After all, Xia Li is well-informed, and has walked more bridges than the former Xuanjie captain. He quickly pointed out a new way for Lin Gengxin: the standard chamber of commerce's largest business in northern Zhejiang is kerosene, although this kind of thing is called kerosene, but it is refined from oil, and the main source of goods of the standard chamber of commerce comes from the United States of South China Borneo. After they were mined locally, they were transported in iron drums to Jinshan Town, Songjiang Province, where there was a processing plant. After refining into refined kerosene and other finished products, it is sold to various places by land and water transportation.

Huzhou is an important transshipment node, and the Standard Chamber of Commerce has rented several large warehouses here. Xia Li thought of making a plan on this.

"Does Lord Taishan want his son-in-law to go to the warehouse?" Lin Gengxin felt as if he had been greatly insulted. Xia Li glared at him fiercely: "Stupid, there are naturally people to do this kind of thing when you look at the warehouse, since the old man recruited you as a son-in-law, he wants you to be the old man's right-hand man." ”

Cheng Qi touched his chin: "What does my brother-in-law mean to let my brother-in-law take care of the dock?" ”

"It's just a wharf, and you don't need the old man's son-in-law to go out." When Xia Li said this, she simply lifted her chin to the sky. Cheng Qi couldn't guess what he meant.

Uncle Lang and Uncle Lang stared at each other, and they both shook their heads, saying that they didn't know what kind of medicine this old man/uncle-in-law was selling in the gourd.

Xia Li put on a proud look of "forgive you for not guessing" for a long time and said: "Luo Feile has always had an idea for the sake of his own business, that is, to be elected as the representative of the public opinion of Liangzhejiang Road. There are exactly three vacancies in this year's Liangzhelu Public Opinion Deputy, and as far as I know, he is moving around, desperately trying to accumulate popularity for himself. ”

Cheng Qi read about the political system of the Great Song Dynasty from his uncle's study. According to the above introduction, the Great Song Dynasty is now called the Empire, which is actually a constitutional monarchy. The Zhao Guanjia acted as a mascot and a religious and ceremonial existence, while political power was controlled by the four levels of parliament. The head of the central government, Prime Minister Shang Shuling, as the head of the subordinate officials, is nominated by the ruling party group of the four levels of parliament, and the executive heads of the local governments, such as the political envoy, the prefect, the prefect, and the prefect, are also elected by the representatives of the people's will at the corresponding level - and then appointed by the executive head at the higher level.

For example, the political envoy of Liangzhelu was nominated by the public representatives of Liangzhelu after discussion and voting, and then Shang Shuling issued a letter of appointment before he could officially take office. Those who have only been voted on and have not been approved can only be referred to as acting envoys – that is, acting envoys.

Liangzhejiang Road has a population of 9 million, and the fourth-level public opinion association is based in Hangzhou, with a total of 31 permanent representatives and 32 communication representatives (two people from each province). The Permanent Delegates meet once or twice a month, the main business of which is to discuss the presentation of the people's case, and the plenary meetings are held every six months, the main business of which is to discuss the qualifications of the delegates and the draft of the decree.

Whether it is the highest level of the imperial four-level council or the lowest level of state and county public opinion representative conferences, all the public representatives are composed according to the four sectors of agriculture, industry and commerce.

Shi - as the name suggests, is a scholar, in the First Empire era (that is, the Northern Song Dynasty that Cheng Qi is familiar with) at least the requirement is to raise people, and a few areas are relaxed to Xiucai; In the current so-called Second Empire, it is required to have at least a university degree or above, and special remote areas can be relaxed to the level of secondary school graduation. Agriculture -- It does not mean that peasants can become representatives of the people's will, but that they are manor owners, ranchers, and ranchers, and how many acres of paddy fields or mountains are needed to be qualified, and that still depends on the landscape environment of each locality. Workers – naturally, do not refer to women textile workers or coal diggers, but to industrial giants such as Songjiang Prefecture that owns this series of factories and employs thousands of industrial workers. Businessman - this is naturally easy to understand, it is definitely not a merchant who walks through the village and alleys, but a wealthy tycoon like Xia Li, a county and a state.

The four-level public opinion representative system, from Cheng Qi's perspective in the 21st century, may be quite backward and reactionary, because it is a standard property qualification election system, without considerable financial resources, and there is no qualification to be elected and electors - as the famous scientist of the First Empire era, the controller of thunder and lightning, and the wife of Zhou Guo, who is respectfully called the mother of electricity, sarcastically said: "I have some money, plus a donkey that I have picked up, and I have reached the standard line they have drawn to be this public representative; Now the owner of the donkey has found me and taken the donkey away. They also said that I didn't meet the standards and couldn't continue to be this representative - so, may I ask you, am I or this stupid donkey more capable of being a representative of the people's will? ”

But this system is still 10,000 times better than the absolute monarchy system that has lasted for more than 1,400 years since the Qin Dynasty, under this system, at least Cheng Qi saw the rapid development of commerce, the manual workshops have been almost eliminated, and the large-scale use of machine production has blossomed everywhere at least in Jiangnan - accumulating wealth, and then being qualified to participate in local politics, this is a new way, so that the minds of countless intelligent people do not have to be limited to the shackles of the Four Books and the Five Classics, Instead, they applied their ingenuity to natural sciences and commercial adventures, and this great institutional design not only relieved careerists of their desire for imperial power with a "hypocritical republic" to reduce political turmoil, but also brought the whole nation to the fast track of modernization.

To get back to the point, Xia Li's plan is actually very simple. Although he is only a representative of the fourth-level conference of Huzhou Prefecture, there are now two permanent representatives of non-districts and one Yuezhou Mansion, which means that if someone wants to be a representative of the fourth-level conference of Liangzhejiang Road, then the direction of his efforts should be to target the permanent representatives of non-divisions.

Theoretically, the permanent representatives of the non-sub-districts should reflect the public opinion of the entire Liangzhejiang Road - obviously, if Luo Feile can get the support of enough ordinary representatives of the public opinion of the state capitals in the second half of the year, then the probability of his election will be greatly increased.

Xia Li, the representative of other regions, did not dare to pack tickets, after all, they each had their own abacus. But here in Huzhou Mansion, he felt that if he carried out the operation, then he still had a good chance of success - the next thing was to see what kind of conditions Luo Feile was willing to take.

Xia Li thought about it carefully, and felt that there was a lot to be done here, and her attitude towards her son-in-law became better and better: "Virtuous son-in-law, we have done a good job in this transaction, and you will have a better life with foolish thoughts in the future." I remember you said that Luo Feile personally asked you to do this errand? ”

"Yes, it was Manager Luo's son-in-law who found me - he is also a retired lieutenant of the Xiang Military Academy, although we did not serve in the same place, but after returning to our hometown, we joined a bow and horse club together, and it was there that I learned about such a job, and recommended myself to him."

"So good, so good." Xia Li smiled and took her son-in-law's hand: "Come on, come on, you just listen to the old man and I arrange it like this......"

The two of them became intimate all of a sudden, and Cheng Qi finally had a chance to drink saliva, and Xia Yusi, who had been hiding aside and watching for a long time, saw the right time and finally came out and bowed down: "My daughter thanked my father." ”

"Oops......" Xia Li also sighed sincerely when she saw her daughter: "I was tossed to death by you, a money-losing goods." ”

Cheng Qi nibbled on two mouthfuls of fruit: "Sister, I'm hungry!" It's time to eat! ”