Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 429 Bloody Sunday
"what's up?"

"Return to the emperor, yesterday, that is, on the 28th, a clergyman of the Orthodox Church in St. The public’s hardship and dissatisfaction with our country’s dependence on China requested social reform and the termination of diplomatic relations with our country, and hoped that there would be no overtime work and reasonable treatment. But at that time, the temporary officials were holding a meeting in Huangcun. At that time, they were responsible for guarding the Armed soldiers in the Winter Palace lined up to confront the demonstrators, and the gathered crowd later increased to 3. Everyone held icons, images of Peter I and Alexander II, and sang hymns and patriotic songs. Lai fired a warning shot into the air, and shot at the crowd shortly afterwards. The crowd fled in panic and rushed to push, and Father Gaipang also died in the confusion. Later, definite news from Russia claimed that the death of the 20 people were injured, 96 were injured, while the Chinese opposition claimed that the death toll exceeded 333, and according to our conservative estimate, there were about 4000 casualties. This bloody suppression incident aroused public anger, and the Russians no longer hoped for a temporary, opposed A series of large-scale strikes took place one after another. Because this incident happened on a Sunday, the local people in Russia called it 'Blood Type Sunday'." Zhao Bingjun said, licking his dry lips , his face was full of worry.

Guan Xuqing pondered for a while and said, "Have you found out who organized this incident?"

Zhao Bingjun submitted a list: "These are the suspected organizers initially detected by the Security Bureau. Please read it, Your Majesty."

A name suddenly appeared in front of me, Lenin!
Pointing to the list, he asked, "Isn't this Lenin active in Europe? Why was he also involved in this incident?"

"Lenin was imprisoned and exiled by the authorities because of his constant speeches in the past few years. Later, he was forced to go into exile in Europe and continued to engage in anti-revolutionary work. and incompetence. If this incident had not erupted, we would not have known that Lenin had quietly returned."

Guan Xuqing was silent, and said after a long time: "This incident is by no means a simple mass demonstration, but an organized and premeditated counter-movement. It is inconvenient for us to intervene in the affairs of the Russians themselves, but today's temporary and imperial There are countless connections, and the empire has already laid out a huge industrial layout in Siberia, especially in Siberia. Once Russia's political situation becomes turbulent, it may cause immeasurable serious consequences for the development of the empire there. This time The anti-organization that came out from one side of the incident has already formed a system. Therefore, the Security Bureau must take decisive measures to closely monitor these people. Monitor Lenin, we must not let him continue to stay in Russia, we must try to get him out of there, otherwise he will be the biggest trouble for the empire in the Far East, understand?"

"Your Majesty, I don't understand that Lenin is at best a reactionary literati, and he can't make much trouble."

"Bastard! Do whatever I tell you to do. You must not play around with this matter, or you will know my temper." Guan Xuqing's expression was terribly serious!
"Cha." Zhao Bingjun replied tremblingly.

When he returned to the chess pavilion, Guan Xuqing's face looked ugly, Kang Youwei had already seen it, and felt that it was inconvenient to stay here any longer, so he got up and bid farewell to the emperor.Guan Xuqing forced a smile and said: "I said this game of chess must be played to the end, come on."

The monarch and his subjects sat opposite each other again, and continued the chess game just now.But this time, once Guan Xuqing changed his prudent style of chess, the white chess moves became extremely fierce, and there were a lot of strange moves, and sometimes he only attacked but failed to defend, which made the black chess overwhelmed and blocked everywhere, looking very embarrassed.Kang Youwei peeked at the emperor from time to time, his head was covered with a layer of greasy sweat, and his hands became extremely heavy.At the end, he boldly said: "Your Majesty, I have lost."

Guan Xuqing didn't raise his head: "Where did you lose, isn't there still a lot of ways to survive?"

Kang Youwei smiled wryly and said: "Your Majesty, the minister's chess moves in the positions of Geng, Shen and Xu have been blocked by the Emperor, and the minister has indeed lost."

Guan Xuqing hummed, threw the chess pieces on the board, and let out a long breath, obviously extremely tired.

Kang Youwei coughed dryly and said, "Your Majesty, judging from your chess style just now, you seem to be in a mess."

"That's right. The affairs of the state are complicated and intricate. Although the government system has been reformed in the past few years, the imperial bureaucratic system has become more rigorous than before, but many things still require me to do everything myself. Sometimes I feel tired." Guan Xuqing leaned back in the chair, looking tired like never before.

Kang Youwei felt sour, and said to the emperor: "I have a word, I don't know if I should say it or not?"

