Everyone said together: "Please ask General Manager Zhou to speak, and we will definitely assist." ”

Mr. Zhou smiled: "That's good." According to the design of His Majesty the Emperor, the governing body of Luzon consisted of two parts, one was the temporary office of Luzon led by Yang Shilang, which would later become the Governor's Office of Luzon. The other is two houses, one is the upper house composed of Chinese and the other is the lower house composed of locals. ”

Although everyone couldn't understand it, it was not easy to interrupt Mr. Zhou's words, and there was some confusion on their faces. General Manager Zhou smiled and said: "Don't worry, His Majesty the Emperor is born wise, his design must be the best, please listen to me slowly." ”

"The Governor's Office manages all aspects of civil affairs and people's livelihood, which is easy for everyone to understand. So what does the House do? His Majesty the Emperor has a good saying: The House of Parliament is also the House of Public Affairs. The House of Lords can make laws that are appropriate for Luzon, while the House of Commons can make proposals to make or amend laws. ”

"The House of Lords is composed of 100 members elected by the Chinese in Luzon, and the House of Commons is also composed of about 100 members according to the administrative divisions and population of Luzon. The House of Commons makes recommendations, but laws must be approved by more than half of the members of the House of Lords before they can be enacted into law. ”

As for the trial of cases, it is not the responsibility of the Governor's Palace, the imperial court will appoint judges to deal with them, and will also select local intelligent teenagers to return to the interior for training as judges, and the ratio of Chinese to local is six to four. Judges are not subject to the jurisdiction of the Governor's House and have the power to hear offences committed by the Governor's House and Parliament. ”

As soon as Mr. Zhou finished speaking, everyone was in an uproar. Most of the people here are in business, and they still have money, but Chinese identity was not popular before. Now that I hear that I can elect a member of the parliament, I am naturally eager to do it, and I want to have an official status, so no matter what I do, it will be much stronger.

At that moment, someone asked: "General Manager Zhou, how can I be elected as a member of the parliament?" ”

General Manager Zhou said with a smile: "Everyone can find a hundred Chinese adult men to sign to participate in our election, and in a month we will hold a general election in the square in front of the Governor's Palace, and the person with the number of votes in front will be our upper house member." ”

Someone else asked: "General Manager Zhou, can my son inherit this councilor after being elected?" ”

Mr. Zhou said: "By the way, I forgot to mention this first, each councillor will serve a term of four years, and will be re-elected after four years." Therefore, only 50 members will be elected in the first election, 50 more will be elected two years later, and the first 50 members will be re-elected four years later. ”

Hearing that there were only fifty of them, these people were not disappointed, but even more excited. A small number of people represents weight, and everyone's hearts are hot, and they can't wait to find someone to sign now.

In fact, there are many loopholes in this election method, but Zhu Youxiao himself doesn't know how to elect, and the so-called elections he saw in his previous life are just jokes. But he believes that by slowly groping around, he can always improve gradually. Now there is a prototype, with the wisdom of the Chinese, will never let the Westerners specialize in beauty. What's more, there are some systems in the West, which are not very reliable in his opinion.

Zhu Youxiao wants to implement the democratic system, and he knows that democracy is the trend of this world, and Ducai will eventually fail. He didn't want his descendants to be hanged on the city walls by the mob, so he was going to start experimenting with the Ming Dynasty's democratic approach now.

He knew very well that it was very dangerous to directly implement the democratic system in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, he wants to try it out in Luzon first, gain some experience, and then slowly implement it in the mainland, anyway, the time is still very long, as long as he builds the shelf first, and the further improvement can be handed over to future generations.

In the political textbooks of his previous life, he was full of criticisms of the rotten capitalist system, believing that the capitalist system of separation of powers was far inferior to the great people's congress system, but he did not specifically describe the system of separation of powers. So Zhu Youxiao actually doesn't understand, he only knows that it is the separation of powers between the legislative, judicial, and executive. As for how to divide power and how to cooperate, I only know a little bit when I watch TV and American movies like "House of Cards".

However, this did not prevent him from wanting to transform the political system of the Ming Dynasty into a capitalist system, as for the socialist system, of course, it is the best system in the world, but it is obviously impossible to achieve it in the current Ming Dynasty. hehe

The governor is now appointed by the imperial court, and in the future, the governor will slowly transition to the local Chinese election and approval of the imperial court. If the situation is good, it is not impossible to give the natives some suffrage, but there is one degree that must be grasped, and that is that the governor must be Chinese.

It is very important that the House of Lords has the final legal authority, and he does not want the natives to hold the authority, although it is not entirely true to say that people who are not of my race must have different hearts, but at least most of the time it is true.

A month later, the Daming Luzon Governor's Office was officially established, and Yang Jingchen served as the first Governor of Luzon for a four-year term. On the second day of the establishment of the Governor's Palace, the first election to the Luzon Upper House was held in the square in front of the Governor's Palace.

The square was huge, and the Chinese in Luzon were mainly distributed in and around Manila, and on this day, most of the adult Chinese men came to the square, divided into different phalanxes according to their origins in the mainland.

The Marines were responsible for maintaining order, while Dai Chunfeng led a few people from the Military Survey and Statistics Bureau to mix in the crowd to understand the situation. There is no one in Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou, and there are still some people in Beizhili, Shandong, Huguang, and Jiangxi, while there are many people in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian. People from these five provinces account for more than 95 percent of the total. There were about 20,000 Chinese men in the square.

Among them, the largest are Fujian and Zhejiang, accounting for more than half of the total. Dai Chunfeng thought to himself: The Fujian dialect is too difficult to learn, and it seems that it is necessary to recruit people from among the Fujian people in order to ensure the work of the Military Survey and Statistics Bureau in Luzon.

At this time, General Manager Zhou came to a high platform that was temporarily erected, picked up a copper horn and began to speak. It's a pity that his voice is not loud in the first place, and it is not very quiet below, so it has no effect at all.

Gui Shu really saw that it was not a problem, so he called Chen Hongliang, a trumpeter of the Marine Corps, and said: "You go up and let General Manager Zhou say it, and you repeat his words." ”

Chen Hongliang ran up to talk to General Manager Zhou, who was overjoyed, handed him the loudspeaker, and then said, "Please be quiet." ”