A.D. 1073, Huang Yuan 3790, Xining six years, the tenth day of the first month. The Provisional Cabinet Hall, which is made up of the Councils of each university, will preside over state affairs, and the general election will last for one month from the 10th day of the Lunar New Year. The general election is held every five years, and this is the first time. The monarchs of various countries are willing to take a look at the politics of the Great Song Dynasty, anyway, they live comfortably on the first floor of the Great Song Dynasty, and they live for free food and accommodation, but they also live with peace of mind for a month.

From this day on, Zhao Ji did not stay idle and began to pull votes for Cai Jing and Zhang Dian. Zhao Xu, the emperor, was dispatched, and many of the exploits of Cai Jing and Zhang Dian were listed by Zhao Xuan, such as Cai Jing built the world's first largest city, Shangjing, and Zhang Dian quelled the Southwest Yi Rebellion and so on.

Zhao Ji's appearance made Yelu Hongji feel very interesting. If the emperor wants to use whomever he wants, what kind of election will he have. This Song people just like to toss. However, Yeluhongki saw the benefits. That is, Zhao Ji actually still holds power, and at the same time, he will not worry about the stability of the throne. Although Yelu Hongji is a little mediocre, he is not stupid, most of the power of the Liao State is in the hands of Yelu Yixin, the king of the Northern Courtyard, he knows, but he thinks that Yelu Yixin is loyal to him. After seeing the politics of the Great Song Dynasty, Yelu Hongji found that loyalty was not so reliable.

The monarchs of the Nine Kingdoms, like Zhao Ji, also began to appear to canvass votes for their favorite people. Hyped that only when Wang Anshi became the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty could the world be peaceful. However, the monarchs of the nine countries unanimously supported Wang Anshi, but the people of the Great Song Dynasty wondered if Wang Anshi had betrayed the country? The students of the four universities and the branches of the four universities, the ones who don't hate the Khitans and the party. Now it's okay, Yelu Hongji and they have done Wang Anshi a favor.

A lot of time-traveling novels like to engage in elections. However, is the election really in line with traditional Chinese culture? Or: what kind of democratization process should China, and indeed the entire system of Eastern civilization, adapt to? Can blindly copying the Western electoral system work?

Zhao Ji has always been very skeptical, because during the election process, although Zhao Ji has been pulling votes for Cai Jing, it has little impact. Zhao Ji even called on the people of Shangjing to support Cai Jing's entry into the prime minister, after all, Shangjing was planned and built by Cai Jing, and Cai Jing had a high prestige among the people of Shangjing, but the final result was that no one paid attention to the emperor Zhao Ji, and all the people were more willing to watch the play, at most guess who would be the prime minister.

There are many gambling houses, opened, Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, Su Shi, Shen Kuo, Su Song, Zhang Dan, Lu Huiqing, Cai Jing, Han Jiang, Lu Gongzhu, Feng Jing, Fan Zhen, Zhang Fangping, Chen Shengzhi, Han Wei, Cai Qu, Zeng Bu and other more than 30 people have been clearly marked, Wang Anshi and Sima Guang Who can be the prime minister? The odds are very high.

The enthusiasm of the people to participate in gambling is much higher than the enthusiasm of supporting who will be the prime minister. This made Zhao Ji speechless and dumbfounded.

Zhao Ji therefore thought that fortunately, he did not imitate the West and engage in universal suffrage, otherwise it is estimated that it is the same thing whether the people will vote or not. Judging from this situation, the biggest problem in holding elections in China is not whether there are two parties or multiple parties competing in elections, but that ordinary people are simply unwilling to vote. Nobody cares about those things, who is the president, who is the chairman, these issues are not the people's concern at all.

This problem can be seen from the elections in China in later generations. Who cares about the common people? When the new chairman came out, he didn't know what the new chairman had done before, or where he had come from. No one cares, except for occasionally watching the news broadcast, only to find out that the country has changed leaders, they all watch South Korea's bubble dramas.

Compared with the election, the people pay more attention to the college entrance examination, and every year the college entrance examination has not yet started, and parents are exploring this year's college entrance examination policy and so on. I put my work on hold and devoted myself to preparing my children for the college entrance examination.

The clash of Eastern and Western civilizations is a big topic, and in addition to the ancient Chinese republic mentioned above, there was no slave society and no feudal society, and here we also have to talk about elections and examinations.

Westerners invented elections, starting from ancient Rome and continuing to the present, they have revered elections as a treasure. The Chinese invented the imperial examination, and from the Sui Dynasty to the present, our civil servants and public institutions still use examinations to determine candidates.

Since the beginning of the Republic of China, Western civilization has invaded, and all patriots have always regarded elections as a good way for China to stand out from the world and change its backwardness, believing that elections are the best way to change China's status quo, and that elections are omnipotent and the embodiment of public opinion. From online novels to real society, they all carry such an appeal. However, until now the election has not materialized.

Most Chinese don't know what the ballot looks like. It's not the government's problem, it's the people's own problem, who trust exams more than elections. In later generations in China, the countryside always elected a group of bullies as village officials, and it can be seen that the people don't care about who is the official at all, only care about whether it is beneficial, and this is the soil for bribery.

This is not to say that China does not have a democratic culture, on the contrary, China is very democratic, but democracy never believes in verbal promises. They only look at the actual benefits, and you have to do it before they believe it. Of course, it is impossible to do it first, because there is no power, so what to do? Examination.

It can be seen from China's perfect examination system that China is very democratic, how can it be democratic? Everything speaks with test scores! This is very democratic, everyone has the opportunity to take the exam, and everyone has the possibility to pass the exam to get ahead and then become an official who controls the destiny of the country.

