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As the king of the revival of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Jishi made a five-year covenant in front of Zhu Yuanzhang's spiritual throne, but it was extremely serious. is not only to obtain the ashes of three people, but to level the world in five years, and to take back a complete Ming dynasty in five years! If you count the two years from 1847 to the present, Zhu Jishi took seven years at most to recapture the Ming Dynasty, which is less than half of the 14 years that Zhu Yuanzhang seized the world. There are children and grandchildren like this, and they should comfort Zhu Hongwu's spirit in the sky.

However, for Zhu Jishi, the five-year contract is really not short, if he goes all out to fight the country, he is sure that he will sweep away the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Manchu Qing within two years. However, the country that has been laid down in this way has no foundation for long-term peace and stability, and is just another feudal dynasty.

With 150 years of knowledge in later generations, Zhu Jishi knew the inevitable fate of the feudal dynasty, a short-lived Later Ming Dynasty was not what Zhu Jishi wanted, and it was not what Zhu Yuanzhang's spirit in the sky wanted to see.

Therefore, on the third day of the memorial to the tomb of filial piety, Zhu Jishi went all out to lay the foundation of the Ming Dynasty - the formulation of the "King James Constitution" and the beginning of the Constituent Assembly.

And the constitution and the parliament are two different things in the eyes of later generations. A constitution is a constitution, and a parliament is a parliament. Although countries with constitutions have a parliament, they have a parliament or a parliament-like legislature. However, in the eyes of some Chinese politicians in 1849, the mission of the Constituent Assembly was only to establish a constitution, and the important military affairs in the future should be decided by the cabinet and the Son of Heaven.

So on May 3, 1849, when the Constituent Assembly of the Ming Dynasty began to discuss the final draft of the King James Constitution. The most controversial question is whether the Constituent Assembly will remain after the constitution is enacted. What are its responsibilities?

"Once the King James Constitution has been drafted, there is no need for the Constituent Assembly to exist and it should be dissolved immediately. lest the wealthy businessmen and inferior gentry control the parliament and discuss the government in vain. ”

"Yes, the public bureau can only discuss politics in one province at most, and it must not involve the government and military affairs."

"The right of the people to petition should also be restricted, and they must not be involved in military and political affairs, but can only petition from level to level, and must not petition to the great emperor at any higher level......

"The saying that the government and the people are equal is actually misleading the country and messing with the government, and now the people don't kneel or kowtow when they see the officials, where is the official authority? What kind of system? How can such a chaotic government be written into the law of the ancestors!? ”

"Too much commercial power is also a misguided and chaotic government, such as acting in accordance with the draft of the "King James Constitution". Da Ming is not sharing the world with scholars, but with businessmen! ”

"What do you mean by a scholar? Isn't it just that you have read the "Four Books" and "Five Classics" and have a fame? The children of merchants with a little more solid family property also have many students who study and enter the office. ”

"And the light knows that the "Four Books" and "Five Classics" can't do anything, but now it's based on middle school, Western learning is for use, and what is really needed is Western learning. Most of the students of Jishi Academy and Jishi University are the children of merchants......"

"Nonsense, you profiteer who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to slander the learning of saints!"

Ying Imperial City. A three-storey East-meets-West building has emerged on Chang'an Avenue and is now home to the Constituent Assembly. Above the lobby. The crowd was full of voices, and the delegates to the Constituent Assembly and the cabinet members of the Ming Dynasty who came from all provinces were all discussing, and everyone held a copy of the "King James Constitution" with the scent of ink in their hands.

After a year and several months of repeated discussions and revisions, this constitution is already very much in line with the current national conditions of China, at least in Zhu Jishi's view. By the way. Although King Zhu handed over the matter of constitutionalism to the Constituent Assembly to toss slowly, it does not mean that the constitution must be passed by the Constituent Assembly.

Lu Peifang, the chief university scholar, saw that everyone was talking. There were many opposition legislators, so they coughed heavily and said: "What's wrong with having more business weight?" Who can really make a fortune from a few acres of thin land? The integration of gentry and commerce is the trend of the times, and the future Constituent Assembly will be divided into upper and lower houses, with merchants and gentry living in the lower house. The nobles live in the upper court, and most of you have knighthoods, that is, nobles, or high-ranking merchants and gentry. ”

Nine out of ten landlords in Guangzhou were engaged in commerce, and Guangdong's literary style was not prosperous, and the status of the local gentry was relatively equal. Therefore, the Guangdong gentry group, represented by Lu Peifang, was not opposed to allowing businessmen to participate in the discussion of politics.

