The summer palace was completed in 1887, from the beginning of construction to the completion of more than ten years, in the 90s of the last century and the 10s of this century after two large-scale expansions, Daihe County with the construction of the Daihe summer palace and the rise, at first a wooden shed area, inhabited by relatives of construction workers, to now is a small city with a population of more than 100,000.

In the local political structure of the empire, there is no subordinate relationship between cities and counties, usually the municipal district is slightly larger than the county, the city (county) chief executive is appointed by the provincial government, the city (county) mayor is usually called the imperial commissioner, for the imperial government to send local representatives, exercise the administrative power given by the imperial government and the provincial government, at the same time the city (county) has an elected council, the number of people varies according to the population of the city (county), from dozens to hundreds, the term of office of the councillor is 6 years, half of the election every 3 years, the city (county) council members are unpaid, The members of the council elect a number of speakers and vice-chairmen, and elect a secretary-general, who is the representative of the city (county) autonomy, who is responsible for implementing the resolutions of the council and has the right to organize and lead the local administrative organs of the government at the corresponding level.

In order to effectively exercise its functions and powers, the city (county) council has a number of committees, such as the National Education, Social Relief, Public Health, Public Works, Transport, Finance Committee, etc.

The most important of these is the Finance Committee, which is actually the standing organ of the city (county) council, commonly known as the city (county) committee, which is elected by the councillors and consists of 7-15 members, who act as parliamentary powers when the city (county) council is not in session.

The mayor and the speaker of the parliament perform their respective duties in a dual-track leadership system. This not only ensures the central government's strong control over the local governments, but also gives local governments a certain degree of autonomy. At this time, it is meaningless to talk about the official system of Chinese civilization, and the discussion of the political structure of the current imperial politicians and thinkers is to find a balance between centralization and local autonomy, and the so-called supervision and prevention are no longer issues that need to be discussed in the current power structure.

The empire implements a three-level local administrative system at the provincial, city (county) and town levels, and the power structure at the provincial level is similar to that at the city (county) level, except that the provincial governor, nominated by the prime minister and the minister of the interior, approved by the cabinet of ministers, and appointed by the emperor, is more powerful than the city (county) governor, and the provincial council basically has no executive power, only the power to supervise the administration and make local regulations, and at the same time can remove the provincial governor for legitimate reasons.

The town was the most basic administrative unit of the empire. It is governed by an elected town council, which is elected by the citizens of the town who have reached the age of 21 and serves a six-year term and can be re-elected. The Town Council elects a Mayor and several Assistant Mayors, and the Town Council presides over its meetings, which meet at least five times a year for 15 days and may hold special sessions.

The mayor is elected by the councillors for a term of six years, renewable for a second term of six years, and is also a representative of the central government, with a dual capacity, leading the work of the executive branch through the secretary-general and the assistant to the mayor. And tens of thousands of towns and districts of the empire. Naturally, there are large and small, because the scale and organizational system of the administrative departments of local towns vary greatly, and large towns have relatively complete administrative organizations, appoint a large number of local administrative personnel, and may also set up a number of administrative bureaus; Particularly small towns may have only two or three permanent officials working.

In the small towns of the empire, the struggle between the councillors was the most fierce and superficial, and some small town councillors would even fight, and there were also large-scale armed fights between large families for the leadership of the town, but behind the pain was the transparency of local power. It is the imprint that every child in a remote village has come to take for granted that he should have natural civil rights.

After the 1908 Revised Local Elections Act was signed by Ye Zhao, the empire gradually formed the most mature mode of administration it has today, a democratic model of strong centralization that is different from that of Britain and the United States. …,

France, which also has a strong tradition of nationalism, has learned from China in an all-round way and established a three-level local government system at the regional, provincial, and municipal levels. The election of regional commissioners, provincial governors, and town councillors all adopted the Chinese model, and even abolished the status of independent public legal persons that were not administratively subordinate to each other at the three levels of local government. to ensure that the central government can better regulate the resources of the whole country.

The vast Eastern Empire has gradually become another benchmark for the civilized world.

Beidaihe Town, Daihe County, adjacent to Daihe Summer Palace, the first highway of the Empire, the Summer Palace-Daihe Airport Expressway passes through Beidaihe Town, and the small town is where the Daihe Railway Station is located.

