Zhu Yourong didn't speak for a long time, but after a while he smiled and advised his uncle:
"Uncle, let me tell you, it's not just you, they and I sometimes get in touch with each other. Haha, you have to get used to it. This is a constitutional monarchy. Uncle, let me tell you, this is very advanced."
Zheng Gongyin was stunned, but he didn't expect that after talking for a long time, his niece still couldn't get enough of her. He licked his lips and said with a wry smile:
"A bunch of ministers were fighting and throwing water, but I couldn't see where the leader was. British ministers didn't dare to confront the king, and Japanese ministers didn't dare to confront the emperor, but our Ming ministers dared. This is really...
"
Zhu Yourong raised his head and smiled:
"Uncle, this is the characteristic of our Ming Dynasty! Don't you know, the ministers of the Ming Dynasty are all scholars. Haha."
Zheng Gongyin was completely speechless. But he still captured Zhu Yourong's dissatisfaction and ridicule towards the minister in these words. He struck while the iron was hot and said:
"Rongrong, my uncle is a rough man, unlike you who have lived abroad, drank foreign ink, and seen the world. My uncle can't tell you the foreign principles, but what he said are the old principles of our country for thousands of years. The Emperor's
Tao, power must never be thrown away. Your third aunt, Princess Danyang, married Augustus, the fourth son of the German Emperor. Why is she still living in exile in the Netherlands with her now? Isn’t it because the German Emperor did not firmly hold the power in her hands?
Here, he felt that he was no longer the emperor. Why couldn't his ministers insist on letting him become the King of Prussia? What happened next? Not to mention the king, if he hadn't run so fast, those ministers would have regarded him as a war criminal! He is pretty good, now.
You're still living in an apartment. Your fourth aunt, Princess Guangning, is even more pitiful. A few years after she married in Russia, she carried a one-year-old child and accompanied the Tsar's family to be shot by Lenin's Bolsheviks... What crime do you think she committed?
, What crime did the child have? Your little cousin never even met, so he left together."
Zheng Yucong looked at Zhu Yourong's ugly face, pulled his father, and shouted softly:
"dad!"
Zheng Gongyin didn't care. He observed his niece's face and wanted this effect. He licked his lips and continued:
"What happened next? Those ministers said, 'If we want to recognize the Soviet Union,' we have to recognize the Soviet Union. If they say, 'We want to establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union,' we have to establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. The cabinet said it nicely, but they said, 'We must get ahead of the puppet Qing Dynasty.'
They admit that the Soviet Union has no permanent friends and no permanent enemies. Hum, their own family members were not shot by the Bolsheviks. It doesn’t hurt. When your grandfather was the emperor, bang, in one sentence
So I pushed him back. When your great-grandfather was the emperor, people like this were already dragged out to beat the imperial staff... Well, it was your grandfather who later started to engage in constitutional government that made you so embarrassed now..."
Zhu Yourong raised his eyes and said calmly:
"I'm not embarrassed."
After a moment of silence, she said again:
"Uncle, are you really nostalgic for the past? Do you really want to go back to the era of beating the imperial staff?"
Zheng Gongyin was stunned for a moment and rolled his eyes:
"I don't miss you. Rongrong, you know, my uncle is your biological uncle. If we break your bones and connect your tendons, we will not harm you no matter what. My uncle is telling you this now because he is chatting with his own family.
Private talk. In the past, this was called a relative who interfered with politics and would be beheaded. Why do you think I miss you? Rongrong, you must know that my uncle is missing you."
"Uncle, what are you talking about?" Zhu Yourong couldn't help but say, "It's so unpleasant to talk about doing politics. But that doesn't happen now."
She sighed and continued silently:
"Actually... I just want Ming Dynasty to follow the path of Britain... I hope Ming Dynasty can be like Britain... But you all don't understand. Grandpa said before his death that if Ming Dynasty wants to be strong, it must learn from Britain and the United States, and must not imitate
Manchu Qing Dynasty. My grandfather and my father have devoted their whole lives to the constitutional reform of the Ming Dynasty. Now that the constitution has been established for more than fifty years, my grandfather has taken the first step, and my father has taken the second step. I am about to take the third step.
Three steps. If it goes well, we will implement universal suffrage on a trial basis within ten years and the people will choose the cabinet. At that time we will truly be hands-off."
Zheng Gongyin couldn’t help but say:
"Rongrong, will we still be there at that time?"
"Why not? As long as the country is strong, wouldn't it be great for us to be like the British royal family?... I know you are not willing, and you all want to go back to the old life of wearing bright clothes, angry horses, and domineering. Maybe you all think that I
Silly, revolutions in other countries removed the imperial power, but here I take the initiative to send it out...Don't I want to be like the Manchu emperor, who can do whatever I want? I like gardens, don't I want to enclose land and overhaul gardens like them?
