On the first day of the Lunar New Year, all places in the land of China from south to north are full of festivities, and the same is naturally true in the imperial palace!

On this day, there were many fewer people in the palace, the ministers had already taken a holiday, and more than half of the guards and palace maids had also gone home on vacation.

The palace was covered in snow and white, but it looked unusually beautiful.

In the Taiji Palace, Zhao Chen, Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan and other royal children are here, and Zhao San, Zhao Xun and others are accompanying them. Zhi Yueru, Song Qingyao, Qin Yuzhen, and Xue Susu are also here with their children, and now they are all Zhao Chen's wives.

The whole family is together, and they are happy.

"Another year has passed!" Zhao Chen said with a smile.

"yes, time flies! I still remember that in Kaifeng City, we also celebrated the New Year like this! To be honest, I really want to go back to Kaifeng to have a look. Zhao Huan said.

"Kaifeng experienced war and was almost completely destroyed! The imperial palace in Kaifeng has long been in ruins! Now I can't see anything when I go back! Zhao Chen shook his head and said.

"Kaifeng back then was even more prosperous than Yanjing City now!" Zhao Ji said fiercely.

"It's nature! At that time, the wealth of the world was gathered in Kaifeng, and Kaifeng was naturally prosperous! Is Grandpa still interested in politics now? Zhao Chen said suddenly.

Hum!

Zhao Ji snorted coldly and did not answer Zhao Chen's words, he knew that Zhao Chen would never let him control the government again. This world is no longer the world he used to be, but the world controlled by Zhao Chen.

"Grandpa, you were also the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty before, and your father was also the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty before, if you have any opinions about the imperial court, you can point them out, and the imperial court will also listen to your opinions." Zhao Chen said.

"Oh? What do you mean? Zhao Ji said.

"I intend to set up a new organization, which will be juxtaposed with the Military Aircraft Department and the General Staff Headquarters, so that we can discuss the government and make various suggestions to the court." Zhao Chen said.

"Ahh Zhao Ji stayed there for a moment, with an unbelievable look on his face.

"Since Grandpa is so interested in government affairs, he can enter this new institution." Zhao Chen said with a smile.

"Really?" Zhao Ji looked at Zhao Chen with wide eyes and said.

"It's true, of course!" Zhao Chen said.

"You didn't lie to me?" Zhao Ji said.

"Of course I didn't cheat on grandpa." Zhao Chen said.

"Chen'er, what kind of new institution is it?" Zhao Huan said.

"I have discussed with Wang Shu, Hu Quan and others, and it has been preliminarily determined to be the Advisory Bureau. Consultation, consultation, discussion, discussion. The Advisory Bureau is a place to make various suggestions to the imperial court and discuss the government. Zhao Chen said.

In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, foreigners opened the door of China with foreign guns and artillery, and the Manchu government was about to fall, and it was not until that time that the Manchu government realized the gap between itself and the foreigners.

So in the last ten years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Manchu court did many "big things".

They first abolished the imperial examinations, adopted a new style of education, and then immediately "prepared for the constitution."

Beginning in 1907, the Manchu court began to discuss the establishment of an advisory council. In the summer of 1908, the Manchu government successively promulgated several holy decrees, such as the "Statute of the Consultative Bureau", "Statute for the Election of Members of the Consultative Bureau", and "List of Matters to be Prepared for the Year by Year", and the provinces began to prepare for the establishment of the Consultative Bureau. In the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Consultative Bureau could decide on the provincial budget and final accounts, formulate laws and regulations, listen to the people's suggestions, make complaints, etc., and also had the right to supervise the governor's office.

At that time, everyone in the whole country from top to bottom knows that if there is no change, the country will be completely finished, and the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species will be at hand! The Manchu government had already begun to implement changes from top to bottom, but unfortunately, although the degree of change was not slow, it still could not be compared with the degree of the revolutionaries!

In the end, although the Advisory Council was established, the Manchu court was completely overthrown by the revolutionaries in less than two years, so the Advisory Council was only a flash in the pan in history!

The advisory bureau that Zhao Chen is preparing to build now is basically the same as the advisory bureau in the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, that is, the common parliament in later generations, but the current situation is completely different from that year!

At that time, it was the end of feudal society, the whole country was crumbling, and the contradictions at home and abroad reached the extreme, and now it is the heyday of feudal society, and the whole country is in the stage of soaring!

