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Monday, September 4, 1628.

Almost since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there have been one or two national "themed events" every year that make people scramble. The introduction and execution of the Oriental Expedition Program, like the original Atlantic Checkers Program, is basically a portrayal of the new nation's pursuit of historical exuberance and vanity in certain obsessions.

Elder Liu, the 77-year-old speaker of the Senate, and Chen Yuanyuan, the 70-year-old president, finally jointly convened a special congress meeting on the same day, which put forward in-depth reflections on a number of issues of the entire country.

According to the statute of the Provisional Electoral Law and the Provisional Constitution of the People's Republic of China, the Diet and the Government of the country will enter their last year of administration from today. Seven years ago today, it was the day when the first members of the two houses of the National Assembly were officially inaugurated. Seven years later, this group of hodgepodge from all over the world has also gone through an unusual road of ups and downs, developing a North American colonization community with a few thousand people at the beginning of the founding of the country into the "first civilized country" in North America with a population of nearly 70,000. But this is not a celebration and commendation meeting, but a summary of the growth of all people in the past seven years.

President Chen Yuanyuan, the supreme mascot of the American Republic of China, made a rare concluding speech at the conference: "Except for the depth and scope that some people can take into account with their own vision, it has been difficult for the whole country to form an overall macro plan for more than five years. The promulgation and implementation of many of these national policies are full of improvised intentions and haste. Whether efficiency is high or low may not be the primary issue in this small country, nor is it something that the technology of this era can force, but thoughtfulness is something that we have been lacking. We should not only represent our own wishes, but also take into account the thoughts of the whole country. ”

Inclusiveness, foresight, anticipation and compromise. It is the president's requirement for the highest institution of the country, and it is also the requirement for the political consciousness of every legislator. Well, the threshold of "35 years old" did block many people who aspired to enter the Senate in politics, and in the past few years, the legislators have deeply realized how naïve the political understanding of "I have never eaten pork and always seen pigs run". However, as time goes by, the political, economic and cultural demands of the people themselves will inevitably contradict the increasingly in-depth "social localization".

Political appeals with strong personal values are basically a common problem in the early stage of the country's rulers, and in the process of polishing their political consciousness. There are many people who only limit their vision to their own class, and empathy is still a shortcoming. In the eyes of Senate Speaker Liu Lao and President Chen Changyuan, these are all immature policies that pass through the rulers.

The formal Electoral Law and Constitution will be completed within the next year, which means that the country's political transition period will be only in its final year. A year later, whether the country will be "eternal". It's up to the people present to find the right direction.

It may be difficult for young and vigorous lawmakers to understand why Mr. Liu and the president are suddenly and coldly creating these "heavy" topics, especially now that the much-anticipated "Eastern Expeditionary Fleet" is about to depart.

The summary meeting, which was similar to a "heart-to-heart talk", finally ended with the expressions of the two old men who wanted to speak and stopped. In addition to the two speakers, only a few people in the entire assembly, such as Supreme Justice Zhong Jinshan and Premier Qi Jianjun, showed a stern or understanding expression.

"Lao Chen, we can't be too old to be old, I don't know how far we can watch this country go......"

The moment you walk out of the halls of Congress. Su Zining inadvertently heard the muttering of Liu Lao and the president, and was instantly stunned.

……

At noon, the Minister of Homeland Security Liu Yun invited him to the hospital, and the location was chosen at the "Yipinscoo" Hotel. Because Liu Yun's wife finally gave birth to two baby daughters last month.

Of course, Liu Yun's face is to be sufficient, the proprietress Ouyang Ling naturally cooked a specialty dish herself, and many chefs who have been trained in the past few years have made the various dishes on the table full of the flavor of later generations, so that the ** silk people can eat happily.

