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Xiao Ming and Fei Yue'er ate one by one, of course, he didn't forget Concubine Zhen, just now he had sent someone to send some roasted sweet potatoes to Concubine Zhen.

"Your Highness, this sweet potato is so delicious and high-yielding, this is really a blessing for the Great Chongqing Kingdom." Fei Yue'er chewed slowly, and the smile in her eyes became thicker.

Xiao Ming nodded: "Now that there are potatoes and sweet potatoes, the agricultural king of the feudal country will be at ease." ”

For him, he mainly introduced these two high-yield crops, as for other cash crops, he is not in a hurry, after all, the people of Dayu are only pursuing food and clothing, rather than luxury nutrition like modern people.

Fei Yue'er nodded, and then she said; "Now His Highness not only does not need to worry about agriculture, but now His Highness does not have to worry about the textile industry, after the steam engine entered the textile mill, the cloth production of the textile mill has increased greatly, and now the cotton sent from Chu is not enough."

As she spoke, Fei Yue'er brought a blue cloth from the table to Xiao Ming.

"This is the cloth spun out of the weaving mill?" Xiao Ming spread the cloth on his hand and stroked it, although the cloth was dyed, the surface of the cloth was very smooth, and each cotton thread was very tight.

Holding the cloth, he tugged hard, which showed that the cloth was very strong, and overall, this was the most exquisite cloth Xiao Ming had ever seen in the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

"This is still false, and only the textile machine and steam engine of the textile mill can produce such cloth, and now the concubine is preparing to use these fabrics to produce military uniforms for the army, but now the steam engine has greatly increased the output of the textile mill, and the cotton price in Chudi has also increased because of this."

Speaking of this, Fei Yue'er was a little unhappy, probably blaming the cotton merchants in Chudi for taking the opportunity to raise prices.

Xiao Ming didn't care about this, he said; "In fact, this is very simple, the price of cotton has risen, and the price of this cloth has become expensive, and when the time comes, let our merchants sell it at a high price to Chudi, and this profit will be earned."

Fei Yue'er immediately laughed when she heard this, and she said: "Your Highness is right, the concubine will let the green pothos raise the price of the cloth sold to the merchants of Chudi. ”

During this time, Xiao Ming had a short time with Fei Yue'er because of the war in Weidi, but now that she is free, Fei Yue'er seems to have endless words.

After talking about the sweet potato and cloth, Fei Yue'er suddenly asked with interest: "Your Highness, when the concubine gave another lecture to the women's college yesterday, there was a female student who said about the feudal system and the constitutional monarchy system. ”

"Who said that!" Hearing this, Xiao Ming's brows furrowed.

Fei Yue'er saw that Xiao Ming's expression was a little solemn, and she didn't dare to hide it, and said: "This female student is none other than Yang Shiman, the daughter of Yang Chengye, the assassin of Dengzhou, and the concubine also asked her, but what she said was that the Dutch businessman told her about the dual constitutional monarchy, the parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Target. ”

"Dutch merchant." Xiao Ming nodded, "It's not surprising, Yang Chengye has a lot of dealings with the Dutch, and it is inevitable that he will learn some Western things from the Dutch." ”

Fei Yue'er is his pillow person, and Xiao Ming usually teaches her a lot of knowledge that the Great Yu Kingdom does not have, but he has not told Fei Yue'er about the political system of these countries.

Now Fei Yue'er asked, he explained: "The feudal system in the Dutch population is the current state system of the Great Chongqing State, this system is based on the aristocratic ruling class layer by layer, the possession of land and peasants and other wealth, as for the constitutional monarchy is now the political system of many Western countries, in general, the constitutional monarchy is divided into dual constitutional monarchy, parliamentary constitutional monarchy. ”

Fei Yue'er looked interested, and after reading the books of the Liberal Arts College, she gradually became interested in the rest of the world.

Taking a sip of tea, he continued: "The essence of the monarchy is to establish a parliament to limit the rights of the monarch, but the difference is that in a dual constitutional monarchy, the emperor's power is higher than that of parliament, while a parliamentary constitutional monarchy has the opportunity to lose some of his rights, or even be reduced to decoration. ”

"What is this council?" Fei Yue'er asked.

"Simply put, it is the supreme authority representing the interests of merchants, and this body has all the rights of the emperor." Xiao Ming explained.

Fei Yue'er frowned, and she said: "This Western country is really strange, why can an institution representing the interests of businessmen rule a country, if so, won't this country become a tool for businessmen to accumulate wealth?" ”

Xiao Ming was a little surprised, he looked at Fei Yue'er and asked, "Do you think this kind of national system is not good?" ”

"Not good." Fei Yue'er replied categorically, "Businessmen pursue profits, and they can do anything for the sake of profit." ”

Xiao Ming said with a smile: "It's just that feudal autocracy also has its own drawbacks, it's just that the people who accumulate wealth have changed from businessmen to powerful people, and there is no difference in nature." ”

Fei Yue'er said: "Your Highness is right, so a generation of Ming monarchs can prosper the country, and a generation of faint monarchs can destroy the country, but the monarch's destiny is bestowed, so why should Your Highness be interfered with by Western countries." ”

Xiao Ming sighed, for him, the real crisis was far from the civil strife in the Great Chongqing Kingdom, nor was it the great powers that were eyeing the Great Chongqing Kingdom, the biggest crisis actually came from within the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

Now, in order to improve the level of civilization, he is popularizing education in the closed country, and the result of this is the opening of the people's wisdom, once the people's wisdom is opened, the people and businessmen will actively participate in state affairs.

At that time, it is not known whether there will be a British Glorious Revolution or a French Revolution in the Great Chongqing Congress.

Because of this, Fei Yue'er mentioned this incident that suddenly raised a haze in his heart, because maybe one day his enemies were the people who once supported him.

Because he would not allow events similar to the Glorious Revolution in Britain and the French Revolution to take place in the Great Chongqing Kingdom, nor would he allow capital to control the country.

In his view, the system is not the decisive factor that determines the rise and fall of a country, because no matter what system is implemented by people, the ultimate problem is bad in the hands of the executor.

However, it is also inappropriate to maintain the feudal autocracy granted by the monarch, so he will follow the footsteps of the times to make some changes in the political system of the Great Chongqing State, but he will not follow the example of the West, which is more inclined to the combination of China and the West, and adopt the golden mean, adopting the advantages of the two families to govern the country.

However, it is too early to talk about political reform before the stability of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, and he now needs a stable environment to centralize power to end the current situation of feudal chaos, otherwise if there is civil strife, then he will be equivalent to cutting off his own arm.