Chapter 210: The Difficulty of Establishing the Constitution
After taking the Chinese New Year's Eve annual leave, Yan Zheng began his work for the new year.
This year's top priority is the founding of the country, and this matter has been brewing in his heart for a long time.
It can be said that he has already figured out what to say at the founding ceremony, but there is one less platform.
Meaux is too small and simple, and the Red House is just a big red brick house, and such simple conditions can no longer support the conditions of a state organ.
Therefore, the first order he issued in the new year was to expand the construction area of the red house, requiring the construction of a small red brick house on the left and right sides of the red house.
It also requires the use of a timber diffraction structure, that is, the space is made tall and large, but there is only a row of columns in the middle, and on this basis, wooden floors and floors are placed.
In this way, these houses can be built taller and more spacious without the use of reinforced concrete.
As for the city wall of Mocheng, there is no need to expand it anymore, anyway, it is almost the same with or without a city wall.
It's just that the national name, national flag, national emblem, and national anthem, these four major national events, make him a little unsure.
He thought that the name of the country would be Chinese, but this word is estimated to be commonly used in the Ming Dynasty, which is somewhat inappropriate.
If it is called Huaxia, but it can, it is convenient for publicity, and it can easily expand the content of the Huaxia family.
But the suffix is really hard to add, add a Republic of China, an empire, and a xx country?
It's impossible to be good or not, who cares about the suffix in this era! What's more, after adding it, the author's book is easy 404.
So in the end, Yan Zheng decided to set the name of the country as Huaxia first, and Huaxia Guo sounded a little more pleasant.
If the national flag is in his place, he has already pre-emptively named it, that is, the star spike flag, two relatively symmetrical ears of rice, under the equal division of a gear, guarding a five-pointed star, and the background color is naturally red.
It seems to have a good meaning, ears of rice, gears and stars, and it is convenient for him to change a series of songs.
If the national emblem is used, he really doesn't dare to use it indiscriminately, so he simply doesn't use it first.
And the national anthem also makes him nerve-wracking, mainly because it has to be concise and catchy, and it must be in a more passionate tone, and the words must contain a certain meaning.
After thinking about it for a long time, he tore three pieces of paper, wrote three songs, mixed up the paper balls, and then drew one with his eyes closed.
It turned out that "Singing China" was written on the paper.
He breathed a sigh of relief, and the other two pieces of paper were written, one was a national skill song, and the other was a march.
After deciding on these three things, he hurriedly filled in these three columns in the preparations for the founding of the People's Republic of China, and added a code to all of them.
After doing this, he was left with two major tasks, one was the writing of the constitution and the other was the compilation of the "legal code".
The reason why this matter is important is that it is possible for people to die and live in government, but the surviving constitution and legal code are very likely to affect the world for thousands of years.
Napoleon's life has also been brilliant and lost, but what makes Napoleon always praised is the "Napoleonic Code" that he left behind.
As soon as he thought of the eternal, Yan Zheng wrote the "Yan Political and Legal Code" and the "King James Constitution".
In his previous life, he had studied the constitutions and regulations of some countries, but he did not know anything about the legal code, so he could only write a guiding ideology based on some memories and let others improve it.
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For more than a month after that, Yan Zheng was doing this.
The word constitution is not a foreign product, and the "Biography" has a saying: the constitution, the law, the holy king of the law, and the establishment of the religion in the next also.
This interpretation, while on the sidelines, is incompatible with the modern meaning of the Constitution.
The modern constitution can be understood in this way, which explains why a country is a country, and it stipulates the general framework of the state, clarifies the duties and obligations at all levels, and also clarifies the rights and obligations of citizens.
So feudal dynasties, in fact, have similar things, and they haven't changed for thousands of years! It is the so-called Three Principles and Five Constants, Confucian etiquette, and respect for heaven and ancestors.
In ancient times, if you can't refute the Three Platforms and Five Constants, you can only choose to accept it, because if you break away from the Three Platforms and Five Constants, you will not be at ease as an emperor.
Just imagine, if you don't solve the principle that the monarch is a minister, then you will face a problem.
