Chapter 392 The Constitution of the Qing Dynasty, just kneel down to discuss politics! (Please order, please vote)
"Jun Xian? What is Jun Xian?"
Prince Gong immediately became interested when he heard a new term for Westernization. He smiled and asked about Li Hongzhang.
"Returning to the prince, Junxian is the abbreviation of constitutional monarchy," Li Hongzhang explained with a smile, "This is a political system that foreigners can use to deal with. The specific method is to have some nobility, gentry, and businessmen recommend some Officials who discuss government affairs then enter the court and discuss the affairs of the country with the monarch and ministers. In a nutshell, the so-called monarchy and constitution means sharing the world with the scholar-bureaucrats!"
"How can this be possible?"
When Prince Gong's confidant Wen Xiang heard this, his face changed before the prince could say anything: "How can the Qing government allow the gentry and businessmen below to make arbitrary comments? Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
"Master Wen, you don't know something," Feng Guifen, who went north with Li Hongzhang, quickly explained, "There was an accident over Changmao a month or two ago.
"Huh, what an idiot!" Prince Gong said with disdain.
"Your Majesty, this is not a foolish dream," Li Hongzhang shook his head, "Someone has already responded!"
"Who dares?" Wen Xiang asked.
Feng Guifen said: "All walks of life in Shanghai have risen to respond and organized a petition group to petition the Governor's Office, requesting Shanghai Yi Zhi to respond and send people to Tianjing to attend the National People's Congress!"
"What?" Prince Gong was shocked, "Did Luo Xueyan send troops to suppress it?"
Li Hongzhang lamented: "What are you suppressing? The people named Luo have already decided to go to the pseudo-Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, comply with public opinion, and send people to attend the National People's Congress!"
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" Prince Gong shook his head repeatedly, "Luo Xueyan just spent millions of taels to buy officials for himself and his subordinates. The emperor has already issued an edict to appoint him as the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang. He has a bright future. Going to be a Shaggy? Is he crazy?"
Wen Xiang also shook his head and said, "That's right. He even gave you a deposit and spent a lot of money on everything. So why don't you want it?"
Li Hongzhang smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, Mr. Wen, you two don't know how powerful this is. Mr. Luo's ancestors have done Lanfang, so they know how powerful it is.
Prince Gong still didn't understand, he glared and said: "What countrymen? They are all from the Qing Dynasty!"
Li Hongzhang shook his head: "He is a Chinese, a Chinese of the barbarians!"
"What?" Wen Xiang's expression suddenly changed, "Shaoquan, what did you say?"
Prince Gong didn't understand it for a moment and turned to look at Wen Xiang.
Wen Xiang's face was ashen and he said: "Your Majesty, if my guess is correct, the Chinese people should be the officers and soldiers of the puppet Taiping Army, plus the big workers, farmers, and businessmen who pay taxes and grain to the puppet Taiping Heavenly Kingdom."
Li Hongzhang added: "It seems that there are still some rebellious gentry! If you add them all together, you have a population of at least several million, and maybe more than 10 million!"
How much power would it take for these tens of millions of people to regard the hairy country as their own? The French country in the West was like a gun after the Great Revolution, hanging up and beating all the surrounding powers. After more than ten years, it took Britain, Russia, Prussia and Austria to join forces to suppress the French."
Wen Xiang turned to Prince Gong and said, "Your Majesty, these Chinese people are a bit like the Eight Banners disciples when the Qing Dynasty entered the country!"
"No way?" Prince Gong said, "Can they still be skilled in bow and horse?"
Wen Xiang shook his head: "We don't need bows and horses now, just can shoot foreign guns. They have many Chinese people, but we have few bannermen. If we want to shoot foreign guns, we will suffer!"
Prince Gong finally realized that the problem was serious, but he still refused to admit defeat: "Don't we still have a lot of military training?"
Li Hongzhang said in a mournful tone: "Isn't Luo Xueyan's Nanyang New Army the leader in all kinds of military training? Anyone who trains in the Nanyang Army can become a national, and other military training."
"this"
Prince Gong's dark face became even darker now.
Instead of being beaten when the time comes, it is better to join the Chinese people as soon as possible.
Luo Xueyan's Nanyang Army took the lead, so will Zuo Zongtang's Nanyang Army, Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army, and Jiang Zhongyuan's Chu Army also participate in these military exercises?
