Red Alert 1895

After deciding on the number of people assigned to the House of Lords, elections for members of the House of Commons began in various places. And according to the rules, the House of Commons is also elected by local members, and then sent to the Central House of Commons. And this House of Commons is the representative of local voters, and this election of members makes everyone feel quite trendy. Because officials have been in power since ancient times, there is no need to discuss with the local people. Maybe some county officials will be subject to the local gentry, but the thought of the king's land has always been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and no matter what legal principle, they will not be allowed to supervise the government. Any order from the government must be executed unconditionally. And now hearing that officials can be supervised, many people feel moved.

And in Shandong, some places have even started discussing what exactly is the local council election?

"My lord, is it true that anyone can elect this member of parliament and then become an official? What kind of official is this member of parliament?" someone asked.

But someone immediately explained: "This councilor is not an official, but you represent the ordinary people from among the people and supervise the officials. And what the officials want to do, they must obtain your consent, otherwise it cannot be implemented."

"That's not an official, what about the supervisor? Isn't this about the censor? And the censor is also an official. If it is not an official, what about our supervisor?"

The civil servant was speechless. These ancient people still believed that the superiors must supervise the subordinates, and officials must supervise the officials. And this has been the practice of China since ancient times, using officials to supervise officials, and bureaucrats to supervise bureaucrats. But this situation has little effect. After all, everyone is a bureaucrat, and they are all representatives of the interests of the same class. Naturally, it is difficult to achieve accurate supervision. This is the origin of mutual protection between officials and officials. What's more, it's impossible for the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to spend their whole lives in the position of censors, right? They also have to worry that once they are transferred to other positions, what will they do if they wear small shoes for you? So the censors are really like the saying in a braided play, "Don't dare to vent your anger", this is also true. And the ancient idea of ​​supervision. Not to supervise for the people, but to supervise for the emperor. The object of their responsibility is not the people, but the emperor. These censors are the dogs raised by the emperor, and they are responsible for helping the emperor and senior officials to bite people. Not for the people.

And this has also caused ordinary people to think that officials are necessary to supervise officials. How can ordinary people dare to supervise officials?

"Now you can elect representatives to supervise officials. This is the power given to you by the Constitution." The civil servant said.

"What is a constitution?"

"The constitution belongs to our Yanhuang Empire. It determines the nature of our country and the political system. It also includes the ownership of power and the composition of various departments."

"What is the nature of the country and what is the political system? Doesn't power belong to the emperor?"

"Our Yanhuang Empire is a constitutional monarchy. Although the emperor can decide some things, but not everything. The nature of the country means that our country is a unitary country, and the government is a constitutional monarchy."

"What is a constitutional monarchy and what is a unitary system?"

"..."

This civil servant was really going crazy. After these people asked questions one by one, the civil servants in charge of propaganda almost fainted. After asking a series of questions like this one after another, these civil servants finally found that they didn't seem to understand these things. Ask the bottom line one by one. This made them all feel as if they were being stunned.

And this is the reason why the so-called law popularization is not in place. If people in later generations have gone through middle school, they can say these things basically correctly, and they can understand what is a constitutional monarchy, what is a state system, and what is a political system. and many more. But now these civil servants are required to explain, and too many terms are things that these mainland people don't understand, and they are almost confused as a result.

"This is ordered by the emperor. A constitutional monarchy is implemented, and then the people have the power to supervise officials. This ensures the integrity of officials and prevents officials from protecting each other." The civil servant finally said.

And the commoner finally "understood" and said, "It turns out that this is the emperor's grace, and it is because the emperor does not trust officials. That's why we are required to supervise! It turns out that it is the emperor's benevolence and the emperor's sageness! The emperor allowed us, the people, to supervise the officials. So we are the emperor's people!"

"Hey, after talking for a long time, wouldn't it be enough to just call the emperor?" the civil servant said while rubbing his head.

The common people in this era have no sense of fighting for their legitimate interests at all, and they are even used to obeying the management of their superiors. Then follow the orders of the officials. And this situation will have a lot of remnants until later generations. After all, China's official standard system is too serious, so it is not so easy to solve. Many people even don't think about protecting their own interests at all, and even subconsciously think that officials are protecting each other. In fact, this is a matter of consciousness. If the people all over the world understand that they must fight for their own legal interests and dare to protect their own legal interests, then will the small number of corrupt officials still dare to mess around? If the people of the world dare to stand up, it will be those officials who will feel trembling. It is precisely because too many people dare not stand up to defend their legitimate interests, or they simply do not know that they can stand up to defend their own legitimate interests, so they are bullied by those corrupt officials.

