Lu Ming

Well, the government is a vulnerable group these days, and it has to live by exploiting the emperor's internal money.

However, the emperor graduated from a third-rate university at any rate, not as easy to fool as Chongzhen: civil servants want to regain the initiative, it is impossible without some blood... I will talk about this later.

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The emperor has internal money, so what about the others?In fact, other people have long called for some private money.

Since time travelling, except for half a cubic meter of personal belongings, each traveler can only find substitutes in the Ming Dynasty.

This is a very sad thing.Most of the time-traveling people use straw paper to wipe their buttocks, soap locusts for bathing before the chemical plant was built, and the first group of people, especially those who worked in the field, had rotten shoes, rotten pants, rotten coats, and even underwear. It's all over.

When the early commodity reserves in the "national treasury" were used up, even the rough men complained again and again.

And these are not the most difficult, Armani broke the big deal and put two corduroy patches on the elbow to pretend to be casual... The most difficult thing is that the cigarette is gone.

For a normal smoker, one pack a day is the average.So no matter how these people save, today, after traveling for a year and a half, all smokers have run out of food.

This incident also indirectly contributed to the launch of the kiln district cigarette factory.However, things are not that simple: the cigarettes of later generations are high-end industrial products, which not only contain flavors that cannot be produced now, but also special cigarette paper, silk fibroin in filters, and non-toxic EVA glue for spouts and mouthpieces. None of them are capable of being produced by cigarette factories.

Bulky, spicy, choking, and taking a mouthful of cigarettes made of earthen cigarettes brought happiness to the workers, but the old men scolded their mothers every day.Cigarettes are no longer found in the section dedicated to internal transactions on the forum... Even big girls can't be exchanged.

Well, this matter has finally been resolved after having the emperor.Mr. Cao had already announced before: On the day when the old man ascended the throne, he would reward each of his ministers with an iron coupon of Danshu... Wrong, it is a blank list, and all ministers and workers can fill in the personal items with a volume of one cubic meter on the list.

This move has won the sincere support of all the ministers, and everyone is short of shouting long live.That night, N small groups were spontaneously organized on the forum... There were not a few people who planned to build a US Humvee.

A group of officials including Xia Xianze are also happy to do the same: importing more than 200 cubic meters of private consumer goods is not something they "government officials" have the guts to decide... they will be sprayed to death by the emperors and some red-eyed industrialists.

Yes, smoking imported cigarettes while bashing the government for not importing luxury goods is the preserve of the minority party.

Now if the emperor comes forward, everyone will be happy: one cubic meter of supplies per person is equal to the emperor's personal pocket, and no one has anything to say.

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The party that controls the supply and distribution of resources will always be the dominant party.That's why Bai Hongda and the others were afraid of Cao Chuan when everyone went to the palace for a meeting to "face the saint".

There is no need to intimidate these bastards with big tricks such as "taking away": Cao Chuan only needs to announce that the rewards of all the emperors will be halved, then Bai Hongda and Wei Hu will step down overnight, and then they will be tied up and stabbed in the head. A draft bid was sent to the palace to apologize...

Therefore, there were no obstacles to the meeting at Jianyuan Hall that day since Cao Chuan came out.As soon as the emperors changed their past, they were honest and honest, discussing the matter as it stands, and quickly settled the few pending matters.

The first is the country name.

Among the several options before this, the top one is "Qin" proposed by Cao Chuan himself.The ignorant third-rate college students originally said "Eastern Qin", but after being pointed out privately by the courtiers, they changed it to "Qin".

The second country title is the "Golden Dragon Empire" launched by the Conservative Party.The title of this soil is derived from an item: the ring in Cao Chuan's hand.When the stored energy is sufficient, two circling golden dragons will appear in the ring surface.

Because everything that has happened to the crossing people so far originated from this ring and from the two dragons, so the Conservative Party believes that everything in the empire should be linked to the ring. Existence has been confirmed, and the crossing country can be regarded as having a source.

In addition to these two titles, the emperors and Hans naturally proposed a bunch of country titles with the words "Tang Han".

After Cao Chuan came forward today, several parties sitting in the Jianyuan Hall quickly reached a consensus: the final name of the country was "Golden Dragon Empire".

The reason is simple: Cao Chuan's "Qin" and the emperor's "Tang Han" votes cancel each other out.Negative and negative are positive, since it is not appropriate to delete any of the country titles in the old time and space, then don't use them at all.

After deciding on the name of this bumpkin country full of fantasy spirit, the national flag became a matter of course: the starry sky surrounded by two golden dragons is the pattern of the national flag... In fact, it is a copy of the ring face.

