Master Yuan, start!

"I can't help you!"

Yuan Xiangcheng threw the documents on the table with his left hand. "We don't even have enough money to spend, how are we going to manage it?

Emperor Meiji doesn't consider himself Chinese, so let them handle it themselves."

After saying that, Yuan Xiangcheng pushed his chair away, stood up and walked out.

The meeting lasted for over an hour, and Yuan Xiangcheng's legs and feet were a little stiff from sitting, so he decided to go out and stretch his legs.

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At this time in Beijing, there was a large temperature difference between indoors and outdoors. When Yuan Xiangcheng went out, the slightly cool air refreshed him.

However, walking under the sun and being bathed in sunlight makes people feel comfortable and pleasant.

Autumn in Beijing does seem to be a good season.

...

After the establishment of the republican government, the cabinet formed by the Qing Dynasty before its death disappeared.

After the National Revolutionary Army entered Beijing, Manchu and Mongolian ministers from various departments were either imprisoned or exiled.

Most of the remaining Han ministers who were not taken care of resigned from their posts or returned home.

However, although the cabinet departments and agencies are gone, the huge demand for government affairs processing still exists.

Therefore, after a show of hands vote by the non-central decision-making members of the Central Committee of the Red Confucian Society, it was decided that the heads of various departments within the Red Confucian Society would temporarily serve as ministers under the new republican government.

The Red Confucian Society is theoretically a political party, and the institutions set up within it should also serve party affairs.

But in fact, when governing Korea and the three northeastern provinces, Yuan Shikai urgently needed various modern institutions to assist him in dealing with various specific government issues.

Agriculture, commerce, industry, public security, diplomacy, land reclamation, railways, finance, etc., the many affairs are extremely complicated. It is impossible for Yuan Shikai to leave them all to his staff like the old-style bureaucrats.

Every profession has its own specialization, and specific departments and institutions are needed to handle these government affairs.

But in fact, the Qing government did not set up these institutions at the local level.

The central government did have one, but it simply packaged all these so-called "Western affairs" and placed them in a "Ministry of Foreign Affairs" to handle them.

Yuan Shikai naturally would not do things in a muddled way like the Qing court, so for convenience, he relied on the Central Committee of the Red Confucian Society and established a number of executive departments.

These departments include not only those traditionally responsible for conference affairs, party affairs, and propaganda, but also agencies such as foreign affairs, education, industry, and commerce, which should have originally belonged to government departments.

Now that the republican government has been established, these functional departments within the Red Confucian Society have been established one after another on the basis of the original Qing cabinet.

First of all, there is the provisional president of the Republic, Yuan Shikai, who needs no further explanation.

The second was the interim Prime Minister, Xu Shichang;

Interim Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tang Shaoyi;

Interim Minister of Commerce, Zhang Jian;

Interim Minister of Education, Cai Shaoji;

Kim Byung-shi, interim Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Reclamation;

Interim Minister of Communications, Zhan Tianyou;

Kuang Chunhua, interim Minister of the Ministry of Light Industry;

Interim Minister of Heavy Industry, Xu Huafeng;

Interim Minister of Mongolian and Xinjiang Border Affairs, Shi Duo;

Although the republican government is still short of manpower, it has finally established the framework of a modern government.

However, as personnel and political affairs unfolded further, signs of factions and cliques began to emerge within the Red Confucian Society.

Generally speaking, the development of the Red Confucian Society was marked by the War to Overthrow the Curtain, and before that there were only a little over 1000 members.

After that, because Yuan Shikai served as governor of the three northeastern provinces for several years, although the Red Confucian Society remained semi-secret, it rapidly expanded to a size of over 10,000 people.

If calculated by region, there are external assignments, internal assignments, and overseas assignments.

If we talk about ideas, they can be divided into traditional Confucian school, new school, and overseas study school.

Representative figures of the Guanwai faction include Kim Byung-shi, former head of the Joseon Dynasty and current governor of Haedong;

Tang Shaoyi, former Qing Dynasty Consul General in Korea and current Minister of Foreign Affairs;

Ming Ye, Director of the General Affairs Department of the Red Confucian Society and Head of the Central Security Corps of the Society;

Commander of the 4th Regiment of the National Revolutionary Army, Jin Weidong, etc.

Most of the people from outside the Great Wall are distributed in the government system, and most of them are Koreans.

Representative figures of the Guannei faction include Xu Shichang, former commercial affairs officer of Yantai, Tianjin governor, and current Prime Minister;

The Propaganda Department of the Red Confucian Society was responsible for the following: Chang, the General Manager of the Incheon Naval Academy, Yan Fu;

Zhang Jian, former head of commerce and trade for the Red Confucian Society and current Minister of Commerce;

Xu Huafeng, former general manager of the Incheon Machinery Bureau and current Minister of Heavy Industry, who invented the dog-skin hot air balloon.

In addition, the Guannei faction also included commanders of various towns from Zhili, Shandong and other places, such as Duan Qirui, Sheng Fei, Duan Zhigui, Cao Kun, and staff officer Wang Shizhen.

The regional origin of the Guannei faction is not very obvious, and they are distributed in both the political and military systems.

