"Your Majesty? You're not mistaken!? Liu Changyou was directly dumbfounded, and he couldn't help but ask directly, who had not spoken.

And Li Hongzhang was even more dumbfounded. He never expected that the emperor would have the intention of abolishing his throne, this, this, he heard it right! Anyone dreams of thinking about the emperor, how can this generation of saints who have laid down such a vast country in front of him actually think of dragging himself down from the throne step by step, no, it is not from the throne, but the position of the emperor has been abolished from the original position of dominating the whole country and dominating all the people, and has become a puppet on the surface, and it has become just a hereditary title.

Li Hongzhang couldn't figure it out, how could the emperor think like this! He also doesn't understand that there are still people in this world who don't want to be emperors and don't like power.

And Zhou Shengkun also hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, think twice!" Although Weichen knows your thoughts, to follow those countries that imitate the West, to engage in a co-ownership system and even give more freedom to the people, but this is not suitable for a country as big as our Chinese Empire, let alone for you, Your Majesty! ”

Even Luo Zenan was very surprised, and couldn't help but persuade: "Your Majesty, this, I'm afraid it's inappropriate!" In case the prime minister or other cabinet members, or even the head of parliament in the future, sit on the throne and control the entire power of the country, it is not possible to overthrow the country you have been defeated at once. Wouldn't it be even worse for those careerists to change the dynasty? ”

When Feng Yunshan heard this, he said to Luo Zenan: "This is exactly what I am worried about!" Therefore, I did not say that I would reform like this, but first observed, pushed the cabinet out, let the five of you first test the governance of the cabinet, and then consider it when it is stable, which is the task of your cabinet members, to formulate a series of rules, the cabinet must be agreed by the majority of the people in order to implement major decisions, cabinet members can never hold power alone, let alone directly mobilize the army, and affect the life and death of the royal family. Only in this way can we avoid the situation that Aiqing said, but it is not only like this, there are many other things that need to be explored by Aiqing and imitate the system of Western countries. ”

On the contrary, Wu Chongyao was very excited: "Your Majesty, Weichen understands. You are a constitutional monarchy that wants to turn the Chinese Empire into a Western country. If this can really be successful, it can indeed solidify the class, and His Majesty's family will become the largest and most noble royal family in our Chinese Empire for generations, and we, the ministers, can also become hereditary nobles for a generation.

It's just that Your Majesty, did you really decide to do this, sacrifice so much for those ordinary people, and give up the entire Feng family? You know, now the entire Chinese empire belongs to you! If you push them out like this, the loss and cost will be too great! ”

Luo Zenan's eyes were also very bright, and he suddenly realized: "Your Majesty, Weichen understands!" Weichen can only be impressed by His Majesty's sacrifice of the world for my Chinese people, and for the benevolence of hundreds of millions of people in the Chinese Empire! ”

Although Zhou Shengkun didn't quite understand what Feng Yunshan had in mind, he was the most loyal, and immediately said: "Your Majesty decides what to do, Weichen will definitely obey the order and do it well!" Your Majesty will not set up a cabinet, they are all emperors of the Chinese Empire, the respect of the Ninety-Five, who dares not to obey? I, Zhou Shengkun, were the first not to let him go! ”

Feng Yunshan saw that Li Hongzhang and Liu Changyou were still a little confused, knowing that these two people had always accepted the way of Confucius and Mencius of Zhongjun, and they might not be able to accept their own thoughts, so he continued: "Ladies and gentlemen, in fact, I am not as great as you imagined. I am also a human being, and I will also plan for my Feng family. And now that I have set up a cabinet, I told you that I want to set up a parliament, make the cabinet accountable to the parliament, and replace the current position of the emperor's supreme power, in fact, it is not my benevolence and magnanimity, but ......

It is a correct trend judgment for the future and in this era of rapid development! According to the development of the Chinese Empire, I conclude that thirty years at the earliest and fifty years at the latest, the people of the Chinese Empire will not be able to survive on the land of the Chinese Empire after being fully educated and exposed to foreign trends of thought, coupled with the influence of the development trend of the whole world! Not only could the Chinese Empire not tolerate the imperial system, but most other countries in the world may not be able to let the imperial system have the soil to survive, and the people at that time would want their own freedom and advocate the ideological trend of human rights equality, which is an irresistible and unavoidable historical trend, even if I am powerless. Therefore, it is precisely because of my selfishness that I want to think about my Feng family, as well as all Aiqing and the others and the soldiers behind you who follow me to fight the country, and to seek some benefits for them and prepare in advance, so I will make such arrangements and calculations!

I thought about it, and now I have three sons. You originally thought that I made my second son the crown prince and the crown prince because I favored him, but now it seems that I have treated him badly! Because perhaps he has not yet succeeded to the throne, it is possible that the emperor of the entire Chinese Empire has become a superficial head of state with no real power.

As for my other two sons, I have some selfish intentions, and I am ready to separate them while I am still there. But they were only given a small number of territories, lest they or their descendants still have ambitions to try to recover the territory of the Chinese Empire with their strength, which would be considered good for them. As for these two territories, I haven't thought about them yet. Maybe it's Ceylon, maybe it's Oman, or maybe it's a remote place like the North and South Islands of New Zealand.

The important ministers of me, who were named princes, will also be divided into some independent islands or strongholds, such as Socotra in the Arabian Sea, the Comoros Islands in Africa, etc., which will become the forefront of the spread of Chinese civilization to the outside world. ”

As soon as Feng Yunshan said this, Li Hongzhang and the others believed it even more. After all, that's what makes people feel right. However, I still feel that something is wrong, why would the emperor be so careful to prepare in advance for the events of this hundred years now, now that he has the entire empire. This is really abandoning the huge country of the entire Chinese Empire.

Feng Yunshan seemed to see through everyone's thoughts, and said with a smile: "Everyone, Aiqing, don't think that I am worrying about the sky. In fact, there have been prophets and Western countries who have explored these paths. All of these things make that inevitable. What I'm doing now is actually just taking precautions! ”