"Your Majesty, this is an amendment to the Charter after the Prime Minister's Office has collected opinions from all sides. Your Majesty is invited to review it. ”

The "Imperial Han Charter" is what Guan Yi values most as a traverser. In his opinion, no matter how much he has achieved in improving people's livelihood, suppressing the family, and even destroying the Jin Dynasty and sweeping Wu. None of them can compare to the formulation and promulgation of this charter.

Three years after the promulgation of this fundamental national (prevention of harmony) law, the Prime Minister's Office sent a large number of personnel to visit a large number of families, officials, and even ordinary people to listen to their opinions. Then, after many meetings, the revised draft was finally formed.

Among them, the most revised content is the chapter "Succession to the Throne".

The new provisions of the Succession to the Throne as amended are as follows:

First, the emperor is for life, under the condition that the emperor himself is completely voluntary. The current emperor can abdicate early.

Of course, Liu Chen has no opinion on this one.

Second, the successor emperor shall be directly appointed by the current emperor. However, the crown prince was no longer openly established, but the secret system of the Manchu Qing dynasty was adopted. If the current emperor has a son, he must choose among the princes. If the emperor has no sons or all the sons have died at the time of the handover, the grandson is preferred, followed by the nephew, and then the uncle.

At this point, at least the first half, it is a serious violation of Zhou etiquette.

The core of the Zhou rite is order. The king's eldest son succeeded to the throne, and the other sons became princes. The eldest son of the princes succeeded to the throne of the princes, and the other sons became doctors. The eldest son of the doctor is a doctor, and the other sons are "scholars". To follow the weekly rites is to keep order. As long as order exists and everyone does not fight or grab, the country can ensure stability.

But in doing so, almost all the virtuous or bad of the monarch is left to God. And over time, it will make the heir inert and become softer and softer.

In Guan Yi's opinion. If you want to be the heir of the country, that is to fight! You can't even handle your own brother and father, how can you deal with the family, the ministers, and the head of the army after ascending to the throne?

"When I read the history books, I saw that the Chu State was before King Zhuang, and the succession of each king was accompanied by blood, but the Chu State was getting stronger and stronger. After King Zhuang, Zhou Li was in Chu, but Chu became weaker and weaker. Reading the history of Rome again, I know that there are many ways to inherit kings. Therefore, it is acceptable for me to secretly build a prince and let the princes work hard for the throne. However, I am both an emperor and a father. Although the Heavenly Family is ruthless, I still do not want my descendants to be caught in shameful killing of each other in the future. ”

"Your Majesty's words are indeed reasonable. In order to prevent the royal competition from being too bloody, there are several amendments to the minister's amendment. ”

Article 3: The heir to the throne who has reached the age of 20 at the time of his succession to the throne shall be directly vested in all powers of the state. Under the age of 20, the former emperor had to appoint a minister in advance. The number of ministers is fixed at three, namely the prime minister, the grand governor (the metropolitan governor), and the president of the Supreme Court. Before the emperor was twenty years old, he had to deal with government affairs with the assistance of these three men. Without the joint countersignature of these three men, the emperor's orders could not be carried out.

Article 4: The prince is enlightened at the age of five, except for the internal education of the royal family. You have to go to a public Mongolian school to study with other ordinary children for five years. After graduating from Mengxue, he first entered Longshouyuan College, and then entered Wuzhangyuan College. A total of eight years of study. Even because of the premature death of the previous emperor, these thirteen years of study must be completed. After thirteen years of study, one year of internship in the army with the rank of second lieutenant was required, and then one year as an ordinary clerk in the Prime Minister's Office.

"I'm very satisfied with these two. Especially the latter one. Hey, I read the book written by Da Sima, so many emperors in later generations were born in the deep palace and grew up in the hands of women. How can the country be governed? And all the princes have received such an education. Even if you can't inherit the throne, be a minister or general of a country, or expand your territory on your own as a prince, it's more than enough. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. Now that my Han has been implementing the reform of the sub-sealing system for several years, I have slowly seen some results. Next, Your Majesty, as well as Your Majesty's descendants and grandchildren, can gradually divide the princes and grandchildren who cannot inherit the throne and slowly divide them. As long as the fifteen states of the Han Dynasty do not divide any princes and dukes, then the central Han government will always have enough power to control all the vassal states. And I, the Han people, will gradually pocket most of the world's land and resources after all. ”

"I am very confident in this. My descendants want them to compete with each other, that is, to let them have wolf nature, and they must not be raised as pigs like the descendants of Zhu Ming in later generations. ”

Hey, in this era, it is still inappropriate to limit the power of the emperor and engage in parliamentary democracy. can only hope for the quality of the emperor himself.

It's just that the quality of the emperor himself can certainly be cultivated through education and competition. But it is also easy to cause many careerists to ignore the country for their own interests. But then again, there are so many dynasties in later generations, even if they advocate weekly rites all day long, but are the princes still less vying for the throne?

The most fundamental thing is to create a strong central power. In this way, even if the heir selected by the emperor is slightly less qualified, as long as he does not play a good card like Emperor Jianwen in the later generations, it should not be a big problem.

Therefore, the sub-feudal system can only seal the corners of the land to the descendants of the royal family, so that they will not have the power to challenge the central government for at least a hundred years. In this way, it is possible to ensure that the succession to the throne will be fiercely contested, but not too bloody.

