Local senators are elected by the citizens, who then elect the president of the Senate.

Zhou Hexuan is not even qualified to be a member of the parliament now, let alone be the speaker, and Li Hongkun does not have the power to directly appoint him. But the so-called citizen election is a cover, and Cao Kun can be bribed to be elected as president of the Beiyang government, and the local senate is naturally not a problem.

Few ordinary people will participate in the election, and most of the voters are civil servants and intellectuals in society.

At that time, although Li Hongkun explained a few words, all civil servants in Chongqing would elect Zhou Hexuan, and he was elected as a member of the parliament with an absolute high vote. After a few more greetings to the parliamentarians and doing ideological work, a speaker of the parliament will naturally be captured.

The reason why Zhou Hexuan agreed with his mouth was because the identity of the speaker was very noble, and he didn't have to do anything to do with it.

Being an official is different, it is naturally easy to want a corpse vegetarian meal, but it is very difficult to really do things. First of all, you have to get through the upper echelons; Secondly, you have to make good friends with your colleagues in the department; Finally, you have to co-opt your subordinates – factions, friends, nepotism...... Relationships are too complex to make sense, and most of the time is spent on interpersonal interactions.

Why did Zhou Hexuan refuse to agree to Lao Jiang as an official?

Just because the officialdom is too chaotic, if he joins shirtless stupidly, he can be overrun by his subordinates in minutes. If you want to investigate and deal with something that is not pleasing to the eye, hey, maybe it will lead to the backing behind it, and finally all kinds of ruffles to deny Laila's favors.

In particular, Lao Jiang still wants Zhou Hexuan to join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but the biggest use of this department in the Republic of China is to use it to carry the blame, so Zhou Hexuan will not be a backstabber.

It is very comfortable to be the chairman of the local senate, and there are many things that can be done, and there are about five major powers:

First, the right to decide. In principle, major decisions must be made at the local level to a vote in the Senate, and very excessive policies must be resisted by the councillors. Don't think that this is just a decoration, such incidents often occur in the local government of the Republic of China, although the parliamentarians do not have any power, but it is enough for the officials to drink a pot of various industries in private.

Second, the right to make suggestions. This power is well understood, which is to make policy recommendations to local governments.

Third, the right to listen to the government's policy reports. It is roughly equivalent to the power of administrative supervision, which is generally useless.

Fourth, the right to ask. Ditto.

Fifth, the right to freedom of expression. If you have a big temper, you can directly ask the mayor to spray, or you can write an article and publish an article in the newspaper to scold, which is the legitimate right of the councilors.

Zhou Hexuan couldn't help but ask, "Mayor Li, I have two questions. First, who is the current Senate Speaker? Second, will other MPs elect me? I, a northerner, came to Chongqing to be the speaker of the parliament, and I am afraid that I will be misunderstood by the locals. ”

"Mr. Zhou doesn't have to worry about these problems at all," Li Hongkun said with a smile, "The current chairman of the Chongqing Senate is Wang Yunsong, and Mr. Wang is old and has long wanted to abdicate to make way for Xian." Before I came, I also asked the old gentleman for his opinion, and he very much agreed with Mr. Zhou to be the speaker. With Mr. Wang's support, other parliamentarians will definitely vote for Mr. Zhou when they are elected. ”

"That's good, so as not to cause unnecessary conflict." Zhou Hexuan nodded and said.

In recent years, people's township party was very serious, taking the Anti-Japanese War as an example, Lao Jiang personally appointed Kang Xinru as the chairman of the Chongqing Municipal Senate. Although Kang Xinru is not from Sichuan, he was born and raised in Sichuan, and has been doing business in Sichuan for many years.

Wang Yunsong, as we mentioned earlier, Deng Gong's mentor has a very high prestige in the Sichuan-Chongqing area. Now that Wang Yunsong has taken the initiative to abdicate and has his support, the other parliamentarians naturally want to give some face.

