Lu Ming

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.

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

"Oh, I see." 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, the masses will After forming a habit, it's 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. If my country's name is messed up, there must be some compensation, right?"

"agree!"

"very 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. .

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 successively 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.

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 "no knighthood must first be approved by the parliament and the prime minister": the emperor must at least have the right to freely knight some nobles. Even if the amount is not large, 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.

(End of this chapter)