Promoted.

The two parties are not satisfied with the current stamp tools. They are eager for more political power. Businessmen are not satisfied with the constraints of the controlled planned economy. They hope that there will be a new party to completely end the controlled economy. The workers in the middle class are also dissatisfied with the political axe's honesty to the enterprise. They also hope that the political axe and Congress has changed in order to protect its own interests and apply the political ideas it is familiar to China. Now there are signs of a possible revolution in China.

As Zha Zhiqing said, all this now is a counterattack from the people! It's the people's counterattack against the political axe! Waiting for a counterattack from the people, isn't that exactly what you expect?

Expect the awakening of folk consciousness, but when all this really happens, why? Will there be a trace of bitterness in my heart?

"Can they represent citizens?"

Thinking about this question, Chen Moran frowned slightly. Why does this question sound so awkward?

"Your Majesty, there is no doubt that now that it is time for China to make a choice, the era of imperial cabinet must end!"

Guan Mingtang, who was sitting next to him, said something at the right time.

The imperial cabinet is a characteristic of China. Perhaps China has a constitution, a noble house and a lower house, but the lower house only has the right to return the appointment of officials below the governor, that is, to refuse to pass the appointment of this candidate. Cabinet members are directly appointed by His Majesty and appointed the Cabinet, which is completely separated from the parliament. Although nominally, the cabinet is built in the parliament, perhaps approved by the parliament, in fact they can't help but approve it.

"Will it be too fast!"

Asking rhetorically, Chen Moran sighed softly in his heart.

"Of course, the end of the imperial cabinet is by no means now!"

Guan Mingtang answered truthfully that in fact, in the cabinet, perhaps only he has been mentioning the shortcomings of the imperial cabinet many times in front of His Majesty. In his opinion, the relationship between the imperial cabinet and the parliament was originally a joke, and this is why outsiders call China one of the three [***] empires.

"Now is a time of war, so we must carry forward the unity of the monarch and the people, otherwise the country will fall into chaos!"

"Your Majesty, now the tide of strikes is getting worse and worse, and the workers are very dissatisfied with the behavior of the enterprise!"

It is indeed a soft reminder to pay attention to the workers. This is a task entrusted by His Majesty to the Investigation Bureau a few years ago after the first strike, but it is only limited to attention. Although the Investigation Bureau has established files for the strike organizers, His Majesty seems to have no intention to crack down on them.

Silence!

In the face of their reminders, Chen Moran closed his eyes and held the stone on the table. He was completely silent. This time, unlike the hunger strike in front of the palace, it was just a student's act, but this time it was a combination of three forces. If...

(to be continued)