Chapter 72: Economic Frontier (7)

Beginning with the election of the prime minister in October 1862, the meetings of the Central Committee of the Liberation Party were held for four consecutive months from October 1862 until January 1863, in order to maintain the bottom line of basic work. At the end of the four-month long meeting, three major consensuses were reached. And the corresponding decision was made.

The first is in October and ends in January of the following year, when three national conferences are held. The three national conferences were the National Congress of the Liberation Party, the newly established State Council Summary and Report Conference, and the "National Conference of Workers' Representatives" ordered by Wei Ze. This was the fixed mechanism that came to be known as the Three Associations.

The second is the country name. Since the first emperor abolished the feudal division and established counties, the traditional "state" is actually a very unethical administrative unit. After the Tang Dynasty, the state within a state formed a close cultural cognitive connection directly with the rebellion. Later, even in the era of the Great Schism, the various separatist regimes also called themselves dynasties. And the Liberation Party finally finalized its own national name, which was called the "People's Republic of China". In the abbreviation, it is called "China". Different from the past, the documents refer to the Republic of China as the "New China", and the previous era is collectively referred to as the old society.

The third is that the Restoration Party made a resolution to entrust the Central Committee of the Liberation Party with the formulation of the Constitution of the Republic of China. In the Constitution, sovereignty rests with the people, and the Chinese workers under the leadership of the Liberation Party are the ruling class. And the constitution transferred part of the state power to Emperor Wei Ze. In legal theory, Emperor Wei Ze has the power to make the final revision of the Constitution and the final decision on the judiciary and administration.

In the eyes of later generations, the real result of the political debate of 1862 was this constitution. This is the real precursor of China's transition from the old era to the new era. However, in the discussion at the time, this constitution was completely the content of Wei Ze's relying on his personal prestige and political appeal. The participants only felt that Governor Wezedu was a little full and had made such a few moths. That's not what the attendees really cared about.

The Liberation Party itself was rapidly sliding into the traditional feudal division of power, and Weize faced a huge resistance. At this fork in the road that determined the era, Wei Ze took advantage of the instinctive pursuit of social justice that these comrades from clay legs still existed, took advantage of the profound cultural traditions, and even more so took advantage of the organization and power firmly in Wei Ze's hands. Wei Ze reached a compromise with these founding heroes that was somewhat similar to "releasing military power with a glass of wine".

According to the law, which was dubbed the "Danshu Iron Coupon Law" by later generations, all the founding heroes who were willing to give up their administrative power after the liberation of the whole country could receive a "pension" of 4 million yuan under the silver standard currency system in 1862 according to their administrative rank at the time of retirement. The pension is paid over 20 years after the official retirement. In the event of death within 20 years of retirement, the mantissa will be paid to the legal heirs of the founding father.

If the heavy criminal law is not touched, even if the founding heroes are involved in a lawsuit, the treatment of their founding heroes is worth the criminal law once. But it can only be offset once.

It is not recorded in the "Danshu Iron Coupon Law", but in the secret decision of the Central Committee of the Liberation Party, the direct system of shadow officials is not adopted, but the civil service system has corresponding preferential treatment for the children of the founding heroes.

The founding heroes were guaranteed by the "Danshu Iron Coupon Law", and in return for receiving this rich reward, and also out of the profound accumulation of Chinese culture and morality, everyone accepted Wei Ze's demand that "all the people of the Chinese Dynasty, including Wei Ze, must abide by the law according to law."

At this time, the National Congress of the Liberation Party also served as the power of the "National Conference of Workers' Representatives", that is, it had the power to legislate. This kind of "compromise" did give these founding heroes a sense of security. Even Weser had to abide by the law, and the legislative power was in the hands of the National Congress of the Liberation Party. No matter how many moths the Emperor Wei Ze whimsically came up with, as long as the paperwork that everyone couldn't figure out was personally led by Governor Wei Ze, instead of letting everyone get into trouble, everyone would let Wei Ze do it. After all, if the country is governed by law, the actual power of these founding heroes is strengthened.

For example, the prime minister is similar to the prime minister under the old system, and the prime minister under the old system is a status above 10,000 people under one person, and he is a real second master. Under the new system, the New Deal unit has no legislative power. Under the system of governing the country according to law, the power of administrative units without legislative power is ostensibly greatly reduced. This is the idea that Weeser used his persuasive power to get everyone to accept.

Due to the downmotion of the administrative units, the bigwigs no longer competed for the premiership for their factions, so they elected Bi Qingshan, secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, who presided over Guangdong's land reform, as the premier of the State Council. During the first five-year term of the premier, the Liberation Party, the Liberation Army, and the Government reached a unified view that land reform should be carried out in all respects in the liberated areas.

