(That's all there is to this day.) ）

On August 18 of the first year of Xinghua, Li Ze, Xu Xiang, Gongsun Changming, Zhang Hui, Cao Zhang, and Yang Kai formed the first Supreme Committee of the Tang Yixing Society.

Li Ze never believed that the kind of democratic government with one person, one vote was the best, or that it could play a certain role in promoting society in a certain period of time, but from the perspective of development, if we look at it for a long time, his suffocation is extremely obvious. What's more, in the era he is living in now, talking about this is simply playing the harp to the cow, and authoritarian government is the key word of this era.

Didn't you see that you, the emperor, made a move to divide power, so the world was in an uproar, did you think it was incredible?

But this thing is still barely acceptable to everyone. After all, in a certain time and space called a dynasty called the Great Song Dynasty, the emperor promised to rule the world with scholars. In those days, the power of the scholars was unprecedentedly high, and they could almost compete with the emperor, and sometimes the ministers dragged the emperor's sleeve and sprayed the emperor's face with anger, and the emperor could only hide his face.

Li Ze actually still has some appreciation for that dynasty, although he is a little weak to the outside world, but the people in China are the richest in the world at that time, and some of their policies, Li Ze can't do now.

For example, in winter, the imperial court will give the people heating money, and on the New Year's holidays, they will give the people money, wine, and meat.

As for the government that he has now created, Li Ze prefers to call it democratic centralism.

There can be democracy at the bottom, but at the top, it must be centralized.

There must be a strong government that grasps the general baton of the empire, directs it in the direction of its advance, and does not let it deviate from the runway.

A strong government can concentrate all the forces of this empire and do what it wants.

Development, in the final analysis, is a question of resource allocation. If effective resource distribution is not implemented, the end result will be that the poor will get poorer and the rich will get richer, and then the gap between the two sides will become wider and wider, and the contradictions will become more and more numerous, and eventually it will become a cup of bitter wine for those in power to savor.

Li Ze didn't want to taste it.

"Your Majesty, the minister's heart is still uneasy." It was the first time Xu Xiang sat so close to Li Ze, in the past, although he was also the governor of a place, he was almost non-existent with Li Ze alone. And now, in Li Ze's entire big study, he is the only one facing the majestic emperor's majesty. As for Chen Wenliang, who was making notes on the side, on such occasions, many times, he was ignored.

In his mind, Li Ze was very majestic, even if Li Ze already felt that he was very amiable.

"I don't see where you're worried." Li Ze said with a smile: "When you talk about your governing strategy on the stage one day, don't you have everything under your control?" ”

"It's for others to see." Xu Xiang sighed: "Since I am elected, then I must make people think that I am successful and sure of everything, if they have insufficient confidence in me, then in the next few years, my life will not be easy, I don't want to be ousted halfway, and leave a lifetime of infamy." ”

"What are your thoughts on how to form your entire governance team next?" Li Ze asked.

Xu Xiang pondered for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, I understand that you definitely want to forge ahead, so I will also form my team under this baton, formulate direction and strategy, the speech a few days ago is just an idea, and when my team is completely built, I will submit a detailed report to you." ”

"If you want to do something, you need someone first!" Li Ze nodded: "People are the most critical. If you use the right person, you will get twice the result with half the effort, and if you use the wrong person, you will get twice the result with half the effort, and even bring disaster to the country and the people. Xu Xiang, you must be clear about one thing, just a good policy will not work, no matter how good a policy you make, if you run into a monk with a crooked mouth, it can still make a mess for you. ”

"I'm still confident in that." Xu Xiang said: "From the grassroots level, the vast majority of today's officials are from the School of Political Science and Economics, and they all receive the latest education, and what they have learned is more and better than what we learned in the college at that time." Even those old officials have transitioned, and in the work experience of the Northland over the years, they have also changed. Some of the difficulties are nothing more than the newly annexed lands. But where the general trend lies, I am not afraid of them repeating. I'm concerned about the establishment of the whole committee, so I'd like to ask you for advice. ”

Li Ze looked at him with a smile and said, "You want to form a young team and exclude those old ones, because you are worried that they will become an obstacle for you to throw off your arms and do a great job, right?" ”

Xu Xiang nodded again and again, "Your Majesty is aware of everything, that's exactly what I think." ”

Li Ze looked at him for a long time before he said, "What would happen if the horse didn't have the reins?" ”

Xu Xiangyi.

