The two of them chatted for four or five hours, and in another hour, the sky was about to dawn, and it was time for the Holy One to go to court.

Lu Dongshan cleared his throat and shouted crisply: "Your Majesty, the slave asks to see you." ”

"Come in!"

Lu Dongshan pushed the door in, hunched over and walked without daring to look directly, two people in this room sat on the ground, one side was the emperor, and the other side was Yang Liechen, who couldn't kneel for a long time in the afternoon!

At that time, when the emperor said goodbye to the prime minister, this Yang Liechen chased after him, and stopped in front of the emperor very unceremoniously, saying something like "changing the state system and centralizing power" that Lu Dongshan could not understand, and then the emperor pulled him into the house and sat all night, disturbing the emperor all night without rest.

Lu Dongshan stood beside the two of them and said to Li Rushi: "Your Majesty, let's rest for a while, I will go to court soon, but I can't rest." ”

"My lord, what is the matter, let's talk about it tomorrow morning?"

Yang Liechen smiled, he touched his nose and asked, "Your Majesty's dragon body is important, why don't you talk about it here today?" I'll talk about it later when I have a chance. ”

Li Ru frowned and shook his hand: "No, no, no, after listening to your affairs in Yuzhou, you haven't told me how you know that Prime Minister Zhang Cheng proposed to change the state system, as well as your centralized power, I am very interested." ”

Yang Liechen's face was embarrassed, and he secretly glanced at Lu Dongshan, who moved his throat lightly, his fingertips trembled, and his brows were a little more annoyed.

The Son of Heaven waved his hand to Lu Dongshan, "Father-in-law Lu, you should step back first, I know the time, and it won't be too late." ”

Lu Dongshan glanced sideways at Yang Liechen, he was secretly unhappy in his heart, this festival made him too chicken thief, and he didn't know what shit luck he had taken, and what he said happened to enter the emperor's heart, and he dragged His Majesty to stay up for a night, and he also set himself up!

Lu Dongshan didn't dare to disobey the holy commandment, he bowed down and said "Lead" and slowly retreated.

Li Ru is so smart, how could he not see Yang Liechen's thoughts, but he didn't say it, so he had to grieve Lu Dongshan first, to see if Yang Liechen could talk about Prime Minister Zhang's "Daozhou system", or whether the "centralized power" in his mouth was useful, otherwise it would be Yang Liechen's last night to talk for a long time.

He raised his eyebrows and said, "Can you say it now?" ”

Yang Liechen laughed, and said that the companion is like a tiger, and the ancients did not deceive me.

"Your Majesty, please listen to me slowly, this change of state and county system to state road system is indeed guessed by the lower officials, and if you say how to guess, then I beg Your Majesty to spare me one of the following crimes."

"Exonerate, but it doesn't hurt to say."

Yang Liechen nodded, "The state and county system is inherited by Emperor Gaozu, the world is divided into counties, and there are states under the county, for example, there are Dongzhou and Fanzhou under Donghai County, the advantage of this state and county system is that it can be managed by the county guard, and the military was commanded by the Jiedu envoy back then, but there is a drawback here, that is, the land of a county, there are both the county guards who are the masters of the house, and the jiedu envoys who command the army, so what has become of this county?" It's a small country! So it's not difficult to guess this, if Prime Minister Zhang didn't say this, then this matter is also beneficial to Da Zhou. ”

"Bold!"

Li Ru suddenly shouted angrily, "You mean that there is still a political power under the territory of the Great Zhou?" ”

Yang Liechen hurriedly knelt down, "Please forgive your majesty, but this is not nonsense, but it is true, as far as Yingchuan County, which has taken the official, is concerned, there are 35,000 soldiers!" ”

Li Ru smiled again at this time, he pressed his palm and said: "Okay, okay, don't be too frightened, I said that you are not guilty, you have no jokes, Prime Minister Zhang Cheng's performance is indeed about restructuring, you sit down and continue." ”

Yang Liechen wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, in fact, he was also gambling, just betting on the emperor's patience or impatience, the boldness just now really scared him, he was afraid that the emperor would let people drag him out and cut him without saying a word, even if he had the merit of defending the city on his face, but the king wanted the minister to die, the reasons were still too many?

