After taking a sip of tea, Mr. Ross was slightly stunned, a little disbelieving his tongue, and took another sip, his teeth and cheeks were fragrant, slightly astringent and bitter, and the feeling was as if he was blessed by God touching the top of his head, and the pores of his whole body were extremely comfortable. The finest teas shipped from China to London and to Melbourne are simply rotten leaves in comparison.

Ye Zhao sat opposite him and said with a smile: "Mr. Ross, stay a few more days in Yanjing, ask me Brother Su to lead you around to take a look, we Chinese, eating and drinking are still very exquisite." ”

Mr. Ross was silent for a moment and asked, "Is Mr. a Chinese nobleman?" ”

Ye Zhaodao: "Considered a businessman? "Running a country is also a business.

Mr. Ross said: "I apologize to you for the previous abruptness, and I can see that you are not an upstart. Speaking of this, I can't help but laugh, looking at people's every move, that grand pomp and circumstance has nothing to do with the nouveau riche.

Ye Zhao smiled, in fact, he is also a "nouveau riche", think about his assets in various industries, I don't know if it has exceeded 200 million silver dollars, of course, here does not count the palaces, imperial gardens, imperial villages and other industries, these are either inherited or plundered in the Western Regions or the wealth paid by various subject countries, and there is no way to calculate it with silver money, such as the Old Summer Palace, how do you calculate its value?

What about the assets of each industry? I'm afraid it's not very good to value, such as Taihe Bank, it is difficult to estimate an accurate value, from the case of the female worker, I know that the assets of the Yanjing branch alone are more than one million silver dollars, and the entire Taihe Bank, whose main business is in the south, how many assets are there? Million? Million? I'll have to look at its statistical report later.

If the assets reach 200 million silver dollars, what is the standard? Nearly 50 million pounds, it's really scary to think about, you must know that the average annual income of British citizens is only 30 pounds, and there are only a handful of billionaires in the world with assets of more than one million pounds.

However, looking back, Hu Xueyan relied on the support and monopoly of the government to monopolize silk tea, and accumulated 20 million taels of silver in ten years, that is, less than 30 million silver dollars, and the assets of Taihe Bank, Guangfu Yinhao, Guangfu Iron and Steel Bank, etc., with the help of the power of imperial industrialization, coupled with the investment and income of various new inventions, and his own checks with a hammer in the east and a mallet in the west, if the total assets of each bank really exceeded 200 million silver dollars, it would not be unusual.

After thinking about it, Ye Zhao said: "Mr. Ross, the program of the Beijing Normal University Theater is good in the afternoon, so I want Brother Su to accompany you." ”

Mr. Ross nodded, but was startled again. After getting along for a long time, I feel that the gestures of this young man in front of you have an irresistible meaning, so that you are unconsciously affected by it.

Ye Zhao turned his head to Su Lao Dao again: "Brother Su, talk to Mr. Ross well, take him around, and I'll send you a guide." ”

Boss Su smiled innocently.

Ye Zhao glanced at the future "sister-in-law" again, and saw that the "sister-in-law" was looking at him in surprise, thinking that a few words to him would make the angry father calm down and be greatly surprised.

As the three of them left, Miss Rose whispered as she passed by Ye Zhao, "Thank you, brother China." ”

Ye Zhao smiled and nodded, and said in his heart that Brother Su was not wrong, he was quite a lady, and he had received a good education at a glance.

The British are now eligible to vote based on their annual income, and in the second parliamentary reform that has just been carried out, voters are eligible to vote as city dwellers, and are tax-paying house owners, tenants who own rooms and have a significant annual income, and who have lived for more than a year and own property with a net annual value of £10.

Twenty years later, the third parliamentary reform finally gave the peasants the right to vote, and the electorate was capped at more than £10 a year, but forty per cent of adult males were still unable to vote.

However, due to the influence of Eastern China, the feminist movement in the West has risen rapidly, and this year's British parliamentary reform has given some high-income women the right to vote.

The election of the Imperial Legislature would otherwise start with an annual income? Limiting the annual income of voters to more than 30 silver dollars, generally speaking, those who earn more than 30 silver dollars a year in the empire today are at least the middle- and high-income working class, and they are also beginning to be exposed to new ideas.

Then he shook his head, or wait, steady. If you want to do it, you should first set up a pilot, such as Beijing.