The national emblem is also similar.Two golden dragons surround the crown and crossed sceptres, symbolizing the emperor and the founding nobles who rule under him.

The last thing to settle was the national anthem.

The song from the previous life must not be used here: as soon as they heard the words "get up, people who don't want to be slaves", the faces of the slave owners sitting in the hall suddenly turned green.

Ever since, a murderous song that was very suitable for the expansion of the empire was settled-"Soviet March", the theme song of the Red Police.

Well, the lyrics and song title need to be changed a little... everything else is fine, anyway, this song has been changed many times by netizens, so the American author probably won't care.

Chapter 307 Establishment ([-])

After spending the morning identifying the most important items, the participants seized the time to eat a boxed working meal and then worked tirelessly to solve the next-level problems.

The three parties present at the meeting today are making rapid progress on those unresolved issues—the vast majority actually already have answers, but they just lack a decision.

Now that the emperor is out, there is no obstacle, and most of the issues are covered in one go.Such as the organizational structure of the pocket government, the patterns of silver dollars and banknotes to be issued, the specifications and patterns of items such as "jade seals", "photo seals" and "noble clothing" that will be used soon; these topics seem to be important, but in fact they are mostly pragmatic. , no one wants to spend more time talking.

Of course, there are still a few issues that have caused controversy: the calendar, for example.

The current calendar used by the empire is the Gregorian calendar era brought over from later generations.This so-called Gregorian calendar era was originally called the Christian era, also known as the Western calendar or the Western Yuan. It is a calendar made by the Italians who reformed the Julian calendar. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII approved the promulgation.

The Western calendar begins with the year Jesus was born.In order to downplay its religious color and avoid the antipathy of non-Christians, scholars of later generations renamed it AD and BC.

In the second year after the outbreak of the Revolution of [-], the then government of the Republic of China adopted the Gregorian calendar as the national calendar.

In the old world, the so-called Gregorian calendar has been used in this way.In addition, the traditional lunar calendar was also preserved later, but it is of little use, that is, it can be used by businesses to pop mooncakes and watch the Spring Festival Gala.

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For the emperors, the issue of the calendar is a matter of principle: it is too ridiculous to use the year of Jesus' birth as the epoch. Instead of that, it is better to use the Jade Emperor to record the year. Anyway, they are all the main gods. Who is lower than whom?

Now that the time-travelers have opened a new dynasty in a new plane, if the calendar uses the Jesus calendar again, it would be absurd + funny, this cannot be tolerated, it must be changed!

Xia Xianze and his group don't see it that way.

Unlike the emperors who are full of ideology, the Conservatives who actually hold government resources are more concerned with implementation issues: the revision of the era not only involves the existing administrative system, but also the industrial system and education system. influences.

Including the computers and written materials brought by the old world, the entire crossing country will be in chaos for a period of time as the yuan is changed.This situation is not what Xia Xianze, who is currently striving for stability, wants to see.

In addition, Conservatives actually sneered at the ideology that the emperors yelled loudly: over 10 billion people in the entire country of the old world live by the Gregorian calendar, and no one has been humiliated enough to commit suicide?

14 billion people sing the Internationale, using Celsius, Moore, Newton and Ampere.If the calendar needs to rise to national pride and political correctness, what about other things that came from the West?All changed?Isn't this deceitful...

"Hehehe..." After listening to the statements of the two factions, Cao Chuan smiled: "The old ones are quite reasonable."

"Let me see, you all have different positions, and you can't say who is wrong." Cao Chuan turned to Bai Hongda when he said this, "Old Bai, the new calendar you advocate is going to start from the Three Emperors and Five Emperors. Or is it the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period? Or is it the prosperous Han and Tang Dynasties?"

"Cough..." Bai Hongda raised his hand after hearing this, "It's fine, as long as you don't follow Bai Pi's ancestors."

"Oh... I understand." Cao Chuan rubbed the center of his brows with his middle finger, then raised his head and said, "In this case, let's change the calendar while our plate is still small. Otherwise, when the population increases in the future , After the masses have formed a habit, it is too late to change it. Lao Xia, what do you think?"

Xia Xianze thought that you had already set the tone, and asked me if I agreed?I'm really a fool.

Thinking of this, Xia Xianze nodded formally: "Since Boss Cao said so, then we will follow suit."

Seeing Lao Xia giving face, Cao Chuan smiled and nodded to him: "Well, that's good, we have to take care of the overall situation. In addition, the original lunar calendar does not need to be cancelled. We are still the same as the old time and space, with a dual-track system."

