In the past, the land was the lifeblood of the Chinese. The gentry occupied the main body of the means of production, so they became the spokesmen of society. But now? After years of development, the Jiangnan area, which has a strong commercial atmosphere, has long recognized the truth that factories are more profitable than land. Industry and commerce have replaced land as the main body of social means of production here.

The Weng family and the Qu family have long found that their influence is declining, while the influence of many pure businessmen is increasing! But they can't restrain or thwart it.

In the past, when different levels of parliamentarians could be concurrently, the provincial and provincial councillors were all monopolized by the top-level families in Changshu. Because the circle was basically small at that time, the exchange of interests and friendship between various families and interest groups could ensure that the quota would not be lost to the outside world. But who knew that the state would suddenly reduce the election qualifications of county-level and above councilors from the previous standard of 50,000 yuan in annual taxes to the current 10,000 yuan.

Changshu originally only had one or two hundred people or even fewer people to mix this plate, and almost every family could see it, but now it has expanded to one or two thousand people. The pressure suddenly increased!

In addition, the previous election method has also changed to an election, as long as the annual tax is more than 3,000 yuan, or the annual income is more than 10,000 yuan, men and women are eligible to vote [including all public officials and veterans of meritorious service].

This year, the cabinet has been re-elected, the parliament has been re-elected, and the government advisory bureau in Suzhou is also being re-elected. For Changshu, it is necessary to allocate the number of members of the government at the same time, but also make every effort to win the number of members of Congress. This time it was definitely not as easy to achieve as last time. It can even be said that this time there are two levels - the election, especially the election of the provincial councillors. The process is a rehearsal for the future election of Changshu legislators at all levels.

Weng Zengyuan couldn't hold the plate anymore. He couldn't stabilize the situation. Some small and medium-sized businessmen have joined forces and rejected his recruitment for 'co-optation'. They did not dare to expect congressmen. But they all targeted the councillors.

Weng Zengyuan and Qu Bingyuan sat down, and their faces showed embarrassment. "Mr. Nakabuchi. As soon as this parliamentary election comes out, this rule is indeed very bad for us. ”

He smiled bitterly: "The head of the family has also gone down to inquire, and there are only thirty percent of those who have connections, are qualified for the election, and are willing to listen to us honestly." ”

"Flashy and profit-seeking, morally degenerate, people's hearts are not ancient!"

"You and I have a relationship, so you don't need to say these clichés." Weng Zengyuan exhaled and said: "The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit. The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit. If there is no tangible benefit, why should people listen to us? ”

"This Great Qin's law is harsh, and it catches up with the pre-Qin. For so many years, I have never heard of a big and wealthy family that dares to bully the people in the fish and meat township. Who would dare to underestimate newspapers? ”

Weng Tongyi himself is from the Supervision Yuan, how could the Weng family not know how ruthless Xin Qin is to the law enforcement breaches in the fish and meat township? How could you not know that the NSA has spread a big net throughout the country.

It has long ceased to exist that a private message was handed over to the yamen. Whatever you want. In recent years, the word 'pit daddy' has been widely spread in China. One of the examples made everyone in the officialdom extremely vigilant.

Of course, the NSA is not Jinyiwei. Although Daqin is not 'not going to kill a soldier', he has not heard of anyone because he said the wrong thing. offended the emperor, and he was dragged to beheaded. Moreover, the new Qin also abolished the law of joint sitting. Your son is planning to rebel, as long as Lao Tzu does not participate. didn't hide it or report it, so it wouldn't have happened to you.

Qu Bingyuan said that the laws of Great Qin were strict. It is better to be politically clear, and those who are officials dare not know the law and break the law. Arbitrary law enforcement. The fairness of the law was embodied and guaranteed during this period.

The Ministry of National Security and the Military Intelligence Bureau are still very different from the Jinyi Guards in the former Ming Dynasty, but they are not very murderous.

Under this relaxed environment, the intellectuals, who had been oppressed by the Manchus for more than 200 years and were cautious and did not dare to speak, gradually became emboldened. At present, those corrupt Confucians who can't forget the old routine have developed to the point of gathering people every once in a while to discuss the government in vain. I didn't see anyone take them to death.

Unfortunately, this relaxed environment reflects the lingering sense of loss of the Confucian scholars.

Because everyone knows that the current Daqin, the status of the scholars is not bad, but the scholars refer to the people who have been selected for the scientific examination, and if you want to be selected for the scientific examination, you have to learn what the imperial court wants you to learn. This scholar is not another scholar.

Civilian officials cannot be above officers and miscellaneous officials, and officials have no boundaries, and there is no such thing as using literature to control military force and military force with civil law. Even the political status of the merchants climbed to the top of the scholars. And not some big businessmen, but small traders in general, because they earn more money than civil servants.

"If you pay more than 3,000 yuan a year, you have the right to vote, and most of the vendors in Changshu County can vote! When you go to the beach, even those who drive horse-drawn carriages and pull foreign carriages have the right to vote! There are also those popular female cousins, who are afraid that they also have the right to vote. But many scholars in the countryside who read poetry and books did not get a single vote! This is not just insulting, this is to cut off our roots! ”

The bitterness on Weng Zengyuan's face was more astringent than that of the raw persimmon. He was well aware of the source of the Weng family's influence. In addition to the continuous appearance of high-ranking officials and nobles in the family, there is also the literary name of the Weng family. Even more important than the previous one, the Weng family's 'literary name' is more important.

