Five years out of office.

Han Gang's plan was only reported to the level of Zaifu, and at the same time, there were still real cronies of Zhang Dian and Han Gang, and it was only a rough idea. The real details are in the hands of only a few people.

And five years later, he no longer wanted to be the prime minister, and only informed the Queen Mother, Zhang Dan, Su Song, Zhang Qi and Wang Anshi.

When the Queen Mother asked how the current Zaifu should be placed, everyone knew that Han Gang would have to give a seemingly fair response in order for his plan to be implemented.

But Han Gang's initiative to promise not to be re-elected after only five years as prime minister was still unexpected by everyone.

After this goes down, can you come back again?

It is common for the former prime minister to come back a few years later, but it is only when the emperor wants to use him that he will be recalled to the court.

If Han Gang leaves office after five years, he will have to return for another five years. And at that time, even if the Queen Mother was still there, how many councilors would recommend him to enter the two mansions?

Han Gang is only forty now, and with his physical condition, there are at least thirty years left. Even ten years later, at Han Gang's age, there were still fifteen years left in the two prefectures. With one more of him, there will be several fewer positions, and how many councils can tolerate it?

Li Qingchen looked at Han Gang suspiciously, puzzled. Is he confident that he will be able to control the situation after leaving office? That's too slim.

When he stepped down, he would definitely have to go out of the county - it was impossible to stay as a subordinate - and the remaining Zhangdian, how could he not take the opportunity to purge Han Gang's power in the court? If you don't have a certain amount of power, how can you re-enter the two provinces?

However, Han Gang has some compensation.

One is that since Han Gang is now sure that this position will be vacated in five years, presumably the councilors of his family will look forward to Han Gang being able to push them into the two mansions at that time. In the next few years, I will definitely be more attentive.

In addition, after today, Han Gang's reputation will definitely be better than before.

It was clear that he was already at the peak of the status and power that a courtier could have, but Han Gang still said that he would let it go.

His present promise will be spread in two days, and the image of his contempt for authority will probably become more and more profound in the minds of the world.

The greater the fame, the greater the prestige, maybe living outside the court, can still affect the political affairs of the court.

Just looking at Han Gang in the center of the hall, Li Qingchen secretly swore in his heart that if this decision really came from Han Gang's heart, he would never stand on the opposite side of him in the future.

Obviously, he had the opportunity to directly control the court, but he also chose a tortuous path and wanted to establish a system for a hundred generations. A person who is too idealistic has a tougher temperament than Wang Anshi, and in order to achieve his goal, he can even let go of his power. Such a person is dangerous, like a sober madman, no one knows when he will be stabbed, and he always has the best reason to stab it.

"The righteousness of the relative body is indeed the face of all things. Since Xianggong has this heart, how can I not be fulfilled. ”

The Queen Mother did not keep Han Gang, but the Queen Mother, which is equivalent to Zai Fu's resignation, and the attitude of the Son of Heaven who will allow him to resign, the courtiers will not misrecognize, which is not so much dislike of Han Gang, but rather the result of the negotiation that has already been discussed, so there is no need to say more.

"But there is one more thing, please ask the minister to solve my doubts. Now the election of the two governments is to elect the person to be elected through the guò court, and then I will choose one of them. The prime minister was selected by me from the two governments. In the future, it will be difficult for me to govern, and the emperor will still not be successful, how should I elect the ruling party at that time, and how should I select the prime minister from the ruling power? ”

Li Qingchen suddenly found that he seemed to think too idealized of Han Gang. From the words of the Queen Mother, Han Gang had already considered the issue of how to control the court after stepping down as prime minister.

But what is more worthy of emotion is the attitude of the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother paved the way for Han Gang's plan step by step, and the tasks that were supposed to be completed by Han Gang's cronies were now done by the Queen Mother. I really don't know how Han Gang curryed favor with the Queen Mother, so that the Queen Mother was willing to be called by him like this.

The queen mother pretended to be the right of the Son of Heaven according to the edict of the first emperor, in fact, she is the emperor of the day, and she is really the emperor who can really hold the authority, not the protégé of the late Tang Dynasty, but she can put it down cleanly. Although there was certainly a reason for illness, Li Qingchen felt that if it was him, even if he was already lying in the coffin cold, he would stretch out a hand and hold the emperor's treasure of inheritance.

"The world is full of cloud prime ministers, where is the weight?" Han Gang paused slightly, and then continued, "The emphasis is on government affairs, pre-military, advancing and retreating hundreds of officials, and everything is unified." Especially this matter is unified, the imperial court legislates, the prime minister is in charge, the important case is difficult to decide, the prime minister decides, the imperial examination is selected, the prime minister asks, if the candidate for the government, the ruling and the prime minister, the current prime minister can still intervene, how different is it from the Son of Heaven, not to mention ten years, five years of work can also seek the dynasty and usurp the throne. ”

Political affairs, military affairs, personnel, finance and taxation, law, education, and construction basically cover all existing ruling affairs, and these affairs were originally within the jurisdiction and interrogation of the prime minister, but there was also a son of heaven above, and there was also a supervision system used to curb hundreds of officials. Now the Queen Mother also has to recuperate, but together with the supervision, it also belongs to the Prime Minister. Grasp all the affairs of the court in your hands, this is the emperor.

Listening to Han Gang's count, the power of the prime minister is indeed amazing. But why didn't Han Gang say it before, but just said it when he promised to step down in five years?

