"Democracy, we must be democratic, democracy is a good medicine!"

Emperor Yang said like a mentor. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Sitting across from him was a white man about thirty years old, wearing a French aristocratic embroidered long blouse, with a bunch of various shiny ornaments on it, and a wig on his head, which looked quite fancy, but the French aristocracy at this time was dressed like this, and he still took off his hat with bird feathers, and his face was not greased and powdered, nor did he blush his lips, otherwise the appearance would be even more funny.

But this guy isn't funny.

This is the mentor of democracy......

This is Montesquieu.

His Excellency the Baron was amazed at the Marquis of the Far East after reading Voltaire's praise of the Ming system in the newspapers, and personally meeting Xiao Fu, with whom he shared those letters of Yang Feng. In particular, Yang Feng's beautification of the Ming Inspectorate and the House of Nobles made him seem to see a bright lighthouse in the fog, and then he couldn't wait to take Voltaire's letter of recommendation and board a merchant ship bound for Alexandria. Then he passed through Egypt and boarded a Ming merchant ship in the port of Suez to Yingtian, and with the help of a warm and friendly captain, he found the residence of Marquis Yang in Yingtian, and finally met His Excellency the Marquis, who was said to have just finished a meeting in the House of Nobles.

After the two talked, Lao Meng immediately bowed to Yang Feng.

"Your Excellency the Marquis, I used to think that democracy could not exist in the East, but now it seems that I am really too ignorant."

Montesquieu said respectfully.

"Misunderstanding, everything is just misunderstanding, the distance between us is too far, from this end of the earth to your end, the distance of tens of thousands of miles, so that we can't really understand each other, just like during the Tatar theft, our people even regarded Europeans as demons and monsters, but now, they don't think that way anymore, technology has narrowed the distance between us, and we have a deeper understanding of each other to eliminate misunderstandings."

Yang Feng said.

"My lord, the train is about to arrive."

Yang Zhong reminded him on the side.

"Okay, so let's feel what democracy is."

Yang Feng stood up and said.

At this time, the whistle sounded outside, the rumbling train began to slow down, the stop sign of Dantu County outside flashed by, and soon the train was very stable, the two walked out of the carriage, and after leaving the station, Yang Zhong immediately waved to a taxi, the coachman quickly threw down the whip, and the two horses stepped forward.

"County office!"

Yang Zhong said.

Immediately after Yang Feng and Montesquieu got into the car together, the number one spy leader of the Ming Dynasty, the governor saw Yang Du, who couldn't help but have weak legs, and commanded the envoy to stop on the pedal, the carriage immediately started, and quickly entered the city gate along the road leading to the county seat, and stopped in front of an old-fashioned courtyard through the bustling street.

"Is this a prefectural order?"

Montesquieu looked at a middle-aged man in the office in amazement and said.

The latter was under siege at this time by several villagers who looked ordinary, and those villagers were obviously very dissatisfied with some kind of government tax, and one by one they shouted emotionally that the officials would not be the masters of the people, and that they might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes and other threats, while the one with the county order ribbon diagonally on his chest explained with a smiling face, and from time to time brought a cup of tea and handed over a cigarette, and then urged a scribe next to him to write down the requirements of those villagers.

Obviously, this scene subverted his perception of the government and the people.

Yang Feng pointed to the wall.

"Serve the people! This is the code of conduct for all Ming officials, who are servants of the people and not rulers above the people. ”

Then he translated the meaning of those five big words in French.

"What's the matter with the two of you? If you are not in a hurry, please take a break here and wait. ”

At this time, a staff member walked over and pointed to the opposite room.

"No, let's do it another day!"

Yang Feng said.

Then he took the stunned Montesquieu and left the county office directly, and re-boarded the waiting carriage.

"Go to the Inspectorate!"

Yang Zhong said.

The carriage hurriedly started again, and soon stopped in front of the gate of the Inspectorate, which was not far away, and it happened that there was still a meeting inside, and they also walked into the meeting hall without any hindrance, and sat down in the special auditorium, and next to them there were several people sitting there with pens and writing something in the notebook, and among them there were two young girls. These people are interviewed by the newspaper, as for women to come out to work in Daming, it is not uncommon, especially the new generation of girls after receiving a university education, it is impossible to be in the courtyard of the deep house, not to mention coming out to be an interview, that is, they come out to open a company, anyway, there is a queen as their backer, and now Her Majesty the Queen personally serves as the chairman of the Daming Women's Federation.

And the focus of their eyes was on the middle of the room, where a middle-aged man was scolding the other person in the middle of the room.

"What is this for?"

Yang Feng asked the nearest girl.

