After more than a month of preparation, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 127th National Assembly of the Great Song Empire was finally officially convened on the 15th day of the winter month of the 2591st year of the Confucian calendar.

Inside and outside the majestic four-level council venue, the young and long are gathered, and the sages are all there. Cheng Qi, who was not qualified to attend the meeting, also entered the venue under the leadership of his old friend Peng Youzhi, stayed in a room with him, and observed the venue through a glass window.

The venue is a fan-shaped design. There is a high platform in the center of the bottom circle, and on the wall behind the high platform are hung the golden Xuanyao red flag of the Great Song Empire and the four-color flag of the fourth-level council. Now their descendants are united under these two banners, and it cannot but be said that this is a historical paradox.

Under the two huge flags, four high-backed leather chairs will be placed under each other, and the four prefects of the four-level meeting will be seated again.

The four prefects were preceded by a crescent-shaped round table behind which speakers and questioners would stand, and the round table was used for them to look up information at any time.

Outside the information desk, more than a dozen rows of chairs are arranged in an arc, and they are stacked high in turn, like an ancient Roman theater. Sitting in the front row were the senior officials of the Dali Temple, the Imperial Historical Observatory and the Cabinet, and each high-ranking official in the imperial court uniform was accompanied by several companions in ordinary clothes. Cheng Qi guessed in his heart that they were probably the confidential secretaries of those high-ranking officials.

Behind them were the members of the fourth-level council, the number of which was not large, that is, two or three hundred, and the entire venue could accommodate nearly a thousand people. This extra position is naturally reserved for the confidential secretaries of the legislators.

The secretary is an ancient official position, which has appeared in government agencies in the Qin and Han dynasties, and is mainly responsible for the sending and receiving of official documents, which is relatively similar to the current secretary position. The secretary order of Cao Wei, the secretary temple of the two Jin eras, and the later secretary province and secretary supervisor actually emphasized the original meaning of secretary: secret documents.

Sometimes Cheng Qi also has to admire the power of Chinese word making, sometimes something new and new appears, and the two simple words are stacked together as soon as his eyes roll and become a new word. For example, the police of the Liao Dynasty combined the words vigilance and reconnaissance, and as long as they knew a little Chinese, they could immediately understand the role of this new position. Not to mention the police station, this has simply reached the level of looking at the literati.

After the opening of the meeting, a formal review and questioning activity was not immediately held, but a harmonious atmosphere and a harmonious atmosphere were arranged for the exchange meeting, so that these bigwigs of the country who had not met for a whole year could greet each other first.

Hong Chengchou is one of the four prefects of this meeting, and there are naturally many people around him. Peng Youzhi waited for him to greet those delegates one by one before taking Cheng Qi forward. Hong Chengchou was also very happy to see them coming: "Mr. Faxiao, Cheng Qi Xiaoyou." Talking about you...... Come on, come on, these two deputies are in the new by-election, you get to know each other. This is the steel king of Hebei, Corneji, and this is the shipping king of the Yangtze River. ”

"Long admiration, long admiration."

"Fortunately, fortunately."

Cheng Qi noticed that these two business tycoons were actually relatively young, they both looked like they were only in their early forties, but they were already rich enough to rival the country, and thought to himself that this was really the fate of one person and one person.

Hong Chengchou said: "Although our industrial and commercial community is divided into two levels, it is actually one. Many things still need a lot of help from the two brothers. ”

"Mr. Hengjiu is a senior giant, and I will learn more from Mr. Hengjiu when I am a junior."

Hong Chengchou said with a smile: "Work together to create brilliance." Two of you, I set up a table in Ziming Building in the evening, and please come. ”

The two business tycoons agreed without thinking, obviously they also wanted to make friends with a long-sleeved master like Hong Chengchou.

After sending them away, Hong Chengchou set his sights on a person not far away, and roamed around him for a moment before taking it back. Peng Youzhi noticed his gaze and also looked over, and after a while, Peng Youzhi said to Cheng Qi: "Did you see that young man?" ”

Cheng Qi shook his head: "I don't know." ”

Peng Youzhi lowered his voice and said, "Come on, come on, I'll tell you......"

Fei Jianren, a representative of Lianghuai Road and the owner of a large coal mine, has countless amounts of black gold, and there are as many as 100,000 coal miners on both sides of the Huai River under his command alone. This person is also said to be from a poor family, and by a little luck, he was recruited by a rich man to dig up the first pot of gold. Then he relied on some disgraceful means to snatch the assets of the partners, and was evaluated by the market as "kicking the widow's door at night and digging up the grave of the desperate household". But don't say that this market competition is to eat this set, the more there is no lower limit, the more you can make a fortune. The coal mine owners who operate in good faith can't compete with this black-hearted Fei Da boss, and they are eaten and wiped clean by him one by one. For more than 20 years, Fei Jianren became one of the largest coal mine owners in the Great Song Empire, and also became one of the most criticized black-hearted capitalists.

