A long, long time ago, there was an old man who said that His Majesty rules the world with scholars, not with ordinary people.

The current Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty ruled like a saint of heaven. And it is still the scholars who really enjoy the power.

There was once a crown prince of Daliao who came to visit Bianjing and visited the debate scene of the four-level conference. He was surprised to find that when the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, who represented the imperial power, took his seat, the ruling cabinet members and the elites of the opposition party bowed from afar and never paid any attention to him. These scholars and doctors sprayed each other in the dark, flying sand and rocks, and none of them took the emperor who was placed there like a mascot seriously.

It is said that after watching this scene, the crown prince of Liao said to his entourage with deep feelings: "My poor brother of the Zhao family...... He's so pathetic. ”

Today happens to be the day of rest, and it is also the day of opening to the public for the fourth-level meeting.

In the early days, Level 4 meetings were closed-door meetings, and all content was only made public to the public with the results. Later, a prime minister decided that a moderate degree of openness would help to alleviate the suspicion and suspicion of the four-level meeting, and since then, the four-level meeting has been open to the public every day off, and the regular debates of the four-level meeting have allowed some newspaper reporters or celebrities to attend.

Cheng Qi already knew that the election of delegates to the four-level meeting was based on the method of recommendation and indirect election, but he was still full of curiosity about the operation of the four-level meeting itself.

Fortunately, there is a souvenir shop on the left hand side of the door, Cheng Qi bought a copy of "The History of the Fourth-Level Council" and gave a booklet, and Huang Yang stamped a commemorative postmark and sent it home. Guo Shan is an old Bianjing, so he doesn't plan to waste silver.

The four-tier council originated at the end of the First Empire, and the reason for its establishment was simple: no tax without representation. The scholars of the Great Song Dynasty were different from the scholars of the Ming Dynasty in a certain time and space, and the scholars and doctors of the Great Song Dynasty were very "ashamed" - if they were asked to take the silver out to support the official Northern Expedition or the Western Expedition, they had to let the scholars and doctors share the power. In order to balance the interests of all parties, the Great Song Emperor issued an edict to set up a four-level parliament, and the elites of the fourth class of scholars, farmers, and industrialists were allowed to express their opinions on state affairs.

In the place of establishment, the idea of the emperor of the Zhao family is to listen to the clear and believe and the secret, and in the royal conception, this is at most a staff organ that talks about being consulted, whether it is for the elderly, it is used to house academic masters of different schools, at most it will become a Zhao Song version of the Jixia School Palace.

However, as soon as the source is opened, the development of the following things can not be determined by the Zhao family's own ideas. The four tiers of parliament inconspicuously encroach on royal power day by day. In 1789, the royal family, aware of the crisis, wanted to close the Fourth Council, but lost his name.

From 1789 to 1911, after more than 100 years of desperate struggle between the imperial system and the republic, China finally accepted the constitutional monarchy. From a formal point of view, Bianjing also gave the Zhao family a face, but even the blind in the world know that since 1911 in the Confucian calendar, the real masters of the Great Song Empire are the gentlemen in the fourth-level conference!

The main job of the four-tier meeting is to meet (quarrel) and, like the locality, it is divided into the meeting of permanent representatives and the plenary. The plenary meeting is held once a year, generally at the end of the year, when the cold winter wax moon is set, because at the end of the year, the work of the Great Song Dynasty will be audited and the main personnel arrangements and financial budget for the next year will be decided, so the term "year pass" has quietly become popular.

There are 50 permanent representatives, including two representatives from each of the 23 sectors, and four special representatives from the four colonial capitals: Australia and New Zealand (Australia and the New South East Island), Central and South America, South West Africa and East Africa. There is also a Permanent Delegates Conference Offering Drinker, who is appointed by the General Assembly to convene the Permanent Delegates Conference.

The Permanent Representatives Council is convened once or twice a month to discuss the major policies of the state, to make inquiries, questions, opinions and suggestions to the Cabinet, to formulate laws and decrees under the authorization of the Plenary Session, to appoint the magistrates of the Dali Temple, the highest judicial organ, to appoint the Imperial History of the Goshitai, the highest legal supervision organ, to decide on the addition of cabinet members, to accept the resignation of cabinet members, to issue orders of honor or commendation, to declare war or peace, to decide on the membership of diplomatic missions, to review local regulations or orders formulated by the lower councils, etc.

During the period when the Permanent Representatives Meeting is also in session, the divisions of the four levels of the Conference work together in accordance with the mandate of the four levels of parliament. Up to now, the four levels of parliament of the Great Song Empire have seven internal organs: the Department of Legislative Provisions, the Department of Finance and Planning, the Department of the Four Protectors, the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Agriculture and Industry, the Department of National Affairs, and the Department of Internal Affairs. They maintain the day-to-day functioning of the four levels of parliament, deal with procedural matters, receive proposals from their subordinate counterparts, and seek liaison with relevant councillors.

Each Permanent Representative has his or her own set of staff members who are responsible for helping the Permanent Representative deal with more than half of the presentations and distractions. For some very well-known permanent representatives, if they have to do everything themselves, then I am afraid that they will become ill before they become more than half popular.

Moreover, each delegate is elected for a term of four years, and half of the deputies are re-elected every two years. Basically, in the last year of his term, a representative has to concentrate at least 80 percent of his experience to run for office, and he has less energy to devote to parliament.

In response to this situation, political parties were created. Political parties are responsible for helping those who want to get votes, and deputies return the favor by casting unified action votes on topics of concern to political parties. In order to ensure that the parliamentarians did not turn against the water at a critical juncture, a completely new position was created – the party whip.

Now, Cheng Qi and the others are watching Shi Kefa, the whip of the Donglin Party, the largest party in today's fourth-level conference-this can be regarded as a historical celebrity. Cheng Qi felt a little excited.