Since the Right Court is an institution used by Dai Yan to balance the power of the aristocracy, its members must come from the commoners.

The members of the right house, Dai Yan intends to be screened out through election. Of course, in determining the qualifications of voters, Dai Yan naturally needs to be controlled.

Dai Yan has no interest in cooking politics. In his opinion, dish cooking necessarily represents mediocrity. Even if he did a good job in cooking in this era when Jesus was not even born, no one would reward him. What he wanted, it had always been something practical.

What are those actual things? It is hoped that the elite of the entire Song State can participate in politics and play games within a controllable range, so that they will not wander outside the political situation of the Song State.

In Dai Yan's view, in today's Song Kingdom, in addition to the powerful and noble nobles, there are at least a few other major political forces that are independent of the political situation.

First of all, it was nominally belonging to the aristocratic class, but it lost its land and gradually degenerated into a commoner taxi class. This class, although it seems to belong to the common people, is the most dynamic class in the whole country. They alone have no strength, but when combined, they are an extremely huge force! In today's world, no one can ignore this class!

Dai Yan knew that his great enemy in the Qi State, Tian Wen, the son of Xue Gongtian Ying, was able to become the powerful Meng Weijun in the later years, and it was by attracting a large number of scholars to achieve this goal. In Dai Yan's view, the scholars are a mobile class in the whole world, if he can't keep the scholars of the Song Kingdom, these scholars of the Song Kingdom will inevitably leave other countries! Wei Guo and Wei are the best examples in this regard, Shang Ying, Zhang Yi and other talents, aren't they just because they have not been reused by the mother country, so they went to Qin and reused them for Qin?

However, in terms of wooing the scholars, Dai Yan has never recognized the method of raising scholars like the four sons of the Warring States Period. In his opinion, the practice of the four sons of the Warring States period is not much different from the practice of an underworld boss raising a younger brother. In this way, to win over the scholars, the grade is too low.

He wants to win over this class in his own way!

Therefore, Dai Yan's first rigid requirement for voters is that they must be people with surnames. In the world at this time, it is not surprising that there is a surname. But if you have a clan, it is relatively rare. The nobles have clans, and those who have clans are either nobles themselves, or this person once owned a fief on his ancestors, that is, he belongs to the descendants of the nobles, and the scholar class is naturally included.

In the position of the scholar class, one class that Dai Yan also hopes to win over is the merchant class. Even if Dai Yan did not travel to the Warring States Period, the merchant class began to play an increasingly important role in the late Warring States period. Why did a businessman with political vision like Lü Buwei decide that he was a strange commodity as soon as he saw Zichu who was hostage in Zhao State, and invested a lot of money to help him become the king of Qin? Isn't it hoped that they can reap the benefits of such political speculation handsomely!

And for Tao Qiu, it is even more important to win over merchants! After all, Taoqiu has turned to capitalism, and businessmen must be the backbone of the future, and if it does not participate in politics, then such a powerful force will inevitably have contradictions when it is outside the ruling class. Therefore, at this time, to include them as part of the ruling class is to focus on the layout of the future.

Therefore, for the second requirement of voters, Dai Yan gave a hard indicator after consulting with many scholars: people who pay more than 120 yuan in taxes every year. 120 money, calculated is 6 gold, take Taoqiu, the richest city in the Song Kingdom, its tax rate is calculated on average, roughly around 15%, and people who pay taxes above 6 gold, the annual income must exceed 40 gold!

In a city as wealthy as Taoqiu, only 10% of the population has the right to vote! Most of these people in Taoqiu are businessmen who do some small business, and some craftsmen with high skills.

In other cities in the Song Kingdom, there are even fewer people who can meet this standard, almost less than 3%! And among these people, except for a small number of local merchants, only some landlords who owned land remained.

However, in Dai Yan's view, such a regulation must be done. Electoral politics costs a lot of money. Even the United Kingdom, which is the most proficient in playing this system in later generations, did not hold a popular election at the beginning, but gradually opened up!

The person who has the right to vote has thus been given a new name: citizen. In Dai Yan's view, these people who pay heavy taxes for the country should naturally become the masters of the country and have special political rights, which are citizenship rights. In the initial stage, Dai Yan only gave citizens political and economic rights, and just these two powers were enough to make the people of the entire Song State have citizenship rights.

The political rights of citizens, including the right to vote and to be elected, and political freedom, including speech. And the economic rights are the right to have legal property protected and the right to do business in the territory of the Song Kingdom without restrictions!

At this time, although there were etiquette laws and even strict laws, some powerful countries such as Qin, Wei and other countries also claimed to "govern the country according to law". However, in Dai Yan's view, legal countries such as Qin and Wei are not so much "governing the country according to law" as "governing the country with power".

The laws of these countries all exist to preserve the authority of the king. The laws of Qin and Wei were all required of the king's subjects, and none of them stipulated the rights of the subjects! Therefore, such a law exists only to demonstrate the power of the monarch and to allow the whole country to have obedient subjects!

