The two returned to Beijing together from Yekaterinburg. They traveled 3,500 kilometers for a full month and inspected more than 20 regions along the way. Along the way, Song Biao talked about many ideas, hoping to be of sufficient help to the new prime minister.

Different from the mission of the previous Prime Minister Tang Shaoyi, Ouyang Geng's mission is to ensure the stability and prosperity of the empire on the basis of a strong empire, not only in the economy, but also in diplomacy, religion, culture, immigration, industry, etc.

There must be new policies in all aspects. Full text

A basic idea of ​​the two at this time is to establish Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Islam, Lamaism, and Orthodoxy as the six major state religions of the empire, support and promote them, and use religion to stabilize various regions and groups within the empire first, and then slowly

Take your time and think of a solution.

The idea of ​​the Liberation Revolution is useful to the Han people, but it may not be useful to other regions and groups unless it is theoretically improved to a higher level.

Whether it was the Republic of China or the current imperial era, the first half of the 20th century was China's freest period. During the entire Sino-Soviet War, although the mainstream media and citizens very enthusiastically supported the empire's war at all costs, many enlightened

Intellectuals and the mainstream media still expressed some discordant voices of opposition.

Even though the empire concluded a treaty with the Soviet Union this time and regained two million lost territories, it also allowed the Soviet Union to cede more than 5.5 million square kilometers of territory. Some pro-Japanese, pro-British, and pro-American intellectuals and politicians expressed disapproval.

This is still mainly criticism, and some old Chinese friends from abroad have criticized it tactfully or very sharply. This also illustrates the common anxiety in Europe, America and Japan about the expansion of the Chinese empire.

But within the empire, the personal worship of the emperor by the citizens and all walks of life has reached the point where nothing can be added.

Think about it. The Republic's toughness on the Diaoyu Islands issue attracted cheers and praise from the people. As the emperor, Song Biao expanded the empire's territory from 11.3 million square kilometers to 18.9 million square kilometers, almost an expansion of

Times, what a great achievement this is for the Chinese people?

Before the Sino-Soviet War, the empire had not fully settled the issue of Hong Kong. The Portuguese government returned Macau at the end of 1919, while the British continued to rely on Hong Kong for various reasons. They hoped to delay the official handover until 1922. To put it bluntly,

The only thing left to do is to continue to wait for good opportunities.

The empire is in chaos, the rule of Xinjiang is also in danger, and Outer Mongolia cannot be said to be very stable. Now it seems that it has been completely revived overnight, the Chinese nation has truly stood up, and the empire's territory has expanded significantly to 18.9 million square meters

Kilometers. All the territory that could be recovered was recovered.

The emperor is simply a symbol of victory in every battle. He led the empire to win the Sino-Japanese War of 1911, World War I and the Sino-Soviet War. His reputation in the hearts of the people of the empire is so high that it can be said that it is beyond comparison.

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Nowadays, common people and gentry all over the country are raising funds to build the Changsheng Temple, Long Live Temple, Shenwu Temple, Shenwu Palace, and Shenwu Temple. Some provinces are building emperor's palaces, some are building Shenwu Plazas, and every government across the country has Shenwu Road, Shenwu Road, and Shenwu Temple.

Wu Avenue, Shenwu Street, Lushun County Magistrate Guan Haiqing came to Beijing with the Wanmin Book and the Wanmin Umbrella, and strongly demanded that Lushun be renamed Shenwu County, and funds should be invested to build the most authentic Shenwu Palace and the First Long Live Temple in the country. Ancestor mausoleums should also be built.

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The people of Shandong disagreed.

Although the emperor was born in Lushun, the Emperor Gaozu should be from Shandong. The people of Shandong wanted to build the Zong Long Live Temple in Mount Tai. The people of Xuzhou disagreed. The people of Xuzhou wanted to build the Long Live Temple of the Song Dynasty. The people of Zhili Shangqiu even disagreed. The people of Shangqiu wanted to build it.

Song Zu Long Live Temple.

