After Zhang Peilun left Tianjin, the negotiation came to an end for the time being, and the focus of the work of the five committee members still returned to the year-end meeting of the handling group. Because the traveler is using the Gregorian calendar, there are not a few days left before the New Year, so the work must be hurried.

At this time, the year-end summary report of the various departments of the Ministry of Administration has all been handed over to the Executive Yuan, and the work of the Ministry of Administration has been summarized through more than four months, in fact, most of the departments of the Ministry of Administration have been set up after the second meeting, and there are only more than two months before and after, and this period of time is mainly used to do the establishment of the department's organization, the selection of personnel, and the training of personnel, and the formulation of departmental regulations, the scope of work, etc., but did not really carry out the work, or only began part of the work.

The main content of most of the reports is to plan and arrange the work for the coming year, and of course many items are inevitably proposed, such as the Ministry of Finance proposing the establishment of banks, the establishment of a financial system for the traversers, and even the issuance of the currency of the traversers; the Ministry of Agriculture calls for the establishment of food processing factories to provide more food for the traversers; *** calls for the establishment of newspapers to strengthen propaganda work; and the Ministry of Industry has the greatest appetite and proposes in one breath the establishment of more than a dozen factories, such as power plants, steel-making plants, metallurgical plants, mechanical processing plants, and chemical plants.

Of course, there are many projects that are not urgent now, so they have been directly killed by the Executive Yuan, but there are still some projects that still have great needs, so these projects will be left for discussion at the year-end meeting.

The work of the five-member team of the Executive Committee is to constantly read reports, plans, and applications from various departments, and at the same time consult a large amount of information, and sometimes need to hold meetings to discuss. Wang Yunpeng and Xu Jichao used to be staff members of government agencies, and they were already familiar with dealing with writing, while Xia Bohai and Qin Zheng were soldiers, but one attached importance to the study of strategy, the other paid attention to the study of history, and they were often engaged in writing work, only Xiao Jianjun's interest was in tactical research, and he focused more on using computer simulations or military chess deductions, and was less engaged in writing work.

However, one thing was implemented, and after soliciting his personal opinions, Li Songchen had agreed to be appointed as the administrator of Tianjin, but asked the executive committee to leave at least 200 personnel to assist him in his work, in addition to military personnel, factory personnel, and enterprise personnel. This request is not excessive, because at present, there are only three places in Tianjin, Weihaiwei and Qingdao, so it is not too many to leave 200 administrative staff in Tianjin.

On December 26, 1900, the year-end summary meeting of the Crossing Group was officially opened, and after the discussion on the first day, the Interim Executive Committee first formulated a [Temporary Management Regulations of the Crossing Group], referred to as the [Temporary Management Regulations]:

1. All traversers will be collectively referred to as the veterans, in all official occasions, as well as documents, each traverser must be followed by the suffix of "veteran", the traversal group is called the veteran group, which generally refers to the traverser as a whole, September 6, is the time when the traversal takes place, called the new Yuan day, and the use of the word "crossing" is strictly prohibited on any occasion.

2. The people of the time and space are uniformly called "natives", and the people of the time and space under the control of the patriarchal group may be called "naturalized people" or "native naturalized people", but in official documents, there is no need for a textual explanation, and all names that do not have the suffix "veteran" after them are tacitly referred to as natives.

3. Within one year, a statute with the nature of the [Constitution] will be formulated, temporarily under the name of the [Provisional Constitution], as the supreme law of the patriarchal group, which will clearly stipulate the basic rights and obligations of each patriarch, as well as the structure, powers, administrative organs, and leading members of the patriarchal group, the method of formation, and the mode of operation, and ensure the political power of each patriarch to participate in politics and discussion. In addition, the Ministry of Justice took the lead and immediately set up a drafting group for the [Provisional Covenant].

4. Prior to the promulgation of the Provisional Statute, the Provisional Executive Committee was the highest center of power of the Patriarchal Group, the members of the Provisional Executive Committee were the leaders of the Patriarchal Group, and the Administration Department was the highest administrative body of the Patriarchal Collective, and the period of implementation was one year, that is, from this day to December 30, 1901 in the Gregorian calendar. As soon as the Provisional Constitution is promulgated, new powers, administrative bodies, and leading members will be created in accordance with the content of the Provisional Constitution. At that time, the Interim Executive Committee will be automatically dissolved.

5. Prior to the promulgation of the Provisional Covenant, the Ministry of Justice will establish an ad hoc arbitration tribunal as the law enforcement agency of the Interim Executive Committee, which will be responsible for regulating the conduct of all veterans and have the power to enforce the law, adjudicate and enforce the law. The rules of the ad hoc arbitration tribunal will be published in due course and will come into force as an annex to the Interim Administrative Regulations.

