Chapter 739: Re-election

On November 30, colorful flags fluttered all over China, even in the nine newly established provinces of northern and western Xinjiang, because tomorrow is the day of the presidential election.

The presidential election in China is very simple, the right house of the National Assembly is composed of more than 500 members of various parties to choose the candidates they support from among the three candidates by voting, not every presidential election has three candidates, this depends on the number of seats in the right house of each party to decide, at most there can be three candidates, at least two.

Generally speaking, in the right house, only the party with the top three seats is eligible to nominate a candidate, but if the party with the third seat does not hold more than 5 percent of the seats, it is not eligible to recommend a candidate.

However, regardless of whether it exceeds 5 percent, there is basically no suspense in this election, because the Predator Party's share of seats in the right house is 90 percent, which is almost impossible for Xiao Zhenlei to lose the election, so people everywhere celebrate Xiao Zhenlei's succession to the second president in advance.

On a street in the capital, a middle-aged man wearing a rich man's hat and a rich horse coat is holding a bamboo pole, and firecrackers are crackling on the bamboo pole.

Waiting for the firecracker rice bowl, the rich man was about to put away the bamboo pole and go back to the store, when a young man put away the camera he had just taken and ran over to say hello: "Wait a minute, I am a reporter from the Beijing Daily, may I ask this old man's noble surname?" ”

When the middle-aged rich man saw it, he smiled and said, "The little surname is Huang, and the name is Shiren." Don't dare to be called a master. I just have a few small amounts of money! ”

The young reporter nodded and asked with a smile: "Dare to ask Master Huang Shiren, why are you setting off firecrackers on the street!" ”

Huang Shiren smiled: "Isn't tomorrow the election day?" I'll hang firecrackers to celebrate in advance! ”

"Oh?" The young reporter was surprised and asked, "Which candidate are you going to celebrate?" Who do you think will be elected? ”

Huang Shiren glanced at the young reporter: "Do you still need to ask?" Of course, it's to celebrate President Xiao Da in advance, except for his old man, who else is the president, and I, Huang, am the first to be convinced! ”

The reporter asked: "As far as I know." Mr. Le Yuanhong of the Constitutionalist Party and Mr. Sun Wen of the Kuomintang are both pillars of talent, if either of them is elected, why should you not be convinced? ”

Huang Shiren said confidently: "Of course I don't accept it, and you don't want to think about who they are, let's just say that Li Yuanhong, when the Wuchang Uprising was made, the revolutionary army supported him as the governor of the military government, just like Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, was added to his subordinates in a yellow robe, but he actually said to the generals of the revolutionary army, 'Don't harm me, don't harm me'." Is this kind of person the material to be president? If he becomes the president, I estimate that the country will be in turmoil again, and that Sun Wen, his mouth is quite powerful, fooling people everywhere, he will only fire cannons in his mouth, but he can't hear the sound, if he has the ability. Can you wander overseas for more than ten years to raise money from overseas Chinese? I raised a lot of money, but nothing was done."

The reporter hurriedly said: "Master Huang, what you said is a little biased. In any case, Mr. Sun is also the forerunner of the revolution, his contribution to the country cannot be erased, the role played by the Kuomintang in the process of overthrowing the Manchu Qing is immeasurable, and without the Kuomintang in the early stage of arguing with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there would not have been a later president who led us to overthrow the Manchu Qing and establish a new dynasty. Isn't it? ”

Huang Shiren's eyes widened, and his sleeves flicked: "I can't tell you clearly, young man, don't think that it's great to read for a few years, Lao Tzu has eaten more salt than you eat." Hum! ”

"Eh, don't go, I haven't finished asking yet!"

The next day, December 1, is the day of the general election, the voting can be completed in the morning, the votes will be read immediately after completion, the results of the election will be announced by the speaker of the right house at 12 o'clock in the morning, and at two o'clock in the afternoon, the new president will give his inaugural speech and take the oath of office.

Since it is election day, almost all government agencies, enterprises and institutions have a holiday, and some companies and factories that do not have a holiday gather their employees to listen to the radio and keep an eye on the situation and progress of the election campaign.

Before 8 o'clock in the morning, the streets of the entire capital were full of people, many of whom rushed to the National Assembly building, ready to wait outside the National Assembly building to listen to the radio broadcast of the election campaign in the venue.

At half past eight, the presidential election officially began, the three candidates took the stage to deliver campaign speeches, each of them had a maximum of 15 minutes, and the order of the speeches was decided by drawing lots, Sun Wen drew the first, Li Yuanhong drew the second, and Xiao Zhenlei drew the third.

Compared with Sun Wen and Li Yuanhong, Xiao Zhenlei thinks that his eloquence is not as good as these two, these two are both capable of bragging, but this is not difficult for him, the relevant staff have already prepared a speech for him, and he can just read it according to the script when the time comes.

