"I discussed the matter of the Advisory Council with Li Chuwen yesterday and decided to appoint Li Chuwen as the deputy chairman of the Advisory Bureau, do you have any objections?" After everyone arrived, Zhao Chen stood up, looked at the people behind him, and said.

"We will obey Your Majesty's orders!" At that moment, those parliamentarians stood up one after another and said.

"Sit down! Li Chuwen, you tell everyone what I said yesterday, and then do what I said yesterday. Zhao Chen said.

"Wechen obeys." Li Chuwen said.

At that moment, Li Chuwen told these councilors what Zhao Chen said yesterday, and then discussed it together.

Zhao Chen listened below, and occasionally he would open his mouth to say a few words.

The Advisory Board has preliminarily decided to hold a regular meeting every six months!

Unless there are special circumstances, members must prepare the bill before it can be discussed.

In addition, although the parliamentarians are not officials, they belong to public office, and the imperial court gives them a certain amount of money, which is compared to the income of the four-grade officials.

Members are at the service of all the people and are no longer allowed to engage in their own private affairs.

Each councillor can hire some attendants and subordinates, and these money are also paid by the imperial court.

For a whole morning, everyone was discussing these things, and Zhao Chen wrote them down.

At noon, Zhao Chen had dinner with everyone, and in the afternoon, everyone continued to discuss.

This time, everyone discussed the format, content, and so on of the bill.

In addition, the bill also needs some restrictive clauses, and it also needs some simple review, and so on.

It was not until the sun went down that the meeting of the Advisory Council was over.

"Today, we have drawn up a preliminary framework, Li Chuwen, and you will continue to discuss the issue of the Advisory Council system tomorrow! Every day, the results of the discussion are sent to the imperial study, and I personally review and correct them! In fact, we still have a lot of content that we haven't discussed, such as the election of parliamentarians and the election of the speaker, which must be written on paper and become a system! In addition to the Advisory Bureau itself, the Department of Education and Examination of the Military Aircraft Department should also write the relevant systems of the Advisory Bureau into the teaching materials. Zhao Chen said.

"Write it into the textbook?" Li Chuwen said with some surprise.

"Yes, the new-style education imperial examination has just begun, and the imperial court has just formulated the teaching materials, and there are many imperfections during this period! The imperial court is ready to join historiography, join the study of law, and join current affairs! At this time, the basic chapter of politics includes the various institutions of the imperial court, the basic organization of the imperial court, and so on! Students don't have to learn these things at first, but when they reach the fifth grade, they need to know a little bit about them! Now the country is poor, and the public schools are run until the fifth grade, but in the future, the state will run some higher schools in some places, maybe up to the seventh or eighth grade. Zhao Chen said.

"I see." Li Chuwen nodded.

In the days that followed, the more than 70 members of the Council were still discussing various institutional issues of the Advisory Council, and Li Chuwen would go to the Imperial Study every night to have dinner with Zhao Chen to discuss matters related to the Advisory Council.

On the night of the first day of March, Zhao Ji actually came to Zhao Chen's imperial study, with a wave of anger on his face.

"Grandpa Huang, what's going on?" Zhao Chen said strangely.

"On February 25, when the Advisory Council first passed the agenda, a large number of members decided to increase the amount of money allocated by the Palace! We have already handed over to the Military Aircraft Department, and today the Military Aircraft Department actually responded to us, saying that the palace's allocation of money is enough and will not increase. Chen'er, didn't you say before that the Advisory Bureau and the Military Aircraft Department were juxtaposed? Why doesn't the Military Aircraft Department listen to us? Zhao Ji said coldly.

"The Advisory Bureau now only has the right to make recommendations, and the Military Aircraft Department can choose to listen or not to listen! Everything has to be discussed by the Military Aircraft Department! Zhao Chen said.

"So, what's the use of our advisory board? You don't listen to the bills we passed, it's useless, we're just entertaining ourselves in the council! Zhao Ji said with anger on his face.

"The Advisory Council has no rights now, but it will slowly increase its rights in the future! If the emperor's grandfather is unhappy in the advisory board, he can leave the advisory council, and the post of speaker will simply be handed over to the emperor. Zhao Chen said.

"That's not going to work!" Zhao Ji said without hesitation.

He was greedy for power, and he was reluctant to leave the Advisory Council, even if it was in name.

"If Grandpa Huang wants to stay in the Advisory Bureau, then he must follow the system of the Advisory Bureau." Zhao Chen said.

"Why is this councillor only serving for four years? Why do you have to go through such a cumbersome so-called election? And I, the Speaker, why can I only serve two terms? Zhao Ji said.

"Two terms are long enough, and the imperial grandfather will be in his sixties by then." Zhao Chen smiled bitterly.

"With so many restrictions, what's the point of staying in this advisory board?" Zhao Ji said angrily again.

He tried to get Zhao Chen to change the system of the Advisory Bureau, but Zhao Chen didn't listen to him at all, and in the end, Zhao Ji had no choice but to leave here.

From the beginning of March to April, Zhao Chen successively met with some big businessmen in Jiangnan, and he revealed the expansion of the Advisory Bureau.

Now that almost all the members of the Advisory Council are from Yanjing, Zhao Chen intends to let some highly respected people from other parts of the country enter the Advisory Council, and he is the first to let out the news.

And if the businessmen in Jiangnan want to enter the advisory board, they also have to go through a simple election.

At present, there is not much power in this advisory board, many people are not interested in the advisory board, but businessmen are different! In ancient China, the status of merchants was low, although Zhao Chen had already said that parliamentarians were not officials, but these merchants still treated it as an official! To be able to become an official, the status immediately increased by leaps and bounds.