"Today, Liu Lao and the president chatted all morning. It seems that you are naming and naming your Ministry of Foreign Affairs for lacking the ability to take a long-term view and make strategic predictions. Liu Yun drank the sauerkraut fish soup comfortably, and did not forget to order it to Su Zining across the table. However, I see, Brother Su, you are becoming more and more invulnerable now, and you have no reaction. ”

"Who could have thought of it all? I remember that Fan Li proposed that the intelligence department should establish a permanent office in Daming, but it was also rejected by the Congress on the grounds that 'the efficiency of intelligence communication will not be faster than the rumors of the Portuguese merchant ships', and now it is too late to discuss whether the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has grasped the situation in advance. Minister of Immigration Li Xiang grabbed a sauce pig's trotter and chewed it while hugging Su Zining.

"The content of this conference is not related to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, what do I think?" Su Zining chewed and swallowed slowly, without raising his head, "It's all about everyone's future generations." ”

"Huh?" The young people at the table all stopped what they were talking about, and they all cast puzzled glances at Su Zining.

"The formulation and implementation of the national long-term policy system is divided into two levels: internal and external. In addition, it is the layout of national strategic interests related to foreign policy. Su Zining threw away his chopsticks, grabbed his napkin, and looked around at his friends present, "This is naturally the country's internal affairs development and political ecological construction." ”

"Politics and ecology?" Li Xiang slowly put down the half-gnawed pig's trotters in his hand, revealing a hint of curiosity.

"We still have the leisure to brag and fart, because there are so many old people behind us, I think they will think about much more things every day than we do." Su Zining sighed softly, and his expression gradually became strict, "Elder Liu and President, I am worried that after our generation goes, this country will be in chaos. ”

"Chaos?!"

Maybe it's the wrong word, maybe it's alarmist, no matter what, when Su Zining threw out such a sentence, everyone was stunned.

"Well, the contradiction between the dictatorship of small interests and the localization of society. To put it simply, it is the contradiction between our hundreds of people and the hundreds of thousands of 17th-century citizens in the future. Do you understand this? Su Zining gestured with his hand to his friends present, and then pointed at a large piece of food on the table with his finger, "The country's interest cake belongs to our hundreds of people, or to everyone." Mr. Liu and President Liu are thinking about this issue. ”

"Of course, it's one, isn't this ideal for our nation-building." Li didn't think about it, he said it, and several people around him nodded slowly.

"But what we're doing now isn't necessarily for the latter. No 17th-century politician with normal thinking would agree that we are so 'extravagant and wasteful' of national power. Su Zining grabbed a handful of chopsticks and slammed one of them into a roast chicken on the table, "This is our country now, full of color and fragrance." Everyone loves to eat. ”

As he spoke, he picked up another chopstick and stuck it on the braised fish not far away: "This is the Caribbean, and it is also very delicious." Right on the doorstep. Hands are fast, hands are slow! ”

After speaking, he picked up the third chopstick and inserted it on the barbecue in front of Liu Yun: "This is South Africa, how does it feel?" Although it is difficult to digest and there are a little more spices, the fat has plenty of calories. Well, it's a long-term benefit, and people who don't understand it will always understand. ”

In the end, the fourth chopsticks in Su Zining's hand were suspended in the air. Just smiled and looked at the friends present.

"It's Asia." Liu Yun thought for a while and said the answer, "The interests of Asia are also very important to us, and time waits for no one!" ”

"You feel this judgment of yours. How much interference was there? How many ordinary citizens in the country can be represented? How much time did it take for the 17th-century people to understand? Or how many years will it take for them to feel the difference that this kind of national policy will make in their lives? Su Zining put down his chopsticks. Quietly looking at Liu Yun's face, showing a playful smile, "Or, they don't have the power to understand at all...... We've reached a point where we're greedy and not rotten, and I think all that's left is to nurture the ambition in our hearts. ”

"Bao Zitu has said the same sentence several times, there has never been a mature politician who will sacrifice or delay the interests of the next 20 years for the sake of the interests of the next 200 years." Li Xiang seemed to understand a little, and his expression was a little ugly, "Actually, as long as you don't delay the next 20 years, wouldn't it be better to think far?" With the advantage of historical knowledge, we can think further and do better. ”

