After the recovery of Tibet and Outer Mongolia, the administrative provinces of East China have expanded to 18 provinces, and the western Pacific Ocean is still composed of three islands, plus Nauru, which is about to be leased to China by the British.

The administrative aspects are starting to get complicated, and it used to be much easier to manage three or four provinces, but now there are more provinces and more problems.

The situation in each province is different, and there are naturally many problems.

In terms of administration, Xia Jun is planning to make the following gradually boil.

The administrative system of the East China political axe is the same as that of later generations, which is a liuguan system.

There are many drawbacks to the system of rogue officials, for example, when this leader comes to power, he completely negates the plan of the previous leader. Or as soon as they come to power, they will brag about it and carry out all kinds of major projects, but they will not be able to do it during their term of office anyway, and whether the project funds will be sufficient and whether the project will be reasonable after leaving office is a matter for the next leader.

In order to circumvent this drawback, Xia Jun still implemented the accountability system at night before, but the problem of the system of flowing officials has not been completely solved.

In order to solve this problem, Xia Jun plans to adopt an electoral system and a system of appointing officials.

For example, if there is a county or a city, as long as the economy develops to a certain level, or the quality of citizens reaches a certain level, then there will be elections.

Prefectural governors and mayors are elected and can be re-elected until the age of 45 as long as they win the hearts of the people, after which the executive will retire or move to other positions.

Retiring at the age of 45 is Xia Jun's resistance to old man politics, and such a system can allow more young people with ideas and energy to take office, maintain enough administrative vitality, and the younger people are, they can better keep up with the thinking and behavior habits of the new generation.

Xia Jun wants to engage in reading, not to completely abandon the open boiling, the local open cooking can be carried out, before Xia Jun has carried out the township level administration open cooking, these years have also achieved remarkable results.

Although there have been many chaotic phenomena in the process of popularizing the township open boiling system, under the continuous supervision and correction over the years, many provinces have completed the township open cooking.

The township council is an institution that emerged through the open boiling method, and the East China political axe is sincere in carrying out this open boiling system, so now the various systems are very perfect.

Now that the township has completed the process of open boiling, the county and city levels can also carry out open cooking.

At the same time, the East China Central Committee appointed a secretary, who was mainly responsible for implementing the central policy, whether it was now or in the past, and was also responsible for supervising the administration of the county magistrate and mayor, but only had the right to report, and did not have the power to directly interfere with the administration.

Citizens not only have the right to vote, but also have the right to veto the secretary of the county party committee and the secretary of the municipal party committee, that is, if they do not do well, they will get out, and then the central government will send another one down until they are satisfied.

Counties and cities will also form councils, but there are some differences from township councils.

When the county and city level have completed the boiling, they can also go to the next level to carry out the provincial boiling, and the governor can also be elected in the future.

However, at present, the development of the provinces is very uneven, such as the first three provinces of East China, which have popularized the township council system very well at this time.

In provinces such as those that have just been brought under administrative jurisdiction, the township council system is still being popularized.

Meals should be eaten one bite at a time, and it is easy to talk about eggs if the steps are too big, especially in the current situation where the quality of the people is generally not very high.

The people generally do not understand what an election is, so it is necessary to link it to education, and to cultivate students' awareness of cooking in education.

At the same time, elections should be held in areas where the conditions for elections are available.

In terms of provincial elections, Xia Jun is more cautious, which can be regarded as a strategic buffer! I was played with the center of the torch and burned it.

It is completely feasible for counties and cities to carry out open-boiled elections, which is not in conflict with his system of reading talents, and in the end, it is inevitable that they will move towards open-boiled in an all-round way.

Of course, within the administrative scope of the Ba'ath Party, if those opposition parties want to compete with the Ba'ath Party, the probability of winning is very slim, but there will always be some examples of victories, and as long as those opposition parties have the right mentality, they will also achieve some remarkable results over time.

If the counties and cities are in chaos, the East China Central Committee can stop it at any time.

