"I discussed the matters of the Advisory Council with Li Chuwen yesterday and decided to appoint Li Chuwen as the Deputy Speaker of the Advisory Council. Do you have any objections?" After everyone arrived, Zhao Chen stood up, looked at everyone behind him, and said.

"We are obeying your order!" The members of the parliament stood up one after another and said.

"Sit down! Li Chuwen, tell everyone what I said yesterday, and then do what I said yesterday." Zhao Chen said.

"I obey the order." Li Chuwen said.

At that moment, Li Chuwen told these members what Zhao Chen said yesterday, and then discussed it together.

Zhao Chen listened below, and occasionally he would say a few words.

The Advisory Council has initially decided to hold a regular meeting every six months!

Unless there are special circumstances, lawmakers must prepare a bill before they can discuss it.

In addition, although the congressman is not an official, he is a public official and the court gives him a certain salary, which is comparable to the salary of a fourth-rank official.

Members of parliament serve all people and are not allowed to engage in their own private affairs.

Each member of the parliament can hire some servants and subordinates, and the money is also paid by the court.

For the whole morning, everyone was discussing these matters, and Zhao Chen wrote them down.

At noon, Zhao Chen and everyone had dinner together, and in the afternoon, everyone continued to discuss.

This time everyone was discussing the format, content and other things of the proposal.

In addition, the bill also requires some restrictive clauses, some simple review, etc.

It was not until the sun set that the Consultative Council meeting ended.

"Today we have set a preliminary framework. Li Chuwen, you will continue to discuss the issue of the Advisory Council system tomorrow! The results of the discussion will be sent to the Imperial Study Room every day, and I will review and correct it myself! In fact, there are still many things we have not discussed, such as the election of parliamentarians and the election of the Speaker. These must be written on paper and become a system! In addition to the Advisory Council itself, the Education and Examination Department of the Military Affairs Office will also write the relevant systems of the Advisory Council into the textbooks." Zhao Chen said.

"Write it into the textbook?" Li Chuwen said in surprise.

"Yes, the new educational imperial examination has just begun, and the court has just formulated textbooks. There are also many imperfections during this period! The court is preparing to join history, law, and current affairs! The basic chapter of current affairs includes various institutions of the court, basic organizations of the court, etc.! Students do not need to learn these at the beginning, but after the fifth grade, they must have a little understanding of these contents! Now the country is poor, and public schools are until the fifth grade, but in the future the country will run some higher schools in some places, which may be in the seventh grade or eighth grade." Zhao Chen said.

"So that's it." Li Chuwen nodded.

In the following days, the more than 70 members of the Council were still discussing various institutional issues of the Advisory Council. Li Chuwen went to the Imperial Study Room to discuss matters related to the Advisory Council with Zhao Chen every night.

On the night of March 1st, Zhao Ji actually came to Zhao Chen's imperial study room, with anger on his face.

"Grandpa Emperor, what happened?" Zhao Chen said strangely.

"On February 25, when the Advisory Council passed the issue for the first time, many members of the parliament decided to increase the palace's diversion! We have submitted it to the Military Affairs Office. Today, the Military Affairs Office actually responded to us, saying that the imperial court has enough to increase the diversion. Chen'er, didn't you say that the Advisory Council and the Military Affairs Office were side by side? Why didn't the Military Affairs Office listen to us?" Zhao Ji said coldly.

"The Advisory Council now has only the right to suggest. The Military Affairs Office can choose to listen or not! Everything must be discussed by the Military Affairs Office!" Zhao Chen said.

"In this way, what is the use of our Advisory Council? You don't listen to the proposals we passed, and they are useless. We are just entertaining ourselves in the Political Affairs Hall!" Zhao Ji said with anger on his face.

"The Advisory Council has no rights now, but it will gradually increase its rights in the future! If Grandpa Huang is unhappy in the Advisory Council, he can leave the Advisory Council. The position of Speaker will be given to his father." Zhao Chen said.

"This is not possible!" Zhao Ji said without hesitation.

He was greedy for power, and even if the advisory board was just a name, he was unwilling to leave.

"If Grandpa Emperor wants to stay in the Advisory Council, he must follow the Advisory Council system." Zhao Chen said.

"Why do this member of the parliament only last four years? Why do you have to pass such a complicated so-called election? And why do you have to serve as a speaker for two?" Zhao Ji said.

"Two terms are already long enough, and Grandpa Emperor will be in his sixties by then." Zhao Chen said with a wry smile.

"With so many restrictions, what's the point of staying in this advisory board?" Zhao Ji said angrily again.

He tried to make Zhao Chen change the system of the Advisory Council, but Zhao Chen didn't listen to him at all. In the end, Zhao Ji had no choice but to leave here.

From early March to April, Zhao Chen met with some big businessmen from Jiangnan one after another, and he revealed the expansion of the Advisory Council.

Now almost all members of the Advisory Council come from Yanjing. Zhao Chen intends to let some respected people from other parts of the country enter the Advisory Council, and he first makes a splash.

If a businessman in Jiangnan wants to enter the Advisory Council, he must go through a simple election.

At present, the Advisory Council does not have much power. Many people are not interested in the Advisory Council, but merchants are different! Scholars, farmers, industrial and commercial enterprises, in ancient China, the status of merchants was low. Although Zhao Chen had already said that the parliamentarians were not officials, these merchants still treated it as officials! If they could become officials, their status immediately improved by leaps and bounds.