Peng You Straight; "This person is not honest in business, the coal mine in Lianghuai is a good high-quality coal mine, but the coal he sells is either mixed with clay or tons of coal gangue, which is not qualified for use in steel plants. is not kind, almost none of the partners he has worked with have a good end, and the previous partners either hanged themselves or committed suicide by throwing themselves into the water. The remaining orphans and widows...... It's also a human tragedy. But because he has money, he has great power, and if he has great power, he can buy the government, and he can settle the yamen at all levels on the Lianghuai Road, and now he has spent money to buy a representative of the fourth-level parliament, if he does not get rid of such pests, it is not the people who are unlucky along the Lianghuai Road, but the whole country! ”

Cheng Qi said: "Mr. Hengjiu wants to ......"

Peng You looked left and right: "Let's go back to the house and talk." ”

A representative of the fourth-level council can be regarded as a dragon and phoenix among the 40,000 people in the entire Great Song Empire. Who is not the leading figure in society? Let's use Wu Sangui as an analogy, he is a grinding stone of a hundred catties, and Fei Jianren's words are a Mount Tai. To bring down such a person, even a member of the cabinet will feel "a lot of pressure".

However, since Hong Chengchou has made up his mind to do this, he will definitely do it very thoroughly. He asked Peng You to come straight to talk to Cheng Qi, which was one of the moves, and in a place that Cheng Qi couldn't see, Hong Chengchou, who planned and then moved, did more things......

In the small room where the venue could be observed, Peng Youzhi and Cheng Qi each held a cup of tea in their hands and sat on two chairs to continue the topic just now.

"Mr. Heng Jiu has noticed some of your recent activities, and his evaluation of you is eight words - blood is commendable, and it needs to be honed. One of the most difficult things since ancient times is to organize people, and if you want to do great things after you are organized, that is something that can be expected. When Han Gaozu got into trouble, there were only a dozen township parties around him, and Liu Xuande was only a few brothers when he joined the army. The key is to organize people and form a fist, and if you hit it with a fist, it will be better than the guerrillas scattering countless bravery. Mr. Heng Jiu wants to give you a chance to experience now, I don't know if you are interested. ”

"It's better to read 10,000 books than to do one thing." Cheng Qi turned sideways: "What does Mr. Heng Jiu want the student to do?" ”

"Aren't you running a self-help club now, and I've read the program of this self-help club. He advocated that workers, peasants, small traders and peddlers should help themselves and help themselves. What Mr. Heng Jiu means, can you think of a way to let this self-help society go to Huainan to develop and develop? ”

"Huainan?"

"There are many coal mines there, and it is also a hub for water and land transportation, which is very suitable for the activities of the self-help association."

"I see." Cheng Qi's eyes lit up, and suddenly he seemed to have received some enlightenment, Huainan has been a place of arrogance and fierce soldiers since the Tang Dynasty, and the folk customs are very fierce. If there are coal mines, there will be workers, and the mobility of the population will be strong in developed water and land transportation, and it is easy to mix fish and dragons, which is very suitable for fishing in troubled waters.

"It seems that this is indeed a good place to do revolution." Cheng Qi secretly thought in his heart: "And the reactionary forces around are very strong, the revolution is easy to launch but not easy to persevere, it seems that Hong Chengchou has also spent a lot of thought in order to choose to raise Gu." Thinking of this, he asked, "What kind of goal does Mr. Hengjiu want to achieve?" ”

"You know, that person has a lot of power in Huainan, and it is obvious that there is no chance of winning by taking the route of the middle and upper echelons to bring him down. And the reason why he was able to run rampant in Huainan was also because he carried 100,000 miners with his own weight. The local government is afraid of things and does not dare to provoke him, and the judicial system is also stuffed and will not make a fuss about nothing. As for the patrol of the Imperial History sent by the Imperial Historical Observatory...... Hey, I won't say much about that. This time, Mr. Hengjiu wants to ask you to get rid of his lair in Huainan, is this task difficult? ”

Cheng Qi thought about it quickly: Fei Jianren is the head snake of Huainan, who is in collusion with officials in the local area, and has a nest of snakes and rats, obviously by definition should be extremely reactionary and diehard. Against such people, the law is almost ineffective. And to solve him politically, it is necessary to dig out its roots.

Hong Chengchou is really a person who does great things. Cheng Qi thought in his heart: It is much more reliable than those Donglin parties.

"I'm willing to go." Cheng Qi nodded: "But in some aspects, I still need Mr. Heng Jiu and Mr. Fa Xiao to help me." ”