Chapter 164 ends

Qin Lei didn't speak, he looked at the two vindictive old men with a smile, and the room was a little embarrassed for a while.

Qiao Qipei and Zhuo Bingchen are both outstanding people on the ground in the south. I still don't understand the intention of the prince - if these two wooden boxes are opened, the two sides can indeed separate the male and female, but this beam will also be concluded.

Seeing that the expressions of the two were not so excited, Qin Lei spoke: "The three of you are all ambitious. I hope to play a greater role in the revival of the yamen and do more good things for the people in the south, right? ”

The two nodded, and said in their hearts, the prince spoke so tactfully.

As long as you nod your head, I'm most afraid that the two of you will stand up with their necks stiff. Qin Lei smiled and said, "I still remember the Qingmiao Banquet eight days ago. At that time, I thought, there are three good Bi united as one, what else is difficult to defeat this king in the south? ”

The anger in the hearts of the two gradually went down, and they knew that they had gone too far. But they were still silent, they knew that Qin Lei wanted to be with the mud, and finally let the two of them divide things equally. But they both think that they have the ability to overwhelm each other and win seven hundred shares, at least on an equal footing with Xu Chang.

Qin Lei was not in a hurry, but still said softly: "Seeing that the anger of the two of you has also disappeared, then let's discuss this matter calmly, right?" ”

The eyes of the two lit up, just thinking about how to grab 700 copies from it, but they ignored that this was exactly the right to speak.

Seeing that the two of them were a little enlightened, Qin Lei hit the railway while it was hot: "What the two of you want is to be equal to the Xu family." In the eyes of the Lone King, you already have this condition. ”

Qin Lei's strategic vision and ability to strategize during this period of time made the two of them admire. Now when he heard Qin Lei say this, he naturally said respectfully: "Please give me advice." ”

Qin Lei said with a smile: "The three of you originally planned to compete for two standing seats, but now the two of you have already won one. However, the Xu family is still three hundred shares short, and you must support it in order to get enough entrustment from the councilors and get another standing qualification. Obviously, as long as the two of you are united, the Xu family will look at your face. ”

The two old men just wanted to compete with each other, but they didn't think of the simple truth that cooperation is beneficial to both sides. It's not that the two are not smart enough, but because of the interests, people think that they can not suffer, but the other party is not willing to suffer? If they don't give in to each other, they often lose both sides and are taken advantage of by others.

When I hear it now, I can't help but open it. Zhuo Bingchen patted his thigh and said: "If we really fight for a high position, not to mention the heavy losses, the defeated side will definitely fall to the Xu family." Those who win like this still can't sit on an equal footing with the Xu family, and those who lose must also rely on others. It's a lose-lose situation. ”

Qiao Qipei also sighed: "Take a step back and open the sky." As soon as the prince analyzes something, it makes people feel transparent and not aggrieved at all. The old decay is completely convinced. "While being soft, he didn't forget to pat himself on the back, no wonder he could teach a governor's son.

said and smiled at Zhuo Bingchen: "Qi Pei can't compensate my brother, can't you be like me." Zhuo Bingchen also said apologetically: "It's my brother's fault, and I don't think it's strange to admire my brother." ”

"No blame, no blame......" Since the two have figured out the truth that cooperation is beneficial to both sides, and division is harmful, they are naturally reconciled as before, and even more intimate.

Qin Lei also looked at the two of them with a smile, his expression was very pleased.

When the two of them finished politely, they asked Qin Lei for specific ways to deal with it. Qin Lei smiled and said, "I think that the two of you will be jointly controlled, and you can take turns to sit in the village." In this way, anything can be discussed, and taking turns on the stage also forces those who sit in the village to not dare to help. ”

The two wooden boxes did not go downstairs, but they came down with two bad old men with smiles on their faces. Seeing their smiling and tightly knit appearances, the people around them who were waiting to see the excitement couldn't help but be disappointed.

They just ruined their fun, and one of them was as bad as eating a fly. Xu Chang, who had already reacted to the taste, was whispering to Xu Guochang in the box: "They actually don't fight? What a real idiot! ”

Xu Guochang, who looked innocent, slandered: "People are fighting, you scold people for being stupid." Now that people don't fight, you still scold people for being stupid? So how can you be satisfied? ”

At this time, Zhuo Wenzheng in the audience announced that Zhuo Qiao and the two families finally reached an understanding and shared 500 shares of the right to speak. At this point, the bidding meeting in the morning was all over. After lunch, there will be an hour's rest for the first plenary meeting of the General Assembly.

According to the flow chart in the booklet, the organizers will provide lunch for the 184 families entering the council. Before the meeting ended, a servant dressed in green clothes delivered a beautiful menu to each participant.

After a tense morning, these freshly baked big and small councilors were really a little hungry. When they opened the light blue menu, they saw that there were eight dishes to choose from on this four-fold page. The first side is Jingxiang cuisine, the back is the most popular Western Qin cuisine in Daqin, and then what are Huaiyang cuisine, Southern Chu cuisine, Eastern Qi cuisine, Zhongdu cuisine and so on, almost including the most famous cuisines of the Three Kingdoms. There are twenty or thirty classic dishes for you to taste in each cuisine.