Zhao Chen told these businessmen that the members of the parliament needed elections. The merchants in Jiangnan were confused, but they had already begun to think about how to enter the Advisory Council in the future.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, domestic and foreign conflicts were too fierce. Under such circumstances, the Qing government had to rush to carry out constitutional reforms in various provinces across the country and implement advisory councils. Now the situation in the Song Dynasty is much more stable. Zhao Chen implemented reforms from top to bottom, first forming a parliament, and then promoting it to the whole country! The parliament had only the right to suggest the court at the beginning, and slowly waited until the parliamentary system was improved, and more rights would be handed over to the parliament!

Before the country's people's wisdom is opened, the system reform will be carried out first, and then the new education and imperial examination will be implemented to let the people know about these new institutions and new systems. This is also a means of people's wisdom education! First, there are new things, and then they will accept new things until various systems are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Of course, until now, the general system of the country has not changed much. The Military Affairs Office is still the core of the country's power. The Advisory Council has almost no impact on the Military Affairs Office, and the country is still moving forward steadily.

*******

In Goryeo, An Putin and Li Rui, thousands of miles away, have sent the results of the negotiations to the Goryeo court.

After more than a month of discussion, the Goryeo court decided to raise gold and silver.

They decided to send the first batch of gold and silver to the Song Dynasty, then sign a contract, and then slowly develop Liaodong to make their strength stronger.

The Goryeo people have not had any war for hundreds of years, and the Goryeo treasury is full, and they can still take out ten million taels of silver.

In addition to silver, they also decided to raise food and use it instead of buying silver from Liaodong.

The amount of grain stored in the Korean people is also quite large, especially in the hands of some big landlords.

The Goryeo court ordered landlords from all over the country to hand over the stored grain to the court! These landlords were crazily exploiting tenant farmers, and they snatched the grain from the tenant farmers' homes and handed over to the court! Anyway, it's April now, not far from the ripening of wheat, and there are also many wild vegetables in the land, so they are not afraid of tenant farmers starving to death in large quantities.

Goryeo is full of food robberies, and countless farmers cried and shouted.

Inju, Goryeo, where Incheon was later, in front of a large town, an old man with hair and beard turned white all frowning and looking at the scene of robbing grain in the distance, he frowned.

"Teacher, let's go back." A middle-aged Confucian scholar came to the old man and said.

"What are they doing?" said the old man.

"Teacher, the court wants to trade with the Song Dynasty and buy Liaodong from the Song Dynasty, but the court's money is limited, so it has to let the people from all over the country donate a little." The Confucian scholar said.

"Buy Liaodong? What's going on?" the old man said in surprise.

"Teacher, let's go back first, and then I'll tell you." The Confucian scholar said.

The old man nodded. At this moment, the middle-aged Confucian scholar helped the old man into the town. They came to a library and then entered the library.

There are many Confucian scholars in this library. When they see the old man calling him "teacher", each with respectful expressions on his face. This old man is Jin Can, a famous scholar in Goryeo. He once served as prime minister. After he was 60 years old, he returned to his hometown Renzhou to open a school.

The old man and the middle-aged Confucian scholar came to a secluded yard. The old man sat down on a stone and said, "Let me tell me, what's going on?"

The middle-aged Confucian scholar started to speak slowly and took half an hour to finish everything that happened between Goryeo and Song dynasties in the past two years.

The old man frowned and said nothing.

"Teacher, in order to buy Liaodong, the imperial court has no choice." said the middle-aged Confucian scholar.

"No!" the old man shook his head.

"What's wrong?" said the middle-aged Confucian scholar.

"The Song Dynasty first defeated Xixia, then recaptured the Central Plains, Yanyun, and then went north to destroy the Jurchens, and even defeated Mongolia on the northern grassland. The Song Dynasty is at its peak now. How could they give up Liaodong to us?" said the old man.

"This... the Song Dynasty has had a dispute over civil and military affairs since its founding. They have always promoted civil and suppressed military affairs, and it is not impossible to give up Liaodong." The middle-aged Confucian scholar said.

"Do they want to give up Liaodong just for a mere 70 million taels of silver?" said the old man.

"For us Goryeo people, Liaodong is extremely important, but for the Song Dynasty, it was very barren and remote, and they didn't care about it at all." said the middle-aged Confucian scholar.

"This is not the case! The capital of the Song Dynasty was in Kaifeng. For Kaifeng, Liaodong was indeed barren and remote! But now, the capital of the Song Dynasty has arrived in Yanjing, and Liaodong is just north of Yanjing. If Liaodong is occupied by others, it will immediately threaten the safety of Yanjing! The Song people can defeat the Western Xia and Jurchens, they must have outstanding military generals, and their emperor's knowledge must be extraordinary. How could they not realize this?" said the old man.

"This... do the Han people want to cheat some money from us?" said the middle-aged Confucian scholar.

"I would have loved this! I'm worried that the Han people would have other conspiracies! I've been away from the court for twenty years and have reached my 80s. I was no longer concerned about the government affairs, but now I seem to see a huge crisis coming, and I have to write a letter to the court!" said the old man.

"Teacher, maybe it's not as dangerous as you think?" said the middle-aged Confucian scholar.

"The Han people have occupied the north and Liaodong. They have extremely strong troops. Wouldn't they be attracted to Goryeo?" the old man said coldly.

The middle-aged Confucian scholar still found it unbelievable, while the old man had already started writing letters to the Goryeo court.
Chapter completed!