The current Great Song Dynasty stands proudly in the East and the world, and to make changes under such circumstances, Zhao Chen needs to consider many things, as long as the country's upward momentum cannot be suppressed! Fortunately, with the establishment of the Advisory Bureau, Zhao Chen has a certain innate advantage!

Whether it is Zhao Ji or Zhao Huan, they are both former emperors, and let them participate in politics, no one can come out to blame. Therefore, Zhao Chen decided to form an advisory bureau in the name of Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan.

"Great! That's great! Zhao Ji was dancing and excited at the moment.

Seeing him in his fifties so excited, Zhao Chen, Song Qingyao, Qin Yuzhen and others couldn't help laughing.

The whole of Tsubame Kyoto celebrates the New Year, and there are many pedestrians on the streets, but in the evening, most of them return to their homes.

The weather was too cold, only some children were putting firecrackers outside, and Zhao Chen was walking outside with a dozen guards at the moment.

He walked slowly on the avenue, and the sound of firecrackers, operas, and celebrations could be heard everywhere, and Zhao Chen's heart also felt a sense of prosperity that can only be found in a prosperous era. Compared with the prosperity of Kaifeng City back then, this is the real prosperity! Because in Kaifeng City, only the rich people could have a good New Year, and those poor families were able to eat a meal of meat dumplings during the New Year, but now Yanjing is in full swing, and the poor here are much richer than the poor people in Kaifeng back then! With the implementation of policies such as rent reduction orders, land division, tax reductions, and encouragement of industry and commerce, the gap between the rich and the poor in the Great Song Dynasty is much smaller than before! If the country's exhibition can't benefit ordinary people, then such an exhibition is meaningless, and Zhao Chen will never want that kind of exhibition.

He was dressed in civilian clothes, and it was dark, and no one in the street could recognize him

After walking for about a quarter of an hour, Zhao Chen and the others came to a big house.

There are red couplets on both sides of the door of the house, and the house is brightly lit, but the door is closed.

Immediately, a guard went up and knocked on the door, and not long after, the door opened, and a man in his thirties looked outside and said, "Who are you?" ”

"Go and inform Boss Li, Your Majesty is here!" The squire said.

"What? Your Majesty? The man in his thirties hurriedly looked ahead, and when he saw Zhao Chen smiling and nodding at him, he immediately knelt down and said, "See Your Majesty!" ”

"Is Li Chuwen here?" Zhao Chen said.

"My father is in the house." The man said excitedly.

It turned out that Zhao Chen had come to Li Chuwen's house!

Originally, when the imperial examination was reformed, Li Gang, Li Ruoshui, Li Chuwen and others left from the imperial court, Li Gang and Li Ruoshui had returned to their hometowns, and Li Chuwen was originally the minister of Liao, and later took refuge in Zhao Chen, his home was in this Yanjing City, so Li Chuwen always stayed in Beijing.

At that moment, Li Chuwen's son hurriedly opened the door and welcomed Zhao Chen in.

After another moment, almost everyone in the Li family came out and knelt down in the courtyard.

"Weichen see Your Majesty!" Li Chuwen also knelt there and said excitedly.

"Hurry up! Master Li, you don't have to kneel when you see me in the future, I will allow you to never kneel! Zhao Chen said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Li Chuwen said.

"It's so cold outside, let's go in and talk." Zhao Chen said.

"Yes, Yes, Your Majesty, please come in!" Li Chuwen hurriedly said.

Li Chuwen's family welcomed Zhao Chen into the house, and those guards were also placed in the house next to them, and the Li family sent all kinds of food to those guards.

Zhao Chen, Li Chuwen and Li Chuwen's sons were sitting by the fire, and tea and snacks had been delivered.

"Looking at your family like this, it's still rich." Zhao Chen said with a smile.

"I'm ashamed, the Lao Chen family has lived in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun for generations, and it can be regarded as the Han clan of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and they have also saved some silver money for hundreds of years." Li Chuwen hurriedly said.

"During this time, I was busy with state affairs, and I didn't come to visit the boss, I really shouldn't have been, and I came to pay you New Year's greetings today." Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, you are the king, we are the ministers, you actually gave us a New Year's greeting, which makes us ashamed!" Li Chuwen said.

"What have you been doing all this time?" Everyone chatted for a while, and Zhao Chen smiled.

"Wechen reads books at home, writes articles, and occasionally goes to Yanjing to relax, and on the day of the imperial examination, Wechen also went to watch it, and also read those imperial examination questions." Li Chuwen said.

