"Citizens? What is a citizen? ”

In the chamber of the Senate, questions were quickly asked.

What is a citizen?

Wu Haogu pondered and said: "Citizens have the right to elect and be elected as the head of the line; Citizens have the right to participate in the management of the commercial market and can hold public office in the commercial market; Citizens have the right to study in the public school of Jiehe Shang City. ”

"How good is it to be a citizen?" Xiang Bao shook his head and wondered, "What's good for our Chamber of Commerce?" ”

"A point of power, a point of pay!" Wu Haogu said in a deep voice, "Citizens have a lot of benefits, so naturally they have to pay a lot.

The first is to pay taxes! Merchants must pay taxes in accordance with the law and reach a certain amount in order to be eligible to become citizens.

The second is service! Citizens of Jiehe, who are males, between the ages of 16 and 60, and who have no physical disability or serious illness, must be registered in the Baojia register of Jiehe Commercial City. Then, according to the age, the time of service varies from turn to the time, and you need to bring your own sword, bow, spear and shield, as long as you do not exceed the time limit of service, you will not be paid. ”

Wu Haogu didn't know much about citizens or anything, but later generations would have downplayed this...... However, after becoming the head of Jiehe Commercial City, he still made up the rights and obligations of citizens based on some memories of citizenship and the actual situation of Jiehe Commercial City.

"I have to be a soldier and pay taxes, and this citizen is not very good." Zhang Kelian shook his head repeatedly, "Then who wants to be it?"

Although Zhang Kexiang is a general, he discriminates against martial artists spiritually and looks down on soldiers.

Wu Haogu smiled: "If you want to be a citizen of Jiehe Shang City, this is the rule, and if you don't want to be it, no one will force it." It's just that don't seek public office and head of the line in Jiehe Commercial City, and you or your son can't study public school in Shangshi, and you can't enter the Jiehe Branch of Yuntai School Palace. ”

In other words, Jiehe merchants who refuse to be soldiers cannot be officials, nor can they accept the education of the public Six Arts Academy and Jiehe Yuntai Academy. And the Six Arts Academy and Jiehe Yuntai School Palace, which were funded by Jiehe Shang City and Jiehe City Bosi, will be a direct path to the right list of Jinshi to a certain extent!

Ji Sheng said: "Now there are almost 100,000 people in Jiehe Commercial City, how can there be more than 10,000 people who meet the requirements for citizenship and are willing to be citizens?" More than 10,000 Baoding, is there more?

And the population of the commercial market will increase in the future, right? 200,000 to 300,000 are possible, how many citizens will there be then? Twenty thousand or thirty thousand? ”

An army of twenty or thirty thousand citizens, plus at least a few hundred knights to protect the army, and perhaps quite a few mercenaries...... Is the force possessed by Jiehe Shang City a little too strong? Wu Haogu, is this the head of the Jiehe River or the envoy of the Jiehe Army?

Ji Sheng, Xiang Bao and Zhang Kexiang's ears were pricked up at once!

This is evidence of a crime! It doesn't take much effort to get it!

Wu Haogu smiled indifferently: "In a big city of 200,000 people, there are 20,000 registered baoding, which is too much?" It is impossible for those Baoding to serve every day, and it is good to be able to serve for ten or twenty days a year on average. In this way, there are more than 1,000 Baoding in service...... Can it be counted as much? ”

Not much...... But will there be more than 20,000 male citizens in the city? Now there are 100,000 people in Jiehe Shang City, and it is not surprising that there will be 200,000 in a decade or two. Of the 200,000 people, 100,000 should be men, of whom at least 50,000 are adult males. Maybe everyone will qualify (the conditions can be lowered) and become citizens!

At the same time, the knight families around the Jiehe Merchant City will also develop and grow under the support of the Merchant Market, and there may be two or three thousand knights who can be used by the Merchant Market at any time in the future. If you add 20,000 or 30,000 citizen soldiers, there may be a lot of mercenaries and "Mamluks", and the force of Jiehe Shang City should indeed not be underestimated.

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"Even the citizens? Isn't it just the Baoding who forces people to be straight thieves? ”

"If you are not a citizen, you cannot be a leader...... Isn't that making things difficult? ”

"Not really! Can't we pay for it? ”

"Can't we hire someone to be a bodyguard?"

Inside the Senate building, in a newly sorted out council chamber, it was crowded with the heads of the various guilds, each holding a handwritten notice that had just been sent. The content of the circular is about the establishment of a "guild house" and the implementation of a "citizenship system" in Jiehe Shang City.

Everyone in the guild house is in favor of the tax discussion, and it is better than the current tax payment.

But the question is, how can being the head of the bank still be linked to being a citizen and a guarantor? Although the head of the line does not necessarily have to have many industries, in actual operation, it is the big businessmen who can become them. How can a big businessman be a baoding? It's just a matter of being a baozheng, but how can this baoding be? Isn't that a joke?

"The chief senator of the Senate has arrived!"

When everyone was talking, they suddenly heard someone call loudly - it was the head of Wuhao Guwu and several other elders of the Senate of Jiehe Shang City, who came over together.

