In the forty-fourth year of Kangxi's reign, on the first day of September, in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
"His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince Yongqing, one vote..."
"His Royal Highness Prince Yong, the fourth son of the Emperor, another vote!"
"His Royal Highness Prince Yong, the fourth son of the Emperor, one more vote!"
"His Royal Highness Prince Yong, the fourth son of the Emperor..."
The one who was counting the votes was the first Galdan, the most eminent monk in Mongolia.
Together with Archbishop Alexander and the Holy Duke Confucius, he had already performed a joint salvation for Kangxi - whether to go to the Western Heaven to enjoy eternal bliss, to go to heaven to accompany the Heavenly Father and the Emperor, or to go to the underworld to become the King of Yama in India, it was all up to him.
After saving Kangxi Khan, Galdan did not immediately return to India to spread Buddhism. Instead, he stayed in Kaitianfu in Beijing and continued to preside over the first Eight Banners Council. For the era of the early 18th century, the Eight Banners Grand Council could be said to be standing on the top of the mountains! Not to mention that I, the country's Frank, cannot compare, even England, which has just passed the Bill of Rights, cannot compare with the Ming Dynasty, which proposed the "original theories" such as original monarch, original minister, original law, and original people.
England's "Bill of Rights" also discriminated against Roman Catholic believers, stipulating that Roman Catholics could not be kings, and kings could not marry Roman Catholics - you must know that there were still quite a few Roman Catholic believers among British citizens at that time. Catholics account for almost 20% of Ireland's population. A "Bill of Rights" turned 20% of the nation into pariahs...and it was legislated openly!
In comparison, the "Eight Banners Magna Carta" is an improvement. The "Eight Banners Magna Carta" is "co-governance by five ethnic groups". The Mongolian Eight Banners, the Qing Eight Banners, the Confucian Eight Banners, the Yin Eight Banners, and the Hui Eight Banners can all send equal numbers of troops. Representatives attended the Eight Banners Grand Council. Although the Mongols added the Eight Banners of Horqin as a "vote bank", there are no Eight Banners of Sikhs, and the representation rights of Hindus are not equal to their numbers... But India is a conquered land after all. And Hindus themselves do not believe that various untouchables can have equal rights with noble Brahmins. So the issue of Hindu representation is no longer an issue.
In addition, the "Bill of Rights" still protected the hereditary British monarch. Congress only prohibited Roman Catholics from becoming kings and queens (or possibly queens and kings), but it did not realize the election of a king by Parliament.
However, Great Mongolia's "Eight Banners Magna Carta" stipulated for the first time that the 209 representatives of the Eight Banners Parliament would elect a khan and an emperor with one vote per person...so the envoys from Western countries who watched the election were on the scene. In our opinion, this "Eight Banners Election of Khans and Emperors" system is too advanced, much better than the earlier elector system of the Holy Roman Empire.
In the electoral system, only a small number of electors can vote, which is insufficiently representative. Moreover, those electors were very powerful and prone to division and civil war. After the Thirty Years' War, the Holy Roman Empire was severely weakened. In the end, it gained the advantage of the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of France. Now the Holy Roman Empire has become Frank.
After Louis won the Great Southern War, he immediately strengthened the royal power of the Franks and issued an edict in Vienna, declaring the abolition of the Frankish king-selection system and establishing I, the state, on German territory!
As for the king-selection system of the United Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania, it is even more incomparable, because the Polish aristocracy is too selfish and likes to choose foreigners to be the king... After choosing, the king became Louis the Great, and then The country is gone, and so is the king-selection system!
The system of electing emperors and khans in Great Mongolia seems to be better than that of HRE electors and Polish king electors.
First of all, the Great Council of the Eight Banners of Great Mongolia cannot elect foreigners. The candidate must be the "big brother" of the Aisin Gioro family (that is, the brother born in legal marriage), and he must also be the son of the "Emperor" and "Khan" The elder brother comes first, and then the elder brother of the banner owner prince's family.
Secondly, there are many representatives in the Great Mongolian Eight Banners Assembly, including the Mongolian Eight Banners, the Qing Eight Banners, the Confucian Eight Banners, the Horqin Mongolian Eight Banners (including the remnants of Junggar), the Yin Eight Banners, and the Hui Eight Banners. A total of six eight banners add up to forty-eight banners, and each banner has A banner prince (mostly Aixinjueluo) and the following three major commanders can participate in the meetings of the Eight Banners Grand Council in person or by appointing representatives. In addition, the four major monasteries of the Galdan sect of Mongolian Buddhism can each send four representatives. Together with the Grand Buddha of the Galdan sect, there are a total of 209 representatives.
