Chapter 360: Plenary Meeting
In the Kingdom of Doguland, there are two main types of high-level councils - the royal council and the royal council.
The "Council of Princes" is co-chaired by the left hand of the king and the right hand of the king, and the subordinate members are from the royal family, the five major royal families, or non-royal aristocratic officials with strong influence in the local area.
At the meeting, members of the Council could initiate drafts of additions, deletions, and amendments to the Code, discuss war and peace, the construction of cities in various regions, and the election of provincial-level officials, and vote on all proposals at the meeting.
If the proposal fails to be voted at this level of the Council of Kings, it will be reconsidered or scrapped.
If voted on, the proposal will be submitted to the next higher level, known as the "Imperial Council".
The Cabinet Council is composed of only royal ministers, headed by the king, and the rest of the council are blood relatives of the king.
Proposals voted by the Council of the Monarchs will be discussed and voted on for a second time.
Only a proposal voted on by the Imperial Council will have final effect and may be implemented throughout the kingdom.
In addition, the Council has the right to review a proposal vetoed by the Council of Kings at a higher level, and if the proposal is approved by the Council after review, the proposal will remain valid.
In short, the "Imperial Council" and the "Royal Council" are the relationship between the latter and the former—the Royal Council is led by the left hand of the king and the right hand of the king, and the major families share the day-to-day affairs and are subject to the supervision and control of the Imperial Council.
The Imperial Council is led by the king, and only blood relatives can become members, and they have the highest decision to vote and select bills submitted by the royal council.
This political system was established at the beginning of the reign of the "Ancient King" Doguland I, which shared the government affairs among the major families and improved administrative efficiency, while firmly locking the final decision in the hands of the royal family to ensure the absolute authority of the ruler.
In addition to the two major councils of the royal lord and the royal council, there is another council that is even more special, and that is the "plenary meeting of the kingdom".
The Council of the Kingdom can be seen as a gathering of the Council of Kings and the Council of the Queens, led by the King, and at the same time, the scope of the Council is no longer politically limited, and the powerful figures in all fields, from the king's right hand to the provincial officials of the six provinces, will be present, and it is a major meeting that runs through the entire superstructure.
Throughout the history of Doguland, compared with the long years of 513 years since the founding of the ancient kings, the number of plenary meetings of the kingdom has been counted, but the proposals voted on at each meeting have greatly affected the trend of the kingdom.
The most representative of this is the 54th Plenary Council of the Kingdom 23 years ago, in the year 490 of the Lunar Calendar, four years after the end of the "Laurel War".
At that time, the war with the Far Eastern Dynasty had greatly damaged the vitality of the Dogurand Kingdom, and the bestiality epidemic in the territory had spread for 4 years.
At that time, the blood treatment of the "Crimson Church" had been used on a large scale in the kingdom to help the sick, but the church refused to hand over the blood cure to the royal family in any form.
In response to this situation, at the "54th Plenary Assembly of the Kingdom" led by Pertheus, there was a lot of debate among the parliamentarians.
Some people have proposed appeasement and allowing the Crimson Church to heal the people with blood, as long as it can suppress the animal plague and stabilize the people's livelihood.
Some people proposed to use force to negotiate, use heavy troops to force the church to give in, hand over the secret recipe for blood healing, and if they did not comply, they would kill until the other party gave in.
It was proposed to cooperate on an equal footing, to concede some political interests, to give official approval of the Church's blood treatment first, and to legislate to bind the situation in the future.
There are also those who believe that concessions must not be opened, and that they would rather slaughter the infected to control the animal plague than allow the existence of the Crimson Church to affect the authority of the regime.
At the age of 31, Perseus was left to his father's kingdom by internal and external troubles, the edifice was about to collapse, and the difficulties he faced were unimaginable.
Eventually, at a hotly debated plenary session of the kingdom, the young king made the final decision – to pass the Special Asylum Act for the Church.
It is hard to imagine what Doguland would be like today without the Special Asylum Law for the Church.
Perhaps, under pressure, Doguland found another way to control the plague of the beast, and without the constraints of the Church, without any concessions, the regime was as solid as Mount Tai.
Or perhaps, Doguland has long been completely destroyed by the plague, the regime no longer exists, and a new kingdom has emerged in this land.
There are no "ifs" in history, and it is pointless to speculate on the past and the present, but it is undeniable that the Council of the Kingdom has a huge influence on the whole of Dorkuland.
Today, following the 54th session of the 490th year of the Fire Calendar and the 55th session of the 500th year of the Fire Calendar, the "56th Plenary Council of the Kingdom" is about to be held.
Whatever the final result of the meeting, there is no doubt that it will affect the course of the entire kingdom of Dogulander and the course of future historical development.
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For many people, today is an ordinary day, getting up, eating, working... Endless repetition.
In the central city of Wangcheng, a resident played cards all night yesterday and woke up until the sun dried his buttocks, he yawned and was about to go out to buy groceries, but found that the road was empty, and he didn't go far before he encountered a checkpoint, and the soldiers sealed the intersection to the water.
The residents poked their heads out and found that there were many checkpoints behind the checkpoints, and the further back they went, the denser the guards became.
After a while, a soldier came to the resident and asked in a cold voice: "Why are you staying here?" Didn't you receive martial law? ”
Before the residents could react, a little girl suddenly ran behind her, waving the notification document in her hand, and shouting in a milk voice: "Dad, yesterday Uncle Soldier sent this, I forgot to give it to you." ”
The resident subconsciously took the document from his daughter's hand, and before he could take a closer look, another team of soldiers came.
"What does this man do?" The three soldiers dressed in the uniforms of the "Cardinal Guard" walked up, all of them were "Blazing Lights" of the 5th sequence, and they looked at the residents in front of them coldly, like hunters staring at their prey, as if they were about to attack at any time.
"Boom, boom, boom—" A deafening sound sounded as the dragon echelons of the Regnome family soared through the sky, obscuring the sky and the moon over the royal city, and heavily armed dragon knights overlooking the surface from the dome to contain any danger that might arise.
The city of the king of Yangyang, with its heavy barriers, has even completely blocked the airspace.
Seeing this posture, the resident's head turned blank with a buzz, and he quickly picked up his daughter, apologized to the soldiers again and again, turned around and ran home, and didn't buy vegetables, just starved if he was hungry, and he didn't go out if he was killed today.
At this time, the royal city has been completely blocked by the cardinal garrison legion, the continuous military flags are running through the streets at high speed, the most elite soldiers of the entire kingdom guard the huge walls of the royal city all night, and the entrance of the drawbridge is full of imperial guards, and all those who enter the palace have been investigated in the most detail.
Today must be a day that will change history!