The people below were making trouble, the county magistrate was making trouble, and the provincial governor also actively participated in the struggle. People from all walks of life lobbied the central government and the royal inner court. The queen and concubines were not spared, and the guards of the inner court general administration were not spared either.

The reason why so many things happened is to blame Zhang Binglin. After some research, Zhang Binglin published an article in the Far East Daily with conclusive evidence claiming that Emperor Shenwu was originally from Shandong, his ancestral home was Xuzhou, and his ancestral home was Shangqiu, which was the Yin Shang Dynasty.

After Wei Ziqi, the eldest son of Emperor Yi, King Zhou Cheng named Wei Ziqi in Shangqiu, Song Dynasty, and named him Song Kingdom. After Song Xianggong

, the Song Dynasty declined from among the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period and was forced to move south to Xuzhou. At the end of the Warring States Period, King Qi destroyed the Song Dynasty, and the descendants of the Song family began to scatter in various places, mostly in Shandong. From then on, they lived in Shandong for generations, starting from the time of the grandfather of Emperor Shenwu.

The family moved to Lushun, where they engaged in sea cucumber fishing. His father and uncle joined the army, and the latter family died in the Lushun Massacre committed by the Japanese army.

The inner court could not control these matters, so the provincial governors and county magistrates approached Zhang Binglin, a god, to seek justice on behalf of the people.

This thing sounds like a joke, but various places are building bronze and stone statues of emperors on a large scale. Shanxi is awesome. Shanxi merchants there donated money to build a silver statue.

In the words of Shanxi merchants, gold control is very strict now, otherwise we will build a pure gold emperor statue.

There are indeed many ancestral halls and temples related to the emperor in various places. Universities and high schools are not immune, and administrative agencies are not immune. Almost every home of the common people has a portrait of the emperor, and they would like to send the emperor's tablet to the ancestral temple (

The longevity card means to bless the emperor with longevity and health).

The editorials written by Song Biao in the past, including those under his name, totaled more than 2,000, and were compiled into "The Complete Works of Emperor Shenwu". More than 40 million sets have been printed across the country, and almost all domestic printing plants have done so in the past two years.

Everyone is engaged in this business, and no matter how many prints they make, they can sell out. No matter whether the people are literate or illiterate, it is like flattery.

After returning home with a set of imperial edicts, many rural families have a long table in the main hall, commonly known as an "offering table". There is almost a complete set of "The Complete Works of Emperor Shenwu" on it. Some bookstores directly renamed it "The Complete Works of Emperor Shenwu".

, it’s completely sold as a scripture, and the General Administration of the Interior has been merciless in the past two years just for collecting royalties.

At this time, Song Biao was not only an emperor, but also a god within the Chinese Empire. He was the real Dragon Emperor, an emperor sent by God to descend to earth. There is a saying that Emperor Shenwu was the descendant of the Yellow Emperor.

Because the Qing Dynasty is a water virtue, and the Yellow Emperor is a soil virtue. Since Emperor Shenwu can eliminate the Manchu Qing Dynasty and lead the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, it must be the Yellow Emperor who descends to earth. Love the house and the bird. The Huangdi Temple and the Yellow Emperor Mausoleum are also very popular in these years.

There are sober people, like Tang Shaoyi, Cai Yuanpei, Ouyang Geng, Song Jiaoren... these are all very sober people, and there are not sober people. Like Yan Fu, Liang Qichao, Zhang Binglin, these are all great intellectuals who advocate the worship of the emperor.

No matter whether the people above you are awake or not, ordinary people don't care, as long as you are effective, they will worship you.

Song Biao had rarely been in China in the past few years. This time he returned to Beijing. Only then did he truly realize how much the people worshiped him. It was much more exaggerated than during the Taizu period of the Republic.

After Song Biao returned to Beijing, there was never any rest around Zhongnanhai. Every day, tens of thousands of people and gentry from all over the country came to worship. Students came to organize parades in large numbers and batches to express their loyalty to the emperor. Members of Congress and the Central Committee

Government officials are unable to pass normally during their daily commute.

