Throughout the second half of the twelfth year of Hongwu, Su Yonglin, in addition to handling military affairs, spent most of his energy on the organization of the Central Representative Conference and the People's Representative Conference.
The number of central representatives is limited, so it is easy to solve the problem. Three times, five times and two times can be used to solve the problem.
This is not the case with popular representatives. Every province, every state capital and even every county in the country must have appropriate representatives. The number does not need to be too many, but three or four thousand people are needed. If it is more, five thousand people may not be able to fight. end.
This is the first national people's representative conference. If this system is successfully implemented in China, it will be needed in every province and even every state capital in the future.
This democratic right cannot only appear in Zhongdu. Local governments also have certain autonomous administrative powers, and their actions also require strong supervision. Local people's representative meetings are also in Su Yonglin's plan.
But for now, it is better to hold the first meeting as soon as possible to set an example for the whole country and accumulate some experience.
Therefore, Su Yonglin, as the chairman of the Renaissance Association, constantly contacted all parts of the country to arrange for people's representatives to go to Zhongdu, either by land, water, or both. In short, he strived to have all the representatives arrive in Zhongdu by the end of the twelfth year of Hongwu. .
At the same time, because it was too late to start building the venues needed to hold a thousand-person conference, Su Yonglin decided to use local materials and use the palace from the imperial power era as a symbol of the Ming Dynasty bidding farewell to the imperial power era.
After all, Ming Dynasty was a democratic republic anyway, and it was inappropriate to retain the palace as the seat of administrative agencies.
The venue required for the People's Representative Conference was very large and spacious, so Su Yonglin decided to use the Wanmin Hall as the basis for reconstruction, and transform the Wanmin Hall and the large square in front of the Wanmin Hall into a venue for the People's Congress.
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The number of people in the Central Representative Conference was small, so Su Yonglin took out the Yangxin Hall, where he handled daily government affairs, as a basis for reconstruction and turned it into a venue for the Central Representative Conference.
The two palaces are exactly one behind the other and belong to an entire building complex. They were the administrative center of the country in the past and will be in the future.
It's just that the properties are completely different.
Not only that, when the time comes, Su Yonglin does not plan to keep the name of the so-called imperial palace, nor will he continue to live in the palace. He plans to leave the palace with his family and purchase a property in Zhongdu City as a residence, just like other officials.
Except for the necessary parts of the palace, which are reserved as the seat of government offices, Su Yonglin decided to open a part of the palace as a museum, open to the public across the country, and everyone is welcome to come and see the palace.
Since you have decided to depose the emperor, you should do it completely and without leaving a single thought. It would be most suitable for you to move out of the palace and live outside.
As a symbol of oppression and exploitation in the imperial era, the important buildings of the palace are used by the people, and the other parts are used as museums for the public to enjoy. It couldn't be more wonderful.
Su Yonglin personally supervised the work and participated in the discussion of the reconstruction of Wanmin Hall and Yangxin Hall.
In addition, he also started to choose his future residence in Zhongdu City.
Finally, he chose a vacant land very close to Xin Qiji's and Kong Maojie's homes. He bought it with his own money, and then decided to hire someone to build his own house.
Su Yonglin is actually quite rich. Looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, he can be regarded as a wealthy person.
Of course, he was not as rich as he thought, because he did not buy any royal property, and had saved almost no money in the early days. He only used the royal funds provided by the Ministry of Finance, and did not even have a money bag institution like the Shaofu.
At this stage, Su Yonglin was a complete pauper with no personal property.
Later, he began to write books and sell them in bookstores, such as three volumes of "Hongwu Political Theory", two volumes of "Selected Works of Su Yonglin", and one volume of "Selected Stories of Su Yonglin".
Because these are best-sellers nationwide and even in the entire Greater China region, and are even purchased by countries in the Western Regions, the sales volume is huge.
Because these books are Su Yonglin's personal works, Su Yonglin obtained a large amount of income from the royalties from selling the books. After paying taxes, it was his personal legal income.
Then after the third great purge, he decided to eliminate the emperor's sacred attributes, so he proposed to pay the emperor a salary. Of course, his salary was the highest in the country, so this became Su Yonglin's second legal personal income.
Of course, it’s all after tax, clean and tidy.
Regardless of whether it is the Audit Department of the Ministry of Finance, the Supervision Department of the Renaissance Society, or the Imperial Procuratorate, even if they come together and use a magnifying glass to examine each number one by one, they will never find any problems.
Apart from these two fixed incomes, Su Yonglin has no other personal income.
All the fiscal revenue of the imperial court belongs to the treasury, and he does not take any penny. No matter how high the fiscal revenue is, it has nothing to do with him personally. His personal integrity is beyond doubt.
As for his family, which is actually his wife's family, the Zhao family, it is also very clean.
Zhao Xixin serves as the director of the women's department of the Renaissance Association and has a good salary.
Zhao Zuoliang served as the Shangshu Ling of the Central Secretariat and had a very high salary.
The remaining second son, who is the head of a judicial branch in a certain state in Hexi Province, still has a salary income. The eldest son, who is farming in his hometown, has an income from farming. The third son is also studying law at the University of Political Science and Law and preparing for the imperial examination. Just spending money, no income.
Apart from this, the Zhao family has no other income, which is clean and tidy. Their annual income is voluntarily submitted to the Audit Department for review, and there is no problem at all.
Therefore, in a broad sense, Su Yonglin's family is also very clean and does not have any property problems.
Zhao Xixin takes care of the income of the couple Su Yonglin and Zhao Xixin, and their daily expenses are mainly on their children. They buy some maternal and infant products for their children, some of which are specially customized.
Neither Su Yonglin nor Zhao Xixin are big spenders, and their daily consumption is very limited. Food and drink expenses are basically covered by the court's legal benefits.
The so-called imperial dining room is maintained by Su Yonglin's personal expenses after he receives his salary and has nothing to do with the state. This is the largest expenditure among their family.
But compared to the Su family's income, these expenses are small figures and don't matter.
So after so many years, the amount of savings belonging to this family of four is still quite considerable. It is not difficult to use it to buy land and build a house. It can even be said to be more than enough.
After moving out of the palace, Su Yonglin plans to further streamline his life.
