In the lobby of the Liaoyang Prefecture's Tokyo Road, Liaoning Prefecture, there were a lot of veterans rushing over from Tianjin.

Originally, Wu Haogu planned to discuss with a group of scholars and scholars first, and after a rough draft of the Republican Constitution was found, he would return to Tianjin to convene the Senate Political Consultative Conference.

But how could the veterans and wealthy merchants in Tianjin wait with peace of mind? Many of them were skeptical about Wu Haogu's career. Some people did not believe that Wu Haogu would really be the "world for the public", and they have been discussing and persuading them these days. Some people were swaying between Youzhou and the Song Dynasty. On the one hand, they felt that Wu Haogu might achieve great things; on the other hand, they could not cut off their relationship with the Song Dynasty, and there was a lot of conflict.

But a while ago, I heard that Wu Haogu was going to discuss the republican political system with the world's great scholars and famous scholars in Liaoyang Prefecture. The elders who stayed in Tianjin and the heads of a group of wealthy merchant families could no longer sit still. Everyone suddenly felt that the Republic should have their own rank!

Although Wu Haogu had to discuss with a group of sour scholars after discussing with the elders, everyone was still worried. So they pestered several scholar-type veterans in the Senate who were invited to Liaoyang Prefecture, namely Murong Wangyou, Lu Haowen, Lu Benzhong, Su Zhu, Su Guo and others, and proposed that they lead the team and move the entire Senate to Liaoyang Prefecture.

Don’t talk about the great scholars first and the seniors later. Let’s hold a meeting together!

Therefore, the empty former Liao Kingdom's Tokyo Road left-behind yamen now becomes the temporary garrison of the Senate in Liaoyang.

The veterans who are from wealthy businessmen or those who are supported by wealthy businessmen are now a little unable to sit still. Although they are important investors in this joint-stock republic, they have been investing all the way from the angel round to now being "listed". But they are merchants after all... scholars, farmers, industry and commerce are the last!

So they, the veterans of wealthy merchants, are most nervous now.

Of course, not all the wealthy merchants in Tianjin are fat and waiting to be slaughtered. Many of them also have military backgrounds!

The foundation of the Republican Army is knights and government soldiers, but the foundation of the Navy is the maritime merchants. In the Lushun Naval Academy, all of them are the children of maritime merchants. The navy's sailors are also all mercenaries, most of whom are merchant sailors.

Even the naval fleet itself has to operate maritime transportation to make money and subsidize military spending. The "Truth"-class battleship is actually an armed merchant ship that is both military and civilian.

This class of battleships adopts a one-layer artillery deck and a three-layer cargo hold deck, which can carry a large amount of cargo.

In addition, since the "Truth" class canceled the paddlers and only used three-masted hard sails, it greatly saved manpower. The Truth class only required a small number of sailors to operate. With artillery as the main weapon, combatants can also be saved.

Therefore, the Truth-level battery life is also very strong, which is very suitable for long-range travel.

Moreover, the firepower of the Truth-class is not a joke. Pirate ships without artillery dare not provoke them at all. Therefore, the Truth-class can also play guest appearances as "escort ships" and follow the brigade of merchant ships. Not only can you transport goods and make money by yourself, but you can also collect some protection fees from the merchant ships.

This arrangement further strengthened the close connection between the maritime merchants and the navy, and made the Youzhou Navy gradually become a "bourgeois army". Just when Wu Haogu summoned the great scholars of the world to discuss the country, Mi Youren took six "Truth Class" and Ji Yi to Annan Kingdom to grab the concession and collect and protect the food. If there were no such bourgeois thugs, Wu Haogu's Republic would have been hungry!

But even with the Tianjin bourgeois veterans supported by sixteen "Truth Class" (four more at the beginning of the year), they were still so guilty.

Since ancient times, China's traditional thinking of focusing on agriculture and neglecting commerce cannot be reversed in a short period of time.

"I said, I have to think about the source of water! After all, the situation that has been established by the rule has not been established on the basis of Jiehe Commercial Market... Now that the country is about to be established, we can't kick us away, right?"

That being said, the capitalists present were very guilty and always felt that they should be kicked!

"Take it down! The ranking of scholars, farmers, industrial and commercial enterprises is not unreasonable... There are many farmers in the world!

How many household registrations are available in Tianjin now? It is not yet 30,000. Among them, only 10,000 citizens are only 10,000, including naval and army officers and Yuntai bachelors who have settled in Tianjin. How many cavalry households are there? After the Liaodong war, how many cavalry households and cavalry households have to increase to 100,000, right?"

There are tens of millions of acres of land in Liaodong, and they will be divided. But it does not mean that the citizen who is assigned to the land is now a "citizen" and has to be exchanged for military merit or taxes.

Therefore, although soldiers who have insufficient military merits can also obtain land, they will not be given citizenship. And the military households and cavalry households without citizenship (no citizenship cannot be called knights) have to pay rent for their land. Of course, they do not have the right to vote, and their children do not have the opportunity to get education for free.

According to statistics from the military office of the government and the General Military Command, there were only tens of thousands of military and cavalry households who obtained citizenship among the Liaodong soldiers. In addition, the military households and cavalry households that originally had citizenship rights in Youzhou (the knights in Youzhou belonged to the Republican Yuan, so they all had citizenship rights), and the total number was only about 100,000.

