"Not bad!" Feng Yunshan said: "This large-scale steel smelting has sounded a wake-up call for your cabinet!" Today, while all the members of your cabinet are here, and I have time again, I will have a good chat with all Aiqing, the real original intention of my cabinet in the first place, this matter is related to the future of the empire, as well as the well-being of many people, the centennial prosperity of the Chinese people, and other major events, I hope that all Aiqing can keep in mind. ”

Seeing that the emperor was so cautious, Li Hongzhang and the other five people all straightened up, looked serious, and quietly listened to the emperor's teachings.

"Let's talk about the original intention of the Cabinet. Aiqing may have guessed that this is my laziness and I don't want to pay attention to complicated government affairs, but this is only one of them, and even a very minor reason. And the main reason is that some Aiqing may understand a little bit, and some Aiqing is not very clear, that is, I want to reverse the political system of thousands of years!

Yes! Change the tradition of our Chinese family and bloodline for thousands of years, and turn it into another era! I believe everyone knows very well why our Chinese people have been reincarnated for thousands of years, from the prosperity of a dynasty to the decline and extinction, at most it is two or three hundred years, and the long is only four hundred years, why is this? It was because the people under his rule could no longer survive and rebelled. Then our Chinese Empire is now the world of my Feng family, but I often wonder if one day, the people will also rebel? ”

Hearing the emperor's words, it was no less than a shock, and the five members of the cabinet were shocked, and hurriedly fell to the ground, exclaiming: "Your Majesty, don't worry, my Chinese Empire has been stable for a long time, and it will never be like this!" ”

"Haha, ten thousand years?" Feng Yunshan sneered: "As I said just now, there are even three hundred years of dynasties, let alone ten thousand years?" It's just an unrealistic fantasy! At the beginning, Qin Shi Huang swept through the six countries and created a unified foundation, why didn't he want to have a long history of Qin, but the fact is that the second died! And the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty are so powerful, they all encounter riots and rebellions from the people, and how long can they maintain their rule? Even the Ming Dynasty and the Zhu Dynasty, which started by rebelling against the rebels, were not the national fortunes of more than 270 years, and they were eventually occupied by foreign races.

How can there be 10,000 years in this world, and there are no 1,000 years! And I have recently discovered a secret after deep reflection and research, the secret of these ancient dynasties that are destined to decline! Recently, what I want to talk about is to eliminate this hidden worry that is doomed to decline, so that my Chinese empire will be passed on forever, always strong and rich, and lead the Chinese people to the world! ”

Speaking of this, Feng Yunshan paused.

And the five cabinet members were aroused by his great curiosity.

Luo Zenan was even more excited and forgot the etiquette, and said directly to Feng Yunshan: "Your Majesty, tell me quickly, what secret, how to solve this hidden worry?" ”

Feng Yunshan took a sip of water and said solemnly: "The dynasties since ancient times have been feudal autocracy. Perhaps the founding emperor of this dynasty is a generation of Ming monarchs, or there will be some accomplished emperors in the middle, they have high talents and virtues, and the emperor has supreme imperial power, so no one can restrain him, if he can govern the country with benevolent and people-oriented values, with wise and wise rule, appoint talents, humbly accept advice, create a social atmosphere of fair competition, reasonable and orderly from top to bottom, and reward and punish clearly, and effectively implement his policies, It will inevitably gradually promote the country's national strength and people's prosperity, so as to become the kind of beautiful peaceful and prosperous era with efficient governance and peace in the four seas.

But how many such monarchs can appear in a dynasty? This kind of foundation for the realization of a peaceful and prosperous era is built on the basis of a decadent and backward feudal autocratic system, not on the basis of an advanced and perfect state system that is sufficient to achieve long-term peace and stability. At the heart of the feudal absolutism of previous dynasties was the combination of a lifetime system, a hereditary system of the imperial throne, and a high degree of centralization of the emperor's power, in which case the probability of the state being controlled by a wise leader was extremely low.

For example, even if a wise emperor controls the country for decades and creates a prosperous era, but what comes with it, can every emperor be so good and dedicated to the people? When one day, due to the ascension of some mediocre or even mediocre heirs to the throne, the national fortunes of this powerful country will change abruptly in a very short period of time, countless outstanding talents can no longer be reused, and many wise policies and regulations will also be abolished halfway, one is not as good as the next, the generation is not as good as the next, the efficiency of the whole society gradually falls into the abyss, the stable balance is also completely broken, the traitors are in power, the party is in charge, the officials protect each other, and the people are not happy, so the sins are heavy. In the end, the collapse and fall of the country became the inevitable outcome of historical development.

No one can avoid this inevitable outcome. The same is true for me, Feng Yunshan! On the contrary, some big families, passed down from generation to generation, no matter the change of dynasties, it has nothing to do with them, they just govern a piece of land, and the rulers of any dynasty need their cooperation, so they are well preserved! Therefore, I have decided that as the emperor of the Chinese Empire, even if I can guarantee that I will not be mediocre, and I am the founding king, and I have the support of Aiqing and others, I can ensure the temporary stability of the country, but I cannot guarantee that future generations will never be mediocre.

Rather than always having to overthrow the Feng family in the future, and maybe let future generations die without a place to be buried, it is better to plan from now on and change this way of government that is not only unfavorable to the empire, but also to the Feng family! That is to abolish the traditional monarchy and the bureaucratic autocracy behind the direct rule of the monarch, and replace it with a constitutional monarchy similar to that of Western countries such as the United Kingdom, where the parliament appoints the cabinet, and the cabinet exercises the rights of the state to govern the Chinese empire!

And in this way, perhaps the Feng family can also be passed down from generation to generation like the Hanoverian Dynasty in Western Britain today. I would rather that my Feng family will be like Britain at that time, and the royal family will only be used as a symbol of the national strength of the Chinese Empire, and will not have substantive power. In order to preserve the stability of the country, we can not only preserve the eternal inheritance of my Feng lineage, but also ensure the stability of the empire and eliminate all the conspiracy of careerists. As long as after several generations of such a tradition, the atmosphere of a constitutional monarchy is formed, and the cabinet premiers the affairs of the state, but the real emperor is only a symbol, and the pure head of state has no actual rights, so that even if there are any careerists, they have to weigh and weigh, and there is no need to rebel. ”

"And this is the most fundamental intention of the Cabinet I set up! This is the intention of letting Aiqing and other cabinet members take care of state affairs. Step by step, the power of the country will be handed over from my hands. Now, for the time being, the Cabinet is only accountable to me, and when the time comes, a parliamentary system will be established, so that you and other cabinet members will only be accountable to the Parliament. It may be decades, maybe decades, but I hope that in my lifetime I will see a parliament that truly represents the interests of the majority of the people be established. This is the most fundamental role of the cabinet, which is completely different from the military aircraft department of the Manchu Dynasty and the four palaces and two cabinets of the Ming Dynasty. ”