The content of the campaign speech must revolve around the theme of how to govern after taking office, otherwise it will be ridiculous to talk about some topics that are not relevant on such occasions?

In his campaign speech, Sun Wen said that if he is elected, he will complete the realization of the Three People's Principles during his presidency, that is, nationalism, civil rights, and people's livelihood.

In his campaign speech, Li Yuanhong said that if he is elected, he will continue to increase and encourage the development of industry and commerce, let the national capital completely drive out the foreign capital from the domestic market, and let the national capital go abroad. After the end of the war, the national capital will definitely be hit again, and he will surely lead the people through the difficulties.

Both of them are long speeches, with cowhides blowing loudly and slogans that make people's blood boil, but in fact they are empty and boring, without the slightest actual plan.

Finally, it was Xiao Zhenlei's turn, and he walked up to the podium under the gaze of all the members of Congress, and the crowds of people on the streets outside the Congress pricked up their ears, including all those gathered in front of the radio and radio throughout the country, holding their breath for fear of missing every word he said.

"Hello comrades, people of the whole country! I'm standing here today to give a speech. It is necessary to make a long-term plan for the national development strategy for the next five years, or even 10 or 20 years. At present, the war in Europe has come to an end, and Austria-Hungary, which is supported by the Central Powers, has announced its surrender to our army two days ago, and only Germany is left in the Central Powers, and Germany's defeat has become inevitable! ”

"The war will soon be over, a year at most. The world's largest and unprecedented world war will come to an end. So when the war is over, will we be able to sit back and relax? Of course not, the end of the war will inevitably face changes in the world order, a reshuffle in the power structure of the great powers, new challenges, and a shift in the center of gravity of the world economy. In the new situation, how can we stand firm and face new challenges? How we respond will become a question for the government to consider and respond to in the next stage.

Even if other countries are indifferent, we will make corresponding proposals to the international community to prohibit countries from engaging in a large-scale arms race, limit the tonnage of their navies and the size of their total land forces, and propose that some extremely cruel weapons of mass destruction in a large area be designated as prohibited weapons for development and production. If there is production or inventory in each country, we will recommend that it be destroyed in a centralized manner!

There is no arms race and no large-scale war. Whether it is our country or other great powers, domestic military industrial enterprises, factories and enterprises producing war materials may be faced with the situation of not receiving production orders, this situation is normal, but we cannot ignore it, as early as a year and half a year ago, I published a forecast on the state of economic development after the war. According to the statistics and surveys of the relevant departments, the number of orders received by many factories across the country is gradually decreasing, which shows that my prediction is not untargeted. It's finally going to be proven.

In order to alleviate the difficulties of private enterprises and factories, on the one hand, our government will expand domestic demand, further increase infrastructure construction, use the taxes collected from the people to the people, and build various facilities that are conducive to the convenience of the people's lives. At the same time, we also encourage the private sector to carry out scientific research and development on their own, and if the results are achieved, the government will not only provide relevant incentives, but also introduce some measures to turn the technology into actual products and sell them, and at the same time we can expand the scale of exports, reduce export tariffs, and encourage a large number of exports. After the end of the war, European countries are facing a large number of reconstruction problems, so the demand for various materials is still very large, and businessmen with vision and courage can consider exporting to Europe or increasing exports! In order to increase the competitiveness of products, in the face of similar products, we must work hard from quality and cost, and we can also improve the technical content of products, and improve the technical content so that the competitiveness of products will rise in a straight line.

After the end of the war, we will consider reducing the army so that the soldiers can return to their hometowns to reunite with their families and participate in the modernization of the motherland. At present, China has a total of 3 million and 500 troops in the army, 500,000 in the navy, and 200,000 in the air force. We plan to reduce the number of troops by 1 million in the first year, 500,000 in the second and third years, until the number of troops in the army is maintained at about 1.5 million, the navy at 300,000, and the air force at 100,000! Although the number of the armed forces has decreased, we must not relax our vigilance, we must always be vigilant against the invasion of foreign forces, and we must use science and technology to strengthen the army and train a number of national defense personnel ??????with high physical fitness, high educational level, and strong combat effectiveness."

Xiao Zhenlei's campaign speech received huge applause, and the entire capital outside the National Assembly building was shouting tsunami shouts, and many people even shouted long live.

After more than an hour of voting, after the voting is over, it is regarded as reading and counting the votes.

At twelve o'clock, the results finally came out, and the speaker took the election results and announced on the spot that Xiao Zhenlei had won the second presidential election with a super high number of 512 votes, and he would take the oath of office in the left house at two o'clock in the afternoon and deliver an inaugural speech. Although this result was expected by everyone, when the results came out on the radio and radio, people from all over the country rushed to sing and dance. (To be continued......)