At 9:30 a.m. on the Monday of the second week of the new year, in a huge ancient ceremonial hall next to the imperial palace of the imperial capital, as the thick bell rang, the gentlemen and ladies in the hall sorted out their clothes, checked the documents they carried with them, and walked into two different doors. It was the site of party meetings, and for many years the royal family used to watch operas or circuses, and occasionally hold balls.

After the New Party came to power, it was transformed into a multi-functional complex that was most often used for meetings.

The hall on the first floor connects the three larger halls, where both the new and old parties have set up the location of the party meeting, and to be able to set foot in this place means that you have truly stepped into the center of the political arena, and only politicians who can participate in the party meeting are real politicians.

As for the ones out there...... , but just getting started.

Maggs sat at the head of the huge round conference table, and to his left was the chairman of the New Party Committee, Monsieur de Odegar, who was still hereditary, but it was a pity that he himself had cut off this hereditary succession, and now he had no aristocratic status, as people here often say, everyone was "equal".

The second seat on the right hand side of Maggs sits Powell, and it stands to reason that the whip of the ruling party can be regarded as the third person in the ruling party, and he should sit next to Maggs, but because of some inexplicable problems, such as Powell's reluctance to sit with Maggs, he is now sitting in the second position on the right hand side of Maggs. The vice-chairman of the New Party Committee, who had been sitting there, sat next to Maggs.

There are a total of 48 seats in the entire conference room, and there are 52 seats on the wall, and in the normal course of the meeting, party members sitting against the wall are not allowed to take the initiative to speak on the main topics and processes of the conference, and they are only qualified to raise their hands to speak when they enter the discussion process later. Many people refer to such an internal party meeting as "the forty-eight on the tower", which is obviously a sign of mockery and jealousy, but it is accurate.

The people sitting against the wall are always showing indifference to the colleagues sitting at the edge of the table, in fact, they don't want to sit in the chair over there all the time, that's the real core!

Harry sat in seat 19, he was still quite a distance away from Maggs, he wanted to communicate with Maggs before the meeting, but for some reason, Maggs came late this time, almost stepping on time to enter the hall, and he didn't have a chance to talk to Maggs first.

Once everyone was in place and seated, Maggs tapped the microphone in front of him, and the room fell silent, except for the sound of people breathing.

"Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am very happy to repeat what I have said no less than a hundred times, and I am very grateful to all of you for being able to attend our party meetings on time, which is important to us and to all of us. We're going to talk about some of the proposals to be presented at tomorrow's Imperial Diet, and some things that we need to decide, and I hope that everyone will try to stay in their seats and don't move around casually until the meeting is over. ”

"Then we move on to the first agenda of the meeting, where we will submit to Parliament tomorrow for the final review, supplementation and discussion of the draft of the Anti-Corruption Bill!"

As soon as Maggs's remarks ended, the deputy chairman of the New Party Committee, who was sitting to his right, flipped through the folder and began to read the draft of the Anti-Corruption Bill.

This bill was first proposed by Maggs in July last year, and the Ministry of Justice subsequently supplemented and sorted out, and finally formulated 33 articles and 79 paragraphs, the main purpose of which is to restrain and restrict the corruption, bribery, and bribery of government officials by capital forces!

Whether in economically developed areas or in economically underdeveloped areas, capitalists always wield their checkbooks to bribe local officials to protect their own legal or illegal business, and through this means they expand their own power without limits and attack other people's business, resulting in a few or a dozen very prominent enterprises in some places, almost completely monopolizing the operation of the same industry in the locality.

If you look at some reports alone, it seems that the economic construction of these cities is perfect. Perfect tax payment, perfect leader, perfect economic form. But all this is false and deceptive. When a city's industry is controlled by individual companies, the damage far outweighs the "constructiveness" they show.

This is a kind of destruction, the destruction of the red fruit, the market that has lost its self-regulation will soon be on the verge of collapse because of the greed of these capitalists.

The purpose of submitting this legislative proposal is also to cooperate with the Anti-Industry Manipulation Act to crack down on some unscrupulous capitalists on multiple levels. Judging from the current state of society, it may have a great impact, after all, the empire did not have an accurate control over the "income" of officials before that. As long as they can build the city better, then their personal legal and illegal income will not be included in the evaluation system.

