Feng Yunshan secretly praised Li Hongzhang's clever idea, and saw at a glance the core of the current cabinet's shortcomings. Thinking about it, Zeng Guanlan is really a little wrong, he has limited ability, and some wooden personality, he has always been his personal staff, taking care of the imperial affairs for himself, but he has not proposed to expand a few more deputies, resulting in the status of the cabinet in the past few years gradually declining, but let the ministries come out and directly report various affairs to themselves on behalf of the cabinet, which shows that Zeng Guanlan himself failed to discover this problem in time, and he also has a certain responsibility, and some political novices.

However, even if Li Hongzhang did not take the initiative to mention this turn, it is likely that he would have started this procedure in the near future, imitating the system of the Government Council or the ruling system of a certain Standing Committee in later generations, opening a gap for the light of democracy.

"Wechen thanked Your Majesty! That being the case, Weichen dares not to sacrifice his life for the master? Li Hongzhang knelt down again and respectfully kowtowed again to thank him.

Feng Yunshan waved his hand: "Flatten." In the future, Aiqing and I should often face each other, so don't always come to these red tape kowtows to thank you, do a good job in cabinet affairs, govern the empire for me, make the empire strong, and let hundreds of millions of people in China live and work in peace and contentment, which is the best gratitude. ”

Li Hongzhang's face was slightly red, and he nodded yes.

Feng Yunshan said again: "Since the roles are going to be reversed, Aiqing needs to prepare as soon as possible. In addition, Aiqing should know more about all aspects of Western countries, and now the times and world are developing and changing rapidly, and if you slack off, you will be surpassed by other countries. The Chinese Empire seems to be powerful now, but it is the impetus of my own efforts, coupled with the vast territory of the empire and the world's largest population, that it can stand firm among the great powers. We started late, and if we don't understand the bottom of those Western countries, we will be overtaken by foreigners or even ride on our heads if we are not careful.

Therefore, you should take advantage of this time to learn more about the human, economic and social conditions of Western countries. Our Chinese Empire is somewhat similar to the newly established American Federation, which was founded on industry and commerce, and has become a purely civil rights country since its establishment, which is different from our Chinese Imperial political system, although we cannot force the same, but we can change it slightly, such as the cabinet system, which is actually about the same. They are the cabinet responsible to the parliament that elected them, and the parliament is responsible to the people who elected them, and our empire is the cabinet system that is responsible to me, and I am actually responsible to the whole country, to all the people, in fact, it is the same.

Learn more about some of the specific ways of doing government in the United States. For example, they have extremely careful planning, orderly order, industrial and commercial standards, and even the standardization of equipment and machine parts and the standardization of workers' technical grades and wages, industrial rejuvenation, budget system, and so on, which are worthy of your emulation. ”

Li Hongzhang nodded in agreement, his heart was open for a while, and he somewhat understood the emperor's thinking.

Ever since the wise and martial emperor in front of him founded the Chinese Empire, he has been making reform attempts and constantly promoting the advanced ideas of the West, such as education, medical care, colonization and industrial development, trade and circulation, military training, and even weapons and equipment. On the one hand, the emperor did not want to pay too much attention to political affairs in person, and on the other hand, he wanted the Chinese Empire to carry out reforms and make the empire rich and strong. In this way, in addition to economic and social reforms, in fact, could it be that the emperor wanted to carry out social changes and even political or national reforms through economic reforms?

Thinking of this, Li Hongzhang was startled, and his chest tightened suddenly.

As ridiculous as the idea was, for some reason, he felt that it seemed to be the way it was. From beginning to end, the emperor seemed to be different from the emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he never thought of monopolizing power, like the Manchu Emperor took care of everything, grasped all the power in his hands, and always guarded against being overthrown on the throne.

And today's Son of Heaven doesn't seem to care much about this, but takes the initiative to introduce the cabinet system, throwing all the power in his hands to the prime minister of the cabinet, wishing that he himself would not be involved in government affairs and enjoy the peace of the world.

Of course, Li Hongzhang also understands that when today's son is the founding king, the entire empire and millions of captives were built by him, and all the important ministers and generals were also raised by him, and his prestige and power have reached the peak of incomparable, so there is no need to worry about the instability of the throne like the Manchu emperor, because he inherited the ancestral country, it was too easy to get and there was no foundation.