From the beginning of the Song Dynasty's imperial examination system to later generations, the examination brought about no family that could hold the power of a country for a long time. China has not had a real aristocracy since the Northern Song Dynasty, compared with the aristocratic families that have been inherited for thousands of years in Western society, it can be seen that China's democracy is the same as that of the West.

The West's ** lies in the fact that the state power has been in the hands of the aristocracy for a long time, and the democracy in the West lies in the fact that the state power is not in the hands of an aristocracy, because the election can constantly change leaders. This is what the United States looks like, it seems that the president is elected once every four years, but in fact it is still those capitalists who control the regime.

China's ** is that if you don't pass the exam, you don't have the right to speak. This also means that as long as you pass the exam and become an official, then even if you are talking, it is the truth. Why is this happening? Because you have passed the strict exam, you have formed a cult, even if the officials are talking, the people believe that you are not talking because you have passed the exam. This kind of ** is actually the ** of the right to speak, and the people have no right to speak.

This kind of ** is not something that Zhao Ji can change. Thousands of years of cultural development have formed a nation's way of thinking, which cannot be changed by the Western electoral system.

As a result, Zhao Ji thought of the democratic centralism of later generations and the intra-party democracy. This is a very good system, and this system is coupled with the cabinet system that imitates the Illumination Dynasty. As a result, Zhao formulated the four-university system, in which the teachers and students of the four universities were not officials, but they were quasi-officials, and it was the best choice to let the quasi-officials decide on the positions of officials. Because in front of quasi-officials, the officials have no right to speak, they have all passed the strict examination system, and they are all one in a million, who worships whom?

If universal suffrage was implemented in the Song Dynasty, then the state power was likely to be held by local wealthy clans. Then it becomes the local power to give power to the central power, and once the interests of each local government are different, it is easy to cause a split. The greatest possibility is that it will lead to a Civil War similar to that of the United States in later generations.

So Zhao Ji's choice was right, fortunately, he didn't have to carry out democratic elections as soon as he crossed over, or even forced the people to elect, and built three-level councils or something at the local level. If that's the case, the Song Dynasty under the eyes of foreign enemies, once there is internal strife, there is only the possibility of being annexed by the Liao State.

The living soul of Marxism is the concrete analysis of specific problems. Zhao Ji is a Marxist, the times are different, the national conditions are different, and there is no mess with the so-called advanced systems of later generations.

The four-university system can prevent the emergence of the prime minister, and there is an election every five years, and no one can hold the phase for a long time, because the real power is in the four universities, and the prime minister is only the representative of this power. And the power of the four universities was given by the emperor and by the Son of Heaven, that is to say, the four universities were given imperial power by Zhao Ji, or they shared the imperial power with Zhao Ji and performed different duties. As long as the four-university government system is consolidated, Zhao Ji's throne will also be consolidated.

Zhao Ji needed the four universities to enjoy most of the imperial power, so as to prevent the appearance of the faint monarch. It is a system of interdependence and mutual checks and balances. The three major powers of imperial power, prime power, and voting power are interdependent and mutually restrictive. The imperial power is unified but not governed, and the power of the minister is not unified, and the right to vote ensures checks and balances of power.

After the election, according to the government hall system and the four-university government system, Zhao Ji's power was almost all deprived. If Zhao Ji and the prime minister don't deal with each other, then there will be a veto left. If you are not satisfied with the prime minister, you can appeal to the four university councils. That is to say, if the emperor wants to participate in politics, it is okay, the government hall system, the emperor is in the court, and the decision-making power is in the hands of the emperor and the prime minister. The emperor can be lazy if he wants, but the emperor doesn't want to do things, and the decision-making power is in the hands of the prime minister and the ruling power.

After the general election, which lasted for a month, a new government hall was born, and after the report of the House of Representatives, Zhao Ji stamped the jade seal and promulgated it to the world. To Zhao Ji's surprise, the prime minister was neither Wang Anshi nor Sima Guang, but Shen Kuo, a big fat man and a great inventor.

Zhao Ji had a headache, although Shen Kuo was also a politician and reformer, but compared with scientists and inventors, he was much inferior.

The four universities and the four branches of the university have a total of more than 900,000 teachers and students. Each teacher and student has one vote, and before voting, they will get a book like Sima Guang's recital, with the introduction of the candidates. Electors can write their favorite people on the ballot paper according to their position.

The purpose of filling in the ballot papers by position is also to prevent the number of votes from being too concentrated and the number of candidates too small, since there are 17 members in the Council. There is one prime minister, two rulers, and fourteen counselors. Three positions, separate votes counted.

Shen Kuo won more than 500,000 votes for the prime minister, accounting for more than half of the prime minister's votes. Needless to say, the number of votes came first, and he became the prime minister. Sima Guang and Wang Anshi divided the remaining prime minister's votes, Sima Guang got more than 200,000 votes, ranking second, and Wang Anshi had more than 3,000 votes less than Sima Guang, ranking third.

The prime minister's vote determines the prime minister and the ruling party, and the ruling vote determines the fourteen counselors. They are: Su Shi, Lu Gongzhu, Li Peixiong, Han Jiang, Zhang Dan, Wen Yanbo, Chen Shengzhi, Su Song, Guo Kui, Cheng Hao, Fan Chunren, Han Zhongyan, Fan Zhen, Zhang Fangping.

Seeing this result, Zhao Ji's eyes were about to fall, and he felt like crazy. Cai Jing was defeated, Fan Chunren, who went crazy, was selected, and Han Qi's son Han Zhongyan was also selected. Looking at the others, most of them are the original patriarchs.

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