After deciding the matter, Li Hongkun said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, can I ask about politics now?" To be honest, I, the mayor of Chongqing, have been in office for more than three months, and I still don't know how to govern the local government. ”

"Mayor Li is teaching me, right?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

"Haha, I don't dare to take the teaching test, I just ask the government and the virtuous." Li Hongkun said with a smile.

Zhou Hexuan said: "What do your staff say? ”

Li Hongkun shook his head: "Let me follow Xiao Gui and follow Pan Wenhua." My thoughts are just to put some thought into it. ”

Pan Wenhua, the first mayor of Chongqing, can be said to have made remarkable achievements, doubling the area of Chongqing's urban area in a few years, building and expanding several docks, and building three main roads in the city. Although this person was born in the military, he is an infrastructure maniac, who led the army to build roads without saying a word, and now he is transferred to Chengdu as a military commander, and he has nothing to do and leads the army to build roads in Chengdu. Anyway, wherever he goes, he will lead the army to build roads.

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "If Mayor Li can follow the rules and conscientiously implement Mayor Pan's governance line, it will already be a blessing for the people of Chongqing." ”

Li Hongkun was obviously a little disappointed with this answer, but all the officials who had some pursuits in their hearts did not want to bear the "good name" of Xiao Gui Cao Sui. The political achievements are made by the predecessor, and if the matter is messed up, you can only carry it yourself, which official is willing to be a living Lei Feng?

Li Hongkun couldn't help but ask: "Can Mr. Zhou help me analyze how Chongqing should develop?" ”

Zhou Hexuan asked rhetorically: "What are Chongqing's advantages?" What are the disadvantages? ”

Li Hongkun said: "Chongqing is the throat of Sichuan, with convenient waterway transportation and developed shipping, which is an advantage. Chongqing has many mountains and little land, inconvenient transportation, and poor agriculture, which is a disadvantage. ”

"Isn't that enough, build roads and docks!" Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.

Li Hongkun said depressedly: "Isn't it still Pan Wenhua's? ”

Zhou Hexuan came up with an idea: "Mayor Pan has laid the foundation, not only built a number of roads and docks, but also clarified the many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes in Chongqing. If you want to develop further, you can continue to reduce the commercial tax and attract more businessmen to set up factories in Chongqing. Well, this is called attracting investment, setting aside a piece of land to be used as an industrial zone, but anyone who sets up a factory in it can be exempted from tax or reduced taxes in the first two or three years, which must attract many foreign capitalists. ”

"Is that okay?" Li Hongkun's eyes lit up.

"Of course," Zhou Hexuan said with a smile, "You can advertise in the "Declaration", just say that you want to build an industrial Chongqing, and welcome friends from all over the world to set up factories here." There are many capitalists who are willing to come and get a direct tax refund of more than 50% in the first year and 30% in the second year, and various administrative cares are also carried out. In just a few years, there will be more factories, more government taxes, more employment opportunities for the people, and everyone's pockets will be bulging. ”

Li Hongkun pondered: "It seems to make some sense. ”

Zhou Hexuan also said: "The premise is to do a good job in transportation, build more roads, and build more wharves, because the roads in Chongqing are too difficult to walk." ”

Li Hongkun slapped his thigh and said: "When I turn around, I will let people build the road, at least the road from Lianglu to Liziba will be repaired, so that Mr. Zhou will not need to take a boat to enter the city!" ”

Li Hongkun is a very aggressive person, and he is generally patriotic, otherwise Zhou Hexuan would not have to say these words.

Li Gengu, the commander of the Chongqing garrison sitting next to him, suddenly patted his chest and said: "Mayor Li wants to build roads, no matter how you want to count me, I will immediately transfer 20,000 troops as road repairers!" ”

Well, it's better now.

It may be that since ancient times, the Shu Road is too difficult to walk, and the people of Sichuan are very active in road construction, and they all have the blood of infrastructure madness flowing in their bodies.

The success of the Xinhai Revolution was due to the fact that the Sichuan "Road Protection Movement" attracted firepower and shifted the attention of the Qing government to Sichuan.