, but still have to go to the small garden of the uncle's Marquis Mansion to enjoy the fun? But uncle, it can't be done. If before 1644, our Ming Dynasty was still a kingdom of heaven, and when the world was surrendered, we could do anything. The people were poorer and more ignorant.
It doesn’t matter if you are a bit ignorant. But now we have the Manchu and Qing Dynasties in the north, Japan in the east, and a circle of Western powers in the south. We have such a long land border, but our army is not as good as the Manchu Qing’s; we have such a long coastline, but our navy is not as good as
Japan. You said, if we don’t take the British path, what else can we do?...The example of the Tsar is there.”
Zheng Gongyin was stunned for a long time. There was really nothing he could do about this niece who lacked the desire for power, was full of romantic ideas, and was very eloquent. He hesitated for a moment and said:
"Rongrong, you went to university in the UK. It's normal for you to want to learn the British way. But my uncle said something like that. Rongrong, although you are sitting in this seat, you are still young and you have some things to think about.
It's too simple. If I were you, uncle, he would think about whether the British stuff is suitable for us and whether we can copy it."
Zhu Yourong didn't say anything. He took a copy of "Xin Min Daily News" from the desk, opened it and handed it to Zheng Yucong:
"Qing Cong, let's read the article we read this morning... Well, just read the sentence I circled in ink."
Zheng Yucong's face changed slightly, she glanced at the two of them, lowered her head and whispered:
"If a country or a nation does not have the sunshine of democracy and rule of law, walking on the road in broad daylight is no different than walking in the dark."
"If not... it's just like walking in the dark night..." Zhu Yourong repeated softly.
…
Zheng Gongyin looked at the title of the newspaper in her daughter's hand: "The young prince got drunk on a cruise and punched him, and the busker cried in the hospital bed and complained about the evil young man", and his chest was beating wildly. The "little prince" and "evil young man" in the newspaper were not his only precious son.
Who is Zheng Yutang?
He already knew about this, but he never expected that it would be in the hands of his niece so quickly.
My precious son always likes to be arty and imitate the literati. He always sits on a boat on the Qinhuai River with a group of aristocratic children and drinks flower wine. Last night, he drank too much and competed with others for the girl. Not to mention that he started fighting with the other party, and the unlucky girl was pushed away. He went into the water, couldn't swim and was choked and frightened. When he was fished out, his life was saved, but he was still lying in the hospital. As of this morning, several influential newspapers had prominently reported it. It's more objective. What's irritating is that the irresponsible tabloids vigorously exaggerated and tried their best to add fuel to the fire and forcefully pull out some romantic stories.
Otherwise, why is Mr. Zheng so unhappy with the current "constitutional government"? In the past, not to mention hurting people, killing people was about the same as crushing an ant. Although the "constitutional government" has only been a few decades now, it is not as good as the British and American With such universal suffrage, the political arena is still full of party disputes and chaos, but public opinion is very powerful. People in the Southern Ming Dynasty have begun to learn from the West in running newspapers since the 19th century. In addition, the Ming Dynasty does not have the tradition of literary prisons like the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, and has never been guilty of words. , the former "clear stream" has become the main writer of major newspapers. Now private newspapers and radio stations have become extremely developed, and Ming newspapers have become a very important political force like French newspapers.
These royal children have become much more honest over the years and do not cause trouble easily. To be honest, the other party was the first to do what happened last night, but the other party's family is a businessman and a commoner, and I am a relative of the emperor, so Once it's in the newspapers, what makes sense becomes unreasonable.
For thousands of years, the secrets of the royal family have always been the most interesting thing for ordinary people, but they did not dare to discuss it casually in the past. Now it is better. There are both radio stations and newspapers. It is really enjoyable to report openly. And now the Ming Dynasty newspaper Unlike Japanese newspapers, some can write about the royal family and some cannot. In the Ming Dynasty, as long as what you write is not unconstitutional, no one can control it. Major newspapers in Nanjing generally have a "royal section". If you dig out some inside information about the royal family, especially romantic affairs, your sales will be guaranteed to double that day. If you are a relatively popular member of the royal family, there will be paparazzi carrying camera tripods and ambushing around the mansion and frequently visited places. , waiting for opportunities**.
Zheng Yutang is the only son of the current King Yanping and the cousin of the current Holy Emperor. Reporters were following the crowd early last night. Shili Qinhuai is a famous red light district in the Ming Dynasty. It is not illegal to go there to be romantic, but at most it is disorderly. Zheng Yutang This dude didn't care either. The few paparazzi behind him were following him quite boringly, but he didn't expect that he would be so lucky that he would reveal such big information.
Now Zheng Gongyin's precious son is still with the other party and is being held in the police station. If an ordinary family found someone, trusted the relationship, and paid the other party some money to keep it private, they might be able to get him out. But now I With my family's identity here, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has sent a censor to the police station to supervise the handling of the case. Reporters from major newspapers have also blocked the entrances of the police station and the court, waiting happily with magnesium lamps and tripods... In this case, Even if you have a mountain of gold, no one will dare to take it.
