Not much, and the meeting between the two was more of a symbolic meaning representing the success of the revolution.

In order to avoid unnecessary arguments, Song Biao chose to meet Sun Yat-sen in the drawing room. After Song Jiaoren and Sun Yat-sen arrived first, he went to the drawing room accompanied by First Class Attaché Jiang Zuobin.

The Imperial Central Army Headquarters is located in Xihaizi Park in Tongzhou. It was formerly the Pagoda Garden of the Hubu Yamen, which was also a resort for Hubu Yamen officials to relax and vacation. Its name comes from the thousand-year-old pagoda of the Burning Light Buddha Relic Pagoda in the park.

The tower was built in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and has been around for 1 year.

With a history of 200 years, since the Tang Dynasty, royal families of all dynasties have renovated it, especially the Yuan and Qing dynasties. After the reconstruction in the 35th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty, the tower was 56 meters high, with a total of 2232 copper bells on the 13-story tower.

, it has a pleasant sound when the breeze blows.

Song Biao himself liked to go to the tower to overlook the distance. The living room he often went to was located in the Linyuan Pavilion on the south side of the stupa. It was also a typical two-story building with a traditional waterside pavilion. At this time, it was renamed "Guangfu Pavilion".

When Song Biao arrived at Guangfu Pavilion, Song Jiaoren and Sun Yixian were waiting quietly in the reception room. Seeing Song Biao, Song Jiaoren couldn't wait to get up and see him. Since he recognized Song Biao as the emperor of the empire, he also recognized the constitutional monarchy.

According to the system, he still has to bow formally.

Sun Yixian looked at Song Biao in front of him in silence, his mood might be complicated.

Song Biao didn't mind Sun Yixian's "rudeness". He walked over to shake hands with Song Jiaoren and then shook hands with Sun Yixian. After a few polite words, he invited them upstairs to the small reception room upstairs.

talks.

Guangfu Pavilion has been renovated, and a closed glass screen has been installed on the corridor on the second floor. Even in such a cold season, you can enjoy the scenery of the West Sea without any hindrance.

After sitting down in the living room on the second floor and waiting for the two waitresses to bring tea and snacks, Song Biao continued to invite Song Jiaoren and Sun Yixian to drink tea until the waitresses closed the door and only the three of them and Jiang Zuobin were left in the room.

While standing by, Song Biaocai and Sun Yixian said: "In the process of overthrowing the Manchu rule, Mr. Sun

His hard work has made him the first person to call for revolution, and I admire him very much. I have read through the Three People's Principles and the spirit of local autonomy advocated by Mr. Sun, and I am quite inspired. Today I am able to overcome many difficulties and formally communicate with you

I am still very happy to see you. Between the liberation revolution and the republican revolution,

During this period, we had many differences, but I think these differences are not important. From a general perspective, our goals are still the same. We all want to eliminate the various inequalities imposed on our nation by the West.

shackles. They all want to build a prosperous and powerful China and revive a

The great Chinese nation all wants to allow the people to enjoy basic political rights, a prosperous life and universal education. Compared with our goals, our differences seem very small. Insignificant. Therefore, at this time, I and

When you meet, it is because you want to work together to build a common great ideal."

After hearing such words, Sun Yat-sen seemed very silent.

He is actually a very hard-working person, a very persistent person. He has persisted until now. He finally overthrew the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the result was completely different from what he expected. The country's army and government became Song Biao again.

The thing in his hand, and Song Biao also became the new emperor.

There were three things he could not accept. First, although the revolution was successful, all his previous promises were in vain; second, the Alliance would gain nothing; third, he was worried that the existence of the emperor would continue to hinder China from becoming a free and equal country.

country, and this is the goal he strives for.

Even though Song Biao said some beautiful words, Sun Yat-sen was still a little indifferent. He felt that he should be happy, but at the same time he felt pain and loss. He was lost because his comrades were constantly leaving him and turning to the embrace of the Liberation Association.

Even Huang Xing was drifting away from him in these days, intending to accept Song Jiaoren's invitation to join the Democratic Party and participate in Congress.