Beijing Railway Station is crowded with people every day. According to the words of the Ministry of Transport, the trains are so crowded that they can’t even run. The Shenwu Temple in Beijing’s Xishan Mountains, the Shenwu Temple in Lushun, and the Shenwu Temple in Shangqiu are all equally overcrowded, including those going to Lushun.

There are also many people worshiping the Holocaust Memorial, because the monument itself also commemorates the royal family.

Zhongnanhai is actually such a big place. After Song Biao returned to Beijing, he could not live in peace every day. However, he did not step forward to stop these things, nor did he try to solve the problem, because he needed to use this method to ensure his status in all walks of life in the imperial government.

The highest authority.

Under such circumstances, Congress and the cabinet are completely powerless to refute him. Whatever he says is what he says. Whatever laws he says to be enacted and what kind of new policies to implement are what laws to enact and what kind of new policies to implement.

Song Biao just asked Zhang Binglin, Chen Qimei, Wang Zhaoming and others to come up with a solution. The General Administration of Internal Affairs came forward to formulate some systematic rules, such as Shenwu Temple, Shenwu Temple, Shenwu Palace, Long Live Temple, Long Live Monument, Statue of Emperor Shenwu, Portrait of Shenwu...

In what condition

It is only allowed to be built and used under certain conditions. This all requires rules. How should the palaces built for him by each province be disposed of, how should they be named and managed, which provinces can be built and which provinces cannot be built, and which agency should review and manage them. These must be

There are clear rules.

After giving some general instructions, Song Biao took the royal family and his family to Lushan Mountain for vacation.

In the hot summer, Lushan is definitely a good place to escape the heat.

China is known to have four major summer resorts, and Song Biao's favorite was Mount Lu. The General Administration of the Interior had been busy with this matter for a long time, buying the beautifully located Meilu Villa from the British Lord Lannots, and built a new one on this basis.

An additional building was built as the Imperial Summer Palace.

The construction scale of the entire Inner Summer Palace is very large. Four million Chinese yuan has been spent in the past, and more than six million yuan is expected to be invested. According to the plan, more than 20 villas will be built in the surrounding area. In the hot season, the emperor and

The cabinet will move here to work and hold national meetings.

The Imperial Summer Palace hired a large number of famous German and Russian designers during the entire design and construction process. The style generally followed the line of combining China and Russia, which should be said to be a mainstream direction in architecture in the empire at present.

In the past few years, the influence of Russian and German culture on the empire has been relatively deep. The empire has imitated and learned German characteristics in military, education, industry, and politics, including the empire's promotion and implementation of the spirit of law, and its emphasis on excellence.

The efforts to cultivate technicians, the focus on technical schools and the funding of universities all have German influences, while literature, architecture, and life are more influenced by Russia.

First of all, the three northeastern provinces were greatly influenced by Russia. As the Northeastern system took over the country, this influence was expanded to the whole country, such as the popularity of black tea, black bread, cheese, the promotion and cultivation of buckwheat and rye, and Russian literary works.

A large number of books have been translated into China, including Marx's "Das Kapital". However, the distribution of this book has been restricted from the beginning. Only scholars and experts engaged in academic and theoretical research have the opportunity to obtain a set, and

Registration is required.

But leftist ideas, especially Menshevik ideas that the empire could exist by default, already have a certain foundation in the country.

Song Biao showed restraint on this matter. In 1917, he specifically approved Chen Zhongfu, Yu Yinchu, Xuan Zhonghua and others to form the Socialist Labor Party, which was later reorganized into the Chinese Social Democratic Party following the example of the German Social Democratic Party.

Song Biao also had two conversations with Chen Zhongfu and Yu Yinchu, which were very interesting.

In fact, after the Russian October Revolution, many political leaders of the Russian Mensheviks generally chose to flee to the three eastern provinces, especially Shenyang County, Harbin, and the Russian District of Shenyang. The so-called Russian District means that you do not have a visa, as long as you are Russian You can also live here temporarily for six months and then apply for a new visa based on your situation.

