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Chapter 1754 Ideas and Futures

The ceremonial soldiers belonging to the military band of the General Political Department followed the rhythm of the conductor and played an episode of an American movie "Continental Song" beautifully, and the crowd waiting at the airport was elated, looking forward to the melodious music, and from time to time their eyes turned to the blue sky in the east. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Today is 15 September, and US Secretary of State Hull's special plane will soon arrive at Xinjing Airport, which is the first visit by a heavyweight foreign guest since the founding of the People's Republic of China. You must know that the secretary of state of the United States has an extraordinary status and influence in the national political affairs of the United States, and also has a deep influence abroad, and is known as the "face of the United States." The secretary of state is a member of the president's cabinet, and his status is higher than that of ordinary cabinet ministers, and he is the chief of all cabinet members.

South China President An Yi and his two wives Ou Chu Er and Feng Jieyun, former Bao Emperor Nguyen Phuc Vinh Swe, South China Vice Chairman Nguyen Phuc Vinh Swee and his wife Nguyen Huu Lan, Vice Premier Hu Xuelan, Secretary General of the Government Council Wang Keqiang and other dignitaries welcomed him at the Xinjing Military Airport.

Among the crowd waiting for Hull's arrival on the wide tarmac of the airport were many Americans, including ambassadors, counselors, military attachés, and embassy staff of the US Embassy in Xinjing, as well as representatives of various business organizations, who kept waving American flags and South China flags in their hands as a sign of friendship.

The Chinese who greeted them were cadets from the Military and Political College, the National Defense Intelligence College, and the National Defense News School, plus 500 representatives of primary school students drawn from the No. 1 Boarding Primary School in Xinjing, making a total of 3,000 people. They also waved two flags in their hands, but unlike the Americans, the flags in their hands were South China flags on both sides.

In addition to Americans and Chinese, the welcoming crowd at the airport included embassy personnel from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey and other allied or neutral countries in Xinjing. Now, the French embassy is on the orders of the Vichy government, while the Belgian embassy is subordinate to the royal leadership of *** Britain.

In addition to diplomats, there were also trade representatives of some countries in South China, most of whom were British arms procurement personnel in South China.

As the expansion of the Axis powers had reached its peak, all the representatives of the countries participating in the welcoming ceremony had different expressions, and as the country had fallen, many of them had lost their arrogance, and they had gathered into their own small circles according to different diplomatic principles.

At present, except for the Commonwealth countries and the Belgian government, which have a relatively resolute will to resist, the rest of the countries are under the strong pressure of Germany, ready to be the grass on the wall, once they find that the situation is wrong, they will quickly choose their own position, their mentality can be said to be extremely complicated.

However, no matter how the attitude of the countries represented by the people changes, it is impossible to ignore the existence of the United States, a behemoth with 80% of the world's output value, and once the production machine is completely liberalized, it will burst out with strength that is unimaginable for ordinary countries. At any time, the United States is a good object to bet on, and their diplomatic attitude can even determine the direction of the future international trend.

On Hull's state visit to South China, he was accompanied by Assistant Secretary of State Searle, Director of the Department of Far Eastern Affairs of the State Department, Edminster, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Trade Policy, and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Harry. In addition to Wright and other government officials, there are many mid- and high-ranking generals in the US military, including former Army Chief of Staff Marin Brown. Craig, former Chief of Staff of the Navy William. Silley, McNair, Director of the General Staff College, Arnold, Commander of the Army Air Corps, Bradley, Assistant Secretary to the Army Chief of Staff, Eisenhower, Logistics Planner of the Western Military District Command, and MacArthur, Commander-in-Chief of the Philippine Army, are among the most prominent figures now and in the future.

The size and level of the delegation to visit an emerging country such as South China with such a lineup is not unlarge, and this just shows how much importance the United States attaches to South China.

Since the Battle of Britain reached its peak in August, in order to support Britain, the United States changed its predetermined plan of arming itself first and then supporting its allies, and most of the planes, anti-aircraft guns, and artillery shells produced were sent to the British Isles, leaving less than one-third of what it produced.

But even then, in the face of the huge superiority of the Luftwaffe, the British were still stretched. If it weren't for the large number of weapons and equipment purchased from South China and the continuous delivery to the British Isles, it is estimated that Britain would have lost the war!

