After the opening speech, Su Yonglin announced the official start of the Central Representative Meeting. The main topics were the Ming Dynasty's national construction and development plan, military strategy, and revolutionary strategy for the next five years starting from now.
The Central Representative Conference needs to discuss and plan all the things that the Ming Dynasty needs to do in the next five years during this five-day meeting to see what can be achieved and what results can be achieved in the next five years.
Representatives need to express their views on military, civil affairs, finance, justice, education, agriculture, industry and commerce, science and technology, etc., formulate plans, and persuade their colleagues to reach understanding and cooperation to finalize their proposals.
Then you can wait for the vote of the people's representative meeting. As long as it is passed, it can become a national plan and initiate action with the national mobilization power.
They will get credit as initiators and organizers.
This is a real part of state governance, and it is also novel for the central representatives. They will step out from the role of executors and make decisions on national development together with the nine-member decision-making group during the central representative meeting. .
This feeling is very wonderful.
They were very excited, even a little excited. They put forward proposals one after another, raised questions one after another, and raised questions one after another.
For example, the military plan to pacify Japan and Dali in the next five years has aroused fierce debate.
Some representatives felt that the military's proposal was too radical. Dali's terrain was steep and Japan was isolated overseas. Although they were both small countries, the Ming Dynasty could definitely defeat them, but the price to be paid was too high.
Although the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue is considerable, domestic affairs are more important. It is better to postpone the external conquests, or choose one of Japan and Dali. In short, don't have both.
But the army opposed this.
They believe that the economy of Dali has been controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and that the country's economic lifeline is about to be completely penetrated by the Ming Dynasty. Even the national grain prices are decided by the grain merchants of the Ming Dynasty national team. Against this kind of enemy, an economic offensive can defeat them. They were in disarray.
When the time comes, they will be deprived of food and necessities in terms of economy, leaving them unable to survive. In a few days, they themselves will be killed. The military offensive is just the final word.
The Eighth Corps in the Sichuan-Sichuan region can definitely do it. The distance is short, the number of troops mobilized does not need to be too large, and the war will not last too long. If everything goes well, they are sure to pacify Dali within two months.
Moreover, after the war, the power of the Ming Dynasty can be extended further south, and it can control the South Asian trade routes of the ancient Shu Kingdom. It does not need to be used as a second-rate dealer by the Dali people to make middlemen's money. Wouldn't it be wonderful?
In the end, it is the Ministry of Finance and the Ming Dynasty's treasury that makes the most money, not their army. What's wrong with this?
Do you want your horse to run fast but don’t want to feed it concentrate feed?
What prairie man would do this?
The financial representative was severely scolded by the military representative. Military representative Xu Tong stood up and pointed at the financial representative. The scene was very lively.
Everyone argued and debated, and finally voted by a show of hands. Those who supported this opinion had the absolute upper hand. The nine-member decision-making group all agreed, so the matter was designated as a scheduled proposal and submitted to the People's Congress for a vote.
The first issue was passed in this way.
The deputies who had almost figured out the entire process enthusiastically came up with proposals one by one that they or they had discussed with their partners and submitted them to the Central Delegates Meeting for discussion and voting.
Some representatives proposed to increase education funding in the future, further develop education in remote areas, and use education to help the next generation of people in remote areas develop feelings for the Ming Dynasty, which will help remote areas integrate into the Ming Dynasty faster and become the undisputed part of the Ming Dynasty. land.
This proposal received the greatest support and the least resistance. Su Yonglin took the lead in agreeing, so it passed the meeting with an absolute majority and became a preliminary proposal.
Another representative proposed to build 500 new factories nationwide within five years to further expand the scale of industrial production, and then put forward his own specific plan.
This plan also received the support of Su Yonglin, and the supporters accounted for the majority, so it became a preliminary proposal.
In terms of science and technology, some representatives expressed the hope that the country would increase its science and technology budget to help make breakthroughs in science and technology, especially breakthroughs in steam engines.
They proposed that the breakthrough of the steam engine could help further the development of mining industry, so this request received the full support of representatives of industry and commerce.
Later, representatives from the judiciary also expressed their hope to legislate and regulate behavior in aspects such as marriage, business competition, trademarks, and the business scope of small vendors.
Representatives from the agricultural sector expressed the hope that the Ministry of Industry would further increase the production of high-quality iron farm tools to help farmers further liberate productivity.
They proposed that the number of high-quality iron farm tools in the entire Ming Dynasty is still small. Now that the number of troops is no longer expanding, it may be possible to allocate more high-quality iron farm tools.
After careful calculations, they came to the conclusion that when the number of high-quality iron farm tools is increased to an order of magnitude, agricultural output will be further increased.
So they proposed a ratio, but were immediately opposed by military representatives.
Military representatives believe that the military also needs high-quality weapons for combat and training, and agricultural representatives believe that the military can use weapons more efficiently instead of wasting them.
The two sides argued endlessly, but in the end the number of supporters of both sides could not reach the required two-thirds majority. Seeing the proposal aborted, Su Yonglin believed that this strategy should actually be taken seriously, so he mediated.
He suggested that the agricultural representatives who proposed the proposal lower the original proportion and give more resources to the army, because the heroic revolutionary soldiers really need more high-quality weapons to serve the country.
In the end, both sides took a step back and barely reached a two-thirds majority, and the proposal was passed.
Then, one topic was brought up one after another, and everyone argued with each other. After the morning argument, they had dinner together at noon. After a short lunch break, they started arguing again in the afternoon. After dinner, they took a short break and continued arguing into the night.
Many representatives were in high spirits and seemed to have endless energy.
Some representatives whose proposals were not approved were not in a hurry to go to bed after returning to their residences. They were full of energy in revising their proposals as if they had been given a shot of blood.
Representatives whose proposals were approved were not in a hurry to go to sleep. They urgently consulted with their colleagues on whether there were any proposals that could be discussed and continued to hold small-scale meetings until midnight.
Su Yonglin had no such thoughts. After returning, he went to bed, got up early in the morning, exercised for a while, wiped himself, brushed his teeth and washed his face, had a delicious breakfast, and then personally sent Su Zeying to Zhongdu Middle School before going to the meeting.
The second day of the meeting was just as intense, as were the third and fourth days.
Everyone worked hard and came up with many proposals to debate and discuss with unprecedented passion, vowing to find out what was right and wrong, and vowing to implement their own ideas of governing the country to the end. No matter how many obstacles there are, they will not back down unless the facts prove it. I was wrong.
Or Su Yonglin said that he was wrong.
In the end, because there were too many arguments at the meeting, the discussion process was too long, and there were too many topics discussed, Su Yonglin had no choice but to announce that the central representative meeting was postponed for one day. After one day, it still didn't work, so it could only be postponed for another day to let them continue to argue.
Then it still didn't work, so Su Yonglin simply announced that it would be postponed for another three days.
This meeting lasted ten days and ten nights.
