"Then I won't keep you any longer, I have to go to the council in the afternoon, I have to sort out the materials at hand first, I can't let those guys stop me!" After chatting about business, Hong Tao immediately issued an eviction order. It's almost noon, and if Wen Nan doesn't leave, he'll have to take care of the meal. Now the emperor has to spend money to eat, and the landlord's family has no surplus grain.

"Your Majesty...... I have heard that the people in the parliament have complained a lot about His Majesty's return to the court with this great victory, and they have also reprimanded His Majesty like a prisoner, is this a bit too much? Looking at the past dynasties, how many kings can be like Your Majesty who have won a big victory with fewer enemies and more? Where is there a war that does not die? Could it be said that just because someone died in battle, you can erase Your Majesty's merits? Your Majesty is merciful and unwilling to be autocratic, but you can't overdo it! If this continues, who will be willing to fight for the country in the future? Could it be that the tragedy of Xianggong Yue will be repeated in the empire! Wen Nan had already gotten up to say goodbye, but as soon as he took a step, he turned around and stopped, and followed Hong Tao's words to talk about the council, and the more he talked, the more excited he became, and finally put a boss's hat on the council's head.

Hong Tao was almost accustomed to Wen Nan's accusations, and since he returned to Jinhe City with his half-crippled fleet, he began to teach the council how to exercise their accountability. Then there were all sorts of people who questioned the performance of the council, especially the admirals who accompanied Hong Tao on the expedition. In their opinion, there was no problem with the command of this naval battle, and the final result also met the highest expectations, so why should the parliament still point fingers at the commander of the fleet and pick and choose?

Everyone who asks this kind of question, Hong Tao will take the trouble to enlighten him. Whether the other party accepts it or not, make it clear to them. This is not a deliberate persecution of the Parliament itself. Rather, he asked the parliament to do so. According to the laws of the Empire, the parliament also had this right, so why can't it exercise it? Authorization is for use, don't you have to put it away, is it just for good sound?

"Hey...... It's over, it's not as serious as you say, let's talk as we go. Wen Nan has been stationed abroad for a long time, of course he doesn't know that Hong Tao has become the biggest broken mouth in Jinhe City, and now Hong Tao has to say the same thing to him again. But it is impossible to eat at Hong Tao's house.

"The accountability process in parliament is legitimate, and I ask them to do so. Not only for me, but for anyone who does something similar in the future, as long as it is in the interest of the country, the parliament must exercise the right of accountability after exercising the power of approval. It can't be said that one thing is done and it's over, everyone laughs when it succeeds, everyone is silent when it fails, or launches an unlucky egg to be a scapegoat, in that case, how is the Jinhe Empire different from the Great Song Dynasty and Mongolia? Someone has to be held accountable for everything, and it is the responsibility of the council to find out the details and what happened. They're not picking bones in the egg. It's helping the country gatekeeping. Hong Tao first explained to Wen Nan the rights of the parliament from the legal point of view.

"But doesn't this hurt the hearts of those who serve the country?" Wen Nan is worried about another level of problem.

"Good intentions don't always lead to good results, as it always has been. Those people in the Great Song Dynasty did not all do things with the original intention of bringing disaster to the country and the people. But in the end, it was indeed a disaster for the country and the people. Why? Because they are not responsible, if they had been told in advance that they would be responsible for their words and deeds, I would have avoided most of these things that happen in a low-spirited and spontaneous way. Before they make any decision, they will try their best to verify the feasibility of the matter. ”

For this problem, Hong Tao hates it very much, what is the starting point is good? How to quantify and judge this starting point? You say that you have done something bad with good intentions, but the question is who knows if you have good intentions or not? You can't fool people with a sentence like crossing the river by feeling the stones, paying tuition, etc., right?

"Will such a complicated process lead to lazy governance? The more things you do, the more troublesome it is, and it's much easier to do nothing, and in the long run, who is willing to do practical things? "When it comes to government affairs, Wen Nan is no weaker than Hong Tao, this is his specialty.

"If it is placed in other countries, there is indeed this problem, but in the Golden River Empire, this problem does not exist, or it has little impact. Any idea why that's said? I'll tell you if you don't know, so I'll tell you. The reason is simple: government officials are accountable to the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister is accountable to Parliament, and Parliament is accountable to the people. ”

"No one is a fool, you can't see it for a month or two, and you can't see it for a year or two? The people know very well what the government has done. The quadrennial election is for this, no one should think about anything, eat and wait for death, you are tired, you can be troublesome, don't stand in the pit and don't, some people are not tired, not too troublesome, some people want to contribute to the country, want to realize their ambitions. ”

"So, it took a long time to be selected, just to wait for four years to die, and there is no high salary, is this price too great?" Every time Wen Nan asked a question, Hong Tao had a lot of words waiting for him. It's not that his brain reacts quickly, but that he has said it too many times, and he has long remembered it by heart. The questions raised by the new-educated officials in the government were more acute than those of Wen Nanlai, but none of them could stop Hong Tao.

