With regard to the Federal Office for Migration, there is no doubt that it is the body that coordinates immigration matters, and it will become very important in the foreseeable historical period as the scale of overseas migration gradually expands.

Of course, according to Xia Xiaoou's words, this department is definitely a big spender, and the budget may exceed military spending.

Obviously, there should also be a head of government and a nominal supreme military commander on top of these institutions, whose duty is to supervise and coordinate the work of all federal executive agencies and to be accountable to the Bundesrat in terms of results.

In fact, there are already answers and candidates in everyone's minds---- this position is of course the president of the Federation, and for this position, everyone expected to hand it over to Sun Lao.

The eldest of the time-travelers was unanimously elected the first President of the Commonwealth of Australia on May 21, 1659.

It is also responsible for nominating to the Bundesrat the heads of federal agencies, as the supreme commander of the armed forces, and the right to nominate military personnel.

Note that this is only the right to nominate, not the right to appoint directly.

This tradition has been consciously preserved because all major decisions made by the Supreme Executive Council in the past had to be discussed and approved by the plenary meeting, according to the decision-making convention that was common among the time-travelers.

Therefore, the nomination of the federal president can only take effect through a vote of the Bundesrat, and it has not yet been determined whether the approval of more than half of the vote or the approval of more than two-thirds of the majority will take effect, because all this has to wait for the enactment of the draft constitution and relevant laws and regulations of Li and Zhu.

Well, after this discussion, everyone thinks that these things are cumbersome and brain-burning, as far as the current situation is concerned, it is still simpler, just let Sun Lao nominate it, as long as everyone has no big opinions, it will be passed.

So then, after two days of deliberation, the federal Senate voted to approve a series of nominations by Sun Lao: Du Na was elected chairman of the Federal Education Commission, Han Yu and Xia Xiaoou served as vice chairmen respectively, Xia Xiaoou held the post of minister of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Yu He served as vice minister, and Zhu Beiguo was elected by everyone as the first director of the Federal Immigration Bureau, and Li Junming served as the deputy director.

It must be noted here that all these appointments were unanimously elected and no one voted against them.

Because the process of nomination and discussion is quite cumbersome, I will not repeat it here, anyway, the whole process of preparation and election took three days to settle.

Later, Hou Xianglin sent a telegram saying that he hoped that the federal president would agree to his request to resign as governor of Sinanseong and that he would concentrate on running the "Pacific Construction Co., Ltd.," which had just been registered with the "Beishang Fund."

At the same time, Xiao Pingguo was also recommended as a candidate to succeed the governor.

So Sun Lao accepted Hou Xianglin's resignation in the name of the federal president on the Nicole, and officially nominated Xiao Pingguo to the federal senate as the governor of Xin'ancheng, and the federal senate then unanimously approved the presidential nomination.

Subsequently, in his capacity as the supreme commander of the Federal Armed Forces, Sun Lao nominated Wei Hong and Ai Rushi to the Federal Senate to serve as captains of the garrisons of Xin'an City and Xiaowanshan Island respectively, and re-nominated them to the Federal Senate, and approved the appointment of Dai Xiaoshan, the plenipotentiary representative of the Australian Federation for Trade and Religious Affairs in Macao, as well as Huang Lei's Governor of Wanshan Islands and Ren Ke's Governor of Zixia Island.

This concludes the first plenary session of the Bundesrat.

On May 8, 1659, Ren Ke finally took 1,673 men, women, and children to the small pier of Zixia Bay in the south of Zixia Island.

In this season, Zixia Island, colorful, full of flowers, endless artemisia plains and dotted with primeval woodlands is the main landform of the island's interior, in the old world, this is called Little Cay Island, is the southernmost part of the Spice Islands a remote location, the total land area of 400 square kilometers, the terrain is very flat.

In the 21st century of the Old World, the island had thousands of inhabitants, but 300 years ago in the New World, it was an uninhabited island.

At present, according to the general perception of Europeans, the line of Ambon, Grand of the Spice Islands, Makassar in the south of Sulawesi Island and Dili City in Timor Island is basically the southernmost frontier of the South Seas, and Zixia Island is located further south than this line, and the island is far away from the main sea routes, so although the Dutch control the Spice Islands, there is no trace of the Dutch in this vicinity.

Europeans from other countries have never set foot on the island because of its remote location, and they don't even know about its existence.

On this morning, eleven large and small ships gathered on the sea near the small wharf of Zixia Bay, and after the immigrants disembarked one after another, these boats did not leave immediately, at this time, all the young and strong people helped unload from the ships under the command of Ren Ke, and a large amount of grain and tools used for cutting and reclamation were moved to the open space near the wharf by people in the way of ants moving.

At the same time, Ren Ke also sent his guards to lead some old and young women to cut thatch in the field, and then used the bamboo poles brought by the boat to build thatched huts on a household basis, as a temporary shelter for the immigrants.

Before the thatched huts were erected, the migrants still lived on the boats at night.

Then Ren Ke convened a plenary meeting and asked all men, women, and children to attend.

As night fell, piles of bonfires lit up in the open space near the pier, and people sat on the ground in the dark, and under the cover of night, the blazing bonfires reflected the vicissitudes of life and the dark faces of the men and women, and at this moment, people looked intently at the eldest prince Ren who was standing on a wooden table not far away, and listened to him announce a series of land policies hoarsely.

When people heard that the land they had reclaimed eight years later belonged to them, the venue suddenly boiled, and many people's eyes lit up, and more people exchanged ears.

Next, Ren Ke announced that starting tomorrow, each household will go to the governor to receive grain and tools for land reclamation, and then under the leadership of the guards, the land will be measured separately and the plots will be divided.

Ren Ke also announced that in order to fairly and fully listen to the people's opinions, all the fathers and villagers were invited to nominate a 20-member land councillor on the spot to form an organization called the land council.

The function of the council is to distribute the land on the Artemisia Plain fairly and reasonably according to the quality of the plots, and this council is under the leadership and supervision of the Governor, and it is also to hold regular general meetings of all the villagers to evaluate these councilors......

Later, some historians praised Ren Ke's move, and scholars agreed that the reason why the first villager election in the history of the Australian Federation of Commonwealth took place in the Governorate of Zixia Island has a lot to do with the seeds of the election that Ren Ke sowed at the beginning of the landing when he led the people to land.

In particular, the Land Council, although in the beginning, it was only an advisory body for the evaluation of land reclamation under the leadership of the Governor, but later on, the scope of the Council gradually expanded.

Later, the composition of those councilors became more and more diverse, and its members gradually became more and more diverse from the old squires such as the village patriarch, and gradually people of all ages and different classes participated.

Eventually, the members of this council gradually evolved into members of the state parliament of Zixia Island in the Australian Federation, which of course is another story......

Later history commented on Ren Ke's approach as follows:

"Democracy can be gradual, but there must be a beginning, even if the beginning is not perfect, for human beings, there is no pure perfect system in this world, but as long as we are on the right path, then our system will be infinitely close to perfection......"