After a pause, Cao Chuan continued: "As for the starting date of the 'New Gregorian Calendar'...Since you don't care, let's count it from the Qin Dynasty. My country's name has been messed up, and there must be some compensation, right?"

"agree!"

"It's fair..."

"good idea!"

Seeing that their goals had been achieved, several emperors hurriedly flattered them.

Ever since, the new Gregorian calendar for crossing planes has been settled.The new calendar will push forward the original year of the first year of AD by 221 years, which happens to be the year when the first centralized Han unified state, the "Qin Dynasty", was established.

From now on, students will learn about the new Gregorian calendar year in the classroom in the country established by the time travellers.Those who have become accustomed to the old calendar will add the number 221 to the Gregorian calendar of the old time and space——the year 1628 will become the new calendar year 1849 in future official documents and textbooks, which is completely separated from the Western calendar. .

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By dinner time, the topic of the meeting had already touched on the key item of cabinet seats.

The issue of seats is where the real interests lie. Before that, the two parties almost beat their brains out for the seats under their buttocks.This time, under the mediation of Emperor Cao, the two parties finally reached an agreement.

The Conservative Party cabinet will give up the position of Minister of Transport to Huang Han, and the position of director of the Police Headquarters has also been taken out for a deal.As for the four ministers of state that the emperors miss, there is no way to do this, who makes them a minority party.

Of course, the emperors did not make it easy for some people: in view of the fact that this pocket country is in a period of intense expansion and change, the five-year election plan proposed by the Conservative Party was also passed by PASS.

In the end, the two parties reached an agreement: at the beginning, the election will be held every two years, and then it can be transitioned to three years. When the political power is finally stabilized and the indigenous elites come to power, the election will be fixed at five-year intervals.

The discussion has reached this point, and it involves the number of people in the crossing crowd.

...As of today, the total number of traversers who have come to the new plane is exactly 250.This number plus Cao Chuan's own words, is 251, which inadvertently avoided some embarrassment.

And for some time to come, no one will cross over for the time being.

There are two aspects to this question.First of all, Cao Chuan brought bad external news: After years of human trafficking, he was finally targeted by certain agencies including Interpol.So recently, or according to Cao Chuan himself, "within three to five years" he doesn't plan to bring people over.

The second is the opinion from the inside of the public: Everyone didn't want to absorb many newcomers.

In the late 19s, mankind entered the "Electrical Age" and started the second industrial revolution.And the goal that the first generation of time-traveling people are committed to is generally this standard.

As for the follow-up computer information age, the tall things in the nanometer era are too far away for most middle-aged time travelers, and there is no hope in this life.

In view of this, in the future of the country of travel, in fact, it only needs to light up the superficial technology tree of the armored gunship, and it is enough to rule the world.In this case, the existing number of more than 200 people is already enough - if there are more, what will happen when the cake is divided one day in the future?

So under the joint influence of these two internal and external factors, the participants also reached a preliminary intention: for a period of time (at least 5 years) in the future, newcomers will not be accepted temporarily.If the time-traversing people suffer heavy losses in the future or the political situation requires it, then consider the matter of "importing" personnel.

After the "immigration" agreement and the previous election plan were reached, the atmosphere between the two parties suddenly eased.

Since it is held every two years, and there are no newcomers, then after removing technical geeks and soldiers who are not interested in politics, there are not many people who are interested in playing politics in the crossover crowd. It is good to be in power, and there is no need to fight too fiercely.

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The most difficult problem to solve before was resolved at the dinner table.Therefore, sometimes the emperor can still play a positive role, especially when the three parties talk, a suitable arbitrator can save a lot of time for all parties.

After dinner, it was time to fight landlords: this time, because Cao Chuan held the hole card, people from the two parties instantly united and prepared to fight some of the biggest landlord leaders.

What is the content of the struggle?Imperial power and imperial treatment.

The first thing everyone talked about was imperial power.

Regarding the rights of the emperor, there are actually not many disputes: all rights belong to the emperor in name, and then the emperor delegates the actual power to the prime minister. The central idea that he had promised when he and Xia Xianze had a "backcourt match" back then.

So Cao Chuan didn't ask too much in this regard.

Of course, the premise of delegating powers is to have their own protection - immunity from prosecution (no lawsuits can be directed against the emperor) and tax avoidance clauses (the emperor's fiefdoms do not pay taxes), a series of bills to protect the rights of the emperor, Xia Xianze and the others also stated early on to be written into the constitution.

Cao Chuan was very thorough in this regard.

