"This year's Advent will be in half a month. The Government Affairs Department has made a budget for activities, including citizen parades, theater festivals, open-air markets..." Huggins glanced at Todd who was absent-minded and asked in a low voice: "
Your Majesty, Your Majesty? Are you listening?"
Todd opened his eyes wide and said hurriedly: "Well, I'm listening, I'm listening."
Huggins turned his attention back to the report in his hand: "The budget is divided into three parts. The largest expenditure is human salary. Regarding this expenditure, the Government Affairs Department recommends that you..."
"Hudgens, have you ever had an intimate relationship with a woman in your consciousness?"
Huggins' report came to an abrupt end. He raised his head with difficulty, looked at Todd who looked serious, and smiled reluctantly: "Your Majesty, I don't quite understand what you mean."
Todd pointed to his head: "Consciousness, consciousness, do you understand? It's not about having sex with a woman in the real world."
Huggins put down the report in his hand and thought about it carefully: "It's like a dream?"
"It's a bit like it, but not quite." Todd himself was a little confused: "It's more real than a dream. You can still remember everything after you wake up."
Huggins affirmed: "I have had such an experience."
Todd's eyes lit up: "Really?!"
"Well, when I was young, I had sex with women every day in my mind. Sometimes it was one person, sometimes it was a group of women."
Hearing what the other party said, Todd's eyes twitched and he almost lost his breath: "I don't think we are talking about the same thing. What you call obscenity..."
Talking about the topics that interest him, Hudgens began to ramble: "I will imagine the characters, lines, plots and costumes in my mind, even the postures..."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute!" Todd stretched out his hand to stop the other party. After thinking for a while, he reorganized the words and said: "Maybe I didn't make it clear. When I said sex, I meant that both parties would wake up and have sex.
Know everything clearly."
Huggins was stunned.
"Your Majesty, you mean...both sides know what happened?"
Todd nodded.
Huggins took a breath of cold air: "Your Majesty, believe me, this is definitely not a good thing. After waking up from the dream, if the two parties meet, it will definitely be extremely embarrassing."
Todd leaned against the back of the chair and sighed: "Yes, that's what I'm worried about."
Huggins glanced at Todd carefully: "Your Majesty, if this kind of thing really happens, I think the key lies in the relationship between the two and their attitudes towards each other."
Todd sat up straight: "Let's talk about it."
"If both parties are lovers, then it won't be a big deal."
Todd asked: "But what if the relationship between the two is not clear?"
"Unclear?" Huggins swallowed: "Then I can venture to ask, who took the initiative?"
Todd first coughed to cover up his embarrassment, and then replied in a low voice: "The woman took the initiative first."
Huggins glanced at the king, touched the beard on his chin and said: "Then it's easy to handle. Just find an opportunity to ask in person. Generally speaking, as long as the woman takes the initiative, it means that the other party has a good impression.
.”
Todd propped his chin up with his fist and nodded thoughtfully.
After removing this topic, Huggins got back to business. He finished reading the report on hand, folded the page waiting for approval and put it in front of the king, and picked up another report on the table.
Todd looked at the thick pile of paper in front of him with numbness, and asked Huggins: "How many official documents are waiting to be processed today?"
The latter turned his body sideways, revealing an official document with a thickness of twenty centimeters on the wooden platform behind him.
Todd rubbed his temples with his hands: "There are so many more?!"
Huggins moved away again, and Todd realized in despair that there were still several piles of paperwork neatly stacked on the ground.
Seeing Todd closing his eyes in pain, Huggins whispered comforting words: "Your Majesty, you have been away for several months, and there are a large number of government documents throughout the kingdom that need your approval."
Todd glanced at him sideways: "If I remember correctly, hasn't Emerson been appointed as the chief privy councilor of the kingdom? He can completely review these government documents on his behalf."
Huggins smiled bitterly and said to the king: "It is precisely because of Lord Emerson as the Privy Councilor of the Kingdom that the official documents in front of you are only more than a hundred. Without him, the government documents that are urgently needed for your processing are enough to complete these documents."
The room is full of items.”
Todd sighed deeply and opened the budget application report in front of him as if resigned to his fate. After just taking a glance at the lengthy form and complicated data, he completely lost interest and closed the report again.
"Please inform me that a meeting will be held in the Royal Garden of the Palace the day after tomorrow, and all officials above the rank of deputy minister of the Kingdom's government affairs department will be required to attend."
Huggins wrote down the agenda on his notepad and confirmed to Todd: "Okay, Your Majesty, what are the theme of the meeting and the agenda for discussion?"
"You don't need to say too much. You just need to tell all participants that the meeting has only one topic - discussing the future of the kingdom."
Two days later in the morning, the warm winter sun brought a rare warmth to the earth, and the thin layer of snow on the ground reflected the dazzling light.
The palace attendants and maids set up tables and chairs in the center of the royal garden, set up a shed, and placed various fruits and snacks on them.
Standing next to the marble sculpture, Cumberland put on a rare formal dress, sipped the honey warm brew in the cup, and said to Emerson next to him: "Why does Your Majesty want to hold this meeting in the garden?
Wasn’t it supposed to be done in the Kingdom of Heaven in the past?”
Emerson shrugged, took a bite of the cheese puffs brought by the servants, and put it down with a frown.
Terrence and Ulysses stood together. The former frowned at Wayne, who was alone not far away, and asked the latter: "Why is he here?"
"His Majesty plans to integrate the alien associations in the kingdom and set up a special administrative department for aliens. Lord Rachel will be the chief executive and Wayne Dunlop will be the deputy minister." Ulysses said.
Looking at Wayne, who had a dull expression and couldn't even say hello, Terrence shook his head: "He is an excellent scholar, but not a qualified responsible person. In His Majesty's words, his empathy is low.