"Further? Better? If that's the case, the future is bright. But the truth is, we just can't help but want to rule the world, liberate Asia, save a dynasty, and thus catch up with ourselves and with others. Thinking further? Not necessarily, I'm afraid it's just an obsession. I'm like this, Yan Xiaosong is like this, and you're all like that. ”

"For the sake of our ideals, we are doing our best to promote the evolution of this new country into a localized society, but what is the result of a localized society? There will be more and more localized social demands that are completely opposite to our obsessions! politically, economically, culturally, militarily...... The rise of isolationism that prevailed on this continent in later generations was not due to historical mutation and accident, let alone the collective gaffe of tens of millions of Yankees at that time, but was determined by objective geopolitical factors. ”

"And then, the country was a dichotomy between 'a few hundred of us' and 'the rest of us.' Now, we can kidnap these 'others' with policy and propaganda, but how long can we kidnap? Decades? Hundreds of years? Or will our heirs fully understand the rules of our game, the original purpose and ultimate purpose of the kidnapping? ”

After Su Zining finished speaking, he sighed slightly.

"The political ecology will inevitably evolve towards localization, and a large number of localized social demands will conflict with our ideas. When there is a conflict, it must be dealt with by inclusive, forward-looking, anticipatory and compromising mechanisms. Liu Yun nodded slightly, and he completely understood the direction of this "no theme" congressional meeting.

"President Liu Laohe, I'm thinking about universal suffrage!" Li Xiang finally understood, and his expression was a little excited.

"I don't think it's too urgent, next year will be a change year, but judging from the current composition of the government and domestic and foreign policies, there will not be much change, but the tone of the election law and the constitution will be formalized. The non-'own' system of political participation should emerge after the next two terms, that is, in a few more years. ”

Huo Qian, who had not spoken beside him, also frowned and said his opinion. The young man, who has been serving as the director of foreign trade in the state-owned import and export group, is more mature than a few years ago.

According to Huo Qian's understanding, after four consecutive sessions of "traversal monopoly democracy", from 1638 onwards, the country's 17th-century local citizens will enter the political ecosystem one after another. At that time, all state policies would have to be deliberated with the participation of these 17th-century "natives". Perhaps it is the first heavy test of whether this country can survive for generations.

"I'm not optimistic!" Liu Yun suddenly slapped his palm on the dining table, revealing a stern expression, "The foundation we have finally laid down, what if they all turn it over?" ”

"That also depends on our foundation, whether they approve and are willing. Otherwise, it won't be turned over in 10 years, 20 years, 30 years...... Create a local political ecosystem and complete the replacement of the old and the new. To complete the long-term effectiveness of the policy and system, there must also be a gradual and inducing process, and the citizenship restriction system, which has been 'only seen but not touched' until now, has been laid out from the beginning, and Liu Lao and the president's considerations are not unreasonable. Li Xiang glanced at his friend who suddenly fluctuated. A sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, "Unless we live a long life." ”

"Strangers are bound to be ostracized; Friends, we can share our benefits; Family, can protect our interests; own people, you can share our power......"

Just when the atmosphere was tense, Su Zining suddenly muttered something in his seat. The young people in the room were slightly stunned.

"For a country of immigrants to develop healthily in the long term, it must form a stable and localized society, even if this itself is an unstoppable trend, otherwise the result will be collapse. But once localized, the evolution of society continues to intensify. Then we, the few hundreds, and our descendants, will not choose the dominant role of others, but the object of waiting for others to 'choose'. Any closed idea that overestimates the role and historical status of the traversal itself is in fact a self-destructive thought. ”

"Yan Xiaosong and I used to think that the number of Chinese nationals was the guarantee of our safety. It turned out later that this was a complete assumption. We want to create an ideal country, but we are inherently alien to this world. If we add to this the artificially created monopoly of interests or the system of political isolation, our descendants will one day be wiped out by either European or Chinese people, and there is essentially no difference between the two paths. I think it's a relief that none of you here will feel that your children and grandchildren have been wiped out by a group of Chinese Americans who have spent a lot of energy to get them, right? I have the consciousness to hang up at any time, but I don't have such great feelings. I just want my descendants to get rid of my bad habits and return to a new and prosperous modern Chinese civilized society, instead of being a maverick and becoming a stumbling block and a waste product of history. ”

