206. Wellington's Political Story 3 - A Farce!
The heavy wooden doors of the council hall open silently under the push of the attendants, the unique echo structure allows the speaker's voice to reach everyone's ears clearly, and the stepped shell-shaped hall allows each councillor to see who is speaking at the bottom.
This is the center of public opinion in the Burgas Empire, and it is claimed to represent the will of all the people of Bugas!
“...... To sum up, I think that if we reunite, it will be detrimental to the stability and unity of the Gallia region, and the people of Gallia will feel that since Lobit has abandoned us, why should we reunite, this is a remarriage that is doomed to collapse! ”
The congressman standing on the stage bowed to the fat-headed and big-eared speaker behind him, and prepared to return to his seat.
"......Shhh
There were bursts of boos from the audience, and Philip found that the loudest voices were the parliamentarians from Gallia, who he knew a lot.
"Liar!"
"You've never been to Galia at all!"
"You can't represent the people of Galia!"
"The people of Galia are demanding a merger!"
......
"This is the House of Bugas, the place where the will of all the people of Bugas is represented!" said Nicholas, in a mocking tone, as he led Philip to his seat.
Pointing to a seat next to his councillor's seat, Nicholas asked Philip to sit down, "That guy just now has never been to Galia, he doesn't know anything about Galia at all, I'm afraid you will ask him where Lobit is." He couldn't answer. However, he was eloquent in his assertion that the reunion would displease the people of Galia. ”
"Hehe!" Nicholas sneered twice, "What is this for? I think that the Republicans want him to do that, as long as the royalists put forward a bill, the Republicans will oppose it, and whether this bill is good for the country and the people or not, the Republican Party will definitely oppose it for the sake of opposition." ”
Nicholas's face was tired, and his eyes were full of helplessness: "Sometimes. You feel like you're fighting a bunch of demons. They don't care how many poor people can be fed by this bill, they don't care how many children will no longer lose their parents, they only have their own interests in their eyes, and I remember when I was able to pass a bill to increase the pension of soldiers. How much lip and tongue it spent. How many rolls of the eyes. In the end, it was all for naught. ”
On stage, a royalist MP stepped up and began to analyze the benefits of the reunification of the Gallia region. For example, Lobit's fast-growing economic boom can drive the development of the surrounding area, etc., this is a tactic set up by Dom for the royalist parliamentarians, they don't have to mess around at all, they just need to seriously talk about the benefits of the merger of Gallia and Lobit.
Philip had already heard these words, so he simply discussed the topic with his father, "Aren't the councillors elected by the voters?" asked Philip suspiciously.
"Elected? yes, of course it is, but you go and tell the old farmer what a ballot is, he understands, sometimes, a silver coin, no, a few copper coins can buy a farmer's vote, a piece of bread can make a homeless man put his fingerprint on the ballot, of course, it's not that no voter really cares about the councillor he wants to elect, but when he fights for a tax cut bill for you, he will exchange it for the next ten tax increase bills, do you think those bakers, blacksmiths, How many workers will understand such a complex political deal?"
"So, the parliament elected by the people is not good?"
"No, a parliament is a good thing, but there is an empty parliament without a corresponding political basis, and in the end, it is just a political farce. ”
Philip was deeply touched by Nicholas's words, in his previous life, Baodao promoted exactly the same politics as the US imperialists, but the US imperialism worked very well, and the Baodao was a complete farce, and even fights in the Legislative Yuan often happened.
"The lackeys of the nobility!"
"Political scoundrels who don't learn and don't know how to learn!"
......
As soon as the royalist congressman on the stage finished speaking, the Republicans began to insult loudly, and the words they said were much more unpleasant than the words of the Gallia congressman just now, making Philip feel that he had traveled back hundreds of years on earth, and the Treasure Island Legislative Yuan was in such a situation.
Immediately afterwards, a Republican congressman jumped impatiently on the stage and began to say loudly: "Everyone has finally seen how brazen Congressman Seedorf is, he is purely the lackey of Philip Rose, the lord of Lobit! Everyone sees that he is right, but in fact, he just wants Philip Ross to gain greater power, the gods are above, what does Philip Ross want to do?" He is now the lord of Lobit, directly under the rule of Wellington, and is himself at the level of a governor, is he really going to rule over a province, a twenty-year-old governor of a province?
Philip glanced at his father in surprise, "Do I know that guy named Seedorf? Did he just say a word for me? How can I be ambitious? What other ambition can I have, I will be the husband of the Empress of the Empire in the future, what ambition do I need?"
"It's like a dog barking, after I returned to Wellington, I heard more vicious slander than this, and directly said that I was a spy sent by the Demon Continent, so I could be invincible, and I came to the Bright Continent to overthrow the rule of the gods of light. Nicholas said lightly, as if this charge of disrespectful sin had nothing to do with him.
"Doesn't it mean that you have made great achievements, and no one dares to disrespect you?
Nicholas stretched out his fist and shook it in front of Philip: "Of course respect is to fight out, I went up and beat that person, naturally no one dares to chirp crookedly." ”
The corners of Philip's mouth twitched, although his father is a politician, but in his bones, he is still a soldier, if he can't fight, he will use his fists, very good, very powerful.
"Wait, where are you going?"
Nicholas saw his son standing up and preparing to walk towards the podium, and hurriedly asked.
"I'm going to go and beat up that guy with a mouth full of. ”
"Forget it, when you can become the Marshal of the Empire, no matter who you want to beat, there is no problem......"
This kind of unreasonable mutual attack and slander soon made Philip lose interest.
The re-merger of Lobit and Galia will not bring much benefit to the legislators in other regions, and the royalists will not be able to come up with too many political resources in exchange at one time, and most of the directly elected members of the provincial government are Republicans, and under the orders of the party chairman, the legislators belonging to the royalist party do not intend to support this proposal.
Anyway, it doesn't do much to support or not support, so why bother to rebel against a partisan resolution?
Gradually, the wind in the House began to be clearly unfavorable for the passage of the bill, and the royalists could only delay the debate by relying on the lengthy speeches of the legislators to make the last effort to prevent the bill from being voted on for the time being.
As time went on, and the hope became smaller, Philip was not going to sit in the house, and besides, he had more important things to do. (To be continued......)