At present, South China has in fact become an important source of arms and strategic materials for the Allied forces, and South China still has two or three million elite troops, which can change the balance of power between the Allies and the Axis powers at any time.

Nguyen Phuc Vinh Swe took his wife Nguyen Huu Lan, and after greeting the former government officials of the Hue court who attended the welcoming ceremony today, he saw An Yi talking to his two wives, thought about it, and walked over by the hand.

An Yi was talking to Ou Chuer and Feng Jieyun about the child's reading at this time.

On September 1, He Xiaodong and Gong Ming entered the junior class of the Xufu Scout Military Academy and officially became primary school students, while their eldest brother Ou Chengan, although he was not yet eleven years old, was already in the first grade of Yaoting Ou's Private Middle School and had been studying for almost a year.

Since the relocation of the Eurasian Group from Nanyang to South China, the orphanage schools and other sponsored primary and secondary schools have been moved to Sai Kung, Kampong Son Bay and Wellen Bay, and now there are more than 200,000 students in the primary and secondary schools sponsored by the Eurasian Foundation, including more than 5,000 orphans adopted from all over the world.

With the rise of factories, schools, businesses and research institutes, as well as the creation of new rubber and oil palm plantations and coastal fishing companies, the previously barren land on the eastern shore of Nanhua Bay has become a hotbed of development and has led to the overall economic boom of southern China.

In recognition of the outstanding contribution of the Oo Group, the South China Government officially renamed Kampong Son City (now Sihanoukville City) as Yao Ting City in early August this year in recognition of the outstanding contribution of Mr. Au Yiu Ting, Chairman of the Au Consortium.

Ou Yaoting is very satisfied with his current life, his only daughter Ou Chuer has become the de facto first lady of Nanhua, and his grandson has inherited the surname of the Ou family, which has ensured the inheritance of the family, and what makes Ou Yaoting most proud is that through more than ten years of unremitting efforts, the tragic fate of Nanyang Chinese has finally been avoided.

The South China Republic is powerful, which greatly deterred the arrogance of the Japanese army, coupled with the secret protection of Lu Kaiming's Xiangjiang Group (in order to avoid suspicion, renamed by the South China Group last year) and A Biao's Hongxing Society, although the looting of the colonists in Nanyang is getting worse day by day, but they have not dared to openly wave the butcher's knife at the Chinese.

At present, a large number of submarines equipped with radar and radio communication instruments are quietly infesting Malaya, Burma and the Lanyin Islands, bringing back to Nanhua those members of the National Democratic Party, the Chinese armed forces controlled by the National Democratic Party, and those who have been active in the Nanyang Overseas Chinese Relief Association and generously donated to the Nanyang Overseas Chinese Relief Association, so as to avoid the frenzied suppression and massacre that may be taken by Nanhua after the war with Nanyang in the future.

Many of these people who attended the first congress of the Nanyang National Democratic Party held at the beginning of last year can be regarded as the backbone of the national democratic party, and many of them are even members of the Central Committee, but they are far away from the collective of An Jiajun and have never received systematic theoretical knowledge, and some of them are only full of patriotic enthusiasm and have no concept of governance and people's livelihood.

Therefore, An Yi especially opened the Central Party School on the shore of Zenguang Lake in Xinjing City, and personally served as the principal, with Jiang Yunshan as the director of education of the party school, Zhan Zhi, director of the General Political Department, as director of the teaching department, and Zhao Dongquan, director of the General Office of the Central Military Commission, as director of the training department of the party school. On the Spirit of Law, Machiavelli's The Monarch, Hobbes's Leviathan, Plato's The Ideal Republic, Rousseau's Social Contract, and Marx's Capital.

After the completion of the first stage of study, the students' minds will be in a state of confusion and at a loss for various political opinions, and at this time, the second stage of study will be carried out. Under the protection of special fighters in the same costumes, all the trainees went deep into the cities and rural areas of the Chinese mainland under various capacities to study the people's livelihood issues and discuss the necessity and urgency of national and national rejuvenation in combination with the political concepts they learned.

The third stage is to go to southern Sichuan, southern Yunnan, and the areas controlled by South China to conduct field investigations, compare the miserable lives of the people in the Kuomintang areas, and then demonstrate the South China government's land and policies to support agriculture, industry, and commerce, and see the advantages and disadvantages. The fourth stage is to return to the party school, feel the glorious history of ancient China and the sinking after entering the modern era, and study what political system is most conducive to the development of productive forces, to the rejuvenation of the country, and the rise of the Chinese nation under the current international situation.

