King Jing's secret return to Chang'an was only known to Li Chengqian three days later.

This is, of course, because all the scholars in Chang'an City are now dissatisfied with Li Chengqian, and they are covering up for King Jing.

Li Chengqian knew that since King Jing had returned to Chang'an, the day of their rebellion would not be far off.

Therefore, invite Li Shimin out to deter the court, save the time when some people who should not be on the wrong side are also on the wrong team, at least there are so many rebellions, so that he has a chance to break them one by one.

In Li Shimin's bedroom.

Li Shimin leaned sideways on the Luohan bed, and Li Chengqian was beside his legs.

Zhongshu Ling Yang Shidao, Zhongshu Shilang Ma Zhou, Zhang Chengxing, the provincial servant of the Menxia Province, the six Shangshu of Shangshu Province, and Gao Shilian, a bachelor of Pingzhang Academy, all sat around the side of the bed and looked at the energetic Li Shimin, and felt a lot more relieved.

"Emperor Wu of the former Han Dynasty thought that the prime minister had too much power, so he used the imperial historian to contain the prime minister, and later used the scholars in Shangshutai to exercise the power of the prime minister. By the time of Emperor Wu's death, the great Sima Lingshang was the real prime minister, and this true prime minister was often in charge of the palace and the court, and his power was far greater than that of the prime minister in the early Han Dynasty. ”

"Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty abolished the rites and used personal favorites, which is indeed excessive." Li Shimin heard this criticism of Emperor Wudao.

Then thinking about what he and Li Chengqian had done recently, he hesitated and said, "I want to choose a virtuous minister to serve as Shang Shuling, I don't know if you have a candidate?"

Li Shimin is this point is good to know that mistakes can be changed, just heard Li Chengqian say that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty changed the power of the prime minister to make Da Sima bigger, so he thought about re-promoting people to be Shangshu Ling.

The ministers were stunned when they heard this, Shang Shuling was the prime minister of the Sui Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty did not abolish it.

However, because Li Shimin was the one who initiated the Xuanwu Revolution with Shangshu Ling, Li Shimin did not arrange for ministers to serve in this position after he ascended the throne, so that the left and right servants of Shangshu Province became prime ministers.

In recent years, Li Shimin, the left and right servants of Shangshu, did not look good, so he followed Li Chengqian to set up a scholar of the Pingzhang Academy, and in the past year or so, the servants have not arranged for the minister to serve.

Now that Li Shimin suddenly proposed to find someone Ren Shangshu Ling, the ministers didn't know how to speak for a while, so they saw Li Chengqian shaking his hand at everyone, turning his head to Li Shimin and saying, "Father still listens to his son's words." ”

Li Shimin also felt anxious when he saw the performance of the ministers, and when he heard the words, he said: "Cheng Qian, go on." ”

Hearing this, Li Chengqian continued: "There are twelve Caos in the former Han Prime Minister's Mansion, and the subordinates of the Great Sima are all recruited by Sima himself, so that not only the Prime Minister has set up a fictitious Prime Minister's Mansion, but the twelve Caos of the Prime Minister's Mansion have also become fictitious.

The power of the imperial court to rule the world is also attributed to a big Sima or a general, and these generals all know that there are Huo Guang, Dou Xian, Wang Feng, Wang Mang, Dong Xian, and He Jin. ”

Everyone in the hall heard Li Chengqian mention that their hearts sank, and these people had mixed feelings about them from the standpoint of both the courtiers and the emperor.

First of all, Huo Guang and Dou Xian are both considered to be meritorious to the court and the Chinese nation, Huo Guang after the death of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Emperor Zhao kept the Han family alive when he was young, Emperor Zhao died early, he set up the sea and waited for the emperor, and the sea dusk waited for the emperor to be in the sea and the sea was faint and he wasted the sea and waited for the Han Emperor Xuan.

Later generations often compared him with Yi Yin, the famous minister of the Shang Dynasty, and thought that they were both loyal ministers, but in history, Chu Suiliang told Li Shimin that Liu Xun claimed to be Yin Huo, and Li Shimin did not hesitate to kill this minister whom he originally admired.

Dou Xian is the uncle of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, who once personally led a large army to attack Yanran Mountain, and Yanran Leshi is his allusion.

