The war of public opinion, which quickly covered the entire empire, showed no signs of stopping, but became more violent as time went by.

The voices of opposition and support are constantly rising, there are more and more supporters on both sides, below the Imperial Decision-making Bureau, most of the members of the Imperial Center have expressed their opinions on different occasions, major newspapers, media, and major forums on the Internet have all become battlefields for the three major factions to fight each other, all kinds of articles emerge in endlessly, and the headlines are becoming more and more sensational.

With the passage of time, the southwestern faction, which seemed to have fallen into disadvantage at the beginning, became stronger and stronger, and the voices opposing the cabinet reshuffle blossomed in full swing.

In terms of the number of members of the Imperial Center, the southwest faction is already redundant to the royal faction, and now the royal faction plus the southern faction, although it is not inferior in the voice of the feudal officials, but at the next level, the power of the deputy governor level and even the main department and bureau level, the southwest faction occupies an obvious advantage, and if it wants to gain the upper hand in the war of public opinion, there is no hope at all now.

The Wang faction and the southern faction obviously understand this, in this war of public opinion, the giants of the two major factions have no hope of suppressing the southwest faction neatly, what they are doing now is to put pressure on the southwest faction and put pressure on Lin Qingtian.

Everyone knows that it was Lin Qingtian who proposed the six-ministry system, which strongly restricted the power of the cabinet, and now the cabinet has been reorganized, and once the idea of canceling the six-ministry is proposed, it is clear that it is slapping the southwest faction and Lin Qingtian in the face, which in itself is a major weakening of Lin Qingtian's prestige.

Therefore, in this war, it seems that there is no victory or defeat now, but the battle is so fierce, it is undoubtedly equivalent to the loss of the southwest faction, so the goal of the Wang faction and the southern faction is not to rely on public opinion to crush Lin Qingtian at one time, but to remain undefeated.

This goal can still be achieved under the hands of the two major factions.

"It's the same as it was shortly after the founding of the country. ”

Imperial Dragon Lake Park No. 6, the sun is rising and the weather is cool.

On the side of the modern villa specially provided for the retirement of imperial magnates, in a small maple forest, Li Donglei, dressed in a gray robe, sat on a soft chair casually, slowly moved the chess pieces on the chessboard in front of him, and smiled: " At that time, not long after I joined the work, the chief put forward the idea of reform and opening up with great courage, there was a lot of resistance, the conservatives and reformers of the empire argued endlessly, the war of public opinion lasted for several years, and many of the articles published during that period were personally polished by the giants of the empire's top leaders, and practice is the only criterion for testing the truth, and this sentence has often been talked about by people now, but now this sentence has become another sentence: public opinion is the only criterion for testing reform and opening up, and the empire has undergone many reforms, and each reform has encountered many difficulties and twists and turns, some are right, some are wrong, right and wrong, and do not need to be provenThe development of the empire is the only fact, and the facts have proved the correctness of reform and opening up, which is the line and policy of the empire to become a strong country, and in the past nearly ten years, the development of the empire has also proved the imperfection of the six-part system. ”

"Yes, I know, in fact, many people also know that the system of the six ministries is not a complete mistake, in fact, there is still a certain merit, Lin Qingtian established the six ministries, it cannot be said that he hollowed out his mind to control power, the concentration of power, from a certain aspect, it can be regarded as improving the administrative efficiency of the government, but there are some things, after all, the sooner the better, but also look at the direction, today's empire is developing well, but the influence of the rule of man is still greater than the legal system, weakening the power of the cabinet, suppressing the status of the Ministry of Supervision, the constraints are small, the supervision is also small, but the power in the hands is great, so it is obviously wrong, that's why the empire has become more and more chaotic in recent years. ”

Li Donglei said, picked up the teacup in front of him and took a sip of tea, looking at the fiery red maple leaves in front of him that occasionally fell from the trees with the breeze, his expression was a little melancholy.

Opposite him, Lin Xuanyuan, who was dressed in a black suit, stared down at the chessboard, and the chess pieces in his hand fell with a crisp sound.

Autumn, early morning, sunshine, maple forest, falling leaves.

Under the maple forest, the old and the young are playing against each other, two cups of tea.

Originally, there were some poetic and even some bleak pictures, because Lin Xuanyuan was sitting there, but there was a trace of a fierce Xiao killing atmosphere out of thin air, his eyes looked at the Chu River and Han Realm on the chessboard, and his voice was flat: "In the end, the empire has been so chaotic in recent years, Lin Qingtian and the southwest faction are the culprits, they are clinging to power but not doing personnel, the sinners of the nation, the sinners of a country, busy with internal strife and ignoring the future of the country, the crime can be punished!"

Li Donglei smiled helplessly, stretched out his hand and nodded at Lin Xuanyuan: "You kid, came to me early in the morning, did you come to quarrel with me?" I told you a long time ago, no matter what his character Lin Qingtian is, it will not be a waste to be able to sit in his current position, he also wants to do something for the empire in his heart, but his situation at that time was not easy, fighting for power and profit? Whoever is in power, will fight, Lin Qingtian's biggest mistake is to over-centralize the power of the six ministries, check and balance, and even have the intention of emptying the cabinet. ”

The old man paused in his tone, laughed at himself and said, "Speaking of which, there are also my reasons, and he has no choice but to do it, Xuanyuan, do you know what my political views are?"

