After Lin Youde arrived in Beijing, he openly set up camp in the Summer Palace. The reason was very simple: the Summer Palace was built by misappropriating naval military funds. What does it matter if Lin Youde, the Minister of the Navy, occupied it?
Everyone can guess the real reason: the Summer Palace is a mountain after all. The elite troops brought by Lin Youde occupied the fortifications here. With Landbell's equipment and the guard Shenji beside Lin Youde, they held on until they were there.
The Nanyang Army headquarters that occupied Japan had no problem supporting it by sea.
Lin Youde knew very well that the quality of the revolutionary faction was very mixed in the last time and space. In this time and space, Lin Youde had almost absorbed the truly ambitious young people, so the quality is even more mixed. As for a traitor like Yuan Shikai, Lin Youde really wanted to mobilize troops to surround him.
, the eyes won’t even blink.
Therefore, as soon as Lin Youde moved into Wanshou Mountain, Landebel began to build the barricades. That night, the artillery that Lin Youde had transported by train to the vicinity of Beijing was also pulled to the vicinity of Wanshou Mountain. There was a whole attitude of starting a fight if they could not reach an agreement.
Lin Youde's actions were seen by Yuan Shikai and others. It's no wonder that Beijing is the stronghold of the traditional old forces. According to common sense, Lin Youde's actions will never escape their eyes. Because of this, the man who carried out the assassination before
The disappearance of the position out of thin air caused such a big shock to Yuan Shikai and the others.
The next day, the newspapers of the Yuan Shikai faction in the capital began to accuse Lin Youde of not having republican sincerity in black and white, and the newspapers that tended to the Nanyang system also published rebuttal articles at the same time as if they were prophets - at this point in time,
Everyone in these newspapers basically has a tacit understanding of what color pants they wear in private.
While the war of public opinion was in full swing, preparations for the establishment of the Republic were also proceeding in an orderly manner.
At this stage, if anything happened without Lin Youde, his chief manager Du Qifeng would come forward. At first, Lin Youde was worried that he, the chief manager who had disappeared into the torrent of history without establishing any reputation in the previous time and space, would not be able to handle Tang Shaoyi.
Such historical figures were besieging him, but after a few days he found that he was worrying too much.
The founding conference, which was crucial to the Republic, was named the "Constitutional Congress" and was scheduled for November 8. After discussion, the venue was set at the Golden Palace in the Forbidden City. This location was ostensibly named "Constitutional Congress".
The meaning of "natural monarchy" is actually because at this time, the whole of Beijing was big enough to accommodate so many representatives to meet together. Apart from the Hall of Supreme Harmony, there was no other choice. In the last time and space, after Yuan Shikai became the president, in
When the National Congress was held in Beijing, the venue was expanded on the basis of the Zizhengyuan in the pre-constitutional era. At this time, even the Zizhengyuan was not there yet.
The property that Lin Youde built opposite the Prime Minister's Office met the requirements, but he knew that no one would agree to locate the venue there.
So a group of people selected for a long time, and finally chose the Golden Palace to hold this crucial constituent assembly.
On November 8th, representatives from all provinces gathered together, and the Constitutional Congress finally kicked off.
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The builders of the Hall of Supreme Harmony could never have imagined that one day the hall would be filled with people.
For hundreds of years, only the emperor could sit in this magnificent wooden building. All other civil and military officials had to stand or kneel. Never has there been such a situation where everyone has a chair. In order to open the Congress, the people of the preparatory committee
Some improvements were made to the interior of the hall. The dragon chair prepared for the emperor was removed and replaced with the main podium for speeches at the conference. The place where the ministers originally stood was placed in circles with long wooden tables that were quickly made.
, the wooden tables and chairs in the outer circle are higher, so that people sitting on them can see the main podium more easily.
Lin Youde sat at the top of the left side of the venue, looking at the renovated main hall, thinking that these people really spared no effort in destroying the historical sites...
However, considering that others gave him a position on the left, Lin Youde decided not to care about this.
The topic on the first day of the conference was to determine the country's name, flag, national emblem and national anthem.
These four issues seem to be important, but in fact they are insignificant. They are perfect to be used as a blending agent between the various forces participating in the meeting. Of course, from another perspective, this is also a preview of the war of words that will follow in the next month.
The first thing that came up for discussion was the name of the country.
Just like the last time and space, Sun Wen proposed to call the Republic of China. Lin Youde was happy when he heard it, and said in his heart, "My Republic of China can't be so cute." But before Lin Youde could express his position, Liang Qichao stood up and spoke, and spoke in a formal manner.
Heap, to sum up, it means that this name fails to reflect the foundation of China. The full name of Britain reflects the foundation and composition of the United Kingdom. The national flag is also a combination of the flags of various components of the United Kingdom, so China should also follow this example.
practice……
Just as Liang Qichao finished speaking, someone murmured: "Then our country name must be the longest in the world."
Since the whole hall was quite quiet at that time, this low-pitched sentence was actually very loud, and most of the people present could hear it clearly.
Lin Youde couldn't hold it back and burst out laughing. Now those who were hoping to hug Lin Youde's thighs would all be mistaken and immediately began to apologize. For a while, the entire left side of the venue burst into laughter, and the entire venue was filled with an absurd and funny atmosphere.
Atmosphere.
After Liang Qichao stepped down from the stage with a livid face, Lin Youde pressed the button of the microphone in front of him - all the electronic equipment in the venue was provided by Lin Ji, so Lin Youde was familiar with it.
"Mr. Liang Qichao is absolutely right. China is a vast country with rich resources and numerous ethnic groups. Each ethnic group has its own different national customs, languages and characters, and the organizational forms of local political power are also different. For example, Yunnan maintains the chieftain system, and Tibetans
It is still under the system of the integration of politics and religion. Among the Han people, there are also different pronunciations. If I speak Cantonese now, I am afraid that not many of you here can understand it. In turn, you can speak of hometown.
I'm afraid I may not be able to understand it smoothly.
"If this were in Europe, I'm afraid it would have split into many different countries. In ancient Europe, the empire of Charlemagne split into countries such as Germany, France and Italy, and the Frankish language eventually split into two branches: German and French. So.
I think it is not easy for China to maintain its unity after thousands of years.
“Therefore, in order to reflect this hard-won unification, to reflect the vastness of China’s land and resources, and to reflect the inclusiveness of our Chinese culture, I propose that the new country be named the Pan-Chinese Unified Federation. Those who are Pan-Chinese will all be inspired by the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
The benevolent nations are all the people of China, and the people who yearn for the prosperity of China are all the people of China. All the lands where my people live are the lands of the Federation!"
After Lin Youde finished speaking, everyone in the venue looked at each other and became silent for a moment. Most of the foreign envoys who were present to listen had complicated expressions.
Especially Zhu Erdian, the China expert, vaguely heard that at least half of Lin Youde's words were directed at the United Kingdom. He wanted to take away the crown that the sun never sets from the hands of the United Kingdom...
The situation in the venue changed from silence to whispers. In the end, no one knew who started the conversation. Everyone present who considered themselves Chinese applauded.
Amid increasingly warm applause, the future world map quietly changed. Instead of the Qing Empire, there was a huge country called the "Federation of China".