Song Deling cursed in his heart: "Damn it!" When his eyes were shaking and his eyes were shaken so hard that he could not say anything, Xu Chengyue helped this potential political enemy. He pressed his hand on the table, leaned forward, and asked carefully at the emperor who was drinking tea with a proud look on his face and said, "Your Majesty, this bribery is not good, right? Western newspapers should also slander us? The ministers are ignorant, what is the difference between gambling and bribery?"

"What's the difference?" the emperor said seriously: "There is no word 'choice' in gambling, but there is a word 'choice' in bribery. I can't even tell it? I'm confused!!!"

"Oh, Your Majesty's Holy Order, I understand...I understand..." Xu Zhiyue subconsciously wanted to say "I understand", but he really didn't understand, so he stuttered.[]

Song Deling wiped his sweat and gritted his teeth and yelled again rarely: "Your Majesty, I don't understand either. Please teach us fools."

It is rare because you should know that a prime minister cannot see the master's intention in advance, or he has spoken but cannot understand it, do you still want to do it? But he really doesn't understand and feels suffocated.

The emperor was slightly excited to push the various newspapers they brought to the table, pointing to the stack of newspapers and said, "Gambling doesn't matter, and bribery doesn't matter. I only know that we have held four elections, but this national sensation in Longchuan County has repeatedly caused a lot of sensation. Zhong Jialiang's opium hall was smashed because of this incident! How exciting is this?! Chinese people can gambling, foreigners can do it; Chinese people can do it, foreigners can do it; but only

For example, foreigners will, Chinese people don’t even have the intention to take a look at each other! They don’t care! This time, the Longchuan election was the first time in China to the world. From nobles to car dealers, everyone talks about the election and actions must talk about candidates. The election has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people! Foreigners have played games for hundreds of years, and I have promoted them to all walks of life to all walks of life to all walks of life in the Song Dynasty. What a merit? What an education?!”

Then the emperor swallowed his saliva and moistened his throat, sneered: "This is the first election. As long as they understand the rules, as for whether they are bribery or whether they are gambling, I don't care! I only care about the word "choice". Chinese people love gambling and not the election. Many fools can't move when they see gambling, as if a dog sees shit. Then I stuff the pills in the shit to invite them to eat! You are very happy to eat shit, but you also have to give me the election at the same time!"

After saying that, he burst into laughter, and the remaining ministers in the room all turned green, but they still didn't understand.

Song Deling felt that he could not ask for the third time himself, otherwise he would seem too incompetent. He repeatedly looked at his press office director, the editor-in-chief of the Imperial Daily, and asked him to ask. The other party finally saw the boss's wink, but he didn't understand what the boss meant, and didn't know what the boss asked him to do to the emperor. After hesitating for a moment, he whispered in a low voice: "Your Majesty, you are really wise, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, what is great?"

He didn't know what Song Deling meant to make him question why bribery was very good. He couldn't understand what His Majesty and Song Deling meant, so he could only flatter him directly.

Anyway, flattery is not a sin.

After saying a word, the ministers' eyes in the room were all focused on this lower-ranking official, then turned away and looked at the emperor's face.

The emperor was stunned when he heard this: bribery is great? Then he applauded and laughed, pointing at the sweaty editor-in-chief and laughed: "Old Li said it well! You are the only one who understands this room!"

With one sentence, all the ministers' eyes moved back to Editor-in-Chief Li, their eyes were shocked and scared, and they all thought: "Damn it! He actually understands the emperor's mind? When did flatter Wang Lao Li become my fatal threat? Do you want to flatter him or kill him?"

Song Deling looked at Lao Li and couldn't move his eyes, and said in his stomach: "Is there a hungry tiger lying in front of my couch? This bastard can see through the boss's heart? When did it do it?"

The emperor did not understand the psychological activities of the ministers who were both shocked and afraid. Anyway, he had a topic and said to himself. He put on the posture of a teacher to the students and gestured with both hands:

"The first election will inevitably have bribery. In my memory, there has never been a decent election in this place, such as the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China... Ahem, it is in my prediction. For those idiots, they would not understand at first, but they would not care in the future, but once they care, their members become good things, they would manipulate the elections and bribe each other."

"And the elections, especially those who can win the parliamentarians, are all powerful people. The parliamentarians are originally discussed by the common people, but the common people turn a blind eye to these things and think that the matter is not about them. Therefore, the tyrants make internal transactions and bribe each other, but they are safe.

