Chapter 576: A Strange Constitutional Monarchy

Sun Yue and Zhao Tingmei quarreled for three months.

What no one expected was that this quarrel actually gave them the name of virtue.

The ministers all saw it, the two of them didn't look at the quarrel, but they still maintained a good personal relationship, and even quarreled tacit understanding in the later stage, only quarreling in the main hall, and the next dynasty simply ate and drank together, playing ball and picking up girls, and Sun Yue never hid his selfish interests when Zhao Tingmei asked Sun Yue for advice on business issues.

Invisibly, this special thing actually has a bit of gentlemanly harmony and difference.

The most important thing is that the quarrels between the two are all transactional, and in the past three months, the court has not had any cases of abolishing things and doing things because of people, and they have not set up party fights with each other, let alone stumbling under the stumbling block, and even rarely cultivate their own people in the court.

What is this not a true gentleman? Although because of the quarrel between the two, the court actually didn't do anything in the month, and both of them were doing their own thing.

Even Zhao Defang, who sat on the throne in a daze, was confused, because for the time being, in addition to losing face a little, his emperor's edicts were all unimpeded, and he didn't mean to be a puppet at all.

On the contrary, Zhao Pu and Xue Juzheng are not light, but these two people do not seem to fully represent these two princes, and even Sun Yue and Zhao Tingmei are too lazy to bird these two people's 'little fights'.

Of course, this is the opinion of mediocrity, at least Sun Yue and Zhao Tingmei know that they can't do this anymore, if they don't come up with a solution, and then they are like this, the country will be in chaos.

It was another court meeting in which both Sun Yue and Zhao Tingmei participated, and after the dispersal of the court, both of them smoked in their throats, Sun Yue felt as if there was a glass ballast in his throat, and Zhao Tingmei was not so strong.

A little eunuch brought two cups of honey over, Sun Yue gave it to Zhou with a sip, seeing that Zhao Tingmei drank slowly, and there was still half a cup left to drink, he directly grabbed it and made it himself, Zhao Tingmei frowned and said: "You can even grab a cup of honey with me, I can tell you that I spitted." ”

"Look at your stingy appearance, Lao Han got me some big abalone, the kind with a human head as big, do you want to eat it?"

"I'll eat it if you cook it yourself."

"I love to eat or not, I am used to your problems."

Then the two princes, who were arguing ten minutes ago, went to Sun's house to eat abalone with their necks around their necks, and the ministers were no longer surprised by this.

Full of wine and food, the two princes crossed Erlang's legs to pick their teeth, and there was a beautiful maid behind them to massage and beat their backs, and even the posture was exactly the same.

Sun Yue took the lead and said: "We've been arguing for more than three months, and we haven't made any shit." ”

"Yes, I feel that if I continue to quarrel like this, I won't be able to quarrel for another three years."

"I think so too, it's pointless to be so empty and noisy, because there is no referee, it can only be like this forever, the public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother says that the mother is reasonable."

Zhao Tingmei said disdainfully: "Who do you want to be the referee?" Zhao Defang? ”

Sun Yue thought for a while and said, "Let's form a House of Representatives." ”

"What is the House of Representatives?"

"All the rich people who are in charge of more than 3,000 people, all the companies under our Sun Group and your side will send people to organize it, and when the time comes, the two of us will make a plan and vote."

"Okay."

Then, there was the House of Representatives.

The original intention of the establishment of the House of Representatives was simply to establish the direction of future economic development, whether it was inland rivers or open seas.

However, what is more tragic is that Sun Yue lost this round of voting, after all, the current first-class navigation skills are still in the hands of the Semu people, and the private capitalists are still more interested in inland river transportation.

In fact, this is also expected by Sun Yue.

After another half a year, the imperial court expanded a house of lords on the basis of the political affairs hall, and issued more than 40 governors in one breath, holding a general meeting once a month and a small meeting every day.

Interestingly, the members of the House of Lords are actually elected by the members of the House of Representatives, not by whom.

In general, the House of Representatives is not elected, but depends on money, only if you have money and someone, you can become a member of the House of Representatives, there are about 200 people at present, and it continues to increase, it meets twice a year, only to discuss the general direction and elect the House of Lords, and the House of Lords controls the political situation and is responsible to the House of Representatives, which is not the same thing as the two houses of the British Empire.

Is this a constitutional monarchy? It seems to be counted, but it's a bit different, for the time being, even Sun Yue and Sun Chunming can't recognize its appearance, but it's a bit like the feeling of the people-deputies-congress.

In general, this system is very strange, and it seems to have nothing to do with cooking, and society seems to have entered an era in which capital is king.

And after the House of Lords was established, the quarrel between Zhao Pu and Xue Juzheng replaced Sun Yue and Zhao Tingmei, and when these two were fine, no one went to the court to say anything, and even the House of Representatives did not go to the face of tacit understanding.

After spring break, Zhao Tingmei personally went to the Uighurs in Gaochang. And Sun Yue went to Guangzhou-Zhou.

Zhao Tingmei stayed in the Uighurs of Gaochang for more than a month, and not only met the king, but was said to have gotten along very well with all the Uighur nobles.

In Guangzhou, Sun Yue organized a huge gathering, which was said to have been attended by more than 2,000 people of color, all of whom had at least three or five large sea ships.

In fact, whether it is Sun Yue or Zhao Tingmei, the problems they face are actually similar, whether it is the Silk Road or the Age of Discovery, the key core technology is not in their own hands.

Needless to say, Zhao Tingmei's side is not a small country after all, and it almost dominates the Western Regions, and the military force of the Great Song Dynasty at this time has not reached the strength of the Tang Dynasty, he wants to use troops against the Gaochang Uighurs, but that is too unrealistic, Sun Yue cannot agree, and those members of the House of Representatives who have their hearts to Sun Yue cannot agree, and the gains outweigh the losses.

And Sun Yue's situation is not much better than Zhao Tingmei.

Although he lost in the House of Representatives on this year's major issues, he does not think that shipping will not be possible, on the contrary, he thinks that next year is a good opportunity for the real maritime transportation project, because the profits of inland transportation are visible, and all the money earned is hard money after all, but Zhao Tingmei's plan is too grand, how can it be so easy to build a canal? Yang Guang repaired the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal almost to the end of the country, and his plan could not be completed in a hundred years.

When inland transportation becomes self-competitive due to the expansion of scale, diluting profits, the capitalists will inevitably shift their eyes to shipping again, and when the Sun family and father and son hold the group, they will definitely be able to concentrate the power of the whole country to develop navigation.

But here comes the problem, the current shipping of the Great Song Dynasty, and even the shipping of the world, are all in the hands of the Semu people. Although he has cultivated a certain number of seafaring talents through means and assimilated the Jizhou Semu people, he also has to admit that the gap between the Song Dynasty and the Semu people is still so huge that it is desperate.