Deng Ming's time to return to Xuzhou was just right, and just as Chengdu magistrate Liu Jinge sent someone to Xuzhou to negotiate the interception of the prisoners. Before the unhappiness between Chengdu and Xuzhou, Deng Ming stood up and said that the distribution of prisoners was his decision, and the envoy from Chengdu Prefecture had to obey.

For Deng Ming, the dispute between Chengdu Prefecture and Xuzhou Prefecture is a trivial matter. As long as he is in western Sichuan, he can control the situation. On this issue, Xiong Lan and Qin Xiucai are both alliances of Yuan Xiang. If Xuzhou is a subordinate of Chengdu Prefecture, Liu Jinge's power will be above the Taxation Bureau and the Central Bank. Even if Xuzhou is unable to compete with Chengdu for the time being, as long as the two families are not in the same nostril, Xiong Lan and Qin Xiucai will have more room for bargaining with the two government offices.

For Deng Ming, what is more important is that the parliament in the Syrian prefecture was held when Deng Ming was away. The bosses of the business bank took chicken feathers as a command arrow and wanted to formulate some clauses to suppress agriculture and support industry and commerce. This attempt was immediately stopped by Deng Ming. In Deng Ming's view, nothing needs more support than agriculture. Now, the bosses of the business bank want to destroy agricultural production for their own interests is absolutely not compromised.

However, Deng Ming was unwilling to take back the promises he had made. He told these quasi-commons who wanted to participate in the sharing of the spoils, just like the protection fee he promised at the time, the principle of "no tax without representatives" would be one of the basic principles in western Sichuan during the period when the Ming Dynasty Law was invalid. Since Deng Ming agreed that the commercial banks that paid the tax participated in the sharing of the spoils, farmers who paid the protection fee also had this right. At the meeting of the Syrian State, Deng Ming officially announced that the protection fee would be renamed agricultural tax, and the right of representation was distributed according to the taxable population, rather than based on the amount of tax paid.

"Before we determine the law of the empire, we must first make the imperial constitution." Facing the bosses of the business bank who were eager to participate in the sharing of spoils, Deng Ming told them that everything was one after another: "I simply thought about a few things. Any rules set by the parliament that do not conform to the constitution will not be passed; as for whether it conforms to the constitution, it will be left to the criminal prosecutor to judge."

No one has any objection to this statement. They have been popularized by Deng Ming. The Constitution is the convention before the robbers divide the spoils. The so-called "no rules" cannot be square. If there is no convention, then the division of spoils will still evolve into the one whose fist is bigger. The person with the biggest fist is obviously the two prefects who hold "one-on-one challenge" all day long.

"Article 1 of the Imperial Constitution: No representatives will not pay taxes." Deng Ming reiterated the principle that war dividends must be shared by all western Sichuan scholars. On the other hand, if anyone attempts to exempt taxes, he will lose the right to participate in the division of war dividends. The person who evades taxes and evades taxes is a "traitor", because this person stole the profits belonging to all the scholars: "If there are 10,000 people in Syria pay taxes and twenty seats of parliamentary members, each parliamentary member will have to obtain the support of 500 tax-paying scholars. If there is any dispute, it means that the twenty people with the largest number of supporters have the right to enter the venue. We don't need to rush to decide how much is appropriate. Anyway, it cannot be the final decision for the salt making or the ship selling."

"Article 2 of the Empire Constitution: Private property is sacred and inviolable." As soon as Deng Ming said this, Yuan Xiang and others seemed very puzzled. Even those bosses who had been separated from the status of auxiliary soldiers for several years did not understand their intentions.

Deng Ming remembers that in the political class he had learned, this article seemed to be one of the symbols of capitalist legal power. It has a high legal status in an imperialist country and can almost be regarded as the cornerstone. Therefore, when Deng Ming conceived the Constitution, he wrote this article almost without thinking. However, Deng Ming spent a long time explaining it, and Yuan Xiang and the quasi-commoners of Xuzhou still couldn't understand it. Some of the nouns introduced by Deng Ming, such as "human rights" and "legal power" are even more confused. The Ming Dynasty people had never come into contact with these concepts, and there was no similar thing in their dictionary.

"It's just that you are not allowed to eat bad things!" Deng Ming shouted unbearably.

"Oh!" Everyone suddenly realized and smiled knowingly. Yes, you are not allowed to deprive others of their property at will. Isn't it just that you can't be robbed and robbed in a gang of robbers?

"After the admiral said this, I understand and there is no objection." Ye Tianming, Lu Huan and other salt merchants were the first to agree, and the other bosses also agreed with the salt merchant group. With this, they don't have to worry about the officers and soldiers coming to the door to confiscate the property they had worked hard to gather.

Article 2 The imperial constitution also gained everyone's understanding and support, and someone soon asked about Article 3.

"No more." Deng Ming spread his hands. He had not yet thought of any particularly important and unquestionable rules. After all, he was not a law student.

"Didn't the admiral just say that there are a few?" Yuan Xiang was surprised that Deng Ming had so few rules.