After the dust settled, Wei Ze called Wei Changrong, the Minister of Personnel, to his house for dinner, and he asked, "Changrong, what do you think?" ”

Wei Changrong replied: "I think it's good. Fourth uncle, you have finally calmed everyone's hearts. ”

Although Wei Changrong is Wei Ze's nephew, he is three or four years older than Wei Ze. These two are more like brothers than uncles and nephews. Wei Changrong, who controls the Ministry of Personnel, is one of the three pillars of Wei Ze's power system. The other two pillars are more conspicuous is Lin Asheng, secretary of the National Political and Legal Committee, who followed Wei Ze during the Yongan period. Wei Ze did not use the concept of separation of powers, and he dared to put forward the concept of governing the country according to law because the political and legal committee was also firmly in Wei Ze's hands.

As for the third pillar, it is Shen Xin, who Wei Ze is very optimistic about, and Wang Mingshan, who Wei Ze put out to be responsible for the land reform in Huainan. These two young people are only representative figures, and they also include a group of young people, including Pang Congcong, who are either engaged in politics or military enterprises. The army faction that was once extremely large and seemed to be single-handedly covered by power was cleverly bound within the scope of the army by Wei Ze at this time. If Shen Xin and these young people can grow up quickly, Wei Ze will be able to have an overwhelming advantage in party affairs. The whole structure of power is gradually complete.

"But Fourth Uncle, the sovereignty you proposed is in the people, which is interesting." Wei Changrong's interest in the constitution is much higher than others.

"If I say that sovereignty is mine, and many policies are implemented, I will not be able to deal with people." Weese replied. Wei Ze originally thought that the political system was nonsense, because all powerful countries have strong governments. The predominance of the executive power in society is a common denominator in all powerful countries. The kind of federalism in the United States, when the Great Depression of '29 was encountered, the federal power was greatly expanded.

The U.S. civil servant refers to all government employees other than those appointed by the government, and the number is 24.03 million. The number of French civil servants refers to the staff of the government, public institutions, public hospitals, and primary and secondary schools, which is 5.05 million. The number of Japanese civil servants refers to public officials in the government system, as well as all personnel in the Diet, courts, national schools and hospitals, and state-run institutions, and the number of 4.49 million people. The British civil service refers to the permanent civil servants who are not elected or appointed by the government, and the number is 460,000.

There are two types of statistics for civil servants in New China. In the narrow sense, civil servants refer to the staff of administrative organs at all levels, with the number of 5 million; The number of civil servants in the sense of leniency refers to the staff of administrative organs, political party organs, and social organizations, which is 10.53 million.

According to the scope of the definition of civil servants in each country, the ratio of national civil servants to the total population of the above-mentioned countries, that is, the "public-private ratio", is 1:12 in the United States; France 1:12; Japan 1:29; UK 1:125. There are two situations in China: the "official-civilian ratio" of narrow civil servants is 1:256, while the "official-civilian ratio" of lenient civil servants is 1:122.

A strong bureaucracy is the common denominator of the world's great powers, and this is a problem. If sovereignty is in Weese, then this powerful bureaucracy is only accountable to Weese. According to traditional Chinese culture, the official who was disposed of was not afraid of death and pointed at Wei Ze and scolded, "Lao Tzu did XXX, it's all for you!" Then Weese immediately took up the position of being accused of human affection.

So Wei Ze replied: "Changrong, you are engaged in combat training. If anyone trains to the death for the sake of honor. When there were casualties, did he dare to say that it was all for you Wei Changrong? ”

When Wei Changrong heard this, he already roughly understood what Wei Ze meant, and he smiled: "Of course someone has said it, and some people have scolded it." ”

Wei Ze smiled: "That's it. If it is a soldier, then the sovereignty is in the emperor. If it is a general staff system, then sovereignty rests with the people. Do you understand what I say? ”

Wei Changrong, who has a wealth of practical work experience, nodded vigorously, "Understood." Sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime. It was the same system for all officers and soldiers. The total amount of sacrifice borne by the soldiers is actually much higher. ”

Wei Ze saw that Wei Changrong fully understood this, he breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't continue to talk about this very headache issue. If sovereignty rests with the people, Weeser's account of the bureaucracy is very different. While there is certainly such a thing as populism, Weeser is able to use science to counter bureaucracy and populism. This is something that is fundamentally different.

Fortunately, what everyone wanted at this time was the power that came after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and what is even more fortunate is that these comrades have been working hard until now. The mischievous and incompetent ones have been cleaned up by several rectifications in front. The remaining comrades of this gang of officials have not yet degenerated to the point of believing that they can be justified for not working. As long as they were promised a stable future, the former rebels who still had a sense of justice did not disappoint Wei Ze. After all, I am a person who has been bullied in the old times, and no one can say that I want to fish the people and I want to run amok against the law. Even up to now, many people are sincerely opposed to the common people and are sincerely hostile to lawlessness.

Fortunately for the simplicity of the founders' lower classes, Wei Ze said to Wei Changrong: "You also have to do a good job in the personnel department, and there will definitely be big things next." ”R1058