Three months have passed since Zhao Weiji ascended the throne, and the ordinary ministers in the court have not felt too many changes in these three months, unlike Zhao Guangyi's elimination of dissidents as soon as he came to power, nor like Zhao Heng who began to implement his own ideas after coming to power.

This is a vassal king, the emperor seems to have no ideals, and has not put forward any plans of his own, and everything is still according to the previous rules.

Probably the only change was the formation of a small group headed by Kou Zhun, with whom the emperor had to consult with each day, and there were no more changes beyond that.

This small group is headed by a Zhongshu Sect Pingzhangshi and two governors, as well as the chief and deputy chiefs of the Privy Council and the three divisions, plus officials from some other important departments, a total of about a dozen people.

Zhao Weiji specially found an office place for them in the palace, and handed over different types of recitals to the chief of the department in charge of handling them every day, and after processing them on the spot, they were reviewed on the spot, and then handed them over to the emperor for approval on the spot, and then handed them back for execution after the approval was completed.

This directly condensed the system of three provinces and six ministries that had been extended to the beginning of the Song Dynasty since Li Tang, although it was still formulated, reviewed, and then implemented three processes, but it avoided the back and forth transmission between the ministries and avoided the possibility of kicking the ball.

But the other ordinary officials did not see this, because not many other people knew exactly how it was to be done, only that the notes handed in in the last month or two were basically answered after a day, and the efficiency was quite amazing.

The reason why Zhao Weiji did this was not only that it was too much time to pass back and forth between the previous ministries, but also that he wanted to slowly form something similar to the later Ming Dynasty cabinet.

All show that the dynasty is a bastard emperor. But it's this bastard emperor flying all over the sky. Throughout the Ming Dynasty, the emperor did not go to court, and the time reached the average duration of the dynasty, but the absurd dynasty lasted for 276 years.

One of the most important factors in this was the cabinet politics that slowly took shape in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. In the cabinet politics of the Ming Dynasty, state power was divided into two parts: the votes of cabinet ministers and the emperor's approval of the red (although the approval of the red was controlled by eunuchs most of the time).

This is somewhat like the dual constitutional monarchy of later capitalist countries, where the state is run by a cabinet, and the emperor is only responsible for appointing the cabinet and agreeing to or rejecting the cabinet proposals.

How the plan is formulated and how it is implemented is decided by the Cabinet, which is responsible to the Emperor.

In Zhao Weiji's mind, this kind of political system is very suitable for a country with a deep-rooted monarchy. First, the monarch still has great rights, unlike the later parliamentary constitutional monarchies, where the monarch only has the right to consent.

In the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty, the monarch still retains great state rights, but the specific operation becomes the responsibility of the cabinet, so as to avoid the rise and fall of the country from being entirely dependent on the monarch alone.

After all, throughout history, there are only a few good emperors, ten fingers are not enough, and ten toes are also counted. With a hereditary throne, you can't guarantee that all generations will produce elites.

But ministers are different, and those ministers who can achieve the position of domination have not climbed through obstacles. As long as it is not eliminated, there must be something extraordinary. There is much less risk of failure for the state to be governed by these people.

What's more, there is another advantage of using ministers to lead the governance of the country, that is, if it doesn't work, we will change people, and it is much easier to change the prime minister than the emperor.

However, these things have to come step by step, and now the whole country is basically tied to Zhao Weiji alone, after all, this is just the beginning.

Next, Zhao Weiji planned to separate the judicial organs such as the Criminal Department and the Dali Temple that matched the Criminal Department, and directly report to the emperor, so that the judicial organs would become directly subordinate institutions of the emperor outside the imperial court, and would not be affected by any personnel other than the emperor.

However, Zhao Weiji does not plan to do this for the time being, because there are too many things to touch. The examples of Shang Ying, Wang Anshi, and Zhang Juzheng tell Zhao Weiji that reformers generally don't end well, even if their reforms are correct and beneficial to the country.

Therefore, Zhao Weiji, who has already sat on the throne, has to take these reforms step by step for any reform that may touch the interests of the vested, and it is best to boil frogs in warm water, and by the time they react, they have already been scalded to death.

This cabinet is the first step, and the second step is the "entrepreneurs" who were found back by Zhao Weiji.

In the past three months, Zheng County, west of Kaifeng Prefecture, has suddenly undergone great changes, and many buildings like workshops have been built, but they are much larger than workshops.

There is also the commercial activities in Bianliang City are more prosperous than before, and many of the previous restrictions on doing business have been quietly erased by Zhao Weiji by means of stealing concepts.

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On a very ordinary morning, in Bianliang City, the Bianhe River, which is usually not noticed by many people, was filled with tens of thousands of people today.

It's just that among these people, no one knows what the others are doing here, only that it is said that a novel gadget has appeared on the Bianhe River.

