Gao Yuan and his entourage did not enter through the main entrance of the parliament building, but under the leadership of He Weiyuan, they quietly stepped into a room on the second floor of the parliament building through the corner door on one side, where they had an unobstructed view of the situation in the hall on the first floor.

Wu Qi had just finished his campaign speech, bowed to all the parliamentarians, and after getting up, he nodded slightly to Yan Shenghao on the other side, and the two contenders maintained a smile and demeanor on their faces, at least on the surface, they were full of confidence.

He Dayou is an adviser to the Great Council, but this time the election is transcendent, because he resigned as a member of the Great Council, and he has no right to vote, but Gao Yuan will be called to be responsible for the voting and counting of votes in this general election.

Standing on the podium, he opened one side of the box and unfolded it to all the councillors, the box was empty, and after a week of display, He Dayou put the box on the podium and closed the lid.

Glancing at the surrounding councilors, He Dayou cleared his throat: "Ladies and gentlemen, He Mou was entrusted by the king to preside over this voting and counting session, did anyone raise any objections, thinking that He Mou should not preside over or that He Mou needs to avoid suspicion?" ”

The hall was quiet, it was really a joke, He Dayou just said that he was commissioned by the king to come, who else dared to raise teeth? Or a long, long time later, there will be such doubts, but now, the reputation of the founding monarch is in full swing, and the members of the Great Council have long been accustomed to unconditional obedience to the king.

"Lao He, you are taking off your pants and farting, doing more." Chen Fang, from Jishi County, shouted from the top of the table, "Let's start quickly!" ”

"It's a matter of procedure." He Dayou said: "The king said that the result is important, but the procedure and process are also important. Since no one is questioning, let's get started. ”

With a wave of his hand, a line of Young Guard soldiers emerged from the passage on either side. The soldiers were holding a stack of ballot papers in their hands, and they began to distribute them in turn in the hands of the councillors.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the ballot papers you hold in your hands are blank, and there is pen and ink in front of you, and now what you have to do is to take up the pen and write on the ballot papers the candidates you think are suitable. I remind everyone that you can only write one, and if two names appear on a ballot, then the ballot will be invalidated. This is the supreme right that the King has given you. Please cherish your right to cast this vote. He Dayou said loudly. ”

This time, no one in the hall spoke again, and most of the parliamentarians who got the ballots almost lifted the pen and did it overnight, only a very small part, with a pen in their hands, their eyes swept over Yan Shengxu and Wu Qi, and they didn't seem to have made up their minds.

"Now that the vote begins, I ask all the councillors to come to the stage one by one, in the order in which you have your sacred vote, to cast in the box next to me." He Dayou said.

The front-row lawmakers began to leave their seats to vote in order. Those parliamentarians who were still hesitating finally picked up their pens and wrote down their first and auxiliary candidates.

Above the second floor, Gao Yuan looked at the ministers of the ministry who had just come upstairs to see him, they did not have the right to vote. At this time, they all became spectators. Gao Yuan looked at these people, and saw them watching the lively scene one by one with great interest, and couldn't help laughing a little in his heart. Naturally, these ministers do not think that this election has anything to do with them, and they are still interested in watching the excitement. But in a few years, they won't be in such a mood. Because the election of the first assistant will also be related to their position.

Now is just the beginning, in the future, what Gao Yuan wants to do is to let the first assistant himself form a cabinet, after the election of the first assistant, the first assistant will have the right to nominate the candidates of the ministers, and then submit the candidates to the Great Council for approval, and only at this time, the real election era will begin.

"Who do you think will win?" Gao Yuan squinted at the big councilors who voted downstairs, and asked casually.

"Is that anything else to say? It must be a strict discussion! Wu Kai stood in the first and closest place to Gao Yuan among the officials, and when he heard Gao Yuan's question, he didn't think about it, and said directly, "Whether it is qualifications, connections, or merits, Lao Yan is not comparable to Wu Yizheng." Your Majesty, I beg your pardon to say that this kind of voting is just a formality. ”

"I can't see it!" Cao Tianci, who was behind him, shook his head and said: "I know that Wu Yizheng has also made a lot of efforts in the past two days, and there are quite a few people who have expressed their support for him. It is not yet known who killed the deer. ”

Gao Yuan glanced at Cao Tianci, Cao Tiangang lowered his head a little weakly, as the head of the state secret police, of course he knew more than ordinary people, but since the founding of the country, Gao Yuan, under the advice of Jiang Jiaquan, canceled the monitoring of the ministers, and the order was also issued to Cao Tianci, but whether this guy has completely implemented it, Gao Yuan feels that he still has to put a question mark in his heart, and now looking at his appearance, I am afraid that he is discounted.