The emperor really said that if you change your face, you will change your face, he swallowed his saliva, pressed his calf under his buttocks, half knelt and half sat and said: "So this kind of state and county system has drawbacks, this is how the Southern Dynasty started, instigating Huainan County and Nanyue County to have 70,000 people, spreading and radiating to all sides, and it has expanded to hundreds of thousands for a while. ”

The Son of Heaven nodded, indeed as Yang Liechen said, the disadvantages of the state and county system are becoming more and more obvious, corrupt officials and corrupt officials rely on the emperor of the mountain to collect the people's fat and people's ointment, and some even borrow some military power, and do not need to enter the capital to go to the court, to be the emperor of the soil, than the Huai'an King Li Zizhen is more carefree and happy, Li Ru turned a blind eye to this, and the thorn had to be pulled out little by little, so that the wound was not so big.

"What can a state system do to improve this?"

Yang Liechen nodded heavily and said: "Absolutely, the Daozhou system will disrupt the current state and county system and re-plan, as for how to set it up, Prime Minister Zhang Cheng must have told His Majesty, and when the time comes, it will be gradually issued according to what Prime Minister Zhang said, but those local officials must be summoned into the capital first." ”

Li Ru touched his stubble and pondered, he had already read Zhang Xuanlin's recital, which did say how to disrupt the state and county to become Daozhou, as for summoning all local officials into Beijing, Yang Liechen was the first, that is, he was afraid that after the power of the head of a county, it would cause a bigger riot.

Li Ru glanced at Yang Liechen meaningfully, he suddenly laughed, he didn't expect this kid to be quite good, just hung him and let him kneel for a long time, not only could he guess Prime Minister Zhang's intentions, but also kept silent about this matter, this son can be of great use in the future.

Li Ru wanted to be more direct, he leaned over, and Yang Liechen was only a stone's throw away, who could almost feel the hot snort of the grandson of today's son, but he didn't dare to move.

"Lord Yang, yesterday afternoon, you knelt for so long, and there was no complaint in your heart? After all, it is a second-grade official, according to the Great Zhou system, a second-grade official does not need to be so respectful to the prime minister, Lord Yang, don't you have anything to say? ”

Yang Liechen said frankly: "At first, there were complaints, thinking about why Your Majesty treats your subordinates as nothing, but this person, the more you kneel, the more sober you are, the longer you kneel, your brain also thinks a lot, if Your Majesty lets the ministers kneel, it is either a punishment or a trial, as for the punishment, although the minister has no great merit, but there is no fault, this minister still knows this, then there is only a trial, if this grievance can not be beared, An can withstand the heavy responsibility of the world." ”

"Good!"

Li Ru sat up straight, stretched out his thumb and said, "He is worthy of being a senior disciple of a scholar of Chu University." ”

Yang Liechen smiled stupidly, "I have some ambitions to let others talk about the respected master and me, not that the minister is a senior disciple of the Chu scholar, but the master of the Jiedu envoy." ”

The Son of Heaven was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, "You want your master to bear your light." ”

"Don't dare, your subordinates have inherited the light of the family teacher for too long."

Li Ru ignored him, it is good to be ambitious, whether he is really talented and hardworking, whether he is talking on paper, he can see it when he pulls it out and takes a look, he continued: "Then how are you going to restructure?" You must know that I have just sent a Pingxi general, Liu Feiyi, to guard Yingchuan County to prevent the invasion of Western Shu. ”

"The minister knows that the minister has handed over all the military power to General Liu, and now the minister only has the title of the envoy of moderation, and has no right to envoy of moderation."

Li Ru's eyelids twitched slightly, this old boy is really shrewd.

Yang Liechen sold a pass, "Your Majesty, can I talk about the centralization of power first, and Your Majesty will know how to reform the system after speaking." ”

"You say, I want to listen to centralization, what kind of centralization method is it?"