Ye Zhao kept thinking about things, but Concubine Jin didn't dare to interrupt his train of thought, and when she saw Ye Zhao looking up, Concubine Jin asked, "Father, why don't you go to the theater with them?" ”

Ye Zhao smiled: "Let's go somewhere else, where do you want to go?" "I just pondered that I can't dominate the crowd, or let Brother Su get along alone with his future father-in-law, and slowly get acquainted, and I believe that after taking a walk in Beijing and taking a look, Mr. Ross will be shocked by China's achievements.

Let's talk about the big theater, because of the universal application of the tube, the big theater has used microphones and loudspeakers, which can not be seen in Europe, the first batch of microphones, megaphones, gramophones bought by European businessmen, are still on the ship, on the way.

Walking around these four or nine cities, Mr. Rose will definitely exclaim and open his eyes.

"Where do you want to go? I'll go with you. Ye Zhao couldn't help but laugh when he saw Concubine Jin tilting her head and thinking hard.

"Then, I want to go to the Old Summer Palace!"

Ye Zhao smiled: "You also know that this garden is good, don't you?" Okay, I'll take you there. ”

You don't need to go to the inner city to go to the Old Summer Palace, you can go north from the new city, and when you pass the new city to patrol the house, Ye Zhao ordered the female guard to make a call and asked Zhu Sisi to go to the Old Summer Palace too.

…… More than an hour later, several carriages drove into the Old Summer Palace, which was tightly guarded by the guards, and slowly turned in the smoke and rain of the bamboo forest, the spring and the smooth harmony, and through the glass window, Ye Zhao explained the scenery to Concubine Jin.

Ye Zhaoshi was absent-minded, sitting in the carriage, thinking about the "car", after countless failures, a recent experiment, the three-wheeled wooden gasoline engine started the car out of 20 kilometers and did not turn off, it seems that he sat on the wooden "car" when it was not far away, but the car that has just come out, I am afraid that it is no different from the carriage, but the groom in front of it is replaced by a driver, the speed is about the same as the carriage, and it has to bear the problem of occasionally stalling, speaking of which, it is not as comfortable as the carriage, but why does it feel itchy, Want to get your car up and running?

Concubine Jin suddenly yawned.

Ye Zhao woke up and said with a smile: "What I said is boring, right?" ”

"It's my daughter who is a little tired." Concubine Jin smiled.

Seeing the deep house next to the blue lake in front, the heavy eaves and golden thresholds, the palace gate is magnificent, it is the Changchun Immortal Pavilion.

Ye Zhao said, "Go inside and rest." ”

In the pine and cypress, the palace is layered on top of each other, this is the layout of the dormitory, which is quite quiet.

Entering the warm pavilion, the palace maid sent hot water towels to rinse her mouth, Ye Zhao freshened up, sat on the spacious Huang Chengcheng treasure couch that can lie down and sit, on the wall behind it, the yellow paper is framed in black letters, it is a meditation text inscribed by Ye Zhao himself, thinking that his handwriting has become a priceless treasure after hundreds of years, Ye Zhao can't help but feel strange.

On the left-hand side, a palace maid sent tea and snacks, and a palace maid came to help Ye Zhao take off his shoes, Ye Zhao smiled at Concubine Jin: "I don't shy away from you." After walking all the way, my feet were really tired, and I nodded to the palace maid, and after a while, the palace maid brought hot water with flower petals in a wooden basin and placed it on the collapsed pier, just putting Ye Zhao's feet in, the posture was extremely comfortable, and the palace maid carefully helped Ye Zhao apply perfume and rub his feet.

Ye Zhao closed his eyes slightly, and his mind was still thinking about various political affairs, although now he is just grasping the general direction, and the specific government affairs are all handled by the Government Affairs Yuan, but there are still many places that need to be worried, for example, the Wuhan Bridge, Ye Zhao is not very peaceful.

When the palace maid changed the fresh water to wash off the perfume on his feet, wiped his feet with a hot dry towel, and then took a soft blanket to help him cover his feet and then carefully retreated, Ye Zhao was still thinking about the Wuhan Bridge.

Suddenly came back to his senses, hurriedly opened his eyes and looked up, and said, "Yu'er, I forgot about you!" "No, I've forgotten about her.

In a blink of an eye, Concubine Jin was lying on his right side, covered with a soft blanket under her feet, obviously the same as him, washed and washed, at this time her beautiful eyes blinked, and sighed: "Father, you don't take me to heart at all, right?" ”

Ye Zhao said curtly: "Recently, there have been some mistakes in political affairs, which have made me uneasy, don't you care." "The performance is too obvious, even if Concubine Jin relies on him again, she can't ignore others like this, how can she be a princess, who dares to treat her like this in Seoul?