Even if you sacrifice your life for the Qing Dynasty, you can't raise the flag and eat the hardcore crops!
"Your Majesty," Li Hongzhang saw that the heat was almost over, and said sternly: "For the current plan, our Qing Dynasty can only use the monarchy and constitution to win over the gentry to compete. Otherwise, if there is one Luo Xueyan, there will be a second and a third Luo Xueyan.
Got it!
If the prince is worried that practicing the monarchy and sharing the world with scholar-bureaucrats will cause the emperor to lose his power, there is no need for it."
Prince Gong glanced at Li Hongzhang, as if waiting for his next words.
Li Hongzhang picked up the tea cup, took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and then continued: "The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will divide the fields and land. This is the most hated thing among the scholar-bureaucrats in the world."
He clasped his fists and raised his hands in the air: "As long as the emperor is willing to show the attitude of sharing the world with the scholar-bureaucrats, give the scholar-bureaucrats in each province the power to discuss government affairs, and let the gentry from all over the country select officials to discuss government affairs to attend the meeting of kings, ministers and gentry in Beijing, then the gentry in the world will be
I will be loyal to the emperor and the Qing Dynasty.
If the gentry is loyal, then the leaders training armies in various places will naturally be loyal too!"
"You mean to reopen the meeting of kings and ministers on political affairs?" Prince Gong was a little moved, "This can be considered."
"Your Majesty is wise," Feng Guifen said with a smile while twirling his beard. "If I remember correctly, this council of kings and ministers to discuss political affairs was originally an ancestral system of the Qing Dynasty. It was established in the Chongde period and was not abolished until the fifty-seventh year of Qianlong's reign.
In 155 of the more than 200 years of the Qing Dynasty, there was a meeting of kings and ministers to discuss government affairs. It was only in more than 60 years that there was no such meeting. Now that the country is in troubled times, the emperor resumed the meeting of kings and ministers to discuss government affairs, and then asked various places to recommend gentry to discuss government affairs.
Going to Beijing to attend a meeting to show that you can open up your voice and share the world with the scholar-bureaucrats will definitely win people's hearts."
Li Hongzhang kept aiming at Prince Gong's dark face, watching the changes in the prince's expression, and lost no time in reminding him: "Your Majesty, that is just a gesture. If you are still worried about deceiving others, you can ask the gentry who discuss politics on the first day of every month to
On the fifteenth day, in the morning, I will kneel before the emperor to discuss government affairs."
Prince Gong nodded slightly and said in his heart: "This Council of Councilors and Ministers was not imaginary back then, but actually had power! The key is who is the Councilor who leads everyone to discuss politics?"
Wen Xiang also stared at Prince Gong. When he saw the prince nodding, he understood what he meant, so he suggested: "Your Majesty, I also think that Mr. Li and Mr. Feng are right. Now our Qing Dynasty wants to There is only one way to unite people's hearts.
In addition, our Eight Banners can also elect political ministers! The emperor can appoint a political king, the Eight Banners can recommend political ministers, and local Han officials and gentry can recommend political ministers. The upper, middle and lower levels can work together to discuss how to protect the Qing Dynasty. "
"good!"
Li Hongzhang raised his thumb and called him brother.
There are three levels: upper, middle and lower. Isn’t this the three-level meeting?
"It's really good!"
Prince Gong still didn’t understand Westernization, but he actually thought it was very good. He must be the king of political affairs, and maybe he could even become the leader of the council of ministers and gentry of political affairs kings.
Shanghai, Yu Garden, Dianchun Hall.
"Xue Shuai, this is the "Petition for Support" signed by people from all walks of life in Shanghai. Please take a look."
At this time, Cheng Fupei, the chairman of the Shanghai Council, held a large pile of petitions and led a group of Shanghai councilors to Dianchun Hall, taking the lead in persuading Luo Xueyan to become a leader!
After he placed a stack of petitions on the table in front of Luo Xueyan, the Shanghai Council who came with him bowed to Luo Xueyan and said in unison: "On behalf of the Shanghai Council as a whole, we respectfully invite Xue Yan to Marshal led the Shanghai Prefecture, the Nanyang New Army, and the Nanyang Navy to respond to the Taiping, and sent Chinese representatives to Tianjing to discuss national affairs with the people of the world.
Luo Xueyan waited for them to finish speaking, then nodded slowly and sighed: "Forget it, since the public opinion is like this, I should do what is good..."
Chapter completed!