The most important thing for the royal family is the loyalty of the courtiers, and the moral high ground of the word loyalty does not lock the courtiers, how can the emperor work with the courtiers with peace of mind?
Therefore, in the feudal dynasty, disobedience to the king can be regarded as a first-class sin, once the emperor opens his mouth, it is the nine clans! And the king wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die!
And Yan Zheng wants to write a Chinese constitution, which means to create a system of governance that is different from Confucianism, which is so heavy that Yan Zheng does not want to write.
He wrote one line in a month: We, the Chinese people, in order to build a more perfect country, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide common national defense, promote public welfare, and enable ourselves and future generations to enjoy equal happiness, I have specially formulated the constitution.
It's so nerve-wracking that he thinks it's better to come up with a legal system first.
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"Miko, the template for the coinage has been made!"
Just when Yan Zheng was chewing the words, Mo Qi, the director of the first mold factory, came over.
Finally, there was some happy news, he stood up with a carp, and hurriedly said, "Take it and take a look!"
Mo Qi gestured respectfully, and a few people behind him walked in carrying a few templates.
Yan Zheng took a look, what does this template say? The concave surface is carved, the numbers are very good, and the five-pointed star is not bad, but the Chinese characters are too ugly, and there is no calligraphy charm at all.
Looking at the material again, he found that the surface was exceptionally hard, and he asked, "Is it carburized?"
"That's right! You have to make it hard enough, you have to do it this way! Mo Qi said.
Yan Zheng nodded, not to say anything.
In the end, he chose to increase 5 points of copper and reduce some lead on the medium-quality copper coins of the Ming Dynasty, becoming copper 5, lead 3.5, and tin 1.5.
The minting machine has also been made, and the iron-framed waterwheel has been built, just waiting for the template.
"Okay, let's try to make a batch of copper coins first!"
Yan Zheng finally found something to relax, and immediately came to the big waterwheel with Mo Qi.
Ji Qi, the director of the machinery factory, and Tiemu Needle, the director of the iron and steel plant, were also called.
Looking at this coin, Yan Zheng smiled and said, "Tell me, what you made according to the drawings."
Ji Qi introduced: "Miko, this coin machine is divided into three parts, one part is a sheet mill, one part is a cake press, and one part is an embossing machine."
"You see, the sheet mill can make the copper strip into a standard thickness, and then through the cake press, the metal sheet can be made into a coin shape, and then the picture can be embossed through this side!"
Yan Zheng nodded, this coinage principle is really not difficult, and the materials can be easily made when they are done.
In fact, three years ago, there was already a coin machine in Italy, and it was still using a fucking spiral press.
It only needs to be done manually, but only gold and silver coins can be pressed, and copper coins are so hard that they can't press them unless they use high-carbon steel.
Until the middle of the Qing Dynasty, this improved version of the coinage machine was still the mainstream of European coinage.
Yan Zheng looked at the iron and wood needle again and said, "What about you, did you get the copper plate according to the ingredients?"
Tiemu Needle smiled: "This is a hundred times easier than steelmaking, not to mention making a few copper plates, even if all the existing copper materials are melted, it won't take much work!"
"That's good! Let's try it. Yan Zheng said with a smile.
After the three of them received the order, they immediately called the workers and began to connect the water wheel.
With the slow start of the transmission rod, the entire mint also slowly moved.
After the copper plate made by the ironwood needle is fed into the mill, it is like a ball of noodles, which is supple and made into a standard thickness, and the length has become much longer.
As the copper plate was processed, the cake press machine also started slowly, and after a heavy muffled sound, a copper plate was made out of about 100 copper coins.
Then the workers took down these copper coins and put them into the template to be pressed, and as the embossing machine fell heavily on the template, the rows of copper coins were ready.
The whole process is not complicated, it seems to be orderly, and it can be said to be standardized production.
Looking at the newly minted copper coin, Yan Zheng was very satisfied, ugly is a little ugly, but it is good to have a copper coin.
"Okay, all the copper has melted, let's mint all the coins! In the future, the first mint, closed management, let people build high-rise walls, send a row to settle in! Searches must be carried out when entering and exiting to prevent entrainment! ”
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