At 9:30 a.m. on Monday of the second week of the new year, in a huge ancient ceremony hall next to the Imperial Palace, as the rich bells rang, the gentlemen and ladies in the hall arranged their clothes and checked. I took the documents I carried with me and walked into two different doors. It was the venue for party meetings, and over the years the royal family attended operas and circuses here, and occasionally held balls here.
After the new party came to power, it was transformed into a comprehensive building with many functions, most commonly used for meetings.
The hall on the first floor is connected to three larger halls. Both the new party and the old party have set up the venue for party meetings here. Being able to set foot in this place means that you have truly entered the center of the political arena. Only those who can participate in the party Politicians who hold internal meetings are the real politicians.
As for those outside... they are just getting started.
Mags sat at the head of the huge round conference table. To his left was the chairman of the new party committee, Mr. Count Odegaard. He was still a hereditary superintendent, but it was a pity that he personally cut off this hereditary superintendent. , now there is no aristocratic status, as people here often say, everyone is "equal".
Sitting second to the right of Maggs is Powell. Logically speaking, the whip of the ruling party can be regarded as the third-ranking figure in the ruling party and should sit next to Maggs. However, due to some inexplicable issues, such as For reasons such as Powell's unwillingness to sit with Maggs, he now sits second to Maggs' right. The vice-chairman of the new party committee, who was sitting there, sat next to Maggs.
There are a total of forty-eight seats in the entire conference room, and there are fifty-two seats beside the wall. During a normal meeting, party members sitting against the wall are not allowed to take the initiative to speak on the main topics and procedures of the conference. Only Only when they enter the discussion process will they be able to raise their hands to speak. Many people refer to such party meetings as "the forty-eight people on the tower." This is obviously a term full of ridicule and jealousy, but it is very accurate.
People sitting against the wall always show indifference to their colleagues sitting at the table. In fact, they don't want to sit on the chairs over there all the time. That is the real core!
Harry was sitting in seat 19. He was still quite far away from Mags. He wanted to communicate with Mags before the meeting, but for some reason Mags came late this time. Entering the hall against time did not allow him to have a chance to talk to Mags first.
When everyone was in place and seated, Mags gently tapped the microphone in front of him, and the entire conference room suddenly became quiet, with only the sound of people's breathing remaining.
"Good morning, gentlemen and ladies. I am very happy to repeat what I have said no less than a hundred times. I am very grateful to everyone for attending our party meeting on time. This is very important to us and to everyone. All. Next we will discuss some proposals submitted to the Imperial Parliament tomorrow, and some things that need to be decided. Before the meeting ends, I hope everyone can try not to leave their seats and not move around casually. , maintain order at the venue.”
"Then, let's move on to the first agenda item of the meeting, which is the final review, addition and discussion of the draft Anti-Corruption Bill, which we will submit to parliament tomorrow!"
As soon as Maggs finished speaking, the vice chairman of the new party committee sitting on his right opened the folder and began to read the draft of the Anti-Corruption Bill.
This bill was first proposed by Maggs in July last year. The Ministry of Justice later supplemented and compiled it, and finally formulated thirty-three articles and seventy-nine paragraphs. The main purpose is to restrain and limit the corruption of government officials by the power of capital. Bribery, bribery!
Whether in economically developed areas or underdeveloped areas, capitalists always use their checkbooks to bribe local officials to protect their legal or illegal businesses and expand without limit through this method. One's own power affects other people's business, resulting in some places where there are always a few or a dozen very prominent companies that almost completely monopolize the local operations in the same industry.
If you just look at some reports, it seems that the economic construction of these cities is perfect. Perfect tax payment, perfect leading enterprise, and perfect economic form. But all this is false and deceptive. When a city's industries are controlled by individual companies, the destructive effects far outweigh the "constructiveness" they display.
This is a kind of destruction, a complete destruction. The market that has lost its self-regulation will soon be on the verge of collapse due to the greed of these capitalists.
The purpose of submitting this legislative proposal is also to cooperate with the "Anti-Industry Manipulation Act" and carry out a multi-level crackdown on some unscrupulous capitalists. Judging from the current social situation, it may have a great impact. After all, the empire did not have accurate control over the "income" of officials before this. As long as they can build the city better, their personal legal and illegal income will not be included in the evaluation system.