At the same time, Xia Jun was also thinking about placing administrative personnel in the provinces under the rule of the Beiyang political axe, so as to realize the unification of government decrees in disguise.

At present, there are only 11 provinces under the administrative control of Beiyang Political Axe, Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi, Gansu, Tuyuan, Chahar, Rehe, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Kangxi (a province in the western mountainous area of Sichuan, a province during the Republic of China), which is far lower than the 18 provinces of East China.

At the same time, there are two provinces in the southwest, namely Guangxi and Guizhou.

At this time in China, there are still thirteen provinces that are not included in the jurisdiction of East China's political axe, among these thirteen provinces, three can also be removed, Rehe, Tuyuan, Chahar is the Inner Mongolia of later generations, and the Kangxi region is also within the scope of Sichuan in later generations, which is equivalent to ten provinces.

The first thing to do was to assimilate the Beiyang political axe, and Xia Jun immediately published an article in the "Fuxing Daily" entitled "On the Reform Process of Mingzhuo and the Problem of the National System".

The article revealed that East China Political Axe will let the provinces that have completed the improvement of the township council system carry out the county and city election system in the coming period, and let the provinces that have not completed the popularization of the township council system popularize it as soon as possible.

On the issue of the national system, Xia Jun pointed out that after five years of development experiments, the East China Autonomous United Political Axe has confirmed that the system adopted is in line with China's development line, and hopes to solicit public opinion and whether the central government will accept a series of laws and systems such as the "East China Constitution" and the "East China Criminal Law".

If it was before, Xia Jun's behavior would be a big rebellion, but now no one questions Xia Jun's behavior, and everyone can see that the most powerful people in China are not Li Yuanhong and Duan Qirui, but the young and strong Chairman Xia of East China Political Axe.

As soon as this article was published, it immediately aroused tremendous repercussions, and various newspapers and weekly magazines reprinted it one after another, and public opinion was generally supportive of the process of making it clear.

At present, the quality of China's people is not too high, and the eastern-earth political axe's slowly planned open-boiled route has been widely supported and welcomed by all sectors of society.

They support it because the current administrative management of East China's political axe is in place, the social contradictions are extremely low, the ethnic unity is unprecedented, and the agriculture and industry are unprecedentedly prosperous.

The East China political axe took the initiative to carry out the reform of open cooking, which is also in line with the current public opinion, and the people naturally welcome the open cooking, and this compromise method is safe, so it is warmly welcomed.

In terms of the state system, all the provinces in East China are in favor of allowing the central government to accept the system of East China's autonomous joint political axe, which is seen by current affairs commentators in many newspapers as "the pace of peaceful reunification between the north and the south of China." ”

If the Beiyang political axe accepts the various systems of the East China political axe, then the people of the eleven provinces under the jurisdiction of the Beiyang political axe will also be able to enjoy many benefits.

But politically speaking, the Beiyang political axe will become very passive.

Because many of the systems of East China's political axe are very harsh, they are not systems for the interests of the ruling class, and accepting this system is equivalent to having no possibility of making profits, and corruption and so on will be punished very severely.

Xia Jun proposed at this time that the Beiyang political axe accepted the East China system, mainly for the consideration of the people in the provinces under the jurisdiction of Beiyang, and it was too deformed to develop like this, Xia Jun's purpose of retaining the Beiyang political axe was mainly a political surname, but the development and management of those provinces was a problem.

After a long time, there will be problems left over from history, and by then the provinces under the rule of East China will be very prosperous, while the provinces under the rule of Beiyang will not develop much.

Moreover, Xia Jun is trying to make a puppet political axe, so he naturally wants to gradually grasp the administrative power of Beiyang in his own hands.

If you want to assimilate the Beiyang political axe, it is naturally not possible to mention it directly, so isn't Xia Jun just soliciting public opinion!

Public opinion is high, that is, to comply with public opinion, Xia Jun has a good reason!

