Chapter 1269 Dualist Constitutional Monarchy

With such an analysis, Feng Yunshan combined with the only pitiful political knowledge he had in his previous life, and he suddenly found that he had not established or united and integrated an interest group that could occupy the whole country after building the empire for so many years, which was indeed his own failure.

According to Luo Zenan, he simply has a serious and wrong knot, and now with the strength of the Chinese Empire, it seems to be the most powerful and powerful country in the world, and there is no need to imitate the political system of Western countries, and the cultural differences and differences in concepts between the East and the West will also make it difficult for the Western cabinet election system to do well in the land of China.

The most important thing is that Feng Yunshan feels that Luo Zenan has the point, that is, if a constitutional monarchy is adopted, it will inevitably be difficult to avoid uneven development in various places, and eventually cause the central government to be unable to centralize power, resulting in a split situation. Feng Yunshan thought about it carefully, there was really such a possibility!

He didn't want to turn the once unified Chinese empire into several broken states. Feng Yunshan suddenly remembered that it seemed that he still had a possibility, but now the world has not officially determined this kind of government. But in fact there was already a germ of a constitutional monarchy in the future Second German Reich, but unlike the parliamentary constitutional monarchy of the United Kingdom, they were a dual constitutional monarchy: a hereditary monarch was the head of state, but not just a superficial head of state, but with real power. Although the state also has cabinet members, they are all appointed by the monarch, and the government composed of cabinet members is not accountable to parliament, but to the monarch, and the cabinet acts according to the will of the monarch, although the parliament can exercise legislative power, but the monarch has the right of veto.

In this way, on the surface, there are two centers of power, the monarch and the parliament, as if the power of the monarch is formally limited by the parliament and the constitution, but in fact the monarch still holds the supreme power of the state. Moreover, the great advantage of this form of government is that the power of the monarch is determined entirely by the intelligence of the monarch.

In this kind of government, the vast majority of government affairs are handled by the cabinet led by the prime minister, which can just let a lazy emperor like Feng Yunshan get rid of the bitterness of diligent government, and once he wants to govern, the emperor can take back power through the prime minister at any time.

If this monarch is capable, and he has the help of the prime minister, he will definitely be able to govern the country well; If this monarch is incompetent, then he can be his puppet with peace of mind, and not meddle in the affairs of the cabinet government, just treat himself as an ornament.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan's eyes lit up!

The problem that bothered him was solved in one fell swoop. Although he has not completely decided what to do in the future, he already has a preliminary answer in his heart: why should he bother with this kind of question, as the so-called car must have a road before the mountain, he is not yet fifty years old, at least more than ten years of emperor career, and when he is old after more than ten years, it is not too late to slowly arrange the future affairs and succession. What's more, he already has a plan, that is, as long as the Chinese Empire continues to be strong, he will continue to implement his monarchical dictatorship, and when his son takes over, it will not be too late to implement this dual constitutional monarchy. The descendants are capable, so they will continue to implement the monarchical dictatorship, and if the future generations are not capable, they will be set up by the prime minister of the cabinet and become a puppet, these are their affairs, as the so-called children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, Feng Yunshan smiled, why should he worry too much?

"Luo Aiqing is worthy of being a great Confucian, and the depth of his thoughts has been deeply studied to the level of the national system. I've been taught! Thanks to Luo Aiqing's inspiration and advice, otherwise I would have almost really made an oolong. Feng Yunshan said: "Everyone, Aiqing, there is no need to discuss this matter, I already have my own plans!" What is now in front of us is how to continue to exert the power of the empire and make the Chinese empire stronger!

Given that the Chinese Empire was able to quickly defeat the Manchus and unify the whole country, an important reason was that our weapons were much more advanced than those of the Manchus. In the same way, the Chinese Empire was able to defeat the European powers one after another, and one of the important reasons is that our weapons are more advanced than those of the European powers! The Krupp cannon of the empire has developed to the level of rear-loading rifled guns, while the European powers, the most advanced, are only at the level of front-loading rifled guns, and even most of them are still based on old-fashioned smoothbore guns like Tsarist Russia, and even Britain has more old-fashioned smoothbore guns. In terms of rifles, they are even more backward. Of course, the most important thing is the formula of gunpowder, our yellow gunpowder, TNT gunpowder, and the black powder that is still commonly used in Europe is no longer at the same level. It is precisely because of the superiority of these aspects that our Chinese empire has today's glory! And these, in the final analysis, are one word: advanced technology! ”

Speaking of this, Feng Yunshan looked at Wu Chongyao and said, "Wu Aiqing should know this process best!" When we were still in the Taiping Holy Kingdom, our weapons were as inferior as those of the Manchus, and we could not fight against the British army at all, and we relied entirely on the lives of our soldiers to win victory after victory. Not to mention the confrontation with the same forces, even with several times the number of troops, it is not necessarily possible to defeat the British army. At that time, Wu Aiqing had to go around buying foreigners' weapons. Later, in an encounter on the outskirts of Calcutta, the Empire's field soldiers exchanged fire with twice the size of the British army, and finally inflicted heavy losses on the British army at a small cost, because the Empire had its own more advanced weapons. That's the power of technology!

Therefore, some time ago, I decided to establish the Royal Academy of Sciences as the technical authority of the Empire, to promote and promote the development of science and technology in the Empire! In turn, develop more powerful and advanced weapons, create more advanced production machines, and improve production efficiency, thereby enhancing the overall national strength of the empire!

Now, after nearly three busy months, I have finally set up this Royal Academy of Sciences. ”

Li Hongzhang seized the opportunity to step forward and interjected: "Your Majesty has worked hard for the empire, you still have to take care of the dragon body!" Regarding Luo Zenan's praise from the emperor just now, Li Hongzhang faintly felt a crisis.

Other cabinet members also lamented the emperor's hard work. Feng Yunshan waved his hand and said with a smile: "I didn't complain to Zhong Aiqing for praise. Instead, he asked for the opinions of all Aiqing to see what else the Royal Academy of Sciences needed to improve and improve, and if there was anything inappropriate, he could directly point it out. Next, the Cabinet will give its full support to the operation of the Royal Academy of Sciences, supporting it in all aspects, and of course, most importantly, the support of the Royal Academy.

Xu Aiqing, can you give the cabinet members a general introduction to the Royal Academy of Sciences that we have built. ”