The last stage is to learn the ways and means of flexibly using and propagating the principles and policies of the party and the government, as well as some skills in administering and handling official affairs, so as to lay the foundation for taking up leading positions in the localities.

In principle, these trainees will be assigned to the township level to serve as leading cadres, familiarize themselves with the people's livelihood, and wait until they have accumulated sufficient experience before being promoted. Although their official posts are small, as high-ranking cadres of the National Democratic Party, they can make suggestions to the central authorities at any time, put forward their views on some accumulated malpractices, expose the ugly phenomena of corruption in the official arena and the defense of officials against each other, and once verified, they will be given priority in their promotions in the future.

Any of these five stages may seem scientific and democratic and free to speak their minds, but they are an important way for political departments and intelligence systems to identify whether these people are of the same heart as the leader and the An Jiajun.

Generally speaking, cadres with a high degree of recognition for the South China government and An Yi and An Jiajun will be given priority to be promoted, and in the current urgent need for cadres, the speed of promotion will be very fast, and those who question or even deny it may slowly lose their important positions in the party organization and wipe out everyone after sinking at the grassroots level for several years.

Nguyen Phuc Vinh Swe walked to An Yi's side, and watched his wife Nguyen Youlan pull Ou Chuer and Feng Jieyun aside to talk about some women, and then said with a smile: "Chairman, when I returned to Hue from the United States at the beginning of the year, I thought about the way to save the country behind closed doors, and only now do I have some eyebrows. Speaking of which, this is the first time I have come to Xinjing since I left last year, and I am very ashamed that I did not visit the chairman after returning to China! ”

An Yi had long been aware of Emperor Bao's every move, and he was quite unimpressed by his frequent wandering among the officials of the Hue system, but at this moment, a friendly smile appeared on his face:

"Vice Chairman Ruan cares about the country and the nation, and resolutely chooses to return to Nanhua, this heart of boxing and pure heart, An Yi admires! I don't know what truth Vice Chairman Ruan has figured out? ”

Ruan Phuc Vinh Swe glanced at An Yi with some trepidation and said: "After I came to the United States last year, I found that I really sat in the well and watched the sky before, and I was extremely impressed by the democratic system in the United States and the highly developed industry and commerce stimulated by this system. So I think we can do some reforms in this area......"

Seeing An Yi's smile and interest, Nguyen Phuc Vinh Swe plucked up his courage and continued: "The *** system is an important basis for whether a country is democratic, and now is the time of the war, naturally the National Democratic Party will control everything, but in the future, it should still be returned to the people, and the country will be led by the *** in turn, rather than ...... by a certain interest group and the army."

"Enough!"

An Yi scolded, interrupted Ruan Fu Yongrui's words, and stared at Ruan Fu Yongrui coldly, as if he wanted to penetrate his heart: "You almost said that I, An someone, is a warlord and a dictator!" But I want to tell you that I, An Yi, at least for a long time to come, will not give up my leadership of the government and the army, let alone allow other parties to interfere in my political decision-making, because I am confident that I can see farther than you and understand the world more thoroughly than you! ”

Seeing the beads of sweat rolling down Ruan Phuc Vinh Swee's forehead, lowering his head and constantly wiping the beads of sweat, An Yi slowed down his tone: "That's right, the *** system sounds wonderful, every citizen who belongs to a certain party, as long as he has the ability, can come to power and display his political ambitions, which is very democratic, but, at least for the current South China, this cannot be done...... The formation of any kind of social system has its deep-seated roots, and its emergence is inseparable from the historical tradition, social life, cultural background, and dominant political philosophy on which it is based, in addition to the corresponding level of productive forces.

"Vice Chairman Ruan, I have been studying democracy in the United States recently, and I am confident that I know no less about the United States than you do! The establishment of democracy in the United States has its historical conditions, and no country can replicate its success......"