Zheng Gongyin found that her daughter was looking at him with resentment, and glanced at the two newspapers on the table. Zheng Gongyin looked at her daughter, then at the newspapers on the table, and slowly understood. The two newspapers on these two newspapers This article should have a cause and effect relationship. His son caused trouble on the Qinhuai River and entered the police station, which almost became the headlines in the country. The limelight was almost as big as the Spanish Civil War. This stimulated those Qingliu who wrote the article and made them write " Articles like "please hand over power to your majesty". In their view, it is precisely because the royal family has held power for a long time that the royal relatives have become increasingly bold and lawless.
Thinking of this, Zheng Gongyin screamed bitterly in his heart. His Majesty already knew about the good deeds Yu Tang had done, and he was probably angry, so he stupidly showed her the article "Please hand over power to your Majesty". This was not adding fuel to the fire. What's worse is that the fire and oil were poured on himself... Fortunately, my niece was quite kind and did not lose her temper with him.
"Uncle..." Zhu Yourong stared at the newspaper and suddenly spoke.
"Ah...ah?" Zheng Gongyin spoke with some fear.
"Uncle," Zhu Yourong stood up, paced gently, and said thoughtfully, "you'd better help me talk to Mr. Shen Ge..."
"Oh?" Zheng Gongyin was secretly happy. Did his niece think that the article was concocted by Shen Rongxuan? He quickly asked, "Talk about... what are you talking about?"
Zhu Yourong sighed:
"No matter what, I have to know whether this article is what he meant...Whether he hands over power or not, I will know it when I face him again...Uncle, just find an excuse to visit. Him, have a meal with him or something, and find out what he has to say. My uncle and he were good friends in the past, so there is nothing wrong with talking to him. Well, besides my uncle, there is no one else more suitable for this matter."
…
That night, Zheng Gongyin really went to visit Shen Rongxuan. Now that King Yanping is visiting, Shen Rongxuan really doesn't dare to neglect. In addition, he also read the article and roughly guessed what Zheng Gongyin came for. Although the first and assistant ministers are busy with everything. , but he would never take this kind of thing lightly. He set up a table of wine in the small restaurant of his official residence, just the two of them, drinking and chatting.
Zheng Gongyin chatted happily, and after a few passing remarks, Shen Rongxuan was sweating. Although Shen Rongxuan's political experience and personal scheming were superior to Zheng Gongyin's, he knew the importance of this kind of thing. Although this article is not I had someone write it myself, but no matter the style of writing or the way of thinking about the problem, it has an obvious Donglin flavor. And in terms of stakes, anyone with a brain will suspect that his cabinet concocted this article. .
The current situation is: His Majesty has suspected him. Otherwise, without His Majesty's permission, Zheng Gongyin would not dare to come to him for a drink alone.
Since ancient times, the most terrifying thing about being a minister is that the emperor doubts himself. This is the most terrifying thing. Although the Ming Dynasty is different from the past, after all, the constitutional government only lasted for a few decades, and the military power is still with your Majesty. If you don't have it in your hands, Ming Dynasty may turn back.
Although His Majesty is not that kind of person, even if he believes that the article was his own, he will not do anything to himself. However, there are a series of people around His Majesty, such as the Zheng family, such as Xiang Xiaoqiang. They can all influence His Majesty and be detrimental to himself. If His Majesty is influenced by them,
Although Shen Rongxuan's heart was pounding with fear, he remained calm and smiling on the surface. After drinking for three rounds, Shen Rongxuan pretended to be a little drunk, holding the wine glass, patting his old friend's back, and tongue He was stiff and his eyes were red, and he said some words of loyalty, implying that he, Shen Rongxuan, was a staunch member of the "Imperial Party" when he was in Fang Hongru's cabinet. Now, he is also leading the Dongchang to contribute to His Majesty's New Year's coup. What's more, in terms of talent and qualifications, he, Shen Rongxuan, is not qualified to be the chief minister. If it weren't for His Majesty's grace, how could he, Shen Rongxuan, be where he is today?
Therefore, Shen Rongxuan hinted that he did not dare and would not have any ill intentions. As long as His Majesty still allows him to be the Chief Minister, he and the cabinet will always stand with His Majesty. Please rest assured, Your Majesty.
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It was already late July, and all schools in Ming Dynasty had already gone out for summer vacation. Xiuxiu's mother, Shang Xiaojun, had also sold her academy in Tongli during this period and was taken to Nanjing by her son and daughter. Now she is temporarily with her children , live with my son-in-law in his official residence. It has been several days since I arrived here.
When the family was having dinner, Shang Xiaojun looked around and saw that all the maids and servants had gone down. He took a bite of food and said at the same time:
"My dear son-in-law, I just wrote an article and published it in the newspaper. Haha, Xiu'er, show it to everyone."
As soon as Xiang Xiaoqiang saw the title on the newspaper, there were also the signatures of Donglin Mo and other students...