Parliament, Upper House.
It was already dusk, and the parliament building was empty.
The members of the House of Nobles and the House of Representatives of the House of Representatives each returned to their houses in Beijing or the Shoin Houses of each province stationed in Beijing, and only the officials of the House of Representatives were left in the building, and these officials were subordinate to the House of Representatives, and they were regarded as full-time clerks here.
The Proposal Pavilion on the first floor is filled with boxes of proposals from councillors.
Each member had to put forward at least one bill, and the House of Lords, which had more than 5,000 noble members, eventually received more than 10,800 bills.
More than 10,000 folds, filled with dozens of boxes.
The officials are busy nervously, they have to register these bills, make backups, and divide them into categories.
Li Chao sat in the empty hall, thinking about how to carry out the work of this parliament and let the house play its function.
Even if it can't be done in one step now, it has to be proven that this council is working.
When the emperor left today, he even had a little pride on his face that couldn't be concealed.
There are more than 10,000 bills, and this is only the bill in the upper house, and there are 1,080 members in the lower house.
At today's opening ceremony, tens of thousands of people are watching a football game, even if he speaks on it, the people around him are talking to each other.
No one realized the importance of this council, not even the noble councillors themselves, who didn't pay much attention to it.
There were a bunch of motions in front of Li Chao.
He flipped through them one by one, and the more he looked, the more he shook his head.
These bills are varied.
Originally, when legislators put forward the bill, they naturally wanted to put forward some reasonable suggestions in light of current affairs.
Or it is to reflect the people's feelings and represent the voice of the people.
But it's clear that these parliamentarians don't understand this yet, or don't really take it to heart.
These meat eaters may not believe that their motion will be taken seriously.
"Couples with children are forbidden to divorce" This is a proposal by a founding congressman, saying that if you have children, you cannot get divorced.
It's a strange point, and it's a slightly more reliable one of the many bills, after all, he has something to say, and he does raise a question.
However, there is already a special marriage law in the Tang Dynasty, which has long stated that as long as there is a valid reason, the couple can be divorced, that is, divorce by agreement.
Others, such as widows' remarriages, are also protected by law, and women's dowries are written in the law to explicitly protect their property.
The dowry is counted as the woman's pre-marital property and is protected.
Even if a person is married, it does not belong to the joint property of the husband and wife, and the inheritance of the dowry is first of all the children, and if there are no children, it belongs to the parents, brothers and husbands of the mother's family.
There is also a proposal proposed by a founding marquis, which is also quite shocking.
"People who have not completed literacy classes and literacy education should not have children."
The starting point may be good, but if you don't read, you can't have children, isn't this depriving people of their basic human rights, even in Datang, human rights should be talked about.
Some other bills have also been introduced by some parliamentarians.
"Fields should be bought and sold freely without restrictions, and the imperial court should not suppress annexation, and the deed tax should be abolished."
"Grain is a commodity, and the imperial court should not impose a protective price, which is against the market."
"The death penalty should be abolished" Some people even suggested that the imperial court should cancel the exile and cancel the juxtaposition.
Among the 100 proposals, it is estimated that there can be one reliable one, but it is estimated that there can be one out of hundreds of proposals that are really excellent.
And so many proposals, how to consider More than 5,000 councillors sat together to deliberate That's not a vegetable market.
"King Zhao, don't leave yet" Li Daozong, the prince of Jiangxia County, passed by, saw Li Chao still sitting there, and stopped to say hello.
"Your Majesty has entrusted the House of Lords to us to preside, and this is the first meeting, if we can't make a name for it, we can't afford it."
Li Chao spread his hands helplessly, "If the county prince is not in a hurry, it is better to sit down and chat." ” In the Tang clan, Li Daozong is now the only one with a high status.
He was Li Shimin's cousin, and the two were about the same age, and they had been a staunch supporter of the emperor in his early years.
Although some mistakes were made during the restoration rebellion, they also atonement for their sins later.
This time the parliament was established, Li Chao was the aristocratic dean, Li Daozong was the vice president, and one vice president was Yang Gongren.
The three presidents and vice presidents are also very interesting to arrange, Li Daozong is the clan, Yang Gongren is the former prime minister, and he is also a former royal family, and the Guanxi lord Hongnong Yang family is born.
Needless to say, Li Chao is the promoter behind the bill, and he is also the top minister of Datang.
The relationship between these three deans is not very close, and they can be regarded as checks and balances on each other.
"Jiang Xiagong, to be honest, when this council first opened, I didn't have much experience, this is not completely different from the previous Lingnan local council.
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You see, right now, these tens of thousands of bills are here, and we only have 10 days this time.
Ten days later, how are we going to submit the final bill to the Imperial Court?"
Li Daozong has also been in a fief in recent years, and his fief was originally in Monan, but later Li Shimin changed his fiefdom to Xindu.