However, he became a powerful minister and threatened Emperor Ming of Han, who later used the power of eunuchs to dismiss Dou Xian and exile him and then order him to be killed.

Li Shimin's acquiescence in Li Chengqian's exile of the eldest grandson Wuji shows that he is also very wary of this kind of foreign relative.

The others were all related to the fall of the Han Dynasty.

Wang Feng is Wang Mang's uncle as a relative, and he played a role in paving the way for Wang Mang to replace the Western Han Dynasty later.

Needless to say, Wang Mang said.

Dong Xian is the male favorite of Emperor Han Ai, and Emperor Han Ai cut off his sleeves because he couldn't bear to wake up the sleeping Dong Xian, and their allusions were called the habit of broken sleeves by later generations.

Looking at Li Shimin's sympathetic attitude, you can know what kind of attitude he has towards Dong Xianhui.

Later, after the death of Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty, Dong Xian was also taken down by Wang Mang and committed suicide.

Those who have watched He Jin and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms know that he is the brother-in-law of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the uncle of Emperor Shaodi of Han, and the general of Emperor Ling of Han and Emperor Shaodi of Han, and it was he who summoned Dong Zhuo to Chang'an.

Dong Zhuo abolished the young emperor and established the emperor to dedicate himself to the emperor, and since then, the chaos in the world has begun.

Everyone understood that Li Chengqian wanted to say that the ministers were terrible, and Li Shimin had been silently thinking in his heart whether to appoint Shang Shuling again. Although the ministers had a lot of thoughts, they didn't dare to speak rashly, and at this time, if they violated the taboo of these two masters, their lives would be difficult to protect.

After a while, he still said with a straight face: "His Royal Highness the Prince, the Later Han Dynasty died under the eunuch dictatorship. Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty favored the Ten Standing Servants and caused trouble to the imperial court......"

Li Chengqian waved his hand when he heard this: "What Master Yu said is good, but don't forget that the Later Han Dynasty is a relative and a eunuch alternate dictatorship. ”

When Yu Suiliang heard this, he also had to admit that what Li Chengqian said was the truth, and the ministers stopped talking.

Li Chengqian's eyes were calm and slowly scanned the ministers, and when he saw that the ministers also had thoughtful expressions, he continued: "King Lone summoned you to my father's bed today, in order to discuss and formulate the law of my Tang Dynasty for thousands of generations, don't think too much." ”

Hearing this, the ministers hurriedly got up and saluted Li Chengqian: "The ministers obey the order!" ”

Seeing this, Li Shimin waved his hand and motioned for the ministers to sit down, and said with a relieved face: "I have been sick these days, and it is thanks to Zhuqing's assistance to Chengqian that I can support the court situation. The things discussed today are related to the affairs of my Tang Dynasty for thousands of generations, and you can only speak freely. ”

Ma Zhou got up when he heard this, and said with a smile: "His Royal Highness the Prince's talent, the ministers will listen to the prince's palace first, and it will be a blessing for the ministers if they can pick up the missing and fill the gaps." ”

The ministers all admired Ma Zhou's urgency, and they really didn't dare to talk nonsense in front of Li Chengqian.

Li Shimin nodded when he heard the words and said, "Then Cheng Qian, let's talk about your thoughts first." ”

When Li Chengqian heard this, he first gave Li Shimin a look, and then looked at the ministers and said: "Just now, Mr. Yu said that the eunuch dictatorship of the Later Han Dynasty, I don't know if you have noticed that the authority of the former Han and the Later Han Dynasty is moving to the rear of the palace the later it goes.

During the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, because the subordinate official of the Imperial Historian, the Imperial History Zhongcheng, was in the palace, Emperor Wu used the Imperial Historian to divide the authority of the prime minister at the beginning.

Later, it was inconvenient for the imperial history to use Shangshutai, which was originally in charge of the eunuchs in the palace, and Taishi Gong served as Shangshuling after being punished.

When the Emperor of the Later Han Dynasty ascended the throne at a young age, the Queen Mother was the dictatorship of her relatives, but the Queen Mother was a eunuch when she passed on government affairs.

The little emperor is longer than the hands of the women in the deep palace and can't touch the ministers at all, and the powerful ministers in the court cover the sky with one hand, who does he not use eunuchs?"

