"There are a lot of people coming to the meeting this year." When Li Xuanqing walked into the large conference hall of the cabinet with Cen Tianshi and others, he found that it was full of people, and he immediately smiled.

"Haha, the emperor's imperial meeting this year is overcrowded, not only the heads of almost all departments on the cabinet side have arrived, but also the law court and the general staff have almost all arrived." Cen Tianshi saw Li Xuanqing sit down and said with a smile: "Our Datang has entered the sixth year this year, does the emperor want to announce the appointment of me as the prime minister of the cabinet, I plan to work hard in this last term, and I can give my children and grandchildren more bragging rights when I retire in the future." Cen Tianshi's words made everyone present laugh, but Cen Tianshi's words undoubtedly told everyone present a fact, that is, the political principles set by Li Xuanqing when he founded the country and ascended the throne have now entered a critical moment, and many principled policies have come to the test.

What Mr. Shum said was that the first cabinet was all over last year. This is the first year of Mr Shum's second term at the helm of the Cabinet. What I want to make clear here is that the cabinet rotation system is one of the political principles of the Tang Empire, and this will never change, and even the composition of the cabinet will not be directly appointed by me in the future. Li Xuanqing stood up and said to all the participants: "The political principle is the sharing system, and only in this way can we ensure that our supreme power can always remain fresh, so that all political groups have the opportunity to compete for this supreme power." The experience from later generations made Li Xuanqing's thinking very clear at this moment, although the separation of powers was not suitable for this era, and even when the empire developed to the point where it has not given birth to more democratic soil. However, this does not prevent the rotation of power through cabinet rotation, and the emperor appointment system can also avoid the formation of a monopoly after several vested interest groups divide power to a certain extent.

Li Xuanqing looked at Xu Tianxiang and the others from the military and nodded: "The same is true for the separation of military and government, the army, as the last line of defense to protect the family and defend the country, is strictly forbidden to interfere in politics, and it is necessary to separate the military and administrative power, and the Tiance Mansion is independent of the cabinet to ensure that the power is transferred within a controllable range, and then runs smoothly." The faster and faster development of our empire will inevitably make more and more demands of the people of the empire, and these demands need to be channeled and organized and then expressed at the political level, so there will definitely be more and more interest groups, and how to make these interest groups not produce friends in the cabinet is the biggest problem we need to consider. ”

"The emperor means that the rotation of the cabinet allows all interest groups to see the position and realize their own interests and claims, so that each interest group can solve a certain aspect or some aspects of the problem after taking office, and after the rotation, no group can hold the supreme power for too long, so that all groups can have the opportunity to express their demands, so as to avoid pulling back in ordinary times." Cen Tianshi nodded and said: "This is a good way to solve the dispute between the friends of the previous dynasty, once the new cabinet is formed, the upper positions are all people of their own department, which can naturally avoid the occurrence of major differences of opinion, and those interest groups that do not have the upper position also have the opportunity to fight for the upper position when the cabinet rotates, which is equivalent to breaking up the disputes between the friends." ”

"So Mr. five years later, there is one thing that needs to be done, that is, to form a formal political group, since the previous dynasty was deeply affected by the party, then our group is called a political party, the legal court in the first political party after the formation of the establishment of the Tang Empire to improve the establishment and registration of political parties, the number of political parties can not be too much, otherwise the decentralization of power will not be easy to form a joint force after the establishment of the cabinet, and it will be easy to cause splits, the number can be set to two or three, In this way, through the formation of these three political parties, it is possible to unify the political forces of the country to the greatest extent and at the same time minimize the risk of power monopoly. Li Xuanqing looked at Cen Tianshi and said with a smile: "So I am afraid that Mr. Cen's retirement days will be in vain, and he will be able to take office again if he becomes the leader of a new political party in the future." ”

"Political parties? What are the principles on which this party was founded? Cen Tianshi saw that everyone was looking at him and laughing, so he smiled and asked. As for politics, in fact, these literati in China have been playing perfectly for thousands of years, but the concept proposed by Li Xuanqing is a bit advanced, so everyone present did not understand it very well.