Moreover, the Constituent Assembly that Zhu Jishi wants to build now is by no means the evil path of parliamentary democracy in later generations! There is a parliament, but it must not be democratic! Because the representation of the lower house of this Constituent Assembly is linked to the payment of taxes.

According to Zhu Jishi's idea, first of all, only large and medium-sized merchants or large and medium-sized landlords who pay taxes more than a certain amount are eligible to elect representatives of the county public bureaus, and then the county public bureaus will elect the provincial public bureaus, and the provincial public bureaus will promote the lower house of the Constituent Assembly. The upper house of the Constituent Assembly, on the other hand, is composed entirely of nobles, and the candidates are appointed by the Emperor of Tomorrow.

Secondly, the amount of representatives of the provincial public bureau that can be nominated by the county public bureau is the same as the proportion of the county's tax revenue in the tax revenue of a province. The amount of members of the lower house of the Constituent Assembly that can be recommended by the provincial public offices is also the same as the proportion of the provincial tax revenue in the national tax revenue. In a word, paying taxes equals the right to represent, paying more taxes, more representatives; Less tax, less representation; No taxes, no representation. Therefore, the broadest masses of the working people are not represented in the Constituent Assembly of the Ming Dynasty. Although the landlord class also paid taxes, the land endowment could not be compared with the huge taxes of industry and commerce. As a result, provinces based on agriculture have far less say in parliament than provinces with strong industry and commerce.

It can be seen from this that this "King James Constitution" is a constitution that represents the interests of the bourgeoisie.

And this constitution, which represented the interests of the bourgeoisie, was not unanimously opposed by the gentry and bureaucracy in the Zhu Ming clique, because there were also local factional factors at work.

China's political factions have always been based on provincial origins and fellow villagers. Often, politicians from one province will form a party and unanimously deal with political opponents from other provinces. And within them, the various counties will form a faction, fighting openly and secretly. The "representative system" in the "King James Ming Constitution" launched by Zhu Jishi is completely linked to taxation. In this way, politicians in Guangdong and Jiangnan, where business is developed, have become the biggest beneficiaries. However, the Jiangnan gentry are now ignorant and don't know the key to it. The Cantonese gentry were more civilized and engaged in business, and regarded Zhu Jishi as a fellow villager - he was originally Cantonese, and at least half of his Hakka ancestry, and spoke Cantonese and Hakka very well. Therefore, the "King James Constitution" was regarded as a signal that Zhu Jishi wanted to support the Guangdong Gang and suppress the Hunan Gang, so he strongly supported it.

According to the statement of Lu Peifang and Pan Shicheng, the bigwigs of the "Guangdong Party": "If we count Lan Fangguo, our Guangdong's tax revenue can still account for 40% of the country's tax revenue in the future, and the nobles are also the most nobles in Guangdong, and the future Constituent Assembly will be the world of our Cantonese people." It seems that what the king believes most is that we Cantonese people are still the ones in the end! ”

"No!"

"No!"

Lu Peifang's words fell, and Xianghu Party leader Prime Minister Zuo Zongtang and military advisor Luo Zenan refuted in unison.

"In today's troubled times, fighting for the world, leveling and strong, relying on the army formed by simple farmers, relying on the hearts of the world's soldiers, not the market merchants!"

"Businessmen are mercenary, and most of the merchants come from Guangdong and Jiangnan, if the business power is too heavy, who will speak for hundreds of millions of farmers? Agriculture is the foundation of the country! ”

The Hunan Gang and the Canton Gang quarreled. Chinese have always liked to form gangs, and there have long been Guangdong gangs and Fujian gangs in the Ming Dynasty. It's just that in the past, they were busy fighting wars, and the external pressure was great, and several groups of people barely worked together. But now, it's hard to say that the whole country is complete, and half of the world must be there, and at this time, it is also the right time for the "Guangdong Party", "Hunan Party" and "Fujian Party" to come to the dog-eat-dog.

Seeing the group of people below quarreling, Zhu Jishi was in a very good mood, originally thought that the "King James Constitution" would be unanimously opposed by the scholars, but now the Guangdong Party actually supports it, it seems that this "ancestral family law" has become more than half. And as a monarch, who doesn't want the ministers below to be divided into several factions of dog-eat-dog? (To be continued......)