Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

"I discussed with Li Chuwen yesterday about the consultation bureau and decided to appoint Chuwen Li as the deputy chairman of the consultation bureau. Do you have any objections?" Zhao Chen stood up and looked at the people behind him.

"We obey your majesty's order!" The current congressmen stood up one after another and said.

"Sit down! Li Chuwen, you tell everyone what I said yesterday, and then do what I said yesterday." Zhao Chen said.

"Weichen obeyed." Li Chuwen said gently.

At the moment, Li Chuwen told these councillors what Zhao Chen said yesterday, and then they discussed together.

Zhao Chen listened below, and occasionally he would say a few words.

The Advisory Bureau initially decided to hold a regular meeting every half a month!

Unless there are special circumstances, members must first prepare a motion before they can discuss it.

In addition, although members of parliament are not officials, they are public officials. The court gives a certain amount of salary, which is comparable to the salary of a fourth-grade official.

Parliamentarians serve all the people and must no longer engage in their own private affairs.

Each councillor can hire some attendants and subordinates, and the money is also paid by the court.

All morning, everyone was discussing these things, and Zhao Chen wrote them down.

At noon, Zhao Chen had dinner with everyone, and in the afternoon, everyone continued to discuss.

This time everyone discussed the format and content of the bill.

In addition, the bill also needs some restrictive clauses, some simple reviews, and so on.

The meeting of the Consultative Bureau was not considered as the end until the sunset.

"Today we have drawn up a preliminary framework, Li Chuwen, you will continue to discuss the issue of the consultation bureau system tomorrow! The results of the discussion will be sent to the Yushufang every day, and I personally review and correct it! In fact, we still have a lot of content that has not been discussed. For example, the election of members and the election of the speaker must be written on paper and become a system! In addition to the Consultation Bureau itself, the Department of Education and Civil Service Examinations of the Military Aircraft Department should also include the relevant systems of the Consultation Bureau into the teaching materials. "Zhao Chen said.

"Written into the textbook?" Li Chuwen said in surprise.

"Yes, the new educational imperial examination has just begun, and the imperial court has just formulated teaching materials. During this period, there are many imperfections! The imperial court is preparing to join history, law, and current affairs! The basics of current affairs include all aspects of the court. Institutions, the basic organization of the court, etc.! When students enter the school, they don’t need to learn these at the beginning, but after the fifth grade, they must have a little understanding of these contents! Now the country is poor, and public schools will continue until the fifth grade, but in the future the country There will be some higher schools in some places, maybe to the seventh or eighth grade." Zhao Chen said.

"That's it." Li Chuwen nodded.

In the next few days, these more than 70 members were still discussing various system issues of the Consultative Council. Li Chuwen went to the Yushufang every night to discuss matters related to the Consultative Council with Zhao Chen.

On the night of the first day of March, Zhao Ji also came to Zhao Chen's Imperial Study Room with a wave of anger on his face.

"Grandpa Emperor, what happened?" Zhao Chen asked strangely.

"On February 25, when the Advisory Board passed the issue for the first time, many members of the Council decided to increase the amount of money allocated to the Palace! We have already handed over it to the Military Aircraft Department. Today, the Military Aircraft Office responded to us saying that the palace’s allocation of silver has been completed. Enough, it won't increase. Chen Er, didn't you say that the Advisory Bureau and the Military Aircraft Department are side by side? Why doesn't the Military Aircraft Department listen to us?" Zhao Ji said coldly.

"The Advisory Board now only has the right to make suggestions. The Military Aircraft Department can choose to follow it or not! Everything has to be discussed by the Military Aircraft Department!" Zhao Chen said.

"In this way, what is the use of our advisory board? You don't listen to the bills we pass. It is of no use. We are purely entertaining ourselves in the Palace of Discussion!" Zhao Ji said with a look of anger.

"The Advisory Council does not have any rights now, but it will gradually increase its powers in the future! If Grandpa Huang stays in the Advisory Council unhappy, he can leave the Advisory Council, and the post of Speaker will simply be handed over to the emperor. "Zhao Chen said.

"This can't work!" Zhao Ji said without hesitation.

He is greedy for power, and even if this advisory board is in vain, he is reluctant to leave.

"If Grandpa Huang wants to stay in the Consultation Bureau, he must follow the Consultation Bureau's system." Zhao Chen said.

"Why does this legislator have only four years? Why do we have to pass such a cumbersome so-called election? And why I, the speaker, can only serve two terms?" Zhao Ji said.

"Two sessions are long enough, and Grandpa Emperor will be over 60 years old by then." Zhao Chen smiled bitterly.

"With so many restrictions, what's the point of staying in this advisory bureau?" Zhao Ji said angrily again.

He tried to get Zhao Chen to change the system of the Consultation Bureau, but Zhao Chen didn't listen to him at all. In the end, Zhao Ji had no choice but to leave here.

From the beginning of March to April, Zhao Chen successively received some large businessmen from the south of the Yangtze River. He revealed the expansion of the Advisory Board.

Almost all the members of the Consultative Council are from Yenching. Zhao Chen intends to let some highly respected people from other parts of the country into the Consultative Council. He is the first to speak out.

For Jiangnan businessmen to enter the Consultative Council, they have to go through simple elections.

At present, the Advisory Council does not have much power. Many people are not interested in the Advisory Council, but businessmen are different! Scholars, farmers, commerce and industry, in ancient China, the status of merchants was low. Although Zhao Chen had already said that members were not officials, these merchants still treated them as officials! Able to become an official, his status immediately advances by leaps and bounds.