Beidaihe Town has a population of more than 10,000 people, and it is natural that they are immigrants if they trace back to their roots, in fact, the main body of the northern towns in recent years are immigrants, unlike some towns in the south, there are still large clans, but in recent years, with the clarification of laws and regulations such as property ownership, various new ideas have been accepted by rural residents, and the clan color in the south has gradually faded.

Today, hundreds of residents gathered in the central square of Beidaihe Town, and a councilor surnamed Wang stood in the center of the square and gave a speech in a hoarse voice, criticizing the "Public Health Regulations" just passed by the Beidaihe Town Council, arguing that the regulations charging the town's residents additional garbage disposal fees are unconstitutional and contrary to the spirit of the national law, and there are many foreign tourists in the town, and the state has already allocated special public health funds in the state financial allocation, and the town council still apportion the additional expenses to the town's residents, which is naked plunder.

Councillor Wang called on citizens to sign their "petition for all people" to the county government, urging the county government and the county council to ban the ordinance from taking effect.

Topics such as taxes, fees, and public buildings, which involve the interests of citizens themselves, are the only way for parliamentarians and political parties to criticize each other.

There are a total of 24 members of the Beidaihe Town Council, more than half of whom are members of the Progressive Party, and the speaker Fan Changgeng is naturally also a member of the Progressive Party, and he is also a well-known local gentry.

Most of the mayors of the towns in the empire were citizens of their own towns, and in fact they were the best overseers, and what kind of business the mayor's relatives and friends had previously engaged in, and how much property they had. What happened to these people after the mayor took office? The local one, the natural mirror is as clear, who dares to take a step beyond the thunder pond will definitely be made a big fuss by the political opponents in the town, and the innocent ones are also attacked by the opponents from time to time using small tricks, once they are caught, they are often doomed.

In the imperial political structure, there is no promotion system in the true sense, and if the town mayor does a good job, no one will promote you to the position of county head, so many town gentry as long as they are not elected. He may be the mayor of the town for the rest of his life, conscientiously working for the well-being of the residents of the town, and leaving a good reputation for himself and his descendants.

Of course, there were many gentry who gained great prestige in the town. This kind of "promotion" is not judged by the likes and dislikes of the superstructure, but by your own efforts and the efforts of the campaign team, of course, the affiliation of the political party is also an important factor in determining your political path.

Needless to say, the People's Livelihood Party has accompanied the empire for nearly half a century from its inception to the present, and has always been the old big party of the empire.

The Progressive Party was formed by the merger of the "Loyalty and Righteousness Society for the Protection of the Country" and the "Ta Gong Party", and has always competed with the Minsheng Party, and even surpassed the Minsheng Party in the past 30 years of government. Known for its preservation of tradition and conservatism, foreign media often refer to it as a Conservative Party according to translation conventions. …,

Beidaihe is one of the tens of thousands of towns run by the Progressive Party.

In the town council, there are 7 members of the People's Livelihood Party, 13 members of the Progressive Party, 1 member of the People's Governance Council, and 3 independent members of the Non-Party Membership.

In fact, Beidaihe Town and even Daihe County surround the Summer Palace. Both the Minsheng Party and the Progressive Party have extraordinary political significance in the political map, and the competition between the two parties for Daihe County is no less than that of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other big cities.

In the Sava Café not far from the square, Ye Zhao sipped coffee and listened to a middle-aged businessman in front of him persuade him to come forward to run for the next town councilor.

The café is quiet and has a fan on the roof to send out a gentle breeze. Elegant orchids are placed on each table, and there is a TV cabinet next to the bar. There is a black-and-white television set, which is now broadcasting National Geographic on National Channel 2.

Thanks to its proximity to the Summer Palace, Daihe has the 10th tallest TV tower in the country, which allows the Daihe area to receive programs from public and commercial TV stations.

Imperial Television is divided into three types: national television, local television and commercial television, national television and local television are public television stations, which are operated by national and local financial allocations, and in order to prevent the ruling party from controlling the national television station, the national television station has been supervised by a council composed of social justice people hired by the royal family and the National Assembly from the beginning. Commercial TV stations, naturally, are private TV stations, which are responsible for their own profits and losses through commercial income generation such as advertising.