"Then, how much salary does this congressman have?"

"There is no salary, only transportation and food subsidies during meetings. Only those who hold certain positions in the parliament have position subsidies. But this parliamentary position is not an official, understand? And the term is two years, two years There will be re-elections after two years, and once they are not elected, they will still be ordinary people. And they can only be re-elected for three consecutive terms, and once they have served for more than three consecutive terms, they will not be able to participate in the election for the time being."

"Then what's the benefit of being a congressman? He doesn't have a regular salary, how can he live on it?"

"A member of parliament is not an official, let alone a means of earning a living. It is just a part-time job for you. You take the initiative to offer advice and suggestions to the government on behalf of the people, and take the initiative to plead for the people. You mainly do your own things on weekdays, rather than relying exclusively on this to make a living. pregnancy."

"Then can I go to the election now?"

"Not yet, we must implement a political aptitude test. Only after passing the test can one be qualified to be an official and be eligible to run for various public offices, including parliamentarians."

"Then I'll go to the test now!"

And when these civil servants gathered a group of people who were interested in running for the election, they came to the place where the unified political ability test was held, and then they were ready to take the test. And these exams are batch after batch, and then the previous batch has just finished the exam, and then the next batch of people are also sent to the exam. And this test is actually not complicated, many of them are judgments of daily life, and there are basic knowledge of Chinese and mathematics, at most, it is just some daily political common sense. And if you don't have these things, how can you be a congressman who "pleads for the people"?

And soon, a group of people were invited out, and the list of those who passed the exam was announced. And this one has some joys and some sorrows. Some people feel very happy after the pain, while some feel very depressed when they fail, and some even feel weird.

"I've won, I've won, I didn't expect that all the waiters in the shop would also win? Then can I be an official in the future?"

"No, you are only qualified to be an official, but whether you can be an official depends on whether you can pass the civil servant examination. Being qualified does not mean that you are an official, understand?"

"Huh? Then I'll add it right away, and try to get me to take the exam for an official, and then I won't be the waiter who gets angry all day long."

But the other person immediately said angrily: "Why didn't I pass? A waiter in the shop can pass, so why can't I pass? Why? Why! I was also a Juren back then, and I couldn't even pass the Juren? I But how can a dignified Juren be inferior to a waiter? I am a Juren! How can a waiter in a shop compare to me, a Juren?"

Although Wang Guorui has abolished the imperial examination and replaced it with a more advanced and scientific civil service examination. And those "educational qualifications" of the scholars in the Qing Dynasty were all abolished, and they were replaced by Wang Guorui's newly released primary school, middle school, university, etc., and primary and secondary schools are divided into junior high school, junior high school, etc. . After the university, there are also masters and doctorates, etc. These are new academic models, and they are no longer the kind of scholars in the past.

But some poor and talented scholars still can't understand this situation, and they put up their own scores all day long. And when they heard that they were going to elect members, they thought they were becoming officials. But they have to take this political ability test, so they all came to take the test. As a result, a large number of people died. Many people who see in the eyes of those scholars are "low jobs"~www.readwn.com~ can actually pass the exam, so of course they are not convinced. This kind of **** has passed the exam, so shouldn't they be more qualified? But reality slapped them in the face.

"Those who haven't passed the exam can go directly to come back next year, and then reflect on where you have lost, and don't envy others."

That Juren wanted to make trouble, but was forcibly shooed away by the surrounding police guards.

The civil servant in charge of the examination scolded: "You bastard, how can you still raise people? You are a complete nerd. You have learned a lot of useless things, and you can even calculate thousands of digits wrong. People like you can't live by themselves. If it becomes a problem, you are still expected to plead for the people?"

It's a pity that there are not a few "scholars" who have learned a lot of stereotyped essays and have not even learned basic mathematics well. They simply cannot pass this exam. On the contrary, they are eloquent on weekdays and have been in contact with many accounting calculations. Not only have they passed the Chinese test, but they have also passed the math. Passed the test, that is, those "students" who were out of touch with society did not pass the test. (To be continued.)