Thinking of this, Emperor Song Biao suddenly felt that supporting the Democratic Party to win more may not be a bad thing. As long as the central government is relatively stable and giving the Democratic Party half of the chance, it is enough to teach the party a lesson and eliminate those arrogant, self-righteous old congressmen and officials who are arrogant and self-righteous.

Not governing will not expose problems. On the contrary, giving the Democratic Party more opportunities to be supervised, and exposing some problems within the Democratic Party is also good.

There are now three major political parties within the empire, namely the Social Democratic Party on the center left, the Democratic Party on the right, and the Restoration Party on the centre. As for the far-right national Al-Shabaab, the Workers' Party on the far-left are not very popular, and only a very small number of people support it.

The empire adopted a policy of separation of religion and politics, so religious associations are not allowed to engage in political activities. Social institutions such as trade unions and peasant associations can vote collectively, while Pure Land Religious Associations cannot vote collectively. The Empire's "Cultural and Political Freedom Act" also strictly prohibits religious groups from manipulating members to vote collectively, and once discovered, they must be dealt with severely. To a certain extent, this can also be regarded as a strict control of Tibetan Buddhism, Lamaism, and Islamic regionalism.

In terms of constitution, the empire actually identified the state-led policy as a centrist. The difference between the three major parties is the difference between the center and the center and the right. The pure left and right-wing parties are not supported by society. The right-wing liberal color of the Democratic Party is more respected by the business community, but for large consortiums, cooperation with the centrist Restoration Party is obviously more reliable.

Although it is not clear how serious the new problems that the Restoration Party has gradually expanded in the past five years, and does not like the Democratic Party's right-wing liberal policies, Emperor Song Biao now feels that it is necessary to give the Democratic Party some new support, and threaten the Restoration Party more violently and force the Restoration Party to carry out major new reforms.

Thinking of this, Song Biao and Song Jiaoren said: "We have disappeared for a few years. I am still very unfamiliar with some of the new party policies you are implementing now. We have an afternoon to discuss these things today. You might as well talk about them in detail."

Song Jiaoren nodded happily and said from scratch: "The Democratic Party I established has been actively promoting China's democratization reform from beginning to end. This is what your Majesty knows, and we have also achieved outstanding achievements in the past thirty years and actively promoted the democratic process of the empire. Today, the problem of the widening gap between the rich and the poor and industrial monopoly has threatened the future of the empire, and the empire's leadership in the Asian League has not been truly reflected. The freedom and anti-colonial movement in Asia has not been strongly supported by the empire. From the perspective of domestic politics, we need to continue to promote the democratic process, promote the liberation of women's rights and interests, and promote the public of society.

Ping Construction, we believe that the 30 years of the Restoration Party’s rule. Although the national economy has achieved great development, social inequalities are deteriorating drastically. We need to correct this and promote a fairer society. We need to make the rich and oligarchs pay more taxes and assume more social responsibilities, so that the vast middle class and ordinary people can benefit. In the international community, we must also pursue new values ​​of fairness, equality between countries, and devote greater strength to the anti-colonial movement, stabilize the empire’s leadership and interests in Asia, expand the empire’s reputation worldwide, and make the empire a more popular and just world-leading country.”

Song Biao praised: "The idea is very good."

Song Jiaoren emphasized: "The most important political demand of the Democratic Party at this stage is fairness. The people are calling for fairness. This is because since the development of the imperial society, unfairness has become the public enemy of the people. In the local and towns, there are policies and countermeasures at the bottom. Local gentry manipulates power and invades other Kuomintang interests is already a very common phenomenon. The combination of these gentry, including illegal societies and the Restoration Party, is an extremely ugly and well-known problem. This is a major obstacle and disadvantage to our country's political clarity."

Emperor Song Biao remained silent, and he did not particularly support this.

The General Administration of Investigation of the Central Committee has conducted a relatively detailed investigation into this. The problems of gentry bullies and illegal societies are a major stubborn disease within the empire. However, the Central Bureau of Investigation did not believe that this was the unique disadvantage of the Restoration Party. The Democratic Party also had these serious problems during its rule in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang.

In other words, this is a basic national issue and has little to do with political parties.

It is not easy to crack down on gangsters, but it is very complicated to eliminate the most common problem of gentry bullies across the country, because behind the gentry bullies is the monopoly of local big surnames. In the process of promoting democracy in towns and towns, almost 70% of township mayors were stolen by local big surnames. Whether it is the Restoration Party or the Democratic Party, if you want to obtain local support, you must cooperate with these people from major surnames and families and absorb them into the party, which ultimately leads to the current unfair situation that is common at the grassroots level in the entire empire.

This point is not only the democratic pilot implemented by Yan Xishan in the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, but also the rural democratic election reform implemented by the Republic after the reform and opening up, but it ended up falling into this deep pit.

As for how to solve this problem, to be precise, Gu Weijun and Song Jiaoren were actually helpless and just quarrels at each other.

This problem also troubled Emperor Song Biao.

Chen Jin once proposed that by issuing laws to restrict the situation, and strictly limit the age of local chief candidates in townships and towns in the name of "cultivating young administrative officials for the country", to strictly limit the age of local officials in townships and towns, to encourage young college students to return to their hometowns to participate in democratic elections, and to encourage them to enter politics. This situation is not a way to cure the root cause and may not be able to cure the symptoms, but it may be the only good way at present.

In addition, it is necessary to strengthen the power and law enforcement space of judicial institutions at the town level to implement stricter legal management on common problems in rural areas in rural areas.

