Closing this urgent report, Chen Kai calmed down, re-thought his thoughts, and thought best about everything he had planned before. Because, he knows very well that Liu Wenxiu is dead, and there is not much time left for him.

"Then, the first step is to plug that gap first!"

Having made up his mind, Chen Kai sent someone to summon Kuang Lu. The two had a secret discussion, and then the latter took his leave, while Chen Kai continued the work he had started.

Two days later, it was the day of the regular meeting of the Guangdong Consultative Bureau. Such a meeting is different from an ad hoc special session, which often has a sudden outbreak of urgent matters to discuss and vote on, while the former continues to discuss and debate the outstanding issues of the last ordinary meeting or special meeting until a vote is reached.

Today's topic is still related to the affairs of the Council of Governors. The prefectural-level advisory bureaus have just been established, and the candidates for the councils of each prefecture have not yet been decided, and the relevant systems are also being worked out in full swing. In this regard, the Provincial Consultative Bureau can be described as very busy - since it is the relationship between the upper and lower levels, the Guangdong Provincial Consultative Bureau naturally has to try to plan the rights of the Provincial Consultative Bureau in the system. Moreover, this is a great opportunity for the Advisory Council to expand its influence, and it should not be missed.

"At the last regular meeting, the monarchs voted to add the former alternate members of the Consultative Council directly to the Consultative Bureaus of each province. Today, we are going to discuss whether and how to supplement the various provincial councils with other invited local representatives, and you are invited to express your views in accordance with the relevant system......"

The Acting Speaker who presided over the meeting was an extremely square old pedant, who was almost paranoid about the implementation of the system and discipline, and was always the best person to keep the meeting going. At the same time, after his opening remarks, a number of parliamentarians raised their hands to ask for the opportunity to speak, so he started from the front row and clicked on an elderly member from the Teochew government to speak on the stage.

At the call by name, the member of the council, who was not inferior to the acting speaker in terms of age, stood up, bowed to the other councillors, and began to speak his opinion.

In the meantime, there were other members of parliament who had different opinions or were willing to add, but no one would interrupt them. Because, there is a clause in the system of the Consultative Council, which was specially added by Chen Kai at the beginning, that is, it is strictly forbidden to interrupt the speeches of other members. As for the reason for convincing those legislators, Chen Kai claimed that the main job of the Advisory Council is to speak on behalf of the people, so no one can deprive them of the right to express their views in the Consultative Council - interrupting is also hindering the voice, so it must be prohibited.

Older legislators talk on stage, and there is a time limit for each speech, so there is no fear that he will talk endlessly. The Acting Speaker retreated to his seat, resting his right hand on the shocking wood on the desk, ready to maintain order on the spot.

In other words, even if the number of interruptions after the adoption of this system has been much less, it still cannot be completely eliminated. In particular, when some controversial issues are discussed, they are repeatedly prohibited. So much so that he often wondered if all the members of these advisory bureaus should be dismissed, and there should be a group of square gentlemen who strictly abide by the etiquette and law, and people like him. But it was also limited to his fantasies, because he simply did not have such a right.

"To sum up, the old man thinks that the local representatives who can participate in the enlarged meeting are all promising people from various provinces, and it is natural for them to be added to the provincial advisory bureau."

"I don't dare to agree!"

There was a startling sound, and the acting speaker sharply reprimanded that he should wait until he had finished speaking to raise his hand to apply for a speech, and then after the member who had taken the lead stood up to apologize, the acting speaker announced that he could raise his hand to apply, and then called another member who was sitting next to the member.

The two men below looked at each other, and the latter stood up and saluted, expressing their disagreement. In this way, the discussion continued, but the question of "some prefectures and counties in Guangzhou and Zhaoqing were still under the control of the Qing court or other Ming armies, and some of those places had no local representatives at all, and even if there were local representatives, they could really speak for the people there" There was always a dispute over whether even the vote could not be officially launched.

"This issue will be left to be agreed on at the next regular meeting, and you must investigate it in detail before deciding on your opinions."

Since there is no dispute, it is better to give them time to connect and compromise in private. The acting speaker does everything according to the system, and does not need too many whims, but it is sedentary and tired, but it is the most inevitable.

It was close to noon, and when it was time to rest, the discussion of this topic was put on hold for the time being, and he was also going to take a break first, because there were other topics to be discussed in the afternoon. How do you know, before he announced that it was time for a break, at the end of the morning meeting, a member of the Cantonese parliament stood up and saluted, saying that he had another issue on which he needed to seek the advice of the Consultative Council.

Subconsciously turned his head and glanced at the grandfather clock that Chen Kai ordered from Italy through Macau - presiding over the meeting, he naturally could understand it, but the concept of the second hand does not exist in the grandfather clock in this era, and the increasingly hot temperature in Guangdong will also affect the clockwork, so that the time cannot be accurate, so the acting speaker does not know whether there is still a second before the end of the meeting, or there are still ten or so minutes left.

However, whether it is a second or ten minutes, if the time is not reached, the time is not time. If this is the case, then according to the system, he cannot refuse the agenda of any member of parliament. So, he nodded and stretched out his hand to signal the councillor to come to the stage.