Moreover, people are accustomed to abide by some laws of the aristocratic era, and spend some money on doing things. Isn't it normal? Even if you want to open up wasteland, you have to pay some land reclamation fees to the nobles in the territory, right
However, this method no longer applies to the current social form and international situation. Officials are no longer like the nobles in the past. They may never change places in their lives. They often leave after working for a few years without caring. Will the cities they have run leave huge problems because of some of their governance methods? Anyway, as long as there is no outbreak when they are in office, as for the future, who cares!
Under such circumstances, it is imperative to formulate a set of laws that can restrain officials and capital forces, which is why the agenda of today's meeting is here.
After the Vice Chairman of the New Party Committee read out the draft of the Anti-Corruption Bill, the Deputy Minister of Justice, who was sitting against the wall, stood up and began to explain the content, meaning and standards of each law. After each explanation, everyone will raise their hands to vote. If there are no questions, they will move on to the next one.
The entire process of explaining the contents of the bill lasted for nearly half an hour. After slightly modifying and adding three clauses, the New Party has fully approved it. All that remains is the formal submission and vote at the Imperial Parliament tomorrow.
"The second item on the agenda is also about a new bill submitted to the parliament tomorrow." Magus took a sip of the cooled coffee to moisten his throat. "The "Anti-Industry Manipulation Bill" has been compiled and supplemented for a period of time. More content will be added. After thinking and discussing with my colleagues in the cabinet, I decided to rename the supplemented bill as the "Anti-Industry Monopoly Bill" and re-submit it. Next, my colleagues from the Ministry of Justice will explain it carefully to everyone. This aspect of the content…”
The matters concerning the Imperial Parliament tomorrow were discussed until after one o'clock in the afternoon, before Magus asked the meeting to be suspended for a while, and everyone needed to rest and eat. At two o'clock the meeting resumed. The next content will be about the mobilization of personnel within the party, the allocation of resources within the party and some other issues.
This is the favorite content of those politicians sitting against the wall. Maybe they will sit at the table next time they come here for a meeting.
Powell, who had been silent all this time, suddenly turned on the microphone in front of him. After two brief noises, everyone in the conference room looked at him.
Since the second party meeting last year, Powell has hardly spoken. Unexpectedly, he actually had something to say today. Some people secretly turned their attention to Maggs. Everyone now knows that Maggs and "Feud" between Powell.
Maggs looked at Powell with a smile and said with a smile: "What? Mr. Powell seems to have something to say. It just so happens that everyone is here today. You might as well listen to what Mr. Powell has to say."
There was no change in expression on Powell's face. He nodded and said, "Thank you, leader, for giving me this opportunity to speak..." The moment he said this, some people realized that today's meeting might be worse than usual. It’s even more exciting. The resentment and unwillingness in this sentence are so obvious that I almost understand every word. Mags had a smile on his face, as if he didn't understand what shit Powell was talking about, and kept looking at him.
"I have always had a question. I don't know if you have noticed that the age of our political party members has tended to be younger than the past 50 or 60 years old. I am not denying that young people are bad, but young people have not experienced it. For more things, they lack the ability to think more maturely and lack the accumulation of time, so they usually perform well, but when something goes wrong, it is definitely a big deal." He chuckled, but no one in the entire venue agreed. His smile made even his civilian-born politicians keep their mouths tightly shut. The words he said today did not displease them, so they would not express their stance until they understood the situation.
Powell looked at Mags. He said this to Mags. Mags smiled faintly, put one hand on the edge of the table, and leaned back on the chair. "Mr. Powell, you mean Otis." Mayor, Mr. Dulin?"
"Yes, he is the person I want to talk about!" Powell was not timid at all and directly attacked Dulin. "We can't be blinded by cleverness and ignore other aspects. What happened in Otis City a few days ago Everyone knows about the accident. According to the official press conference, the death toll is close to 300. Gentlemen, because of a small negligence, 300 citizens of the empire have left this world, and at least 600 families have died. So I was hurt. This is the consequence of being too young but holding a lot of power!”
Make up during the day tomorrow
(End of chapter)