Even after ten days and ten nights of verbal disputes, the representatives were still full of energy and energy.
Some representatives spoke loudly in order to maintain their power of intimidation. In the end, they even made their throats hoarse, lost their voices, and could no longer speak.
Going back further, Su Yonglin felt that if it continued, they would be able to continue arguing for at least five days and five nights. This would not work and they could only forcefully announce the end of the meeting.
"Even if only 70% of the preliminary proposals reached so far are passed, all the things will be enough for Ming Dynasty to do for five years. I know you are very concerned about national affairs, but there is a limit to what can be done in five years, and we also have It’s hard to say what will happen in five years.”
Su Yonglin stood up and said loudly: "The most suitable plan we have made is a five-year plan. If it exceeds five years, I feel that it will be out of control. It is too fake and meaningless, so you still need to understand this more." The fundamental point of a meeting is not to waste everyone’s time on temporary disputes of temper!”
Su Yonglin then seriously criticized several representatives who were particularly loud and aggressive, asking them to restrain their tempers at the meeting.
Although the process was somewhat tortuous and the overall atmosphere was definitely not harmonious, with some people almost rolling up their sleeves and playing Mortal Kombat in front of Su Yonglin, the meeting ended successfully.
The original five-day meeting was often directly extended to ten days, more than 150 proposals were discussed, and the final number of proposals reached was 68.
Because it was already the 16th day of the first lunar month in the 13th year of Hongwu's reign, the meeting of people's representatives originally scheduled for the 15th had to be postponed to the 20th.
It still takes time to sort out some issues for the Central Representative Conference, and it will take time to print and communicate the approved preliminary proposals to every public representative.
In addition, Su Yonglin also decided to hold several meetings for the content of some issues that were difficult for the public to understand to lead everyone to conduct collective learning and enhance necessary knowledge so that they could make the right choices at formal meetings.
Although Su Yonglin had sent some Fuxing members to form a study guidance group in the past two months to organize public representatives to conduct concentrated surprise studies and impart some knowledge on the operation of the country, Su Yonglin still felt that it was not enough.
So in the next four days, everyone began to prepare for the meeting intensively. Su Yonglin personally hosted the study meeting and taught classes for public representatives who lacked the necessary knowledge.
In this process, Su Yonglin felt that governing the country really cannot rely entirely on ideals, and the necessary knowledge is really indispensable.
These matters related to the operation of the country and the livelihood of 180 million people really cannot be left to an ordinary person to make decisions.
He felt that it was necessary to hold a central representative meeting before the people's representative meeting. This could at least control the agenda of the people's representative meeting within a reasonable range and prevent the agenda from drifting into some strange corner that was completely unimaginable. Go inside.
At the same time, he also felt that there was still a long way to go to educate the people and open up their wisdom. If he had not led a group of national elites to control the direction of this meeting, he would not dare to think about how the situation would go.
He really wants to hand over power to the people and realize democracy in a true sense, but the general public obviously does not have the quality to shoulder the future of 180 million people.
This responsibility is too heavy and this power is too huge, and ordinary people simply cannot grasp it.
Although these public representatives are already the best among the grassroots labor groups such as industrial workers, farmers and soldiers in the Ming Dynasty at this stage.
In fact, they are also elites among civilians.
They either work hard or are serious and diligent, or they think of special ways to help everyone increase production and reduce energy consumption. They are very smart, and they have the ability and reputation to convince the masses, which makes them different from the general public.
Despite this, their current quality is not able to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the country's highest decision-making body. Therefore, it takes about two months of sudden study to barely keep up with the progress of the conference and to initially understand the significance and meaning of this conference. content of the conference.
And Su Yonglin's guidance and leadership are indispensable in this.
So in essence, this time the People's Congress did not really transcend the times. It was still a special situation promoted by Su Yonglin who controlled the supreme power with his prestige.
To put it bluntly, this people's congress can at best be regarded as a special political training driven by Su Yonglin's prestige, rather than a constitutional government or democracy.
Without the education and guidance of the nine-member decision-making group led by Su Yonglin and some experienced Fuxing members, these public representatives would not know how to use the votes in their hands.
People's representatives in this state cannot decide on national affairs at all.
Therefore, Su Yonglin planned to leave a period of "political training" for the country in the early days of the establishment of the Democratic Republic, leaving a buffer period for the Ming Dynasty to transform from an empire to a democratic republic.
During this stage, he and the nine-member decision-making group held all the power and led a large number of revival members with political experience to travel to various places to guide the people, headed by public representatives, in understanding national politics.
Because under the long-term feudal agricultural production model, the people are not unwilling to care about politics, but they do not have the quality and conditions to care about politics.
The feudal dynasty would not take the initiative to popularize education, let alone allow the people to have enough food, clothing and care about politics.
They are very taboo about people caring about politics. They only need people to serve as tools to pay taxes and work for their lives. It is best if they don't have any thoughts.
A small number of qualified and well-qualified people want to care about politics, but as a result there are no channels to care about politics. In the end, the public's concern for politics can only be expressed as unofficial history and gossip, without any political literacy at all.
Therefore, at this stage, except for the soldiers of the Ming army who have received sufficient education, the people of the Ming Dynasty basically do not have the qualities and abilities of citizens of a constitutional democratic country. This is a fact.
To establish a democratic republic, the citizens need to have political literacy, even if it is slightly less political literacy.
Therefore, Su Yonglin hopes to help the people gradually understand the content of national politics through a period of training, and then start from the grassroots level and gradually establish local people's representative meetings in every province, state capital, and county to control local decision-making power.
When this system is completed, it will be the end of the Ming Dynasty's political training.
By then, in a more ideal state, Ming Dynasty will be able to smoothly transition to a constitutional state and become a relatively mature democratic constitutional country with experienced people and well-ordered political order.
That is the complete Ming Democratic Republic.
But for now, Daming still has a long way to go to reach this ideal state.
The state of tutelage may last for a long time, and there will inevitably be many political struggles during the tutelage period. Su Yonglin himself does not know whether he will live to see the advent of the constitutional era.
So during dinner in the evening, Su Yonglin expressed his entanglements and worries to Zhao Xixin at the dinner table.
"I really want to hand over power to the people, at least the power of supervision. I believe that this power must be given to the people to ensure that the Ming Dynasty will not take detours in the future. However, through my observation during this period, I found that the people simply do not have the ability to be reasonable. use these powers.
Just say that the thousands of people's representatives we have elected this time are said to be ordinary people, but in fact they are also elites among the people. They are either highly respected or have excellent work performance and have received unanimous praise. Only in this way can they be selected as people's representatives. represent.
It is such a group of representatives who represent the highest quality of the people. They still seem ignorant in the face of national events and cannot grasp and understand many things well. In the past two months, after surprise education, the situation has improved to a certain extent. But it's not that good either.
This is true for the elites among the people, let alone the general public? I didn't want them to suffer, so I raised an army to resist. Now that a new country has been established, I am not sure that I can maintain the current situation. I am worried that until my death, the people will not be able to have the quality to control the power of supervision. "It is detected that your latest reading progress is "One Thousand Five Hundred and Seventy-nine Ten Days and Ten Nights Central Meeting"
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