It's not easy to get public opinion, what Xia Jun lacks most now is the support of public opinion, and he naturally responds to every call.

…… On 13 April, Xia Jun put forward a comprehensive reform request to the Beiyang political axe on the grounds of conforming to public opinion and the development of various provinces, and put forward nearly 300 reform items related to large and small. These include changing the East China Constitution to the Constitution of the Republic of China and deepening the East China Constitution.

Beiyang Political Axe has also released rumors before that it may accept reform.

At this time, the Beiyang political axe has no strength to compete with the East China political axe, as long as Xia Jun says a word, the Beiyang political axe can be disbanded immediately, and there are many people who want to throw themselves into the arms of the East China political axe.

In fact, Duan Qirui already belongs to the category of compromising with Xia Jun, the Beiyang political axe is a puppet as a whole, and Li Yuanhong is a puppet among puppets.

On the same day, Duan Qirui directly announced to the outside world that he would fully accept the requirements of the East China Autonomous United Political Axe to carry out the reform of the national system, and the national system reform did not involve the main presidential and parliamentary systems, and the others copied the system of the East China Political Axe.

Li Yuanhong's attitude in this regard is also in favor of reform, after all, he and Xia Jun are still reasonable in friendship, and as a puppet president, such a reform has nothing to lose to him, but is beneficial.

The reaction of the Beiyang political axe was so crisp, it was beyond the expectations of many people, people actually didn't know that Duan Qirui's Beiyang political axe had compromised with the East China political axe, although it still had the name of the central government, but it was just a puppet.

Beiyang political axe agreed to reform, then the next reform is roughly that the administrative staff of Beiyang political axe will be trained before taking up their posts, East China political axe is responsible for the training of these administrative personnel, and in view of the lack of administrative experience under the new system of Beiyang political axe, East China political axe will send administrative personnel to serve as administrative positions in the provinces under the jurisdiction of Beiyang administration.

After accepting the reform, the Beiyang political axe will achieve ideological unity with the East China political axe in the future, so that as far as the whole country is concerned, most of the reunification has been completed, and in the future it will only be a struggle over the division of power, not a military struggle.

At this time, the encroachment policy of the East China political axe on the Beiyang political axe has changed from local encroachment to internal blatant encroachment, and the Beiyang political axe, as a puppet at this time, is gradually retreating.

This situation has confused most people and do not understand the reason for the current phenomenon, because many things do not seem so logical, but they seem to make sense.

Some parties also came back to their senses at this time, and some people even shouted that the parliament that made them happy may actually be a puppet even in the whole of Beiyang, so the parliament is naturally nothing, no wonder the East China political axe has never been involved in the affairs of the congress.

The Ba'ath Party has never been in Congress since its creation.

Previously, when Yuan Shikai was in power, the Baath Party did not have the slightest interest in the Congress, and the facts proved that such an attitude was extremely correct, and the Congress during the Yuan Shikai period was just an ornament, which was useless at all.

At this time, the Baath Party was not yet involved in Congress, which is a bit intriguing.

The Baath Party, as the largest party in China and the main ruling party, has taken control of China's discourse, but they do not participate in the Congress, which means that the Congress is still in name and has no real meaning.

Many people have figured out the doorway, in terms of the power and prestige of the East China political axe, it is just a matter of one sentence to let the Beiyang political axe be dissolved, and the reason why the Beiyang political axe is retained, the focus is on this parliament that makes them happy.

If the Beiyang political axe is dissolved, then they will inevitably compete for power with the Ba'ath Party, or they will hold demonstrations everywhere, and it is better to give them a useless parliamentarian to do for them.

This is a phenomenon that the East China political axe intends to exclude them from the center of power, but in terms of the current situation, they really do not have much say in the current situation.

In fact, the two political axes of China's Beiyang and East China have been unified in disguise.

However, what makes these parties feel a little comforted is that the political axe in East China is in the process of being boiled, and the counties and cities will enter the electoral system one after another for a period of time in the future.