Ruan Fu Yongrui heard An Yi's tone become softer, and the heartstrings that had been tense only relaxed slightly, he took out a handkerchief from his trouser pocket, wiped the sweat from his forehead, tried to squeeze out a smile, and said, "I want to hear it!" ”

An Yi looked at his watch and found that it would be some time before the plane arrived, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll have a good chat with you...... At the time of American independence in the late eighteenth century, the United States was a very egalitarian society by the standards of the time, with a much smaller distinction in wealth and rank than the people of any other country. At the beginning of independence, the United States, with the exception of the indigenous Indians of the Americas and the black slaves who were forcibly trafficked, was completely a country composed of immigrants, and it did not have its own royal family and aristocracy in the traditional sense of Europe, nor did it have the deep-rooted feudal hierarchical traditions and forces like European countries. At that time, the United States was still a purely agricultural country, the vast majority of people were engaged in farming, due to the unique natural conditions, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and the landowners were very popular.

"We usually know that political power is determined by economic power, and economic power at that time was mainly expressed in the possession of land. If land is owned only by a few, the regime must be an aristocracy, with a few educated elites ruling over the majority of the landless, and when the people of a country are landlords, the result can only be a republic with a high degree of equality. Pickney, the founding father of the United States at the time, pointed out that equality in the United States will last for a long time, because in a new country with vast uncultivated land, there will not be many poor and dependent people. President Jefferson, who was a strong advocate of democracy in order to maintain a large degree of economic, social and political equality, even wanted the United States to remain a society of small farmers forever.

"The second condition for the survival and development of democracies in the United States is the high degree of freedom they enjoy. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many Europeans, including famous Enlightenment thinkers such as Locke and Voltaire, considered the North American colonies to be special reservations of virtue and freedom. Mass immigrants from Europe poured into the American continent, many of whom sought freedom from North America to escape persecution of all kinds. The same is true of the Catholics who settled in Pennsylvania under Bing's leadership. One of the fundamental reasons for the intensification of the conflict between Britain and North America at the end of the eighteenth century was that the colonial people believed that the British king wanted to deprive them of their freedom and enslave the colonies, so the people rose up and revolted to continue the freedom that had been expelled from Asia and Africa and the expulsion order by the British, leaving the last refuge of justice and freedom for mankind.

"In the end, most people in the United States are unanimous in their belief that democracy is a good form of government and are willing to work for it, and even compromise with each other. This ideological consensus is absolutely necessary for democracy, and without such a consensus, a democratic system of self-government will only be paralyzed and lead to anarchism, which is the fundamental reason why many Americans opposed democracy at the end of the eighteenth century.

"Americans are strikingly consistent in their thinking and ideology, and it has to do with their national conditions. Most of the early immigrants to the United States came from England and shared the same language, culture, customs, and values. Compared with a single British society, American society is more like a whole in terms of values. At that time, Americans were reluctant to hold views that were different from most others. If Americans had traveled around the world, they would have found that there was no other country other than their own society that was as obedient to the overall situation, cautious as they were, and always considerate of other people's opinions.

"Equality, freedom and the aspiration to democracy are indispensable for the establishment and consolidation of democracies. The United States is fortunate to enjoy unique and superior conditions in these respects. From this perspective, it is not surprising that the first democracy in the modern world was born in the United States. For the United States, the end of the eighteenth century was a special period that a country could only encounter once, that is, a period of forming itself into a government. Deeply influenced by the ideas of European democracy, coupled with the political practice of the United States before independence, and the special natural and social environment of the United States, the founders of the United States of America seized this extremely rare opportunity to establish a representative democracy -- which is the fundamental reason why the United States has a Congress.

"And our South China is completely different from the background of the United States, we are a country built in the flames of war, and there are classes and oppression in almost every piece of land, and there are sharp irreconcilable contradictions, among which there are serious antagonisms between landlords and peasants, capitalists and workers, colonizers and local people, and within the people, there is also antagonism between bureaucratic compradors and ordinary people, and there are serious differences between various nationalities. Not to mention the procrastination and shirking of affairs under the democratic system, nor to say that the lack of unity in policy decisions will cause a waste of resources, manpower and material resources, just one point, at present, most of the people have only received primary cultural education, the concept of the state has not yet been formed, and the identity of culture and nationality is not enough, if we adopt American-style democracy and allow the parties of various ideas to come to power, then our only fate will be that the country will fall apart, the people's minds will be confused, and the provinces that have been divided under various trends of thought will be re-placed under the iron heel of the colonizers. Is this what you would like to see? ”

Ruan Phuc Vinh Shwe was speechless, he suddenly found that what he had realized was so weak and vulnerable in the face of An Yi's detailed arguments, he couldn't even think of what words to refute, so he had to deal with it with silence.

