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Chapter 5 The Great Election: The Emperor¡¯s Armored Face 275 Imperial Trendy Man 1871

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    275 Imperial Trendy Man 1871

    Voting week Monday voting day

    The campaign platforms of the Liberal Party and the Democratic Party were demolished in Trinity Square, and a strange house appeared in the center: there was a half-meter-high wooden frame underneath, lifting the entire house off the ground, as if it were built on the water.  It's like a wooden house; but it has no walls, is surrounded by wooden latticework, and is inlaid with glass in the middle. The entire house is transparent and can be seen at a glance.

    This is the voting house specially sent to Longchuan by the imperial court. This thing is expensive, because fully transparent glass is not cheap, and almost all its four walls are made of glass, so after it was assembled under the spotlight,  , iron chains were immediately placed around it, and soldiers and militiamen guarded it all night to prevent damage.

    This naturally attracted a crowd of people watching. Through the glass wall, everyone could see the layout inside: in each corner were three and a half-tall wooden stands, which were ballot boxes, but on each ballot box there were  The vertical baffle blocks other people's sight; when people write their ballots and vote into the ballot box, people outside can see their backs and movements, but they will not know whose names they write.  ¡ª¡ªThis is to prevent cheating, such as taking out a large number of ballots from the pocket and stuffing them in, and the strategy of kidnapping voters in the polling place to force them to vote for someone cannot be used, because vote bribers can give voters outside  Money, but you don¡¯t know and can¡¯t control which name voters write, and voters will be able to hack you at will;

    There is also a workbench-like thing in the middle of the 12 ballot boxes, which will be the place where ballots are distributed and tools such as locks and seals are stored.

    On Sunday, people bypassed the glass house and gathered in front of the central church. They prayed in the open air in the rain to God to bless the emperor, the country and Longchuan, and if their own candidates were successful, including the official, Zheng Abao, Yi Cheng, Zhang Qijie,  Celebrities such as Li Meng, Lin Liuming, Wang Yujia, Zhuang Feijiang, Fan Linhui, and Pan Jinxing knelt in the first row under the steps, earnestly praying to God for His grace to come and make the final stage of the Longchuan election successful.  .

    Today, Monday, the entire Trinity Street is under martial law and only people are allowed to enter on foot; the police station is heavily guarded. Troops brought by prosecutors line up around the voting room in Trinity Square. Outside the troops are layers of cameras.  and reporters, it seemed that Trinity Square had turned into a stadium, with crowds of spectators all around.

    The real contestants are the common people and voters. They cover the entire street like a tide. The stone monument "God is Light" is the entrance to the arena. Sheriffs line up in front of the stone monument to surround a large piece of white space to maintain order.  Use.

    At the entrance, staff from both parties shouted hoarsely and repeatedly told the crowd how to vote and never write the wrong name, just like parents sending their children into the examination room.

    The two major party leaders, Yicheng and Zheng Abao, lined up on both sides of the stone monument with their candidates. They were all in suits and leather shoes, their whole bodies were shining, and they also wore white gloves. Their task today was  Shake hands and bow to every supporter, and put on your friendliest face at the last moment to win votes.

    At 10 o'clock in the morning, the official walked on the red carpet to the "opening gong" behind the glass stage. He took the drumstick in his hand, but stood still with a smile on his face: immediately white smoke from countless cameras rose up around him.  , as if a war filled with smoke is going on here.

    "Bang" the official banged the gong hard, threw the drumstick, raised a finger to the blue sky, and shouted: "Voting begins"

    The crowd entered the venue in an orderly manner along the entrances on both sides of "God is Light", with 6 people on each side at a time.

    From the first group of people waving to everyone, entering the square, entering the glass room, collecting ballots, starting to write the names of candidates, putting in, turning around and exiting the back door of the church on the other side, the whole process was full of white smoke from the cameras, and the photographers really seemed like  The gunners on the battlefield took off their clothes and were shirtless like this. While focusing and shooting, they kept yelling at their assistants to install lighting potion and light the fire.