"It's all right for these military households and knight households alone. We can also bring naval households to balance. There are more than 20,000 naval personnel, and all those who are conquered by the Republic should be granted citizenship, so that there will be no loss. But how many scholars and scholars in the world are there?

Whether it is a republic or an emperor, if you want to unify the world, you must not be without the support of the scholars and officials! We can keep 10% of the Senate's share, and then we wake up laughing. Don't be in vain!"

The merchant elders were talking frowning, and the heroes around them looked bad. Most of them were representatives of the senior knight family.

The so-called "high-level knight family" is actually a knight family that has no jurisdiction over the prefectures and counties, and has no background in the wealthy business, but the clan leader or clan has served as senior generals in the Republic Army. Of course, the clan leader and clan who serve in the army cannot serve as veterans, but those who are elected as veterans are also people who represent the interests of this group of senior knight families.

In terms of calculation, they can be considered Wu Haogu's confidant. So they all hope that Wu Haogu can be called emperor so that they will not lose their title of marquis. With the position of marquis, wealth and honor can be passed on.

But Wu Haogu insisted on being the king of the world! What does this mean? He is not the emperor? So how do the people below be named marquis? How can they pass on wealth and honor from generation to generation?

Thinking of the wealth that he had finally won, it might not be passed on, so these people began to complain.

"...You Tianjin businessmen have done a good job. It is enough to keep some senior positions and not be bullied by officials. Who of you has millions of dollars? Are you still afraid of not having wealth? We talents are troublesome! They are all founding heroes! But the ruler refuses to be the top leader? What should we do?"

"That's right! The Republican Army is not as good as the Song army, and there is a lot of oil and water. Our place is really a clean yamen! The system is strict and there is nothing to be reaped except spoils. If there is no hero again, wouldn't it be a waste of hard work?"

"Yes! Why didn't the ruler become the emperor?"

"How great is he to be the emperor! If he wants to be the emperor, we can at least have a marquis..."

"Or... let's persuade you to come in!"

I don’t know who it is, but he is very active, but he actually thought of persuading him to enter!

"Yes!" An old man slapped his thigh, "Can't we elect to rule and formulate that law? Then just hold a meeting and elect to rule as the emperor!"

"Can the emperor also elect?"

"I didn't say it's impossible! If we don't choose others, we will choose to be the emperor. What's wrong with it?"

"That's right! Then how many people are here? Who supports it and who opposes it? See if there are enough?"

"Yes, who objected? Is anyone objected?"

"No, we all support..."

...

The elders who ran to Liaoyang Prefecture talked to themselves. When electing the emperor, Wu Haogu temporarily left Liaoyang Prefecture and went to Lushun Prefecture to welcome the great scholars of the southern land who were rafting.

It is now the summer of Zhenghe in the third year, which is 1113 years in the Western calendar. "Theory of Heaven and the Theory of Empirical Practice" have been spread for more than ten years. It has been a full five years since Ji Yi brought back the classics of Western philosophies.

Don’t think that Western learning in this era has an impact on Confucianism that is not as good as that of later Qing dynasties. The Qing dynasty had a complete Neo-Confucian system and could resist the impact of Western learning to a certain extent.

Even in the turbulent era of the late Qing Dynasty, there were still great scholars who could shout out the bold saying "middle school is the body, Western learning is the purpose"... Although this great scholar in the late Qing Dynasty seemed to be unable to figure out what the body is and what the purpose is!

However, in the late Northern Song Dynasty, no Neo-Confucianism could be used to resist Western philosophy.

At this time, Confucianism was in an era of exploring and finding "tools" and "worldview".

The world view based on the theory of nature, plus empirical theory, rational theory, analytical theory (logical theory), these philosophical tools of "exploring the principles" and "exploring things and seeking knowledge" are simply treasures for some great Confucian scholars who want to find a breakthrough for Confucianism and to fight against Buddhism and Taoism! It is too late to take the initiative to absorb, so what to talk about resistance?

Even the leader, Emperor Taoist, used this set of things to improve Taoism and introduced a logically perfect moral sect.

By the way, the reason for the improvement of Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism in the Northern Song Dynasty was to counter the thoughts of Buddhism and Taoism.

However, Confucianism has never obtained philosophical tools that can "expert matter and principles" and "understand things and seek knowledge" (Confucianism does not have the idea of ​​exploring nature, there is no way). Therefore, it can only settle for the second best and learn from Buddhism and Taoism, so the "three religions are united" route emerges.

It is precisely based on this historical background of actively seeking breakthroughs that the "Western Learning Dives to the East" in this time and space have developed extremely smoothly.

Although most scholars and officials still oppose the "Theory of Heavenly Rules", "Theory of Reason", "Theory of Empirical Rules" and "Theory of Analytical Rules", these opponents only opposed it for the sake of opposition and could not put forward any reason at all.

Therefore, it can still be called a great scholar at present. Only the great scholars of the four schools of Wu Haogu were invited by the rational school, the empirical school, the Tianli Buddhism and the Neo-Confucianism.

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