Chapter Forty-Eight: 365 Days of Thinking of You
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The weather that had not rained for more than two months was finally ended on August 1, and the rain lasted for nearly three days, announcing that the driest summer in the history of China and the United States had finally passed, and it also cooled down in time for a "hot fight" that had just ended.
In response to many of the original unsatisfactory contents, amendments to the Electoral Law were passed last month, and the Electoral Law, which got rid of the word "temporary", paved the way for smooth elections for both houses of Congress.
In accordance with the provisions of the amendment to the Electoral Law, the number of members of the Senate has been raised to 20, and the rule that no more than one-third of the members of the House of Councillors shall be re-elected for each term. The once vaguely defined re-election plan for the House of Representatives has been clearly adjusted to no more than one-half of the re-election for each term, and the number of members has been increased to 40.
Liu Mingjun's physical condition became worse and worse, and he officially retired with applause and blessings. Bao Zitu, who was very diligent in the Senate and the Ministry of Science and Technology, was finally elected as the speaker of the Senate of the new Congress, and Li Ping, who is over 60 years old, was also expected to continue to be elected speaker of the House of Representatives.
In the new two houses of the National Assembly, due to the expansion of the number of members, although the number of former docker members has increased, the number of former tour group members has not decreased much, and in general, a delicate balance still exists.
In the end, the title of the country's top mascot, the presidency, continued to be led by Chen Yuanyuan, while Premier Qi Jianjun, who was known as the "butt sitting upright", also retained his post with a majority vote.
On 8 August, another "aristocratic" democratic election came to an end, and the nominations for the next cabinet ministers were approved by the new Diet.
The Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Construction merged, and Zhou Yi once again devoted himself to dual uses, increasing his responsibilities; An Shaoqing, Minister of Land and Resources, resigned to concentrate on teaching, and the new ministerial position was replaced by Wei Jianrong, a long-term "business follower" of An Shaoqing, a former vice minister and a junior college student in the Department of Geothermal Exploration; The Minister of Civil Affairs, Wei Zhen, is no longer the Minister of Health, and is replaced by another newly nominated Traveler.
The biggest highlight in this government personnel adjustment. Chang Kun, the former director of the Department of Chinese Immigration Affairs, once again carped the dragon gate and was promoted to the post of director of the Social Security Bureau of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which is the first "indigenous" senior government official at the department level since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
When he got the letter of appointment, he heard that it was "second only to Shilang", and Chang Kun was almost "in tears", so he almost kowtowed to the direction of the Congress on the spot. Then, that evening, the Chang family's new home in the southern part of Manchester was feasted. There is quite a posture of "comforting the ancestors in the spirit of the sky".
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On Monday, August 13, the new National Assembly officially convened a plenary session, and the first task was to reorganize the work process of auditing the national fiscal year budget and formulate the national budget for the new year. It will be a quarter in advance. In other words, the national budget for each year will be completed in September and October of the first year, instead of being rushed in November every year.
This is probably a sign of the concern of the new President of the Senate, Bao Zitu, about the enormous cost of the Oriental Expedition so far, and even though it is generally accepted that the work of the government is indeed complicated, the advance of the national budget for 1630 is particularly important at a time when the country's economic growth continues to slow down in 1629.
After a year and a half of state support shipbuilding fever. Now the initial results have come out, the total tonnage of ocean-going merchant ships has increased rapidly from about 60,000 tons at the beginning of 1628 to nearly 80,000 tons today, and more than 10,000 tons are still under construction. The vast majority of the newly-built merchant ships are "national standard" all-steam-powered ships promoted by the government.
Although the numbers have grown superficially. However, it does not mean that today's ocean capacity shortage can be solved immediately. The pressure on the recruitment and training of crew members of various shipping companies is much greater than in the past, and a considerable part of the new merchant tonnage will also be used to fill the daily transportation of the already strict coastal towns in the local coastal towns, and the new ocean capacity that can be put into the Atlantic is still limited.
If we add to this the problem of Oriental business layout, which is still "unresolved". Then if we want to solve the problem of slowing down the country's import and export growth, it will take a long time. This has to return to the choice of whether to "re-east" or "re-west". The idea of "putting things together" has proven to be wishful thinking without self-knowledge after more than a year of painful testing.
In fact, the confidentiality agreement between Yan Xiaosong and the relevant parties in the Far East was delivered to China as early as before the congressional general election, the mission of the expeditionary fleet was basically achieved, the migration channel was restored and expanded, and several key nodes in the established plan were also about to be dredged by Yan Xiaosong, but whether to continue to advance as expected has become a thorny issue.
The Senate also went through many closed-door discussions, and like many frozen bills at that time, the members of the two houses, who were caught in the "aftermath" of the congressional election, competed against each other, and their positions were very different, and in the end, the speakers of the two houses had to adopt a shelving attitude that neither opposed nor agreed. It is no wonder that those in power at home have reacted to the cooling of Asia, after all, from last year to now, the military operations in the Far East have exhausted the entire country, and a lot of national strength has been spent in that bottomless pit, and the associated maintenance costs of the expeditionary fleet are at least $6,000 for every day spent in the Far East.
Ultimately, the question returns to the country's new fiscal year budget, and the government cabinet, headed by Qi Jianjun, will face a more difficult task than ever before.
However, after all, Qi Jianjun has been the prime minister of the government for two consecutive terms, and there is still a lot of legislative examination and approval work delayed in the new Congress, and it is really difficult for him to unilaterally guess the focus of the government's work for next year before reaching a consensus on many issues.