Food is divided into regions, but these gentry who live at the top of society are not subject to this restriction. After tasting all the world's cuisines, they often prefer one or a few dishes that suit their tastes. At this time, seeing that the organizers were so well prepared, these family owners naturally felt comfortable. Find a few dishes you like and fill in the blanks at the back of the menu.

After you have decided on your own recipe and then choose the drink, there are seven or eight small questions, such as whether the taste is heavy or light, whether you eat spicy, slightly spicy or spicy, and there are no taboo things. After answering these questions, there is a blank space below that can be written if anyone has any special requirements.

Everyone filled in the list with great interest and handed it back to the waiter in Tsing Yi, so that they could walk around at will and breathe, or they could go to the tea room next door to eat some snacks and drink some tea and wait for lunch in a quarter of an hour.

The big councilors in the box on the second floor can naturally enjoy higher treatment, but they all gave up without exception, and they all hurried downstairs and walked to the small councillors, pulling their feelings and talking about homely things, even the four governors were no exception.

After all, in the future, the majority system will be adopted, and no one side will gain an absolute advantage. At that time, it is very likely that there will be a situation in which the big deliberations will not be able to hold each other, but will have to rely on the support of the small deliberations to achieve a majority of the majorities. Therefore, if you can get more support for deliberations, you will have more chances of winning.

Looking at their descending figures, Qin Lei in the box was a little relieved, although it couldn't change the situation that a few people decided the direction of the yamen, but these big councilors also had to bend down, listen to the voices of the small councilors, and consider their feelings.

"Good job, much better than Yiyantang." Qin Lei praised himself softly, poured a glass of grape wine from the Western Regions, and raised his glass to toast himself.

As the man at the top of the South, he knew the importance of maintaining a sense of mystery in front of the lower levels. Guan Tao mentioned several times in his almost daily letters that being too close to those around him would lead to contempt, and that being too familiar with the lower class would make it difficult to establish majesty. Although he didn't say it directly, Qin Lei could also understand that Guan Tao was a euphemistic criticism of his former martial arts style that did not distinguish between dignity and inferiority.

So now a lot of the time, he is quietly savoring loneliness. I'd rather stay on the stilted floor of Qingcui Villa all day than go to the camp of the black-clothed guards like before, compete with them for wine, and brag about the sea.

Qin Lei didn't know if his change was right or not, but he believed in Guantao, and even more believed that character determines fate. If he doesn't want to appear like a comet and disappear like a comet, he has to change, no matter how painful the process is.

A gentle knock on the door interrupted Qin Lei's thoughts, and he leaned his neck to drink the blood-colored wine in the moonlight cup, and then said in a low voice: "What's the matter?" ”

Shi Dang's voice came: "Lord Wang, it's time for dinner." ”

There was an hour's break after lunch, and by the time the room was filled again, it was already the end of the day.

At this point, there was a slight change in the layout of the venue, and the big tables on the table were removed in favor of a row of long tables covered with blue velvet tablecloths. Looking at the nameplate on the table, you can know that the prince will bring all the big people to participate in the meeting.

Sure enough, after a while, a sound of "His Royal Highness the King of Longjun has arrived at the ......" sounded, and everyone knelt down to salute. The radiant Qin Lei appeared at the gate surrounded by several governors.

After a brief lecture, the first meeting of the revival yamen finally began. The main purpose of this meeting was to vote for the election of the ten standing members of the Board of Directors and the five supervisors of the Board of Supervisors. Then vote on the authority of the Board of Directors and the Board of Supervisors. And, most importantly, the review of counterinsurgency and post-war reconstruction plans.

Of course, before the vote on these major issues, a vote will be taken on issues of less important importance, such as the timing of the assembly and the location of the headquarters of the revival yamen.

In fact, as long as there is no disagreement among the big councilors sitting on the stage, every bill can be passed quickly, and it is an absolute majority.

And because it was the first meeting, almost all the proposals were put forward by Qin Lei in person or at the behest of other major discussions, and those who did not open their eyes dared to vote against. As a result, eight decisions were adopted in a row.

With regard to the time of convening the General Assembly, the meeting decided to hold it twice a year, once on the first day of the sixth month and once on the first day of the lunar month, and if the General Assembly, the Board of Supervisors, or more than half of the deliberations deem it necessary, the General Assembly shall convene an extraordinary general meeting within one month from the date of receipt of the application, and the effect shall be the same as that of the regular general meeting.

The headquarters of the Fuxing Yamen is tentatively located in Jingzhou Prefecture in Jiangbei, but it is stipulated that as long as any prefecture has ranked first among the 28 prefectures in the south in terms of comprehensive assessment indicators for five consecutive years, it can apply to welcome the headquarters of the Fuxing Yamen back to this prefecture.

After these trivial issues have been voted on, the highlight of the day will be ushered in - the election of the Standing Committee of the Council.

