'Pedal Pedal Tread'

'Jingle Bells'

The symphony of horses' hooves and bicycle bells in Beijing was the street of April 1621, during the Ming Dynasty's apocalypse years, after Li Jiancheng had stayed here for nearly a year.

The concrete roads, the tall four-wheeled carriages, the bicycles with cheerful bells flashing from the side of the road from time to time, and the shouts of the newspaper sellers, always felt that this era seemed to have been played badly.

And that's not the only thing that's bad, in front of Li Jiancheng's municipal government office building, a press conference is being held for the first time in the history of this time and space to officially gather the industry and commerce, politics, and people.

The host of this press conference is Ye Congfeng, and the official representatives who came to attend the meeting were Fang Congzhe, the first minister and auxiliary minister.

Although Li Jiancheng was in this building, he didn't plan to show up, and of course it had several meanings to let Fang Congzhe be the representative.

First of all, with the progress of a series of loan plans of the Agricultural Bank of China, and the distribution of resettlement fields for the displaced people, it is natural that for the implementation of the follow-up policy, Li Jiancheng proposed to the imperial court a plan for the implementation of the new policy of Qixing City.

When the imperial court heard this, it was naturally like Xuanyuan Dabo at first, and he didn't believe it at all, and he didn't agree. Li Jiancheng's new policy planning is simply unheard of, and it involves almost all the current political systems, which is completely a change! However, Li Jiancheng will not touch the existing regime, but only run the Seven Star City in a special form of the Special Administrative Region, and only limit the implementation of special laws in the Special Administrative Region! Otherwise, unless the imperial court returns to him the 30 million taels of silver he invested by Li Jiancheng, he will cut off someone's head if he can't get his money back!

Li Jiancheng said this kind of thing, and the imperial court had no choice at all. Where did the court find 30 million taels of silver to compensate Li Jiancheng? Rats can run in the treasury.

Of course, this can be regarded as Li Jiancheng's signal. Everyone knows that the emperor generously did such a big thing. But I didn't expect the emperor to take the money back. That's right, those loans are honestly to lend money to the common people, although they don't want interest, but they do want to recover the original money, and the emperor won't let go, which is also a big reason.

And Li Jiancheng said that if he wanted to implement the new policy, he would use those people and businessmen, and this matter was not very worthy of serious attention for the ministers of the imperial court.

Who in this world doesn't have a set of their own ideas? Every politician has an ideal that they want to achieve, but how many of them are suitable for this world? Who can pack tickets? There is no shortage of reformers in the world, but those who can succeed are rare. Now he Li Jiancheng is powerful, rich and powerful. I just want to toss; The key is that he has the right to do what he wants, and he has not infringed on anyone at present, so under such a premise, why not let him be real?

You can't offend the emperor for this kind of thing, you must know that this is a society of dictators, and in the face of a monarch, it is better to comb than to block!

Of course, there are also stubborn social staunch elements who insult and criticize him Li Jiancheng, but today when Li Jiancheng's reputation is in full swing, it is no less than a grasshopper to try to make Li Jiancheng lose his morality and change his policy in this way. Without the support of authoritarianism, these people are just sad, painful, and fluctuating, and people's hearts are of no avail.

Fang Congzhe, the equivalent of the country's prime minister, was present and explained the specifications of the statement. Basically, what is said is the state declaration, which is equivalent to spilling water. Fang Congzhe's presence at the press conference further felt the power of the propaganda media, and in the past, the affairs of the imperial court were often just a notice. There is a lot of room for manoeuvre for such announcements. And the press conference is simply a thing that has no room for it, this is that you have to let the words out in order to get things done, and the emperor is also a person who leaves no room for it.

This press conference was mainly carried out between the people and businessmen, and the statement of Seven Star City had already been promoted, and the people who came to participate in the press conference basically had a little bottom in their hearts. The event was held in the open air, and the venue was maintained by the city's new-looking police, who were placed in the middle of the venue to provide seats for the wealthy businessmen.

This press conference also tugged at the heartstrings of many people, but as far as the officials of the Ming Dynasty are concerned, although they also want to know about the scene of this press conference, there are few literati who can pull down the shelves to make a public appearance with these merchants.

This time, Fang Congzhe made an exception to name this press conference, and it was also Li Jiancheng's intention to sabotage the alliance between Fang and Donglin. In fact, Fang Congzhe is also happy to get close to the emperor, and Donglin's character is already clear to Fang Congzhe in the dynasty for so many years. Donglin's desire to monopolize the government and the opposition is indelible, since Li Jiancheng ascended the throne, the Donglin Party has been hit even by the blows, the situation in the DPRK and China is changing, but it is the other side that has benefited from Zhe several times, and the prestige is rising, and now the imperial court is no longer Donglin's dominance, and the three parties of Qi, Zhe and Chu can already compete with Donglin.

Fang Congzhe also knew that now Qi Zhechu can be on a level with Donglin is only a superficial phenomenon, and he has not yet been able to fight back against Donglin, after all, the Donglin Party has a far-reaching history and profound heritage, so Fang Congzhe naturally chose to use the power of the emperor.

The blow inflicted by the emperor on Donglin, whether intentionally or unintentionally, was really balancing the government and the opposition, not only Fang Congzhe knew this, but of course Donglin also knew this, so Li Jiancheng's plan for Seven Star City this time The Donglin Party did not oppose it, but let Fang Congzhe get close to the emperor.