Concubine Jin said: "My daughter knows, so I don't dare to disturb my father." Father, when it comes to political affairs, the general of the new army ...... there, with a hesitant look on his face, he was afraid that Ye Zhao would refuse her, and he didn't know if his request would disgust Ye Zhao.

Ye Zhao said very quickly: "As long as the consultants feel qualified, they will choose your people, in other words, you have to pick the ability, this is the army, nepotism must also have a degree, and it cannot affect the combat effectiveness." ”

Concubine Jin was overjoyed and said, "Thank you, father, but please rest assured, my daughter still understands these things." ”

North Korea will train a new army of about 10,000 people, and China will send an officer advisory group to help train it, equip it with 10-shot guns, and purchase 50 artillery pieces from China.

The Guangzhou-made 1865 rifle came out, and the emperor [***] team began to buy, and the first generation of Guangzhou-made in the arsenal naturally had to find a high-priced buyer to buy and sell it to the servant army, and it could really form combat effectiveness, so why not?

In fact, in the Far East, European firearms have been completely eliminated by the market, China has become the largest arms dealer in the entire Far East, and a large number of early rear-loading guns eliminated by the empire have poured in, and the military has been redressed almost at no cost, and even Chinese firearms have been sold to Nepal and India. However, it was the first time that it was made in Guangzhou and sold to the outside world, and of course it had to be sold to the loyal North Korea.

In fact, it is really difficult for Ye Zhao to imagine that his country will become the cosmic stream of the future generations, and it is ridiculous to be arrogant.

Although after the Qing Dynasty destroyed the Ming Dynasty, some scholars in North Korea believed that the Qing Dynasty was a barbarian, and only North Korea was the heir to China's orthodoxy, but the mainstream ideology of North Korea still respected the Qing Dynasty as the suzerain, and with the rise of the empire, the powerful armed forces, coupled with the Chinese civilization under the policy of Ye Zhao, inherited its fine bloodline to its dross and evolved a culture with the characteristics of modern civilization, the Koreans were once again completely conquered by the Central Plains civilization, and their people were extremely respectful of the suzerain.

The first time the imperial family invited the head of a subject country to visit was Korea; The rank of the subject states at the state banquet of the suzerain, North Korea ranked first; For the first time, the suzerainty sold ten fast guns to the outside world, and the target was North Korea. All of this has made the Korean people feel honored and favored, and they are willing to be the "head horse" of the suzerain, sharing the glory and disgrace with the suzerain, and the suzerain's strength makes the country rejoice.

This state of mind may be difficult for those who have seen the cosmic flow in later generations to understand, but it is a fact of the present day.

After thinking about helping North Korea set up a new army, Ye Zhao decided to arm it to the teeth, and in the future, when fighting with Russia, it would be able to undertake certain low-intensity combat missions, and it would not have to be completely reduced to a logistics support team.

Naturally, all the forces in the DPRK want to control this new army.

Ye Zhao thought for a while, and said: "You are like this, you draw up a big list, your people, write a small list, I will ask the officer corps to do it, and tilt towards your people during the assessment, but it can't be too obvious, your country's internal affairs mainly depend on yourself, I don't want to get too involved." ”

Concubine Jin smiled and said, "My daughter understands. ”

Ye Zhao asked again: "Li Yu is good?" ”

Concubine Jin shook her head: "That's it." ”

Ye Zhao said: "Xiao Yuanjun hasn't been made a prince yet, right?" ”

Concubine Jin pursed her lips and smiled: "Father is still facing his daughter, isn't it?" said that he would not participate, but he still woke up his daughter every sentence, and I will do it when I go back. ”

As she was talking, the palace maid outside raised her voice slightly: "Master, the concubine has arrived at the gate of the garden." ”

Ye Zhao knew that she was talking about Concubine Li, Zhu Sisi, and looked at Concubine Jin who was lying next to her, it was indeed a little ambiguous, no wonder the palace maid had to carefully "remind" herself, and said with a smile: "Let's get up." ”

The door was actually open all the time, seeing that the master got up, the palace maid hurriedly came in to help Ye Zhao and Concubine Jin put on shoes and socks, and when she saw Concubine Jin's small snowy jade feet, Ye Zhao couldn't help but look at it a few more times, and then laughed, what are you doing? When I looked up, I saw Concubine Jin smiling at herself.