"Political parties, to put it bluntly, are a group of like-minded people who share the same demands and goals for politics, and who continue to absorb nutrients and grow through the combination of political propaganda and the demands of ordinary people." Li Xuanqing explained in detail the opportunities and principles for the establishment of political parties in later generations, and then continued: "Political parties can participate in the struggle for executive power, but the Law Court and the Tiance Government do not allow political parties to interfere. The purpose of the existence of the law court is to ensure fairness and justice, this fairness and justice is for the vast number of imperial people, not for a certain political party, so the law is absolutely not allowed to operate political parties, the law is independent, independent of all systems, and exists for the general public to supervise the legitimate exercise of the supreme power by the cabinet, and the Tiance Mansion is to safeguard the eternal existence of the empire and the interests of the royal family, so the three will be interdependent and supervise each other, so as to maintain the balance of the empire. ”

Li Xuanqing's words made everyone present ponder for a while, and the position of the respective sections in the future has gradually become clear. And Li Xuanqing chose to say these things at today's imperial meeting, but he is also telling everyone that the second cabinet term is only a transitional period, and all policy changes will be completed during the second cabinet term. According to Li Xuanqing's top-level political design, there will be no major changes in the governors of all provinces, prefectures, counties, and even counties after the cabinet is determined, so that stability will be maximized. It's just that Li Xuanqing has always been curious about whether his idea of the real separation of powers will gradually improve after changing the principle of power distribution at the highest level. It's just that Li Xuanqing has his own views on the distribution of power at the lower levels, and he is unwilling to copy it from later generations, and what he envisions is the kind of republic in later generations to maintain the relative stability of local political power at all levels, and complete the deployment through the adjustment of the cabinet political parties that came to power, and Li Xuanqing's failure to restrict officials at all levels from joining political parties also gives them another channel for rising, and at the same time, it is also to give ordinary people more room for growth, so as to prevent the occurrence of a political party that removes all the governors of various provinces after it comes to power. Moreover, the imperial family played a pivotal role in the political principles set by Li Xuanqing, so that the power and authority of the imperial family could be used to forcibly oust the abusive political parties when necessary. And Li Xuanqing also said very clearly, in order for a political party to achieve development and even success, in addition to the recognition of the royal family, more needs to gain greater support among the people, so Li Xuanqing planned to reorganize the Law Court after the formation of the first political party in Cen Tianshi and divide the Law Court into two, one part will continue to implement the power of the Law Court, and the other part will exercise the power of the later parliament, merging the original imperial assembly and parliament into one.

Therefore, when Li Xuanqing said all this, everyone present even put down all the work summaries and plans that were ready to be reported, and began to seriously think about these brand-new political concepts put forward by Li Xuanqing. Even Cen Tianshi and Du Rang were able to look at each other a few times, secretly surprised how long Li Xuanqing had been thinking about this idea, from the perspective of the entire power exercise and handover process, it was simply flawless, one link was linked to the other, and each link took into account mutual checks and balances and containment.

"In this way, every time the transfer of power needs to be connected with the people at all times, and the members of that council are elected from among the people, so being responsible for them is actually responsible to the people, right?" Cen Tianshi was the first to understand, and nodded thoughtfully.

"The reason why I told you this in advance is so that everyone can be prepared, and we are about to usher in a new era in the future, not only the Tang Empire that we have built is expanding rapidly, and its internal development is changing with each passing day. Your position and even your future promotion will change dramatically. However, one thing will never change, although politics is a competition for a small number of people, but the final implementation is still the majority, so as to realize that everyone in the empire can participate in politics, and everyone is the master of the Tang Empire. Although new words popped up one after another in Li Xuanqing's mouth, everyone didn't need to explain to understand the meaning, "Therefore, the court and the cabinet need to make changes in time, and in the next five years, we will not only complete the development of the Tang Empire to a higher level, implement the five-year industrial plan we formulated at the beginning, but more importantly, lay the political principles and political foundation that the future generations of the empire need to abide by, so that our empire can never be corrupted and corrupted, and thus go to extinction." Only in this way will the empire always have fresh blood into all strata of the empire, keep the empire aggressive, and never detach itself from the people. Li Xuanqing's words made everyone silent for a while, according to his method, the members of the parliament are elected by the people, and the political parties need to gain a dominant position in the parliament to compete for the highest power, and all this because the legal court is independent to supervise the side to ensure fairness and justice to the greatest extent, plus the royal family is always pressed on the top will also make all political parties will not cause damage to the empire because of bigotry when they come to power, and the direct control of the Tiance Army to the royal family also ensures that the power of the royal family can be completely inherited, The military expenditure of the Tiance Mansion is submitted by the cabinet every year and then submitted to the Imperial Assembly, that is, the parliament for deliberation, which is equivalent to a kind of containment between each other, so as to achieve a new balance to ensure that the army will not interfere with the local government and ensure the operation of administrative power.