It’s worrying.”
Ulysses approached Terrence and whispered: "I heard that Wayne found a group of people who volunteered to participate in the soul experiment through lobbying."
"How is this possible? It has only been less than a month and he has already found a volunteer?"
"He seems to have used the name of religion to convince many seriously ill and dying people to believe his words."
"Does Your Majesty know about this?"
"I should know, but I don't seem to have done anything."
Terrence waved his hand distractedly: "Let him go. Since His Majesty didn't stop him, why should I jump out?"
In the other corner of the garden, Huggins, leaning on a cane, stared at the couple in front of him and said seriously: "Your Majesty is magnanimous and has given you two a chance to make meritorious deeds. I hope you will not make the same mistakes as before."
Mrs. Raglan nodded repeatedly and said: "Both of us understand the truth. The reason why we made such mistakes in the past was basically greed. From now on, we promise that such mistakes will not be made again!"
Mr. Raglan looked at Huggins and said sincerely: "Actually, the commission His Majesty promised us is enough to keep us fed and clothed for a lifetime. We don't have to take risks at all, alas..."
Huggins was about to say something else when the attendant's shout came from afar.
"Your Majesty is here!"
Todd, who was dressed in fine linen and purple satin, walked out of the palace gate. Accompanied by his attendants, he walked around the venue and exchanged greetings with everyone.
After some greetings, Todd invited all participants to take their seats. Then, he asked Huggins next to him: "Is everyone here?"
The latter bowed and replied: "Brünnhilde, the leader of the North Island Knights, returned to the North Island to mediate the civil strife at the request of the kingdom; Lord Rachel, went out and did not return. Apart from these two people, the others
All present.”
Todd nodded, sat down on the seat, and signaled the meeting to officially begin.
"Perhaps you are wondering why this meeting is being held here?" Todd, who was sitting in the main seat, took the pomegranate juice from the maid and said to everyone: "Because the things to be discussed today are related to the kingdom.
The future, so out of solemnity, I put the venue here."
Everyone in the audience began to whisper, and everyone was trying their best to speculate on what the king said about the future of the kingdom.
There was no intention of beating around the bush, Todd said directly: "I plan to establish the cabinet of Muxi Kingdom."
When others were still confused about the new vocabulary in His Majesty's mouth, Emerson was the first to ask: "Your Majesty, what is the cabinet?"
"The cabinet is an organization formed by the heads of many government departments in the kingdom." Todd tapped the armrest with his fingers and looked around at all the officials around him: "In other words, the members of the cabinet are all of you here."
Emerson continued to ask: "There are already government offices and privy councils in the kingdom. Is this cabinet any different from them?"
Todd smiled and said: "This is a good question. The Government Affairs Office is the executive department of the kingdom's government affairs, and the Privy Council is the advisory department responsible for assisting the king in handling affairs. The cabinet, in a sense, is the decision-making department of the kingdom's affairs.
"
Terrence's beard trembled slightly, and he heard a key word from Todd's mouth - decision-making.
Todd continued to explain: "The cabinet has a prime minister, who presides over cabinet meetings, oversees the kingdom's government affairs, has the power to request the king to appoint and remove cabinet members and directly appoint and remove senior officials, and is responsible for formulating and implementing major domestic and external policies of the country."
Emerson opened his mouth in disbelief: "Overseeing the kingdom's government affairs? Appointing and removing senior officials?! Your Majesty, this is..."
Todd reached out and interrupted him: "Yes, the cabinet has obtained part of the king's power in disguise, but it also avoids the mistakes that may be caused by authoritarian centralization."
After a moment of pause, Todd continued: "Moreover, the power of the cabinet is not unlimited. Its existence is restricted by the royal power. The king still retains the power, including the following five items, namely: the power to appoint and remove the prime minister of the cabinet, and to pardon arbitrarily
The power to commit one person’s crimes, the power to declare war on the forces of other countries, the power to sign and amend laws, and the power to call on the kingdom’s military and law enforcement agencies.”
Cumberland nodded while listening, and finally asked: "Your Majesty, how is the prime minister of this cabinet determined?"
Todd thought about it in his mind and found that the current Muxi Kingdom was in a special situation and there was really no way to copy the experience from the previous life, so he said in a flexible way: "The prime minister of the first cabinet will be appointed by me for a term of two years. Two years.
After the end of the year, a vote will be held in the cabinet, and the person who gets more than half of the votes will serve as the new prime minister. If no one gets more than half of the votes, the prime minister will still be appointed by the king. Any one person can only serve as prime minister for two consecutive terms.
Those who have served three terms are not allowed to participate in the election of prime minister as a candidate."
It sounds a bit complicated at first, but if you think about it carefully, you can still understand the rules inside.
Todd turned his attention to Emerson: "Do you remember our first meeting?"
The latter nodded with emotion.
"There is no perfect soul in the world, and naturally there is no perfect king. Every decision made by the person with the highest power is filled with personal subjective preferences and emotions. That kind of impeccable, wise and wise Holy See
who can only appear in novels and dramas
, This is also the original intention and reason why I want to set up a cabinet." Todd stood up from his seat and walked to the middle of the crowd: "I hope that everyone can stand together and pool your wisdom and ability to bring Mu Xi to the forefront.
Build the Kingdom into the most dazzling pearl in the world.”
The encouraged officials stood up one after another, and everyone's face was full of excitement and excitement. Amidst the cheers and oaths of the crowd, Todd walked up to the old man who was once the Earl of Yinhuan and grabbed him.
He held up his hand and said sincerely: "Now, I declare that the first prime minister of the cabinet will be the Privy Councilor Emerson of the Kingdom."...