An Yi sighed. Of course, he knew the benefits of democracy, but the consequences of rushing to implement democracy in a newly established country that had never been put together would be absolutely disastrous.

First of all, after the implementation of democracy, the efficiency of the operation of the state apparatus will certainly be much reduced, and the cost of time and money will increase, which is extremely unfavorable in the current state of war. Why hasn't the United States been armed until now? Why did France, once the largest land power, collapse? The negative role of democracy cannot be underestimated.

In a multi-ethnic and multi-racial country like South China, the democratic election of political parties is destined to become a competition between nationalities or races, so that the science of democratic decision-making is covered by ethnic or racial struggles, and after Yugoslavia gave up ****** in later generations, it quickly led to the flood of all kinds of ideas, and the result was that it was used by the United States and other democratic countries.

In addition, democracy is very easy to be used by national extremists and political hooligans, such as Hitler, who is raging in Europe, came to power through democratic elections, and later generations of ***, deceived voters with two bullets, and finally won the election. True democracy should be premised on voters having "true and comprehensive" news information, and true and comprehensive news information is difficult to achieve in fact, and the result often makes democratic elections a "money game".

At the same time, democratic election competition has caused social group antagonism to a certain extent, and the two parties or the first party to take turns in power often make the policy not long-term, and the ruling political party lacks thinking and arrangement for the long-term major interests of the country and the nation, and pays more attention to the short-term interests that can be seen by the voters.

Since democracy is electoral politics and votes are the only source of power for politicians, when there is a conflict between personal interests and public interests, state policies often overprotect personal interests and ignore social and public interests, and there is also a waste of talent. The party that wins the election receives not only the central executive power, but also a majority of seats in parliament, which separates the executive power from the legislative power and becomes a mere slogan.

Democracy generally leads to the coexistence of local elections and central elections, making local autonomy a reality, and the result of local autonomy is that local officials pay more attention to being accountable to local voters, which makes local officials pay more attention to local interests and ignore national interests, which is not conducive to balancing the conflict of interests between the state and local governments. In order to win the support of some voters, politicians often make many promises, but after being elected, they need to start from the general interests of society and safeguard the interests of society as a whole, so it will inevitably lead to sharp conflicts and confrontations.

Finally, democracy is highly dependent on the rule of law, and without the rule of law, democracy can easily become the *** of the majority against the minority. Democracy has a strong dependence on the democratic style of the people, especially the elite among the people, and a good democratic style is conducive to the compromise and compromise of all interests in society.

Seeing that Ruan Phuc Vinh Swe didn't speak for a long time, An Yi said again: "Of course, it is necessary to establish multiple political parties in South China, after all, democracy is our ultimate choice, so from now on, we must cultivate the soil of democracy, and the first priority is to establish a new political party, effectively supervise the government, participate in politics, make the government's political decision-making more transparent, and effectively stop corruption."

"My idea is to set up an Independent Commission Against Corruption in the future, composed of people from various democratic parties, who are not linked to the local branches of the National Democratic Party and the local government, and are only responsible to the ICAC and the head of state at the next higher level, so that officials can be effectively urged to abuse their power for personal gain, corruption and degeneration.

Finally, in consideration of the survival of the democratic parties, in principle, county, city, and provincial governments, as well as the chief executive, will have a deputy post of democratic party, and the democratic parties can exercise specific management of the state in this way. In this way, the democratic parties will also have sufficient impetus for development and will be able to attract more talented people to join the party. ”

Ruan Phuc Vinh Swee nodded again and again like a chicken pecking rice. In his opinion, this is already the best result he can strive for. As long as there is a legal basis for the establishment and existence of a new party, who knows what will happen in the future?

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: Since the writer in Chengdu is going to join the New Year tonight, this chapter stayed up until three o'clock last night, and after getting up today, he wrote for more than five hours in a row before it was completed.

Recently, a lot of consideration has been given to the political system, but throughout history, it is found that in modern times, the transition from *** to democracy has been the best without the intervention of external forces, only the Spanish fascist dictator Franco has done the best, and he has single-handedly cultivated and supported Juan. Carlos I, as King of Spain, carried out democratic reforms that enabled Spain to transition from a political system to a constitutional monarchy and a democratic system, which was called a miracle of the twentieth century by all.