Chapter 633 [Roman Citizen Election II]
The dictatorship and decentralization of power are not actually opposites like ice and fire. If a balance point can be found in it, the country may be more cohesive and centripetal. For example, in later Britain and Japan, the constitutional monarchy system is actually more superior to American democracy in many cases.
The huge olive branch from the 100,000 Qin army and China from China certainly made the three giants of Rome excited, but who can say that the role of the Roman emperor was not what the Romans expected? History always has its inevitability. China, which has been implemented as an official for three thousand years, will be difficult to become American-style democracy in the new era; a group of lawyers who established the constitution have no historical burden from the beginning. Pure democracy is simply what they have brought in their innate bones. Britain and the Japanese are proud of their male queen. Isn’t all this the inevitable result of history?
Rome, which had influenced the world for three thousand years, experienced a three hundred years of royal power era. Even if the Roman Republic was established, there were still great dictators in different historical periods. The famous Caesar once did it. The appearance of the dictator was not exactly the Roman nostalgic era. With the development of history, the republic eventually evolved into the Roman Empire. Isn’t this an alternative restoration of royal power.
After two hundred years of republic era, both nobles and citizens had had enough of the endless disputes between the consuls and the Senate. The cloak of Roman democracy was even pulled away when the Gauls approached the city of Rome. In fact, the people had long missed the great dictator Camilles, as Dongfang Baizi said, if a powerful figure like Camilles was still there, how could the savage and despised Gauls fight to the great Roman legion under the city of Rome?
After the crisis in Rome was lifted, this dissatisfaction gradually grew throughout Rome, from nobles to citizens. From the Roman city hall to the dark taverns all over the city, everyone was scolding the sanctions of the sanctuary and inaction, secretly applauding Marcus's behavior of signing the East. Although the consul Marcus's actions had lost face to the Romans, if he had not made a quick decision, the city of Rome would have been conquered by the Gauls long ago, and the corpses and plagues that had grown everywhere in the ditches of Rome were now everywhere.
Bai Dong, who represents the Eastern China, actually made a suitable suggestion at a suitable time. Coupled with the temptation of huge interests, the Roman giants had no reason to refuse.
When Rome's decision to honor the Roman emperor was announced, the atmosphere of the entire Roman city immediately became warm, and the opponents were less than 30%. What the Romans now had to consider was how much power and honor to give the future Roman emperors, how to achieve the balance between the separation of powers of the Roman emperor, the consul and the Senate. There is also the most important question: Who should do the Roman emperors?
Of course, the descendants of the expelled Roman kings did not consider it. The Romans' partial nostalgia for the royal era and their attitude towards the king cannot be simply equated with their attitude towards the king. So the first thing to consider is the senators who served as consuls in the Senate and the two current consuls. Behind these giants are all giant families. Even in Rome, which upholds the Greek democratic spirit, ordinary citizens cannot become candidates.
Once the scope of candidates was determined, the century-old Roman Legislative Council began to devote intensive work and quickly stipulated the scope of power, honors enjoyed, as well as the emperor's inheritance system and election process.
It has to be said that Rome's rule of law construction is really a hundred years ahead of China. The emperor can actually elect, and the right to vote will be truly delegated to the Citizens' Congress, and even the Senate is only a spectator; the only power they have is that if they believe that the election results of the Citizens' Congress will harm the interests of Rome, after two-thirds of the Senate agree, they can ask the Citizens' Congress to re-election. In the contradictory Senate, this is obviously unlikely.
Rome, which entered the rainy season, was not much better than Britain in later generations. The air was wet for more than ten consecutive days. The cold water vapor seemed to be about to penetrate into every bone of a person. It is actually difficult for foreigners like Bai Dong to understand why Romans could still enjoy it in this weather. The soldiers of Rome were actually wearing cute short leather skirts, naked, revealing their short elephant legs, while the nobles liked to wear long-distance running around at banquets, and they didn't like to wear underwear.
If he invented tights, would he make a fortune in Rome Bai Dong be amused by his novel idea? This style is obviously wrong. Now he is a person who often decides major events in the continent. He is not the young man who is on the spot who has made his name by making his reputation by making some inventions and creations.
"Are you very proud, the Romans did not escape your plan? Just look at them so nervously and quickly formulated laws about the Roman emperor. The proud Rome is very eager to cooperate with us in China."
Jing Jian cooked a glass of wine on his own. He lay next to the hot pool and opened a sheepskin and looked at it, constantly chanting: "It seems you are not wrong. If you talk about legislation and justice, Rome is really ahead of China. Look at this decree: The Roman emperor was given the name of Rome and inherited the glory of Rome. In foreign exchanges and wars, he appeared as the highest leader of Rome; but he only had nominal ownership of the army, and the Roman army would be loyal to the emperor, but not
Ordered by the emperor, he is only responsible to the consuls and the Senate of Rome. The Roman emperor had the power to propose legislation, but the Legislative Council was the Legislative Council who actually drafted the decree. The review was the Senate. The Roman emperor could be inherited by the family. However, if two-thirds of the Senate passed and the consuls proposed impeachment, it would be handed over to the Citizens' Congress to re-election compared to the Greek citizenship system, which is undoubtedly a step further. It seems that the Legislative Council of Rome attaches great importance to your opinion."
Even the Roman emperor was about to emerge and needed to solve the concerns of nobles of all families and classes before it could be established. Bai Dong transferred it to Marcus through Jing Jian and then delivered it to the Roman Legislative Council's opinion to some extent. Jing Jian was such a smart person. After reading Bai Dong's opinion, he could not imagine that it was created by a Marquis of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
If the Romans were a hundred years ahead of China, Bai Dong's opinions that integrated the legal thoughts of later generations made the Romans even more stunned.
Jing Jian even thought about what would happen if Bai Dong's opinions were used in China, but he soon denied them. The political systems of the East and West were very different. The Greeks and Romans might accept Bai Dong's ideas. If they were placed in China, it would never happen. Not to mention that the Zhou emperor would not agree with it, I am afraid that even Ying Quliang would be the first to attack Bai Dong.
Chapter completed!