Some councillors have only then figured out that the House is also part of the Imperial Court and is not an enemy of the Governor's Palace. On the contrary, in many local councils, the assistance of the Governor's Office was required.

General Zhou said: "The Governor may not be able to come to the House many times because he has a lot of things to do. So we have to elect a deputy speaker to convene and preside over the meeting in the absence of the speaker. Now we in the Luzon Upper House have to start the first agenda item, and that is to elect a vice president. Everyone should pay attention, this vice speaker is going to preside over most of the time, so everyone should choose well. The method is very simple, everyone comes to the table in front of you and writes the person you want to elect, if this person already has a name, then you draw a circle under him, and the person with the most circles in the end is our deputy speaker. ”

Everyone happily wrote their preferred candidates for vice chairmen on the table in turn. Unsurprisingly, Yang was elected with an absolute majority.

General Manager Zhou said with a smile: "Then the future vice chairman will be Mr. Yang Juncai." The Vice-Speaker is elected every two years, one at a time, and the Parliament may have up to two Vice-Speakers. Every two members of the House share an office, and each member can hire more than one person to assist him in his work, but he must be Chinese. The salary of one of them will be paid by the House of Representatives, and more than one will be paid by the members themselves. ”

"Mr. Councillor's salary will be paid by the Governor's Mansion in the amount of one-third of the Governor's. Members of the House must work in the House on weekdays from February to June, August to December, and the weekdays are, oh, and so on, a calendar will be given to everyone, every seven days for a week, and every Monday to Friday for weekdays. At other times, you can take a break or visit the Chinese voters in Luzon to solve their problems and listen to their voices. This should also play a role in the next election. ”

Everyone laughed heartily, and General Manager Zhou's office also smiled and said: "There is a canteen in the house, and Mr. Councilor can eat in it for free, but if a member brings others to eat in the canteen, he needs to pay two dimes for the meal every time, oh, it is equivalent to a penny of silver." ”

A meal is a penny, and everyone thinks to themselves, and they are not crazy, how can they bring people to eat this meal that they don't know how. General Office Zhou continued: "There is one thing I would like to inform you gentlemen, if you accept gifts or banquets from others for more than five taels of silver within a year, you will be regarded as accepting bribes. At present, the Military Survey and Statistics Bureau is in charge of this matter on the Luzon side, and there will be more agencies in charge of these matters in the future. They are not under the jurisdiction of the governor's palace, but they are heavenly. ”

This article is very incomprehensible to the parliamentarians. Yang Juncai had just been elected vice president, and he felt that he had an obligation to stand up for everyone, so he asked: "General Manager Zhou, in this way, can't all the banquets and gifts between friends participate?" A gentleman is a friend of wealth. ”

General Manager Zhou said with a smile: "Vice Speaker Yang, among friends, if I give you a betel nut and you give me a fruit, then of course there is no problem." But if you're sending valuables, then no. Friends feast on you, if a pot of turbid wine and a plate of peanuts, of course it's fine. If the sea cucumber shark fin, then unless you pay the money, otherwise it will be counted in it, as long as the accumulation exceeds five taels of silver, it is bribery, this is not negotiable. ”

Yang Juncai said: "What if it's a human relationship? There is no limit to this. ”

General Manager Zhou still smiled: "Human relations are my traditional Chinese etiquette. But human affection, the emphasis is on people to be affectionate, and courtesies are still exchanged. If someone you don't have a relationship with gives you a gift after you become a member of parliament, it is of course bribery. And the person who had a relationship with him sent a gift far more than what you gave him, which is of course also bribery. Your brother-in-law gave you fifty taels of silver, which of course cannot be regarded as bribery. ”

Only then did everyone put their minds at ease, and President Zhou said: "Mr. Parliamentarians, I have already conveyed to you all the things that His Majesty the Emperor has explained. Now I would like to ask you to formulate the electoral law for the House of Commons as soon as possible, and then work with the House of Commons to formulate a new law for Luzon. His Majesty the Emperor attaches great importance to Luzon, especially the rice of Luzon, which is very important to the Ming Dynasty. ”

General Zhou got down from the small platform and said: "I was originally a staff member of the Governor's Palace, and when the Governor did not come to the Governor's House, I was here to be responsible for communicating between the Diet and the Governor's Palace. With that, he walked over to a nearby table and sat down.

The deputies looked at each other, and after a long time, Yang Jun tried to walk down, walked to the table and said: "Colleagues, these councillors, then I will preside over the parliament here, and we will discuss the election law for the lower house." ”

Speaking of this, he stopped, looked at Mr. Zhou's office and said, "Mr. Zhou's office, is this the case?" ”

General Manager Zhou smiled mildly and said, "Actually, I don't know what to do, because Your Majesty only wrote us what I just said." However, His Majesty also said that we can always do better by slowly groping and constantly revising. ”

When Yang Juncai heard this, his heart was settled. He turned his head and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, please give your opinions on how to elect the natives to form the House of Commons, and we will make this law." ”

Seeing that Yang Juncai had already set up the stage, everyone had to come and start singing, and everyone began to seriously discuss the method of electing locals.

"The locals used to follow the red-haired ghosts to bully us, so why should we pull them to make laws now, just make them by ourselves?"

"No, no, no, didn't General Manager Zhou say it, Daming needs the rice here. We Chinese alone can't grow so much rice, and we still have to rely on local talents. Yang Juncai hurriedly stopped.

"The locals are too lazy, and they are afraid that they will not find one out of a hundred people who is willing to farm, and they are stupid, and it is a little difficult to rely on them to grow rice. It still depends on us Chinese to do it. “

"The problem now is that there are too few Chinese, and we have to rely on locals. The locals are not all lazy, and since one out of a hundred people is willing to farm, then we can find a way to get more people to farm, as long as we find a way, the locals can also become diligent. “

"In fact, there are many locals who are not lazy, and the reason why they bully us Chinese is because we Chinese are richer than them, which shows that they also like money. If we provide them with good wine, it makes no sense that they don't like it, we can also bring silk from the hinterland, which they like, as long as there is desire, we can turn the locals into industrious farmers. “