Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

"I discussed with Li Chuwen yesterday about the Advisory Bureau, and decided to appoint Li Chuwen as the deputy chairman of the Advisory Bureau. Do you have any objections?" After everyone arrived, Zhao Chen stood up, looked at the people behind him, and said.

"We will obey His Majesty's orders!" All the councilors stood up one after another and said.

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

"My minister obeys." Li Chuwen said warmly.

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

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

The Consultative Council initially decided to hold a regular meeting every half a month!

Unless there are special circumstances, MPs must prepare bills before they can be discussed.

In addition, although councilors are not officials, they are public positions, and the imperial court gives them a certain salary, which is comparable to that of fourth-rank officials.

Members of Parliament serve all the people and are no longer allowed to engage in their own private affairs.

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

Throughout the morning, everyone was discussing these matters, 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 was discussing the format, content and other things of the motion.

In addition, the motion also needs some restrictive clauses, some simple review, and so on.

The meeting of the Advisory Council was not over until the sun went down.

"Today we have drawn up a preliminary framework, Li Chuwen, you will continue to discuss the issue of the Consultative Council system tomorrow! You must send the results of the discussion to the Imperial Study Room every day, and I will personally review and correct it! In fact, we still have a lot of content that we haven't discussed yet. For example, the election of councilors and the election of the speaker, these must be written on paper and become a system! In addition to the Consultation Bureau itself, the Department of Education and Imperial Examinations of the Military Aircraft Department must also write the relevant systems of the Consultation Bureau into the teaching materials .” Zhao Chen said.

"Write it into the textbook?" Li Chuwen asked in surprise.

"Yeah, the new education imperial examinations have just started, and the imperial court has just formulated teaching materials. During this period, there are many imperfections! The imperial court is going to add history, legal studies, and current affairs! Institutions, the basic organization of the imperial court, etc.! When students enter the school, they don’t need to learn these things at the beginning, but after the fifth grade, they need to have a little understanding of these contents! Now the country is poor, and public schools last until the fifth grade, but in the future the country Some higher schools will be set up in some places, maybe to the seventh or eighth grade." Zhao Chen said.

"I see." Li Chuwen nodded.

In the next few days, these more than 70 councilors were still discussing various institutional issues of the Consultative Council, and Li Chuwen would go to the Imperial Study Room to have dinner with Zhao Chen every night to discuss matters related to the Consultative Council.

On the night of the first day of March, Zhao Ji also came to Zhao Chen's imperial study, with anger on his face.

"Grandfather, what happened?" Zhao Chen asked strangely.

"On February 25th, when the Advisory Council passed the proposal for the first time, many members of the council decided to increase the transfer of money for the palace! We have already handed it over to the Military Aircraft Department, and today the Military Aircraft Department responded to us, saying that the transfer of money for the Palace has already It’s enough, it won’t increase. Chen’er, didn’t you say that the Advisory Bureau and the Military Aircraft Department are parallel? Why doesn’t the Military Aircraft Department listen to us?” Zhao Ji said coldly.

"The Advisory Council now only has the right to make suggestions, and the Military Aircraft Department can choose to obey or not! Everything must be discussed by the Military Aircraft Department!" Zhao Chen said.

"In this way, what is the use of our Consultative Council? You don't listen to the proposals we passed, and they are useless. We are purely entertaining ourselves in the Palace of Political Affairs!" Zhao Ji said with an angry face.

"The Advisory Council doesn't have any rights right now, but it will gradually increase its rights in the future! If Grandpa Huang is unhappy in the Advisory Council, he can leave the Advisory Council and hand over the position of speaker to Father Huang. " Zhao Chen said.

"This is impossible!" Zhao Ji said without hesitation.

He is greedy for power, and even if the Consultative Council has a name, he is unwilling to leave.

"If Grandpa Huang wants to stay in the Consultative Bureau, he must follow the system of the Consultative Bureau." Zhao Chen said.

"Why does this councilor only serve four years? Why does he have to go through such a cumbersome so-called election? And I, the speaker, why can I only serve two terms?" Zhao Ji said.

"Two terms is long enough, and Grandpa Huang will be in his sixties by then." Zhao Chen smiled wryly.

"With so many restrictions, what's the point of staying here in the Consultative Council?" Zhao Ji said angrily again.

He tried to get Zhao Chen to change the system of the Consultative Council, 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 interviewed some big businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River, and he revealed the matter of expanding the consultative bureau.

Now almost all the members of the Advisory Council are from Yanjing. Zhao Chen intends to let some highly respected people from other parts of the country join the Advisory Council. He is the first to let the wind out.

