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News that the "U.S. government" of the Chinese people is about to hold a "general election" is quietly circulating in the streets and alleys of Brooklyn's industrial area. The Chinese mechanics in the Manhattan community, who had drunk too much or had eaten too much, always inadvertently let the European workers who had gone through the night school learn Chinese something to hear.

In the eyes of the European-American residents, the power game involving the "upper class" is simply not something that they, the poor middle peasants, can speculate and understand.

Compared to the Chinese who have nothing to do all day long, the attitude of the Europeans is much more indifferent, and they only care about whether there is an extra bonus to be paid this month, or when they will get permanent settlement.

But the situation is not so simple, and the intensifying private tandem has reached the point where it is almost out of control. The productivity of the various production departments in the industrial zone began to decline rapidly, and the distracted Chinese mechanics or engineers were no longer distracted from their work.

Jiang Zhaolong and Lin Youde, the two bigwigs of the Ministry of Industry, were also bored on the sidelines, and they couldn't say it, after all, they provoked the palace momentum with shipyard Shi Yige, You Qi and others.

Su Zining, who also participated in it as a-stirring stick, felt that he was a bit like a child who accidentally broke the glass of other people's houses, and he didn't dare to come out. When he learned that Zheng Quan and other members of the military department had collectively withdrawn from the community committee, Su Zining also submitted his resignation with a sad attitude of lying down and being shot.

Am I really a public enemy? Su Zining couldn't help but think secretly.

But he immediately knew that he was overly worried, because the next day, more committee members also submitted their resignations, including Dong Jiunan, Jiang Zhaolong and others who have made heavy contributions to the construction of the entire community in the past year.

As a result, there are basically not a few members under the age of 40. And what surprised Su Zining the most was that Qi Jianjun was actually among those who resigned!

According to Su Zining's understanding, except for Qi Jianjun and Zheng Quan, the others who resigned actually knew very well that they did not have the durable qualities of the political family. The dismissal of Qi Jianjun and Zheng Quan is definitely not as simple as giving up their positions as community committees.

Obviously, these people knew the contents of the Provisional Election Law in advance, and they made a choice in advance about whether or not to enter politics and which political discipline they would follow.

Whether or not this preconceived notion is correct, the real motives for the resignation of thirty or so former land guard or navy personnel are beginning to appear intriguing.

Many people believe that Zheng Quan and a few others do have political ambitions, and it is understandable that they quit the army and chose to join politics. But others, knowing that they have lost their political capital, feel that there is no need for the army to continue to stay.

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Sunday, August 22, noon.

West Point welcomed a new group of residents, and 60 European men, women and children slowly approached the dock on two small river steamers. Mayor William, Pastor Brest, Tax Officer Mao Jian, and Sheriff Guan Ruzhong, who received a radio notice yesterday, were stationed in the dock area early with some residents.

After a night of river sailing, the new European immigrants all looked a little haggard, but when they saw the town nestled among the green hills, they all cheered up. After a week-long quarantine and adaptation on Staten Island, they will be immersed in a new environment that is no worse than the Chinese town they saw when they first arrived in North America.

Although the existing temporary housing is not sufficient, Mayor William, who has long had a long-term plan for the colonization of West Point, still asked the enthusiastic townspeople to take away the European villagers as family units. The Huamei government has already given each of them a settlement loan contract, and in the next month, with the help of the townspeople, they will have their own shelter free of charge, and the house they live in will become their real home only after they have paid off all their debts with the remuneration of their work.

Watching dozens of new immigrants with nervous and longing expressions gradually disappear into the streets of the town, Guan Ruzhong turned his gaze to the little steamer, and his student, the Delaware Indian boy, was still meticulously busy.

"Teacher, this is what they asked me to bring to you!" Fatima carefully inspected the cargo hold of the small steamer before jumping ashore and taking out two letters from his arms, "One for you and one for Mr. Mao." ”

Looking at the envelope without any words written, Guan Ruzhong smiled wryly. He and Mao Jian actually knew the content when they received the radio communication yesterday. These are two voluntary election forms, and the registration for the elections for both houses of Congress of the future Republic of China and the United States of America has begun.

According to the provisional election bill, the future first session of the Congress will be composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives, with 19 members tentatively including the Speaker and 35 members including the Speaker of the House of Representatives, accounting for about one-ninth of the current number of members.

The Senate will be directly by-elected by the current community council, and due to the resignation of some members, there are only 11 members left in the current community council, and the remaining 8 seats need to be elected from among the citizens who have the right to cross the congregation. The only condition for running is that you are at least 35 years old.

Immediately after the House of Councillors election, the House of Representatives election will also be held, and the age has been relaxed so that all people over the age of 18 can run for election. In the entire two-chamber election, only the crossing congregation who has reached the age of 18 has the right to vote.

Both houses were elected for a four-year term beginning in 1622 and after two consecutive terms, beginning in 1630, the official election act provided for in the constitution was enforced.

