Hearing this, Chen Ping raised his head in a little surprise, and saw Liu Hong's face full of resentment like a child losing the competition.

Nodding slightly in disbelief, Chen Ping said without a trace: "Your Majesty's holy will has been decided, and the minister is only an edict." ”

In this way, the decline of the Pingyang Hou family set the tone in the words of the two monarchs and ministers.

But Chen Ping would never have thought that the dismissal of the imperial historian Cao Ji would become the beginning of his failure step by step.

Liu Hong's mood at this time was almost as excited as that of later generations, when Beijing got the right to host the Olympic Games!

Yes, Dr. Yushi is now a Qingshui Yamen, going out to collect folk customs, traveling at public expense, and pulling a few pigtails of officials with no background, eating some bribes and filial piety, and not being too comfortable in a small life.

But as a later generation, Liu Hong knows very well what kind of political potential the imperial historian has.

Picketing hundreds of officials, patrolling the pastor on behalf of the sky, as long as Liu Hong adjusts properly, the imperial historian will become the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection before the Western Era!

Even if you don't consider this long-term prospect, just the fact that Imperial Doctor can reasonably and legally send people to tour the place is enough to make Liu Hong rush to it!

- The reason why Liu Hong is a puppet now is because he has no money, no power, and no soldiers!

And Liu Hong's main purpose in controlling the Imperial Doctor is to make the Imperial Doctor his eyes and ears, and gradually evolve into Liu Hong's tentacles to reach out to the system.

When the Imperial Historian becomes a unit that the officials of the Han Dynasty have changed color and hate, Liu Hong's rights protection will be deeply rooted in the hearts of every local official.

This is also a decision made by Liu Hong after careful consideration and weighing the pros and cons - directly intervening in the center of the court is likely to stimulate Chen Ping and make him take risks.

And starting from the local area and subtly controlling power, Chen Ping may not be able to react; After all, in this era of strict hierarchy and 'the leader of the leader is not my leadership', Chen Ping could not have predicted that he would get the imperial historian and become Liu Hong's hand to the grassroots.

This is like boiling a frog in warm water, and when Chen Ping reacts, he will find that when the decree of the Prime Minister's Mansion reaches the locality, he will only get an official reply: The Prime Minister's order, does the Imperial Doctor know about it?

Yes? In the dark?

The prime minister forgives the sins, the father and mother are not as good as the black yarn hat relatives, and the subordinates dare not obey the order!

At that time, Chen Ping will naturally be angry and enter Weiyang at night, impeaching the increasingly powerful Imperial Doctor for 'being powerful and blessed'.

Liu Hong can face upright, and slap the shocked wood fiercely: Who is in the hall, why did you sue the official?

Therefore, taking the Imperial Doctor in his own hands is not Liu Hong's consideration purely for the current situation; In the long run, for Liu Hong, as the emperor, it is also necessary to strengthen the imperial historian.

Just from the power that Chen Ping now controls, and the political status of 'as a courtier, hidden on par with the king', it can be predicted that no matter who the next prime minister of the Han family is, the next and even every future prime minister, as long as the ass sits in the position of prime minister, it will become the biggest constraint on the imperial power!

——The prime minister of the early Western Han Dynasty, the power is too great...

Except for Gaozu Liu Bang, who was able to open his mouth to appoint and recall, every subsequent emperor was 'cared for' by the prime minister.

Emperor Hui Liu Ying reigned for eight years, except for eating and sleeping, the rest of the time, basically sat quietly in Weiyang Palace, and was sprayed by Cao Shen...

After Emperor Wen Liu Heng ascended the throne, he also stayed up for two years to wait for Chen Ping to die and appointed Zhou Bo; Find an excuse to drive Zhou Bo home, and appoint a baby...

Even if he waited until the infant died, after Liu Heng finally appointed Zhang Cang, who was satisfied with him, as the prime minister, he could not avoid a head-on conflict with Zhang Cangqi on the matter of Huanglong's change of yuan, and finally he could only flip the table - the prime minister!