Regarding rights such as declaring war, approving and promulgating laws, appointing and dismissing cabinet ministers, etc., Cao Chuan stated on the spot today: he and his descendants are only responsible for signing the documents, and the actual decision-making power belongs to the prime minister and the parliament.

The only thing Cao Chuan said needed to be adjusted was the knighthood system.

He raised objections to the article that "nobles must first be approved by the parliament and the prime minister": the emperor must at least have the right to be freely knighted by some nobles... even if the amount is not much, it must be there.

After listening to this sentence, people from both parties here understood immediately: This is to promote the villain Xin Jin?Isn't that how the traitors in history came to power?

Okay, let's talk about this.

Chapter 308 Organization ([-])

Cao Chuan's procedural amendments to the canonization of nobles are definitely not for himself, and everyone knows this.The right of the founding emperor is the greatest, and someone can confer nobility without anyone's approval.

But the establishment of the rules itself is to restrain the strong.Even if Cao Chuan can do whatever he wants, his descendants will not be so strong, so the revised rules he proposed today are actually for future generations.

Although the king under the constitutional monarchy has the right to enshrine nobles, in fact the candidates for nobles are nominated by the prime minister or the parliament, and the king still only has the right to hold ceremonies.

With the development of capitalist society, the so-called titles will lose their symbolic significance as the feudal landlord class.

In just a few years, the title of nobility will soon deteriorate: any aboriginal social elite who has made meritorious service to the country or has made outstanding contributions in literature, art, science, etc., can be canonized.

In this situation, Cao Chuan wanted to make an opening for future generations: if he had a few private reserves in his hand, he could confer a few rich and unkind bastards if nothing happened, which could be regarded as finding a place for his descendants to eat.

However, his heart, liver and lungs were seen through by the treacherous courtiers immediately.On this issue, members of the two parties instantly unanimously merged into one: Is it politically correct to limit imperial power?

So the "both sides" launched a round of "cordial and friendly" "exchange of views" on this issue.In the end, after incorporating all knighting matters into a package of negotiations, everyone still reached a simplified version of the sixth-class imperial knighting system.

Considering that this country established by the people will transition to a fast-paced industrial society in the future, so they don't plan to enfeoff them here—the aristocrats in the industrial society have no rights under the feudal system. They're a bunch of down-and-outs with no real power or money, and they might marry their daughters to emerging capitalists, what's there to say?

Therefore, the participants unanimously decided: Except for the top heirs of the royal family who can be named "Duke" and "Prince", the rest of the royal family will no longer be knighted.

As for the more than 200 transmigrators, they will receive the title of "baron", the lowest level of nobility; in this way, the transmigrators will meet the requirements for forming a noble council.

The third rank of "Hou, Bo, and Zi" among the fifth ranks will be temporarily blank.In the future, these positions will be awarded to those who have made great contributions to the country, and a few retired senior government officials...in fact, the prime minister.

The above five titles are all rare "hereditary titles".And for those social elites from all walks of life who emerge in endlessly, there is also a lowest-level, non-hereditary title of "National Scholar" waiting for them.

This "National Scholar" title is between nobles and commoners, and it is actually a simplified version of the British "Jazz" title.

The title of jazz evolved from the ancient knight system is actually quite complicated, with as many as nine levels.Naturally, there is no need for so many ranks here - the public doesn't care what rank the Jazz of Run Run Shaw and Ferguson are.

The canonization rules proposed by Emperor Cao at the beginning are also reflected in the level of "national scholar".People from the two parties finally reached a compromise with Cao Chuan: the emperor can confer the title of two social elites at the level of "National Scholars" every year without the consent of the parliament and the prime minister.

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After the negotiation of the nobility system was completed, everything was already quiet, and the moon was in the sky.After a short break, the participants enthusiastically engaged in the bargaining of the last major item: imperial treatment.

As mentioned earlier, Mr. Cao graduated from a third-rate university anyway, so he is not so easy to fool.So when it comes to the treatment of the future emperor, it is quite tough.

The so-called treatment, annuity and salary are secondary, and the territory is the key.Different from other cross-travelers, the emperor can own tax-free territory, just like the Huangzhuang in the old world - the tax on the territory is still collected, but it does not go into the treasury, but goes into the emperor's pocket.

After the two sides fought each other, they finally reached an agreement: the future royal family can choose a territory on each of the two continents, with a total area of ​​no more than 100 square kilometers.

The next moment, Cao Chuan rubbed his face, took a deep breath, stretched out his finger, and first drew a circle on the map spread out in front of him: "Just here, remote, sandy land, and no one there."