That is, the Indus Valley, which was later Pakistan.
Although the land is fertile, it is too far away from the Central Plains.
Although Li Daozong was not happy about this, he didn't dare to say anything.
Several famous kings of the Li family, Li Xiaogong was killed for participating in the restoration, and the whole family was killed.
Li Shentong died of illness. has been dead for a few years, but Li Daozong has some doubts about this matter, Li Shentong's illness is not serious, although he is his uncle, but he is not too old, and he will die if he says he is dead.
He secretly suspected that it was actually because it was rumored that the emperor and the crown prince died at the hands of their uncle and nephew during the Hanjing Rebellion, so the emperor finally wished that they would die early.
"If King Zhao doesn't know how to get it, then he won't understand it even more."
Li Daozong said with a smile.
Li Chao also knew that it was difficult to count on this person to help him lead the council.
But when it comes to important matters related to the parliament, he still has to be pulled, after all, he is a vice president.
"Jiang Xia Gong, I think so, Your Majesty gave the noble councilors the opportunity to discuss politics and let everyone put forward bills, this is Your Majesty's trust.
We can't live up to Your Majesty's trust, but now that the House is like this, we can't do anything.
Therefore, I intend to divide the parliamentarians into delegations. ” "We could also consider electing a few MPs from the various delegations to form a review panel."
In this way, Li Chao just wanted to implement delegation meetings and group meetings in this noble house, and implement group deliberations.
The delegates met to initially consider the motions of the parliamentarians, and then the group reviewed them.
Even in order to improve efficiency, delegations could be divided into groups, which would conduct a preliminary review, a review by the delegations, and then a final review by the team leaders elected from among the delegations.
"For proposals, random allocation is used for consideration.
During the deliberations, the proponents are allowed to make statements for about a quarter of an hour. ” If more than 10,000 proposals are to be deliberated in a general assembly and one person takes a quarter of an hour, then these motions will not be enough in 10 days.
However, if it is divided into multiple delegations and groups, then there will be enough time to hear and deliberate on each bill, and each sponsor will have the opportunity to speak, which is also a sign of respect for the members and the bill.
Brainstorming is the only way to truly discover good proposals.
It wasn't the parliamentarians who put forward the bill, but in the end no one saw it and reflected it.
"We can divide about thirty to fifty or so delegations, each of which is divided into five to ten groups."
For example, the delegation is divided by the Dao, although the actual feudal fiefs of the nobles are not in each Dao.
But it doesn't matter, anyway, the members of the Henan Provincial Delegation and the Hubei Provincial Delegation are not the nobles of these two origins, but the more than 5,000 aristocratic parliamentarians are randomly assigned to these delegations.
And every year the delegations will be redistributed and disrupted, so there is no need to worry about the nobles in a certain place holding together or something.
More than 5,000 noble parliamentarians were divided into 30 delegations, and each group was less than 200 people.
Each regiment is divided into ten groups, and each group has more than a dozen people.
"King Zhao's idea is very good, in this way, no matter how many proposals there are, ten days is enough."
Li Daozong exclaimed.
Li Chao also felt that this was the only way.
"All the bills are randomly assigned to each delegation for consideration, first by the delegation group to deliberate, and then each group elects a team leader to form a delegation jury, and the court reviews it.
The outstanding bills are finally submitted to the General Assembly of the House of Representatives, and a large jury composed of representatives selected from each delegation will finally evaluate the bills. ” Li Daozong was stunned.
"The motion is no longer voted on by the plenary meeting" It turned out that Li Chao designed that the parliamentarians' bills should be passed by half of the parliamentarians before they would be forwarded to the imperial court by the parliament.
But now Li Chao believes that there must still be a degree of deliberation and screening, otherwise, one or two hundred thousand bills will be voted on until the Year of the Monkey.
"We first passed the preliminary review of the delegation group, the review of the delegation leader, and the final review of the head of the delegation of the House of Nobles.
Then the final pass of the bill will be put to the congress for voting, as long as it can be passed by more than half, and then submitted to the imperial court. ” In this way, after three layers of screening, there will be fewer motions left.
In this way, the final general meeting vote review is also operable.
"That's good, but this group leader and head of the group will be elected by the group and the delegation themselves."
"It is naturally better if it is nominated by the parliament to the imperial court, and then appointed by His Majesty."
After all, these team leaders and group leaders have the right to review and finalize the filtering proposals.
"In this matter, I also hope that Jiang Xia Gong can ask His Majesty with a certain one."
Li Chao smiled and said to Li Daozong.
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Li Daozong was originally reluctant to do more, but looking at Li Chao's smile, he finally nodded.
"Yes, but Zhao Wang Ke owes a favor to someone."
He laughed.
"Well, I will make a note of this great favor, you know that the Li family has debts, and they must be repaid." t1706231537: