Just when the dust settled on the general election of the United States, the fourth parliamentary election of the Ming Empire also kicked off.

In Southeast Asia, the Middle East, including Western Australia, from east to west nearly 10,000 kilometers and from south to north in a vast empire of more than 5,000 kilometers, voters in different constituencies have gone to the polling places to cast their sacred votes for the candidates for the upper and lower houses of parliament in their constituencies. Especially those voters who have only joined the empire in recent years attach great importance to this election, and even many gray-haired old people have let their younger generations support them to go to the polls, with tears of excitement on their faces.

Uh, although they are also from a democracy.

At present, there are a total of 360 members of the upper house of the Ming Congress, excluding hereditary members, lifelong members, and three types of subject state members, and the rest are elected by each province and each of the two types of subject countries according to the number determined when they join the empire, and their functions are similar to the US Senate. But unlike the U.S. Senate, the majority leader of the upper house of the Ming Empire is the head of the empire, which is similar to Britain, the head of the empire has no term limit, that is, as long as the imperial revival party always maintains the majority position in the upper house, Yang can always stay on the throne of the head of the empire.

The lower house is elected by the electorate based on the number of voters, and its functions are basically similar to the House of Representatives, but there are some differences in details.

In fact, Yang Feng doesn't know if this system is good or not, and he is not interested in making any perfect system, there is no perfect system in this world at all, it's almost enough, anyway, as long as he is still here, there will be no problems in this country.

One day he's gone......

He's gone. That's his business!

Besides, it's too early for him to be gone. In half a century, all systems have been smoothed out.

And the results of this election. Of course, there is no suspense, although the support of the Imperial Renaissance Party has declined slightly, but it still maintains 75 percent of the seats in the upper house, more than eight times that of the second-ranked party, which shows that the people of Daming still recognize the work of the Imperial Renaissance Party very much.

As for the slight decline in support, it was only because of the expansion of the empire's territory. There are just too many new members.

As in the previous term, the Social Workers and the skinheads each won one seat, and even the candidates did not change.

"It's still a familiar recipe, it's still a familiar taste, Lu Gong, are you okay with your old health?"

Yang Feng sat in his seat and raised his hand and shouted at an old man about sixty years old.

He was a hereditary noble councillor, of the same rank as the kings, and had a seat dedicated to them, that is, in the row in front of the dragon chair dedicated to the tablet of Chongzhen. But now one row can no longer be placed, and it has been changed to two rows. On his right sat Li Jiu, on his left sat Nguyen Phuc Than, on the other side of Li Jiu was Xiong Ze, on the other side of Nguyen Phuc Hypriot was the Chieftain of Abu Dhabi, in short, it was all a group of such goods, and in front of them was the Speaker's seat.

At this time, Yang Yuan is no longer the speaker, after all, this is not the time of the small warlords of the year, but the speaker is not elected, but to carry forward the traditional virtue of respecting the elders of the Chinese nation by the oldest in the House of Lords, this year's speaker is Hu Wenhu, he should have died of illness six years ago in his original history, but now he is alive and well, almost eighty years old and sitting there with white hair as a tablet.

The other civilian legislators sat on either side of the chamber in imitation of the Golden Luang Hall, with rows of seats arranged in a stepped manner, with the speaker seat in the middle.

The person who was asked by Yang Feng smiled slightly, this is the only member of the upper house of the Social Labor Party, a veteran of the Borneo Anti-Japanese Allied Army, and he was also the last term, it is obvious that they have simply broken the jar, and they can't open the work situation anyway, so just make do with it. In a seat opposite this councillor, there was another improvised, this is the only member of the upper house of the skinhead party, and a veteran of the Xinghua Volunteer Army, on the contrary, among the people who emigrated from the north, none of them are willing to continue to stand under these two banners, and it is estimated that they are all heartbroken.

And in these seats, there are a dozen or so whites who stand out.

This is the new Western Australian parliamentarians, according to the merger agreement, Western Australia will have thirty seats in the upper house, so it is inevitable that whites will appear in it, and it is because of their participation that the proportion of seats in the Baath Party has been reduced, in addition to them, there are also five new Wa members of parliament, the Wa Kingdom has five seats in the Imperial Parliament and the Goryeo Kingdom, which does not include the hereditary seats of the two kings.

This was the first meeting of the new Upper House of the Ming Imperial Parliament.