It's just that television sets are far from being popularized these days, and commercial television stations are just some attempts by some wealthy business tycoons to enter new fields, and most of them are in a state of loss.

In Beidaihe Town, there are a total of 15 TVs, two of which are owned by the "Su family", one in the café, and one in the house.

The "Su family" moved to this town fifteen years ago, and the owner, Su Bowen, is forty-nine years old, has three beautiful wives, and his children are all out of town, and he has never seen his children come to visit him.

However, Su Bowen is really knowledgeable and talented, although he rarely appears in the town, but when it comes to Mr. Su, the citizens of the town are extremely respectful, and I heard that Mr. Su has been a lawyer, and often gives legal advice to some townspeople in distress.

Therefore, when I heard that Mr. Su had returned to Beidaihe and appeared in the café, Councilor Wang's lobbyist visited again to persuade Mr. Su to join the Minsheng Party.

Needless to say, Su Bowen is naturally Ye Zhao's pseudonym, saying that he lives in Daihe Palace, but in fact, Ye Zhao is in Daihe, and most of the time he lives in the small town of Beidaihe as Su Bowen.

In order to satisfy the emperor's desire to experience civic life after his abdication, fifteen years ago, with the approval of a special meeting of the high-level parliament, Ye Zhao obtained the citizenship of "Su Bowen" and migrated to Beidaihe Town.

The three-room wives who accompanied Ye Zhao were Rong'er, Misaki and Zhu Qiqi, in fact, Ye Zhao's other two wives also lived in the town, such as the baby opened a small clinic, and the Fucha family ran a rice shop, claiming to be a kinship, this is to avoid being too dazzling, after all, in today's empire, there are few men with five wives and concubines, and monogamy has been accepted by many people, but the legal provisions prohibiting concubines have been submitted to the Congress twice. But they were all vetoed at a slight disadvantage.

Ye Zhao likes the leisurely civilian life in the town. smiled and listened to Chen Yongjun, the local People's Livelihood Party official in front of him, waved his hand and said: "Brother Chen, you don't have to say it, I have no intention of entering politics, and I am enjoying my current life." ”

Chen Yongjun said with a smile: "Okay, it's not difficult for Mr. Su, but Mr. Su must appreciate his face in the night game." ”

Ye Zhao waved his hand and said, "I'm afraid it won't work, I'm entangled in trivial matters at home, let's talk about it in a few days." ”…,

Chen Yongjun was a little helpless, but he knew that Mr. Su had always been the same. I had no choice but to give up.

From the back door of the café through the verdant pine and cypress yard to the back house, in front of the purple and red flower bed, Rong'er is carrying a watering can to water the flowers in the flower bed.

Ye Zhao silently looked at Rong'er's back for a while before slowly walking to Rong'er's side. Reached out and took the watering can in Rong'er's hand to water the flowers.

"Ah, you're back." Rong'er smiled and watched Xianggong help herself.

After a while, Rong'er said softly, "Let's go see the two of them." ”

Ye Zhao nodded lightly.

Compared with Ye Zhao, Rong Erzi is more willing to believe in reincarnation, etc., when she saw Hongfeng and Caifeng, she believed in her heart that the two were the reincarnation of Hongniang and Jinfeng, and in the past two days, she thought about asking Hongfeng and Caifeng to believe that they were Hongniang and Jinfeng, and showed them the previous photos of Hongniang and Jinfeng, and told them a lot of things about Hongniang and Jinfeng.

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The three-storey Oriental Loft style villa is extremely spacious. The interior layout is completely different from that of Western-style apartments, but with an ingenious oriental charm, with the red sandalwood moon gate dividing each floor into a number of palatial areas called gardens. Ye Zhao walked along the crystal pillar gallery to the front of the three-storey Qinghe Garden, the moon cave door forehead: "the color of the stream and trees", and the two sides said: "The heart is full of water and wood, and the fish and birds are idle".