"I've seen the Führer!"

"I've seen a big official!"

"I've seen lifting!"

More than 100 leaders present stood up and saluted Wu Haogu. It doesn't matter if they want to be Baoding or not, whether they have been extorted by the Jiehe Commercial City, Wu Haogu's face still has to be given. Even the heads of the lines who had submitted a petition to the Senate two days earlier were respectful at this time.

They are against the corrupt official Du Wenzhong, but not the wise and correct head of state, Wu Haogu.

Wu Haogu, accompanied by several elders such as Ximen Anguo and Murong Wangwu, walked to the middle of the hall, and a room of people wearing silk and satin consciously formed a circle around him. Most of them are very familiar with Wu Haogu, and many of them are still in charge of the Republican Bank.

Wu Haogu arched his hand at these people, and then raised his hand with a smile on his face and waved, signaling everyone to be quiet.

"You should know what this Führer has brought you here today, right? The day before yesterday, the Senate has now agreed to the tax discussion of the first house of the opening of the bank, and the specific rules for tax discussion will be introduced later. At the same time as the opening of the first court, the head of state also proposed a method for the implementation of citizenship in the commercial market, which was also approved with the support of the elders. Now this Führer will explain to you a ......"

The people below suddenly fell silent, and they all stretched out their ears to listen to Wu Haogu, the head of state. To be honest, most people did not propose to open the first house of the Rausch Bank to discuss taxes. Although the blackmail of those who are not officials and officials who are not officials in taxation make them unhappy, but those who do business are used to paying money, and they can barely accept it. On the contrary, they are not accustomed to openly discussing taxes, and it is not necessarily beneficial.

The public discussion of taxes is actually the direct control of the amount and distribution of taxes by the Senate! The Senate is the shareholder representative, the board of directors, and their knives are sharpened only faster! And it's impossible to even buy it.

Wu Haogu looked at the leaders present with blazing eyes, the establishment of the lower house and the implementation of citizenship had long been in his plan. It's just ahead of time, oh, it's not early, it's just going to be a step-by-step process. After all, the development of Jiehe Commercial City has exceeded the original assumption.

And civic cities are not built overnight, and not even for the generation in front of them to really accept. Some reforms require a generation to succeed.

The consciousness of subjects has long been deeply rooted in the bone marrow of every Song person, and I am afraid that it will not be changed in this life.

The only way to change is to start with the next generation!

Of course, the sooner we start reforming the next generation, the better.

The next generation of Jiehe Shang City has to establish the awareness of participating in the governance of the Shang City and serving as soldiers to defend the Shang City from an early age - this is actually nothing, and now the Jurchen barbarians there also know to participate in the tribal council, and they also know to defend the tribe with weapons.

At that time, the people of the Western Zhou Dynasty also wanted to discuss politics and fight for the country with a spear!

As for the people of the Song Dynasty, they actually have a little bit of awareness of participating in politics and discussing politics - much stronger than the consciousness of the people of the Qing Dynasty in this regard! Don't think that the closer you get to modernity, the more advanced the thinking of the common people will be. During the Song Dynasty, ordinary people could stand to see the officials, and they did not kill the people who wrote and said things. And the Huanghuang Daqing is a showman, and if you say anything, you will be killed!

Moreover, the Song Dynasty's urbanization rate and the proportion of industry and commerce in the economy also far exceeded that of the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, the constitutionalism and republican nature that the Qing Dynasty could imagine and the citizens did not dare to think of in the Song Dynasty.

Wu Haogu paused, and said with a smile, "You must be reluctant to act as the Baoding of Jiehe Commercial City...... You are all wealthy businessmen with a wide range of property, so you naturally don't want to be a baoding. However, this matter is not incommensurate, you only need to follow the head of state for fifteen days in the name of Baoding for a year. Of course, Yan Po'er, you don't have to be a baoding, and Baoding doesn't want a woman. ”

Yan Po'er also replied in response to the situation: "The slave wants to come, if the head of state does not dislike it, how about the slave family follow as a battalion trick?" ”

The half-joking meat joke made the whole room burst into laughter. Wu Haogu raised his right hand again, and the big guy was quiet again.

"But there are still a lot of benefits to this citizen! The biggest of them is that their sons and grandsons can study in the public school in our Jiehe Business City! The Jiehe commercial market collected your taxes are not all used to pay salaries to the public bank, to the imperial court and the Liao State, to distribute dividends to shareholders, and many of them are to be used to build commercial markets and run schools. The public schools in our Jiehe are all sent by the Yuntai School Palace to be teachers. The knowledge taught is the same as that of the Yuntai Academy. Therefore, the students of our Jieheshang City Public School will be easier to enter the Yuntai School Palace in the future.

And after entering the Yuntai Academy, there is a great hope that you can take the right list jinshi in the future! Zhongjin Shi can be an official, not the official line of our Jiehe Business City, but a dignified court official! This is also in Jiehe Commercial City, and you can get 500 government soldiers elsewhere in order to get a place to enter the Yuntai Academy Palace and Guozijian! Come to think of it, do you still need this citizenship? ”