Cosma Empire

At 9:30 a.m. on the Monday of the second week of the new year, in a huge ancient ceremony hall next to the imperial palace, with the ringing of the vigorous bell, the gentlemen and ladies in the hall sorted out their attire one after another, checked the After looking at the documents he carried with him, he walked into two different doors. This is where the party meetings are held. In the past many years, the royal family members have watched operas or circuses in this place, and occasionally balls are held here.

After the new party came to power, it was transformed into a comprehensive building with many functions, most often used for meetings.

The hall on the first floor is connected to three larger halls. Both the new party and the old party set up the place where the party meetings are held. Being able to set foot in this place means that you have truly stepped into the center of the political arena. Only those who can participate in the party The politicians in the inner meeting are the real politicians.

As for those outside..., they are just getting started.

Magus sat at the head of the huge round conference table. On his left is the chairman of the new party committee, Mr. Earl Odegar, who is still a hereditary replacement, but it is a pity that he himself cut off the hereditary replacement. , now there is no aristocratic status, as people here often say, everyone is "equal".

Powell is sitting in the second seat on the right of Magus. Logically speaking, the party whip of the ruling party can be regarded as the third person in the ruling party. He should sit next to Magus, but because of some inexplicable problems, such as For reasons such as Powell's unwillingness to sit with Magus, he is now sitting in the second position to the right of Magus. The vice chairman of the new party committee who had been sitting there sat next to Mags.

There are a total of forty-eight seats in the entire meeting room, and there are fifty-two seats by the wall. During a normal meeting, party insiders who sit against the wall are not allowed to take the initiative to speak during the main topics and procedures of the meeting. Only They are only eligible to raise their hands when they enter the discussion process later. Many people refer to such party meetings as the "Forty-Eight in the Tower", which is obviously a term tinged with sarcasm and envy, but it is very accurate.

People sitting against the wall are always showing indifference to those colleagues sitting on the edge of 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 No. 19, and he was still quite a distance away from Muggs. He wanted to communicate with Muggs before the meeting, but for some reason, Muggs came late this time, almost Entering the hall by stepping on time also prevented him from having a chance to have a breath with Magus first.

When everyone was in place and sat down, Magus patted the microphone in front of him lightly, and the entire conference room fell silent, only the sound of people's breathing remained.

"Good morning, gentlemen and ladies. I am very happy to repeat what I have said no less than a hundred times. Thank you for being able to attend our party meetings on time. This is very important to us and to everyone. All. Next, we will discuss some proposals to be submitted in the Imperial Parliament tomorrow, and there are still some things that we need to decide. Before the meeting is over, I hope that everyone can try not to leave their seats and not to walk around casually , to maintain order in the venue."

"Then, let's move on to the first agenda item of the meeting. Tomorrow we will submit the final review, supplement and discussion of the proposed anti-corruption bill to the parliament!"

Maggs had just finished speaking when 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 Act".

This bill was first proposed by Magus in July last year, and the Ministry of Justice then supplemented and sorted it out, and finally formulated 33 articles and 79 clauses. The main purpose is to restrain and limit the corruption of government officials by capital forces, Bribe, buy!

Whether in economically developed areas or in economically underdeveloped areas, capitalists always wave their checkbooks to bribe local officials to protect their legal or illegal businesses.

Unrestricted expansion of one's own power through this method and the suppression of other people's businesses have resulted in a few or a dozen very prominent companies in some places, almost completely monopolizing the operations of the same local industry.

Judging from some reports alone, it seems that the economic construction of these cities is perfect. Perfect tax payment, perfect leading company, perfect economic form. But all this is false, all deceitful. When a city's industry is controlled by individual companies, the destructiveness it brings far exceeds the "constructiveness" they show.

This is a kind of destruction, the destruction of bare fruits, and the market that has lost its self-regulation will soon be on the verge of collapse because of the greed of these capitalists.

The purpose of submitting this legislative proposal is also to cooperate with the "Anti-Industrial Manipulation Act" to attack some illegal capitalists at multiple levels. Judging from the current social situation, it may have a great impact. After all, the empire did not have an 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 still used to obeying some rules of the aristocratic era, and spending some money to do something, isn't it normal? Even if you want to open up wasteland, you have to pay the nobles in the territory a little land reclamation fee, right?

However, this set is no longer applicable to the current social form and international situation. Officials are no longer like those nobles in the past. They may never change places for the rest of their lives. Will the cities they have run leave huge problems because of some of their governance methods. Anyway, as long as they didn't break out when they were in power, it's fine. As for the future, don't care!

Under such circumstances, it is imperative to formulate a set of laws that can restrain officials and capital forces, and this is the agenda at today's meeting.

After the vice chairman of the New Party Committee read out the draft of the "Anti-Corruption Act", the deputy minister of justice who was sitting on one side against the wall stood up, and he began to explain the content, meaning and standards of each law. Every time an explanation is completed, everyone will raise their hands to vote, and if there is no problem, they will go to the next one.

The entire process of explaining the content of the bill lasted for nearly half an hour. After slightly modifying and adding three clauses, the new party has passed it, and the rest is to be formally submitted and voted at the Imperial Parliament tomorrow.

"The second agenda is also about a new bill to be submitted in the parliament tomorrow." Magus took a sip of cold coffee to moisten his throat, "The Anti-Industry Manipulation Act has been sorted out 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-Industrial Monopoly Act" and submit it for re-legislation. Next, my colleagues from the Ministry of Justice will explain it carefully to everyone. The content of this aspect..."

Talking about what will happen in the Imperial Parliament tomorrow until after one o'clock in the afternoon, Magus stopped the meeting for a while, everyone needs to rest and eat. At two o'clock, the meeting resumed. The following content will be about the mobilization of personnel within the party, the allocation of resources within the party and some other issues.

This is what the politicians who sit against the wall like most. 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 short noises, everyone in the conference room looked at him.

Since the second inner-party meeting last year, Powell has hardly spoken. I didn’t expect him to have something to say today. Some people secretly turned their attention to Magus. The "feud" between Powell.

Muggs looked at Powell with a smile, and said with a smile: "What? Mr. Powell seems to have something to say, and it happens that everyone is here today. You might as well listen to what Mr. Powell has to say."

There was no change in the expression on Powell's face. He nodded, "Thank you leader for giving me this opportunity to speak...", the moment he said this, some people realized that today's meeting might be more difficult than It's more exciting than usual. The resentment and unwillingness in this sentence are ready to come out, and I almost understand every word. Mags smiled, as if he didn't understand what bullshit Powell was saying, and kept looking at him.

"I have always had a problem. I don't know if you have noticed that the age of our political party members has tended to be younger from the past 50 or 60 years old. I am not denying that young people are bad, but young people have not experienced it. More things, no more mature thinking ability, and lack of time accumulation, so they usually perform well, but when something happens, it must be a big deal." He chuckled lightly, but no one in the meeting echoed With his smile, even his civilian-born politicians kept their mouths tightly shut. What he said today did not speak to them, so they would not express their views until they figured out the situation.

Powell looked at Muggs, he said this to Muggs, Muggs smiled faintly, put one hand on the edge of the table, and leaned back on the chair, "Mr. Powell, you mean Otis Mayor, Herr Dooling?"

"That's right, the person I want to talk about is him!" Powell was not timid at all, and directly took Du Lin's knife, "We can't be blinded by cleverness and ignore other aspects. What happened in Otis 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 imperial citizens left this world, and at least 600 families So I got hurt, this is the consequence of being too young and holding a lot of power!"