Qi Jianjun demanded that the Senate and the House of Representatives do everything possible to approve the shelved bill, and the remaining legislators, who were mainly tourist-oriented, kept their faces unchanged and talked and laughed freely, while the newly elected former dock workers faction members blushed and demanded that the government must increase the annual investment budget of state-owned groups.
As a result, in the successive sessions of the new National Assembly in mid-August, there was a very interesting phenomenon of "kicking the ball" between the members of the parliament and the government's cabinet.
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On August 20th, the "Manchester City Entertainment Company", which was invested and created by Manchester City Radio Station, officially launched the latest record album "Love Deadline" by the big singer Jenny, due to the limitation of the playing time, each record can only hold one song, so this album is composed of a full 5 records.
A series of songs with the theme of "time", including "365 Days of Thinking of You", became Jenny's title song this time, and immediately aroused the crazy pursuit of young people across the country.
Although the number of households that can afford to buy a record player is still very limited. The album also sold for a whopping $30, but that didn't stop Jenny's new song from quickly spreading across the country on radio station Guò and making an unexpected splash.
"The spring breeze raises the parting of you and me; Summer rain, wetting the lonely eaves; Autumn leaves, receive your postcard; Winter snow, another year in the blink of an eye......"
"In ~ three hundred and sixty-five days of thinking of you; Read ~ every sentence of comfort you write......"
"In your arms, there is the temperature of your hug; In the eyes, there are you smiling and crying; Heart. There's a story you've told...... In the dream, you are on your way home. ”
At the beginning, the hearts of the people were boiling in the National Eastern Expeditionary Operation, but with the departure of more than 2,000 officers and men of the expeditionary fleet for more than a year, slowly, a strong thought began to spread in the country.
In fact, as early as when the first death notice was delivered to China. A military family member from Long Island fainted and died in front of the defense department. "365 Days of Thinking of You" suddenly triggered a strong trend of thought, and every day many military families gathered outside the Ministry of National Defense building, staring at the gate with tears in their eyes, and then asking for news to every staff member who came and went.
Defense Minister Zheng Quan, who has already been furious by various military spending problems, rushed directly into Manchester City Radio this time, roaring to demand that the broadcast and sale of this kind of music products that "create social instability". The radio station staff, frightened by Zheng Quan's appearance of wanting to kill, once sought help from the local police station.
It was said. This is the first "mistake" Jenny has made in years, but everyone who understands knows that the country has been using troops everywhere for many years, and it is getting bigger and bigger. The distances are getting farther and the expenses are getting higher. For a country that has only been established for less than a decade and a large number of immigrants from war-torn lands, it really takes some time to breathe.
As a result, the songs of the album "The Duration of Love" dramatically became a catalyst for "handshakes and peace" within the state and government. August 31. The Cabinet of Ministers officially promulgated the Four-Year Plan for the Development of 1630-1633, in accordance with the consensus reached by the Government and the National Assembly. In 1630, the work on the state budget began in earnest. The current government will drastically reduce military spending, increase investment support for state-owned groups, put the focus of national development back at home, and make it clear that large-scale military operations will be stopped when "non-foreign military invasion" occurs, and the annual military expenditure of the state will be maintained at the level of 1628 for the next four years.
In this way, the first to bear the brunt is the command of the Navy. The number of Princess-class large sail light cruisers that had already completed the design work was directly "cut in two", the original number of 8 ships was cut to 3, and the construction allocation was only 1 ship per year from 1630 onwards! Six of the Flower-class sail frigates that are under construction have been put into service, and in addition to the "Tulip" and "Cornflower" that are still on the slipway, the last four that have not yet started construction have also been cut. The only ones that have not been affected are ships such as offshore patrol ships and Gray Whale-class transport ships.
The Army Command was not left alone, and the office was in mourning. The year-long proposal for the expansion of the Foreign Legion was ruthlessly killed, and the production of the Type 30A metal fixed-loading rifle, which was originally scheduled to enter the installation sequence in 1630, was postponed until 1632, and the purchase of the new 80mm mortar was postponed until after 1633.
The reason given by Congress is simple - "no weakening of this advantage has been found." ”
Then, after analyzing the effectiveness of the expeditionary fleet at this stage, the National Assembly announced that it would freeze most of the proposals to support the Eastern Expeditionary Fleet in the coming year in order to reduce the burden on the state, but promised to complete the final legislative approval of the Securities Exchange Act within the next year, and notified the government's timetable for the withdrawal of the Eastern Expeditionary Fleet on the spot. The headline was published in the current issue of newspapers and radio stations, and the families of military personnel everywhere breathed a sigh of relief.
This series of contraction policies means that the expected annual arms orders of more than one million yuan will be lost, and a large amount of state investment will be diverted to the upstream monopoly industries controlled by domestic state-owned groups. Correspondingly, the military manufacturing suppliers related to the armaments of the army and navy are extremely disappointed, and these are basically all private capital, affecting dozens of private enterprises, especially the official production line of new rifles and mortars of NORINCO is almost completed.
The 1630 national budget was approved by a majority of only a few votes, which was the fewest votes in favor of the budget since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Although this still includes a large number of re-sorting through the interests of the people themselves, what is different from the past is that this is the first time since the founding of the People's Republic of China that the Republic of China has tried to adjust its national policy from the perspective of people's demands.
It is said that shortly after the newspaper was published, Su Zining specially hosted a banquet for Cheng Daxiong and his wife at home......
(To be continued)