According to the provisions of the Provisional Election Act, only one-third of the seats can be re-elected in the Senate elections at any one time, while there are no special restrictions in the House of Representatives elections.

The president, who is elected by the members of both houses, is only a symbolic head of state, with only a limited number of powers, and is elected every five years. The prime minister, nominated by the president, is the top executive head of the cabinet and serves a term of four years.

The Supreme Judge, who is also nominated by the President, is elected to the Senate and is for life.

"It looks a bit like a copy of the Anglo-American bicameral system, but it's like the German model...... Really go to capitalism? How many people are there now, let's do what kind of nation-building. I'll just watch it, whatever they do. ”

Sitting in the corner of the small hotel in West Point Town, Guan Ruzhong and Mao Jian looked at the election report in front of them, with helpless expressions. Mao Jian directly left blank on the form, saying that he gave up running for the Senate.

"This must have been carefully thought out by Old Man Zhong, after all, we have too many impetuous feelings, and there is no Senate and veteran people to check it, God knows if this country will be messed up because of some people's hot heads. And in order to ensure a long-term policy stability, it is at least two terms to last. It doesn't matter whether the country is small or not, the sooner the rules are set, the richer it is unruly and the poor are unruly, it will not end well, and when the stall is big, it will be difficult to set the rules. Guan Ruzhong nodded and gave up.

"Brother Guan, I don't think you look like a rough person like us at all." Mao Jian suddenly raised his head and looked seriously at his companion who had been with him for almost a year, "Are you hiding something from yourself?" And I've always been carrying such an awesome dogleg knife on my body! ”

Guan Ruzhong was stunned for a moment, and then smiled wordlessly.

"Brother Guan, if you continue like this, it won't be kind. I'm thinking, when you pulled me to secretly participate in the tile business with William and them, you must have thought that one day, I didn't have these ideas. Mao Jian poured a sip of wine into his mouth, snorting wine and said, "You have a better brain than me, so you joined the construction team in the first place?" ”

"I studied automation engineering, a master's degree in mechatronic engineering. But not anymore, I'm just a temporary West Point sheriff. Maybe it won't even be this identity in the future. After Guan Ruzhong finished speaking, he dropped a Spanish silver dollar and walked out of the small bar.

Looking at the back of his companion, Mao Jian's mouth opened wide.

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"In this world, the attitude and spirit of being responsible for others belong to only a very small number of people. This is the biggest difference between the demands of the government and the responsibilities of the government. -- Su Zining's remarks on political demands and responsibilities have long been spread by the gathering of several friends of the sworn party.

The Interim Election Act would give every Manhattan community over the age of 35 the right to run for the Senate. A small campaign form makes most people who have not had a complete sense of participation in politics since childhood feel at a loss.

For most people, it's perfectly normal to shout and insult when they're well fed or underfed, but when it comes to being responsible for a country, people tend to shy away or dismiss.

By the deadline of August 24, there were only seven voluntary candidates in the original eight-member by-election. In line with the principle that the rules must be fulfilled thoroughly, Liu Lao and others continued to run around various blocks, preaching the significance of the temporary election plan, and finally said that Aunt Hai Huifen was tired and made up enough people, this kind of mobilization is really a little helpless.

Thus began the election of members of the Senate of the first National Assembly. The outcome of the election vote is not in doubt, the president of the Senate is almost irrefutably Liu Lao, the 10 former community committee members have also officially become members of the Senate, and the remaining 8 candidates are not surprisingly all of them.

On August 27, the House of Representatives elections began again. This time, the participation of people who clearly felt less pressure was much higher, and many former dock workers, including Dong Jiunan, including several retired soldiers from the Army Guard or Navy, participated.

Su Zining and other deliberately cultivated people chose the role of grassroots fart people as always, which made Liu Lao, who had already served as the president of the Senate, sigh in pity.

As a result of the election, Zhang Ping, a 51-year-old high school math teacher and former member of the community's old-fashioned education committee, became the speaker of the House of Representatives, and the remaining 34 members of the House of Representatives were also selected from 65 candidates.

Wednesday, September 1. The long-awaited members of both houses took their collective inauguration in the former Community Council Chapel, which serves as the temporary office of Congress. Their subsequent responsibilities were to draw up the constitution and elect the president and the members of the cabinet of the first government.

There is no national anthem, no national flag, no flowers, no guard of honor. Except for a joke sign of the "American Republic of China" that has been copied from the people for a long time, there is not even a real name of the country.

Even if there are many difficulties, or no one knows what to do best, the people of the Manhattan community are pulled by some people and move step by step on the road to building a new country.

Maybe when the final result comes out, no one is really satisfied, but no one is completely resistant. Suffering from gains and losses is probably a kind of emotion that everyone is destined to experience later.

The official founding day is set on October 1, a day that people can remember with some emotion......

(End of Volume 1)

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