And if businessmen in Jiangnan want to enter the Consultative Council, they have to go through simple elections.

At present, the Consultative Council does not have much power. Many people are not interested in the Consultative Council, but businessmen are different! Scholars, farmers, businessmen, in ancient China, the status of merchants was low. Although Zhao Chen has said that members of parliament are not officials, these merchants still treat them as officials! Being able to become an official, the status immediately improved by leaps and bounds.

Zhao Chen told these businessmen that parliamentarians need to be elected. These businessmen in Jiangnan were ignorant, but they have already begun to think about ways to enter the Advisory Council in the future.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, domestic and foreign conflicts were too intense. Under such circumstances, the Qing government had to hastily carry out constitutional reforms in all provinces of the country and implement the Consultative Council. Now the situation in the Song Dynasty is much more stable. Zhao Chen implemented reforms from top to bottom, first forming a congress, and then spreading it to the whole country! At the beginning, the Congress only had the right to make suggestions to the imperial court. After the system of the Congress is perfected, more rights will be handed over to the Congress!

The country's people's wisdom has not yet been developed, and the system reform is carried out first, and then the new education imperial examination is introduced to let the people know about these new institutions and new systems. This is also a means of people's wisdom education! There are new things first, and then they are allowed to accept new things until the various systems are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Of course, until now, the general system of the country 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. The country is still moving forward steadily.

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In Goryeo, thousands of miles away, An Pulin and Li Rui have already sent the results of the negotiation to the Goryeo court.

The Koryo court decided to raise gold and silver after more than a month of discussions.

They decided to send the first batch of gold and silver to Song Dynasty, then sign a contract, and then slowly develop Liaodong to make themselves stronger.

The Korean people have not had wars for hundreds of years, and the Korean treasury is full, and they can still take out 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 lot of grain stored in Goryeo folk, especially in the hands of some big landlords.

The Koryo court ordered landlords from all over the country to turn over their stored grain to the court! And these landlords are crazily exploiting the tenant farmers. They snatch the grain from the tenant farmers' homes and hand them over to the court! Anyway, it is now April, and the wheat is not far from ripening, and there are many wild vegetables in the field, so they are not afraid that the tenant farmers will starve to death in large numbers.

Goryeo is full of scenes of looting for grain, and countless farmers cry and cry.

In Inju, Korea, where the future Incheon is located, in front of a large town, an old man with all white hair and beard frowned as he looked at the scene of grabbing food in the distance, his brows were tightly frowned.

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

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

"Teacher, the imperial court wants to trade with Da Song and buy Liaodong from Da Song, but the imperial court has limited money, so we have to ask people from all over the place to donate a little." Confucian scholar 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." Confucian scholar said.

The old man nodded, and the middle-aged Confucian 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 in this library, seeing this old man they all called him "Teacher", all of them had respectful expressions on their faces. This old man is Jincan, a well-known Confucian in Goryeo, who once served as a prime minister. After he was sixty years old, he returned to his hometown of Inju to open a school.

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

The middle-aged Confucian scholar began to speak slowly at the moment, and it took a full half an hour to finish all the things that happened between Goryeo and Song Dynasty in the past two years.

The old man frowned and said nothing.

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

"No!" The old man shook his head.

"What's wrong?" said the middle-aged Confucian scholar.

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

"This... since the founding of the Song Dynasty, there has been a civil and military dispute. They have always promoted the literary and restrained the military. It is not impossible to give up Liaodong." The middle-aged Confucian scholar said.

"Are they going to give up Liaodong just for a mere 70 million taels of silver?" the old man asked.

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

"That's not the case! The former capital of the Great Song Dynasty was Kaifeng. For Kaifeng, Liaodong is indeed barren and remote! But now, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty has arrived in Yanjing, and Liaodong is just north of Yanjing. If Liaodong is occupied by others, Immediately threaten Yanjing's safety! Song people must have excellent generals to defeat Xixia and Jurchen, and their emperor's knowledge must also be extraordinary, how could they not realize this?" said the old man.

"This... are the Han people trying to cheat some money from us?" asked the middle-aged Confucian scholar.

"If this is the case! I am worried that the Han people have other plots! I have been away from the imperial court for twenty years. I have reached the age of 80. I don't care about the government anymore, but now I seem to see a huge crisis coming. I must give Letter to the imperial court!" said the old man.

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

"The Han people have already occupied the north and Liaodong, and their military strength is extremely strong. Wouldn't they be tempted by Goryeo?" the old man said coldly.

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