    This is the most exciting record of the entire process of producing the first ballot in Longchuan.

    The flow of people moved forward slowly, and every voter was known to everyone. When they chose to enter from the side they supported and shook hands with the party leaders and candidates, the crowd burst into thunderous cheers.

    Of course conflicts soon arose.

    Some members of the Liberal Party ran up to Zhang Qijie and Zheng Abao and muttered a few words. Zheng Abao immediately threw down the civilized stick in his hand and led Zhang Qijie to the other side along the stone monument. He pointed at the man who was bowing and shaking hands with Yi Cheng and shouted:

    "Hey, are you called Zhang Fugou? How did you get the qualification to vote when you can't read at all?"

    The man named Zhang Fugou was stunned for a moment, and then shouted: "I can read, who said I can't read?"

    Immediately, a burst of laughter broke out from the surrounding onlookers, who among the locals did not know who was who.

    Lin Liuming jumped out to protect himselfAfter obtaining the citizenship certificate, naturally they have no choice: unless you want to lose your job, you have to vote for whomever the boss asks you to vote for; the Democratic Party is naturally not afraid of the imperial favor and will do the same.

    Not only the companies of the two parties are doing this, but other companies with rich human resources are also following suit: without losing money, you can wholesale your votes to the two parties, or even let the two of them bid.

    For a time, it became a common trend in the capital to hold literacy classes in factories.

    Only the textile tycoon Zhou Kaiyuan was very angry. He went to find his nephew Li Mingchang and said angrily: "Achang, now that the election campaign is about to begin in Beijing, those bastards from the business association will say when they meet, I hold a thousand votes in my hand.  There are 800 votes on the Internet, and the votes are openly priced and peddled. I am so angry that the Bible says that men and women are one body. Doesn¡¯t it mean that women can¡¯t vote? Write an article for me to appeal.¡±

    Zhou Kaiyuan should indeed be angry¡ªamong the tycoons, he suffers the most from ¡°supporting votes¡± because he has too many female workers.

    After the successful 7-week election campaign in Huizhou, a large city after Longchuan, given that the court and both parties had rich experience and a large number of election experts, the court carried out reforms: the campaign period was shortened to four weeks again, and the government began to be given  A rolling list of election sequences in each city: When the election in City A is in full swing, the two parties will also start preparatory work in the next City B, and the lottery in City B is also ready; as soon as City A ends, the horse racing in City B has already been completed  position, just waiting for the starting gun; the election cycle is accelerating.

    In addition to the local people who are extremely excited, the church is extremely happy to receive donations for candidates, and bribes are taken to become voters. The literacy rate of untouchables is skyrocketing. The education industry that provides quick training courses for voter qualifications is making huge profits, and gangs are  The underground casinos made a lot of money, and the police officers who caught gamblers or collected private gambling protection fees also made a lot of money; of course, the group of people who wanted to raise money for the railway also formed a party and went to a certain city without a railway.  , you will see them swaggering through the city holding huge banners: "The people are crying and demanding that XX City raise funds to build the railway by itself."

    The newspaper industry has made even more money: there are endless tricks in elections: some candidates jump off buildings, some candidates are taken out of prostitutes' dens by their opponents in the middle of the night and paraded through the streets, some candidates have a heart attack and are scared to death, and some candidates are frightened to death.  Candidates who had their qualifications revoked shot and assassinated Zheng Abao, candidates who knelt in public for three days and nights to ask for forgiveness from the people and Yi Cheng, and candidates who led their supporters on foot to Beijing to demand face-to-face grievances, not to mention  Fights, group fights, and violent bloodshed one after another - if you didn't elect, you really wouldn't know that there are so many perverts in this empire. Regarding these monsters and demons dancing around in the election, you would be sorry for yourself if you didn't publish headlines. Haisong newspaper industry has entered the golden age  Era.
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