This situation is that two people are gambling on the roadside, passers-by are back and forth, but no one cares about them. They don’t care about cheating, passers-by don’t care at all. How can such an election be done?”

Lao Li, director of the news office, immediately asked: "Your Majesty, what should we do? How can we make passers-by care about these dirty and shameless situations?"

He was praised by the emperor and was extremely happy inside. He quickly followed up and looked at Song Deling to show his merits, meaning: Boss, I did what you mean. You are really awesome. The emperor is very happy.

Little did I know that the boss on the opposite side would have the intention to kill him!

The emperor nodded happily and said, "Old Li asked well, how can we stop this lawless shady behavior caused by indifference?"

All the ministers wanted to kill the emperor Lao Li, the pen!

The emperor continued, "What if you send a policeman to supervise? Two people stand behind a policeman, how much manpower is needed? The police will collect another or two of them, so won't they let them cheat? Cheating is simply impossible to prevent in the current national conditions. As a result, the powerful men used some small money to steal MG from me, turned to rob the common people and made profits for themselves. It's better not to have such an election!"

"Your Majesty is so talented and stubborn! I am not as good as I am in the plan. Please continue to teach us!" Song Deling felt that he could no longer be indifferent. Since he could not know what he was thinking, then even the old trick - the lowest-level ** naked flattery must be taken. Otherwise, what should the prime minister do if he is pretended to be Lao Li, his subordinate? He wished he could kill himself. Christians could not commit suicide. According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, suicide is blasphemy. If he commits suicide, he will go to prison if he fails to die!!!

Next, the ministers came back and were flattered. Although they felt that their irrelevant flattery might only be able to be photographed by clerks who had just passed the imperial examination, the advanced flattery was really no longer enough now.

The emperor asked them to be quiet and said, "How to supervise the dark side? I said, we can't supervise, because everyone from the common people to the ranks of officials is like this, they are all sinners. This is the atmosphere and culture. How can it be done with the system! So, I don't care at all. I let them gamble on their own and bribe each other! But don't think about a few people playing secretly, that's more money? You dream! This is simply trying to rob me! I set up a tea shed for them, put a table, and match the waiter and melon seed tea. I can open a casino for them!"

"When the casino comes, civilians are not passers-by of insider trading of powerful people. They will come into the casino and participate in gambling together! What gambling is the closest to fairness? Gambling jargon: If you don't pay a thousand, you won't win. The casino will definitely pay a thousand. But the casino is a place where a few thousand is not so cruel in gambling. Two or three people gather in small places can get a thousand and be found. You can fight lawlessly. But the casino cannot do it because there are too many gamblers participating in gambling, and there are too many people participating in it, and there are still their own money in it. This is their own interests. Naturally, everyone stares at the dice and the card table, and don't let the powerful use mercury dice to use the secret cards in the belt! If you find out, just rely on the crowd to smash the casino. This will be more fair and just, and even the police don't need it!"

The emperor waved his hand and said, "But lottery is not all gambling. If the powerful are allowed to participate in gambling and the people don't care, the interests are only in the elite who can be candidates; joining the lottery is equivalent to becoming a big casino, but because the people are pouring in like a sea of ​​people, the powerful have to throw out some soup to the common people. This is the direction of interest has become a flow from top to bottom! This is bribery, but it is no longer the opponent of the powerful, but it has to bribe a large number of common people to buy tickets!"

After saying these words, the ministers all understood: this boss wanted to make the lottery be issued, turn the election into a big casino, and thus turn it into a big bribery election.

Song Deling was surprised to be taught, but he clenched the handkerchief in his hand and gritted his teeth and shouted: "On those days last year, the Missionary Department discovered that Zhong Jialiang commissioned Fang Bingsheng to manipulate the election. I wrote a full 20,000-word proposal for this matter! All kinds of situations have been thought of, including the issuance of the more severe Election Act or the arrest of Fang Bingsheng immediately, and even the arrest of Zhong Jialiang has been considered! I just want to give you a surprise and ask you to give me the phase, but you turned out to be

Perfunctory, when I read my proposal, you really don't want to see my things! You guy has already thought about it! It turns out that you didn't want to care about their election bribery at all, but started building a big casino? You used inconspicuous lottery! Your Majesty, why didn't you say anything to me? I can't think of anything! How did your head grow? No, this guy is too dangerous! He's not a human! I have to be more careful, don't be the prime minister and be played to death! Be more careful! Be more careful!"