Zhao Chen told these businessmen councillors that they needed to be elected. These businessmen in Jiangnan were ignorant, but they had already begun to figure out how to enter the council in the future.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the domestic and foreign conflicts were too fierce. Under such circumstances, the Qing government had to rush to carry out constitutional reforms and implement the consultation bureau in all provinces across the country. Now the situation in Song Dynasty is much more stable. On the other hand, Zhao Chen implemented the reform from top to bottom, first forming the Congress, and then spreading it to the whole country! At the beginning, the Congress only had the right to make recommendations to the court, and slowly waited until the congressional system was perfected that more powers would be given to the Congress!

Before the country’s people’s wisdom has been developed, the system will be reformed first, and then a new type of educational imperial examination will be implemented to let the people know about these new institutions and new systems. This is also a way of people’s wisdom education! They have new things first, and then let them accept the new things until the various systems are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Of course, up to now, the country’s general system has not changed much. The Military Aircraft Department is still the core of the country’s power. The Advisory Bureau has little influence on the Military Aircraft Department, and the country is still moving forward with stability.

Thousands of miles away in Goryeo, An Pulin and Li Rui have already sent the results of the negotiations to the Goryeo court.

After more than a month of discussions, the Korean court decided to raise gold and silver.

They decided to send the first batch of gold and silver to Da Song, and then sign a contract, and then slowly develop Liaodong to make their own strength stronger.

The Koreans have not had war for hundreds of years, and the Goryeo treasury is abundant, and they can still produce 10 million taels of silver.

In addition to silver, they also decided to raise grain and use grain instead of buying silver in Liaodong.

There is also a large amount of food stored by the people in Korea, especially in the hands of some big landlords.

The Goryeo court ordered landlords everywhere to turn over their grains to the court! And these landlords are frantically exploiting the tenant farmers, they **** the grain from the tenant farmers' family and hand it over to the court! It’s April anyway, and it’s not far from the ripening of the wheat. There are also a lot of wild vegetables in the ground. They are not afraid of the tenant farmers starving to death in large numbers.

There are scenes of grabbing grain everywhere in Korea, and countless farmers are crying and crying.

In Inju, Goryeo, where the next generation of Incheon was located, in front of a large-scale town, an old man with all white hair and beard frowned as he watched the scene of grabbing food in the distance.

"Teacher, let's go back." A middle-aged scholar came to the old man and said.

"What are they doing?" the old man said.

"Teacher, the court wants to trade with the Song Dynasty to buy Liaodong from the Song Dynasty, but the court has limited money and has to let the people everywhere donate a little." Confucianism said.

"Buy Liaodong? What's going on?" The old man asked in surprise.

"Teacher, let's go back first, and then I will tell you." The scholar said.

The old man nodded. Right now, the middle-aged scholar helped the old man into the town. They came to a library and then entered the library.

There are quite a few Confucian scholars living in this library. Seeing this old man call it "teacher" one after another, all of them have respectful expressions on their faces. This old man is Jincan, a famous scholar in Korea. He once served as prime minister. After he was 60, he returned to his hometown of Renju and opened a school.

The old man and the middle-aged Confucian came to a secluded courtyard. The old man sat down on a rock and said, "Tell me, what's the matter?"

The middle-aged Confucian student spoke slowly now, and it took a full half an hour to finish talking about all the things that happened between Korea and the Song Dynasty in the past two years.

The old man frowned and said nothing.

"Teacher, in order to buy Liaodong, the court has no choice." The middle-aged Confucian student said.

"No!" The old man shook his head.

"What's wrong?" The middle-aged Confucian student said.

"The Song Dynasty first defeated Xixia, then regained the Central Plains and Yanyun, and then they went north to destroy Jurchen, and even defeated Mongolia in the northern grasslands. Now the Song Dynasty is in full swing, how could they give up Liaodong to us? "" The old man said.

"This... Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there has been a dispute between civil and martial arts in the Song Dynasty. They have always promoted literature and suppressed martial arts.

"Just for the mere 70 million taels of silver, will they give up Liaodong?" the old man said.

"For us Koreans, Liaodong is extremely important, but for the Song Dynasty, it is very barren and remote. They don't care at all." The middle-aged Confucian said.

"That's not the case! The capital before the Song Dynasty was in Kaifeng. For Kaifeng, Liaodong is indeed barren and remote! But now, the capital of the Song Dynasty is in Yanjing, and Liaodong is just north of Yanjing. If Liaodong is occupied by others, Threatening Yanjing's safety immediately! Song people can defeat Xixia and Jurchen, they must have outstanding military commanders, and their emperor's knowledge must be extraordinary. How can they not realize this?" The old man said.

"This... is it that the Han people want to cheat some money from us?" said the middle-aged scholar.

"If this is the case, it would be fine! I am worried that the Han people will have other conspiracies! I have been away from the court for 20 years. I have reached the age of elders. I no longer care about the affairs of the government. But now I seem to see that a huge crisis is coming, and I must give Letter from the court!" said the old man.

"Teacher, maybe it's not as dangerous as you think?" said the middle-aged scholar.

"The Han people have already occupied the north and Liaodong. They are extremely powerful. Wouldn't they be tempted by Goryeo?" the old man said coldly.

The middle-aged Confucian student still finds it unbelievable, while the old man has already begun to write letters to the Goryeo court.