Everyone longs for freedom and equality, but where there are people, there will be rules.

As the ancients said, there are no rules, and although it is contrary to the theory of equality of life to divide the citizens of the empire into three, six, nine, etc., it is a system that is consciously observed and highly respected by human beings who seek to enjoy better social treatment and social status.

In the years after the Ming Dynasty, everyone took this phenomenon for granted, some fought for the promotion of first-class citizens for life, and some did not dislike the poor and loved the rich and only chose husbands and concubines based on the rank of citizens.

And it just so happens that this system has allowed the entire super empire of the Ming Dynasty to last for a long time, because every level of citizens is maintaining the stability of the empire for their own privileges.

Military occupation of two-thirds of the world's land is a relatively simple matter, but the most difficult thing is how to successfully establish a stable order after becoming such a super-empire, and make such an empire sustainable for a long time.

The Ming Dynasty has now achieved this, first unifying the mainstream civilization through Sinicization education, secondly, establishing a civic hierarchy to clarify the identity and status of each human being, and then establishing a centralized power and governor's responsibility system so that the entire empire can have a book to follow and rules to follow.

The Chinese civilization was already good at managing a unified society, and even created the county system and the imperial examination system for this purpose, and now it is easy to manage such a super empire.

After the establishment and improvement of the imperial order, the entire Ming Empire began to develop rapidly, infrastructure construction and basic education investment promoted a sharp increase in the labor wealth of the society, and also led to the development of new technologies and new applications in the field of scientific research.

The electric age began to gradually enter the blowout stage, the internal combustion engine was successfully manufactured, the old version of the private locomotive was introduced, the train was gradually accelerated, and more railway trunk lines were laid.

With the further development of electrical application and material science, various new materials have been manufactured, which has promoted the rapid development of Daming biomedicine, machinery manufacturing and other industries.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao's Qianqing Palace could also see the gramophone, and there was a special photo team, which should have appeared in modern times, and now appeared in the Ming Dynasty in advance.

As the emperor, he can now take a special train directly from Shenyang to Guangzhou in the south, and he can even talk to Lu Xiangsheng, who has retired from the first assistant to the cabinet.

The current Ming Central Committee has become a system of joint responsibility between the emperor and the cabinet.

Basically, the chief assistant of the cabinet has full authority to handle all administrative matters, but is responsible to the emperor, and the first assistant of the cabinet is elected by the national citizen representative court, with a total of 1,000 votes, with the first-class citizens holding 700 votes, the second-class citizens having 200 votes, and the third-class citizens holding 100 votes.

Therefore, the policies of the candidates for the first and second class of the cabinet must basically be in line with the interests of the first-class citizens, and at the same time take into account the interests of the second-class and third-class citizens in order to become the first and second class of the cabinet.

The Emperor no longer dealt with day-to-day administrative and judicial matters, but remained the supreme commander of the army, with the right to veto the results of the election of the first and second ministers of the cabinet.

The judiciary is independent, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Criminal Department, and the Dali Temple are not responsible for the cabinet, and the main hall officials of the three law divisions are not allowed to concurrently serve as cabinet positions, but in order to show that they are not subject to the control of the cabinet, the main hall officials of the three law divisions will have the same grade as the cabinet ministers, and they are also appointed by the citizens to elect the emperor, of course, as the emperor also has a veto power.

As for the army, Zhu Youxiao strictly ordered the army not to do business, and established it as an iron law, and the military industrial enterprises or military-related transactions were operated by the royal capital, and dividends were distributed to officers and soldiers at all levels, so the lifeline of the major armies was controlled by the emperor.

The successor to the emperor is also appointed by the emperor himself and does not have to be elected.

Unless the emperor himself wants to do something and can immediately dictate and effectively implement the new policy, he can basically live a pampered life as an emperor, and the term of office of the first and second assistant of the cabinet is stipulated to be only four years, and he cannot be re-elected twice, so it is impossible to establish his own party and usurp the throne and stand on his own.

The first to become the first assistant to be elected by the court was Yang Sichang, an old guy who was almost eighty years old, and he relied on his prestige to overpower Zhang Dai, a master in the academic world.

However, Yang Sichang died in the third year, so that the election of the first assistant to the cabinet had to be advanced.

Although the policy of the Ming Dynasty's cabinet head and assistant elected by the citizens themselves has just been implemented, it has caused a great sensation among the people, after all, no one thought that one day they would be able to choose the fate of the head of an empire because of a vote in their hands.

As soon as the news of Yang Sichang's death was sent out by telegram, public opinion about who would be the next cabinet chief assistant meeting had already begun to heat up.

Zhu Youxiao appreciates this state of national participation in politics, which can make them feel more and more closely connected with the destiny of the country, and now these people are so active, which shows that they have accepted this model.

As for some people saying that many people are too selfish and only pay attention to the new Shoufu and forget to remember the old Shoufu, Zhu Youxiao is too lazy to care, this kind of moral criticism is just for the literati to find a sense of existence, and he is an emperor who doesn't need to care about these small things.

Zhu Youxiao also wished that he would have more cabinet chiefs and assistants in his last years as emperor, after all, this would enable him to explore a better way to cooperate with the emperor and the cabinet, and also better clarify their respective powers.

For example, whether the governor was accountable to the emperor or to the cabinet was a policy that cared about the fate of the empire.

Today's cabinet chief assistant is no more powerful than the previous chief assistant, and can directly appoint officials in the administrative field and can give orders, which has a great decisive effect on imperial policy.

However, generally speaking, the former cabinet chief assistant recommender, the cabinet deputy assistant or other cabinet ministers, as well as senior officials in the ministry and the academic circles, as well as the feudal officials, that is, the governors of various places, have a greater chance of being elected as the first assistant of the cabinet, although the common people are qualified, but because of the lack of political resources at their disposal, it is still more difficult to become one person under ten thousand people.

The votes are held by elected representatives of all fields and classes within all levels of citizens, and these people are also rarely commoners, either court officials or academic elites or business leaders, which is no way to do so, although the principle of the system is that citizens of the same class are equal, but it is difficult to maintain a gap in the social and political resources they have.

The army did not participate in elections, so there was no need to worry about anyone interfering with the army, unless the emperor himself wanted to interfere.