Chapter 1043: The Dust Settles

In an era of China, with the development of the industry, the society is more drought, and the old is manifested in culture, that is, the diversification of entertainment methods, and the radio as an important means of entertainment in the industrial age has been more and more valued by the people, as long as it is the pursuit of a modern lifestyle, will find a way to get a radio, even if the people who can't afford to buy a radio, they can also be in the teahouse, .

Since the advent of radio broadcasting, the speed of this news has been greatly accelerated, and in the past, the news of the day may not be reported until the next day, but now, as long as the radio station can freely broadcast the signal, the news and news of the day can be transmitted to every home and place with a radio on the same day.

Now, almost the country's radio is broadcasting the same news, and this news comes from the capital, the message is very brief, but the content is quite surprising, because according to this news, just last night, there was a military coup d'état in the capital, and the president and the heads of various ministries were once seized by the coup soldiers, but the central government reacted faster, and under the official vote of President Li Yuanhong, Zhao Zhenhua, a lifelong senator of the National Assembly, was named "Commander-in-Chief of the Army." The counterinsurgency force was quickly extinguished by a small number of troops from the Gyeonggi National Defense Forces and the Revolutionary Guards, a paramilitary armed force, which quickly put out the armed rebellion aimed at overthrowing the republican and constitutional system, and arrested a large number of suspects involved in the armed rebellion by 9 o'clock in the morning. The counterinsurgency fighting has officially ended, the situation in the capital has returned to normal, and although the state of military control has not yet been lifted, it is believed that it will not be long before traffic control will be lifted.

Undoubtedly, this news from the capital is quite shocking, because no one would have thought of it. There will be a sudden military coup d'état in this country at this time, and there is even the shadow of foreign mercenaries in it, this coup d'état is not only unthinkable by the people, but also by Li Yuanhong, the president of the Republic of China, and Gu Li Yuanhong also used the phrase "sudden" in his public speech to the people. This word shows the shock and hesitation of the democratically elected president.

Now, it is already afternoon, and Li Yuanhong's speech is still being broadcast on the radio, and this speech is not a pre-recorded speech, but a real-time speech, and President Li Yuanhong is speaking at the National Assembly building at this moment, and members of the National Assembly and ordinary citizens can hear Mr. President's speech at the same time. , Parliamentarians, Citizens. As the president of the Republic of China, Li thought that he was slightly inferior, but he was worried about the heavy burden on his shoulders and did not dare to slack off. If it weren't for the swift action of the National Defense Forces to extinguish the rebellion, I am afraid that there would be an unforeseen risk of accidents in China's republican form of government, and the constitutional system would also collapse and disappear.

At this moment, Li's mood is so heavy that he can't express it, he can only fight his spirit and make a complete plan. Now that the rebellion has been quelled, the rebels have been arrested and remediated, order has been restored in the capital, and the chaos has not spread to other places, the central government has now resumed normal operation, and the most important matter now is the aftermath. ”

President Le Yuanhong spoke on the radio for a long time, and finally the audience understood that the main content of his speech was actually two aspects: first, dealing with the rebels, and second, announcing the dissolution of the National Assembly.

These two small aspects seem to be unrelated, but in fact they are closely related and related to each other, because among those "rebels" who have been arrested or wanted, there are many current members of the National Assembly and important members of the government, and there are more than 50 people whose names have been clearly identified so far, including even such big figures as Tang Hualong, President of the Senate of the National Assembly, and Tan Yantian, Vice President of the Central Government, and there are hundreds of members of the National Assembly who are still being screened. If there is a problem with the quorum of the Congress, then there is really no need for the current Congress to exist. The best thing to do, of course, is to dissolve it and then re-elect the members of Congress.

However, after the official dissolution of this broken National Assembly and before the next National Assembly convenes, there is one more thing that must be resolved, and that is the question of the reorganization of the next National Assembly, which is not a small issue, but a big one, because according to the information obtained by the central government, one of the goals of the coup d'état is to prevent the National Assembly from passing a law on expanding the scope of voter selection.

The National Assembly is the highest legislative body of the country, whether it wants to expand the scope of voter selection or control the scope of voter selection, it must pass the National Assembly to carry out relevant legislation, but if the current Congress is dissolved by the president, then who should do the legislative work? It may be possible to wait until after the next National Assembly to resolve the issue of suffrage, but the current situation does not allow the central government to wait, for the simple reason that at noon today, after learning that the armed rebellion had been quelled, the petitioning veterans who had gathered around Gyeonggi regrouped again and began to march towards the capital. To solve the issue of veterans' suffrage, if the central government cannot immediately accede to the demands of the veterans, then they will "take the necessary means to defend civil rights."

Fortunately, the counterinsurgency forces carrying out military control tasks stopped the veterans' march in time, so that the petition team temporarily stayed on the outskirts of the capital, but no one knows how long this stalemate can last, after all, the active duty soldiers will also be discharged in the future, and the current veterans are not only petitioning for themselves, but also applying for the right to vote for these active duty soldiers. The Wehrmacht units were able to stop the excesses of their predecessors, but if the central government disappointed the active servicemen, it was difficult to guarantee that the morale of the military would not waver.

Veterans are eager to vote in the next presidential election, so they are demanding the right to vote.

In this way, the problem of the right to vote for the Mexican soldiers can only be solved.