According to the resolution previously passed, as long as the councillors can muster up a full vote, they are eligible to nominate a candidate, and after half of the votes are passed, they can enter the council and become one of the ten standing members.

Like Qin Lei and the two provincial governments, who have 20% of the right to speak on matters, they can nominate a total of six standing councilors. The Xu family can naturally nominate one, and the Qiao Zhuo family can jointly nominate one.

Because there must be ten standing councillors, if the remaining standing councils cannot reach a consensus and cannot gather the right to speak, two of them will be elected by the council or council with the highest share. This is also the reason why Xu Chang didn't worry too much when he saw the Zhuo family and the Xu family uniting. There were two thousand copies, and he had seven hundred of them, so there would never be two more than his share anyway. So their family also got a standing seat.

However, this kind of insufficient promotion always makes people feel a little lacking in confidence. How could the first house in the South, which had a long reputation, be accepted by the favor of others to enter the council. Therefore, when Xu Chang was taking a lunch break, he still asked Zhuo Bingchen and Qiao Qipei to help, find those vassals and close discussions, and put together a full thousand copies.

Compared with the first nine, the selection of the last standing seat will be much more laborious. For no other reason, none of the 140 councillors had more than 50 rights. Fortunately, after the tandem communication of many people last night, there are two parties that have obvious advantages. One is the drama writers of Jingzhou Mansion, they themselves have fifty rights to speak, and then contact several Jingzhou Mansions to discuss matters and make up 100 rights.

The other is the five gates of Tangzhou Mansion that were in the limelight in the morning, and they also have 50 rights to speak together, plus other matters in Tangzhou, they also have 100 rights to speak.

And these councillors were not willing to represent their own standing committee to get the support of a hundred votes, so they submitted to the General Assembly for a caucus. The winner will be supported by all a thousand copies.

So these two parties nominated a candidate, the drama family recommended their head Xi Zhi Gongde, and the five Tang Men recommended the black Chai Shifang.

Maybe Jingzhou Mansion is too showy, other mansions are a little unconvinced, maybe Chai Shifang is more impressive. In the end, the election result was one-sided, and Chai Shifang received 775 votes of support, far exceeding the 225 votes of Xi Zhi Gongde.

Chai Shifang became the representative of the 140 standing councilors and the 1,000 voices of the right to speak.

After each of them was elected, the unanimous vote was just a formality. All ten candidates are approved, followed by the election of the Chamber, which is elected on the spot by the elected ten members of the Standing Committee and approved by a two-thirds majority of the General Assembly.

Qin Lei chose Xue Naiying and the head of the Xiangyang bus family, the bus dealer, as the standing committee on behalf of the royal family. The bus family is the in-law of the Shen family, and it is mentioned on the list given by Mr. Shen.

Since Qin Lei has already promised the status of the three families in the south, it is not easy to compete for this correct position. And as long as Qin Lei is in the south for a day, the entire revival yamen will listen to him. Therefore, the future council bureau will only be produced in Xu Qiaozhuo's three families.

Xu Chang recommended Xu Guochang and Qiao Zhuo, and Qiao Yuanshan's younger brother Qiao Yuanhe was recommended. Because Qiao Zhuo's two families were too close to the southern government, Qin Lei chose Xu Guochang.

The representatives of the governors of the two provinces are their respective subordinate officials, how dare these people disobey the will of the boss of the top boss, plus the honest Xu Qianshan, Qin Lei's words are the final opinion.

The black-bellied manager of the Xu family became the first director of the Council.

Next up are the five supervisors of the Board of Supervisors, and in principle, these five people cannot be concurrently held by the members of the Standing Committee, so these major councilors have no share.

The responsibilities of the supervisors include supervising the daily operation of the Yamen, supervising the financial status of the Yamen, and supervising the power of the Council to act on behalf of the General Assembly. Naturally, they can attend the meetings of the council as observers and check the accounts of the yamen at will, which is undoubtedly a blessing for the small councillors, who account for the vast majority of the people but have a small share.

Qin Lei's original intention of setting up the board of supervisors was also to check and balance the big deliberations and protect the interests of the small deliberations.

The election took a long time and took an hour to complete.

This is the last three items of the First Assembly. I have to say that because of Qin Lei's existence, there was almost no dispute in the meeting, everything was going on quickly and orderly, and the atmosphere was still very harmonious.

One is about the rights and obligations of the General Assembly of the Board of Supervisors, the other is about the rights and obligations of the Council, and the other is about the Southern Restoration and Rejuvenation Plan.

These things were all sent to the hands of the councilors during the lunch break, and Qin Lei also wrote them in a relatively simple way. In addition, after a one-day meeting, these pampered old men were exhausted, so at this time, they were all unanimously approved by just going through the motions.

When the meeting was over and the councillors walked out of the hall, a brilliant cloud of fire could still be seen in the west.

It's just that I don't know if His Royal Highness King Longjun, who just finished celebrating 'not a word hall' at noon, will punish himself again in the evening.