The girl looked at Montesquieu on the other side of him with some surprise, and then said with a hint of schadenfreude: "The Transportation Bureau budgeted 300,000 yuan to harden the road from the county seat to Jingkou, but the 300,000 yuan was spent, and two-thirds of it has not been hardened. ”

"Then is he greedy?"

Yang Feng asked.

Montesquieu had already learned Chinese before he came, and although he didn't speak it very well, it was no problem to understand it, and he was also very concerned about this question and looked at the girl.

"How dare he!"

The girl said: "How many pairs of eyes are staring at it, it was originally to pass the budget in the Inspectorate, it is estimated that the cost was deliberately underestimated, he wants to say 500,000, those old men will definitely not do it, that is the tax money they pay, but this road is convenient for the people, he is more than sixty this year, anyway, he will retire after this term, first repair the road, now the old man wants not to repair it, he is indeed not greedy, how to check him is not afraid, the big deal is that the Inspectorate let him be removed through impeachment." ”

"Write down his name."

Yang Feng turned back to Yang Zhong and said.

At this time, Director Liu really said with both hands that you will stop working if you don't pay for it, anyway, two-thirds of the repairs have been made, and the rest of you are willing to keep it to make people laugh, if you don't want to, pay for it, we will finish repairing, and if you are willing to go to Dali Temple to sue me, I will go.

"What's your attitude?"

The one who questioned him was furious, but he was helpless, after all, he also knew that if this road was not hardened, it would be like that, but if he hardened half of it and didn't do it, he would easily get rotten eggs when he went out.

"Ladies and gentlemen, do you agree to add 200,000 dragon dollars to the budget, if you agree, please raise your hand!"

At this time, the director of the Inspectorate said.

After saying that, he raised his hand first.

Then a bunch of people's deputies raised their hands or did not raise their hands, and the last point raised more than 60 percent, so the supplementary budget was passed, and then whether or not to set up an inquiry committee to conduct a special investigation into whether the transportation bureau had been enriching themselves during the construction of the road, and then this was also passed with the consent of 80 percent, and the remaining members of the investigation committee were left, and soon the director of the inspectorate drew up a list, and after the second vote was passed, the investigation was officially launched.

At this point, the meeting ended, and a group of people's deputies went back to their homes to find their mothers.

And that Director Liu smiled and hugged his fists and left amid the newspaper interview and the cheers of several ordinary people who were observing, and it is estimated that he should become the number one star in the newspaper tomorrow.

"You see, that's democracy."

When he walked out of the inspectorate, Yang Feng said to Montesquieu.

Since half a century ago, Louis XIV walked to the hall of the Paris parliament wearing a hunting suit and carrying a horsewhip, and told the parliamentarians who were in session that from this day on, it was forbidden to hold any more such meetings, and the French parliament existed in name only, and under the light of the Sun King, all the people had to obey Louis's will, even if Louis was extravagant and rejoicing, and the French population was reduced by nearly one-seventh in less than twenty years, the French people still had to be patient.

Obviously, compared to the Ming Dynasty, France is like a country of Tatars.

He let out a long sigh of infinite emotion.

At this moment, the girl suddenly ran over with excitement on her face, and at the same time, many people were also excitedly rushing to the front.

Yang Feng grabbed the girl.

"What's wrong?"

He asked.

"Dantubo's son was caught fighting in Jiyuan."

The girl said as she wrenched herself from him.

"Quick, go over and have a look!"

Yang Feng hurriedly said to the coachman.

When they rushed over, the unlucky noble son had been pulled out of the courtyard by the police, handcuffed in his hands, and was escorted into the police prisoner car in the crowd of onlookers, and the injured person was carried out on a stretcher and was also being loaded into the hospital's carriage, the man waved his fist and shouted with a bloody face: "I want to sue you, I want you to go to Beihai for the rest of your life, what's wrong with the nobles, the nobles can rob other people's girls and beat people casually!" ”

Then there was a round of applause.

"Your Excellency Marquis, what will happen to the Earl?"

Montesquieu asked.

"It's hard to say, depending on the situation, if his son does hurt people for no reason and is a first-time offender, then it will not implicate him, but if he hurts someone, he will definitely be exiled, whether it is Jinzhou or Beihai, it depends on how the person is injured, but his son's inheritance rights must be deprived, if his son has a criminal record, then the son is not the fault of the godfather, he should be a moral example as a nobleman, so he must also be implicated, at least he will publicly apologize, and at worst he will take the title."

Yang Feng said.

Montesquieu sighed again.

In France, this is a fart, the aristocracy doesn't talk about hurting people, even if you kill a small puppet, what's the big deal. (To be continued.) )