Then the crowd was drawn here and the two sides of the river were encircled.

"It's coming, it's coming, isn't that thing?" A man with good eyesight suddenly saw a strange thing coming from a river in the distance.

Hearing him shout, everyone looked up the river: "Where? Where? ”

I only saw a ship slowly driving over, which made many people very disappointed: "It's just a boat, cut~~~." ”

Just as someone was about to leave, another person suddenly shouted: "Look, this is not an ordinary boat, it has no sails or oars, only a huge chimney, and two waterwheels." ”

The foot of the man who was about to leave was pulled back by the shout before he could hit the ground, and they turned to see that it was exactly as the man had said. The ship had no sails. There are no paddles. There was only one large smoking chimney and two rolling waterwheels.

The person standing on the boat was Zhao Weiji, who had just ascended the throne, and he was standing on the bow of the boat and waving to the people watching on both sides of the river, which frightened the people and immediately wanted to kneel.

But before they could get to their knees, the boat sailed away.

These ships are the inland shipping version of the Black Pearl, and Zhao Weiji, who is determined to vigorously develop commerce, in addition to giving preferential policies, another thing he thinks of is to develop transportation.

In line with the principle that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. The transformation of the mode of transportation was put in the first place by Zhao Weiji after he ascended the throne, after all, this skill promotes the development of commerce, the strength of the country, and for the time being, it will not conflict with the vested interests of those old fritters.

But in which areas of the transformation of the mode of transport is worth studying.

First of all, the gallop road of the Great Song Dynasty is still relatively complete, and Zhao Weiji does not need to do it to build the galloping road, at most it is just to maintain it.

And Zhao Weiji has not been able to make a car for the time being, and he has not even fully developed the internal combustion engine.

Since neither of these things work, then the train can always do, right? Zhao Weiji, who had long developed the True Qi engine in Xinhua City, had certainly thought about the feasibility of the train, but if he used the train, he had to assume a large number of railways. This is a super project, and the Song Dynasty, which has only experienced the war, does not have the financial resources for the time being. It may only take Zhao Weiji five years to do it.

Since the train is no longer good, then only the river transport can be decided, here Zhao Weiji silently prayed to Emperor Yang of Sui, thanking him for sacrificing himself to leave the Grand Canal for future generations.

With the Grand Canal connecting the north and the south as the foundation, Zhao Weiji does not need to open a new river channel at all, but only needs to improve the means of transportation.

This saved him a lot of trouble, and the improvement of the means of transportation was too simple, and it would be enough to improve the technology used on the Black Pearl and move it to the river boat.

After removing the muzzle left for the artillery, Zhao Weiji didn't even need the sails, and just loaded the two water wheels and finished it. The boat has been tested to be twice as fast as the original one, and is not affected by the wind direction, and performs very well against the current.

The only certainty is to use coal, but fortunately, at this time, the coal reserves in the Great Song Dynasty were still very rich, enough for shipping consumption.

Just after the boat that Zhao Weiji had taken on the Bianhe River successfully sailed, countless old friends began to appear in front of Zhao Weiji again.

These people were the bosses of the Chamber of Commerce, and before Zhao Weiji ordered the ship to be built, he had people bring information to these bosses.

When these bosses saw that the new ship was so fast and had a huge carrying capacity, they naturally wanted it very much, because there were about three or four such ships, which could form a very strong transport fleet, which would be very beneficial for them to transport their goods to the whole country.

The appearance of these old friends again naturally made Zhao Weiji very happy, these people have made a lot of money in the past two years, and the treasury of the Great Song Dynasty, which has just finished the war at this moment, is very empty, and the heavy task of filling the treasury naturally has to be completed by these fat sheep.

So Zhao Weiji waved his pen and provided these fat sheep at five times the cost price, and he had to pay 30% before starting construction.

"Your Majesty, will this price be too high?" Officials in the Ministry of Works, which is mainly responsible for the construction of ships, are somewhat undecided.

"It's okay, they'll take it. And you tell them that we don't bargain here. "Zhao Weiji is not afraid that those old foxes will not buy it, this kind of technology is now only available to him, and it is a monopoly.

As long as one of them buys it, and the others don't buy it, it will soon be hit very badly, and others will not have to pay obediently.

Now Zhao Weiji can't wait, only a few families buy first, and others continue to wait and see, so that there will be room for price increases in the future.

Just when Zhao Weiji was still thinking about how to pit those old foxes in the business world, Zhang Zhibai suddenly walked over: "Your Majesty, several ministers have jointly signed such a book. ”

"Can't you just see it, didn't you say that after you come up with specific opinions, you will hand them over to me?"

"No, it's that this letter is a little special."

This made Zhao Weiji a little curious, what special twists and turns made Zhang Zhibai and others dare not make up their minds. But when he took it over and looked at it, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise a little. (To be continued......)