Participating in Congress is good, but what Sun Yat-sen is angry about is the way and price of this betrayal of the liberal revolution.

Sun Yixian originally had a lot of very passionate things to say, and was even prepared to be arrested and detained by Song Biao, but after hearing Song Biao's beautiful words, he really didn't know how to say it.

Seeing that Sun Yixian didn't speak, Song Jiaoren was anxious. He looked at Sun Yixian but didn't know how to remind him.

Song Biao was not in a hurry. It was like playing chess between him and Sun. The other party didn't know how to respond and always had to think for a while. He seemed very calm and drank the black tea and continued to wait for Sun Yixian's answer.

When Song Biao came down from the tea cup room, Sun Yixian suddenly said: "I think the republican revolution that the Chinese people call is wrong. What our Tongmenghui insists on is not only a true republican system, but also a purer spirit of freedom and equality."

Song Biao quickly replied: "Absolute freedom and equality do not exist. Just like some people are born in wealthy families, some people are born in poor families, some people are born smart, and some people are born ugly. What I mean

The understanding of equality is that everyone is equal before the law.

The freedom of understanding is the freedom guaranteed by the law. Therefore, we say that we must respect the law and love the people. The key lies in who makes the laws. I think the people should make the laws in the future. Even now, the Congress should make the laws.

But I have a question. The voters in our provinces

Can it really represent the collective will and interests of all Chinese people? Obviously not. It will take time to gradually expand the number of voters. I just came back from Sichuan Province. There are only 4,000 legal voters in Sichuan Province. The next Congress will

For public elections, we think there should be 10,000 people,

Then 40,000, 400,000, one million, four million, and finally 48 million all Sichuan people. This will definitely require a process. Since the voters cannot represent the people of the country, we should first ensure that the legislators can represent the people.

, at least it can represent our nation."

Sun Yixian could only admit: "What you said is really good."

Song Biao said: "I remember that you have always advocated counties as autonomous units. After overthrowing the Manchu Qing Dynasty, why did you start advocating provinces as autonomous units?"

Sun Yat-sen didn't know how to answer.

Song Biao continued: "It is not impossible to have autonomy as a province. What about Inner Mongolia, what about Outer Mongolia, what about Xinjiang, what about Gansu, Ningxia, and Guangxi? What about counties? If the county requires

**, at least the prefectural and provincial levels have ways to deal with it, so that it will not lead to a nationwide war for independence and reunification, and it will not lead to a

Give foreign countries the opportunity to intervene. If the provincial councils of Gansu, Ningxia, and Xinjiang decide to revolt, what should we do? Do they directly send the Central Army to suppress it? What should we do if foreign countries take the opportunity to intervene wantonly? Is it only us Han people who want to intervene?

Only provinces with an absolute numerical advantage belong to China, and the rest are not needed?"

Sun Yat-sen hurriedly replied: "As long as we pursue the policy of peace and reciprocity among ethnic groups, follow the example of the United States in jointly building a country, building a republic of all ethnic groups, and making the people prosperous, such a thing will never happen."

songs

, choose the safest path. If it is like what you said, why does Ireland demand independence? Why does Norway demand independence from the Danish coalition, and why does Finland also want independence? The first taboo of politicians is naivety and taking things for granted.

China's history

The history is very long, and there are many examples of a politician's naivety leading to the division and decline of a country, and even becoming a national sinner. The United States is the United States, and China is China. The situation is completely different. I think China should first learn from Germany now, and everything depends on how Germany does it.

Let's just do it. This is the safest and simplest strategy. If Germany falls in the front, we can also change another target to learn from. If Germany continues to prosper, we must prosper too."

What he said was hard to hear, but he has always been such a direct person. Even though he still admired idealists like Sun Yat-sen and his long-term persistence, people are not saints and everyone makes mistakes. Such a big mistake will definitely lead to

scold.

Sun Yixian was embarrassed and dissatisfied, and felt that Song Biao's words were sophistry, but he could not refute it.