"In the next few days, I have seen that Guangdong is thriving under the wise leadership of Chen Fujun. However, the slaughter of the captives led to a sharp decline in the population of our Guangdong province, and now there is no shortage of manpower in the fields or workshops everywhere. Describing what he had seen, the councillor continued: "The restoration of Guangdong has indeed attracted a large number of people from Fujian, Guangxi, and Jiangxi to move here, but there is still a shortage of manpower. Therefore, he proposed to Chen Fujun in the name of the Advisory Bureau to cancel the ban on the Tan people not to go ashore and allow them to go ashore to earn a living. ”

As for the Tan people, it has been recorded as early as the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Their ethnic origins are said to be the descendants of the Minyue Kingdom destroyed by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, some are the descendants of the army under the command of Lu Xun, the leader of the Heavenly Master Dao who rebelled against the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and some are said to be the Fujian natives who were defeated by the King of Min at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and some say that it is the Mongols who Zhu Yuanzhang destroyed the Yuan to avoid the retaliation of the Han people, and some people say that it is the remnants of Chen Youliang.

In Chen Kai's time, the mainstream view of the historical community was the remnants of Baiyue. However, no matter where they come from, the Tan people have always lived on the boat for generations in the records that can be followed, such as the county chronicle in Fujian that says that "their people live in boats, take fishing as their business, float their homes and houses, and then the tide comes and goes, the rivers and seas are dry, and they inhabit everywhere." Each is divided into Hong Kong and Macao, and it is not overpowering. There are those who settle on the shore, and they are not businessmen, do not work, are accustomed to being lowly, and despise civilians. The Fujian people call it a curved hoof, and Xiao Qi's shape is also. Because its feet are bent, it is also commonly known as Qili Yunyun. Treat it like a slave, and it is cheap. ”

The Tanka democracy should be distributed in Fujian and Guangdong, and there is no shortage of people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places. Their main source of income is inland and offshore fishing and shipping, and because of their extreme vulnerability to natural disasters such as typhoons, as well as government discrimination and oppression by the Tan people's leaders, they generally live in hardship, and their education level is much lower than the average of the Han people.

It stands to reason that such a group of people, even if they go ashore to work as tenant farmers or workshop workers, will indeed have a greater improvement in their lives than their original lives, and will have greater hope of advancement. However, there was more to it, and once the proposal was exited, the council hall was buzzing again.

"I heard about the matter of allowing the Tan people to go ashore, and they quarreled all afternoon before they came up with a resolution to be decided by Chen Fujun, and they didn't quarrel at all."

On the street under Shuangmen, in the private room on the second floor of the Zhuji Hotel, Qu Dajun, Liang Peilan and Chen Gongyin gathered for a drink, and chatted about some matters of the Advisory Bureau.

They are all well-known talents of the younger generation in Guangzhou, they are all the same age, they are all twenty-six or seventeen years old, and the young people are high-spirited and courageous, and they are the most uncommon in them. These three people have a good relationship, and there is also a relationship that the three of them are from the same school. To explain the details, Chen Gongyin's father was Chen Bangyan, one of the three loyalists of Lingnan who fought against the Qing Dynasty, and the other two were all students of Chen Bangyan. At the beginning, they followed their father and mentor to fight against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but after the defeat, they had to hide and hide, and did anti-Qing activities in private, until Chen Kai and Li Dingguo worked together to recover Guangdong, and they were able to regain the Han family's clothes.

Unlike the other Confucian scholars in the Zhuji Hotel, they actually participated in the anti-Qing movement. After Chen Bangyan was martyred, Chen Gongyin obtained the position of hereditary Jinyi Guard commander in the Yongli Imperial Court, and traveled back and forth to contact the rebels, but only recently returned from Jiangxi. And Liang Peilan and Qu Dajun, one of them works in the Yamen of the Political Envoy Division, while the other is compiling the Guangdong Di Bao, which is easier to see the doorway than the previous one.

"She Tan has the same origin, going up the mountain is She, and going down the water is Tan, so no one mentions that they want to move the She people down the mountain?"

"Well, that's not true. However, if someone really mentions it, it will not be a Teochew parliamentarian. Moreover, Teochew parliamentarians will not let this issue pass. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"The ancestral mountain of the She people, Phoenix Mountain, is not far from the capital city of Chaozhou, and the She people like vendetta and death. Although there are not too many people, but if they are provoked, Chaozhou will have to be in chaos for a while, and the parliamentarians there will not sit idly by. What's more, Chen Fujun will not let Chaozhou go into chaos. ”

looked at each other and smiled, and they talked about the people on this topic again. Speaking of which, there has long been a saying that she Tan has the same origin, some say that they are the Han people of the southern barbarianism, and some say that it is the Chinese Baiyue, but no matter what, the degree of sinicization of She and Tan is very high, speaking Chinese and using Chinese, it is nothing more than one is more similar to Hakka, and the other is more in the local dialect.

Among them, there may be some discriminatory elements for the Tan people. Yu Shemin, they all participated in the struggle against the Qing Dynasty, and also knew that at the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the She people raised troops against the Yuan Dynasty quite frequently, and even joined forces with Zhang Shijie to besiege Pu Shougeng. In terms of personal feelings, there is always a difference between intimacy and alienation.

After chatting about what they had seen and heard, they gradually returned to the Advisory Council's proposal. Qu Dajun pondered for a while, drank a full glass of water and wine, and then continued: "I think that this matter is the drunkard's intention not to drink. ”

"Oh?"

The workshops of the Guangdong Business Alliance are indeed recruiting workers and expanding with their lives, which Chen Gongyin saw with his own eyes when he returned to his hometown in Shunde to worship in advance. Now, in Qu Dajun's mouth, it has become like this, so that he has just returned to Guangdong, and he has to be a little surprised.

Chen Gong Yin Rusi didn't wait for Qu Dajun to explain, but Liang Peilan nodded, and said to Chen Gong Yin: "This still depends on Chen Fujun's reaction." However, when Chen Fujun summoned him, the virtuous brother should not ask in person. ”