Chapter 0146: Zhang Rumei's New Mission
At this time, in Xu Lie's system, in terms of influence, Yuan Yong has been reduced to the second position in the civil and official department. The first place in the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion has been replaced by Zhang Rumei.
The Qing court took two counties out and wanted to exchange them for twenty people, but at the last moment, Zhang Rumei expressed her willingness to stay in Yimeng District and do what she could.
Xu Lie naturally welcomed this 100%. Through his relationship with Zhang Rumei, Xu Lie thought that this was a powerful character who was old and strong, although he was nearly sixty years old, he was still in good health. There is an organization in Yimeng District, and Xu Lie has not been established, the main reason is that he sent someone to take the lead. That body is the Consultative Bureau.
In the original time and space, the Manchu government set up advisory bureaus in the year of Xuantong, and the power of local advisory bureaus was still very large. Its duties and powers are mainly to supervise and deliberate on the work of local governments and the integrity of public servants.
In the original time and space, the Consultative Bureau was originally an institution under the framework of constitutionalism, which was prepared for the constitution of the whole country. As a result, the local councils are dominated by constitutionalists and are controlled by constitutionalists.
At the time when Xu Lie established the Consultative Bureau, the constitutional movement had not yet risen, and in the territory of the Dragon Kingdom, except for a very small number of intellectuals who knew the meaning of the constitution, ordinary people really did not know what it was.
What is Constitutionalism? For Xu Lie, this question also tends to be profound. Therefore, Xu Lie generally told Zhang Rumei about the affairs of the Consultative Bureau, and then threw some constitutional information of various countries, especially some information of the Consultative Bureau in the following years, to him, and asked Zhang Rumei to find some old literati in the countryside to study and study the charter of the Consultative Bureau first.
However, Xu Lie made it clear that the constitution is a long-term plan, and the top priority is to set up an advisory bureau or similar body, and at the same time put the Legislative Council, the Supervisory Bureau, the Audit Bureau and other institutions under the advisory system.
At the same time, Xu Lie also made special requirements for the composition of the advisory body, which was roughly divided into four parts: one part was traditional scholars, the second part was Western scholars, the third part was industrial and commercial representatives, and the fourth part was the gentry.
Traditional scholars, such as Zhang Rumei, who have achieved the fame of Jinshi or his literary fame, in short, are famous in a country or a place. The premise is that the person who becomes a member of the council must be a person who has resigned, because the member of the council is an "official" in his own right.
The intellectuals of Western studies are composed of people who teach or do research in new schools or people who run businesses and businesses.
Representatives of industry and commerce, this does not need to be specified.
The representatives of the gentry are, in fact, also representatives of the countryside and peasants. The traditional countryside and countryside of the Dragon Kingdom have always been difficult to make a voice in the officialdom, and Xu Lie must work hard to change this status quo.
In other words, Xu Lie seems to have formed an advisory bureau or advisory committee based on a "sector", similar to ZX in the original space-time. However, Xu Lie was sure that the advisory committee he was going to set up was different from the ZX of the original time and space.
The biggest difference is that the ZX of the original time and space is basically a collection of officials, for example, a certain agricultural committee member, in fact, is from an official like the director of the agricultural bureau of a certain city, of course, there are also pure farming and breeding households, but such people, even in the agricultural sector, will not exceed one-tenth, but just an embellishment.
It is particularly worth noting that Xu Lie chose the representative of the squire here instead of the peasant representative, because the peasants at this time were basically illiterate, and if the illiterate peasants were to participate in government affairs, it seemed to be a bit difficult for a strong man. But the squires are different, in the Dragon Kingdom, the squires are intellectuals living in the countryside, they may not be involved in agricultural work, but most of them also know about farming, after all, the basis of their family's survival is the land.
Of course, with the increase in the literacy rate of peasants, the proportion of peasants in the pure peasant advisory committee, especially at the county level, will gradually increase.
Could it be that Xu Lie wants to engage in the Mississixi country's political model? The answer is no. In this regard, Yang Reform also made a special statement that although some so-called public knowledge in the original time and space made a lot of trouble and said this and that, even those public knowledge in their bones would not necessarily agree that the Dragon Kingdom must copy the secret country model.
In fact, the state system of the Esoteric State is inimitable because it originated in the thirteen colonies of North America. The representatives of the thirteen colonies sat together and prepared to form a Great Secret State, can you imagine that other systems can be adopted in addition to the current system of the Great Secret Kingdom? For example, the Tai Wu system, or the Rhine system?
As for the Dragon Kingdom, all dynasties and dynasties are collective, because if the Dragon Kingdom does not have a centralized system, it will be a plate of scattered sand, for example, in the original time and space, if it is really like the Secret Kingdom, then some areas of the Dragon Kingdom may have established a separate country long ago.
From the perspective of the traverser, the core of the Dragon Kingdom problem does not lie in this form of power, but in the essence of power, that is, what status the major social strata enjoy in this national system and what kind of well-being they can obtain! In Xu Lie's view, this is something far more important than the form of power.
Because of the successive dynasties of the Dragon Kingdom, even in the original time and space, some of the main classes of the Dragon Kingdom were still abandoned groups in the social system, and they were excluded from the basic welfare of society in almost several generations of time and space. Even later, with the so-called such and such gold, the social security payment of the urban elderly is generally more than 1,000 yuan per month, while the rural elderly are between 50 and 60 yuan per month (different places).
Therefore, the most important thing in this country is the integration of people's welfare, even if some people live in the deep mountains and no man's land, the state has the obligation to deliver this welfare to the people's homes.
Much of the credit for the success of the secret or Nordic countries should also be due to this welfare system, not to the so-called noisy political games.
Can the Dragon Kingdom engage in benefits similar to those of the West? Some people worry that the population base of the Dragon Kingdom is too large to come up with that kind of welfare system. In fact, this kind of worry is completely unnecessary. The people of Longguo have a mentality, that is, "do not suffer from poverty but suffer from inequality", and as social managers, they can make the necessary application of this psychology.
In the original time and space, there was a long time of poor egalitarianism, and later there were people who summoned the soul of that era; And for a period of time after that, some people were encouraged to get rich first, and it can't be said that this idea is wrong, if the dragon country wants to develop, it is really necessary to take this road, but when emphasizing the first rich, it ignores the psychology of the people, so new problems emerge one after another.
At that time, if the state had slowed down a little and noticed the issues of fairness and efficiency earlier, it might have been less troublesome, and the welfare of ordinary people might have been better.
At this point, it cannot be said that the form of power is not important, and when solving the problem of the essence of power, there should also be a corresponding form of power, otherwise, it will be difficult for society to be stable for a long time.
Because of this, Xu Lie established the supervisory power of the Advisory Committee. Xu Lie's task for Zhang Rumei was to determine a general principle in terms of how to supervise, the intensity and scope of supervision.
After Zhang Rumei got this task, she was immediately so excited that she was incoherent. Because he knows that this is a groundbreaking event for the Dragon Kingdom, as long as he does this thing well, then he will definitely become a famous figure in history.