"Is the meeting over?" In the Hexi County Government, Wang Dazhuang, a specialist of the regional administration and Hexi County Mayor, asked the mayor of Hexi Town who was sitting opposite him respectfully while writing something.

"It's over. Those representatives are really difficult to deal with. They have made a lot of requests, which are hard for us to solve." The mayor shook his head and said in a helpless tone: "Specialist, please let Lao Chen go next time. I've pushed two meetings just to argue with these people. I'm really dizzy."

"Old Chen" is the deputy mayor of Hexi Town, in charge of transportation and related infrastructure work. In the past two days, he is urging the construction of a third-class national highway in the countryside. The meeting mentioned by the mayor just now is actually a relatively common political consultation meeting at the Dongan Township (town) level. Its main function is to provide various suggestions to the township government and provide advice for local construction.

The original form of this so-called political consultation meeting was actually the attendance of the township government office meeting. In the era when the East Bank was founded, due to the need to explore the borders and unite people, some leading cadres of newly established townships would hold meetings in the yard from time to time and allow local people to listen outside the yard.

The things they discussed at meetings are mostly related to local construction, so the people are still interested. Sometimes they hear it and speak loudly outside the hospital and express their opinions. The meeting host (usually the township head or the deputy township head in charge) will generally pick some questions to answer so that the people can better understand the government's relevant decisions.

It should be said that this irregular meeting format played a great role in the early days. Especially at that time, they needed the people to make great sacrifices, while clearing land and farming, while carrying out heavy labor and building the land. In many cases, they even had to fight against the indigenous people. Such meetings can be said to have greatly won people's hearts and made people feel that the government is still serving them and able to listen to their voices.

Later, with the standardization of various systems, the audit meetings of this compound were also reformed, that is, the county governments formulated regular political consultation meetings for each township within the county. The first and second leaders of the township came to preside over the meeting, and the delegates attended were also selected from all walks of life, including farmers' representatives, workers' representatives, military representatives, merchant representatives, cultural people, etc. Anyway, there are all walks of life, but not evenly allocated the quota, but strictly stipulated the proportions to ensure that these representatives can represent all classes in each township well. Otherwise, they will basically become a municipal council model of the United Provinces and Spain, all merchants and nobles attending the meeting, and others are completely ineligible to participate.

The date of the political consultation meeting is not unified nationwide, but is decided by the county governments themselves. Considering that it takes a certain amount of time for representatives from all walks of life to gather, they usually give notices more than two months in advance. The representatives attending the meeting have the right to review the work reports presented by township leaders (regardless of whether they are literate or not) and put forward their own opinions. In theory, township leaders do not necessarily have to follow their opinions, because according to the meeting system, they only have the right to suggest but not the right to decide. But considering that they come from all walks of life and are crucial to the next stage of the government's work, township chief officials often make compromises to a certain extent in exchange for their support in other aspects. After all, politics itself is the art of compromise, which is not surprising.

To be honest, the East Coast domestic attitude towards this system is not entirely supported. Top political families believe that it is "basically useless" and is a behavior that "hards people and causes money" and will only disrupt the order of grassroots governments at the township (town) level, causing their originally orderly work to be confused. These people from all walks of life often lack a global perspective and lack professional political literacy, do not understand how the country operates, and are full of unrealistic imaginations about various things - giving politics, such as a matter related to the country's destiny to a group of "semi-illiterate farmers", "workers who can only knock hammers" or even "actors who sing operas" is a completely irresponsible behavior, "they know nothing"!

The support group is mainly influential but not political. They may be very rich, so they start to pursue something different. They talk about the political consultation system in public - such as teahouses and cafes - and think it is a good system for people to participate in politics and make decisions. What? The people don’t know anything? Damn, you can’t say that! What? Different people have different interests and demands, and they will mess up things and be inefficient? You are disrespectful to the people! Listen, you must give the people a little thoughts and a little sweetness, and let them have a catharsis for the resentment accumulated by their hard work, which is very good for rule. This is like a burning big boiler, with the steam pressure constantly increasing, and at this time you need a pressure relief valve.