"Your Majesty!" Gao Shilian looked at Li Shimin with a worried face.

Li Chengqian stated a fact, but the faces of the ministers present changed drastically when they heard it, and they did not dare to contradict Li Chengqian, and they all looked at Li Shimin on the sickbed.

Li Shimin said helplessly when he heard this: "Chengqian, you can say it well." ”

Li Chengqian nodded at Li Shimin when he heard this, turned his head to look at the ministers and said in an accentuated tone: "Whether it is doing things or learning, we must talk about 'seeking truth from facts', and the real things that have happened in real things, 'seeking' is seeking, and 'yes' is the fundamental reason for it." If we cannot lay out the problem in a realistic way and find out the root causes, we will not be able to solve the problem. ”

The ministers couldn't help but look at each other when they heard this, Li Chengqian actually taught them, but what Li Chengqian said was also reasonable, and he couldn't refute it, so he had to get up and arch his hand: "The ministers must obey His Royal Highness the Prince's teachings and repent!" ”

Li Shimin looked at Li Chengqian and the ministers with emotion in his heart, thinking that if he really left, who would reconcile between Li Chengqian and the ministers.

"King Gu just said that the former Han Dynasty was because the emperor or the empress dowager lived in the deep palace, and the foreign ministers were all at the mercy of the ministers, so they could only use the people around them more and more.

Gu Wang is putting this problem out now to prevent this from happening in the future in my Datang. ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is far-sighted and the ministers admire." Ma Zhou saw that Li Chengqian had suppressed the ministers, so he jumped out and slapped his ass.

Li Chengqian didn't appreciate it, and waved his hand directly: "Don't talk about this yet, listen to King Gu's words, and then you can pick up the gaps."

If you want to prevent the ministers, you have to divide power, and now the three provinces and six ministries system of my Datang Bank is the decentralization strategy of the former Sui. ”

Li Shimin and the ministers couldn't help but nod their heads in approval when they heard this.

Li Chengqian continued: "However, this kind of decentralization cannot completely solve the problem, and sometimes it will even cause government decrees to be blocked, all because of the light power of the six ministries. ”

Six parts of the light?

The ministers felt a sudden shock in their hearts.

You must know that in the Tang Dynasty, Shangshu Ling was the second grade, the left and right servants were from the second grade, the six Shangshu were the third grade, and the Zhongshu Ling and the provincial servants under the door were also the third grade. Therefore, the grade of the six Shangshu in the early Tang Dynasty was not low.

Li Chengqian ignored the surprised gazes of everyone and directly stated his opinion.

"Now the six departments can only handle some lock affairs in the headquarters, and they do more than upload and issue affairs. However, if there is a problem below, no matter which one of them, the problem can only be reported to be handled by another official sent by the imperial court, and it is absolutely incapable of being handled by the imperial court's strategic headquarters.

There are more such government affairs, and the power of those in power in the imperial court will inevitably become powerful ministers. ”

Li Shimin and the ministers couldn't help but nod when they heard this, if the prime minister overstepped his authority to command the six local ministries, he would be hollowed out, and his power would naturally be greater.

Li Chengqian looked at everyone's expressions of approval, and then said: "In this way, King Gu also heard that there is a lot of backlog of official affairs in the six ministries, so he decided to send Shen Guogong and Master Yu to inspect. ”

When the ministers heard this, they knew that Li Chengqian called everyone here to inspect the affairs of the six departments.

Gao Shilian and Yu Sui hurriedly got up solemnly and saluted Li Chengqian: "The ministers will carefully inspect and never disappoint His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

"The two Qing families are flat, and the lonely king still has a few words to say."

Saying that, Li Chengqian stood up, and when the ministers saw this, they all stood up and stood obediently, waiting to listen to Li Chengqian's lecture.

Li Chengqian also said politely and directly: "Since all of you already know the importance of this inspection of the six departments, then the lone king here also asks for your good cooperation, Gao Qing's family and Zhenqing's family's inspection." Let's all find out the shortcomings of the six divisions together, and then discuss how to deal with them and strengthen the authority of the six divisions. ”

"Your Ministers obey!" The ministers said in unison.