Song Jiaoren brought this issue out to attack the Restoration Party. Emperor Song Biao actually had no feeling because his research results on this issue were still very clear.

Of course, Song Biao didn't say anything gossip. Political parties are like this and will never miss any opportunity to attack their opponents.

After a little thought, he decided to circumvent the topic and continued to ask Song Jiaoren: "What about other questions?"

Song Jiaoren originally wanted to attack this issue, but felt that the emperor did not want to question it on this matter, so he had to turn a topic and answer: "The second is the problem of public land. The public land system is definitely problematic. First of all, in the ruling party, the government controls the power and the government is too concentrated within the government, which is prone to corruption and fraud. Social institutions manage it, and the agricultural cooperatives in local townships are easily manipulated by local evil forces in townships. No matter which policy is adopted, the local government performs poorly on the issue of public land. With the expansion of the empire's arable land area and the development of industry and commerce, we should now allow the land to flow freely and allow the land to expand the scale of annexation within a controllable range."

Song Biao was a little impatient. He said simply: "If you have any problems, think of ways to improve it first. If it is abolished because of trouble, will more than tens of millions of farmers lose their land and become tenant farmers? What era is this? Do you still have to have landlords?"

Song Jiaorenze said: "Your Majesty, the ideal of ensuring that everyone has land planting is indeed great. But such policies are unreasonable. The social cost of maintaining such policies is too high, and various unfair problems arise in the implementation process. In many counties in the south, public fields can even account for 1/2 of the amount of cultivated land in a county, but these cultivated land are basically divided by farmers of local bulk and surnames. Today, when the industrialization process of the empire is so rapid, our industry still lacks a large amount of labor, and farmers need to be liberated from the land."

Song Biao accused: "You are not solving the problem, but escaping the problem. The empire now has 170 million people who are farmers. Not every farmer is good at farming and management. You cannot let social Darwinism proliferate in the empire and let nature eliminate them. Human civilization is progressing, and we have the responsibility to take care of the vulnerable groups. The problem you are talking about does exist, but our original intention is good, but the method is wrong. Then we should change the method. As long as we work hard, we can always find a suitable method. You cannot grasp this issue as a political issue. Yes, this issue is indeed beneficial to the Democratic Party, but is it really beneficial to the survival of all farmers if it really abolishes the public land system?"

Song Jiaoren remained silent.

He and Emperor Song Biao have indeed not been in contact for many years, so they lack understanding of the emperor's current political preferences. As the leader of a political party, he really wants to rule and use his own strength to improve China. Moreover, he also adheres to many of his and political parties' ideas. One of the most important core ideas of his and the Democratic Party now is to ensure social fairness as much as possible.

The imperial public land system was a legacy of the agricultural tax reform policy, because it was mandatory to impose a huge additional tax on holdings exceeding a certain limit. The state also had the right to recycle excess arable land. Through such a policy, Ouyang Geng recycled a large amount of arable land in the country during the cabinet period.

According to the initial idea, Prime Minister Ouyang Geng was considering gradually selling these public fields to farmers with a small amount of arable land. However, during Gu Weijun's cabinet, Gu Weijun changed this idea and instead adopted a policy of cheap leasing to ensure the political commitment of everyone to have land planting with mandatory policies.

This policy is to some extent the foundation for Gu Weijun to be re-elected for two terms, but in the past ten years, the public land rental policy has seen a lot of unfair phenomena in the implementation of the public land, and it is very common for rural clans to occupy public land in various names.

For example, in Lijia Village, one of their royal family has more than a hundred households, accounting for 2/3 of the number in the village. They can control the rural cooperative associations in their village, control the election of village chiefs, and then take various measures to occupy the public land. Only the surname Li can get the public land and force other farmers to leave.

There is a political debate in China now, that is, to ban the election of village chiefs, or to restrict the power of village chiefs, change the traditional inertia of rural autonomy, establish a general police station in each village, and the police station institution maintains local order. The distribution and implementation of public fields is controlled by the county-level government agencies, or the county government entrusts the agricultural association to the responsibility, which can limit the influence of rural surnames to the greatest extent.

This statement has generally been opposed to a relatively large extent. If the Restoration Party insists on doing this, it is likely to lose tens of millions of votes, or even more.

Now the empire has a total of 135 million legal voters, and the farmers' associations in townships across the country control about 30 million votes. Therefore, this is still a very powerful large vote bank and cannot be offended easily.

Gu Weijun has been afraid to do this for a long time, and is largely afraid of the Democratic Party’s repeated repetitions on this issue. Of course, the Democratic Party’s current initiatives and dominant policies are more intense than those of the Restoration Party. Their attitude is to directly ban it, but this initiative is really attractive.

Song Biao's view is that the ban itself is wrong and irresponsible, and the unfairness and malfeasance in the ban process will be even more serious.

That afternoon, Song Biao and Song Jiaoren discussed some of the most popular political issues recently. To be honest, they were quite disappointed. The Democratic Party is no longer the Democratic Party he likes. As a more shrewd politician, Song Jiaoren is no longer the Song Jiaoren in the past.

After holding a royal banquet in the evening to entertain Song Jiaoren and his wife, Song Biao asked the Crown Prince Yuhua to send Song Jiaoren and his wife away in person. He went to the imperial study room and called Chen Jin alone, asking Chen Jin to see him in the imperial study room.

At this moment, the only one who can continue to have high expectations for Song Biao is Chen Jin.
Chapter completed!