"Longevity, what do you say?" Gao Yuan looked back at Zhou Changshou.

Zhou Changshou smiled and said: "This time I think it is natural that Yan Yizheng won, but Wu Yizheng is not a vegetarian, in the eyes of his subordinates, Wu Yizheng is taking this election as a military training, his focus should be on the next term, didn't the king say that there will be an election every five years!" This time, Wu Yizheng just didn't want to lose too ugly, and then he just paved the way. ”

"Dawn, what about you?" Turning his gaze to another minister, Kou Shuguang, as a rising star, has always remained silent in the political hall, except for the maritime affairs he is responsible for, all other affairs are with the attitude that more things are better than less, and try not to speak.

"Your Majesty, in his speech just now, Wu Yizheng vigorously emphasized the need to develop overseas trade, expand overseas markets, and establish a large number of reclamation points overseas, so as to use our technological superiority to control the vast land overseas with a small number of troops, and grab more wealth for our Han Dynasty." Kou Shuguang said.

Gao Yuan's eyes flashed: "Wu Qi went to look for you?" Looking for your support? ”

Kou Shuguang's face was slightly red, "Yes, Wu Yizheng went to me, saying that he wanted to hear some of my views on maritime affairs, so I told him some things about this, telling him that the vastness of the other side of the sea and the abundance of goods are just now that our strength is limited, we know, but we can't get it." ”

Gao Yuan smiled: "It seems that Wu Qi has indeed put a lot of effort into domestic politics, in terms of domestic politics, he really can't compete with Lao Yan, so he set his sights overseas, and even the method of colonization made him come up with it. ”

Kou Shuguang bowed his head and was silent, Wang Shang's expectation was good, after Wu Qi found him, he promised to vigorously develop overseas trade in the future and establish a number of reclamation points, which was naturally undesirable for him. So he helped Wu Qi pull a lot of votes, as Gao Yuan said, he pulled the votes of those councilors who discussed Haizhou County, in this regard, Kou Shuguang has unique conditions.

In this regard, Yan Shenghao made a mistake, and I am afraid he did not expect that the members of the political hall would clearly support Wu Qi to compete with him.

"Ye Chong, you are the Minister of Defense, representing the military, who do you support?" Gao Yuan's gaze looked at Ye Chong.

Ye Zhong smiled slightly: "Your Majesty, the minister has no position, the army is the army of the king, it is the army of the Han Kingdom, there is no problem with whoever is the first assistant, just as the king does not allow the army to intervene in the local civil affairs, the minister also has no tendency towards the election of the first assistant." ”

Gao Yuan smiled, the army, this is the biggest problem in the future political reform, and it is also a problem for him to scratch his head, not to let the army interfere in politics, he has only taken a small step, and carefully, the change of the political system, completely change the situation of the monarch's words, the army is a problem that cannot be avoided, from the question and answer with Ye Chong, it can be heard that the army is still loyal to the king, and he is in power, so naturally there will be no problem, but the problem is that in the future, if there is a mediocre monarch in the Han Dynasty, But he still controls the army in his hands, so all his current reforms are just empty words, once the parliament appears that it is not in the interests of the king, he waves his hand, and in front of the steel knife of the army, any democracy is an empty word.

But under the current social conditions, there is no possibility for me to take a big step forward. You can only come slowly, step by step, when you clear Qin Chu, you will have some basic conditions, and then you can solve this problem step by step.

"You are right, the army should be loyal to the country!" He said nonchalantly.

There may be nothing wrong with this sentence in the ears of most people, but for Ye Chong, it is a little different, he looked at Gao Yuan with wide eyes, his heart was full of surprise, Ye Chong came from Jiuyan, and followed Ye Tiannanyou to the court and magnates, and he was much more familiar with the game between countries than everyone else here, Gao Yuan mentioned the country, but did not mention the king, which made him a little shocked.

"Now it's time to sing the ball!" Lower, He Dayou's big voice began to roar again.

Several Guards soldiers appeared in the hall carrying a large whiteboard, two scribes stood with pens, and on the whiteboard, two names had already been written, Yan Shenghao on the left, Wu Qi on the right.

He Dayou picked up a ballot paper from the box, opened it, glanced at it, and said loudly: "Yan Shenghao." ”

The scribe on the left lifted his pen and made heavy strokes under Yan Shenghao's name on the whiteboard. (To be continued......)