Chapter 263 Inter-Provincial Autonomy
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Xu Lang looked around the venue again: "I can't say whether this kind of saint monarch psychology is right or wrong, I don't make an evaluation." But this is real, and it may not change for hundreds or even thousands of years. Therefore, instead of us looking forward to the appearance of the Holy Monarch every day, and spending every day in anticipation and disappointment, it is better for us to make an idol ourselves, and worship whoever wants to worship. But underneath the idol, what is needed is a constitution, a system. Personally, I believe that for our nation, this union should be the most perfect. ”
"I agree with Xu Lang's opinion." Ouyang Zhengping stood up and said, "Don't forget, it's the Ming Dynasty in the seventeenth century, and even in the whole world, the monarchy is still the most common. If we rashly propose to abolish the emperor now, not only will we be opposed by the entire Ming Dynasty, but no one will understand. Therefore, it is our best choice to let the Ming Dynasty develop into a constitutional monarchy. ”
"Wouldn't we just overthrow the Ming Dynasty?" Lin Zhaolong asked, "Can't we kill Chongzhen and re-establish a country?" ”
"At least not at the moment." Xu Lang said, "Our main task now is to help the Ming Dynasty government, or use the Ming Dynasty government to fight against the Manchus, who are our number one enemy." As for whether it is necessary to turn against the Ming Dynasty in the future, it should be after the elimination of the Manchu Dynasty. But I personally still have that opinion, I do not cause a violent revolution, and I do not approve of a peasant uprising. Let the peasants smash an old world, they will do a better job than anyone else, but I have never seen them build a new world. ”
"But there's a problem here." Xia Yang pulled the topic back again, "If we use gentle means to transform the Ming Dynasty, will it be successful?" From the 300 years of the Ming Dynasty to the present, a privileged class has been formed, the royal family and aristocracy occupy a large amount of land, and the power of the gentry class is deeply entrenched. If we want to transform the Ming Dynasty, we must start with the land, which is also one of the biggest problems in the past dynasties. But how do we need to solve the land problem, if this problem is not solved well, then it is certain to turn the other cheek with the Ming Dynasty government. ”
"Isn't it enough to reform the land?" Qin Zhigang shouted, "Confiscating the land of the nobles and distributing it to the peasants, isn't that what you will do after 400 years?" ”
"It doesn't work." "The basis for implementing this approach must be the establishment of a new regime, and it must also be backed by strong armed forces." At least not now. ”
"And what about immigrants?" Zeng Guangxian asked, "Jiang Beiming has also shown Chongzhen the map of the world, Zheng Zhilong can immigrate to Taiwan, we can also immigrate to the Americas, Australia, or Nanyang." It should be possible to recruit displaced people to open up wasteland and farm. ”
"I'm afraid it won't work either." Xu Lang rejected it with a smile, "The basis of immigration is money, we don't have the money to organize large-scale immigration, and we can't solve the problem if the scale is small." Moreover, the idea of Chinese peasants has always been to settle down and relocate, and Yugong is reluctant to move if he can dig up the mountains, and if you organize immigration overseas, I am afraid that not many people are willing to go. ”
"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, what the hell is going to do?" Zeng Guangxian ran out of ideas.
"Ladies and gentlemen." Xu Lang said, "Our proposal is mainly to establish a goal and a direction. How to operate it has to be explored slowly, and I personally don't have any good way. But I think in the current situation, Zhou Lei and Wang Qianxiang's Tuntian is still a good method. As long as the Chinese peasants have a bite to eat, they will not rise up in rebellion. We'd better transform it little by little now as we can, and don't want to become fat in one bite, which will kill you. ”
"This issue will be put aside for now." Xia Yang clapped his hands, "As for whether our goal is to go to the constitutional monarchy, how to deal with the land issue of the Ming Dynasty, let's go back and think about it, and we will vote in a few days." Now I would like to ask a question, that is, why the implementation of inter-provincial autonomy, China has always been a unified social model, inter-provincial autonomy will not cause the division of the country. Xu Lang, have you ever thought about this question? ”
"Chairman Xia." Xu Lang smiled, "Who told you that China has always been a unified model." In history, the truly unified dynasties were only the Qin and Han dynasties and the Sui and Tang dynasties, and even the current Ming Dynasty was not completely unified. ”
When Xu Lang said this, he waved his hand: "Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating national separatism, of course it's better to be reunified." But this model of great unification is not well suited to China's current situation. Even after 400 years, you can think that all countries in the world with large territories and large populations will adopt a federal system, such as the United States, Russia, India, and so on. We are the only one, the territory is large, the population is large, and the differences between different places are large, and in this case, the unitary system is still implemented, and I am afraid that some problems will not be so easy to handle. ”
"I don't think that's the main problem." Shi Xianyang said, "Won't there be regional ethnic autonomy after 400 years? I think the crux of the matter is what direction the Ming Dynasty will go in the future, and if it is still an agrarian society, then the autonomy of the provinces may not be so easy to implement. Because an agrarian society needs a stable social structure, and the unitary system should be the most stable. ”
"I think it's good to have inter-provincial autonomy." Han Wantao continued, "For example, our Yulin Bay is now an autonomous region, and we have our own laws, our army, and our own development model. If we listened to the Ming Dynasty government in everything, then we would not have developed to this point. ”
"Lu Lao." Xia Yang asked, "You are a researcher of history, what is your opinion on the autonomy of the provinces?" ”
"Huh." Lu Tianxiang said with a smile, "I agree with Shi Xianyang's opinion. It is not so important to be united or not to be self-governing. And isn't it too early to talk about it? I think this question will be left to the future after we eliminate the Manchu Qing Dynasty and transform the Ming Dynasty. ”
"Then let's put this issue on hold for now." Xia Yang just said a word and was interrupted by the noise in the venue.
