Coming out of the fourth house, Altai looked at Sheila a little tired and asked, "Do you want to go home?" ”

Sheila didn't mention going home, and she asked Altai a little tiredly: "I don't think people seem to be interested in what I have to say." ”

"Hmm." Altai replied.

"You really see it that way, it seems to be true." Sheila's voice was a little melancholy.

Altai's voice was still indifferent, "If you invite these people once, please them at the banquet, maybe they will vote for you." ”

Sheila shook her head, "I don't have any money. ”

Hehe. Altai chuckled.

Sheila glanced at Altai and pursed her lips slightly, "I wouldn't do that if I had money." ”

"I've heard that the nobles of the east have begun to feast on the local people."

Hearing this, Sheila's expression shook slightly, but she didn't say anything.

Altai looked at the old acquaintance and thought Sheila was funny. With Altai's understanding of Sheila, this little girl is no stranger to human affairs, but she is a little different. It can be seen that she really wants to help those who are poor. As I was thinking about it, I heard Sheila sigh: "Now many people want to add only men to the first article of the selection regulations. I may not be eligible to run. ”

"Hmm." Altai replied, but did not comment. Naturally, Li said the same thing, and in such a turbulent situation, many people feel that banning women from running for election is the most important thing now. Altai was also not supportive of women running, but he was even more disgusted with them.

I didn't want to comment, but Altai followed Sheila for a while, but couldn't help but ask: "Miss Sheila, do you still want to continue to run for election now?" ”

"Yes." Sheila replied decisively.

"Do you want to be chosen?"

"Of course."

"Why do you insist so much?"

"I want to do something for everyone when I have the opportunity to do it, and if I don't get it, I'll work hard for myself."

"Do something for everyone? Do you think you can change the way the world is now? ”

"A little change is a change."

"A little?"

Altai's tone made Sheila a little strange, she glanced at the man, and asked puzzledly, "Do you think what I said is wrong?" ”

"Even if it's a little bit, tens of thousands of little things add up to a lot. A few millions, Miss Sheila must know what that means. ”

Sheila looked at the man next to her, who looked calm and calm, and this person's presence didn't seem to be so strong. Sheila doesn't underestimate him, but sometimes forgets about him. But just a few words are enough to prove that Altai not only exists, but also sees the world with his eyes. After walking for a while, Sheila asked, "Do you think I've chosen too much of a target?" ”

"I think you've been in the office for too long, and you've gotten used to seeing things from their perspective."

"You...... Do you want me to compromise with the office? ”

"No, I think you made the right decision."

"And what do you mean by that?"

"I think the promises you made are too big for a lot of people to believe."

Sheila exhaled softly, and this was indeed the same thing that Sheila felt, and she found that when she talked about it, the other party either didn't listen too carefully, or didn't believe it. After walking a little further, Sheila asked Altai, "Do you believe it?" ”

"I've been to the East with Miss Sheila, and I don't doubt that Miss Sheila will try to achieve what you say if elected."

"People don't believe me because they don't know me, right?" There was a sense of hurt in Sheila's voice.

Altai stopped talking, and he said it was because he saw that Sheila was determined to push what she was looking forward to. Now Sheila is a bit like a little girl in a frustration, and Altai is not interested in talking anymore.

Walking a little further to the door of Sheila's house, Sheila stopped, "Thank you, Mr. Altai." ”

"What time are you going out tomorrow?" Altai asked?

"You're still going to stay with me?"

"This is the task assigned to me by Senior Li Nature."

"See you tomorrow morning at eight o'clock."

"Eight, okay."

Sheila came home and saw her dad reading a book in the living room. Seeing Sheila coming back, Dad asked Sheila to come and sit down, "Sheila, the wind direction in the court has changed a little now." His Excellency Tiberius lost his temper at the selection committee for more than an hour in the afternoon. ”

"Because of me?"

"Part of it is because of you, and part of it is because he saw the female officials of the Song State mentioned in "Oriental Travels" with his own eyes, and he was greatly dissatisfied with the system of the Song State."

Sheila was so angry that she had a little bit of schadenfreude in her heart. By this time, Sheila had heard of what Tiberius was promoting, and she would be angry at anyone who was being targeted like this, and Sheila was annoyed. However, Sheila was also surprised, although she knew that there were many female officials in the Great Song Dynasty, it was the first time she had seen a real person. The Eastern Mediterranean was too far away from the Great Song Dynasty for Sheila to imagine what it would be like if she crossed tens of thousands of miles by sea to the Great Song Dynasty. A few hundred miles away from home made Sheila feel uncomfortable.