"Therefore, in the process of social localization, there may be good and bad policies, but a good system must form a common understanding, so as to promote the original backward social vassal mentality of immigrants to the perspective of 'friends' and 'family', from which to obtain the positive and firm maintenance of the system, become our social grassroots umbrella, and then establish an upward political channel for these 'activists', and finally transform a new batch of "own people". This may be the first step in creating a local political ecosystem that is win-win for the travelers and the natives of this time and space. Without this grassroots umbrella of society, what 'retreating into the background' is purely a dream. ”

Su Zining's seemingly soft-spoken and extremely heavy remarks suddenly silenced everyone present.

How many of the tens of thousands of people today are considered strangers? How many are friends? How much can be called family? And how many can become their own people? Every state system or policy will play a role in the integration or separation of the grassroots people of the country, and a closed ruling class or wishful thinking will not end well.

The young people present had no way to judge this issue, and it was probably the expression of Liu Lao and the president's anxiety today.

……

The Eastern Expeditionary Fleet, which has been hyped up by various propaganda channels, has basically become the hottest topic in the country since the beginning of summer.

In the eyes of the European people, this oriental complex, which has been filled with "infinite wealth and grandeur" since the Middle Ages, is worth pursuing. In the hearts of the Chinese people, it is a kind of reverie that is infinitely close to the distant homeland.

The "Zodiac Year of the Dragon Stamp Issue" has also been affected by the "Manchester City Weekly" for more than a month, and the press conference site is full of people, only a few with a "prophetic" smug expression through the crowd ** silk in the snatching of this kind of future "more valuable than banknotes" small pieces of paper.

Historically, in the 50s of the 17th century, the prototype of postage payment certificate first appeared in France, but in China and the United States, the primary postal system was established and put into use as early as the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Although the coverage of the postal system is currently limited to the country, and the number of ordinary national letters sent between cities and towns is still very small, with the continuous expansion of domestic towns and the scale of trade, the volume of domestic commercial trade information has begun to surge, and the transmission of government documents has become more and more encrypted, and the role of the postal system has become more obvious.

The previous Huamei postal system is still a stage of losing money and making shouting, pure social welfare institutions, for which the new adjustment and merger of the Minister of Construction and Transportation Zhou Yi, decisively proposed the implementation of paid postal social services in 1628, and the first set of stamps in China was released.

The first stamp issue was divided into two categories, the first type was naturally ordinary stamps, and the 5-cent ticket was a magnificent view of the Song River, which was only used for mail between towns and cities in North America; The 10-cent ticket is the USS Enterprise, the first naval warship of the United States in China, the USS Enterprise, a symbol of the nation's maritime expansion. The third category, of course, is a limited edition of commemorative stamps, the 20-cent "1628 Lunar Wuchen Year Dragon Stamp", and the 50-cent "841-1629 BC Zhou Republic 2470 Anniversary Stamp", the former must be a dragon image, the latter is a large Zhou Ding pattern.

In order to complete the first batch of stamps in China, Zhou Yi specially convened a number of third-rate painters from Europe or the Ming Dynasty after the beginning of spring, and went to the "most oriental heritage" of Yingu Town, and placed an order with several old wood carvers of the Yingu Furniture Company. After several explanations, the people involved in this matter understood the meaning of this kind of thing, and excitedly patted their chests and reassured.

Within a few months, after several revisions, the engravings of all the stamps were available. The first set of stamps, although still monochrome, is foreseeable that they will become one of the most valuable "papers" in the country's postal history.

The first stamp issue in the country lasted only a few days before it ended, and the ordinary version of the stamps could naturally be purchased at post offices around the country, but most of the expensive and limited commemorative stamps were divided up by the people, and only a few were taken into the arms of the people who were interested.

(To be continued)