But from the usual various government affairs and signs, the emperor is a bright monarch, not a faint monarch who indulges in eating, drinking and having fun, but really doesn't want to take care of complicated government affairs. For example, the courtiers' bowing to the Son of Heaven is too common, but the emperor repeatedly advised the ministers of the court not to bow down at every turn, and also stipulated that except for the official court meeting, no one is allowed to bow down, and lower-level officials are not allowed to bow to higher-level officials.

Although Li Hongzhang did not quite understand this strange thought, he also knew that these were enough to show the direction of the emperor's reform. Moreover, it is precisely because the emperor keeps saying that he imitates the advanced system of the West and learns the law of Western power and enriching the people, that Li Hongzhang boldly guesses that the emperor is likely to effectively imitate the constitutional monarchy or republic system of those small countries in the West, and has the intention of reforming the political system.

Feng Yunshan also interrogated Li Hongzhang about some local government affairs in Jiangsu, from building factories to cultivating industries, from building schools to developing education, advocating the equality of the four people, encouraging local gentry and noble families to enter the city, starting industries, circulating industrial and commercial trade, breeding, education, medical care, transportation, and other public welfare, relaxing the management of road guidance and household registration, promoting freedom of employment, and improving productivity.

Li Hongzhang understood more and said to Feng Yunshan: "Your Majesty's teachings, Weichen has woken up." The strength of a country depends on the wealth of the people, and the wealth of the people depends on the amount of property. In the past, including the Manchu Qing dynasty, all the products were produced from the land, and the remaining small amount of minerals and handicraft workshops were almost negligible, that is, it was the country of agriculture that His Majesty said. Nowadays, the western countries are all taking the industrial road to the great prosperity of colonization and production.

Weichen also understands that the amount of the empire's products mainly depends on the degree of industrial development! This depends mainly on whether the people are committed to industry or not, but it is also up to the cabinet government and local government officials to induce incentives to find the root causes.

The Chinese Empire is vast and rich, and it will surely surpass the British and foreign countries as a model of industrial statehood, and embark on a broader road of developing industry and commerce to become a strong country and a rich people! ”

Feng Yunshan sighed: "Wonderful! The cabinet manages the world, appeases the people of Li, opens up thousands of miles of waves, and spreads the power of the country in all directions, so that the world of me is like the peace of Kunlun Mountain and the depth of the Pacific Ocean.

Twenty days later, the Chinese Empire began a huge personnel change.

Emperor Feng Yunshan personally issued an edict, saying that the prime minister of the cabinet, Zeng Guanlan, had worked hard and made him the king of Brahmin, and went west to India to marry the only princess of the Mughal Dynasty, and became the king, hereditary replacement. The position of Prime Minister was replaced by a group of five Cabinet members who handled the day-to-day affairs of the Cabinet. Li Hongzhang, governor of Jiangsu, Luo Zenan, governor of Zhejiang, Wu Chongyao, governor of Guangdong, Liu Changyou, governor of Hubei, and Zhou Shengkun, governor of Zhili, were transferred to Shengjing, and all of them were transferred to cabinet members, and Li Hongzhang was temporarily appointed as the first member to preside over the affairs of the cabinet.

Because it was a transfer of cabinet members, the emperor himself ordered it. The vacancy of governor left by the transfer of five cabinet members shall be submitted by the Ministry of the Interior, and after the approval of the five cabinet members, the emperor shall personally approve the vacancy of the governor.

Because of the preparations, the list of successors was soon announced: the governor of Jiangsu, who was succeeded by Liu Kunyi, the prefect of Songjiang; Governor of Zhejiang, succeeded by Wang Youling, prefect of Ningbo; The governor of Guangdong, who was succeeded by Lei Xuehai, the political envoy of Guangdong and the prefect of Guangzhou; The vacancies of the governor of Hubei and the governor of Zhili were replaced by Zhang Weihan, the political envoy of Hubei, and Tan Tingxiang, the political envoy of Zhili and the prefect of Beijing, respectively.

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