Qiming 1158

Chapter 1581 The period of political training
Despite ten days and ten nights of verbal battles, the delegates were still full of energy and energy.

Some delegates spoke loudly in order to maintain their deterrent power, and eventually even became hoarse and lost their voices, unable to continue speaking.

Further back, Su Yonglin felt that if it continued, they could at least continue to quarrel for five days and five nights.

"Even if only [-]% of the preliminary proposals that have been reached are passed, all things are enough to do for five years. I know that you are very concerned about national affairs, but the things you can do in five years are limited, and we will not It’s good to know what will happen in five years.”

Su Yonglin stood up and said loudly: "The most suitable plan we have made is a five-year plan. If it exceeds five years, I feel that it will be uncontrollable, too fake and meaningless, so you still need to understand more about this. This is the fundamental significance of this meeting, don't waste everyone's time for a momentary conflict!"

Su Yonglin then seriously named and criticized several representatives who were particularly loud and aggressive, and asked them to restrain their temper at the meeting.

Although the process was somewhat tortuous and the overall atmosphere was definitely not harmonious, some people were about to roll up their sleeves and fight Mortal Kombat in front of Su Yonglin, but the meeting ended successfully.

The original five-day meeting was often postponed to ten days. More than 150 proposals were discussed, and 68 proposals were finally reached.

Because it was already the 13th day of the first lunar month in the [-]th year of Hongwu, the public representative meeting originally scheduled for the [-]th had to be postponed to the [-]th.

Some topics of the Central Representative Conference still need time to be sorted out, and the preparatory proposals adopted still need time to be printed and communicated to every public representative.

In addition, in response to the content of some issues that are difficult for the public to understand, Su Yonglin also decided to hold several meetings to lead everyone to learn collectively and enhance the necessary knowledge so that they can make the right choice at the formal meeting.

Although in the past two months, Su Yonglin had dispatched some Revival members to form a study guide group to organize public representatives to conduct intensive surprise study and impart some knowledge about the operation of the country, but Su Yonglin still felt that it was not enough.

Therefore, in the next four days, everyone began to prepare for the meeting in full swing. Su Yonglin personally presided over the study meeting and taught the representatives of the public who lacked the necessary knowledge.

During this process, Su Yonglin felt that the governance of the country really cannot rely on ideals, and the necessary knowledge is really indispensable.

These matters related to the operation of the country and the livelihood of 8000 million people really cannot be left to an ordinary person to make decisions.

He felt that it was necessary to hold a central representative meeting before the people's representative meeting, which could at least control the agenda of the people's representative meeting within a reasonable range, and prevent the agenda from drifting to some strange corner that was completely unimaginable. go inside.

At the same time, he also felt that there is still a long way to go to educate the people and open up the wisdom of the people. If this meeting had not been led by a group of national elites to control the direction, he would not have dared to think about where the situation would go wrong.

He really wants to hand over power to the people, and really wants to realize democracy in a real sense, but ordinary people obviously don't have the quality to be able to afford the future of 8000 million people.

This responsibility is too heavy, and this power is too huge, and ordinary people simply cannot grasp it.

Although these people's representatives are already outstanding among the grass-roots labor groups such as industrial workers, farmers and soldiers in Daming's current stage.

In fact, they are also the elite among the commoners.

They either work hard, or are conscientious and diligent, or they have come up with special methods to help everyone increase production and reduce energy consumption. They are very smart, and they have the ability and reputation to convince the masses, which is already different from the general public.

Despite this, their current quality is not enough to undertake the heavy responsibility of the country's highest decision-making body, so it takes about two months of surprise study to barely keep up with the progress of the conference, and to be able to initially understand the significance of this conference and content of the conference.

And this cannot be without Su Yonglin's leadership and leadership.

Therefore, in essence, the people's congress this time was not really out of step with the times. It was still a special situation where Su Yonglin held the highest power by virtue of his prestige.

Seriously, this time the people's congress can only be regarded as a special [political training] promoted by Su Yonglin's prestige, rather than constitutional or democratic government.

Without the education and guidance of Su Yonglin leading the nine-member decision-making group and some experienced Fuxing members, these public representatives would not know how to use their votes.

Representatives of the people in this state cannot decide national affairs at all.

Therefore, Su Yonglin intends to leave a stage of [political training] for the country in the early days of the establishment of the democratic republic, and to leave a buffer period for the transformation of Ming Dynasty from an empire to a democratic republic.

During this stage, he and the nine-member decision-making group held all the power, leading a large number of Renaissance members with rich political experience to go to various places to guide the people, led by representatives of the people, to understand the country's politics.

Because under the long-term feudal agricultural production mode, the people were not unwilling to care about politics, but did not have the quality and conditions to care about politics.

Feudal dynasties would not take the initiative to popularize education, nor would they allow the people to be well fed and clothed to be concerned about politics.

They are very taboo about the public's concern about politics. They only need the public to act as a tool to pay taxes and sacrifice their lives. It's better not to have any ideas. That's the best.

A small number of qualified and qualified people want to care about politics, but as a result, there is no channel to care about politics. In the end, the public's concern for politics can only be expressed as unofficial history and gossip, and they have no political literacy at all.

Therefore, at this stage, apart from Ming soldiers who have received enough education, the people of Daming basically do not have the qualities and abilities of citizens of a constitutional democratic country. This is a fact.

To build a democratic republic, the citizens need to have political literacy, even if it is a little less political literacy.

Therefore, Su Yonglin hopes to help the public gradually understand the content of national politics through a period of training, and then start from the grassroots level, and gradually establish a local public representative meeting in each province, state capital, and county, and grasp the local decision-making power.

When this system is completed, it will be the end of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, in a relatively ideal state, Daming will be able to smoothly transition to the state of constitutional government, and become a relatively mature democratic constitutional state with experienced people and orderly political order.

That is the complete Ming Democratic Republic.

But for now, Daming still has a long way to go to achieve this ideal state.

The state of political training may be maintained for a long time, and during the period of political training, there will inevitably be many, many political struggles. Su Yonglin himself does not know whether he can live to see the coming of the era of constitutional government.

So during dinner in the evening, Su Yonglin expressed her entanglements and worries to Zhao Xirui at the dinner table.

"I really want to hand over power to the people, at least the power of supervision. I believe that this power must be handed over to the people to ensure that they will not take detours in the future, but through my observation during this period, I have found that the people have no ability to be reasonable at all. use of these powers.

You say that the representatives of the people we elected this time are thousands of people, they are ordinary people, but in fact they are also the elite among the people. They are either highly respected or outstanding in their work and have received unanimous praise. Only in this way can they be selected as the people. represent.

It is such a group of representatives who represent the highest quality of the people. They are still ignorant in the face of national events, and they cannot grasp and understand many things very well. In the past two months, after the surprise education, the situation has improved to some extent. But it wasn't that good either.

This is true of the elites among the people, let alone the general public?I don’t want them to suffer until they rise up to resist. Now that a new country has been established, I am not sure that the current situation can be maintained. I am very worried that until I die, the people will not be able to have the quality to control the power of supervision. "

(End of this chapter)