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Chapter 370: Opening up the World II

The shareholders of Jiehe Chamber of Commerce have been running to Panjiayuan every day these days. They are actually doing a major event that can be called a world-renowned creation.

Wu Haogu wanted to discuss with them the formulation of the "Republic Party Agreement"!

This is actually a constitution, the fundamental law of the Zhenhe (lighthouse) market, and the basis of the constitution of the evil bourgeois republic that may emerge in the future.

What? The Song Dynasty could also formulate evil things like the "Constitution"? And it should be useless to formulate them, right? It is said that the Chinese people do not talk about the spirit of contract?

Before Wu Hao's ancient soul penetrated, he also thought so. Although the Song Dynasty was relatively civilized and progressive, it certainly did not reach the point where people could participate in the practice of the law and pay attention to the spirit of contract... Even if we were eight hundred years from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, wouldn't the "Provisional Constitution" be similar to waste paper?

However, after staying in the Song Dynasty for almost two years, Wu Haogu discovered that the real situation was not like this. The people of the Song Dynasty generally had a contract spirit. The fraud in the commercial activities of the Song Dynasty did not exist in many calligraphy and paintings in later generations. Of course, it was an exception. There were many fakes and unscrupulous merchants. The officials of the Song Dynasty actually had a contract spirit. "Releasing military power with a cup of wine" and "not killing scholars and officials" were actually the embodiment of the contract spirit of the Song Dynasty!

The generals who were released from military power more than 160 years ago, but who has been killed now? Not all of them still enjoy the wealth and honor passed down by their ancestors (of course not everyone is rich, but their direct descendants are basically rich). It can be seen that the Emperor of the Zhao family abides the contract. Although the generals of Kaifeng Prefecture forgot how to fight, their loyalty to the Emperor of the Zhao family is beyond doubt, which shows that they also abide by the contract set by their ancestors.

As for the contract of "not killing scholars and officials", it was not until the special period of the Jingkang period when the Northern Song Dynasty was about to perish, and Emperor Qinzong was broken. Chen Shimei, who lived in the Renzong Dynasty, was very safe. Bao Gong's guillotine could not be chopped off anyway.

Generally speaking, the emperors of the Song Dynasty also fulfilled the contract of not killing scholars and officials. Although the scholars and officials were of no use, they were still loyal enough to defend the feudalist country of Song Dynasty. They also fulfilled the contract with the emperor of Song Dynasty.

Although the generals of the Song Dynasty did not fight, the literati and officials did not know how to govern the country, and the emperor was even more timid and cowardly, and had a system of pulling each other out of each other, this did not deny the contractual spirit they had.

In addition, what Wu Haogu felt unimaginable was that the Song people could actually write Chen Yan! The Song Dynasty's "not killing scholars and officials" was actually just half a sentence, and there were also "who wrote and spoke about things" afterwards. This "who wrote and spoke about things" did not refer to scholars and officials alone, but everyone! Moreover, the Song Dynasty court at least on the surface also encouraged the people to write books. Whenever a new law was promulgated, it would publicly seek opinions from the people, and to some extent it also allowed the people to participate in the legislative work.

Don’t think that “lettering Chen Yan” is a big deal. In the panic of national integration, the Qing Dynasty had such a regulation: all military and civilians are profitable and sick, and students are not allowed to write Chen Yan. If there is a word that is made, the violation of the system will be dismissed and punished!

Students are scholars. Not to mention ordinary people, they are scholars. As long as they write a letter, they will be demoted and punished. How big is that? It is against the rules! In the Qing Dynasty, they were executed! And in the specific implementation process, there were also those who were lingchi and exterminated because the content of the writing was considered "disrespectful".

Therefore, the autocratic hat of not following the spirit of contract and not allowing the people to write to speak out is not deprived of the Song Dynasty. Moreover, the conditions for establishing a republic in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China were probably far inferior to those during the Yuanfu period of the Song Dynasty.

Because the people of the Song Dynasty stood by and looked at the emperor, while the people of the Qing Dynasty knelt down to see a slave officer with a big sesame...

You can stand and look at the emperor, and you can also write a letter to the government. It is impossible for the shareholders of Jiehe Chamber of Commerce, which was destroyed by a county magistrate or a prefect, and now they are surrounded by the model of Jiehe Commercial City. Looking carefully, everyone is still holding a picture of Zhang Zeduan's thirty-three yards in their hands, which looks a bit like a real estate advertisement in later generations. While formulating the "Constitution", Wu Haogu is still trying to promote the quality land of the commercial market that is still a barren. Among the thirty-three yards, about ten yards are considered "high-quality". Wu Haogu hopes to raise 100,000 yuan by auctioning them. In this way, the construction funds of the commercial city can be increased from 330,000 yuan to 430,000 yuan.

"Everyone, have you read the draft of the Republic's Commercial Agreement?" Wu Haogu saw that everyone had been walking around the commercial market imagination model for a few times and began to sit down on the chairs placed on both sides of the hall, so he opened his mouth to solicit opinions.

Including Wu Haogu himself, there were a total of 25 shareholders of the chamber of commerce present today, all of whom were from the Song Dynasty. According to the "Qingzhou Agreement", there were 8 shareholders of the chamber of commerce that would be born from the Yanyun family of the Liao Kingdom.

