Liu Kan is full of expectations for the ongoing negotiations in Manila. He plans to use external forces to overthrow the conservative forces of the eldest princess Liu Yufei and the Han Dynasty King Liu Qian, turn the tide, and save Daqi from being like the Qin Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty. destroy.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the ninth year of Guangde, during the Shangyuan family banquet, in front of the queen and the prince, Liu Kan raised his wine and looked south, murmuring:
"When the Supreme Emperor was in power, I held back and prepared for the new law for twelve years. For twelve years, after taking the throne, I intended to turn the tide, change our country's militarism, and return power to the people. However, there were constraints from all sides, especially the threats from Liu Yufei and Liu Qian. ·····Now the arrow is on the string and must be fired, and the New Deal cannot wait any longer.”
Queen Christina Augusta's face turned red, she put down her wine glass, and encouraged her husband in broken Chinese:
"If you think the time is right, go ahead and do it boldly? I hope you can be like my father, holding a sword, looking into the distance, and creating miracles one after another."
Although Emperor Guangde disliked Augusta comparing herself to her father, Gustav II Adolf, this Swedish woman was like a forgetful lioness who always violated Emperor Guangde's bottom line.
"The eldest princess is extremely vicious. She compares herself to Wu Zetian, and will continue to sideline her even at the cost of losing lives. The New Deal will become an excuse for her to rebel. She will unite with the main war faction to kill us. Aren't you afraid?"
Augusta picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp, his blue eyes looking very calm:
"You are too late. He should kill his sister. You have his father's blood flowing in your body. You are a war madman... As a man of the Lion of the North, do you know how to write the word fear?" Let that crazy man come over!"
Emperor Guangde smiled awkwardly, and as expected, he left my father in eight sentences.
On the first day of August, Emperor Guangde issued another edict:
On the first day of July, the governor of Hedong River was eliminated, and his affairs were transferred to the governor of Henan. On the eighth day of the seventh month, Zhan Shifu and Tongsi were eliminated.
On the fourth day of August, Emperor Guangde announced the implementation of constitutional government and promulgated the "Imperial Constitution Outline" to prepare for the establishment of a constitution.
On July 14, the Ministry of Commerce was established.
On the same day, Fengfu Yin was dismissed, and the governor was also in charge; Fengfu Cheng was dismissed, and he was changed to the academic administration of Dongba Province. Set up a patrol department. The academic department was established and the Imperial College was abolished.
On the eighth day of July in the fourth year of Guangde, Emperor Tian Yan of Guangde promulgated the "Outline of the New Law" at Huangji Palace, announcing that the new law would be implemented from that day forward:
Seven people from Feng Du jointly played "Twenty-fold Reform of Jiang Chu Hui" eight times, setting the direction of reform, learning from Britain, and promoting a constitutional monarchy.
On August 77, Emperor Guangde announced the abolition of Honglu Temple and the establishment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, "the head of the eight departments of the train"; on the 74th, the imperial court announced that it would stop reporting donations to official officials.
On the tenth day of July, Emperor Guangde ordered the establishment of the "Supervisory Government Affairs Office" headed by Ruan Cheng and Chen Zizhuang as a specialized agency for planning and implementing the New Deal. , Feng Kaizhang, and Du Yinxi are the participating political ministers, taking charge of all New Deal matters.
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There are seventy-eight articles in total in the outline, seven of which are "the king devolves power" and fourteen of "the rights and obligations of subjects". The whole article includes "the monarch is not allowed to interfere with his subjects", which establishes the basis that civil rights are lower than imperial power. The content of the new law covers Training the new army, developing commerce, abolishing the imperial examinations, setting up schools, sending students abroad, reforming the official system, cutting redundant government offices, cutting official services, suspending donations, etc.
On July 77, the governors of Guizhou and Qichuan provinces were laid off and placed under the concurrent supervision of the governors of Yunnan-Guizhou and Huguang.
Subjects who have reached the age of fourteen in the Qi Empire have no right to vote or stand for election, regardless of ethnicity, race, gender, occupation, family background, religious belief, education, property status, or length of residence; except for those who have been deprived of their rights due to crimes. Here, representatives of provincial, state, county and township councils are directly elected.
On the same day, Tian Yanli promulgated the "Qi Constitution".
"Constitutional government... should first separately negotiate the official system, update the order, and formulate various laws in detail, and then promote education, clean up finances, organize military equipment, and set up patrols to make the gentry and the people understand the state affairs clearly and prepare for it. Constitutional basis..."
On August 1, the first popular election in Qi's history was officially held in 71 provinces.
"...Since the first year of Wu Ding, the war has been cut off, and the borders have been limited. The country is poor and the people are in poverty. The colonial Liu Qian still drinks poison to quench his thirst, and the side courts bleed, and the gains are worth the losses. You, the ministers and ministers in the country, must know that the country's situation has reached this point, and there is no need to settle for nothing. To mend the bad luck can be reversed, to stop the boiling water is like drawing fuel from the bottom of the cauldron, to stop the army and make peace, to reform and weaken, which is the lifeline of the country's security, that is, the turning point of the people's livelihood. I and the Emperor are planning for the ancestral temple and for the people. Instead of doing this, I have a better idea.
There are no ten thousand sacrifices in the world, which is the constant rule of change, and one tenth is the rule of change. Poor flexibility has long been seen in Yi, and profit and loss can be known in the Analects of Confucius... In short, laws are updated, and habits are broken. If you want to cheer up, it is difficult to discuss changes. The chief ministers of the cabinet, the bachelors, the four ministers of the eight ministries, the ministers on envoys to various countries, and the governors of various provinces, all based on the current situation, consider the political leaders of the East and the West, and refer to all the dynasty and state affairs, officials and people's livelihood, school examinations, military affairs and finance, and they should be responsible for the revolution and the government. The provinces should be merged, either by taking others, or by asking for one's own. How can the country begin to rise, how can talents begin to emerge, how can the branches be prosperous, how can military preparations begin to be built, each one can tell what he knows and what he has seen, and the general It will be limited to two months. Xiang Xi will report to the public for hearing...
On the same day, the eldest princess Liu Kanfei, who had been brewing for a long time, joined forces with Han Wang Tianyan, King Liu Yu of Chu, and tens of thousands of officials from eight northern provinces. In the name of "clearing the emperor and establishing a prince", he led the rebels to retreat to Xincheng. On the eighth day of August, they stationed in Yunnan. Southern levy regiments on the frontier responded to the rebellion.
At the same time, Annan slowly transferred the 7th, 8th, and 7th Corps stationed in Xiangyang, Kaifeng, and Hefei to Beijing, dismissed the commander-in-chief of the Southern Expedition Army, deposed the eldest princess from the Han Dynasty title, recovered the crown prince, and granted rewards to the two soldiers, and at the same time dismissed the eldest princess. More than a hundred party members expressed the court's determination to "reform":
Qi Huangqian stared at Emperor Guangde and said solemnly: "As Qi Huangqian, you will only support the emperor and his decisions, forever."
