At the end of 1789 and the beginning of 1790, a major event of national concern will occur in Datang, that is, the general election of the new Congress. The www.biquge.info of Datang implements a model of a combination of direct and indirect elections, in which the citizens with the right to vote are directly elected by the county and district level councilors, and then the county and district level directly elected representatives form an electoral college to elect the city council, and further the state council and finally the congressmen. Of course, the Election Commission will nominate candidates for the election and supervise the election.

Twenty-nine-year-old Yang Meikai, dressed in a formal suit, nervously looked at the large billboards hanging outside the polling station with large photographs of several candidates in Long Beach and their campaign slogans. And his photo appeared on one of the billboards.

Yang Meikai is a Hakka who immigrated to Datang before the Beijing Incident, and has lived in Datang for 12 years. However, after 12 years, Yang Meikai not only obtained a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Los Angeles, but also obtained a lawyer's qualification certificate from Datang and became a formal lawyer. This was something he could not have imagined twelve years ago, when he was sent by his father to a blacksmith in Foshan to learn a trade, but the blacksmith found that the young man had no talent in blacksmithing, but was very eloquent, and sent him to a shop to sell ironware. Later, Yang Meikai said goodbye to her master and came to Datang with her whole family, and lived a richer life.

A total of 25 deputies were elected in Long Beach District, and there were more than 40 candidates, which is actually quite a high percentage. However, there will still be more than a dozen people who will not be selected. Yang Meikai is participating in the election for the first time. And he is not a member of the Tang National Revolutionary Party. To be precise, he is a non-partisan. Of the candidates in Long Beach, only four were non-members of the National Revolutionary Party, and Yang Meikai was one of them.

As the earliest city established in the Tang Dynasty, Los Angeles has held many elections, and many local citizens have become accustomed to such a political life. In the end, a relatively mature election attitude and pragmatic spirit have gradually been accumulated. It can be said that the parliamentary election in the Los Angeles Capital District can see the highest level of the entire current representative system in Datang.

The citizens who live in Los Angeles are basically eligible to vote, and they have lived for a long time, which meets Datang's requirements for a period of residence. In fact, the National Assembly has also been discussing the liberalization of Datang's residency time requirements for elections, but it has not yet been implemented.

The people of Datang have become accustomed to the unique political system of Datang, compared to those days when there was no political power, and the officials decided all their lives, and the people of Datang still think that the current representative system of Datang is very progressive. In the traditional perception of the Chinese. There is no such thing as a concept of healthy competition between the two parties and two factions, and generally the parties fight against each other and attack each other. Therefore, the people of the Tang Dynasty have never felt that there is anything wrong with the dominance of the Tang National Revolutionary Party, which controls the political arena. In this era, most countries are still monarchies, and even enlightened monarchies are full of problems, so all over the world, the republic system with Tang characteristics is considered to be relatively advanced. Even in the United States, there are some intellectuals and politicians who believe that the Tang Dynasty's republican system should be more emulated. Of course, at the moment, neither party in the United States has yet to form a political alliance, and congressmen and politicians have only a relatively loose political alliance.

The submissiveness and prudence of the Chinese themselves are reflected in the political life of the Tang Dynasty, that is, it is difficult for them to resist what they are not satisfied with, and they are accustomed to a policy imposed on them. For those who have lived in Datang for a long time, the metropolis has gradually been infected with a feeling of national ownership, which can also be said to be a sense of national responsibility. When they think a policy is not appropriate, they will use the appropriate channels to reflect it.

Obviously, it is very common for parliamentarians to express their opinions.

After Yang Meikai immigrated to Jiazhou, he experienced some changes, from the amazement and satisfaction of the national strength and life of the Tang Dynasty, to the improvement of self-accumulation, to the worry about the excessive power of the National Revolutionary Party, and finally to the current stage. Yang Meikai recommended herself to become a district councilor, in fact, hoping to provide a new window for the general public. After all, the party discipline within the Datang National Revolutionary Party is very strict, and the things that each member of the parliament expresses individually are relatively limited, and basically follow the organization. Moreover, the vast majority of government agencies are members of the National Revolutionary Party, so if some of the legislators are slack, they will not be able to play a good supervisory role.

There was a news report that a member of the public reported to the councillors that the large-scale construction near his home should not be built, which would affect their normal life. However, there was no feedback from the parliamentarians and the Construction Bureau, and the construction company is also a large state-owned enterprise. Eventually, the citizen reported the situation to a newspaper, but it was not published. Angry citizens, along with their neighbors, eventually gathered around the construction site to protest and were taken away en masse for violating law and order regulations. This matter was finally exposed, and then it was taken seriously by all parties.

An investigation team was set up to investigate the facts and then deal with them seriously. Councillors who did not act on the citizens' reaction were expelled from the local council, and at the same time, serious punishments were also imposed within the party, and the construction bureau and the construction unit did not do enough to demonstrate the work, and they were also dealt with. Of course, since the protesting citizens also violated the regulations, they were not exempted from detention and fines.

Since the local assemblies and even the National Assembly have a relatively clear function of supervising the administration of the government, even if both sides belong to the National Revolutionary Party and are within their duties, they will still take action, because the legislators must not ignore the opinions of the citizens.

However, Yang Meikai saw that although the political arena dominated by the National Revolutionary Party has strong executive power and can do many things that are beneficial to the country and the people, it is still not possible to do without supervision. The KMT's own supervision was only one way, and he believed that there should be other channels of supervision, so he participated in the election as a non-partisan member.

The election in Datang will not have the same variety of election activities and political donations as the universal state. Actual candidates can only express their opinions through limited channels, and the public can only learn about their life and abilities through newspaper introductions. (To be continued.) )