Leaning on the soft fan-shaped leather pier behind the treasure couch, Ye Zhao picked up the teacup. Seeing that the palace maids had all retreated, Concubine Jin asked in a low voice, "Father, are my feet good-looking?" ”

Ye Zhao's heart couldn't help but flutter, glared at her, and said, "It's becoming more and more speechless!" ”

Concubine Jin grinned and said, "If my father wants to see it, my daughter will show it to you every day." ”

Ye Zhao coughed dryly and ignored her no more.

After half an hour, there was a sound of footsteps outside the warm pavilion, and then the palace maid lifted the door curtain, and the beautiful Zhu Sisi walked in. ”

Zhu Sisi made a big red face, she was several years younger than Concubine Jin.

Seeing Zhu Sisi's embarrassment, Ye Zhao couldn't help but laugh, beckoned to Zhu Sisi, and said, "Sisi, I have something to discuss with you." ”

Zhu Sisi, who had just picked up Concubine Jin, was relieved, she really didn't know how to communicate with Concubine Jin.

Ye Zhao got up and paced two steps, and said, "Sisi, what do you think of that bridge in Wuhan?" ”

Listening to Ye Zhao and Zhu Sisi talking about domestic political affairs, Concubine Jin said, "Do you want your daughter to go out and avoid it?" ”

Ye Zhao waved his hand and said, "You sit on yours, it's okay to listen." ”

Zhu Sisi said: "The bridge in Wuhan? I don't really know. ”

Ye Zhao shook his head and said, "Five million silver dollars have been approved, and I heard that someone has moved that money." ”

Zhu Sisi said: "It costs to measure anything, right?" ”

Ye Zhao shook his head.

Zhu Sisi knew that it was not a normal expense, and she discussed it with herself, without asking, and knew that the news might be from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and she couldn't get on the table.

The allocated money was allocated by the "Wuhan Bridge Construction Bureau", which belonged to the temporary yamen, and the minister of office, Kong Mingshi, was also an old man of the Southern Dynasty, who was born in supervision, and was the director of the Hunan Supervision Bureau, and then transferred to the Construction Bureau before being the director of the Highway Department of the Ministry of Communications.

At the same time, officials from the Ministry of Supervision and the Audit Office are stationed in the Wuhan Bridge Construction Bureau to supervise the flow of funds.

However, since the Southern Dynasties, the regent has purged the officialdom and put a brake on the corruption of ink, the provincial and county governments have been able to read the integrity of the supervision system and the auditing system of the local political axe, and the high criminal cost of fraud in the financial departments have made it difficult for the yamen at all levels to be as unscrupulous as the previous dynasty.

Officials from the Ministry of Supervision and the Audit Office are very unpopular at the local level, and once they come to their doors, most of them are not good.

Political axe engineering projects, I have never heard of a project supervisor and supervision, audit officials colluded together to be embarrassed, because usually the officials sent do not know each other, in the case of not knowing the details of the other party, even if there is that heart, but involving three parties, one party may be shaken out if there is a mistake, because there is no statute of limitations for the investigation of the crime of greedy ink, a few years later, the person committed something, Chen Guzi shook out of the rotten sesame seeds, and had to follow the food hanging, so I don't know the bottom line, or don't mix together. Who knows if the person on the other side is an insatiable troublesome oilman.

Therefore, the phenomenon of corruption in the Southern Dynasties, which still existed relatively in the Southern Dynasties, to the stability of the political situation, the establishment of the empire, the increase in the salaries of civil servants several times, and the two large-scale campaigns against corruption, at least, the more rampant corruption of ink has disappeared, and the funds for state-level engineering projects, I have never heard of anyone daring to touch them.

"You want me to check on him?" Zhu Sisi wrinkled her delicate little nose and said, "But I don't understand, I'm not an accountant, and I'm not a member of the Audit Commission, so I can't care about it." ”

Ye Zhao knocked on her head and said with a smile: "This little brain, it's so simple to think about things, if you want to investigate the case, why should I look for you?" How? Do you really think of yourself as a detective? ”

Regardless of Zhu Sisi's rolling eyes at herself, she paced two steps and said, "Sisi, you can enter the Council." ”

Zhu Sisi was stunned for a moment and said, "The House of Representatives? ”

Ye Zhao said: "I know you like to do patrolling, do you want to go, I didn't say." ”

Zhu Sisi thought for a while and said, "If you tell me to go, then I'll go." ”

Ye Zhao nodded slightly, and said: "Actually, your surname, you should really go to the Parliamentary Yuan, in the patrol hall, but you will be buried." How good it is to go to the parliamentary house, as long as those councillors listen to you, even if you want to embarrass Li Xiaocun, he will have nothing to do with you. ”

Zhu Sisi knows that after all these years, he is still a stunned young man in the eyes of the pervert, he spoils himself and loves himself, and he is used to himself, but he can't turn his five finger mountain, no matter what he does, he will eventually become his stunned pioneer, and it's funny to think about.