And the only person who has the right to act above the law is the monarch. The root of the Son of Heaven's breaking the law and committing the same crime as the common people has never been realized in history, that is! Dai Yan's act of giving his subjects rights, even if it was the rights of a small number of people, immediately made the Song people extremely excited!

Even those civilians who do not have citizenship rights for the time being are excited! Because in their view, the emergence of elections and even citizenship rights has undoubtedly given them ordinary people a visible step. As long as you work hard, you will eventually become a citizen who enjoys your rights!

On the contrary, knowing this news, the most opposed ones were the nobles of the Song Kingdom. It's just that the leader of these people has just had the power to participate in politics in the left court, and it has not caused a strong backlash for the time being!

And the most opposed to this news is the Confucian scholars! In this era, although Mencius had become the leader of Confucianism, Mencius's ideas were not yet recognized by the vast majority of Confucian scholars. At present, what Confucianism most agrees with is the doctrine of Confucius, and the most important of them is the unchangeable idea of kings, ministers, fathers, fathers, sons, and sons!

The emergence of elections and citizenship in the Song State was naturally opposed to Confucianism, and a large number of Confucian scholars even ran to Suiyang despite the fact that the Song State was currently at war with the Chu State, and tried their best to persuade Dai Yan to give up this practice!

Dai Yan naturally ignored the thoughts of the Confucian scholars. Confucian was originally not taken seriously in Taoqiu, so why did he bother to deal with these guys? Moreover, with the practice of the Song State regaining the old system of the Shang Dynasty, the Confucianism that represents Zhou Li is the natural enemy of the Song State!

The only thing Dai Yan needs to worry about is the ever-expanding nature of citizenship. On the surface, it seems that the expansion of citizenship rights will allow the whole country to have more people with political and economic rights, and the better it will be for the country, but Dai Yan never thinks so!

How did the Roman Empire fall? Of course, it is closely related to Rome's external troubles, but in Dai Yan's view, the biggest reason is the decline of the Roman Empire because of universal citizenship!

If he were an ordinary civilian, he would have fought hard for his rights. However, he was now a ruler, so he had to strictly limit the expansion of citizenship. Therefore, the amount of tax paid by citizens must be stipulated as a hard condition! If you want to change it, you must get the consent of the absolute majority of the entire left and right courts!

After such a system was designed, a left court that included the power of the Song nobility and a right court that included both the noble class, the local small landlords, and the merchant class were completely established. In the Left Court, the nobles were able to participate in politics in person, which was extremely satisfying to them. And in the right courtyard, a large number of scholars entered it, thus becoming the main force of national politics!

The small local landlords and merchants fulfilled their desire to participate in politics by donating to the talented nobles. For Dai Yan, he still agrees with the participation of landlords in politics, after all, the landlords themselves have rich governance experience in the local area. However, he did not approve of allowing businessmen to participate in politics, and it was actually best to let them participate in politics through agents.

After all, like Lü Buwei, there are still too few people who are born to straddle the identities of politicians and businessmen. The businessman's profit-first mindset is still not suitable for politics where power and profit are sought.

Like the American imperialism of later generations, since the founding of the country for more than 200 years, only a big-mouthed CP has become the commander as a businessman, and he is also known as a black swan, which is not without reason!

For example, US imperialism protects a series of countries in old Europe through NATO, and bears most of the military spending alone, in the opinion of the CP, this is a loss for US imperialism. If the little in Europe wants to continue to obtain the protection of my great American imperialism, he has to honestly bear the military expenses for me, which is a typical businessman mentality who only focuses on interests. He did not expect that after proliferating through NATO and controlling a country, this country is controlled by it to a certain extent, and the country it controls is used by it in terms of its domestic technology and even resources!

For example, Sweden, a member of NATO, has a very developed heavy industry in the country. When the U.S. imperialists wanted to build Ohio-class submarines, they needed super-large plate bending machines, which they did not have in their own country, so they borrowed them from Sweden, which was protected by them. And when the Soviet Union also wanted to use this thing to build submarines, Sweden refused without hesitation! And can the resource advantage formed by such a technology be replaced by NATO's military spending?

After owning the left and right courtyards, in addition to being the largest number of peasants scattered throughout the Song Kingdom, Dai Yan had already won over all the elites of the entire Song Kingdom. Now that he is no exaggeration, it is no exaggeration to say that he has won the support of the really powerful people in the Song Kingdom! This kind of support represents the public opinion of the entire Song Kingdom, which is on his side!

Having public opinion is the most reasonable reason and the most legitimate Taoism! After that, he can use the support of the left and right courts to justifiably ascend to the throne of the Song Kingdom! Moreover, he also wanted to use this method to set an example for the later monarchs of the Song Kingdom: only the monarchs who have the support of the left and right courts can rule the entire Song Kingdom reasonably and legally!

The whole country was quietly taken by him on the road to a constitutional monarchy.

Just when Dai Yan was about to ascend the throne through public opinion, the situation in the whole world also changed drastically because of the end of the Song Civil War!