Dulin spent a lot of time talking with the four federal speakers. He also slightly changed the situation in the empire and used it in his conversation strategy.
"You must know the empire very well. After all, we have been together for a long time, dating back hundreds of years." Dulin's words were recognized by everyone, and they nodded.
The existence of the Federation was not short-lived, but it had not formed a concept similar to a "country" in the past many years. It was more like a large group of merchants living together and building some markets in some convenient places. Gradually, these places became more and more prosperous due to the presence of merchants, and finally transformed from markets into towns, and then into cities. After cities without national concepts existed for a long time, these speakers, who were the founders of the nation, The ancestors thought why not band together and turn the loose business alliance into a country
The country has national benefits, and the regulation, utilization and management of commodities are more convenient, and it is also very helpful in managing the entire business alliance, so in the end, the unique country of the Commercial Federation was formed. In some policies and systems, the Federation also directly copied the Empire's systems, but not all. They used them if they thought they were good and used them if they thought they were not good. After all, there was still a big gap between the Federation and the Empire, whether it was a country or a country. The system and the class composition of society are almost completely different.
The question Du Lin raised now was to tell them that they were actually going astray.
"Excessive decentralization of power will bring a lot of dangers. People will not respect authority. They are used to being free and loose, and they may even develop dangerous ideas."
"Both the Empire and the Federation have some of the same problems, such as the erosion and interference of political power by the power of capital. In the Empire, many large conglomerates and capitalists are looking to cultivate their own political spokesmen, and by helping these political spokesmen continuously improve their political status, finally from the policy But this is different from the federation. No matter what strength and social influence these large conglomerates and capitalists have, they must play the game within the framework set by the cabinet. , they will suffer serious consequences.”
"People always fear those in power and fully understand the great power of power. This does not seem to be obvious in the Federation."
Dulin leaned on the sofa and changed his sitting position. "I checked some information after I went back last time and learned that there were two very serious movements that could be called 'rebellions' in the history of the Federation. The first one was in the seventies. The ‘Retro Movement’ launched by several big investors a few years ago, and the ‘Parliamentary Reform Movement’ more than thirty years ago.”
The previous "Retro Movement" was initiated by several big capitalists, who believed that the Jianguo family was plundering the interests of all businessmen. This country did not exist in the form of a country at the beginning. It was a loosely structured alliance, and every big businessman had It is a territory that belongs to them. They circulate trade in their own territory, and there is no behavior or nature of any country. The alliance gradually became more and more prosperous, and more and more merchants appeared here to trade, making these so-called "founding families" feel a huge crisis.
Therefore, they used their unprecedented influence and power from others to forcibly turn this loose alliance into a country, and stabilized their power and wealth by controlling and plundering the interests of other businessmen. This behavior is as shameless as robbers and thieves. What is even more shameless is that for their own status, they have formulated a decadent feudal-like governance method such as the lifelong system to persecute businessmen in the federation. For the future of the Federation and for the benefit of all businessmen, these big capitalists launched this major action known as the "Retro Movement."
They advocated a federal referendum and secretly connected with the big conglomerates and big capitalists in the federation. They wanted to fundamentally dismantle the lifetime speaker system and liberate these powers from the hands of the nation that founded the country. For this, of course they need to have some good excuses, such as slogans such as restoring the country to its true form and liberating power from the hands of a few, so it is also called the "retro movement."
The consequence of this movement was that the ruling system was completely divided into two systems. At that time, a large number of government officials joined this massive movement, especially those government officials who were second only to the Speaker. They would never be able to aspire to the top. The throne of power, so some people are more willing to try to break through this shackles, maybe they can aspire to the pinnacle of power in their lifetime. These people have been completely corrupted by the power of capital, and some of them are capitalists themselves.
During that movement, the United Council and the Founding Nation were almost overthrown, but they managed to survive with the resources and strength at their disposal, and the federal governance system also changed accordingly. The big capitalists who launched this movement have all fled overseas. Of course, this is the official statement. They will not admit that they are cruel and decadent rulers who do not accept objections.
The second movement is the "Parliamentary Reform Movement", which was launched by several large financial groups in the federation at the same time. They believe that the lifelong system of the federal speaker will bring about the corruption of power. The uncompetitive top federal officials are like a pool of stagnant water and will gradually lose their vitality until they become Like some decadent feudal dynasties, the last bit of corruption reduced the federation to a third-rate country.
After the last movement, the United Council has been firmly holding on to the power in its hands. They have transformed from a large half-business half-power family into a powerful family. Money is no longer tempting to them. All they want is Permanently stabilize the power in your hands.
The consequences of this movement were not as serious as the last one. Of course, it may have something to do with the fact that they were always vigilant about unscrupulous people who wanted to stab them. In the end, these initiators were able to escape and die, but it was also because Confederation brought about different changes. That is, in addition to the United Parliament, the Federation established a brand-new institution, the Federal Parliament, and began to accommodate capitalists in society, heads of consortia, and people with other identities as members of this new institution. The Union Parliament devolved power to the Federal Parliament and then introduced capitalist representatives to compromise, mediating the sharpening contradictions.
When Du Lin said this, the expressions on the faces of the four gentlemen changed slightly, which was not very good-looking. However, Du Lin continued indifferently, "In addition to these two sports, there are other large and small sports. The movement was just not massive enough and the subsequent impact was not serious enough, so I didn’t mention it.” He smiled lightly, “Gentlemen, if these things happened in the Federation…” His tone suddenly strengthened, “No, no. It might happen once, but it won't happen all the time because people don't dare and won't do it."
"The more dangerous something is, the more it should be in the hands of a few people!"
"When people have enough wealth but don't know how to respect power, the first thing they think of is to break the rules and challenge power."
"Some people have expanded their foolish ambitions because they have acquired wealth that ordinary people cannot have. They mistakenly believe that power comes from wealth, but they do not know that wealth is actually just an extension of power."
"Now, what we need to do is to correct their misconceptions and let them understand what the world really is like!"
(End of chapter)