Among these 25 shareholders of the chamber of commerce, several are Wu Haogu's die-hard allies, namely the new young leader of the Ximen family, Ximen Qing's cousin Ximen Anguo, Pan Qi, the representative of the Pan family generals (the nephew of Pan Xiao'an), Murong Mu of the Murong Wangyou (the nephew of Zhao Wangyou), Zhao Zhongge of the Zhao family generals (the brother of Zhao Wei), Gao Lian of the Gao family generals (the younger brother of Gao Qiu), Su Da'an of the Su family's old jealous family (the younger brother of Su Dalang), Huamanshan of the Hua family in Haizhou, Zhang Xizai of the Zhang family in Yucheng, and Wu Haogu himself, there are a total of 9 shareholders of the chamber of commerce that Wu Haogu can control.

In addition, Ji Lei, who represents the Ji family in Pingjiang and Wu Yanzhao, who represents the Wu family in Haizhou, basically supported Wu Haogu. That is, 11 of the 25 shareholders attending the meeting today were roughly from Wu Haogu.

Li Zhong, the Jiehe Yingfeng Bureau Acting Officer, representing the official Zhao Xu, and Lu Zhishen, representing Daxiangguo Temple (Daxiangguo Temple is actually a shareholder of the market, and Daxiangguo Temple was also ordered to go to Jiehe Shangshi to open a branch temple, and Lu Zhishen is the abbot of Jiehe Xiangguo Temple), and Ren Daxing, a great Taoist from Wanshou Temple, also received the order to support Wu Haogu.

In this way, 14 of the 25 shareholders will definitely support Wu Haogu.

The remaining 11 companies, in addition to Zhang Shuye's Zhang family generals, are the 11 shareholders of Cao Family Generals, Xiefanglou, Wanglou, Fenglelou, Wanjiapuzi, Dadeng Zhangjia, Rendian, Sunyang Zhengdian, Polydexing, Helelou, plus the Pan family generals, Gao family generals, Zhao family generals, and Su family old jealous. Although they may not be generals on the surface, there are more or less one or more generals holding shares.

In other words, 9 of the 25 shareholders of the Jiehe Chamber of Commerce in the Song Dynasty were controlled by Wu Haogu, 15 had a background in general, one directly represented the palace, two were royal Taoist temples and temples, and two were maritime merchants outside Kaifeng Prefecture.

In addition, not all shareholder representatives who attend the shareholder meeting as generals, most of them are generals. Only Brother Zhao Zhong, Gao Lian, Pan Qi and Zhang Shuye are real generals. However, Brother Zhao Zhong and Gao Lian are both very biased side branches, and their investments are sponsored by others. Among them, Brother Zhao Zhong brought Wu Haogu's money, while Gao Lian took Zhao Ji's money.

In short, none of these 25 shareholders is easy to mess with, and there is still a situation where you and me and I have you, and the situation is very complicated.

However, it is precisely because no one is easy to mess with, and the relationship is particularly complicated, it is difficult to break up, and there is also some contractual spirit that the foundation of republic has been established.

...

"Dongmen, what are the veterans of this chamber of commerce doing?"

"The veterans of the Chamber of Commerce are the honorary titles of shareholders or shareholder agents of the Chamber of Commerce. After all, shareholders are busy with their affairs and may not be idle to stay in Jiehe, so they need to designate a representative. For the convenience of discussion in the future, the Chamber of Commerce has established a position of veterans, which can be appointed by a dedicated person, and the term system is implemented, and one term is one for five years, and can be re-elected. The veterans' association composed of thirty-three veterans will control the power of Jiehe Commercial Market.

The Elderly Council can elect mayor, police inspector, water inspector, magistrate, magistrate; can enter into commercial and municipal regulations; can amend the "Republic and Commercial Agreement"; can review the annual expenses of political offices, police inspectors, water inspectors, large capital guarantees, and magistrates; can decide whether to carry out commercial and commercial and commercial construction recommended by the government office; can determine many important matters such as tax rates."

Wu Haogu was patiently explaining the most important clauses in the "Republic Party Treaty". In the words of later generations, Wu Haogu was engaged in oligarchy in Jiehe Market!

Uh, bourgeois oligarchy sounds so evil!

However, Wu Haogu had no other way. In fact, he didn't understand the political theory of later generations very well. The reason for this is very simple. This Jiehe Market was originally built by thirty-three oligarchs.

The money is made by them, the industry and population are gathered by them, and the upper-level protective umbrellas are also built up.

Without them, Jiehe Market would not exist! So the only thing that Wu Haogu can do in Jiehe Market is oligarchy. It is impossible to have one person, one vote or Wu Haogu’s own dictatorship. At least it is impossible for now...

In addition to the evil oligarchy, Jiehe Shangshi is also a place where slavery is allowed! Not only is the "contract slave labor" with the Song Dynasty allowed to exist, but the real slavery existed in the Shangshi and the development restrictions were certainly restricted, which was that the Song people were not allowed to be sold as slaves. After all, the Song Dynasty generally severely suppressed the slavery. However, Liao people, Goryeo, Japanese, and others could be slaves and traded freely.

The reason why it is so evil is not only to allow the market to obtain cheap labor, but also to form a "slave scout" Wu Haogu bought four boys in Xijin Mansion and brought them back to Kaifeng Mansion for training. They are all pretty good now and look a little bit. So he was going to continue his efforts after he arrived in Jiehe Market and trained 1,000 "Mamruk" slave soldiers.
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