Of course, the supported party also has very dissatisfaction with the existing system. Especially those rich businessmen, who are dissatisfied with the proportion of all classes that the government has forcibly stipulated. They cannot accept being on par with a worker in dirty work clothes, pointing fingers at the work of the township, and even their own employees. They require restrictions on the threshold of representatives, at least the property can only be entered if they reach a certain level, because if they do not do so, the so-called political consultation meeting will eventually become a joke, a ridiculous occasion where everyone sits together and drinks tea, chats and reminisces. But from the current perspective, their request is probably unlikely, and the superior government will not risk the world's worst offense to offend the interests of a larger number of workers and peasants. More importantly, there are also many soldiers in the meeting, and most of them are not as rich as merchants. Do you want to deprive them of their representative seats? Think about it carefully!

There are also a considerable number of people in China who are indifferent to such meetings. They are relatively neutral and believe that from a practical point of view, this meeting must have some significance, because it can solve some small problems that do not involve deep-seated contradictions. These small problems are often related to the people's personal interests, and can effectively calm public resentment and unite people's hearts - this is particularly important for an immigrant country. In addition, this system can also be used to explain the role of many large projects well so that people will not be too resistant when mobilizing manpower in the future.

But from another perspective, such conferences are time-consuming and labor-intensive, and may delay production, and the representatives cannot change the direction of some major events. After all, the main leaders of townships do not need to be responsible to you. It is already very good that they can absorb some good suggestions and improve them. What other bicycles do they need? Their main job is to complete the tasks assigned by their superiors, and at the same time give full play to their subjective initiative, improve local construction, and make the people's living standards rise day by day. In short, it remains to be observed for a long time, which is their view.

As the county magistrate and the main regional leader of Hexi County, Wang Dazhuang is quite concerned about this political consultation meeting in Hexi Town. After learning that the mayor gave a work report at the meeting and promised some miscellaneous things such as building a flood control dam in a certain village, contacting and selling goods for several factories, increasing the intensity of rural drama tours, and reducing the number of days of corvee this winter, he immediately smiled and said, "You can't stand these things? I remember when I presided over the meeting, I sometimes had to mediate disputes and be a peacemaker, and even someone asked me to help him match the situation at the meeting. What kind of scene would it be? You can never imagine it. To be honest, the current political consultation meeting is much better than before. There were people who came in with two chickens in the past, well,

That was a farmer representative who came to attend the meeting and went to the market to sell poultry. Compared to them, this kind of scene is no longer common and it is much more serious. So, what else do you have to complain about? Old Chen has a heavy task. He is responsible for the widening of the port, dredging work, and renovation of some roads. There are many things, and you have to take on more courage. Moreover, always asking the deputy to attend the meeting also makes our government not concerned about the political consultation meeting and is too perfunctory. This is not good. Now the mainstream trend in the country is that the main staff are more and more prestigious to the meeting, and the topics are more and more formal. This system does not want to abolish it in the short term, and it will not be abolished. It will only pay more attention to it in the future, so don’t complain to me, work hard.”

"County magistrate, at today's meeting, someone asked whether the level of the CPPCC meeting can be raised, that is, to hold a county-level political consultation meeting. What do you think?"

"That's impossible! At least there is no such statement at all." Wang Dazhuang said with a solemn expression: "Do you know what the concept of county level is? Our country has not yet established a province, and counties are the most important local government agencies. Some strong counties, such as Qingdao County and Ping'an County, you asked them to hold political consultation meetings. What are the issues discussed at the meeting? Are the government's decisions all made public to the world? Is there a little confidentiality? In that case, the local government will be greatly disturbed by other factors when making decisions. This may be a good or a bad thing. Just like the south has been making commercial electric motors recently, this is a big event and requires the government to invest a lot of subsidies. If this is listed in the work report, do you think it is appropriate? You must understand that our government is a big government, which is different from the continental ones. They only charge taxes and use money. For example, electric motors are completely done by merchants themselves, so they can have a high degree of confidentiality.

, But we are an unlimited government, we have to do everything ourselves, and it is impossible to tell the people everything. The county-level political consultation meeting may be done in the future when the society develops to a certain extent, but it is impossible now. You must understand this point and you cannot make political mistakes! Besides, the social and political landscape of our east coast is much stronger than the old countries. They are still in a state of aristocratic and merchants' co-governance, and we at least allow workers and farmers.

It is already very good for soldiers to participate in politics. You must remember that the political system must match the level of productivity. It is like walking the dog with a rope when you go out. People are the level of productivity, and dogs are the system. Sometimes dogs will run too fast and walk ahead of you, pull you forward, and sometimes they will slowly fall behind you, slowing down your speed. What we need to do is to keep the dog within the range of the rope, and people and dogs walk in harmony. This is the key point, do you understand?"

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Chapter completed!