As for the overseas faction, it was mainly composed of Zhan Tianyou, Kuang Chunhua, Cai Shaoji, Niu Shangzhou, Song Yaoru and others.

Zhan Tianyou was formerly the General Supervisor of the Railways outside the Great Wall and is currently the Minister of Communications;

Kuang Chunhua is a Chinese from Southeast Asia. He was originally responsible for production coordination in various factories in North Korea and is currently the Minister of Light Industry.

Cai Shaoji was not well-known and had never been with Yuan Shikai, but he was actually the backbone of the education system.

After Yuan Shikai established the Beiyang University in Incheon, he was so busy that he only appointed Cai Shaoji as the supervising principal, but it was actually Cai Shaoji who ran the school.

Over the years, Cai Shaoji worked diligently in Incheon and provided a lot of talents to help Yuan Shikai build the areas outside the Great Wall.

After the establishment of the republican government, he was transferred to the interior by Yuan Shikai and served as the Minister of Education.

Niu Shangzhou is a telegraph expert. After Yuan Shikai put forward the needs and general direction, he developed the wireless telegraph, a military weapon, in advance. He is currently the director of the General Administration of Telecommunications.

Song Yaoru is also a Chinese student studying in the United States and currently serves as the director of Port Arthur University.

In general, although these people seem to have obvious labels, the factions within the Red Confucian Society are still in the early stages of identity recognition.

It doesn't mean that people with certain backgrounds must belong to a certain faction.

In fact, this is true. Most people have the same background, but it is normal for them to belong to different factions.

For example, Tang Shaoyi, who was born as a child studying in the United States, was known as one of the three outstanding students studying in the United States during the Yuan Dynasty. He, Zhan Tianyou and Cai Shaosiji were also known as the three outstanding students studying in the United States.

However, he himself did not have close contacts with the overseas faction. Instead, he had frequent contacts with a number of officials of Korean origin and was regarded as a member of the Korean faction.

For example, Yan Fu, who studied at a British naval school for two years, should have belonged to the overseas faction. However, due to his experience as the general manager of the Naval Academy, he had close relations with a group of students from the interior of China and was regarded as a member of the interior of China faction.

In fact, if we break it down, there are even more factions.

For example, among the overseas factions, there is the Nanyang faction headed by Kuang Chunhua, a Chinese from Nanyang and the Minister of Light Industry; among the Guannei factions, there is the Jiangnan faction headed by Zhang Jian.

However, no matter what faction they belong to, they are all Chinese from all corners of the world.

Because of their clear nationalist and statist stances, they all stood by Yuan Shikai.

...

"Recess time is over!"

With a loud shout from the guard, the plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Red Confucian Society continued again.

Chapter 351: Industrial Rescue and National Salvation Red Envelope

Those with higher status stand on the stage and speak, while those with lower status sit and listen.

This form was extremely rare in China in the late 19th century.

However, the members of the Red Confucian Society who attended the meeting were not surprised.

Because this is the case every time they attend a conference.

Kneeling is not practiced within the Red Confucian Society. This principle began when the Red Confucian Society ruled North Korea.

The highest etiquette is just a deep bow.

Compared with the Qing Dynasty's court meetings where "the emperor sat in the center and all officials knelt on the ground and bowed their heads", this model is countless times better.

Seeing Yuan Xiangcheng stand up on the stage and intend to speak, the people below the stage quickly quieted down and pretended to listen.

"Comrades, representatives of the Red Confucian Society, our national revolution has already overthrown the feudal and decadent Qing Dynasty.

However, China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal social nature did not change, and the goal of overthrowing imperialism was not achieved.

Comrades, our purpose in establishing the Red Confucian Society is not just to overthrow the Qing Dynasty!

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Yuan Xiangcheng held more than ten pages of manuscripts in his hand and said to the more than 200 members of the Red Confucian Society in the audience:

“However, some comrades feel that we can rest on our laurels now that we have achieved so much.

They believed that whoever controlled the Central Plains controlled the rest of the country, and that once the National Revolutionary Army controlled the areas outside the Great Wall, Henan, and Shandong, they could rest easy.

After reading this, Yuan Xiangcheng glanced at the people below the stage and waved his right hand vigorously.

"I'd say that's not enough!

"Comrades, you must know that our strength is far less than you imagine, and the enemy may come back at any time!

According to the Western method, Americans can produce 2 tons of steel a day, the British can produce 1 tons of steel a day, and even the French can produce 5000 tons of steel a day.

But what about us?

The annual output is only 6 tons!

Comrades, the gap is more than ten times or a hundred times, we are still far away!

Moreover, not only industry, but all domestic economic activities have been destroyed since the invasion of China by the great powers such as Britain, France and Russia, farmers have gone bankrupt and shops have closed down.

However, foreign products rely on low costs to frantically seize the Chinese market.

When Chinese people use their money to buy foreign goods, all the money will flow abroad, and the Chinese people, both civilians and officials, will become poorer and poorer.

Comrades, do you know why, when the National Revolutionary Army marched north from Jiangnan to besiege Zhili, the counties and prefectures along the way surrendered?"