"Yes, aren't these two?"

"Nothing can be done without three." Yuan Xiang muttered softly.

"That's two things. I said, why are you so petty?" Deng Ming waved his hand: "You talk first and see what you can add. If it's really good and there's no objection to the capital, it can be added to the Constitution in the future."

Deng Ming felt that the constitution should be determined by a more authoritative organization, rather than a few bosses in the Xuzhou state. However, Deng Ming has no better way now. Now he is the most authoritative "institution" in western Sichuan. The only people who are willing to discuss constitutional issues with him are the only guys who have just made great efforts before the war and want to divide the benefits after the war.

On the second day after the establishment of the Syrian State Parliament, several business owners came to report to Deng Ming. They passed a bill to increase revenue from each business bank's profits to purchase good women in Huguang, and then handed them to the business owners based on the taxes, and betrothed them as rewards to those excellent workers.

"Is this a person trading?" Deng Ming felt that this seemed to be a blatant trafficking of women.

"No, we will hire a hiring and write a marriage letter. After arriving in Xuzhou, they all recognize the magistrate Yuan as their godfather and get married in a regular manner." The congressmen thought Deng Ming misunderstood that they wanted to traffic in women, so they explained that they must not have women of unknown origin and would never cooperate with human traffickers.

"That's good, that's good." Deng Ming immediately realized that he was influenced by the ethical concepts of his previous life again. It was normal for women to buy and sell women in this era. Not to mention women, even auxiliary soldiers can buy and sell. In theory, Deng Ming has been quite adapted to the marriage values ​​of this era, but occasionally he will be distracted and accidentally, and the concepts of his previous life will emerge again.

However, Deng Ming immediately realized that this bill was obviously determined by the bosses to retain workers. Even if there were not enough girls to buy them, as long as the workers had a thought, they would naturally not easily leave the business and reclaim wasteland. The bosses also planned to set rules in the Imperial Parliament that workers who received this reward would need to sign a contract to ensure that they could work in the business for a certain period of time.

"Once capitalists take power in state, they can't wait to turn their will into the law of the empire." Deng Ming's idea came to his mind. But it's the same for everyone. As far as Deng Ming knows, everyone will do this after taking power. It's not just the few bosses in front of him that have such an instinctive reaction.

"It's still wrong." Deng Mingxia thought for a moment, and suddenly found another doubt. How did this obviously unilaterally favorable industry be passed? What about the farmers' representatives? Wouldn't we say yesterday? There is the right to represent the tax. Have you received the support of fellow scholars who are working in farming?"

"I got it, we all got the handprints." The congressmen replied with confidence, and enthusiastically told Deng Ming in detail.

It turned out that Yuan Xiang issued a list article yesterday, asking the Xuzhou scholars and fellow scholars to support the representatives' proposal. Of course, these representatives were the bosses of the business who stood in front of Deng Ming. They made the most efforts in the mobilization of the war a few days ago, so Yuan Xiang naturally had to repay her. After seeing the list article, although the fellow scholars did not know what the parliament was, they obeyed orders to support the representatives listed on it out of trust in the Xuzhou prefect, and the Yuan prefect also ordered the pavilions to go out to help the representatives collect finger prints.

Deng Ming was speechless after hearing this. It seemed that this was a thorough administrative appointment: a representative appointed by the government, and then the government came forward to collect votes. It can be said that the level of bribery is lower than the level of bribery. However, the several members of the parliamentarians in front of him showed a look of natural expression. Not only did they not think that it was inappropriate to do so, they also told Deng Ming the details without hesitation.

Do you want to push it back? Deng Ming flashed this idea, but immediately denied his own thoughts. Yesterday, in order to let these people understand why private property is sacred and inviolable, Deng Ming had to use "black eating black". I guess no matter how many times the representatives chose again, it would still be like this, Deng Ming would not bring any changes except for causing trouble for himself.

"Okay." Deng Ming nodded and began to express his opinion: "The imperial constitution is above me, I am just the Admiral of the Yangtze River. As long as it is a law passed by the parliament, I will obey it."

In Deng Ming's view, the bill proposed by the bosses is also useful. If you rely on tax collection to Huguang to talk to a bachelor, it will not only easily cause complaints, but also have complex distribution issues, and you must also beware of the officials who are in charge of making profits from it. Now this group of bosses is willing to pay for the country's worries. Although it damages the authority of the officials, it is good for the people in western Sichuan and helpful for victory. Why should Deng Ming not be able to get over it?

"Wait," before everyone dispersed, Deng Ming suddenly discovered another strange thing: "Why did the girl I bought have to be a godfather of the Prefect Yuan? The Prefect Yuan is only in his early twenties. Is he willing to adopt so many adopted daughters?"

"Master Yuan agreed!" The bosses once again explained the doubts for Deng Ming and shouted: "Master Yuan said that if he borrowed his name, he would have to pay one-tenth of the girl's taxes, which he presided over and allocated to Tingshi and the hard-working yamen runners as wives. This is called special tax."
Chapter completed!