Although these 209 representatives will also form cliques and form several groups, they are ultimately much more reasonable than the structure of Germany's seven general elections - those seven general elections also include Cologne, Mainz, Trier, etc. Where are the three archbishops! It is impossible for these three bishops to be emperors, and their diocesan states are very small. Before the Thirty Years' War, the population of the three countries was less than 100,000. The strength of the remaining four secular electorate states cannot be underestimated. They are the four major oligarchs! The so-called electorate system actually means that oligarchs take turns taking charge.
Third, in order to limit the power of the monarch, it also facilitates the management of a huge country. The "Magna Carta of Eight Banners" also implemented the "Four Kings System" for the first time - one Khan, one emperor, and two queen mothers!
Two of the four "kings" are elected, and the two queen mothers are the wives of the first king and the first Khan. They do not need to be elected, and they can be vacant. Their power is less than that of the emperor and the Khan, but they can still Played a role in restricting the royal power.
The elected "Two Kings" are divided into the north and south of the town, each with its own jurisdiction. At the same time, they have the obligation to assist each other, and of course they can also restrain each other.
Fourth, in addition to the "Four Kings", the "Eight Banners Magna Carta" also gave Galdan and the Four Major Monasteries seventeen representative seats. Although there are not many seats, this group of monks is responsible for organizing and convening the Eight Banners Grand Council. There is no doubt that this is another force that restrains the royal power.
Of course, all these forces that can limit the royal power are also the defenders of the Mongolian monarchy. While they share power, they also firmly bind themselves to the Mongolian kingdom... Let's go to the Great Mongolia together. The middle and lower class Indian Asan implements colonial rule!
However, among the envoys from Western countries who came to watch the ceremony, no one could see this level. What they see now is that the 209 representatives of the Eight Banners Grand Council cast "two solemn votes" - one vote for the emperor and one vote for the Khan. They also saw an enlightened eminent monk and several young monks counting votes very seriously. The eminent monk recited one vote, and the young monks drew one stroke of chalk on a blackboard with "Prince Si Age Yong" written on it. Five strokes formed a circle. Orthographic character. Twenty-one "positive" words have now appeared on the blackboard, which shows that Prince Yong Yinzhen has received more than 105 votes.
There is no "free veto" or "one-vote veto" in Great Mongolia. What is practiced here is majority voting. A simple majority can elect the new "emperor" and "khan", or pass any important resolutions.
Now Yinzhen has received more than half of the votes and can be elected!
When Yinzhen saw that there were more than twenty-one characters on the blackboard, he was so excited that he cried... He finally became the emperor! And it is really not easy for him to be the emperor!
After more than a year of integration, what Yinzhen can actually control now are the two yellow flags among the eight clear flags (one of which is "changing colors"), totaling 8 votes for the emperor and 8 votes for the emperor. To elect the emperor, at least 105 votes are needed, and there are still 97 votes left. Yinzhen has to try every means to win... 8 of them are exchanged for the sweat votes and Yinzhen (Yinti also has two flag), the remaining 89 have to be discussed one by one!
Fortunately, both Yinzhen and Yinzhen had several "little brothers" who followed them closely, so Yinzhen was able to win dozens of votes at a very low cost. Although it was still a little short of the mark, Yinzhen's widow, the Queen Mother Kong, who had served the Grand Duke and Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, brought 32 votes from the Confucian Eight Banners to support... This really moved Yinzhen so much that he could not repay it, so he had to We agreed. So he immediately divorced his legitimate son Ulanala, and then married the Empress Dowager Kong's sister as the crown prince (of course she would be the next Empress Dowager Kong). He also sent his legitimate son Honghui to become a monk at Feixi Temple and become a Karma. Erdan's disciples, thereby winning over the 17 votes in Galdan's hands. This time the number of votes was enough for Yinzhen to be elected.
When he thought that in order to become emperor, he had already committed the evil deeds of killing his father, killing his brother, killing his younger brother, abandoning his wife, and abandoning his son, Yinzhen felt so miserable in his heart! The tears couldn't stop falling...
Yinti, who was sitting side by side with him, had already decided on the Northern Khan of Great Mongolia, and it was time to choose him after the selection of the Southern Emperor. Of course he also knows the suffering of his fourth brother... It's not easy for him to get a job! So he patted Yinzhen's thigh and comforted him: "Fourth brother, don't cry. You are the emperor now. The emperor of Mongolia is half a level older than Brother Yu!"
The Southern Emperor is still a little older than the Northern Khan. This is because Yinzhen received the support of the Queen Mother Kong and Galdan, and Zhu Heji also "gifted" the "Yongzheng" reign title to Yinzhen. This shows that Yinzhen has signed up for Father Ming's favor!
