Listening to Liu Juntao's words, Emperor Chenghua was a little unhappy in his heart, in recent years, the Ming Dynasty has successfully changed the law, coupled with Liu Juntao's great military achievements, most of the government is controlled by Liu Juntao, coupled with the increasing criticism of Liu Juntao in the court, Emperor Chenghua inevitably gradually became wary of Liu Juntao, and today's disagreement made Xianzong very dissatisfied with Liu Juntao.

After the two were silent for a while, Emperor Chenghua said in a deep voice: "This discussion is not allowed to be mentioned again, now that the country is in full swing, you must not go on an expedition to Japan, Liu Ge Lao should not forget the lesson of Meng Yuan's expedition to Japan!" ”

Liu Juntao was dissatisfied, and now Japan itself sent an excuse for the Ming Dynasty to send troops, and the public opinion in the Ming Dynasty and the voices of the ministers of the DPRK and China were also inclined to send troops to Japan, but Emperor Chenghua was unusually and refused to send troops to Japan, which made Liu Juntao a little annoyed in his heart.

Emperor Chenghua's meaning Liu Juntao naturally understands: at this time, he is already in power, and almost all the military power and political power of the Ming Empire are in his own hands.

"I didn't expect Your Majesty to be blindfolded by authority!"

Liu Juntao thought in his heart, and at this time, seeing Emperor Chenghua drinking tea and not saying anything more, he sighed slightly, got up and said goodbye.

After returning to the house, Liu Juntao locked himself in the study, did not see anyone, and stayed in the study for four days.

During this period, Guo Muying was very worried, and wanted to persuade several times to ask what was going on, but Liu Juntao kept silent.

Four days later, Liu Juntao finally came out of the study, and the first thing he said was to summon Xiang Qun, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Guo Yongzhong, the deputy secretary of the Ministry of Households, Lan Siqi, the deputy secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Tang Yu, the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, and Zhang Yuqing, the secretary of the Ministry of Central Intelligence Huang Wuzan, to discuss matters in the palace.

At the same time, Liu Juntao also secretly ordered all units of the Tiance Army still in Luzon to prepare for their return to China, and at the same time speed up the delivery of immigrants and garrisons to Luzon.

At this time, everyone arrived one after another, and talked secretly with Liu Juntao in the study, the entire inner house was blocked by the guards left by Long Xiangjun, and even Guo Muying was invited to the front yard and was not allowed to get half a step close to the study!

"Ladies and gentlemen, Your Majesty has begun to fortify me!"

Just this sentence, everyone's hearts were shocked!

Then, Liu Juntao said: "Your Majesty must have begun to fight for power, and there will only be two final results: one is that Your Majesty will take full power, and I will die if I fail, and the work of changing the law will be wasted; Another result is the revival of the abolition! ”

These words were still echoing in the room, but everyone's faces had become very ugly, no one spoke at this time, and everyone was thinking about a question in their hearts: Your Majesty has decided to curb the power of the elder, where will Da Ming go in the future?

Liu Juntao sighed heavily and said, "But I've been thinking about the current problem in the past few days, and I think there is a third way to go!" ”

"Pavilion Elder !"

Everyone was shocked and looked at Liu Juntao one after another.

"Haha!"

Liu Juntao looked at everyone's appearance, immediately laughed, and said, "Do you think I'm going to make trouble?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, and they didn't know how to answer Liu Juntao for a while.

Then, Liu Juntao put away his smile and said with a frown: "I have decided to launch a coup d'état!" Comprehensively limit His Majesty's authority, transition part of the imperial power into the cabinet, and make the cabinet the real power of the Ming Dynasty; At the same time, all ministers in the Cabinet, including the Cabinet Ministers and Assistants, have a fixed term of office of five years, which is re-elected every five years, and the list of candidates is recommended by the courtiers and submitted to His Majesty for approval. After the restructuring, the military and political power of the Ming Dynasty was handed over to the cabinet, and His Majesty was only responsible for approving and rejecting the major events decided by the cabinet, and at the same time existed as a symbol and honor of the Ming Empire. The Cabinet has the responsibility to report and seek instructions from His Majesty in a timely manner on all major matters during his term of office, but the final decision rests with the Cabinet, and His Majesty only has the power to guide and intervene......"

Liu Juntao spoke freely for a full hour, and everyone present listened fascinated. Liu Juntao's remarks almost stripped the authority of the Ming monarch away, leaving only some honorary powers and the influence on the operation of the cabinet; The cabinet can fully exercise the authority of the Ming Empire, but it is limited to the term of office and the emperor's containment, and it cannot form a minister of power and a minister of calamity, so it seems to be a very safe plan at present!

Just how do you do it?

There is only one way in everyone's hearts: that is, as Liu Juntao said, launch a coup d'état!

Xiang Qun smiled bitterly and said, "Ge Lao, this is playing with fire!" Once it fails, the reputation of the elder will be ruined, and the Ming Dynasty will never recover! ”

The rest of the people are also entangled, on the one hand, Emperor Chenghua has begun to be wary of Liu Juntao, and in the future, he will definitely stand on the opposite side of Liu Juntao in the struggle for power, and the situation will become completely uncontrollable with the passage of time; On the other hand, once the plan proposed by Liu Juntao is successful, the Ming Dynasty as a whole will enter a relatively stable situation, even if the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is a mediocre, even mediocre monarch, the impact on the Ming Empire will be minimal, to the greatest extent to eliminate the negative impact of the faint monarch and tyrant on the Ming Empire!

