Chen Hongliang carried his dantian qi and shouted loudly: "Please be quiet." Sure enough, it was a person as his name suggested, his voice was already loud, and with the help of the copper speaker, the sound spread to the entire square in a moment, and the Zhou General Office who was standing next to him had a painful ear and quietly walked a few steps to the side.

"Brothers, today's election to the upper house of the Ming Dynasty and Luzon is a great innovation in the history of Chinese civilization, but it did not come into being out of thin air. Mencius said that friendship in and out, mutual help, and mutual support in illness are the sources of mutual assistance in our Chinese culture. In the Song Dynasty, our ancestors had already begun to formulate village rules and conventions. And our election today is the culmination of the wisdom of our predecessors. This was instituted by His Majesty the Great Emperor so that everyone could have an opinion on the environment in which I lived, and that everyone was the master of Luzon. ”

"His Majesty the Emperor said that we will establish a government that is owned by all, governed by all, and enjoyed by all. The parliamentarians we elected today need to be loyal to the Chinese nation, loyal to the Ming Emperor, and responsible to the people of the Ming Dynasty under his rule. And in four years we will have a re-election, and if you do well, people will still elect you, but if what you do is not satisfactory to everyone, then they will elect someone else who is satisfied to be the councillor. ”

"Elected councillors, make laws that are appropriate for Luzon, supervise the administration of the Doge's Palace, examine the financial expenditures of the Doge's Palace, and people will call you Mr. Councillor, and they will tell you their opinions and suggestions, and they will give you their opinions and suggestions, and you will be the basis for changing the laws and supervising the officials. In Luzon, you are the representatives of His Majesty the Emperor, and you will rule Luzon on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor. ”

"Please let us cheer for our Emperor Majesty: Long live Your Majesty Emperor Long live Long live!"

More than 20,000 people in the square chanted together: "Long live Your Majesty the Emperor, long live, long live!" So many people cheered together, and the locals who watched the excitement around them, and the Spaniards who were imprisoned in the barracks, were all taken aback. Philip muttered, "Spain is losing Luzon." After saying that, his tears finally flowed.

The speech in the square continued: "We spent a month to have everyone preliminarily elect the Chinese who are qualified to run for the legislature, a total of one hundred and three. From among them, we Chinese in Luzon will elect people who can speak on your behalf, and we will choose people who care about the hardships of our lives. Now the one hundred and three gentlemen are standing here, and each one of them has already given you a ballot when he comes in, and whoever you want to vote for, put your ballot in the box in front of this person, and the last person who gets the most votes is our first councillor. ”

"Please stand in line, vote one by one, don't run, don't make noise, don't interfere with forcing others to vote. Please, the Marines who maintain order, toil, and now the voting begins. ”

When voting finally began, the crowd in the square poured forward. Gui Shuzhen had long expected this situation, and there were 3,000 marines distributed in the square, holding bright bayonets, and shouting: "Don't run, one by one." ”

Needless to say, the deterrent power of the bayonet was needless to say, and the crowd that had just been about to rush forward became honest and began to look for their favorite candidate in the square, and after finding it, they looked at the soldiers next to them, and slowly stepped forward to put the ballot in the box in front of the candidate.

The ballot paper is a piece of paper with the word "councillor" printed on it, and after the ballot paper is placed in the ballot box, the candidate will thank him, and the voter will also give a return salute, so that he has a humble and courteous gentlemanly style.

More than 20,000 people, it took an hour to complete the selection, mainly because everyone was not familiar with it for the first time, and it took a lot of time to find people everywhere. After the election, one hundred and three candidates came to the high platform with their suitcases.

Each box was carried out by three soldiers, one counting, one supervising, one writing orthography on paper, and the candidates themselves watched from the sidelines. The procedure was quick, and then all the soldiers who counted handed over their results to the chief teller at the table.

The counter erects a large blackboard in front of the high platform, and then writes the number of votes with chalk on it, and after all the 100 and 3 people have registered, the counter writes the name with the most votes in front of it, and then finds out the following rankings in turn, and finally ends when it is demarcated to the fiftieth place.

At this time, a transcriber transcribed the first to fifty people on red paper and pasted them on a large wooden board next to the blackboard. Mr. Zhou said: "Please follow me to the House of Representatives." ”

The House of Representatives, three miles away from the Doge's Palace, is a two-story wooden building surrounded by a wall, with a wooden sign hanging at the door that reads "Luzon Lords", and a wooden building opposite it, which looks similar to this side, except that the wooden sign at the door reads "Luzon House of Commons".

Fifty councillors followed Mr. Zhou's office into the House of Lords and into a strange hall. This hall was not flat, but sloping, with the lowest doorway, and a small table on which a small table was placed, and on the opposite side of the table were rows of chairs that were getting higher and higher.

General Manager Zhou said: "Just now I have asked people to paste your names on the back of the chair, please sit according to your names." Because we only have 50 members of parliament now, we are all in the middle and front. ”

The deputies were very curious, found their names one by one, and sat down. The chair is fixed to the ground and is stiff, making it uncomfortable to sit on.

Mr. Zhou stood at the small table and did not sit down. He said: "This place is called the council hall, and this is where everyone will discuss in the future." This table is used for people to speak, and the table next to it is used to record everyone's proposals and legal provisions, and there will be a special note-taker here to serve everyone. ”

He pointed to the first empty seat directly opposite the table and said, "This place is the seat of the Speaker." The speaker is the convener of the House of Representatives, and the current Speaker is the Governor of Luzon, Yang Gong, and the future governors are automatically the Speakers of the House of Lords. ”

The councillors were a little surprised, didn't they say that the House of Representatives oversaw the Governor's Palace? Why did the Governor become the Speaker, and the Speaker was naturally the highest official in the House, so what else did he supervise?

Hearing the discussion of the parliamentarians, General Manager Zhou pressed his hand and said: "Mr. Parliamentarians, the speaker is just a convener, a person who presides over the meeting, and his power is as great as that of each of your councilors, and they all have only one vote, so you don't have to worry." In addition, the House of Representatives supervises the Governor's Palace, which is right, but it does not mean that it must always be opposed to the Governor's Palace, and the Governor's Palace does not violate the law, so the House does not need to trouble the Governor's Palace. Everyone is for the good of Luzon, everyone has cooperation and supervision, which should be easy to understand. ”