Ye Zhao paced two steps and said with a smile: "The first female parliamentary envoy of the empire, I will issue an edict to allow you to enter the parliamentary chamber when I catch up with Ming'er." ”

Zhu Sisi was smart and said, "Do you want me to go to the Council to investigate the Wuhan Bridge project?" Isn't it possible to strengthen the oversight function of the House of Representatives? ”

Ye Zhao likes Zhu Sisi for this, she knows a lot of things in her little brain, and she is stunned, but for political affairs, under her own influence, she knows a lot, otherwise she would not be able to get into Tanhua back then.

The House of Representatives, Ye Zhao pondered that he still couldn't let it go, he still needed someone to inject vitality, and Zhu Sisi, who had his own support behind him, was undoubtedly the most suitable candidate, except for his wife, who would go in, no matter how much he admonished, he would not be afraid that he would not care about anything, and he would not realize his intention to restrict the Government Council.

The separation of powers seems to be a product of the West, but in fact it restricts balance, and it is also the essence of the imperial art of Eastern civilization.

The Government Council, the Council of Representatives, and the Dali Yuan each perform their duties and check and balance each other, Ye Zhao is the master of the high and the final arbiter, not only saving worry and effort, but also ensuring that he will not have the right to take over power, which is better than any balancing technique, and has planned a blueprint for the political framework for later generations, which is really counted in one fell swoop.

Watching the empire he planned grow little by little, Ye Zhaozi also had a sense of accomplishment, paced, and said, "General Audit Office, transfer the Council." Since then, on behalf of the Council, it has reviewed public expenditures on government affairs, supervised the operation of government affairs, and is accountable to the Council. ”

Public opinion institutions, without the power to audit, are empty shelves, and will always be decorations.

After thinking about it again, he said, "The deputy head of the Ministry of Supervision is also going to the Privy Council." ”

The Royal Privy Council is the central body of the imperial dignitaries serving the emperor, and the leaders of imperial government, public opinion, legal affairs, religion, etc. are all members of the Privy Council, called Privy Council Scholars.

Today, there are dozens of members of the Privy Council, including the prefects and deputy prefects of the three houses of government affairs, Dali and parliament, the prefects of the more important departments of the three chambers, the governors of more important provinces, and the more outstanding ** officials (in the future, it will inevitably be the senior ** officials selected), [***], Panchen, Jebu Tsundamba, Zhangjia The four living Buddhas, and now they have joined the white imam who has just been canonized as a national teacher, the governor of Nanyang, and so on.

The Royal Privy Council and the Royal Military Council were the two centres of the Emperor's military power.

Privy Council Fellowships are for life, unless they are expelled or unlawfully tarnished the glory of the Privy Council.

The members of the Privy Council were supposed to hold a plenary session once a year, but because of the long distance, the members with inconvenient transportation, such as [***], the Panchen, etc., were tentatively set to be a five-year term, and the living Buddha of Waimeng Jebtsundamba and the white imam of Xinjiang Province were tentatively set to be a two-year session, and then adjusted when the transportation conditions improved, but the content of the annual meeting would be conveyed to them through secret telegrams, and before each meeting, they also needed to write a letter to swear allegiance to the emperor in the name of the supreme god of their religion.

In fact, there is a similar body in the United Kingdom, called Her Majesty's Most Loyal Private Council, and even in later generations, in addition to domestic politicians, the Prime Ministers of Commonwealth countries with the King as the head of state will also be appointed as members of the committee.

For the empire, the Privy Council scholars are the most active politicians, and the selection of the deputy chief of the Ministry of Supervision shows that Ye Zhao attaches great importance to the supervision system.

"In short, if you enter the Council, listen to the report of the auditor stationed by the Construction Bureau as soon as possible, and if you have any doubts, hold a hearing or something, and summon the Minister of Affairs, Kong Mingshi, to the Council for questioning, if he is not easy to explain, the Ministry of Supervision can intervene."

In fact, there are many things that Ye Zhao only needs to move his mouth, but it is not easy to check him? But Ye Zhao just likes to crutches like this, why? The investigation is simple, and the establishment of systems and rules is the most important.

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(To be continued)