Soon, a major event touched the nerves of the whole of China.

That is, the great powers will return the concessions, the Tianjin Concession, the Shanghai Concession, the Xiamen Concession, the Hankou Concession, and so on, and these concessions will be returned to China.

At the same time, some of the shares in the railways will also be returned to China.

Britain and France have done all the work of the other countries, and there is no suspense about the return of the concessions.

At this time, China has truly achieved the status of a great power, but it has still not achieved the status of a great power. The so-called status of a great power is the level of having the power to intervene in the world situation.

This is exciting news~!

Xia Jun soon attended the ceremony of the return of the Shanghai Concession, after which the first shipment of goods was issued to them with the loans needed by Britain and France.

These loans were used to buy goods from China, not directly to Britain and France.

The Russians were not very clear about this situation until now, and while they were puzzled by the sudden request of the Entente to Russia to withdraw from the Chinese concessions, they also felt that it was indeed necessary to withdraw from the concessions.

After all, China was already strong at this time, and putting the concession on other people's land would intensify the contradictions. Germany had already returned the concession to China long ago, and the railways had already been redeemed.

Germany was at this time in a hot war with the Allies, and these railway shares could be used to buy arms, so they were naturally on the list of the first batch of overseas asset sales for Germany.

Basically, at this time, except for the railways controlled by Belgium, other foreign-funded railways have basically been recovered, but Belgium is no longer in the climate.

At this time, Belgium has been destroyed by Germany, for Belgian banks, Xia Jun is asking people to negotiate with them, it is estimated that it will not take long to redeem, and the price is naturally not high.

Shi Liangcai, chairman of the board of directors of the "Declaration", commented: "Since the second year of the Republic of China, the East China political axe has taken back part of the customs, and the East China political axe has successively recovered all the customs, and now it has recovered most of the concessions and most of the railways, China has broken away from the ranks of colonial countries, and gradually recovered China's sovereignty, we have reason to believe that the East China political axe can do better in the future." ”

The "News" focused on reporting and analyzing the railways, believing that in the coming time, the freight rates of the railways built by the great powers in China will be greatly reduced, because the East China Political Axe has already obtained the controlling stake and pricing power of these shares.

As far as these domestic newspapers are concerned, the news newspaper used to be ranked below the Fuxing Daily and ranked second in sales, because many of the people who would read the newspaper in the early days of the Republic of China were businessmen, and they were naturally indispensable to newspapers such as the news newspaper that reported business news.

But with the development of education, the number of non-businessman cultural groups has skyrocketed, and gradually developed the habit of reading newspapers, after all, there are not too many entertainment projects in these years, although there are also nightclubs and the like, but not everyone will go to that place, in terms of cultural and entertainment projects, reading newspapers is a way taken by more and more intellectuals. Therefore, the circulation of the newspaper "News" was gradually surpassed by the "declaration", and the circulation fell to the third place.

However, at this time, the business atmosphere in the provinces of East China is strong, and it is no problem for the news newspaper to maintain the third place in sales.

At this time, Europe was at war, and the East China political axe was also at war with Yueben, and now it has recovered Tibetan Province and Outer Mongolia.

Fuxing Bao still holds the top spot, with five times the circulation of the Declaration, with a circulation of 16 million copies per day.

Newspapers played an important role in Chinese education at this time, and students in the third grade of primary school were going to start teaching current affairs, and they had one lesson a day.

The teachers of the current affairs class are professional teachers, and every day the Ministry of Education will list the topics discussed with the students in the current affairs class, and then send the opinions to them, and the teachers of the current affairs class will teach according to the teaching materials issued every day.

The focus of the current affairs course is to cultivate students' correct moral qualities and correct views on various issues, and to strengthen their national consciousness and rejuvenation mission.

It doesn't matter if your grades are almost there, you must pass current affairs classes, history classes, and moral qualities.

(To be continued)