If this foundation is decided, the world's literary name will be completely trampled under the feet of the imperial court, and when Weng Tongyi dies old, the Weng family will fall from the famous family in Jiangnan to the big family in Suzhou and Changshu. Because of the entire Weng family, except for Weng Tongyi, who is now gaining a firm foothold in the central ministry, the most promising person in the rest - Weng Zenggui, is now only the fourth grade.

Twenty-eight-year-old Weng Binsun is another rising star of the Weng family, in the history of the original time and space at the age of 17, he entered the Shi and the first, and now he is still working in the Ministry of Culture and Education, although the level is seven products, but there is no work experience at the local grassroots level, if you don't make up your mind to work pragmatically at the grassroots level for ten or eight years, the best result in this life is to roll in the central ministry.

The Weng family has no successor!

Therefore, Weng Zengyuan said that it was to cut off their foundation. After three or five years of such measures, who in this world still takes the past literary fame and fame seriously.

"Sven sweeps the floor. Helpless! Qu Bingyuan also sighed.

His Qu family, like the Weng family, relied on his literary name to gain a firm foothold in Changshu. And then stood all the way to the top. The difference is that the Weng family's 'literary name' is the name of the field, and it is the three champions of the grandfather, uncle and grandson. It's the first-class member who lives in eight seats. And the Qu family's literary name lies in the iron qin and bronze sword tower where they are now.

Imagining that this iron piano and bronze sword building, which symbolizes culture, becomes a pure 'library', the Qu family never wants to see it.

But what can they do? The arms can't reach the thighs. The comparison between Changshu's strength and the power of the imperial court is countless times more different than the gap between arms and thighs.

Now the Weng family and the Qu family were worried long before the reform of the parliamentary election, what should they do to redeem the defeat? But before he could come up with an effective method, he was given another heavy blow by the imperial court.

Weng Zengyuan wants to win the seat of the National Assembly, and if the Weng family wants to maintain its influence, there must be someone who can stand on the level of 'country' when Weng Tonggong is about to die of old age in a few years.

But that's easier said than done!

Weng Zengyuan wants to win the congressman. He first had to be familiar with it. Before the promulgation of the election law, before the qualifications for election and the expansion of voters, Weng Zengyuan relied on Weng Tongyi's face, and he could still be relatively familiar with it. But now, the places in each family's own pocket are difficult to guarantee, and the Weng family wants to spit out something real, just like getting support, so how light!

Weng Zengyuan came to Qu Bingyuan today, just to talk to this hardcore supporter of the Weng family. Consult. See what to spit out, how much to spit out, and most importantly to whom to spit it out.

Fortunately, the election at the same time as the members of the National Assembly was a role that Weng Zengyuan did not look down on. If he is unsuccessful in his plot against the Congressman. There is also the retreat of next year's provincial councillors. As a supporter of the Weng family, Qu Bingyuan was a little surprised that Weng Zengyuan was going to run for the National Assembly in person, but he also changed his mind.

This is a question that the two families really have to sum up well. The election of the Ichijo House was wrong. Changshu and even the Weng family's plate in Suzhou will have to be smashed, if Weng Zengyuan loses the election of the congressman. The two families are really going to make slides down from the top of the mountain.

The election reform of the imperial court made the Weng family and the Qu family tightly tied together.

Another month passed slowly. Changshu is in a calm mood. The inside is turbulent, and if you don't pay attention to it, everyone will be swept into it and disappear. But soon, Chang Shuren's eyes moved from himself to Guangxi, to Liuzhou, Liu Xian's former base.

Something happened in Liuzhou, something big happened!

There was a bribery in a county in Liuzhou, a large-scale and large-scale bribery. A total of 50 county councillors were elected, and 120 deputies were candidates, but 27 people were suspected of bribery by the Liuzhou Daily at the time of the election.

In an instant, the whole country was in an uproar!

Soon Ta Kung Pao reported on the matter in detail, and for seven days, three of which were on the front page of Liuzhou.

Of the 27 candidates suspected of bribery, 19 were eventually verified. The cumulative amount of bribes spent by these 19 people is as high as 3 million. More than 5,000 votes were bought for amounts ranging from 300 to 500 yuan, and some local officials were dragged into the water. With such a large-scale bribery, there are few officials who dare to do such a big 'cause'.

When the imperial court promulgated the electoral reform, the corresponding Election Law had already been promulgated by the Ministry of Justice. This group of people can be described as the first group of fools to hit the wall, leaving a bloody warning for those who come after them.

The whole country was talking about the punishment that these nineteen people were going to face. Liuzhou, by extension, is the whole Guangxi, there are few big rich people, and there is no shadow of the big consortium, here is the earliest place to follow Liu Xian, and it is the place where Hanzhong is second only to the influence of the Qin military group, but the historical background determines that the business here is not as deep as Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Guangxi is the only one with the small middle class.

The most affected by the electoral reform are Guangxi and Hanzhong, where the population base with candidate qualifications and the right to vote has increased by dozens of times. Therefore, the incident of bribery in Liuzhou broke out well, and you can kill a chicken to show the monkey! (To be continued......)