Because Ming's father was more powerful than Fa's father, Yinzhen's most effective assistant, Yinxiang, recently proposed an arrangement for the Southern Emperor to be slightly superior to the Northern Khan when discussing the formulation of the "Eight Banners Magna Carta". And this proposal was supported by most representatives of the Eight Banners nobles. After all, everyone needs Yinzhen, the Southern Emperor, to go to northwest India to find money... This Southern Emperor is not the master of the big guys at all, but does it for everyone. The long-term worker of money is "Yong Changgong". Therefore, it is appropriate to give him a bigger name to satisfy his vanity.
Seeing that everyone had this intention, Yinzhen gave in. Who told Yinzhen that "the father is rich and rich"? But Yinzhen also knows that Yinzhen's job is not easy to do! Northwest India is indeed rich, but its desires are hard to satisfy! With so many people asking for money, it is not easy for Yinzhen to be a "permanent worker".
This is also the reason why Yinzhen would rather be the Northern Khan than compete with Yinzhen for the Southern Emperor... He knows that his financial management skills are not enough to manage so many silver rupees. So he just acted as the Northern Khan who collected money, and left the Southern Emperor who was responsible for making money to Yinzhen.
After hearing Yinti's encouraging words, Yinzhen took a deep breath, stood up from the chair where he was sitting, and strode towards the left one of the two dragon chairs placed next to Lord Galdan.
Galdan saw Yinzhen walking towards the dragon chair, and quickly handed over the job of counting votes to one of his apprentices, and then took a long-prepared dragon robe from another apprentice - this was for Yinzhen wears a yellow robe!
Europeans crown their emperors, but what is popular in the East is to wear yellow robes!
But Yinzhen is the emperor elected by everyone, so there is no need to pretend to be asleep or to be polite. There is no need for any tricks of three bows and three concessions, just do it.
So Yinzhen went to stand in front of the dragon chair, Galdan put some dragon robes on him, and then two black eunuchs stepped forward to put the dragon robes on for Yinzhen. Galdan shouted again at this time: "Great Mongol Emperor, please sit on the dragon throne!"
Most of the representatives of the Eight Banners Council who were sitting below stood up and shouted in unison: "I respectfully invite the Fourth Prince to assume the throne of emperor!"
"Invincibility starts with sacrificing the ancestor"
After shouting, everyone saluted Yinzhen one after another. This ceremony is not uniform. Most of them kneel down, and there are three who do not. Yinti, Sofia and Queen Mother Kong did not kneel. Among them, Yinti even cupped his hands, while Sofia and Queen Mother Kong simply sat still.
Yinzhen looked at the two queen mothers - when Kangxi and Yinzhen were alive, these two queen mothers had never met each other, let alone any friendship. But since Sofia took the initiative to invite the Queen Mother Kong to meet when she arrived at Kaitianfu in Beijing last time, the relationship between the two has rapidly heated up... and now they even sit side by side, talking and laughing.
Obviously, these two queen mothers have colluded together!
According to the provisions of the "Charter of the Eight Banners of Great Mongolia", the Queen Mother of the East and West was not elected, and certainly not hereditary. Instead, the post was held by the widows of the first emperors and first Khans. Although they do not have much power, they have the power to make suggestions on personnel and government affairs, and can also seek immunity for criminals. The queen mother herself has immunity.
In addition, the two queen mothers have powerful subordinates. The Queen Mother Kong has the Eight Banners of Confucianism, and the Queen Mother Suo has the Eight Banners of Yin... Together, they have a full 64 votes!
A sense of crisis immediately hit Yinzhen!
Although he chose Nan Emperor, this Nan Emperor was not hereditary and he would have to choose again after his death. The next choice is the Hong generation. Both Honghao and Hong Xi are qualified to compete for the position of Southern Emperor. If the forces left behind by the two queen mothers join forces, then with only 41 more votes, Honghao or Hongxi can become the emperor.
But now is not the time for Yinzhen to take action against Honghao and Hongxi... His emperor is not yet secure!
As soon as he thought of this, Yinxiang took the lead in shouting: "Long live, long live, long live my emperor!"
Afterwards, other people below also shouted long live!
Yinzhen sat on the dragon chair, with tears in his eyes, listening to the most intoxicating sound of the mountain shouting "Long Live the Mountain" in the world. It was not until the sound dissipated in the air that Yinzhen slowly spoke: "Meng Qing, please wait. Wrong love, I can't thank you enough for electing me, Yinzhen, to be the emperor... Although Yinzhen has limited talents and virtues, he will definitely work hard and work together with all the ministers to rule the prosperous age of Mongolia!" He paused. , suddenly took a sharp breath, and said loudly again: "From today on, the Yuan Dynasty will be changed to Yongzheng! This year is the first year of Yongzheng!"
