Only then did some members realize that the House of Representatives was also part of the imperial court and was not an enemy of the Governor's Palace.
On the contrary, in many local assemblies the assistance of the Governor-General is also required.
General Office Zhou added: "The Governor may not be able to come to the chamber many times because he has a lot of things to do.
So we have to elect a deputy speaker to convene and preside over the meeting when the speaker is absent.
Now we, Lu The first issue of the Song Senate is to elect the deputy speaker.
Everyone should pay attention. , the deputy speaker will preside over the meeting most of the time, so everyone should choose carefully.
The method is very simple.
Everyone comes to the front table and writes down the person you want to elect.
If this person already has a name, then Just draw a circle under him, and the person with the most circles at the end will be our deputy speaker.”
Everyone enthusiastically wrote down their preferred candidates for deputy speaker on the table.
As expected, Yang Juncai was elected with an absolute majority.
General Manager Zhou smiled and said: "Then the deputy speaker in the future will be Mr.
Yang Juncai.
The deputy speaker is elected every two years, and one deputy speaker is elected at a time.
The parliament can have up to two deputy speakers.
Every two members of the chamber share an office.
Each member can hire multiple people to assist him in his work, but one of them must be Chinese, and the salary of more than one person will be paid by the member himself.”
"Members of Parliament's salary will be paid by the Governor's Palace, and the amount is one-third of the Governor's.
Members must work in the House from February to June and August to December every year.
The working days are, oh, wait a moment A calendar will be issued to everyone, with every week being seven days, and working days from Monday to Friday.
At other times, you can rest or visit the Chinese voters in Luzon to solve their problems and listen to their voices.
This will also be used for the next election.
It should be effective.”
Everyone laughed heartily, and General Office Zhou also smiled and said: "There is a canteen in the House.
Members can eat there for free, but if members bring other people to eat in the canteen, they need to pay two cents for each meal, oh. , which is equivalent to one denarius.”
One meal cost one penny, and everyone thought that they were not crazy, so how could they bring people here to eat such an unknown meal?
General Office Zhou continued: "There is one thing I would like to inform you, Members of Parliament.
If you accept gifts or banquets exceeding five taels of silver from others within one year, it will be regarded as accepting bribes.
This rule may be a bit unkind, but His Majesty the Emperor This is how it is stipulated.
The Bureau of Military Investigation and Statistics is in charge of this matter here in Luzon.
In the future, there will be more agencies to deal with these matters.
They are not under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office. " This article puzzled the MPs.
Yang Juncai had just been elected as the deputy speaker.
He felt that he had an obligation to stand up for everyone, so he asked: "General Manager Zhou, wouldn't this mean that you will not be able to attend banquets and gifts among friends?
Gentlemen have a friendship for money."
General Manager Zhou smiled and said: "Vice Speaker Yang, between friends, if I give you a betel nut and you give me a fruit, of course there is no problem.
But if the gift is a valuable item, then it is not okay.
If your friends treat you to a banquet, if A pot of wine and a plate of peanuts, of course it’s okay.
If you have sea cucumber and shark’s fin, it will be included unless you pay for it.
As long as the total exceeds five taels of silver, it is considered bribery, and this is not negotiable.”
Yang Juncai said: "Then if it is a human relationship, this cannot be restricted."
General Manager Zhou still smiled and said: "Reciprocity of favors is a traditional Chinese etiquette.
But the most important thing about favors is to be kind and reciprocal.
If someone who has never had any contact with you before gives you a gift after you become a councillor, of course it is Giving and accepting bribes.
But if someone with whom you have a relationship sends you a gift that is far more than what you gave him, that is certainly considered giving and receiving bribes.
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If your brother-in-law gives you fifty taels of silver, that is certainly not considered giving or receiving bribes. " Only then did everyone feel relieved.
Mr.
Zhou said: "Members of Parliament, I have conveyed to you all the things that His Majesty the Emperor has told you.
Now I would like to ask you to formulate the election laws for the House of Commons as soon as possible, and then communicate with the House of Commons Let’s formulate a new law for Luzon.
His Majesty the Emperor attaches great importance to Luzon, especially the rice of Luzon, which is very important to the Ming Dynasty.
Don’t let down your Majesty’s hope.”
General Manager Zhou came down from the small stage and said: "I was originally a staff member of the Governor's Mansion.
When the Governor did not come to the House, I was responsible for communicating between the House and the Governor's Mansion."
After that, he walked to a table next to him and sat down. .
The members of the House of Representatives looked at each other.
After a long time, Yang Jun finally tried to walk down and walked to the table and said: "Colleagues, congressmen, I will preside over the parliament here, and we will discuss the election law of the House of Commons."
At this point, he stopped, looked at General Manager Zhou and said, "General Manager Zhou, is this like this?"
General Manager Zhou smiled gently and said: "Actually, I don't know what to do, because His Majesty only wrote us what I just said.
But Your Majesty also said that by slowly exploring and constantly revising, we can always do better. " When Yang Juncai heard these words, he felt reassured.
He turned around and said: "Members of Parliament, please give your opinions on how to elect local people to form the House of Commons, and we will formulate this law."
Seeing that Yang Juncai had already set up the stage, everyone had no choice but to come and start singing.
Everyone began to seriously discuss the method of electing local people.
"The locals used to follow the red-haired ghosts to bully us.
Why should we ask them to make laws now?
Can't we Chinese just make them ourselves?"
"No, no, didn't General Zhou say that Ming Dynasty needs the rice here.
We Chinese cannot grow so much rice just by relying on us Chinese.
We still have to rely on local talents."
Yang Juncai hurriedly stopped him.
"The local people are too lazy.
I'm afraid I can't find a single person among a hundred people who is willing to farm, and they are stupid.
It would be a bit difficult to rely on them to grow rice.
We still have to rely on us Chinese."
Yang Juncai said: "The problem now is that there are too few Chinese, so we must rely on locals.
In fact, locals are not all lazy, and since one in a hundred people is willing to farm, then we can find ways to get more people to farm."
Yes, as long as they find a way, local people can become diligent. " "Actually, there are many locals who are not lazy.
The reason why they bully us Chinese is because we Chinese are richer than them.
It shows that they also like money.
The Francois can make them obedient by providing them with bad wine.
We If we provide them with fine wine, there is no reason why they won’t like it.
We can also bring silk from the mainland, which they also like.
As long as we have the desire, we can turn the local people into hard-working farmers
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