The door of the moon cave is the antique hall, the green and faint ancient vines, the craggy rockery, the wonderful fountain, the milky white chaise sofa in front of the blue crystal glass window, Caifeng is sitting bored. She wore a light blue strappy denim skirt, revealing her snow-white and smooth calves, lace socks wrapped around her slender ankles, and a pair of delicate sneakers embellished with pink flowers, which made her look more youthful and lively.

"You. You're coming. Caifeng suddenly saw Ye Zhao and stood up in surprise. It's just that she stammered, obviously not knowing what to call Ye Zhao.

I would never have thought that this uncle, who was unusually close to me, turned out to be a reclusive emperor, and I never thought that he was so similar to Hongfeng with the imperial concubine and Yi Guifei, although the folk legend of Yi Guifei is unknown, but the imperial concubine is a legend, and those who have good deeds even wrote the wild history of "From Female Warlord to Mother of the Nation", eulogizing the legendary life of the imperial concubine.

As for Yi Guifei, I heard the queen mother say that although Yi Guifei's name is not promoted among the people, she is very favored by the emperor, and the emperor even cultivated herself for five years for the death of Yi Guifei, so the friendship shows the emperor's love for Yi Guifei.

When the Queen Mother talked about the past, she cried and laughed with her, and she didn't know why, all her thoughts were tied to that man, as if she should be his person, and her age and identity were irrelevant.

Caifeng really hopes that she is the reincarnation of Yi Guifei, so that she can get the favor of the legendary man in front of her, she has even racked her brains for memories in the past few days, hoping to remember a trace of memory from her previous life, in the face of this man's inexplicable closeness, isn't it because of fate in her previous life?

But Caifeng was even more afraid, she was afraid that Ye Zhao would eventually find out that she and Concubine Yi were not the same person, and she would be disappointed in her in the end.

In the past two days, Caifeng has spent time in sweetness and gains and losses, but when she saw Ye Zhao, the shyness and apprehension suddenly disappeared, and the inexplicable impulse made her slam into Ye Zhao's arms, and at this time Ye Zhaozheng said: "Your father should be ...... tomorrow" Before the words were finished, Caifeng was hugged tightly.

Ye Zhao didn't react for a while, the soft little body in his arms squirmed, but it was Caifeng who stood on tiptoe, and her tender and soft red lips kissed Ye Zhao's mouth.

Ye Zhao was stunned, and he didn't know if he should push her away for a while, but the feeling from his chest was so familiar, although the writhing little was slightly immature, but the weak and boneless feeling was the same as that of Jin Feng, silky.

"I, I don't care who you are, I am willing to take care of you like Sister Jinfeng and listen to you...... You, don't care who I am, okay? Sticking to Ye Zhao's ears, Caifeng blushed and said stupidly. …,

Ye Zhao stood silently, the little girl who was just beginning to fall in love, no matter how rebellious Caifeng was, it took a lot of courage to make such a move and say such a thing, no matter what she thought in her heart, she couldn't hurt her immediately.

"I, I really wish I was Sister Jinfeng in my previous life, but I'm afraid I'm not ......" Caifeng's tears slowly rolled down.

Ye Zhao patted her shoulder gently, not knowing what to say for a while.

Suddenly someone coughed, Ye Zhao turned his head to look, but saw Hongfeng standing by the fountain pool, looking at them quietly.

was bumped into by her sister, Caifengqiao's face turned red, she left Ye Zhao's arms, and ran to the inner room like a frightened rabbit.

Ye Zhao is so embarrassed, in Hongfeng's eyes, she must be the simple sister who seduced her for the old disrespect, rubbed her nose, and watched this little girl pass by with an expressionless face.

Manually moved, Ye Zhao was stunned, but it was Hongfeng who gently shook it when he passed by him, Ye Zhao was stunned for a while, looking at Hongfeng who walked by his side and slowly walked towards the moon cave door as if nothing happened, and he didn't know what it felt like in his heart, Hongfeng, how similar is it to Hongniang?

The matchmaker is always like this, supporting herself with unique gentleness when she least expects it.

Ye Zhao's nose was sour, and he suddenly shouted: "Hongfeng, let's go find the reincarnated little silk in a few days?" ”

Hongfeng glanced back at Ye Zhao, the familiar style, Ye Zhao's heart was full of sweet and sour, mixed flavors...... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )