Chapter 168: The Four Great Families

It is said that there are four rivers in this Yudan Yuezhou, and there are four most famous ones. According to the distribution of southeast and northwest, it is called Yijin Dao River, Shanti River, Waiting Car River, and Weizhu River.

These four rivers are controlled by the Yidao family, the Shanti family, the waiting car family, and the Weizhu family.

The heads of the four major families, King Yi, King Shan, King Che, and King Wei, control the four major affairs of politics, economy, transportation and military respectively in the government agencies of Yudan Yuezhou, and are the backbone families of Yudan Yuezhou.

Speaking of the government structure of Yudan Yuezhou, it is actually very peculiar.

Generally speaking, the supreme leader of the Yudan Yue Republic government is from the lord of Shanxianyuan, and it is also because Shanxianyuan is the central city where the Yudanyue people live in the largest concentration, and more than 50% of the population of the entire continent, including the four major river basins, lives in it or around Shanxianyuan, Shanxianyuan City is mainly unable to be a government leader, so probably no family head is embarrassed to be the head of the family, because you are in vain, right? Without the support of Shanxianyuan, how much can you do as a government leader?

And as the four lords who control the four major rivers around Zenkenyuan, as long as they support the city lord of Zenkenen as the leader of the government, then it is natural to control the main institutions of the government.

It seems that the ideas of freedom, democracy, and equality are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the one-person-one-vote election has been practiced for tens of thousands of years, and a relatively stable democratic mechanism has been formed. It looks beautiful.

But in fact, these are tortoise eggs.

So what's the with this egg?

Let's talk about the population of Yu Danyue, the entire continent has a population of about 30 billion, of which the population of all kinds of families of all sizes is about 23 billion.

This means that nearly 80% of the population is in the hands of various large and small families, so will each family member go against the opinion of the head of the family to vote for a candidate who does not represent the interests of the family?

That means that people who can really have free will and vote as they wish are only about 20 percent of the continent's population. And these voters with free will are basically those who are truly free people who will not choose to join their families.

When it comes to the population of the family, no matter how many people the family controls, there are not many who are actually related by blood.

Taking the Yiwang family, the largest family in Yudan Yuezhou, as an example, the population of the entire family has reached a terrifying more than 6 billion, but in fact, there will be no more than 300 million people who really belong to the bloodline of Yiwang.

In other words, the 5.7 billion of them are actually not from the Yiwang family, but just rely on the Yiwang family to survive.

In addition to these individuals who rely on or defect to the Yiwang family, there are also some families with weak power who defect to the Yiwang family as vassals, so the Yiwang family actually controls nearly 10 billion votes. Such a family's power can basically influence the political situation in Yudan Yuezhou, but the strange thing is that no one in the Yi family has ever been the leader of the government.

In fact, this is also the result of a compromise between the interests of the Yi family and the interests of the other three major families.

The other three major families are powerful, although the single family is not as big as the Yi family, but together it is to surpass the strength of the Yi family. The total population of small families, including dependents, is about 14 billion, and this forms a certain balance of forces.

If King Yi is elected as the leader of the government, then he will be opposed by the forces of the other three families, and the Yi family will not agree to any of the heads of the other three families being elected as the leader of the government.

In this case, a strange phenomenon has been formed, that is, although the number of freemen is small, the candidates they elect will always be supported by the four major families, because if this candidate is elected as the leader of the government, then it means that he does not represent the interests of any of the four families, so from this point of view, the lord of Zenkenen Castle is of course invariably elected by the free people.

Politics is a game of constant compromise.

The freedman's candidate became the lord of Zengenen and then the leader of the government, and this pattern has remained unchanged for tens of thousands of years.

This leader not only won the unanimous consent of the four great families and their vassal families, but also calmed the emotions of the free people. After all, it seems that maybe the person we elected is in power, right? Although it may not bring us much benefit, he is embarrassed to do things that harm our interests, right?

The leader, for a unified Yudan Yuezhou, is the supreme existence, and a government has to work for a hundred years, as if its own power is not small.

But if any leader who doesn't know death dares to really think so, then he is really not far from death. Although it is said that the life span of Yu Danyue is as high as 1,000 years old, and there is no such thing as dying halfway, this not dying means that there will be no seven diseases and eight disasters, but it does not mean that you can't be eliminated physically. If it really disobeys, or even harms the interests of the four major families, is it difficult to create an accident?

There was a leader in history who advocated weakening the power of the extended family, and on the eve of his imminent decree that free people should not join the power of the family, during a trip to inspect, the aircraft had an accident and fell, and the person fell to his death. Although the whole country mourned, and the heads of the four major families all came out to mourn, and even cried a lot, but with the wisdom of Yu Danyue, the paralyzed can not see this bit of greasy inside?

But there are cats and cats, who will really investigate the truth of the matter? Seeking truth and explanation will only happen in the mouths of some Internet dicks in the country on the earth in Tu Zhe's previous life.

The truth of paralysis is also something that you little people can know?

Therefore, although the cause of the leader's death is well known to Yu Danyue, no family will come forward to ask for a thorough investigation of this matter. And as a free people, can life go on, without worrying about food and clothing, do you need to risk dying this way or that for a dead leader?

Therefore, it should be said that the leader of the Yudan Yuezhou government on the surface is actually a plaything pushed out by a big family, and you have to take it seriously that you are stupid.

Words into the Yi family.

Speaking of the Yi family's 300 million descendants, collateral lines, and external lines, they are all figures who lead the government or have some power in the family.

said that the current head of the Yi family, that is a big man who is vertical and horizontal, and he does not hold a half-official position in the government, but this family has hundreds of thousands of people in the government's large and small yamen.

The highest office is the son of the current head of the family, King Yi, the prime minister of the government, Yamen Dazai Yi Wensheng.

That's a position above 10,000 people under one person, and almost all government affairs are decided by him alone, of course, this refers to administration, military power, or something that he can get involved in too deeply.