However, there was one thing that forced Shang Yi to take it seriously. On December 24, fifteen members of the Senate House jointly submitted a proposal to the parliament to the parliament to stop the southern expedition.
After receiving this proposal, Speaker Huang Zongxi immediately felt it was very difficult. In fact, Huang Zongxi's establishment of the Senate Yuan was very supportive, because after all, there was a place where scholars and officials could express their opinions, and it was also very consistent with the establishment of an institution that judges the world's affairs in his mind. Therefore, in the past two years, Huang Zongxi has also worked very hard, hoping to do his best to improve this institution and truly play a role.
Huang Zongxi is not a pedantic person. Of course, he also knows that whether the Senate can exist for a long time depends entirely on Shang Yi's attitude at present. Although Shang Yi has always supported the Senate, accepted many proposals passed by the Senate, and accused the government of being tolerant of the proposals. Of course, Huang Zongxi still used his identity as the speaker to reject some proposals with fierce verbal attitudes, so as not to stimulate Shang Yi too much.
However, Huang Zongxi was not easy to refuse this proposal because there were many co-presidents this time and met the standards that must be discussed. However, Huang Zongxi was very clear about the interests in this, so he did not dare to make decisions. So after discussing with several executive committee members, he came to Wang Fuzhi with two representative executive committee members to explain the whole story and asked Wang Fuzhi to tell Shang Yi on his behalf.
Wang Fuzhi was also quite surprised and even suspected that this would be the spies from the Qing court who were making trouble, so he immediately reported to Shang Yi.
Because Shang Yi treats the Senate as a future parliament and then tries it, he attaches great importance to the affairs of the Senate. Although the current Senate does not have the functions of the parliament, at most it is equivalent to a CPPCC, if the proposals passed by the Senate are feasible, Shang Yi will also accept them. Some of the things that Shang Yi is preparing to implement are also subject to proposals passed by the Senate, expressing his importance to the Senate. If it is not feasible, they will also discuss them in the name of the cabinet and give certain explanations.
However, Shang Yi also knew that this proposal was a big trouble. Although he could not accept it even if the proposal was passed, he would push himself to the opposite side of the Senate. After all, this proposal was more like a test, and he could know how his support rate in the Senate was.
But Shang Yi also denied that this was a spy in the Qing court, because the spy in the Qing court could not understand that Shang Yi's ultimate goal of establishing an agency like the Senate, and at the current stage, the Senate cannot pose any danger to its own power. If you plan to start in this regard, it would be amazing unless someone in the Qing court traveled through time. Therefore, this should be a problem that arises in the Senate itself. After all, it is normal for the members of the parliament to participate in some of the remaining old and young people of the Ming Dynasty.
In addition, this situation is not surprising, because in the early stages of the establishment of the constitutional monarchy system, similar problems will inevitably be encountered in the stage of the juxtaposition of imperial power and parliamentary power. Sooner or later, the conflict of power between the two sides will occur. If the power of the parliament is greater than the power of the emperor, the imperial power will be directly denied and the power of the parliament will be taken to strengthen the power of the parliament. If the imperial power is greater than the power of the parliament, the emperor will take the opportunity to turn the parliament into his own rubber stamp, and if the bad ones, the parliament will be directly disbanded.