Compared with military reform, Liu Hong has obviously a lot more things to refer to in political reform. The various systems of ancient and modern China and foreign countries are densely packed, all of which dazzle Liu Hong. This is not as good as the military reform, which is a situation where the unchallenged is not good.

Political reform includes a long list, such as bureaucratic reform, tax reform, land reform, title reform, and so on. This is a series of problems, and if you want to do it all over again, even if there is no resistance, it will not be able to be completed in a short time.

Liu Hong is a lazy person, if you let him tinker with this all day long, it will definitely be more painful than killing him. Therefore, what he wants to reform now is only the reform of the official system. This is also to make it easier for him to enjoy himself, otherwise he wouldn't be too lazy to get it.

In fact, what Liu Hong wants most is a constitutional monarchy. In that case, he will be able to hand over all government affairs above board and enjoy a good life for himself. But Liu Hong also knows that this idea is not realistic. With his current prestige, if he dares to do this, the most likely thing is to be completely ousted from power.

Liu Hong knows that there is danger in any change, and in order to reduce the danger, it is necessary to set a degree and control political change within this degree. If the political change is too big, it is definitely not a good thing, and Liu Hong can't help but consider Wang Mang's lessons from the past.

In Liu Hong's view, many of Wang Mang's changes are good, but they are just a little ahead of their time.

For example, land is owned by the state, private individuals are not allowed to buy and sell, and the ancient well field system, which was abolished 1,200 years ago, is restored. The arable land was redistributed, and the landless farmers (tenant farmers) were given land by the political axe.

The system of slavery was frozen, and although it was not abolished immediately, all slaves and maidservants were forbidden to continue to buy and sell. It was used to limit the scope of slavery, and to increase the number of slaves, so that it would eventually be destroyed naturally.

Forced labor, all unemployed vagrants, each person is fined one piece of cloth per year. If he is unable to pay, he will be forced to work by the political axe, and during the period of labor, the political axe will provide food and clothing.

Implement a monopoly system: wine monopoly, salt monopoly, iron monopoly, and the central government axe unified issuance of currency (in the past, any rich man could make silver money, and the new political axe withdrew this authorization). The natural resources in the mountains and waters are all owned by the state and mined by the imperial court.

Establish a loan system, so that people can borrow money from the political axe for the needs of sacrifice or funeral, and no interest will be charged. However, if a loan is taken out for the purpose of running an agribusiness business, the government charges one-tenth of the principal and interest of the net profit.

We should implement a planned economy, control prices with a political axe, and prevent businessmen from infiltrating the market, so as to eliminate the inequality between the rich and the poor. When there is an oversupply, the political axe will buy the goods such as food and cloth. When demand exceeds supply, the political axe is sold to stop prices from rising.

Income tax was levied, and all industry and commerce, including fishing and hunting, divination, doctors, inns, and women's families raising silkworms and weaving cloth, were once free to operate, and his political axe was subject to income tax on one-tenth of the net profits. The political axe uses this income as a loan or to stabilize prices.

Moreover, Wang Mang also attaches great importance to education, encourages invention, and is extremely hateful of foreigners. From these aspects, no matter how Wang Mang looks at it, he looks like a traverser, and he is also an angry youth traverser.

However, because Wang Mang's reforms were too advanced, the whole country opposed them. Let him, the traverser, be exterminated by a local native. I can't help but say that this is the sorrow of a traverser, and Liu Hong is now deeply warned.

Now a constitutional monarchy must not be carried out, for this era, the steps of this system are too big, and it is easy to pull eggs. Therefore, Liu Hong, we must consider a system suitable for this era.

Although Liu Hong is not a perfectionist, Liu Hong still wants him to be as perfect as possible for this system. After all, he didn't want his descendants, like those other emperors, to be wiped out when the dynasty changed.

The change of dynasties in all dynasties was caused by the violent conflicts between the court and the people. In order to solve the problem fundamentally, it is necessary to eliminate the contradictions. But to a certain extent, this contradiction is unavoidable. Therefore, if you want to ensure the safety of the emperor, you need to transfer this contradiction.

But how can this contradiction be transferred? That's a question that needs to be well considered.

The functions of the imperial court, according to later generations, were the three major powers of the executive, the judiciary, and the legislative. But Liu Hong felt that this was not too detailed. According to his division, there should be four rights: management, legislation, supervision, and adjudication. And the most likely contradiction with the people is management. Therefore, if you want to transfer the conflict, the best way is to throw this management matter to others.

Although this method is good, Liu Hong is most willing to accept it. However, this method cannot be implemented. Because if you do that, it will be no different from a constitutional monarchy.

Since that can't work, in order to divert the contradictions, Liu Hong can only think about letting the people participate in the functions of the imperial court. Management, legislation, supervision, and adjudication, in addition to management, which can only be carried out by officials, the rest, in Liu Hong's view, can involve the people.

Examples of these can be found in later generations. For example, most of the parliaments in charge of legislation in foreign countries are people without official positions. And the verdict is a jury composed of ordinary people. As for overseer, the people of later generations will be more involved. So it's definitely feasible to involve the people.

The administration of the imperial court, which is divided into central and local, is not very different. To a certain extent, the local government is just a small center. So the local institutions, just simplify the central institutions.

According to Liu Hong's idea, he set up a House of Representatives at the local level, which was completely elected by the people, and a National Assembly at the central level, and the people of the National Assembly had to be elected from the House of Representatives. Since the House of Representatives is fully democratically elected, in this way, Congress is not controlled by officials. To a certain extent, public opinion can be expressed.

Although the parliament established by Liu Hong was also initiated by the emperor, the emperor could also abolish it at any time. However, it is significantly different from the foreign parliaments of later generations. It is mainly Liu Hong, who has been assigned a bit more functions, drafting laws, taking charge of the state treasury, reviewing various resolutions, plans and expenditures proposed by the prime minister, supervising various departments of the government affairs yuan, recommending and impeaching the prime minister, reviewing those who have been executed, and so on.

Although Congress has a supervisory function, it is not its primary function. The imperial court also has a special supervisory body, the Metropolitan Procuratorate. The Metropolitan Procuratorate is completely outside of the various departments, and is in charge of the imperial history, which is controlled by the left imperial history and the right imperial envoy, and the two of them are each in charge of a team of imperial history. The left capital of the imperial history inspector hundred officials, the right capital of the imperial envoy inspector locality, in all parts of the Han Dynasty, have set up branches. Regardless of whether the left capital is the imperial history or the right capital imperial envoy, they belong to vertical management and are directly responsible to the emperor, and no one is allowed to interfere.

It was decided that Liu Hong was named Dali Temple, and it was also a reading department outside of various departments. Led by the Dali Temple, the judges were led and trial divisions were set up in various places. However, it is different from the supervisory department, and because of its functions, it is also easy to cause conflicts with the people. Therefore, in the trial courts in various places, Liu Hong directly introduced the jury system, and the jurors have the final say on whether they are guilty or not. In this way, the contradiction between the court and the people can be effectively avoided.

Both the imperial history and the judges were readable, appointed directly by the emperor and responsible for supervision and adjudication. However, because of their excessive power, they must be appointed in different places, and they must be rotated every three years.

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