A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 1044: The Constitution of the Great Xia Empire, Xuantong Returns Power

October 10, the 21st year of Xuantong

Because of the failure of the trial of the emperor, the Bianjing People's Congress Committee witnessed the influence of the royal family, which was still prevalent among the people.

So they changed their strategy and established the "Provisional Constitution (Revised Edition)" to restrict the emperor's power.

The Constitution stipulates that the highest authority of the Great Xia Empire should be taken over by the 'General National Congress of the Great Xia Empire' and the 'Constitution of the Great Xia Empire' should be passed at the same time.

The National Assembly meets every three years to elect a government.

Under the National Assembly, the House of Nobles, the House of Scholars, and the House of Commons were established.

The Constitution of the Great Xia Empire stipulates that when the National Assembly is not in session, a Standing Committee of the National Assembly will be formed, consisting of nine people, including eight members and one chairman, to review the laws and regulations passed by the three houses.

In principle, the permanent members shall consist of three persons each from the Noble House, the House of Scholars, and the House of Commoners, from among whom a chairman shall be elected.

Your House is composed of hereditary nobles, with 1,300 members. It only exists at the central level, and the Speaker is the Lord Chancellor of the Nobles.

The House of Scholars is composed only of scholars and has 630 members. Each province and principality elects a quota of national members from the provincial councils based on the proportion of local population.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives is nominated by the majority party and elected with the consent of the opposition party.

The new government's prime minister was nominated by the majority party and took office after being signed by the emperor of the Great Xia Empire.

The House of Scholars only exists at the central, provincial, and principality levels.

The House of Commons is composed of 1,753 members elected by ordinary people.

State legislators elect provincial legislators, provincial legislators elect national legislators, and two-thirds of the representatives in the National Assembly are also members of the House of Commons.

The Speaker of the House of Commons is also elected.

A considerable number of government officials and members of the House of Commons also come from the House of Commons, and their influence is great, especially at the local level.

This means that if the current government wants to be stable, it must consider the interests and positions of the three parties.

At the same time, the Constitution stipulates that the Emperor of Daxia has special status, legal immunity, ownership of all people and things in the Bianjing Palace, and legally enjoys controlling rights of the Imperial Chamber of Commerce.

At the same time, it was stipulated that the Emperor of Daxia was the head of the Daxia Empire, the common leader of the army, the symbol of the Daxia Empire, and the common leader of the principality kingdoms.

At the same time, he has the right to appoint and dismiss princes.

With the consent of the government, it has the right to award titles.

With the consent of the House of Representatives and the Supreme Court, it has the power to issue pardons.

However, all of this must be approved by the Lord's Office before it can be passed and recognized, and the money will be paid from the national treasury.

These regulations were designed to prevent the emperor from granting titles indiscriminately and thus emptying the national treasury.

If a title is issued that is not recognized by the Lordship Department, then the emperor can only bear it himself, and the administrative department of Daxia will not recognize it.

October 15, the 21st year of Xuantong
The Great Xia Emperor Bai Ya, on behalf of the royal family, signed the "Constitution" together with Li Yiheng, the chairman of the Bian Jing People's Congress and the manipulator behind all this.

This means that the royal family recognized the interim government represented by Li Yiheng, replacing the three provinces, six ministries and various departments that were originally destroyed by the people, leaving only a grand governor's office in the hands of Bai Ya.

Because Li Yiheng knew that even if he took away the military power from Bai Ya, he would not be able to command this group of warriors who had been completely brainwashed by the royal family.

If he had not been persuaded by the righteousness of the cause, he would have had no chance of inciting the Imperial Guards and the Palace Guards to rebel.

Li Yiheng, a Korean passerby, is the first and only Korean in Daxia who has been completely integrated into the Central Plains system.

He first served as a member of the North Korean state assembly.

The war situation on the front was tense, and the Great Xia court continued to increase taxes. The opposition scholars led by Li Yiheng organized an anti-tyranny association.

Li Yiheng serves as the president of the Anti-Tyranny Association.

Eventually, this anti-tyranny would sweep across the entire Korean province in just a few months, and even spread to the entire Great Xia Kingdom and its annexed principalities.

Many regions, such as the Youth Association, Labor Association, Chamber of Commerce, and Anti-War Association, were built in imitation of the Anti-Tyranny Association. Li Yiheng knew that just being in North Korea would not change the real predicament of the Great Xia Empire, which occupied half of the world.