The dismissal of Zhang Cang alone made Liu Heng bear a lot of stains!

Not to mention the later Emperor Jing Liu Qi: when Shen Tujia opposed the cutting of the domain, he could only acquiesce to Chao Cuo to chisel Liu Bang's temple wall, but did not deal with Chao Cuo, hoping that Shen Tujia would die of anger because of this...

It wasn't until Emperor Wu Dynasty that Liu Xiaozhu set up an inner dynasty and set up an outer dynasty that the emperor of the Western Han Dynasty was constrained by the prime minister. But the establishment of the Inner Dynasty is, after all, a change of soup and not a change of medicine, driving the tiger to devour the wolf - the cabinet that was originally used to overhead the outer dynasty eventually became a hotbed for the 'Huo Guangmen'.

Therefore, Liu Hong's purpose is very clear: in five, ten or even twenty years, let the Prime Minister's Mansion gradually degenerate into an institution similar to the State Council in later generations, and then build the Imperial Historian into the Western Han Dynasty version of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and use the Imperial Historian to balance the Prime Minister.

As for whether this goal is achieved and whether it is feasible, Liu Hong is completely sure that the main duty of the imperial doctor is to supervise hundreds of officials, and he only needs to put on some Spring and Autumn penmanship and expand some powers.

Thinking of this, Liu Hong couldn't help but feel lucky: although his identity was a bit miserable, I have to say that from the perspective of the establishment of the national system, this is definitely a perfect point in time!

In feudal society, any policy formation convention cannot be avoided by one word: ancestral system.

Bad policies are cloaked in the skin of the 'ancestral system', which will make the emperor afraid to revoke them without permission because of filial piety; good policies are contrary to the 'ancestral system', and the emperor will not dare to carry out drastic reforms.

As a result, bad policies get worse and worse, good policies are never enforced, classes are solidified, the country is stagnant, and finally a certain peasant shouts that the old system is overthrown, a new system is established, and then, like a reincarnation, goes through everything that the previous regime has experienced.

- The three-hundred-year dynastic cycle, but that's it.

But what Liu Hong is facing is a political pattern with almost no 'ancestral system'.

Because in the feudal era, the formation of the 'ancestral system' followed the process of having one, two, and multiple three, so that inertia could be produced and become a convention.

For example, in the original history, when Emperor Hui Liu Ying, Empress Dowager Lu was in power, Emperor Wen Liu Hong, Empress Dowager Bo was in power, and Emperor Jing Liu Qishi Empress Dowager Dou looked at the government, and the three generations were like this.

Emperor Wu's mother, the Queen Mother, can naturally hold the power, forcing the pig master to have a happy emperor career for future generations, so he can only kill his mother and save his son, and avoid the appearance of the 'Queen Mother' from the root.

At this time, Liu Hong didn't have to worry about his actions at all, whether he would destroy the ancestral system; The reason is very simple - he is the third emperor in the true sense of the Western Han Dynasty!

Not to mention Emperor Hui, who reigned for eight years and actually did nothing.

In other words, except for the rules set by Taizu Liu Bang, Liu Hong needs to be solemn and careful, there is nothing to do, and Liu Hong needs to worry about whether it will destroy the ancestral system.

Even if it is the rules set by Liu Bang, there is still room for negotiation.

If you think it's good, Liu Hong can use it, so that Liu Bang will set the rules, Emperor Hui will follow it, and Liu Hong will continue to use it, and these policies will become the national policy of the Han family, the ancestral system.

Those that are not good, Liu Hong can also change the concept and tinker with the adjustments; It's really not advisable, Liu Hong can also put aside his face and explain the sentence 'three generations are different laws, five generations are different rites'!

At such a critical juncture, Liu Hong knows how important his mission is: to set the tone and point out the direction for Liu Hanjiangshan!

Only in this way can Liu Hong feel at ease and no longer feel guilty about his appearance, which directly led to the loss of the three generations of heroes of Wen, Jing and Wu in the Han Dynasty.