Since President Li Yuanhong of the Republic of China has announced the dissolution of the current National Assembly, this supreme legislative organ will not be able to perform its duties, and even if it is not dissolved, the current National Assembly will not be able to perform the functions entrusted to it by the Constitution, because the number of members of the National Assembly is not enough for a quorum, and even if the session is reluctantly held, the laws passed are contrary to the spirit of the Constitution.

This is the current situation, the supreme legislature is dissolved, but a vital piece of legislation needs to be passed, which contradicts each other, what to do? I am afraid that the only way to find a compromise solution is to convene an "extraordinary Congress", and the "extraordinary Congress" is also allowed by the Constitution, which stipulates that the central government can dissolve the National Assembly in certain extreme cases and use the original members of the National Assembly to form an extraordinary National Assembly, as long as the number of members exceeds 100, the law passed by it is valid, but the validity period is only for a short period of one year, after which the law enacted by the Extraordinary National Assembly will automatically become invalid, and then the formal National Assembly will decide whether to renew or repeal the law, depending on the situation.

According to his opinion, after the current session of the National Assembly is officially dissolved, the members of the National Assembly who attended the hearing will hold a lottery ceremony on the spot to select 150 members of the National Assembly to form an extraordinary National Assembly to resolve the urgent issue of amending the law on suffrage.

Listeners in front of the radio naturally can't directly see the lottery scene in Congress, but they can imagine that in fact, their imagination is similar to reality, two words: chaos.

Of course, it was chaotic, although Li Yuanhong asked Prime Minister Tang Shaoyi to preside over the parliament, but Tang Shaoyi suddenly fell ill in the middle of the way. They were taken to the hospital, and then the order of the venue was chaotic, and the parliamentarians quarreled endlessly, firstly to hold the coup responsible, and secondly, to compete for the ballot box for the draw, and it was not easy to maintain order in the venue.

Looking at the chaos at the lottery scene, Li Yuanhong sighed, stepped off the podium, sat back on his chair, and said a few words to Zhao Bei, who was sitting there motionless.

"Zhenhua, in this way, you have to make a move. Otherwise, this face will not be able to be controlled. ”

"It's fine."

Zhao Bei nodded and stood up. After straightening the Wehrmacht general's uniform, he calmly walked up to the podium, first looked at the technicians in charge of the broadcast, signaled them to cut off the radio signal at the scene first, and then lifted the gong and struck it vigorously.

"Be small"

As soon as the gong sounded, the scene immediately quieted down, and the parliamentarians looked at the podium, and saw that the person who struck the gong was Zhao Bei, and couldn't help but look at each other. Now, the list of "rebels" has not yet been finalized, and no one dares to guarantee that the congressmen sitting in the conference hall of the Capitol have completely gotten rid of suspicion. Before the morning meeting, a lawmaker confronted Zhao Bei in the corridor, "Why did you arrest the vice president?" As a result, as soon as he finished speaking, he was taken down by the soldiers, saying that he was going to "screen" to see if the "coup d'état" had this experience, and who dared to defy Zhao Bei's authority? What's more, the president also supports Commander-in-Chief Zhao.

"Governing the troubled times, using heavy codes" This is a "basic principle" that Zhao Bei told everyone before the meeting was held just now, and now that the situation has just calmed down, it is indeed necessary to cut through the chaos quickly, Li Yuanhong's "good man" can't be counted on, so he can only count on the Commander-in-Chief Zhao, after all, if this chaos does not end as soon as possible, the interests of the majority of the people will be harmed, and the parliamentarians are no exception, especially most of them are still propertied classes, and what they are most afraid of is the turbulence of the situation.

Since the venue was quiet, Zhao Bei put down the gong, then cleared his throat and spoke to everyone.

"Ladies and gentlemen, they are all parliamentarians, not scoundrels in the market, this is the Congress, not the vegetable market, now everyone sits back, the ballot box is handed over to the Minister of Finance Wang, who holds the box, walks in front of whom, who draws lots, and those who win the lottery will take the sign to the rostrum here to register, and those who do not win the lottery will honestly sit in place, who will move. Whoever is suspected of being a rebel, in this extraordinary period, an extraordinary congress will be convened soon, and it is natural to practice extraordinary discipline, rather than misplace, the purpose of the rebels is to muddy the waters, and then fish in troubled waters, we must be more vigilant, we can't let them take advantage of loopholes, let alone let them fan the flames, now, order and discipline are the most important, I will be responsible for maintaining order and discipline here! ”

Now that the commander-in-chief has spoken, there is no objection from others, and at that moment, Finance Minister Wang Yongjiang took the ballot box from a senator with a blue nose and swollen face, and then, under the escort of Yang Du, walked to the corner of the venue with the ballot box in his arms, and asked the parliamentarians to draw lots in order to decide the list of members of the extraordinary congress.

The legislators were nervous, because they knew very well that once they were elected to the extraordinary Congress, they were unlikely to be "screened" as insurgents. After all, the number of non-congressmen is not large, and if a few more people are arrested and sent to the Ministry of Defense for "screening". Then no law should be amended.

In this state of mind, it is understandable why parliamentarians are rushing to grab the ballot box.

Zhao Bei stepped down from the podium, returned to his chair, and after sitting down, he said a few words to Li Yuanhong.

"Just quelling the armed resistance of the rebels is only the first step in counterinsurgency, and when this extraordinary parliament is formed, the dust will be settled."

"Yes, yes. The dust settled. ”

Li Yuanhong nodded again and again in agreement, and this position made Zhao Bei very satisfied. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the muscle call, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) )