Suddenly, Sheila thought of something else, and she hurriedly asked, "Father, is it true that Tiberius is feeling frustrated?" ”

"The movement in the court has changed." Sheila's father said: "I have been told by a member that some ministers have made it clear that they do not support His Excellency Tiberius' idea. ”

"Why?"

"We don't know the specifics yet, but they have already taken a stand. His Excellency Tiberius suspected that the female diplomat of the Song Kingdom had done something. ”

"How is that possible! How could Da Song send someone thousands of miles away for me. Tiberius really thinks too much. Haha"

The daughter's smile made Sheila's father Maximi feel a little happy in his heart, but he knew that it was not the time to be happy at this time, so Maximi said seriously: "Sheila, whether it's because of you or not, I think your chances are increasing now." If officials continue to change their positions, you will really have a chance to run. Do you think you'll be able to win at that point? ”

Sheila's eyes lit up, it was the first time her father had talked about the election like this, and he had never said anything about Sheila's election before. She thought for a moment and was about to speak. But her father spoke before she could speak, "I just want you to explain the system of this election, you listen well." ”

In the plan developed by Tiberius and the scholars, there were 121 senators in the Senate, of which 120 were elected by election, and the senator who did not have to participate in the election was the Eastern Roman Emperor, so as to ensure that the Senate could vote for a vote difference. The senators were elected by a fixed number of people in each province based on the ancient provincial system that had been destroyed.

The Lok Sabha is elected not by province but by population, and the plan is now to elect one representative from among 10,000 people. There are no statistics on the population of the Eastern Romans, but it is estimated that there are between 8 million and 15 million. At this stage, 800 members of the Lok Sabha will be elected on a scale of about 8 million.

Local councils are elected on the basis of one member for every 1,000 people.

Parliaments are elected every three years, and the first parliamentary elections are considered to be a transitional body, in order to put the framework in place first. After that, there would be two or three councils to complete the process of granting citizenship, and when the Eastern Rome re-established the citizenship system, all the right to vote and to be elected was the right of citizens.

Giving a general account of the new system proposed by Tiberius, Sheila's father brought the problem back to reality, "Your Excellency Tiberius does not believe that women should have citizenship, and if you become a senator, there will be a problem of women becoming citizens." Even if this issue is not resolved now, it will still be raised in the future when the granting of citizenship begins. ”

Sheila nodded, she understood why Tiberius was so targeting her. It seems that this big-nosed old man is not exactly a selfish guy.

"Sheila, if it's for a city councilor, with your current influence and supporters, you can definitely be elected. If it's an election veteran, the water is much deeper than you think. It is said that the Senate will wait for Barcellus' authorization, but in fact the Senate will decide the fate of the future Eastern Rome. His Excellency Tiberius wanted to build a strong senate that would determine a considerable part of the policy of the Eastern Romans. Sheila, it's too difficult for you to be elected as a senator, and many big families want to nominate their own senators. ”

"Hmm." Sheila nodded repeatedly.

"And what do you want to choose?"

Sheila didn't speak. After listening to the introduction of her father, a member of the selection committee, Sheila sorted out a lot of things that she had not thought of before, and her understanding of the whole situation also improved to a new level. His Excellency Tiberius, who originally seemed to be the biggest obstacle to Sheila, was completely inadequate, and it was not a scholar's turn to choose a senator. Even if it's a scholar of great repute. As for the details of the aristocratic circle, Sheila felt that Tiberius's level of knowledge was only inferior to her own. Those people are never reluctant when they talk about interests, and they will inevitably compete for every penny.

Seeing that his daughter did not speak, Sheila's father drank tea. After a while, he couldn't help but speak: "Sheila, I think you have understood the key, and I don't recommend that you choose a patriarch. I can't choose it. ”

"What if I go and run for the head of the Ankara region?"

"What?" Sheila's father felt he had misheard something.

"I can't elect a senator in Constantinople, but my father said that there is no residency requirement for the senator election, right?"

"The place of residence ......, this one is indeed missing. The current rule is that as long as there are 20,000 people in the local government, they can run for election. But who do you know in the Ankara region? ”

"I know a lot of nobles." Sheila said decisively, although there was some cringe in her eyes, but more momentum, "I have been to the Ankara region, and I know a lot of nobles from that region. They want to change the situation where they can't make money farming, and if they nominate me, I have the ability to help them. A part of the nobility of the Ankara region also believed that I could help them. ”

"Sheila, I won't let you go that far!" A mother's voice came from the second floor.

Sheila raised her eyes to look at her mother, who was full of anxiety and anger, and then retracted her gaze to her father, who was also surprised, and said to him, "Father, I will go to Ankara." ”