After the Spring Festival in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the flow of people in Keelung Town, Hongmen was much more than in any previous period.

The various restaurants and inns in Keelung Town, which were originally quite prosperous, are now almost overcrowded, and there is not a single vacant room.

Even in the homes of the common people in the residential areas, all the vacant houses in the private houses are rented out for a short period of time to earn a small expense.

The reason for this grand occasion is that at the end of last year, the Hongmen government posted a notice and set off a grand event involving various industries in Hongmen.

By the time the deadline on the final notice arrived, the Hongmen government had received a total of more than 15,700 valid and qualified applications from all walks of life, and the more than 10,000 registration forms could be said to be one in a hundred compared to the 200 LegCo members originally recruited by the Hongmen team.

Although it cannot be compared with the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty, in terms of the proportion of more than 2 million people under the command of Hongmen today, this can be regarded as the largest number of participants in the Hongmen group so far, and it is also the most elite part.

What is interesting is that among the participants, there are not only literati from the interior of the Ming Dynasty, but also talents from all walks of life in the Hongmen group, as well as the indigenous people in the Hongmen forces, and even the names of Westerners who spread religious beliefs and do business among the Hongmen forces.

Although the people need to participate in the formulation of the law, he guarantees that he has the initiative to have the initiative, and the Hongmen themselves have placed in it Sancheng Hongmen members, at least they can make the formulation of the law not deviate from their own control.

Moreover, the formulation of the law itself is a matter involving all aspects, and with the participation of talents from all walks of life and all races, it can make everyone brainstorm and formulate a broader and more thorough law.

The number of applicants is large, but the number of recruited members is very small, so it is necessary to select the best among these applicants, and step by step select the most elite and insightful people, which is also responsible for the future work of the Legislative Council.

Therefore, after the Spring Festival Lantern Festival, the Hongmen government posted company notices in various neighborhood committees, allowing the members who should have participated in the registration to go to Keelung Town to participate in the next selection and assessment.

In order to cooperate with this assessment, the employees from all walks of life in Hongmen who signed up were given a month's vacation, and the round-trip travel expenses of members who worked in Da'an, Bengang, Jingpu and other places were reimbursed by the Hongmen government.

It was the first time that such a huge selection event was held, and there was no one in Keelung Town who could accommodate such a large number of participants, and it was the establishment of a venue and all the materials used to prepare for the exam, which really kept the members of the Hongmen government who were not so well prepared busy for a long time, and finally completed all the preparations before February 15.

Just for this preparation, Hongmen paid a small cost of more than 200,000 silver dollars, but for the Hongmen government with deep pockets, everything is worth it.

On February 16, in the first preliminary audition, more than 15,000 members passed the written basic assessment, and about 10,000 people were eliminated at one time; After resting for two days, the remaining 6,000 people in the second assessment were only eliminated more than 2,000 people.

It is normal that the initial elimination rate is very high, and the threshold for recruiting members of the Legislative Council is not very high at the beginning, and many people who want to come to join in the excitement and want to speculate come to sign up, Hongmen is not easy to distinguish, who makes the Hongmen system There are too many people who can read and write!

However, with the elimination of those who are indiscriminate, there are a lot of talents with real talents and unique insights among the talents who remain, and it is not easy to distinguish the winner from the loser.

And the most important thing is that the Hongmen team has little experience in selecting talents' various things, especially such a large-scale way of selecting talents, and in the later stage, their evaluation criteria are not small, and they are hesitant to choose.

However, soon, the Hongmen group exerted its collective strength and readjusted the selection criteria, and by the third selection, the number of eliminated candidates had increased, and there were less than 1,000 people left at this time.

Among them, there is another interesting thing, among the talents who have been left behind, there are basically few Daming literati who have learned from Keelung Town have been eliminated, and there are still more than 90 of the more than 100 literati who came to answer the call.

Among the more than 30 Westerners and other participants, half of the members were eliminated in the first audition, and none of them were eliminated in the second or third selection, but the fundamental reason is that Chinese is too difficult, and the Westerners eliminated for the first time are all Chinese who have not mastered it thoroughly.

Westerners, who have a thorough grasp of Chinese, have a greater advantage than the Chinese, that is, they Westerners are earlier than the ancient country of Daming in the East, and at this moment they have a unique era of achievements in law.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands did not have a king and royal power, but it already had a preliminary capitalist state color, and although Britain had royal power, it also had a parliament, and the restraining effect on royal power began to become prominent.

If so, all of them make Westerners more insightful and handy than the Ming and Hongmen members in such a new thing as the Legislative Council.

In the end, after five screenings and one interview, the 200 members of the Hongmen Legislative Council were also screened out, plus Wu Daofu and other members who were placed by the Honghongs government itself, and the 300 members of the Legislative Council were formed, and the day after it was finally established, it was given the task of revising the "Public Security Administration Punishment Regulations" from Li Tianyang, the supreme leader of Hongmen.

The nearly 1,000 called members who were eliminated later were not unable to contribute, and although they missed the duties of the Legislative Council by a fraction of a millimeter, they were able to contribute to the Legislative Council through other aspects.

For example, through the suggestion box before the new building of the Legislative Council, he put forward his own suggestions and opinions, and delivered what he has learned about the industry and life to the unfairness of life to the members of the Legislative Council.

In order to keep abreast of the progress of the work of the Legislative Council anytime and anywhere and gain public recognition, every time the Legislative Council successfully amends a legal charter, it will be conveyed to the ears of the people who are closely related to it on Dayuan Island through the announcement of the Red Gate Government, and then get feedback from it.

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