6. All travelers, including foreigners, are eligible to join the Elder Group on a voluntary basis, and are not compulsory, and all those who become members of the Elder Group will be obliged to safeguard the rights and interests of the Elder Group, and obey the [Provisional Management Regulations] and the work tasks assigned by the Provisional Executive Committee, which will provide them with protection, living conditions, employment and promotion opportunities.

7. Persons who do not wish to become members of the veteran clique may leave with their personal property and property, and the Provisional Executive Committee will give them certain compensation according to their work during the four months and other circumstances. The period of secession was one month, ending on January 31, 1901, and those who did not apply for secession were deemed to have voluntarily become members of the group of senators and were subject to the [Provisional Administrative Regulations].

Although the content of the [Interim Management Regulations] is not much, only 7 articles in total, and less than 1,000 words, it establishes the basic rules of the traverser in the form of legal provisions, and clearly stipulates that the enforcement period of the Interim Executive Committee is one year, which solves the legal basis of the Provisional Executive Committee.

The purpose of the unified title is to disguise the true origin of the traverser. From the future world, is the biggest secret of the traverser is also the biggest hidden danger, because now is the modern society, the concept of time and space has been formed, and there is also a science fiction novel with the theme of time and space, if the traverser is from the future world The secret is leaked, it will inevitably have disastrous consequences, and the imperialist countries will never give the traverser time to develop calmly, and will also covet the advanced technology brought by the traverser, so as to attack it in groups. Therefore, from now on, we must gradually fade the color of the passage to buy enough time for our own development.

It turned out that there was a time-traveler according to a certain time-traveling novel he had read in the old time and space, the content was about the story of 500 modern people traveling to the end of the Ming Dynasty, and according to the content of this time-traveling novel, the time-traveler proposed to use "elders" to refer to all the time-travelers, firstly, to disguise the true origin and identity of the time-travelers, and secondly, in the future, the time-travelers really established state power, so all the time-travelers naturally became the country's veterans, and this name is also appropriate. This suggestion was also unanimously endorsed by the Interim Executive Committee and was therefore adopted.

There was also a proposal to simply stipulate that the traverser should be addressed as "comrade", but this proposal was strongly opposed by a considerable number of people, on the grounds that the word was easy to cause disagreement, and finally the provisional executive committee decided not to require the title, and everything was chosen voluntarily by the traverser.

Of course, all the traversers naturally include the foreigners and a few Taiwanese among the traversers. This point has also caused a lot of controversy in the Provisional Executive Committee; a group of Han nationalists believe that those who are not of our race will have different hearts, and that these foreigners will never be rooted in the same mind of the Chinese, and that they will definitely defect to their own ancestors and betray the interests of the crossing group; therefore, they resolutely oppose granting foreigners the status of patriarchs, and strengthen the scrutiny of Taiwanese; if they are green camps, they must also exclude them; and even more extreme ideological people even demand that all foreigners and Taiwanese among the crossers be killed in order to maintain the purity of the Han bloodline.

However, there are also a considerable number of people who believe that the motherland of foreigners is in the old time and space, and has nothing to do with this time and space, and the ruler of China in this era is the Chun court, and the travelers have no intention of being loyal to the Qing court. Since everyone is from the same time and space, to a certain extent, everyone is the same group of people, so naturally they should be in the same boat in this era, so as long as they voluntarily join the patriarchal group, they should all be accepted, and one more person will have more strength.

At the meeting, Qin Zheng also specifically cited the example of Riddle assisting the People's Army in Qingdao to negotiate with the Germans and joining the reconnaissance team, and Riddle was a German in the old time and space, but he did not take refuge in his ancestor, which shows that it is a false proposition that foreigners will definitely take refuge in their motherland in their own time and space, and they can also serve the crossing group, so they should be accepted as a member of the patriarch.

In the end, no one could convince anyone, so they had to vote by 21 votes in favor, 17 against, and 3 abstentions, and passed the decision to admit all foreigners as senators.

As for the last rule that you can automatically withdraw from the veteran group, it is actually just a means of retreating, after these four months of experience, I believe everyone should understand that they are not the protagonists of this era, if there is no collective protection, it is very difficult for a single person to survive in this era, not to mention anything else, once you leave the veteran group, go there to eat, you must know that this era is only silver. Therefore, it is estimated that no one will believe that he really has the aura of the protagonist and the spirit of the king at this time, and he wants to work hard for the next big country by himself.

Then if you want to stay, you will honestly abide by the [Interim Management Regulations], obey the management of the Interim Executive Committee, and stop talking nonsense that you are not controlled.