Zhao Chen told these businessmen that the councillors needed to be elected, and these businessmen in Jiangnan were ignorant, but they had already begun to think about how to enter the Advisory Council in the future.

In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the contradictions at home and abroad were too intense, and under such circumstances, the Qing government had to hastily carry out constitutional reform in various provinces across the country and implement the Consultative Bureau, but now the situation in the Great Song Dynasty is much more stable, and Zhao Chen is to implement top-down reforms, first form a parliament, and then promote it to the whole country! At first, the Diet only has the right to make suggestions to the Imperial Court, and slowly when the system of the Diet is perfected, more powers will be handed over to the Congress!

Before the country's people's wisdom was opened, the system reform should be carried out first, and then the new-style education imperial examination should be implemented, so that the people would know these new institutions and new systems, which is also a means of people's wisdom education! There are new things first, and then they accept new things, until the systems are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Of course, until now, the general system of the country has not changed much, the Military Aircraft Department is still the core of the country's power, the Advisory Bureau has little influence on the Military Aircraft Department, and the country is still moving forward steadily.

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Thousands of miles away in Goryeo, Ahn Pulin and Li Rui had already sent the results of the negotiations to the Goryeo court.

After more than a month of discussion, the Goryeo court decided to raise gold and silver.

They decided to send the first batch of gold and silver to the Great Song Dynasty, and then signed a contract, and then slowly developed Liaodong to make their strength stronger.

The Goryeo people have not been at war for a hundred years, and the Goryeo treasury is full, and they can still take out 10 million taels of silver.

In addition to silver, they also decided to raise grain, which they used instead of buying silver from Liaodong.

There was also a lot of grain stored by the people of Goryeo, especially in the hands of some large landowners.

The Goryeo court ordered the landlords everywhere to hand over the grain to the imperial court! And these landlords are crazy exploiting tenant farmers, they snatch the grain from the tenant farmers' homes and hand it over to the imperial court! Anyway, it's April now, and the wheat is not far from ripening, and there are a lot of wild vegetables in the field, and they are not afraid of tenant farmers starving to death in large numbers.

Goryeo was full of scenes of grain grabbing, and countless peasants were crying and screaming.

In front of a very large town in Inju, Goryeo, where Incheon was later located, an old man with gray hair and beard frowned at the scene of grabbing grain in the distance, and his brows were furrowed.

"Teacher, let's go back." A middle-aged Confucian came to the old man and said.

"What are they doing here?" The old man said.

"Teacher, the imperial court wants to trade with the Great Song Dynasty and buy Liaodong from the Great Song Dynasty, but the imperial court has limited money, so it has to ask the people from all over the country to donate a little." Confucianism.

"Buying Liaodong? What's going on? The old man said in surprise.

"Teacher, let's go back first, and then I'll tell you." Confucianism.

The old man nodded, and now the middle-aged Confucian helped the old man into the town, and they came to a bookstore, and then entered the bookstore.

There are a lot of Confucian people in this library, and when they saw this old man calling him "teacher" one after another, they all had respectful expressions on their faces. This old man was the famous Confucian Jin Chan of Goryeo, who once served as the prime minister, and returned to his hometown Inju after the age of 60 to open a school.

The old man and the middle-aged Confucian came to a secluded courtyard, and the old man sat down on a stone and said, "Tell me what is going on?" ”

The middle-aged Confucian said slowly, and it took half an hour to finish all the things that had happened between Goryeo and the Great Song Dynasty in the past two years.

The old man frowned and said nothing.

"Teacher, in order to buy Liaodong, there is no way for the imperial court." Middle-aged Confucianism.

"That's not right!" The old man shook his head.

"What's wrong?" Middle-aged Confucianism.

"The Great Song Dynasty first defeated the Western Xia, and then recaptured the Central Plains and Yanyun, and then they went north to destroy the Jurchens, and even defeated Mongolia in the northern grasslands. The old man said.

"This ...... Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Great Song Dynasty has had civil and military disputes, and they have always promoted literature and suppressed martial arts, and it is not impossible to give up Liaodong. Middle-aged Confucian said.

"Just for 70 million taels of silver, do they want to give up Liaodong?" The old man said.

"For us Koreans, Liaodong is extremely important, but for the Great Song Dynasty, it is very barren and remote, and they don't care about it at all." Middle-aged Confucianism.

"That's not the way it is! The former capital of the Great Song Dynasty was in Kaifeng, and for Kaifeng, Liaodong was indeed barren and remote! But now, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty has arrived in Yanjing, and Liaodong is in the north of Yanjing, and if Liaodong is occupied by others, it will immediately threaten the safety of Yanjing! If the Song people were able to defeat the Western Xia and Jurchen, they must have excellent generals, and their emperor's insight must be extraordinary, how could they not realize this? The old man said.

"This ...... Could it be that the Han people are trying to get some money out of us? Middle-aged Confucian said.

"If only that were the case! I'm afraid that the Han people have other conspiracies! I have been away from the court for 20 years, and I have reached the age of old age, and I no longer care about the government, but now I seem to see that a huge crisis is coming, and I must write to the court! The old man said.

"Teacher, maybe it's not as dangerous as you think, right?" Middle-aged Confucianism.

"The Han people have occupied the north and Liaodong, and their forces are extremely strong, won't they be tempted by Goryeo?" The old man said coldly.

The middle-aged Confucian still found it incredulous, while the old man had already begun to write letters to the Goryeo court.