"Your Majesty, this is to use yourself as an example to others...... Nan admired it to the extreme. Throughout the history books, Your Majesty is unprecedented! Wen Nan didn't ask anymore, Hong Tao's answer he could understand and was willing to agree, but he was used to telling him that it was not very reliable, because he had never seen such a court and such an emperor.

"Hey, hey, hey...... I'll just think you're praising me! Hey, that's right, this is Lao Kong's house, let's go to his house to eat soup cakes! My wife's craft croaks. Seeing that Wen Nan was no problem, Hong Tao began to ponder the whereabouts of lunch. Since they are all out, they can't go back on an empty stomach, catch up with who's who, this time it's Kong Pei's turn to be unlucky, who made his house happen next to him.

Don't look at Hong Tao's words very easily, in fact, he is quite annoyed by the parliament. The power thing is addictive, and the members of the parliament were afraid to ask the emperor too many questions in person at first, but after getting used to it a few times, everyone was convinced that the emperor liked it in this way, so they immediately became enthusiastic. At every interrogation meeting, there were countless questions waiting for Hong Tao to answer, and even why he wanted to take such a pregnant woman as Weng Ya on the boat, as if Hong Tao had some bad intentions.

Of course, the congressman who asked this question made Hong Tao scold. This is a government inquiry meeting, not a gossip gathering on the streets, what should be asked and what should not be asked, everyone should have a standard in their hearts. Who is Weng Ya? That's the commander of the Imperial Royal Navy's supply fleet! Her husband is the captain of the Imperial Royal Navy's supply fleet and the son of the Minister of the Imperial Inspectorate!

Asking this question can be said to be too much gossip, or it can be said to have ulterior motives. Do you want to sow discord between the emperor and government officials? If Hong Tao wants to go online, this parliamentarian is estimated to have no way to live, and if he is not dismissed by the parliament, he will have to be hated to death by the Weng family and the Ci family. A person who offends the royal family, the military, and special departments at the same time, no matter what country he is in or what kind of official he is, the end will not be very good.

In fact, Hong Tao has a private purpose in letting the parliament exercise its right to accountability, and he wants to reduce his guilt in this way. When he returned with a broken fleet and a list of hundreds of Royal Navy killed, the entire city of Golden River fell silent. No one accused him of taking his son to his death, but no one praised him for a decisive victory. Everyone consciously avoided this topic, and even the memorial service in the martyrs' cemetery did not have many citizens who took the initiative to participate, which is very inconsistent with the character of the people of Jinhe City.

Hong Tao knew very well what everyone's reaction represented, they were not very happy, or they had opinions about themselves, but it was difficult to say, after all, they were the emperors they recognized, and their current lives were also realized by themselves with them. If they stand up and accuse themselves and oppose themselves at this time, they will feel a little ungrateful. But they really don't approve of using the lives of their sons and family members to help other countries fight. On the one hand, they couldn't speak, and on the other hand, they were not very happy, so everyone simply chose to be silent and express their dissatisfaction in this way.

Should they express it? Hong Tao felt that there was no problem at all, everyone had the right to express their thoughts, and thinking about this thing could be deceived and fooled, but it could not be forbidden. But their way of expressing Hong Tao feels that it needs to be improved, if they always treat themselves as benefactors, many rules will not be easy to enforce.

It's not a good thing, it always makes others feel indebted to them, and over time this guilt will turn into hatred, a hatred that can't be spoken. This kind of hatred may not erupt in one's lifetime, but after one's death, it is likely to erupt in one's offspring. This is what Dou Mien and Sheng Mi Qiu said, Hong Tao must let everyone speak out and vent their grievances.

How to vent it? It's definitely not possible to hold a criticism meeting for yourself, but it's okay for everyone to discuss the issues and express different opinions. This work was done by Huang Sha, the deputy minister of the Imperial Propaganda Department, and the way of discussion was not a meeting, and Jinhe City did not have such a large space for all the people to use. The specific method is to use words in Jinhe Daily to fight with words, and the editors of the newspaper will collect representatives of various different opinions, and then publish these people's ideas in installments and batches for everyone to ponder the taste.

(To be continued.) )