"Say it, you must say what you have to say. This country can do well now relying on me alone, but if I get old and weak in the future, how can I manage so many things up and down?"

"Why doesn't your majesty consider that the empire will implement a constitutional monarchy in the future and learn from the Western form of government?" Kang Youwei boldly said what was in his heart.

"It's not that I haven't thought about it, but China's feudal system has existed for thousands of years. It is not as simple as a sentence or two to suddenly become a Western-style political system. Besides, I have seen all kinds of political systems in various countries in the past few years. It seems that there is no one that is very suitable for our country to adopt."

"Your Majesty, although I have little ability in governing the country, I have been studying this issue for many years. I have also been to Europe and the United States, and I have some understanding of this political system in the West."

"Tell me what your opinion is?"

Kang Youwei put down the pawns in his hand and said: "According to my observation, constitutional monarchy is also called 'limited monarchy' among Westerners. It is a form of government in which the power of the monarch is limited by the constitution. It is mainly divided into two types: dual system and parliamentary system. Two The constitutional monarchy of the Yuan system is that the monarch and the parliament share power, the monarch appoints a cabinet, the cabinet is responsible to the monarch, the monarch directly holds executive power, and the parliament exercises legislative power, but the monarch has the right to veto. Such as the German Third Reich and the Meiji Restoration The parliamentary constitutional monarchy is currently adopted by most European and American countries, such as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, etc. Among them, the British system is the most typical.”

"You are right. The Victorian era has been the most powerful period since the UK implemented this regime, which shows that this form of regime has injected a strong impetus into the development of the UK." Guan Xuqing said with deep emotion.

Kang Youwei nodded and said: "Let's talk about the British constitutional monarchy first. According to my ministers, the essence of this British political system is that capitalists control the legislative power through parliament. The British parliamentary system is based on the medieval 'Magna Carta' and 'Oxford Regulations' Feudal legal documents such as feudal legal documents. The basic principles of the supremacy of law and limited royal power established by them have become the political basis of British constitutional politics. The British let the capitalist party control the parliament through the "Glorious Revolution". The most important achievement is the formulation of the "Bill of Rights ", became the general outline of the constitution of the constitutional monarchy. As far as I know, Queen Victoria is now the head of state, the supreme justice, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and the 'supreme leader' of the Anglican Church, and has the power to appoint and remove the prime minister, ministers, Senior judges, military officers, governors of various territories, diplomats, bishops, and senior clergy of the Anglican Church have the power to convene, suspend and dissolve parliament, approve laws, declare war and negotiate peace, etc., but the real power of administrative affairs is still in the cabinet. The British Parliament is the highest judicial and legislative body, consisting of the Queen, the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The House of Lords is generally called the House of Lords, including royal descendants, hereditary nobles, newly appointed nobles, judges of the Court of Appeal, and church archbishops and bishops. The British House of Commons is also It is called the House of Commons, and its members are elected by the common people for a term of five years."

Kang Youwei paused, seeing that the emperor was listening very intently, so he continued: "A cabinet system is implemented. The queen appoints the leader of the political party that has won the majority of seats in the parliamentary election to be the prime minister and form a cabinet, which is responsible to the parliament. Generally speaking, Britain After nearly a century of development, the political system has been very complete in all aspects. However, according to my ministers, although their systems are complete, they still need to be flexibly mastered in actual use. The British political system can also be said to be a combination of legal principles and rational principles. In my humble opinion, the system and the law are the adjusters of social relations, but the law is limited but the feelings are infinite. Their governance has caused a lot of trouble."

"What you said is very good. China has always been a society where human feelings are more important than laws, so many things from the West cannot be copied." Guan Xuqing said thoughtfully.

"Your Majesty, there is another typical country closest to us, that is. Meiji deified the absolute authority of the emperor in politics, established the 'Chinese' system to maintain the special status of the old feudal lords and ministers, and included reform heroes and chaebols in the Chinese family, cultivate privileged organizations; support chaebols and landlords economically; promote Shinto, imperial way, and Confucianism ideologically, and introduce many philosophical thoughts from Germany. After the Meiji Restoration, the weak country ruled by the vassal lords became capitalists in one fell swoop. The dominant social road. The rise of capitalists led to the liberal civil rights movement against autocratic politics and for bourgeois freedom and democratic rights. Meiji disintegrated this movement through violent repression and political division, and promulgated the "Meiji Constitution", which was later established Congress, thus establishing an autocratic constitutional monarchy. Compared with the United Kingdom, it is an improved regime, and the reform is not thorough. Of course, this also has a lot to do with the national conditions at that time.”

(End of this chapter)