This trick is called retreat as advance, Li Jiancheng is a dictator or every emperor is a dictator. When an emperor wants to balance the situation and suppress one side, you better stick your head out and let him fight. Because if you don't do this, you know what his purpose is, and you still have to resist, then if the emperor doesn't kill you, won't the name of the emperor be in vain?

The power of the world belongs to the emperor, when he wants to balance the situation, as a courtier, you still hold on to the power in your hands, which can basically be defined as rebellion, unless you are hard enough to be opposed, but Donglin is a party with a lot of names. So on the other hand, it is necessary to retreat and regain trust in order to be outwardly loyal, and with trust comes power. Don't look at Fang Congzhe and the emperor now, but will the emperor make him unshakable?

Of course Li Jiancheng wouldn't do this, isn't this forcing Donglin to a dead end? Moreover, in his opinion, Fang Congzhe is not a good bird, and everyone knows it in their hearts.

The press conference was held on time, and the first to report was Zhou Ming. Zhou Ming is a capable person, and the experience of this year is like a dream for him. Zhou Ming said: "Welcome to participate in the press release of the Seven Star City Plan, this Seven Star City Plan is personally awarded by the Emperor of the Great Ming Dynasty, and the court has decided that it is the first case since the opening of the Ming Dynasty in China, or the first time in thousands of years in China that the people's livelihood rights have been handed over to businessmen to be supervised by the imperial court!" ”

Zhou Ming's opening greatly subverted everyone's concept, and all the people who participated in the press conference this time were famous and wealthy businessmen of the Tianjin and Beijing generation, and of course, there were even representatives from the south who came here. Zhou Ming's sentence handed over the right to people's livelihood to businessmen to determine the lethality of the reason, you can imagine how great it is.

Not only the businessmen but also those officials couldn't calm down before they started, Zhou Ming kept saying: "Next, I would like to please, Ye Congfeng, the executive chairman of the Seven Star City Plan, and Lord Congfang, the representative of the imperial court, came to the stage to explain this matter to everyone!" ”

In a state of surprise, Fang Congzhe and Ye Congfeng came to power, and there is no need to say who Fang Congzhe is. The arrival of Ye Congfeng made everyone look at him, how this young man around 20 years old was reused by the emperor, which can be seen from Fang Congzhe, the head of the imperial court, is the representative Ye Congfeng is executive chairman.

Why do you want to hold Ye Congfeng so high, in fact, this is the tightrope way that Li Jiancheng plays, this kind of play is to make Ye Congfeng to the point where it is meaningless to kill him. Anyone can see that Ye Congfeng's boasting is too big, and he doesn't know that the imperial court capital will come to give him a long face. This profoundly shows that this matter is that he Li Jiancheng is making decisions, Ye Congfeng is just a façade, and it is useless to deal with him, in such a situation, Fang Congzhe is enough to praise Li Jiancheng's façade.

Ye Congfeng introduced himself above, and saluted the juniors below, Fang Congzhe arched his hand, and the merchants below hurriedly got up and returned the salute, and everyone took their seats after a polite manner. At this time, Zhou Ming said: "Then let's invite Fang Shoufu, the representative of the imperial court, and Lord Fang to explain, how to hand over the people's livelihood rights to the businessmen to plan?" ”

Zhou Ming kicked the question to Fang Congzhe, and at this time, Ye Congfeng turned around on the chairman's seat and smiled and handed Fang Congzhe a bag of text: "Dao, Lord Shoufu, please!" ”

Fang Congzhe was stunned for a moment, the emperor didn't tell him this stubble at all! In an instant, Fang Congzhe understood, and with a smile on his face, he pushed back the bag that Ye Congfeng handed him, and said: "This time the executive chairman is Ye Congfeng, Ye Gongzi, or Ye Gongzi will explain it to everyone!" ”

Fang Congzhe excused himself as expected, Fang Congzhe had already been the representative of the sky, if he read those texts, the nature would be different, of course Fang Congzhe would not fall for this kind of strategy without technical content.

Of course, Ye Congfeng still had to be polite, he said: "Fang Gong is polite, just call the student to speak in court!" ”

Ye Congfeng is also called Ye Yanting. Fang Congzhe said: "Yanting, a good name, it can be seen that Ling Zun's expectations are very high." Now that the court has been reused, it can be regarded as the glory of the ancestors, you are still young, don't be stubborn and self-serving! ”

Fang Congzhe's words are considered to be a lesson and a point, and as an elder teaching a younger generation, this is the meaning of closeness. Ye Congfeng naturally said politely: "What adults teach is that students should repay the emperor's grace!" ”

Fang Congzhe and Ye Congfeng's performances are very contrived, it is said that this kind of press conference needs to be like this? But it is very necessary here, Ye Congfeng has no foundation, which is a hard injury, so it is necessary to arrange Fang Congzhe to sit in the formation. Fang Congzhe lectured Ye Congfeng in the form of elders, which not only reflected the importance but also the closeness to the outside world, and it was not simple to show that Ye Congfeng was indeed not simple. In addition, it also showed the 'distance' to its internal elders, and also gave Li Jiancheng enough face as a façade. And Ye Congfeng needs these very much, and the close conversation between him and the chief assistant of the imperial court shows that there are people above him, and what he says is a little more convincing, which can reduce a lot of trouble for future work. (To be continued......)