And the topic of this meeting was very simple, and the proposal of Yuan Yuan Yang was to restore the knighthood system to reward those who had made outstanding contributions to the empire in various fields.

"We have nothing else to really thank them for, none of them are short of money, and money is not enough to measure their contributions, such as Mr. Shu Xingbei, President of our Academy of Sciences, and Ms. Wu Chien-shiung, President of the Nuclear Energy Research Institute, the value they have created for our country cannot be measured by monetary figures. As for the medals, it is not enough to express our gratitude, only knighthoods, and they are real titles given to the territory, can truly be worthy of their contributions, so I hereby propose the restoration of the knighthood system as the head of the Empire. ”

Yang Feng walked to the speaker and said solemnly.

"Your Excellency, this is the twentieth century, and in such an era, in an era when everyone is equal, is it a little too much to restore this system, which has long been thrown into the dustbin of history, and to restore the system of nobles and commoners?"

Councilor Lu said with a frown.

"I don't think this goes against the trend, first of all, we are an empire, this is very clear in the constitution, we originally had nobles, I am, we do not have a clear law to abolish nobles, and we also do not clearly stipulate the cessation of knighthood, that is to say, our knighthood system actually exists, but there has been no new title, and now re-knighthood is just a continuation of the normal system.

And I don't think that the aristocracy is contrary to equality, the nobility of the European kingdoms has always existed, and I don't see anything special about their nobility and other citizens, they have the same political rights, they also have to pay taxes according to the rules, they also obey the same laws, so the title we want to give is more of a higher honor that can be hereditary, and the other is that the state rewards them with a piece of land, but they will not have any privileges in other respects. ”

Yang Feng said.

The knighthood system is something he has been brewing for a long time, although this system that goes against the trend of history is a little too anachronistic, or simply a regression of history, but who makes him like it?

And the knighthood system does have great benefits, he can use the knighthood to reward talents, such as scientists, big capitalists, meritorious soldiers in the army, these people will not pay too much attention to money, after all, people who can reach the knighthood qualification can not be short of money, relatively speaking, honor is easier to motivate them, and the highest state of honor is undoubtedly knighted, the medal has a fart, no one can hang the medal every day, but the title is always with them, and can even be passed on to future generations.

"If they are knighted, and if they are actually sealed, where does their fief come from?"

A lawmaker asked.

This is an important question, although the Ming Dynasty has more than 3 million square kilometers of territory, but in fact there are not many really suitable for habitation, the main head is the wilderness of Western Australia and the rainforest of Borneo, and there is not much other inhabited land. Moreover, the vast majority of the land in Borneo is under the name of Yang Yuan, who bought almost the entire Dutch Borneo from the Dutch people, and all the country owns is the unclaimed land of the three provinces of North Borneo, Medan, Shouxin, and Surabaya, and there are still more than 100,000 square kilometers in the Middle East, but it is a vast desert.

You can't seal people up in the desert, can you?

The terra nullius of Western Australia and Aceh were two subject governments and had nothing to do with the imperial government.

"It's simple, I can donate part of my private land."

Yang Feng said generously.

He holds nearly 400,000 square kilometers of land in the former Dutch Borneo, and all the people who have used his land over the years have only paid a small amount of rent every year symbolically, and even he does not collect a penny of rent for public construction land, but these lands have always been in his name, and now it is nothing more than taking out a part of it to give it to the person who accepts the knighthood as a territory, not to mention that in fact, there are a large area of barren mountains and mountains, which can also be used for knighthood.

And he can't give more, he is a marquis, and no one will surpass him in the future, the Ming Dynasty knighthood system was the prince and the prince at the beginning, but then only the prince and the prince were left, he can restore the last three ranks, and only these three ranks. And the Ming Dynasty knighted only had a salary and no land, so he had the final say on how much to give, 100 acres for the baron, 500 acres for the viscount, and 1,000 acres for the earl, which is only 1.5 square kilometers, even if he seals 10,000 titles, how much land can he use?

As soon as he said this, those parliamentarians had no opinion, anyway, the government didn't have to pay for it, it was nothing more than a deformed medal, so what's the big deal, except for a few serious republicans who continue to oppose it there, there is basically no other opposition.

Then the next step was the vote, which soon was a large number of raised hands, and finally the first proposal of the upper house of the fourth session of the Ming Dynasty was passed with 70% of the votes in favor, and the Ming Dynasty officially restored the knighthood system. (To be continued.) )