Song Biao then added: "Mr. Sun, I have always been a straightforward person, so please forgive me for being rude and frivolous. Here, I need to say something less polite. If what I said is wrong

, I hope you don’t mind either. In my opinion, you are a

A great revolutionary, you are like this now and will be like this in the future, but you are not a skilled politician. Many of the things you said are right. Just like the conclusions we have drawn from our study abroad, they are the general trend of world development.

But you still lack the ability to govern a country

Experience, especially in a country as complex as China, is dozens of times more difficult to be the Prime Minister of China than the President of the United States. An American President who does nothing can only be regarded as a mediocre president, while a Chinese Prime Minister who does nothing is simply a sinner of the nation, because China

The difficulties and dangers faced by people are very huge. We are a country with a population of 430 million, and our total arable land is not as large as that of the United States, which has only 70 million people. The population will always continue to grow.

If the growth continues, in fifty years we will have a population of one billion

At that time, we had at least 300 million people that we could not feed. Ireland had a population of 10 million. After the Great Famine, 3 million people fled to the United States. Fifty years later, when we encountered the Great Famine, 300 million people had to flee to

Overseas, which country can accommodate so many people?

Are they willing to accept people? If you were the Prime Minister of China at that time, or the President of China as you wish, what would you do? Let 300 million people sit in the country and starve to death? I just came back from Sichuan, and I was in an unusual mood.

Heavy, Sichuan has a population of 48 million, which is equivalent to

5/8 of the U.S. population, but 83 million acres of arable land is only equivalent to 5% of the total arable land in the United States. With such little arable land and such a large population, the per capita arable land is only 1.72 acres. I don’t know if you become the president.

How to solve these problems, how to

Faced with such difficulties and how to consider the issue of "Sichuan in fifty years", I only know that as an emperor that your alliance does not recognize, I spent almost every day in Sichuan in a sleepless night.

In this situation, I feel frightened and like walking on thin ice.”

At this point, Song Biao did not intend to let this idealist go, and continued to comment: "The situation in Guangdong should not be much better than Sichuan, and the situation in Shanxi will only be worse. Henan, Fujian, Shaanxi, Shandong,

The problem is the same in Hebei. Human lives are at stake. Our current task is not only to promote democracy and freedom. As a government, can we control people’s lives?

Whether the Chinese people can live a dignified life is a difficult matter. So I say you are not a very good politician. You don’t understand China’s difficulties at all. Even if you say you understand, you still can’t.

There are various crises hidden behind these problems. Similarly, I am not the person who can solve this problem. What I can do is to find

I find people who can solve these problems and appoint them to form a cabinet government to govern the country. What I want to do is to help the government deal with the divisions in various places, avoid domestic military crises, unify the military forces of various places, and unite as one to deal with the outside world.

So you want to be the emperor, precisely because in a country like China, there are so many people who want to be the emperor, even if they are not the emperor,

He also wanted to be a local emperor, but as long as I became the emperor, during my lifetime, no other Chinese would dare to dream of being an emperor, or even have the chance to be a local emperor. This is the reality in China at this time. We will

Continue to study Germany comprehensively, but we are different from Germany. Germany is a matter of meat and bread, and we are a matter of life and death."

Song Biao was not that kind of master of public speaking. He rarely gave speeches in public. But once he spoke, he could make everyone speechless. He was ashamed because it was always easy to attack others.

He made Mr. Sun Yat-sen very discouraged and painful, so much so that Sun Yat-sen had to admit that everything he said was true.

Sun Yixian came to discuss with Song Biao this time because of two things. First, the formulation of the interim constitution required the participation of the Tongmenghui, and it was an important participation; second, Guangdong and Guangxi demanded autonomy, and guaranteed the autonomy rights of each province in the constitution.

Each province can formulate its own constitution, allowing each province to maintain freedom as much as possible and move closer to the federal system.

But at this moment, Sun Yixian couldn't say a word.

If he thinks that he can still make such a request under such circumstances, then he is a complete shameless person and a sinner of the nation.

This is a moral disaster that he cannot bear.

Song Jiaoren was sitting next to him, his mood was also very complicated, and he agreed extremely with everything Song Biao said, because these are very realistic things.
To be continued...