The 91st, 92nd and 93rd floors of Huaxia Building are the headquarters of the Eastern Economic Alliance. They signed a 20-year lease with Huaxia Building. For this reason, Huaxia Building has specially prepared a special elevator for it, that is, there is a dedicated elevator that only stops at 91 On the 92nd, 93rd and 93rd floors, the elevator entrance is separate from the other elevators, and there are also stricter security checks.
This afternoon, the second summit of the Eastern Economic Alliance will be held here.
The first summit meeting was held when the Eastern Economic Alliance was established. Naturally, there was no Lu Ming at that time.
The 93rd floor where the headquarters is located is a variety of functional conference rooms.
The 91st and 92nd floors are the residences of representatives of nine alliance members. Each alliance member has a permanent representative and several staff members, but Xinji Province, which has the largest number of people, does not have more than ten people.
Lu Ming is currently at the Montenegro Representative Office, and the resident representative is Zheng Shanxing, a new-style official in his thirties, who graduated from an economics college.
While Lu Ming was chatting with Zheng Shanxing in the office, a call came in, saying that Governor Michelson of Aton State had heard that General Lu was here and wanted to come over for a visit.
Lu Ming and Michelson are old acquaintances.
Ayton Prefecture, like Xinji Province, is located in the northern part of the East China Sea and adjacent to the five Jiangnan provinces. However, Ayton Prefecture's geographical location and geographical environment are much better than Xinji Province.
Sanmai Company's Roseville District is in the Ayton State.
This was the condition negotiated when Sanmai Flight Company first settled in Ayton State.
It was originally a deserted land. Tens of thousands of acres of land were purchased by Sanmai Company and implemented special management. State agencies at all levels basically had no jurisdiction over the area. Therefore, in state documents, it was called Ross. Wilt District.
Lu Ming and Michelson met several times for this special zone.
Although Ayton State is an area inhabited by Central Asians, like the chief municipal councilor of Donghai, in the past, governor candidates could only be Westerners. Even though such old regulations have been abolished for more than 20 years, due to inertia, Westerners are usually the Being more passionate about elections and better at them, Michaelson was the one who defeated the Middle-earth candidate and won the election.
The same situation exists in Newton State, another area inhabited by Middle-earth people. However, Newton State only repealed its special election law last year after the civil strife in the empire. In the general election at the beginning of this year, the Western governor won re-election.
Xinji Province, on the other hand, has always been directly governed by the imperial capital, and like the five Jiangnan provinces, there is no popular election.
However, unlike the five Jiangnan provinces that had governors dispatched by the imperial capital, Xinji Province directly appointed senior officials from the imperial capital. In the past, senior Western officials were also appointed.
However, after the civil strife in the empire, there was a certain degree of turmoil in the five Jiangnan provinces and Xinji Province. Only Jiangning Province maintained stability because of Lu Ming's foresight and appropriate measures.
The high-ranking Western officials of Xinji Province fled during the riot. Later, Xinji Province asked the Grand Duke of Donghai for help. The new senior official was appointed by the Grand Duke of Donghai. He was the original director of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Xinji Province and a person from Zhongzhou.
At the same time, Donghai also sent an observation team to Xinji Province to help Xinji Province prepare for holding a popular election early next year to elect a governor, and Xinji Province will become an autonomous prefecture.
To this, Lu Ming thought it was nothing. As for elections, there was nothing that the people's wisdom couldn't do. If you can't do it once, you can do it twice or three times.
It was the first state in the empire to hold universal suffrage. At that time, the so-called people's intelligence in this state, were the citizens in the western part of the state more knowledgeable than the people in Xinji Province today?
After all, that was over a hundred years ago.
But with the current war, this move seems a bit inappropriate, but liberals have always been idealistic, so there is no need to laugh at their naivety.
However, from my personal point of view, if it is democratically elected, I still prefer the representative system of heads of state. Even if there is a nominal head of state, the power is virtual, but at critical moments, it can turn the tide legally, just like the East China Sea. The status of a Grand Duke.
The importance of the civil strife in the empire was immediately apparent.
Especially if the territory is vast, such a mascot head is needed to unite people with different traditional customs.
In normal times, the ruling party is elected through popular elections, and the ruling party selects elites to serve as cabinet officials and are accountable to the parliament. This way, it has better error correction capabilities than a presidential republic that elects someone as the head of state.
While Lu Ming was thinking about it, Michelson arrived. The two chatted for more than an hour and then parted happily.
As he walked Michelson out of the representative office to the elevator, a group of people happened to be walking in the corridor.
The leader saw Lu Ming and smiled: "General Lu!"
He is a short old Western man with slightly white temples. He has a very kind face, but he is famous for his thunderbolt skills.
It was Satun Nicholasson, the chief municipal councilor and prime minister of Donghai, who was also the leader of the "Free Citizens Movement", the largest party in Donghai.
Lu Ming's original opponent in Beiguan, Beiguan Chief Municipal Councilor Bakluo, came from the same political party as him, and Bakluo 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 unrest, most of the party branches in Donghai broke up with the Imperial Capital headquarters and parted ways, as did the "Free Citizens' Movement".
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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 window in the corridor, where people can take a break and talk about something. He smiled and said: "General Lu, do you have time? Let's exchange opinions in advance about the afternoon meeting? "
Lu Ming smiled and said: "It's better to meet by chance than to invite me. I was going to see you originally."
The two sat down, and a service staff rushed to bring refreshments. Nicholasson looked at Lu Ming and said with a smile: "He is indeed a handsome young man. General Lu always speaks philosophically. An invitation is worse than a chance encounter. If you taste it carefully, it is very interesting!" He added: "I thought I could see General Lu at yesterday's municipal meeting, but I didn't expect you didn't come."
Lu Ming smiled and said: "I'm going to do it frequently. Isn't that annoying? Next time, I will definitely be there to listen and be taught."
Nicholasson smiled and said: "General Lu is too humble. 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 the alliance, I have some ideas."
"Say it!" Nicholasson showed admiration in his eyes.
Indeed, everyone is very busy. The purpose of exchanging opinions is to get some fresh air in advance for the afternoon heads of state meeting. It would be meaningless if we just talk about empty words.
"That's what I think..." Lu Ming smiled, "The western region is getting more and more chaotic. I have a premonition that the war will break out again and become more and more cruel. Our alliance should work together and twist into a rope before we can truly To protect our collective security, the current alliance structure is too loose, and there is no secretariat. Once the war breaks out, they will inevitably work independently, let alone form a deterrent to those ambitious..."
Lu Ming talked eloquently, and Nicholasson listened most of the time and gradually fell into thinking.