Moreover, people are still accustomed to abiding by some of the laws of the aristocratic era, and it is not normal to spend some money to do something? Even if they want to open up the wasteland, they have to pay a little fee to the nobles in the territory, right?

However, this system is no longer applicable to the current social situation and the international situation, and the officials are no longer like the aristocrats of the past, who may not change places for the rest of their lives, and they often work for a few years before leaving, not caring whether the cities they run will leave huge problems because of some of the ways they govern. Anyway, as long as they don't break out when they are in power, as for the future, whatever!

Under such circumstances, it is imperative to formulate a set of laws that can restrain officials and the power of capital, which is why this agenda item is on the agenda at today's meeting.

After the deputy chairman of the New Party Committee read out the draft of the Anti-Corruption Bill, the Deputy Minister of Justice, who was sitting against the wall, stood up and began to explain the content and standards of each law. After each explanation, everyone raises their hands to vote, and if there are no questions, they move on to the next one.

The entire process of explaining the contents of the bill lasted nearly half an hour, and after slightly amending and adding three articles, the new party has passed it by all members, and all that remains is the formal submission and vote in the Imperial Assembly tomorrow.

"The second item on the agenda is also about a new bill to be tabled in parliament tomorrow. Maggs took a sip of the cooled coffee and moistened his throat, "After a period of sorting out and supplementing the "Anti-Industry Manipulation Act", more content will be added, and after thinking and discussing with my colleagues in the cabinet, I decided to change the name of the supplemented bill to the "Anti-Industry Monopoly Act" for re-legislative submission, and then my colleagues from the Ministry of Justice will carefully explain this aspect for everyone......

It was not until one o'clock in the afternoon that Maggs suspended the meeting for a while, and everyone needed to rest and eat. At two o'clock, the meeting resumed. The next content is about the transfer of personnel within the party, the allocation of resources within the party, and some other issues.

That's what politicians like the most about sitting against the wall, and maybe the next time they come here for a meeting, they'll sit at the edge of the table.

Powell, who had been silent, suddenly turned on the microphone in front of him, and after two brief noises, everyone in the room looked at him.

Since the second party meeting last year, Powell has hardly spoken, but he did not expect that he actually had something to say today, and some people secretly turned their attention to Mags, and everyone now knows about the "discord" between Mags and Powell.

Maggs looked at Powell with a smile and said, "What? Mr. Powell seems to have something to say, and it just so happens that everyone is here today, so you might as well listen to what Mr. Powell has to say." ”

Powell couldn't see any change in expression on his face, he nodded, "Thank you leader for giving me the opportunity to speak......", the moment he said this, some people realized that today's meeting may be more exciting than usual, and the resentment and unwillingness in this sentence are about to come out, and they almost make every word clear. Maggs smiled, didn't seem to understand what Powell was talking about, and kept looking at him.

"I've always had a problem, I don't know if you have noticed that the age of our party members has tended to be younger than in the past fifty or sixty. I'm not denying that young people are bad, it's just that young people haven't experienced more things, they don't have more mature thinking skills, and they lack a kind of accumulation of time, so often they usually perform well, but when something happens, it must be a big deal. He chuckled, but no one in the whole room echoed his laughter, even his politicians from civilian backgrounds kept their mouths shut, and what he said today did not pass through them, so they would not speak until they understood the situation.

Powell looked at Maggs, he said this to Magis, Maggs smiled faintly, pressed one hand on the edge of the table, leaned back in the back of the chair, "Mr. Powell, do you mean the mayor of Otis City, Mr. Doolin?"

"That's right, the person I'm going to talk about is him!", Powell was not timid at all, and directly took the knife at Durin, "We can't be blinded by cleverness and ignore other aspects." Everyone knows about the accident that happened in the city of Otis a few days ago, and according to the official press conference, the death toll is close to 300. Gentlemen, because of a slight negligence, three hundred citizens of the empire left this world, and at least six hundred families were hurt as a result, which is the result of being too young and holding a lot of power!"