After May, China and the Soviet Union basically confirmed the framework for the formal establishment of diplomatic relations. The Chinese Empire had consulates general in St. Petersburg, Kazan, and Yekaterinburg in Soviet Russia, and an embassy in Moscow. At this time, the Russian people, especially the knowledge of Russia, For people in the molecular, scientific and technological circles, and economic circles, this is a very important thing. Because diplomacy between various countries and Russia has been suspended, the only way to officially leave Russia is to apply for it at the Chinese embassy and consulate. Visa. Then leave Russia under the unified arrangements of the embassy.

The exchanges between China and Russia have been very close in the past ten years. There are also many non-governmental organizations such as the China-Russia Friendship Association and the Orthodox Friends Association. Through the operation of these organizations, a large number of Russians can easily escape to China.

Because the Soviet Russian government has established a very powerful Cheka agency to carry out large-scale inspections throughout the country, especially the inspections of intellectuals, industrial and commercial personnel, and military personnel. For example, Kolchak and General Madnidov are all They were the first military leaders to be loyal to the Soviet government. Finally, the Cheka gave them a special preferential treatment policy, allowing them to go into exile in the United States and the United Kingdom, otherwise they would be directly imprisoned.

Their treatment was considered good, but too many people were executed without a trace. According to statistics, during the Soviet-Russian Civil War alone, more than 400,000 Russians were executed by the Cheka. There are countless people who have been arrested, under surveillance, and under investigation.

Once the door of China is opened, these people will have no choice but to flee frantically to China.

The threat of death and dark government is very scary.

This also includes many important commentators and leaders of the Mensheviks, and their influence on China's ideological and political world is still very subtle.

Regarding this issue, Song Biao did not strictly control it. The Central Bureau of Investigation and the State Intelligence Bureau were also paying attention to these people. However, they did not take any obvious measures.

In terms of domestic publicity and criticism of Soviet Russia's political system and ideology, Song Biao focused on two points. First, large-scale publicity, in-depth reporting of the blood and madness of Soviet Russia, and breaking everyone's expectations of the Soviet Russian revolution. the kind of beautiful fantasy; the second is to regard "establishing a truly free and democratic society" as one of the important goals of national rejuvenation.

This is not entirely reassuring.

During the two months of vacation at the Lushan Summer Palace, Song Biao invited many well-known scholars in the important social and humanistic fields in China, as well as some celebrities from political parties and newspapers and media, as well as many religious and ethnic leaders. There were more than a hundred people and he invited them to the Summer Palace for vacation. Taking advantage of this time, he held a Lushan academic seminar in the name of the Ministry of Culture and Education and the Ministry of Religion. The theme was to discuss China's national rejuvenation and Chinese society around the Russian Revolution. Topics of humanistic progress.

At this meeting, Song Biao and other people reached three consensuses. First, if Chinese society wants to develop stably and progress, the people must be richer and more equal, and enjoy more political rights and personal freedoms. Legal and

Democracy is the cornerstone for protecting the interests of the people; second, all illegal armed forces are the natural enemies of national stability, peace, freedom and progress; third, freedom of religious and political belief, and no interference with each other by force or other means, or deprivation of others' right to belief.

Soviet Russia is a typical negative teaching material. How powerful Tsarist Russia is. Even though Tsarist Russia itself had serious internal problems, it still had the strength to protect the interests of the country and its people even after the February Revolution. After the October Revolution, chaos suddenly broke out, and all countries wanted to

The siege resulted in heavy losses and made people's lives even more miserable.

Regarding cultural issues, Song Biao's hope was to support the creation and reform of Chinese studies, and to establish Chinese academies across the country to study traditional Chinese studies and the thoughts of the Spring and Autumn scholars. Abroad, they were collectively known as the Spring and Autumn Academy, to revive the Spring and Autumn thoughts, and to honor Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzu as the Three Saints.

, respect Sun Tzu, Han Feizi, and Mozi as the sage of war, sage of law, and sage of ink, instead of narrowly looking for the only answer to the revival of Chinese classical music in the thoughts of Confucius.
To be continued...