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Regarding Princess Cen, King Cen's attitude has also changed from the original radical to indifferent.

Princess Cen has always refused to let go of King Cen, even if she wants to be entangled with him for the rest of her life, she doesn't care.

Chang Runzhi didn't know whether to say that Princess Cen was infatuated or stubborn.

Even Princess Cen's biological mother, Princess Changle, persuaded Princess Cen and King Cen to reconcile, but Princess Cen refused, and she didn't know what she was insisting on.

Chang Runzhi quietly asked Liu Tong in private if Princess Cen knew that the miscarriage she was pregnant with was related to King Cen.

Liu Tong said: "I shouldn't know......

"What if she knew, you say?"

"This ......"

Liu Tong couldn't say anything, so he could only say: "What their husband and wife think in their minds is different from ours, let's not get involved in these things." ”

"I think King Cen's brain is also a little wasted, you perfunctory his statement, he is willing to believe it." Chang Runzhi shook his head and sighed.

Liu Tong smiled and said, "Isn't this a good thing? It's much easier for him to believe than to belief, otherwise I don't know how he would bother me. ”

Liu Tong has had a lot of things recently, and the work of revising the new code is heavy, and he is impatient to manage King Cen's little mess.

The rumors about King Cen's Mansion gradually subsided.

Emperor Taichang has been working hard since he ascended the throne. But he is not an emperor who sells his reputation and reputation, and he will not be like previous emperors, at the beginning of his ascension, he has to show his outstanding ability to handle a few earth-shattering cases, or in order to show his diligence, he will eat and clothe himself, and ignore the health of the dragon.

He is in charge of the government at the time of the court, and when he is not in the court, how to relax and how to come.

The officials were a little disdainful of this, but after all, Emperor Taichang did not slack off in governing the country, nor did he make any mistakes, so the imperial historians pinched this article, and they always had to wait until there were examples before they could give advice.

At the beginning of the third year of Taichang, the court was pacified.

Liu Tong, as the king of Rongjun, was in charge of the Criminal Department, and in the process of interrogating the old and doubtful cases of the Criminal Department, he subtly began to adjust the functions and powers of the Criminal Department. After a year, everyone in the Criminal Department also saw what Liu Tong meant. But in the end, Liu Tong has not yet made the matter of reducing the officials of the Criminal Department, so everyone is only speculating in private, and some people even think that King Rongjun is in the power of the Prime Minister's Criminal Department.

Liu Tong didn't care what everyone said, and when the time came, he wrote a letter to Emperor Taichang, explaining the disadvantages of vague powers and responsibilities, the disadvantages of redundant officials, and the worry that most of the officials who filled the vacancy were the children of nobles, although they were from high families, they were really incapable.

Liu Tong expressed the hope that Emperor Taichang could make adjustments to the Criminal Department and other functional departments accordingly, recruit talents, and open up the civil and military Enke, so that the world can be governed together.

Most of the courtiers were from the nobility, and they had always been disdainful of the children of the Han family, and of course they would not want the children of the Han family to jump to the top, and immediately fiercely opposed Liu Tong's advice.

In the past, most of the officials selected by the imperial examination system were actually selected as assistants to the children of the nobility, so the imperial examination system could be implemented, and the nobles also attached importance to the imperial examination system.

After all, if you want to push the children of the family to come out as officials, especially if you go out to serve as subordinate officials, if you don't govern the local area properly, you will always make the family lose face. If you can have a poor family with real talent and learning to assist you, the rule will be guaranteed, and your reputation will be better, right?

But if the children of the poor family want to replace the officials of the children of the nobles, this is something that no noble family wants to see.

Wenchen objected so badly that his pen kept talking.

The generals also objected, saying that leading soldiers to fight wars and the children of the poor family knew a fart, thinking that they could govern the army after reading two military books?

Under pressure from the courtiers, Emperor Taichang did not release this recital.

But after all, there is no dismissal.

The courtiers were like enemies.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, Liu Tong stayed and entered the Qinzheng Hall to play alone with Emperor Taichang.

After shielding the left and right, Emperor Taichang frowned and said, "It seems that these things you suggested have violated everyone's common interests. ”

Liu Tong smiled: "Yes, it's the first time for my brother to see Wenchen and the military generals so united." ”

Emperor Taichang also smiled.

"My purpose is not to streamline the organization, and if the organization is redundant and can make the government decrees passable, I don't bother to waste this effort. Raise a few more courtiers, it's not that I can't afford to raise them. In fact, today's official positions are redundant and there are too many officials, not only have they failed to govern the world better, but on the contrary, some government decrees cannot be accurately and quickly conveyed. This is contrary to my original intention. ”

Liu Tong bowed: "The courtiers are ready to fight a tug-of-war with the courtiers." ”

"You have to be careful, the courtiers will be afraid that I will take your advice, and the next step is probably to start suppressing and impeaching you."

Liu Tong arched his hand and said, "Brother Chen understands." ”

Sure enough, as Emperor Taichang said, on the second day, the courtiers' recitals were like snowflakes, handed from outside the palace to Emperor Taichang's imperial case.

Most people first praised Liu Tong's heart for the world, and then began to count the rules of the ancestors of the Great Wei Dynasty, and when it came to the reign of the first emperor, the official positions in the court were set up in this way, from one product to nine products, from the central to the local, perfect and sound, how can it be easily modified?

In the past, when Emperor Yuan Wu was in power, the establishment of official positions in the court did follow the ancestors, but probably to highlight the majestic imperial power, ten years after the reign of Emperor Yuan Wu, the number of officials in the court and the central government became more and more, and it was not uncommon for the same official position to appoint a few people to appoint more than a dozen people.

There are more people, but there are not fewer things, but because the rights and responsibilities of officials and colleagues are not clear, there is discord between the courtiers, and if there are good things, they will scramble, and if there are no good things, they will shirk, how can the government decree be accessible?

But the ministers all brought out their ancestors, as if Emperor Taichang had adopted the advice of King Rongjun, he would have forgotten his ancestors.

Emperor Taichang still left these folds in the middle.

Now the courtiers were even more anxious, and felt that Emperor Taichang really cared about what King Rongjun said.

A new round of impeachment of King Rongjun followed.

Some say that he has been confined for several years and has been negligent and abandoned by the government, some say that he wants to win over the poor students of the world and have bad intentions, and some say that he was looked down upon by the nobles in his early years, and this time he wrote in order to take revenge.

Among them, there is also an impeachment point, which is from the life experience of King Rongjun.

Those who hold this view believe that the king of Rongjun has foreign blood and vainly tries to intervene and change the official position of the Great Wei Dynasty, in order to weaken the national strength of the Great Wei and enable the Western Regions to be autonomous, and uses his early years to help the people of the Western Regions and establish the Xixing Trading Company to support it, and also said that if His Majesty accepts the advice and adjusts the official position, I am afraid that it will hinder the Great Wei and shake the Great Wei state.

Emperor Taichang left other impeachment chapters, and replied to several speeches on the impeachment of Liu Tong's life experience, and at the next court meeting, these courtiers who wrote were brought separately and scolded in front of all the courtiers. (To be continued.) )