But the process of achieving all this is extremely dangerous, and it can even be said that it is a death, even if Liu Juntao and everyone have basically controlled the authority of the Ming Empire, the coup d'état is still a daunting method.

Everyone began to discuss, Liu Juntao also listened with frowns, most of them were worried, and took into account the legitimacy of this move and how the history books would evaluate everyone in the future.

Liu Juntao took a deep breath and said: "Let's not talk about the current situation first, I just want to ask you one thing: What is the national capital of my Ming Dynasty?" Is it the emperor sitting on the throne, or the people of the world? ”

The crowd was lost in thought.

After a while, everyone raised their heads one after another, and almost said in unison: "The national capital of my Ming Dynasty is naturally the people of the world, and it is this magnificent China!" ”

Everyone came all the way with Liu Juntao from scratch, and they were used to seeing the suffering of the people and all kinds of situations in the world, and what they thought in their hearts was naturally different from those civil officials and scholars.

Liu Juntao's eyes were slightly red, and he bowed his head and said, "That's right!" Without the people of the world, without this land of China that has been inherited for thousands of years, there would be no emperor! As long as what we do can be worthy of the people of the world and do not betray Huaxia, we can let it go! ”

"The lower officials will obey the dispatch of the elder of the pavilion, and they will never give up!"

A few days later, the Ministry of War ordered that 40,000 new troops from Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi provinces were urgently ~ dispatched to the sea, and together with the 30,000 officers and men of the New Army who had already rushed to Luzon Island one step ahead, they would replace the officers and men of the Tiance Army who were still stationed on Luzon Island.

At the same time, the Ministry of War explicitly ordered the officers and men of the Tiance Army stationed on Luzon Island to return to Beijing and station.

At the same time, there was a strange atmosphere in the middle of the court, and all the ministers of the ministries stayed at home except for their daily official duties, and no one visited or invited each other anymore.

Emperor Chenghua also noticed this, as if he had expected something, and hurriedly put the guards in the palace in order, and hurriedly summoned Wang Zhi, the governor of Xichang.

Liu Juntao and the ministers of the court didn't know what Wang Zhi said when he faced the saint, but since Wang Zhi met Emperor Chenghua, Emperor Chenghua relaxed a lot and gradually returned to his former calm.

In this regard, Liu Juntao was also a little surprised, and was about to discuss it with Liu Zi'an, but he didn't expect that Wang Zhi would come to visit that night.

Liu Juntao heard the news and hurriedly invited Wang Zhi to the study, and after the two of them saw each other, Wang Zhi said directly with a serious face: "Elder Ge, the miscellaneous family heard that Elder Ge has been very busy recently, what are you busy with?" ”

What Wang Zhi was referring to, Liu Juntao naturally knew what the ability of the West Factory was, Liu Juntao knew very well, so he simply said directly: "What does the factory think?" ”

Wang Zhi was silent, and after a long time, he said, "Does Pavilion always want to change the sky?" ”

"I just want to make Da Ming better!"

"Your Majesty is also forced to do so, now the elder of the pavilion is already a master of high merit, the power of the government and the opposition, placed in the past dynasties, in the position of the elder of the pavilion, will be suspicious of the king, now Your Majesty has been very restrained, what else does the elder want?"

Liu Juntao stared at Wang Zhi for a long time, and did not answer, but asked, "I don't know what the factory father said to His Majesty?" ”

"Your Majesty asks the miscellaneous family if the elder is preparing for a coup d'état!"

Although Liu Juntao's face did not change, he was suddenly shocked in his heart.

Wang Zhi looked at Liu Juntao's face and continued: "The miscellaneous family told Your Majesty that Xichang has not found any abnormalities, and has closely monitored the pavilion elders and courtiers!" ”

"Why?"

Liu Juntao breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked, "What does the factory father want from me?" ”

"The miscellaneous family doesn't want to see the elder and His Majesty fight, and they don't want to see the Ming Dynasty in turmoil. As for what the miscellaneous family wants, it depends on what the elder wants to do. ”

Liu Juntao pondered for a while, then said his plan to establish a constitutional monarchy, and then asked, "What do you think of this idea?" ”

Wang Zhi groaned for a long time, his face kept changing, Liu Juntao was not in a hurry, and waited silently for Wang Zhi's answer.

After a full stick of incense, Wang Zhicai sighed slightly, got up and hugged his fists and said, "Since this is the case, the miscellaneous family will leave first." I just hope that when that day comes, the elder can keep his promise and ensure the safety of His Majesty, as well as the identity and status of the Ming Dynasty, and don't be blinded by authority and do things that people and gods are angry about! ”

Liu Juntao said: "That's nature! Thank you for your support! ”

"Humph! Don't misunderstand, the miscellaneous family will never support the elder of the pavilion, this time, the miscellaneous family and the West Factory will not help each other, only to ensure the safety of His Majesty! ”