"Yes. ”

Lin Xuanyuan smiled: "The party and government are separated. ”

The separation of the party and the government is one of the main contents of the imperial political reform, which refers to the separation of the functions of the imperial ruling party from the government, and is specifically proposed in view of the confusion between the functions of the imperial ruling party and the imperial government, and the phenomenon of using the party as a substitute for the government, with the aim of strengthening and improving the party's leadership, ensuring the party's political, organizational, and ideological leadership, truly giving play to the party's role in controlling the overall situation, and managing the line, principles, and policies, and at the same time helping the government to manage the work within its scope of authority.

During Li Donglei's tenure, the work of separating the party and government of the empire was extremely good, and his separation of the party and government was not a complete separation, but when the ruling party of the empire led the government, the work content between the party and the government was clarified to the greatest extent, not to negate each other, but to complement each other, so that the cooperation between the party and the government, the division of labor, and even the transaction level were transparent and idealized, and the government was dedicated to the development of the economy, and the ruling party was in charge of party affairs.

It was the ideal and healthiest period of the empire, the work of the government was comprehensive, the image of the ruling party was authoritative, and the empire was developing rapidly.

This philosophy ensures the leadership of the ruling party, increases the power of the cabinet, and strengthens the supervisory powers and obligations of the Ministry of Supervision as the party whip.

After Lin Qingtian ascended the throne, he was eager to take power, eager to suppress the royal family that had swelled at that time, and the first thing to do was to work hard to eliminate Li Donglei's influence in the empire and the cabinet, which was difficult for him to do, so he set up the six departments of the empire in another way to check and balance, and divided the power of the cabinet, and put the six departments under the leadership of the ruling party.

This is the standard practice of replacing government with the party.

But this is indeed a good way to weaken Li Donglei's influence in the empire, as for how noble Li Donglei's prestige in the royal family after retirement, how much he says, Lin Qingtian can't control it and doesn't want to care, he just wants to limit Li Donglei's influence outside the royal family.

Lin Qingtian knew that this was wrong, but he had no other choice, and the establishment of the Sixth Department represented his success in weakening Li Donglei's influence.

In the second step, he did not hesitate to attack the Ministry of Supervision.

It's just that the Ministry of Supervision at that time was not called the Ministry of Supervision, but the Imperial Center Records Inspection Committee, referred to as the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

This has always been an area strongly influenced by the Wang family, responsible for supervising the discipline style of party cadres, this kind of powerful department, Lin Qingtian will be difficult to win for a while, plus Guo Tianlong at that time can be described as a standout in the competition in the field of imperial discipline inspection, Lin Qingtian can only suppress it again.

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection was renamed the Supervision Department.

The supervision in front of the word check directly inhibits the power of the Ministry of Supervision today.

Then the six divisions of the empire began to grow rapidly.

And Lin Qingtian still refused to stop, and after suppressing the power of the Ministry of Supervision, he set his sights on another department of the empire, the Criminal Department.

At that time, the Criminal Department was not called the Criminal Department, and the current Criminal Department was a combination of two powerful departments: the Imperial Political and Legal Committee and the Imperial Public Security Department.

At that time, the secretary of the Imperial Political and Legal Committee was a very promising position to become a giant, and Bai Nanyue, one of the current elders of the Wang family, was the father of Bai Changqing, the current governor of Nanyue Province, and Bai Yang's grandfather.

But at that time, Lin Qingtian directly focused on this position, using the reason that the six ministries of the empire were all members of the decision-making bureau, and using Bai Nanyue's older age as a fact, which finally made Bai Nanyue extremely unwilling to step down from the position of the head of the criminal department, and his position was taken up by Guo Zheng, the former deputy secretary of the Imperial Political and Legal Committee and the minister of public security.

In this way, Guo Zhinu, who could have entered the decision-making bureau steadily, entered the game ahead of schedule, while Bai Nanyue, who could have been a member of the Standing Committee, was quietly squeezed out, which also directly caused the situation that the southwest faction had an advantage in the number of giants before Ye Nianlun and Chen Hualou entered the regular situation.

The advantage of the first major faction of the southwest faction was laid from here.

Lin Qingtian may know that he was wrong at the beginning, but as Li Donglei said, he has no choice at all, and he is not willing to be a puppet-like supreme head, so he can only hold the power in his hands, check and balance the cabinet, and suppress the Ministry of Supervision, which are all necessary means.

But he never thought that while he was grasping power, he would bury so many hidden dangers for the empire, and now, he wanted to turn back, but there was no way out, so he could only compete for the position of the Ministry of Supervision at all costs, hoping to withstand the anti-corruption storm after Ye Nianlun and others took office, and at the same time did his best to block the reshuffle of the cabinet.

It is difficult to ride a tiger, and it is a dilemma.

This is Lin Qingtian's situation at this time.

"Yes, the party and the government are separated. ”

Li Donglei smiled leisurely, his eyes were also a little dazed, as if he remembered the years when he was in power.

"I can't say that the concept of separating the party and the government is correct, but I can say with certainty that at least in the next few decades, this concept is the most suitable for the development of the empire. ”

Lin Xuanyuan took a sip of the teacup in front of him, and sneered: "So he is the culprit, he should be punished!"

Li Donglei glanced at Lin Xuanyuan, sighed slightly, and said with some meaning: "Young man, be cautious, Lin Qingtian is too impatient. ”

"And you"

The old man smiled slightly, swung the chess pieces, and said lightly: "Too impatient, this is also your fault." ”

Lin Xuanyuan stared down at the chessboard, silent, stunned.

On the chessboard, Li Donglei's two horses jumped over the Chu River and Han Realm, and the bicycle drove straight in, already approaching the city.

Checkmate.

And Lin Xuanyuan's chess pieces pressed the realm and swept all the way, but they were still one step away from completely killing the general in Li Donglei's middle palace.

Dead Chess-

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