"I can imagine that you're going to run wild like a wild horse." Li Zedao: "But if you run fast, sometimes, you can't care about the road, and you can't care about whether there are obstacles or thorns in front of you?" At this time, if there is a rein, you can pull on it, pull it on it, and let the horse run slower. ”

"I'm worried that I'm running well on the right path, and suddenly they pull and strangle me and make me bloody!" Xu Xiang said: "Besides, with Your Majesty staring at you, how could I go the wrong way?" ”

Li Ze shook his head slowly: "You are wrong again." As long as you don't make subversive mistakes, I won't intervene, if you run wrong, you have to find a way to get back, if you fall, you have to get up by yourself, if there is a big loss, you have to find a way to make up for it. You have to get used to doing things on your own and you can't expect someone else to guide you all the time. You did a great job when you were in Zhejiang! At that time, when you were doing it drastically, why didn't you think to ask me if I agreed? ”

Xu Xiang smiled embarrassedly: "At that time, it was just a province, but now it is the whole country!" ”

"In a province, can you experiment at will?" Li Ze snorted, "You are too bold, but your luck is excellent." It's a good thing to have old people in your team, of course, they will definitely pull you back and slow you down in some things, but it is this kind of obstacle that can also make you see more clearly and think more comprehensively. I can tell you right now that these people will not stop you without reason, they will definitely find out all kinds of problems and all kinds of faults in you to persuade you, and if you want to continue on the path that you think is right, you have to find a way to solve the problems they raise, and sometimes, even the problems they create. Because these problems must be universal, if you can't even deal with them, then it will definitely not work for the entire Datang. If you really want to shake them off and run recklessly, then I can tell you right now, you're definitely going to roll over. ”

Xu Xiang is also a smart person, he understood the meaning of Li Ze's words, took a deep breath and stood up, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I understand, I know how to form my team." ”

"Go ahead, go ahead of your business!" Li Ze said with a smile: "The delegations are going to leave Chang'an one after another in the past few days, I think, you must still have a lot of things to talk about with them, and I am afraid that I will not be able to sleep for a few hours a day." These people are the key to your success, those who support you, you have to give them back, those who voted for Cao Xin, you have to give them confidence. In a word, some of you have a headache. ”

"Your Majesty, I understand." Xu Xiang bowed again, then turned around and strode out.

Li Ze smiled at the back of the person who would become the number one general under his command, and gradually disappeared from his field of vision. Xu Xiang has knowledge, courage, courage, and skill, when he should be ruthless, he is like a hell of Yama, and when he should be soft, he can pull down his face and beg for help, he is indeed a more suitable candidate than Cao Xin.

Today's Tang Dynasty looks full of flowers, but in fact, I don't know how many waves are hidden under the calm water, I used to suppress myself, because I was afraid of my authority, so everything looked so good, now I have let go of power, retreated, some people will definitely jump out, presumably first to test it, some pawns will come out to charge, once there is a gain, the real big man will appear.

Let Xu Xiang fail, or they prove that they are right, the best way.

Cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods always have to jump out to clean up, otherwise they are wearing a bodhisattva's coat, who can do anything to them?

You can only wait until they show their original form before you can do it.

Looking at Chen Wenliang, who was sorting out his records, Li Ze smiled and asked, "Chen Wenliang, do you have any ideas?" ”

Chen Wenliang looked at Li Ze in amazement: "Your Majesty, the minister doesn't have any ideas!" ”

"I mean, do you want to go out and do something about it?" Li Zedao.