Thinking of this, Song Deling immediately forgot that he wanted to be the prime minister. A small clerk who had just been admitted to the court and was still working under Huan Zhuguo, possessed himself again. He pressed his hand on the table and asked the emperor with admiration: "Your Majesty, I really admire you! Your head is beyond the speculation of ordinary people! A small lottery has established a casino. But under your teachings and God's grace, we officials take integrity as their responsibility. If such so-called elected officials came to power by bribery, then wouldn't this be corrupt? Is this kind of official inconsistent with the spirit of governing the country in this dynasty?"

He actually dared to use "but" to the emperor, right? Everyone looked at this minister with surprise.

But Song Deling was not crazy. He touched the emperor's pulse. This guy had already fooled all these hard-working ministers. At this time, he wanted to be a fool and asked carefully. Anyway, he was a veritable fool and he didn't need to be humble. To be honest, asking "but" is already considered a high-level flattery.

Sure enough, the emperor looked unhappy. He waved his hand, stared at the wall, as if he saw the distant small town of Longchuan, and slowly said, "That's right. The first group of members of this dynasty will actually go to power through bribery. But who promoted them? It's not me, but the local people. If the local people are short-sighted and choose the devil to go to power for small profits, it's their own fault. The Bible says: What kind of tree bears fruit, people will eat their own fruits. If the people in a place are despicable and shameless, they don't know what justice and shame are, and they fart the Bible, think that the God above their heads is blind, and they deserve it to choose non-humans to manage them for some money."

"Our officials are also selected from our people. Any kind of people will have any kind of officials; parents are proud of their glory and wealth, and they can do whatever they want; then the children in their education department will also sharpen their heads and climb up by any means until they become their parents. How can a rotten nation have clean officials? How can a society that has no faith and pride in gold worship, and how can a people, young people, and powerful people who ignore money and be proud of justice? Although the election comes from the West, It is not a panacea. The British studied technology to build trains and machines to benefit mankind, while the Qing people studied emotional intelligence to improve the level of punishment, the level of fraud, and the gain of being an official without any effort. These things are fixed. Whatever you do, God will give you the rewards, and it will inevitably be fair. Therefore, a country that cannot choose good parliamentarians must not have any good officials. Any country has powerful people and local pride roles, but they are just local specialties from all over the world. Snow lotus is not produced in the cesspool."

"I understand that Your Majesty is talking about the importance of bringing faith to the people. I personally believe in God, but I also believe in Your Majesty. I personally defend God to the death, defend the Holy Lord, and defend our eternal and unchanging national policy of establishing our kingdom with God!" Song Deling said in a deep voice: "I firmly believe that God gives you to us the Song Dynasty is a sign of grace. The people need Your Majesty, and our officials need Your Majesty, but since Your Majesty says that, it seems that election is not necessary."

Song Deling again showed "but", but the emperor returned an unfathomable smile and said, "My dear, why do I give the people some power to elect themselves? You will know the reason for this matter in the future. I am a king given by God, and I think it's time now."

This is the most important motivation for the emperor to avoid talking about himself.

"Your Majesty is aware of thousands of miles! I am waiting..." The ministers stood up to express their loyalty and admiration.

The emperor turned his head and looked at his two sons, with a constant smile on his lips.

After the emperor ended this meeting of ministers, no one said that he was very hurt, but he rushed to his respective positions in panic. He felt that the "boss" was really hard to predict and could not figure out his mind at all. Even if he told some of them, new problems would be added, such as: Why did he promote elections? Now it seems that he does not like all Western learning, nor does he think it is a pill. This is a kind of thought that cannot be told to his subordinates.

Xu Chengyue rushed to his office, and Yi Cheng had been waiting inside. Xu Chengyue ignored Yi Cheng's words, just waved his hand and said, "Go to buy lottery tickets! Don't say more about anything else! Some things can't be told to you!"

In the afternoon, Zhong Jialiang, who was frightened, bought 120,000 yuan again. The 100,000 yuan was collected by the Democratic Party and the 20,000 yuan was recorded as the name of a Democratic Party friend. The four candidates each had an incredible lottery of about 62,000 yuan.
Chapter completed!