"Why is it put on hold again, is it still discussed?"
"Whatever the meeting is, let's go home and pick up the children."
"Everyone, everyone." Xia Yang explained, "It's been more than ten days since we crossed the conference, and everyone is very tired. Xu Lang's bill involves too many issues, so let's go back and think about it carefully, and wait for us to vote when we close. ”
After Xia Yang finished speaking, he didn't care about the noise below, and picked up another bill: "Let's discuss the last bill, this bill was submitted by Shi Xianyang, about the institutional reform of Yulin Bay. ”
The meeting room was quiet, and everyone had basically read Shi Xianyang's bill, and the issue raised by Shi Xianyang was much more realistic than that of a constitutional monarchy and inter-provincial autonomy.
The Crossing Assembly is now the highest authority and legislative body in Yulin Bay, and the committees and bureaus, including the General Association of the Ming Dynasty, are subordinate to the leadership of the Crossing Assembly. Although the Crossing Tribunal is independent of the Crossing Assembly, the Crossing Tribunal does not have the power to veto the decisions of the Crossing Assembly.
With the increasing number of expatriates and the number of cross-congresses being held less and less, general issues are now largely decided by the committee and the military commission. Thus Shi Xianyang meant to separate the committees and bureaus from the cross-assembly, to exist as separate administrative bodies, and to strengthen the powers of the committees. The General Assembly will be kept only as a legislative body, with votes only on major issues. At the same time, Shi Xianyang suggested that the Yulin Bay Court should be set up under the crossing court to deal with ordinary cases and implement a two-level final adjudication mechanism.
"Xianyang, I have read your bill carefully." Xu Lang was the first to speak, "I don't think it's anything to set up the Yulin Bay Court, and the two-level final adjudication system can be implemented." But if the committee and the bureaus are independent from the crossing congress, will it weaken the power of the crossing congress, and will the future crossing congress become a beautiful vase, which is useless, have you thought about this question? ”
Shi Xianyang knew what Xu Lang wanted to say: "Xu Lang, you don't have to worry, the crossing conference will not become what it will be after 400." After all, we only have 300 members now, and most of them live in Yulin Bay. According to the "Crossing Conference Law" that we have passed, as long as the number of members attending the conference exceeds two-thirds, the crossing meeting can be convened at any time, and the power of the conference will not be weakened. ”
"I think Shi Xianyang's method is good." Zhang Guodong said, "Of course, the mode of crossing the conference was established as soon as we landed, and no one can change this." But we are now in a race against Tao Min, and what we need is efficiency and policy implementation. The Crossing Conference has all its advantages, but it has one biggest weakness, it is not very efficient. ”
"Chairman Zhang, of course it's very efficient to be efficient." "But efficiency often means hasty decisions. I have also learned deeply in these days in the army that the actions of an army are decided by the generals of that army alone. If the general's decision is wrong, then there is likely to be a major failure. Of course, the army must do this, and this is also the need of war, and there is no way to do it. But do we need to do this in Yulin Bay, if we blindly pursue high efficiency, I am worried that there will be an oligarchy. ”
"Xu Lang, what you said is very right, a general's decision alone is likely to lead to mistakes." Zhang Guodong looked at Xu Lang with a smile, took out a document from the bag beside him, turned his head to Xia Yang and said, "This is a proposal that our members of the Military Commission at home have come up with after discussion these days, and it shouldn't be too late to submit it to the conference now, right?" ”
"It's not too late, as long as the conference is not closed, you can add bills at any time." Xia Yang stretched out his hand and took the folder handed over by Zhang Guodong, "Chairman Zhang, what kind of bill are you doing?" ”
"The Military Commission officially applied to the General Staff of the Yulin Army to the General Staff." Zhang Guodong replied, "And nominated Xu Lang for the post of chief of general staff." ”
"Me? When the Chief of the General Staff? Xu Lang, who was sitting below, was stunned, "Chairman Zhang, when did you decide this, why don't I know at all?" ”
"It was just decided." Zhang Guodong explained with a smile, "Because you are not a member of the Military Commission, we didn't tell you when we discussed. But you have also been in the army for two years, and you are the most suitable person for this chief of the General Staff. ”
"No wonder you want to promote me to colonel, but I still have a mess in Beijing." Xu Lang asked, "Is that why I won't go back to Beijing?" ”
"The work can be adjusted." Zhang Guodong replied, "What the Military Commission means, what Beijing matters, Jiang Beiming and Han Wantao can completely handle. Because you raised the question of the possibility of the Manchu invasion of Japan, and after our discussion, we felt that this issue was still very important, so we decided to make you the chief of the general staff and find a way to deal with it. ”
"That's, this." Xu Lang suddenly didn't know what to say, and muttered silently in his heart, "Why am I so unlucky, I have to solve the problem I asked." (To be continued.) )