Li Qingchen smacked his lips slightly, no wonder Han Gang was willing to resign after only five years as prime minister, it turned out that he was already preparing to weaken the power of the prime minister, so that even if he did not become the prime minister in the future, he could contain the head of the Eastern Mansion.

He glanced quietly at the top of the chapter, but found that there was no look of anger on the prime minister's face.

It seems that the two of them exchanged each other. Li Qingchen said in his heart. If Han Gang is not relieved to leave, he will not be able to grasp the power of Dongfu.

And the Queen Mother. He thought that if he wanted to reassure the queen mother, one was to hold the emperor to death, so that he would never be able to govern himself, and the other was to keep the Zhao family. Han Gang and Zhang Dian must have made guarantees, so the Queen Mother will cooperate.

"That's what Xianggong said." The Queen Mother unsurprisingly agreed with Han Gang's words, "The prime minister, the ruling party, and the discussion of politics are the most important in the world, and they cannot be decided by private individuals." ”

"Therefore, according to the opinion of the ministers, the prime minister and the person who will govern can set up a large council in Beijing, and the members of the state of the world will vote to decide."

The Great Council ......

Not again.

Li Qingchen sighed secretly.

Not long after the edict on the establishment of state and county assemblies was promulgated, the state and county assemblies in various localities began to prepare, and now Han Gang has made another big council.

The council has not yet been held, and the local area has been in a mess, and at that time, Li Qingchen was glad that Han Gang had no intention of holding a council in the court, but now that he looks at it, he is glad that it was too early.

In Li Qingchen's view, Han Gang always has all kinds of whimsical ideas in his head, and he always finds ways to use and even create shapes to put these whimsical ideas into reality.

There are orbits that communicate with the world, cowpox that has been used by all the people, spaceships, artillery, and plate armor that enhance military strength, and steel, sugar, and cotton cloth that benefit industry and commerce.

But the most important of these is the court and parliament that changed the law of the imperial court.

When everyone was accustomed to the new gadgets that Han Gang threw out casually when dealing with difficult problems, his move to show the method of his ancestors was not so conspicuous.

Compared with Wang Anshi, who started with finance and taxation to change the law, Han Gang tried to change the law from the people first.

Because Wang Anshi's law was resisted by the entire court, he had to cite new entrants such as Lu Huiqing and Zhang Dun, so as to lead to a stricter party struggle.

Han Gang chose to win over the government and the opposition first, and when the people's hearts were attached, it would be very easy to implement the new policy, compared to Wang Anshi, Han Gang's approach was more intelligent.

It's just that the result of this is that there are far more flesh and bones to throw out. Han Gang's desire to recover these people is far more beneficial than the benefits paid by Wang Anshi to promote Zhang Dian, Lu Huiqing, Zeng Bu and others.

In Li Qingchen's opinion, Han Gang is cub who sells Yetian and is not distressed, and he is a housekeeper, but he can throw out the things of the master's house with all his might.

If you really want to say that the price Han Gang paid was not his, the benefits he got belonged to him in real terms, and this kind of business did have to be done. Especially when the host family is not distressed, the transaction is better done.

The Queen Mother really didn't care that Han Gang was going to take the things of the Heavenly Family to distribute dividends to the foreign ministers, and asked with great interest, "What is the Great Council?" ”

"Counties have county councils, and states have state councils. When it is used for the nation, it is the Great Council. The state legislatures elect two chairmen and vice-chairmen to preside over parliamentary meetings, and these two are the members of the Grand Council. The Great Council has the power to legislate, and at the same time, the election of the ruling party and the prime minister is held in the parliament, and it is up to all members of the parliament to decide who is elected. ”

There are 400 military states in the Great Song Dynasty, and the total number of members of the Great Council is 800. The Great Council is used to exercise the power of the Son of Heaven, that is, as long as 400 of them are convinced, the position of Prime Minister can be reserved.

It's not hard to say, it's not easy to say. In the final analysis, it still depends on power. Li Qingchen, who had the heart to go further, thought.

And the Queen Mother continued to ask over there, "The county councillor must be a lifter, and the state council must be a jinshi or a branch, but what about the big council members?" Do they all have to be Jinshi? ”

The county assembly has the right to vote, the person has the right to be elected, the state assembly has the right to vote, and the jinshi and the branch have the right to be elected. And so on, then the Great Council should be that only the first-class and second-class jinshi have the right to be elected, and at least one jinshi must be a jinshi. But no matter what Li Qingchen thinks, this inference is unrealistic.

Han Gang is indeed not so determined: "There are only three or four hundred Jinshi in three years, and there are not even three thousand people in office, and even the court still has many vacancies, and there are still many pro-people officials in the state and county who are not Jinshi." There are 400 military states in the Great Song Dynasty and 800 members of the Great Assembly, if only Jinshi can become a member of the council, this time there will be less than half of the county. ”

Speaking of which, Zhuke is still proud. Eight hundred councillors, I don't know how many will be taken up by the branches.

Li Qingchen was thinking about it, and suddenly thought of Han Gang's previous words, his heart sank, and he hurriedly went out of work, interrupting the rehearsal between the Queen Mother and Han Gang many times, "What Xianggong said before, Qingchen has something unclear, dare to ask Xianggong, such as today's 400 military states, tens of thousands of households in Wangzhou, and only more than 1,000 households in Xiazhou, if the 400 military states are in close regard, there are two people who are members of the big council, is it a fair move?" ”