Yang Liechen had been talking all night, his lips were a little dry, he licked his lips, Li Ru personally poured him a glass of water, and pointed at him casually.

Yang Liechen smiled, there was a little treacherous between his eyebrows, if Tong Yanhai and Yu Youjun were here, they would not dare to believe that this person would be a pedantic scholar in Yuzhou City.

"Centralization, as the name suggests, is to concentrate all local power in the palace, and His Majesty is in charge of all the affairs of the world, and all the military power in all places and the court is in his hands."

Jiedu made the lord stretch out his palm, "These five fingers represent the military power of the various local regimes that are still under the jurisdiction of the Great Zhou. ”

Then he clenched his fists fiercely, and his eyes burst out with a fierce light, and he said: "Centralizing power can be discussed with the ministers, but the final decision must be in the hands of Your Majesty." ”

Li Ru squinted his eyes slightly, and he clenched Yang Liechen's fist, "Isn't it now that I also take all the rights?" Are you doubting my ability to rule? To tell you the truth, if you hadn't just been exempted from the following crimes, and now I really want to kill you with my own hands, you have gone from the Daozhou system to the so-called centralized system, all of which are provoking me, especially the centralized system, from what you mean, is to weaken the power of the prime minister and the general? ”

Yang Liechen shook his head lightly, since he knew that His Majesty would not kill him, he had nothing to fear, he whispered: "The minister is not saying that Your Majesty has no dominance, but that you can strengthen this dominance by a little more!" The prime minister's power can be reduced or not, after all, the prime minister has been an official for 40 years, and everyone knows that he has worked hard for the Great Zhou, and even civil officials don't have to hand over their rights. However, the military generals must hand over their military power, such as sending the King of Huai'an to the Southern Dynasty, and His Majesty must personally issue tiger talismans to transfer troops, and each general must not have his own private army, both in the Great Zhou Dynasty, all the soldiers should be the sons of the Great Zhou Dynasty, that is, Your Majesty, and you will distribute the tiger talismans, which is normal. ”

Li Ru now understands what this centralization means, to put it simply, it is to weaken the rights of the courtiers and the localities, and it is harmless to collect the rights of the courtiers, and it is a little difficult to summarize the military power of the local officials, it is all up to them, how many rights are given to you, you may not be able to use so many rights, but the number of soldiers you give is how many soldiers, this is the last thing that a general wants to see.

Li Ru asked again: "Then they want to oppose me, and if they lead the troops, they will not return the same anti-me?" ”

Yang Liechen smiled and asked rhetorically, "Your Majesty, do you know why the lord will rebel, and the soldiers will also rebel?" Could it be that they don't have a mind of their own, and the Lord will do whatever he wants? There are so many people in this army, are they really all of the same mind as the main general? ”

The Son of Heaven did not reply, and raised his arm to signal Yang Liechen to continue.

"Your Majesty, the minister led the troops to defend Yuzhou and then arrived in Yingchuan County to know that the soldiers followed the main general to rebel, there are two points. This time, the soldiers are just a person who listens to orders, maybe when the lord will give some orders, when the soldiers arrive at the place, they probably react, they actually passively rebelled, and the army can't help themselves, if they don't obey the order, they will disobey the military order, and they will be dealt with by military law, and the military law will really die, if it is really a rebellion, I don't know if they will die or not, but they will definitely die later. ”

"Second, the soldiers have been fighting with the main general for several years, and they already have a relationship, and when the minister was in Yingchuan County, there were even soldiers who only listened to the words of the general of the first battalion, but did not listen to the words of the minister."

After Yang Liechen finished speaking, he pressed his hands on the table and said hatefully: "Therefore, the military power must be handed over, and His Majesty will disrupt the establishment, for example, the soldiers of the old general Song Rong can be used by the prince of Huai'an, and vice versa, and then there will be a military seal that surpasses the tiger talisman, so that the soldiers will not rebel because of deep feelings or because they must obey orders. ”

The Son of Heaven nodded, "Then how do you get them to hand over their military power?" ”