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Chapter 517 Strange Constitutional Monarchy
Sun Yue and Zhao Tingmei quarreled for three months.

No one expected that this quarrel would actually give them the name of being virtuous.

All the ministers noticed it. Although the two of them quarreled very much, they still maintained a good personal relationship. They even came to a tacit understanding in the later stage of the quarrel. They only quarreled in the main hall, and after the court, they simply ate and drank together. When Zhao Tingmei was playing ball to pick up girls, Sun Yue never kept secrets when asking her about business issues.

Invisibly, this actually has a bit of a gentleman's harmony but different meaning.

The most important thing is that the quarrels between the two were all of a business nature. In the past three months, the imperial court has not had any incidents of abolishing or acting because of people, and there has been no faction between each other, let alone use He has made stumbling blocks through insidious tricks, and even seldom trains his own people in the court.

Isn't this what a real gentleman is?Although because of the quarrel between the two, the court actually didn't do anything in the past three months, and the two of them were doing their own things.

Even Zhao Defang, who sat on the throne in a daze, looked bewildered, because for the time being, apart from losing a little face, he, the emperor's edicts were all carried out unimpeded, and he didn't mean to be a puppet at all.

On the contrary, it was Zhao Pu and Xue Juzheng, both of whom were serious, but they didn't seem to fully represent the two princes, and even Sun Yue and Zhao Tingmei didn't bother to care about their 'small fights'.

Of course, this is a mediocre point of view. At least Sun Yue and Zhao Tingmei know that this can no longer be the case. If they don't come up with a solution, if they keep their own ways, the country will be in chaos.

It was another court meeting that both Sun Yue and Zhao Tingmei participated in. After the court ended, both of them had smoke coming out of their throats. Sun Yue felt like there were glass shards in his throat, and Zhao Tingmei was not too strong.

A little eunuch came over with two cups of honey water, and Sun Yue gave it to Zhou after a sip. Seeing that Zhao Tingmei was drinking slowly, there was still half a cup left, so he grabbed it and made it himself. Zhao Tingmei frowned and said : "You even snatched me a cup of honey water, but I can tell you that I spit."

"Look at how stingy you are, Lao Han got me some big abalone, the one as big as a human head, do you want to eat it?"

"You make it yourself and I'll eat it."

"If you like to eat or not, you will get used to it."

Then the two princes, who were quarrelsome 10 minutes ago, went to Sun's house to eat abalone with their arms around their necks, and the officials were no longer surprised by this.

After drinking and eating, the two princes crossed their legs and picked their teeth, with a beautiful maid behind them massaging and beating their backs. Even their postures were exactly the same.

Sun Yue took the lead and said, "We've been arguing for more than three months, and the bullshit hasn't come out."

"Yeah, I feel that if we keep arguing like this for another three years, we won't be able to figure out why."

"I feel the same way. It's meaningless to argue in vain, because without a referee, it will always be like this, where the public is justified and the mother-in-law is justified."

Zhao Tingmei said disdainfully: "Who do you want to be the referee? Zhao Defang?"

Sun Yue thought for a while and said, "Let's form a House of Representatives."

"What is the House of Representatives?"

"For all the rich folks who are in charge of more than 3000 people, all the companies under our Sun Family Group and you will send people to organize it. When the time comes, the two of us will make a plan and vote to decide."

"Row."

Then, there is the House of Representatives.

The original intention of the establishment of the House of Representatives was simply to determine the direction of future economic development, whether it is the inland river or the open sea. Anyway, these capitalists are doing things, so let them decide.

But what is more sad is that Sun Yue lost this round of voting. After all, the current first-class navigation skills are still in the hands of Semu people, and private capitalists are more interested in inland river transportation.

In fact, this is also expected by Sun Yue.

After another half a year, the imperial court expanded a House of Lords on the basis of the Zhengshitang, and sent out more than forty co-prefects in one breath. There was a general meeting every month and a small meeting every day. Zhao Pu and Xue Juzheng even Openly forming their own parties, in terms of political affairs, all things finalized by the Political Affairs Hall cannot be changed.

Interestingly, the members of the House of Lords are actually elected by members of the House of Representatives, not appointed by anyone.

Generally speaking, the House of Representatives is not elected, but depends on the money. Only if you have money and someone, you can become a member of the House of Representatives. There are currently more than 200 people, and the number is still increasing. It meets twice a year. It only discusses the general direction and elects the House of Lords, and the House of Lords controls the political situation and is responsible to the House of Representatives, which is completely different from the two houses of the British Empire.

Is this a constitutional monarchy?It seems to be okay, but it's a bit different, even Sun Yue and Sun Chunming can't recognize its appearance for the time being, but it feels a bit like a people's representative-congress.

Generally speaking, this system is very strange, and it seems that it has nothing to do with democracy. It seems that society has entered an era where capital is king.

After the establishment of the House of Lords, the quarrel between Zhao Pu and Xue Juzheng replaced Sun Yue and Zhao Tingmei. When these two guys were free, neither of them went to the court or talked about it, and they didn't even go to the House of Representatives because of their tacit understanding.

After the spring break, Zhao Tingmei went to Gaochang Uighur in person.And Sun Yue went to Guangzhou.

Zhao Tingmei stayed in Gaochang Uighur for more than a month, not only met the king, but also got along very well with all the Uighur nobles.

Sun Yue organized a huge party in Guangzhou. It is said that there were more than 2000 Semu people in attendance, all of whom had at least three or five big ships.

In fact, whether it is Sun Yue or Zhao Tingmei, the problems they face are actually similar. Whether it is the Silk Road or wanting to set off an era of great exploration, the key core technologies are not in their own hands.

Needless to say Zhao Tingmei, Gaochang Uyghur is not a small country after all, and it almost dominates the Western Regions. In reality, it is impossible for Sun Yue to agree, and it is also impossible for those members of the House of Representatives who are interested in Sun Yue to agree. The gain outweighs the loss.

But Sun Yue's situation is not much better than Zhao Tingmei's.

Although he lost this year's major issues in the House of Representatives, he doesn't think shipping can't be done. On the contrary, he thinks that next year will be a good opportunity for the real shipping project, because the profits of inland transportation are visible and profitable. After all, it is hard money, but Zhao Tingmei's plan is too grand, how can it be so easy to build a canal?Yang Guang built the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal almost to the point of subjugation, and his plan could not be completed in 100 years.

And capital is profit-seeking. When the inland transportation becomes self-competitive due to the expansion of the scale and the profits are diluted, the capitalists will inevitably shift their attention to the sea transportation again. At that time, the Sun family and his son will hold the group. We must be able to concentrate the power of the whole country to develop navigation.

But here comes the problem. The current shipping of the Song Dynasty, and even the shipping of the world, is in the hands of Semu people.Although he has cultivated a certain amount of navigating talents through means and assimilated the Semu people of Jizhou, he also has to admit that the gap between Da Song and the Semu people is still huge and desperate.

(End of this chapter)