"Okay, I'm done talking, you don't have to think too deeply about this matter, I will implement these step by step with Mr. Cen in the follow-up, so that everyone will not be confused." Li Xuanqing clapped his hands and smiled: "At least your chances are much better than others." ”

"It's also said that at least we, the first generation of the founding of the country, must have more opportunities than the descendants, at least the rules were laid down in our generation." Cen Tianshi said with a smile, he didn't think this was a challenge to everyone at all, as the founding father, everyone's hard work in the past few years has also made Cen Tianshi's cabinet supported and loved by the people, and they need to think more about what their political demands and goals are.

"Alright, now let's continue to meet, and this year's Imperial Conference will continue. Where does the Cabinet intend to be in the main direction of the assault next year? Li Xuanqing continued.

"Connect the north and the south, develop the Western Ocean, consolidate the northwest, and recover the Tibetan areas." Cen Tianshi and Xu Tianxiang coincidentally pulled everyone's thoughts back with a few short words, and everyone began to let go of their reverie for the future and began to look at their respective plans and last year's summary report. Connecting the north and the south is the previous Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce jointly formulated the southwest economic plan, in Li Xuanqing and Cen Tianshi's modification has begun to be implemented in sections, the main task of the weather six years is to open up Sichuan, the railway from Guanzhong to Sichuan, the south in the Lingnan railway construction after the completion of the construction from Nanzhao to the north, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce is equipped with more than 100 large factories along the line to start work, and require the provincial government to support the construction of the straight road along the way with provincial finance. In this way, the plan to connect the north and south was also the first to start in the southwest.

"Your Majesty, wouldn't we be directly on the map of the Tang Dynasty, one horizontal and one vertical. The Northern Industrial Belt runs from Guanzhong Hexi to the east to the Bohai Bay in the northeast, plus from Guanzhong to the south to Lingnan and Guangdong, we are afraid that this horizontal and vertical will have a far-reaching impact on the development of the empire, right? Because it is a civil administration, the group of people in the General Staff basically participate in it and occasionally put forward some opinions, but as soon as Xu Tianxiang said this, everyone was taken aback after thinking about it in their minds, and secretly sighed that the cabinet was really bold this time, and actually used the territory of the empire as a map to draw a blueprint for development.

Under such shock, the subsequent development of Western trade and the stability of the northwest side did not surprise everyone, and even the distribution of the war zone with the recovery of Tibet and the report of the General Staff did not surprise everyone so much, after all, once such a grand plan was implemented, it would inevitably bring about a rapid increase in the economic development of the empire. Even the layout of the empire's economy has changed dramatically as a result. It's just that the Ministry of Finance, headed by Qi Hong, smiled bitterly at this, listening to the plan while carefully calculating the investment in it, if it weren't for the imperial meeting, Qi Hong would have a plan to fight with Murong Hanhai.

The finance minister's anger made Murong Hanhai shudder, which made Xu Tianxiang and the others, who had not yet reported, hurriedly stand up and fight, and even Xu Tianxiang offered to take out all the proceeds of arms sales with the Great Food Empire to subsidize the southwest plan, which made Qi Hong and Yin Honglin's faces slightly better.

Seeing that this plan was proposed by these people themselves, and then broken down little by little, everyone participated in the gradual formation of the meeting resolution, Li Xuanqing suddenly felt a little in a trance, and the seeds he planted were gradually germinating here.