"Your Majesty, the matter of the amendment is over. Next, let's talk about the fiefdom of the ministers, right? ”

“…… Da Sima, do you really want to abandon me? ”

"It's not that the minister wants to abandon His Majesty, but the minister has to go. Chen is forty-four years old this year. Although there is a saying that it is never too late to start again at any time in life. But to be honest, due to his age, the minister has become more and more lazy over the years, and he wants to be stable more and more. If you don't take advantage of the fact that the minister still has a little bit of pioneering spirit, then the minister may really not want to leave. ”

Of course Liu Chen understood this: the two of them have reached this level, what kind of feelings and character are all illusory. The only thing that is real is profit! If Guan Yi really doesn't leave, one of him and Guan Yi will have to die! And now it seems that if this situation really happens, it will most likely be him Liu Chen who died.

"It's just Da Sima, now that Dongwu has just been pacified, the country still has a lot to do......

"Hehehe, Your Majesty, how did the minister clean up the Kanto family before, you can clean up the Jiangdong family. Although the population of the current Han Dynasty is not as good as that of the heyday of the Han Dynasty, it is also a rare good situation in the past hundred years. Food and taxes are abundant. Although there is still a lot of room for improvement in the country's systems, they are absolutely excellent at this stage.

Moreover, after the fall of Soochow, the sea trade channel was unblocked, and it was more advantageous to shift the family's energy from land to industry and commerce. When the family is cultivated to expand its capital, then there is no problem for His Majesty to collect household taxes in the country and restrict the family. In fact, the family is actually wolf-like, Your Majesty thinks about Sun Hao's sneak attack on Jiaozhou last year and the sea trade was cut off. Families from all over the world have written to ask for Wu, isn't this a good start?

So, the country now looks like a lot of things. But a very good order has been formed in all directions. As long as His Majesty can control the overall situation, give a little guidance. With the strength of the tens of millions of the most industrious people in China, the prosperity of the Han Dynasty is just around the corner! ”

“…… What Da Sima said was, to be honest, watching the country flourish under Da Sima's care. I actually wanted to go to the front desk and try it myself. But when it really came to come, I felt nothing more than trepidation. ”

"Your Majesty has read Persian and Roman history books over the years, what experience do you have?"

"What does Da Sima mean?"

"Let's put it this way, if Your Majesty were to summarize the cultural characteristics of the Taixi Kingdoms in a few short words, what answer would Your Majesty give to your minister?"

"Well, the Egyptians were religious, the Babylonians were military, the Greeks were science and art, the Persians were religious and military, and the Romans ...... The Romans were the law. ”

"So what does Your Majesty think of the cultural core of my Han Dynasty?"

"I'm a big man...... It should be a sense of distress and optimism. ”

"Your Majesty said it excellently. Since the beginning of the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors, our Han people have been full of a sense of distress. However, in the face of all kinds of difficulties, he never accepted his fate, but faced and challenged them positively and optimistically. Your Majesty, if you look at the creation legends of Egypt, Greece, Persia and other countries, God sent them calamities and punishments, and although they were very angry, they could only bear it. But I, China, am a nation that slaughters gods, and if God dares to harm human beings, we will slaughter them. This is the most advantageous place for our nation compared to other peoples.

In addition, Mencius was born in sorrow and died in peace. Chen Sheng's sentence "The prince will have a kind of Xiangning", although it does not please the people in power. But it is these two sentences that are the key to making my Han people stand still after many hardships in later generations......

Your Majesty will come to power in the future, and you must remember to protect these two points, and at the same time introduce the scientific ideas of the Greeks and the strict laws of the Romans...... For any civilization to survive for a long time, it must walk on at least two legs. If there are four points of support in the core of our culture, then Dahan will always be as safe as a rock! ”

"I ...... I see. Losing the sense of distress will plunge my Han into the rapid decay of later generations like the Southern Dynasties, and eventually perish. Losing optimism will make it impossible for me to rise up and fight when things are difficult. Without science, nations and nations will gradually fall behind. If there is no law, then the country will be ruled by men. If people rule by man, it will be difficult to control the rise and fall of the country. ”

"Hehe, Your Majesty has a point. However, the core of the rule of law is, after all, the rule of man. Because no matter how good the law is, if no one maintains and enforces it, it is still waste paper. ”

"I see. Da Sima is saying that I need self-control. In particular, we must strive to uphold the various laws in force. Even if Da Sima leaves, I can't think of overturning Da Sima's previous policies in order to prove myself. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. Although His Majesty may be evaluated by his ministers in the history books of later generations, His Majesty's forbearance today is extremely important to the long-term peace and stability of the country. And after a thousand years, someone will finally be able to understand the greatness of His Majesty! ”

"Da Sima can give up such great interests for the long-term future of the country and the nation. What reason do I have to care about my name? Da Sima has been taught a lot for more than ten years, but what makes me feel the most is that Da Sima always puts the future of the country and the nation first, and puts personal interests last. I will practice this for the rest of my life and pass it on to my descendants! As the saying goes, 'if you want to wear a crown, bear its weight first'. The Liu family, supported by all the people, must also pay the greatest sacrifice! ”