Chen Wenliang was stunned for a moment.

In the blink of an eye, he has been working as a secretary for eight years, and he has been Li Ze's personal confidential secretary for three years. In the secretarial superintendent, he was exposed to many things that he couldn't touch outside at all, and he also saw the various methods and techniques of the bigwigs in dealing with these things. Direct, roundabout, decisive, everyone has different ways of doing things, but each one can often make him feel like he is sudden.

It turns out that things can still be done this way! When he was dealing with these official documents, he was silent on the surface, but he was secretly amazed in his heart.

Later, he was promoted to the young eunuch of the secretary prison, and became the second only person in the secretary prison to Gongsun Changming. And everyone knows that Gongsun Changming doesn't care about these things of the secretary and supervisor, and the one who is really in charge here is the young eunuch.

If when he was a secretary, he learned the ways and methods to deal with various things, then after following Li Ze's side, he learned to look at problems from a higher place, and he can also look at problems from more angles and from a longer-term dimension.

Many things seem to be very unreasonable now, so once you do it, there will always be a lot of people who do not understand, resist, or even oppose it, but if you look at it from a higher and farther place, you will find the benefits of doing so.

The merit is in the contemporary, the benefit is in the future, this sentence is really not an empty word.

Just like the previous dynasty, the national strength was exhausted, and the domestic resentment boiled and eventually caused chaos, leading to the collapse of the dynasty, and the opening of the Grand Canal that arose in the Tang Dynasty was said to be a certain emperor who was poor and extravagant, and made a comical act for his own enjoyment, but from what happened later, the excavation of the Grand Canal was really a major event for the benefit of the country and the people.

Was this emperor really for his own enjoyment?

Chen Wenliang thought so at first, but now, he doesn't think so.

In fact, except for a very few strange things, no one who has achieved this position does not want to be safe and secure, and no one does not want to become a famous monarch in the annals of history, but the vast majority of people have failed.

After all, history has given these people a correct definition.

Of course, or wild history, the romance spreads more widely, and these people can't turn over forever in the folk, but where the people who are really knowledgeable, they can affirm their achievements, and at most sigh that they did the right thing at the wrong time.

Back to Li Ze's question just now, do you want to go out and do things?

Of course Chen Wenliang wanted to go out.

By Li Ze's side, the official position is not high, but the power is great, but he is always just the shadow of the emperor.

And the people who came out of Wuwei Academy did not want to become a generation of celebrities.

If you want to be a famous minister, you naturally have to go out and do things.

If you want to do something, you need to have a stage.

Chen Wenliang knows that he will be able to go out one day, and as long as he goes out, his position will definitely not be low, where is the example of Zhang Hui?

But when Li Ze asked in person, he was a little embarrassed.

Doesn't that mean you don't want to do it here? Will this make His Majesty unhappy?

Saying that he doesn't want to is also against his original intention.

"To think is to think, not to want is not to think." Li Ze smiled: "What's there to hesitate about? ”

"Yes!" Chen Wenliang gritted his teeth, and finally followed his heart, "But I'm leaving, Your Majesty?" ”

Li Ze smiled: "If you leave, naturally someone will come up." The secretary is in prison, but it brings together talents from all walks of life. I'm afraid that they will all look at you with a blank eye, counting on you to make room for them after you are gone! ”

Chen Wenliang couldn't help laughing.

"Where do you want to go?" Li Ze asked.

"I want to go somewhere." Chen Wenliang said: "I want to be like Governor Zhang, supervise the government, benefit the people, serve the country and the people, and do my best." ”

Li Ze nodded: "It's no problem to go out, but if you want to go somewhere, I'm afraid that you won't be able to go for a while." I think it won't be long before Xu Xiang asks me for you. He needs a helper like you. ”

"To the Economic Development Commission?" Chen Wenliang was stunned.