"Regarding the imperial examination, you still oppose me?" Zhao Chen said.

"Wechen don't dare! As the saying goes, if you are not in your position, you will not seek your own government, and Weichen is now a grass people, and he does not dare to discuss state affairs. Li Chuwen said.

"Even talking about state affairs is nothing!" Zhao Chen smiled and said, "I am going to set up an advisory board, are you interested in entering it?" ”

At that moment, Zhao Chen began to carefully explain this advisory bureau!

Now this advisory bureau still has no rights, they can only make suggestions to the imperial court, but the imperial court may not adopt it! Of course, in the future, the power of this advisory council will be strengthened step by step! Zhao Chen will hand over the formulation of some rule of law laws and regulations to the Advisory Bureau, and hand over the national budget to the Advisory Bureau! Moreover, in the future, the composition of this advisory board will become more and more complicated, and there will be people in the Shinong industry and commerce who will enter it! In short, step by step, he wanted to build the Advisory Council into a body similar to that of the future Congress.

"Would you like to?" Zhao Chen said.

"The old minister is willing!" Li Chuwen barely hesitated, and immediately spoke.

Li Chuwen is now also in his fifties, from the Liao State to the Great Song Dynasty, he has been tossing in the political arena all his life, and now once he leaves the political arena, he is lonely every day, and he even regrets leaving the political arena because of the imperial examination! Now that Zhao Chen has set up an advisory board, he will naturally not refuse.

"Every year, the imperial court will allocate a part of the silver for the construction of the Advisory Bureau. In addition, a few years ago, I had already discussed this matter with Wang Shu, Hu Quan, Wang Shipeng and others, and asked them to formulate relevant systems, and you can go to them to discuss them together. Also, the two Emperors have also decided to join the Advisory Board, and you can also talk to them. Zhao Chen said.

"Good!" Li Chuwen was overjoyed in his heart and said.

"This advisory bureau is mainly to make some suggestions to the imperial court, and to deal with the reactions of some ordinary people, you should always have contact with the people, which is a very important thing." Zhao Chen said.

"Wechen knows." Li Chuwen hurriedly said.

Zhao Chen stayed here for a full hour before leaving Li Chuwen's mansion.

And Li Chuwen didn't rest that night, he was thinking about the affairs of the Advisory Bureau all night, on the one hand, he was planning for the Advisory Bureau, and on the other hand, he was guessing what Zhao Chen meant.

"Wang Shu and the others are still too young, and Your Majesty is not very at ease with Wang Shu, so Your Majesty wants to find some old people to supervise the court and make suggestions to the court! In addition, the two emperors stayed in the palace all day long and had nothing to do, and there were some royal families and ministers who returned from the north to support the two emperors, so His Majesty also had to appease the two emperors, the Advisory Bureau had no actual rights, and it should be the case to let the two emperors retire in it! Li Chuwen said secretly.

He wrote the paper, and his son persuaded him to rest, and he even scolded him severely.

"Your Majesty has entrusted me with such an important matter, how can I not forget to sleep and eat?" Li Chuwen said coldly.

In the early morning of the second day, the second day of the Lunar New Year, as soon as the sky was bright, Li Chuwen had already left his home to look for Wang Shu!

Originally, the imperial court would not officially open until the tenth day of the first lunar month, and Wang Shu did not expect Li Chuwen to arrive at all.

The two of them talked for a morning, and in the afternoon, Li Chuwen came to the palace to look for Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan.

In the evening, he went to consult Zhao Chen again.

"Your Majesty, this member of the Advisory Council needs someone of high moral standing to take on the position, and it is extremely difficult to select one. Wechen has made some lists, do you think you can take up the post of this councilor? Li Chuwen said.

"Whether it's highly respected or not, I don't know, I won't look at this list! I will teach you a method, if you are really virtuous and respectable, you will definitely be supported by the people, and you simply let the people elect their own parliamentarians. Zhao Chen said.

"Ah, yes, Your Majesty is such a great idea!" Li Chuwen nodded and said.

"Officials of the DPRK and China cannot be parliamentarians! In addition, there is no restriction, whether it is a farmer or a businessman, as long as he is well-known among the people, he can enter the Advisory Council. Zhao Chen said.

"The old minister knows!" Li Chuwen said.

Until the tenth day of the first month, Li Chuwen was busy with this matter, running around, and on the twelfth day of the first month, An Pulin and Li Rui came to Yanjing City again.

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