He is Korean, and even more so, Daxia.

Simply changing North Korea is not his ultimate goal.

Finally he came to Bian Jing, and with the reputation he had accumulated before, he quickly gathered a large number of like-minded scholars, including many progressive officers in the army. Bai Yuzhe was one of them.

Afterwards, he merged several organizations and established the Bianjing People's Congress, meaning to change the country from Bianjing.

He deeply realized that only by changing the emperor could he change this feudal empire in which the monarch represented everything.

This would prevent the Xia army from suddenly collapsing on the front line, allowing the Western Continent Alliance to take advantage of it and becoming the sinner of all the Xia people.

This will prevent the principality kingdoms from breaking away and turning the Great Xia Empire into the Great Xia Kingdom.

Now that he has succeeded, with the support of the old emperor Bai Ya, he has established a new government that is different from the previous ones.

He was appointed Prime Minister by Bai Ya and formed a new government.

In order to better govern the country, he recalled the old bureaucrats who had fled before, and after selection, he recruited them according to their talents.

Finally, after half a year of transition, with the help of the royal family, clan members, and the military, Li Yiheng was able to stabilize the domestic and foreign turmoil.

As for the food shortage in Bianliang, as early as when Bai Ya was on trial, he arranged for the Embroidered Uniform Guard to take the King of Tang, who was stationed in Chang'an, to Northern Russia to secretly sign an armistice agreement.

With funds from the Imperial Chamber of Commerce and relying on middlemen from Northern Russia, a large amount of grain was purchased from Western Continent. Fortunately, it was transported to Kaifeng from Central Continent before the food shortage became a complete problem.

In addition, Li Yiheng's new government also played a huge role.

At the call of the new government, the entire Kaifeng implemented a food quota system, which directly extended the food supply from three months to six months. It took a full half year to wait for food from Northern Russia.

Not long after, Li Yiheng, on behalf of Daxia, successfully signed a "memorandum" with the troubled Ottoman Empire, announcing the normalization of diplomatic relations between Daxia and Ottoman Empire.

He also used the Daxia National Intelligence Center, which was formed by splitting a part of the Xiuyiwei, to successfully bypass several major powers such as England, France, the Netherlands, and Spain.

On the condition that normal Christian missionary work was allowed in Bactria, an armistice agreement was signed with the Holy Roman Empire and other countries in Western Europe that had little investment at sea.

Li Yiheng even sent representatives to persuade the governor of Xizhou in Beiyinzhou to suspend the war in Beiyinzhou on the condition of secretly supporting his establishment of a country in Beiyinzhou.

June of the 22nd year of Xuantong

Without half of their support and with Northern Russia and the Holy Roman Empire free, England and other maritime powers could not stand on their own and immediately sent envoys to Bactria to sign the "Bactria-Xizhou Armistice Agreement".

The agreement is based on the current control areas and no arbitrary interference is allowed.

The first month of the twenty-third year of Xuantong

Thousands of Great Xia warships that had traveled across the ocean returned to the coast of Great Xia, and the people along the coast were all in tears when they saw their loved ones.

March
When the first batch of 100,000 soldiers who had gone on the expedition to Northern Yinzhou returned home, Li Yiheng's prestige reached its peak.

Bai Ya, who could no longer walk, personally conferred the title of Duke of Hengzhong on Li Yi at the main gate of the imperial palace.

May
The second expeditionary force of 150,000 returned home.

July
Except for the tens of thousands of soldiers who remained stationed in the countries of Tianzhu in South Continent and Yinzhou in North Continent, the remaining 300,000 soldiers returned home one after another.

The "First East-West War" or "World War I", which lasted for more than 20 years and involved thousands of new warships and three million soldiers from both sides and affected the entire world, was officially declared over.

In contrast, the emperor, who once had the final say in Daxia, became a symbol of the country.

From now on, the Bai family will no longer have to bear the blame from the government.

He only needed to rely on the vast financial resources of the Royal Chamber of Commerce and set up schools, orphanages, nursing homes, bonuses and other activities to win the hearts of the people.

The Bai family, a thousand-year-old family that has worked hard for nearly two thousand years, has finally retired from the front stage and moved behind the scenes to his comfort zone, which is also his retirement zone.

(End of this chapter)