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Chapter 476 Meeting of Heads of State
The 91st, 92nd, and 93rd floors of the Huaxia Building are where the headquarters of the Eastern Economic Union is located. They signed a 20-year lease with the Huaxia Building. For this reason, the Huaxia Building has specially prepared a special elevator for it, that is, there is an elevator that only stops on the 91st floor. , 92nd and 93rd floors, the elevator entrance is different from the rest of the elevators, and there are stricter security checks.

This afternoon, the second summit meeting of the Eastern Economic Union will be held here.

The first summit meeting was held when the Eastern Economic Union was established. Naturally, there was no Lu Ming at that time.

The 93rd floor where the headquarters is located is a variety of functional meeting rooms.

The 91st and 92nd floors are the representative residences of 9 alliance members. Each alliance member has a permanent representative and several staff members stationed there, but Xinji Province, which has the largest number of people, does not have more than ten people.

Lu Ming is currently in the Montenegro representative office. The resident representative, Zheng Shanxing, is a new official in his 30s and graduated from the School of Economics.

When Lu Ming was chatting with Zheng Shanxing in the office, a phone call came, saying that the governor of Ayton State, Michelson, heard that General Lu was there and wanted to come to visit.

Lu Ming and Michelson are old acquaintances.

Ayton State, like Xinji Province, is in the northern part of the East China Sea, adjacent to the five Jiangnan provinces, but Ayton State's geographical location and geographical environment are much better than Xinji Province.

The Roseville District of Sanmai Company is in Ayton State.

It was the condition that Sanmai Flight Company negotiated when it first settled in Ayton State.

It was originally a barren land, tens of thousands of acres of land were bought by Sanmai Company, and special management was implemented, and state agencies at all levels basically had no jurisdiction over the area. Therefore, in the documents of the state government, it was called Ross Wilt District.

For this special zone, Lu Ming and Michelson met several times.

Although Ayton State is an area inhabited by Central Continents, just like the chief municipal councilor of East China Sea, the candidates for governor in the past could only be Westerners. Even though such outdated laws and regulations have been abolished for more than [-] years, due to inertia, they are usually Westerners He is more enthusiastic about elections and better at elections. Michelson won the election by defeating the Central African candidate.

The situation is the same in Newton State, another Central African inhabited area. However, Newton State abolished the state's special election law last year after the civil strife in the empire. At the beginning of this year, Governor Xiyang won the re-election.

On the other hand, Xinji Province has always been under the direct jurisdiction of the imperial capital, and like the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, there is no such thing as democratic election.

However, unlike the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, which have governors dispatched by the imperial capital, Xinji province is directly appointed by the imperial capital. Senior officials were also appointed by Westerners in the past.

However, after the civil strife in the empire, the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River and the Xinji province had a certain degree of turmoil. Only Jiangning province maintained stability because of Lu Ming's foresight.

The high-ranking Western officials in Xinji Province escaped during the riots. Later, Xinji Province asked the Grand Duke of Donghai for help. The new senior official was appointed by the Grand Duke of Donghai.

At the same time, Donghai also sent an observation team to Singil Province to help Singil Province prepare for a national election early next year to elect a governor, and Singil Province will also become an autonomous prefecture.

In this regard, Lu Ming felt that it was nothing. Elections, there is nothing that people's wisdom cannot be opened, not once, but twice or three times.

The earliest state in the empire to hold general elections. At that time, the so-called wisdom of the people in this state, the knowledge of the citizens in the west, is it higher than that of the people in Sinchit Province today?

After all, that was over 100 years ago.

It's just that in the current war, this move seems a bit out of date, but the liberals have always been idealistic, and there is no need to laugh at their naivety.

However, from my personal point of view, if it is elected by the people, I still prefer the head of state representative system, that is, there is a head of state in name, and the power is empty, but at critical moments, it can turn the tide from the legal point of view, just like the East China Sea Grand Duke this status.

The importance of the civil strife in the empire was immediately reflected.

Especially if the territory is vast, such a mascot head of state is needed to gather people with different traditional customs.

In normal times, the ruling party is elected by the people as a whole, and the ruling party selects elites to serve as cabinet officials and are responsible to the parliament. This is better than the presidential republic that elects a certain person as the head of state, and has better error correction capabilities.

While Lu Ming was thinking about it, Michelson came. The two chatted for more than an hour and broke up happily.

After sending Michelson out of the representative office to the elevator and turning around, a group of people just happened to walk in the corridor.

Seeing Lu Ming, the leader smiled: "General Lu!"

He is a short, white-haired Western old man with a very kind face, but he is a well-known thunderbolt method.

It is the Chief Municipal Councilor of the East China Sea, Prime Minister Consul Satton Nicholasson, who is also the leader of the largest party in the East China Sea, the "Free Citizens Movement".

Back then, Lu Ming's opponent in Beiguan, Beiguan chief city councilor Baqueluo, came from the same political party as him, and Baqueluo was the leader of the Beiguan branch.

In the imperial capital, the original "Free Citizens Movement" is also the current ruling party.

However, after the civil strife, most of the party branches in Donghai broke up with the headquarters of the imperial capital and parted ways, as did the "Free Citizens Movement".

Lu Ming smiled and shook hands with Nicholasson.

Nicholasson looked at his watch, then pointed to the sofa and coffee table in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows in the corridor, for people to take a break and talk about something temporarily, and said with a smile: "General Lu, do you have time? Let's exchange ideas in advance for the afternoon meeting? "

Lu Ming smiled and said, "It's better to meet you by chance than to invite you. I was going to see you."

The two sat down, and a service staff rushed to bring refreshments. Nicholassen looked at Lu Ming with a smile and said, "Sure enough, he is a handsome young man. General Lu has always spoken philosophically. It is better to meet by chance than to invite each other. It is very interesting to taste carefully!" He added: "I thought I could see General Lu at the municipal meeting yesterday, but I didn't expect you to not come."

Lu Ming smiled and said: "I'm going to Qin, isn't that annoying? Next time, I will definitely be there to listen and be taught."

Nicholasson smiled and said: "General Lu is too modest. I have heard about your deeds for a long time. You are a politician from the East China Sea. We are in the alliance, shouldn't we also help each other?"

Lu Ming smiled: "Speaking of alliances, I have some ideas."

"Say it!" Nicholasson showed appreciation in his eyes.

Indeed, everyone is quite busy. The purpose of exchanging opinions is to prepare for the meeting of the heads of state in the afternoon. It is meaningless to talk about empty words.

"I think so..." Lu Ming smiled. "The western region is getting more and more chaotic. I have a hunch that the war will break out again and become more and more cruel. Our alliance must work together and twist into one rope to truly realize the future." To protect our collective security, the current alliance structure is too loose, and there is no secretariat. Once the flames of war come, they will inevitably go their own way, let alone form a deterrent force against those ambitious..."

Lu Ming talked eloquently, while Nicholasson listened most of the time and gradually fell into thinking.

(End of this chapter)